Buy this book on-line Wavell, General Sir Archibald (Foreword) : The Tiger Strikes(Calcutta: Published with the authority of the Government of India by the Director of Public Relations, 1942)
8vo; original green cloth, blocked in black and white to spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. xviii + 165; five folding maps; several photographic plates, including one folding aerial photograph. Cover a little rubbed, with slight wear to extremities; lower fore-corner bumped; moderate foxing throughout. Good. Inscription to verso of front free endpaper reads: "To Muriel, / Most understanding of friends / From her humble admirer, Chris / 4th Indian Division: Western Desert, '39-'40, Eritrea, '41, Syria, '41." Wavell writes in his foreword: "This is a short record of the exploits of troops from India, British and Indian, in the theatres of war of the Middle East during 1940-41. It is a stirring and impressive story. For a period of eight or nine months, from December 1940 to July 1941, from the great victory of Sidi Barrani to the capture of Damascus, the 4th and 5th Indian Divisions were engaged almost continuously. They fought in the dusty wastes of the western desert, in the bush of the Abyssinian border, on the dry scorching plains of the Sudan, in the towering rocky mountains of Eritrea and Abyssinia, and amid the softer and greener hills of Syria." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Wavell, General Sir Archibald (Foreword) : The Tiger Strikes. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, fine bindings, antiquarian books, first editions and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |