MONTGOMERY, General Sir Bernard ( Foreword by) POEMS FROM THE DESERT. Verses by Members of the Eighth Army , London: George Harrap, 1944.

Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good./No Jacket. Reprinted in November 1944. It was first published in May 1944. A little foxing on the inside of front and back boards. otherwise a very good tight copy. 46pp. With 26 poems which were considered to be the best entries in a poetry competition organised by Eight Army's Education Officer. The competition was announced in the Christmas 1942, in the 'Crusador' the Eighth Army's own weekly paper, and only poems actually written in the Western Desert were to be submitted. The seventy-seventh poem 'A Solider - His Prayer' has a unique history. Written on a scrap of paper, it fluttered into the hands of a soldier sheltering in a slit trench, during the battle of El Agheila. Reprinted in November 1944. It was first published in May 1944. (8¾"h x 5½"w) (22cms x 14.5cms) approx. (Book ref. 7167)  £9.00

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