Shaw, Jesse, — SPECIAL FORCE - A CHINDIT'S STORY.
Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1986, 1st edn., [viii], 272pp, half tone frontis portrait, [vi] postscript and ads., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a 1917 enlistment in the Middlesex Regiment meant he was too late to see action before discharge and with high unemployment at home he joined the Welsh Guards but didn't take to 'peacetime' soldiering, in and out of trouble and eventually discharged, then fraudulently served seven years with the Royal Sussex attaining the rank of senior corporal, was called from the reserve in 1939 and was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force serving in Nigeria and then with the 3rd West African (Chindit) Brigade in Burma, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwraper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,
