The Story of the Guards Armoured Division
ROSSE, The Earl of, Col. E.R., HILL
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Geoffrey Bles, [1956]
Stock code: 42173
Price: £92.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 11 plates, 2 full-page maps in the text and 2 folding maps, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly faded at backstrip, backstrip lightly chafed (without material loss) at head and very lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel.
One of two standard references to arguably the most renowned British armoured formation of WWII. It fought from D-Day throughout NW Europe, including a major role in Operation GARDEN. Includes OOB and details of the division's unconventional administrative structure. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.35; Smith, p.286.