The Green Beret. The Story of the Commandos 1940-1945
SAUNDERS, Hilary St. George
With a Foreword by Vice-Admiral The Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Michael Joseph, [1949]
Stock code: 50878
Price: £48.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 34 plates on 24 and 6 maps (one double-page) in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy.
The first comprehensive history of these renowned special forces, which were the first to combine military and naval personnel (all volunteers) in this way. A valuable account and a major source of Messenger's The Commandos 1940-1946 (1985). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.111; Law, 1200.