Alexander of Tunis, Field-Marshal Earl (Ed. John North), — THE ALEXANDER MEMOIRS 1940-1945.
Cassell, London, 1962, 1st edn., xiv inc. double page map, 210pp, half tone frontis portrait, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, light brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the edited memoirs of the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, deputy C-in-C 18th and 15th Army Groups, C-in-C Allied Armies in Italy and Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean during WW2, the man described by General Brian Horrocks as 'always despatched to retrieve the most desperate situations' he was the master planner of the retrieval of the desert campaign, and afterwards of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy, the book includes his personal judgements of Montgomery, Horrocks, Patton, Mark Clark, Eisenhower, Alanbrooke and Churchill, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
