Rommel.

(World War Two.) YOUNG (Desmond)

Rommel.

With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph of Rommel and 7 further plates, 2 maps, some light foxing to prelims, recurrent at rear, small handling mark at foot of title-page, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, soiled, worn and a little knocked, endpaper maps spotted, textblock slightly open at foot of gutter between frontispiece and title-page, poor condition

Publication Details: Collins, 1950

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the title-page: 'Field-Marshal Earl Wavell, homini omnium consensu cum militia tum litteris et humanitate excellentissimo, Desmond Young'. Wavell is thanked at the head of the Acknowledgements for 'appreciations of Rommel as a commander' and is mentioned at numerous points during the text - including for having been unique among British Generals in earning Rommel's explicit praise (p. 148). Rommel is known to have carried a copy of Wavell's Cambridge Lectures on 'Generals and generalship' with him during his north African campaign, though the failure of Wavell's Oper...moreInscribed by the author on the title-page: 'Field-Marshal Earl Wavell, homini omnium consensu cum militia tum litteris et humanitate excellentissimo, Desmond Young'. Wavell is thanked at the head of the Acknowledgements for 'appreciations of Rommel as a commander' and is mentioned at numerous points during the text - including for having been unique among British Generals in earning Rommel's explicit praise (p. 148). Rommel is known to have carried a copy of Wavell's Cambridge Lectures on 'Generals and generalship' with him during his north African campaign, though the failure of Wavell's Operation Battleaxe against his German counterpart led to Churchill replacing him with Auchinleck.An excellent association copy HIDE

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Price: £650

Subject: History

Published Date: 1950

Stock Number: 72312

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