The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke
( Field-Marshal ALANBROOKE ) BRYANT, Arthur
[Mixed Impressions.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Collins, 1957-59
Stock code: 51621
Price: £28.00
2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with portrait frontispieces, 9 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps in the second volume, tops lightly dust-soiled; cloth (black/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper.
Comprises: The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (third impression, 1957); Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (second impression, 1959). By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. Enser, pp.199, 474 respectively.