Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
Hardcover. Etat : Good.
Edité par Collins, London, 1950
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. Jacket by C. H. Birtwhistle (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First published in January 1950, this is an eighth impression of October 1950, a tribute to the book's popularity. Jacket sadly quite tatty, with edge wear, chipping, creasing and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with loss, folds rubbed, spine browned, some overall yellowing and time staining. book has bad lean, some yellowing toi page block, not price clipped (12s 6d), gift inscription to title page, some offsetting to endpapers, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable and obviously much read copy for its age. 288pp, illustrated, map endpapers. The biography of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by Brigadier Desmond Young. The book was the first biography of Rommel and enjoyed immense popularity, especially in Britain. The book led the Western Allies, particularly the British, to depict Rommel as the 'good German' and 'our friend Rommel', contributing to the formation of the Rommel myth. Brigadier Desmond Young OBE, MC (1891/2-1966), was a New Zealand born British Army officer, newspaper publisher and writer. He travelled widely in his youth, accompanying his father in his work as a maritime salvage expert. He attended the University of Oxford but was asked to leave after he failed to attend a single lecture. Young found work in Malaya as a rubber planter and operated a nightclub in London. Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War he joined the British Army, serving as an officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was wounded in action and won a Military Cross in June 1918. After the War Young worked as a newspaper reporter, editor and publisher in the South African Cape Times and the Indian Allahabad Pioneer. Young joined the British Indian Army in 1941, during the Second World War. He was appointed to command the 10th Indian Infantry Brigade in the North African campaign. Young was captured during the 1942 Battle of Gazala and briefly met the German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (which led to this somewhat overly admiring biography). Imprisoned in Italy he escaped and ended the war as editor of a pro Allied newspaper in Switzerland.
Edité par Harper & Brothers, New York, 1950
Vendeur : Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australie
Hardcover,22cms x 15cms, lacking jacket 264 pages Map endpapers (North Africa). Eleven b&w photographs and two further maps. Book includes fascinating 32-pages of Appendices and Index Book in GOOD condition.
Edité par Collins, London, 1950
Vendeur : J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge ware, spine sunned.