The Desert Generals
BARNETT, Correlli
THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Kimber, [1960]
Stock code: 28881
Price: £38.00
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
The first major study of command in the Western Desert, this important work was recognised as at once authoritative and controversial. Montgomery, in particular, is called to account on several occasions, with Second Alamein criticised not only for its handling but as a needless engagement. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.293.