Strawson, John, — EL ALAMEIN - Desert Victory.
Dent, London, 1981, 1st edn., 191pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills. and line maps/diagrams, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the background to the first major Allied victory of WW2 and an examination of the military and political benefits, with reminiscences from those British, German and Italian soldiers who took part in the Battle of El Alamein, not decisive in relation to the war itself but a turning point after months of German dominence and the recent losses in the Far East, ex public library, cocked, rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges grubby, front free endpaper removed, stamps on half title and title, etc, in a rubbed and labelled dustwrapper:, reading copy only,
