The Desert Rats
VERNEY, Major-General G.L.
The History of the 7th Armoured Division 1938 to 1945. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Harding. [Second Impression.]
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hutchinson, [1954]
Stock code: 41110
Price: £54.00
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, plates and maps in the text, and endpaper maps in red; original black cloth, divisional emblem blocked in red on upper board, backstrip lettered in red, red top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with closed tears repaired on inner surface.
Published in the same month as the fist edition. Reasonably detailed history of the service (Middle East, Western Desert, Europe) of one of the most renowned allied armoured formations of WWII. Includes OOB, commanders and senior staff, and a fascinating account of the creation of the famous divisional emblem. Enser, p.35 ; Smith, p.273.