signed by the author

This handsome edition combines two titles originally published in the 1940s and was produced to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the battle of El Alamein on 23rd October 1972.

Limited edition 171 of 265 copies signed by Author; 4to (250 x 185 mm); Illustrated throughout with photographs and plans; publisher's original full Niger morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt devices to upper cover, spine gilt lettered direct, all edges gilt; a particularly fine, unread copy with the original slip-case; [xiii], [1], 421pp.