A Book for all Reasons
Mosley, Leonard GIDEON GOES TO WAR , Arthur Barker, London, 1955,1st edn., 256pp, half tone frontis photo, 8 half tone plates, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the life and military career of Major-General Orde Wingate, including his time in Palestine arming and training groups of British led Jewish commandos operating against the Arabs, in Ethiopia where he formed the Gideon force harassing Italian troops and most famously for his Chindit operations against the Japanese in Burma, where he won his third DSO, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges sl. tanned, ink name front free endpaper, dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed with sl. loss and some edge nicks at extrems., repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper, (Book ref. 35710) £24.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, A Book for all Reasons , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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