SLIM (W), Field-Marshal Sir.: Defeat into Victory [Second Impression] , Cassell, [1956]

8vo., Second Impression, with a portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped d/w, the latter chipped with minor loss at edges and lightly sunned at backstrip. Published in the same year as the first edition. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander of the 'forgotten' Fourteenth Army, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. Cole & Graham B20; Enser, p.91(all recording the first edition). (Book ref. 19569)  £82.00

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