Montgomery alamein concise history

1972 hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 368 pages. R46 postage in SA.

1972 hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 368 pages. R50 postage in SA.

  HarperCollins Publishers. Hardback. Book Condition: Very good, 2009, 1st edition. 388 pp. Alamein, Iain Gale, The superb novelist of men at war moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days in the sands of North Africa that would change history forever. There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant everywhere - in Europe, in Russia, in the Atlantic and were now poised to take the Suez Canal. It was in North Africa that the stand was made, that the tide of World War Two began to turn. It was a battle of strong characters: the famous battle commander Rommel and the relatively untested new British commander, Montgomery, leading men who fought through an extraordinary eleven day battle, in an unforgiving terrain, amid the swirling sandstorms and the desert winds. Iain Gale, author of the outstanding historical novel Four Days in June on the battle of Waterloo, tells the dramatic story through seven characters, almost all based on real people. Drawn from both sides of the conflict, they include a major from a Scottish brigade, the young lieutenant in the thick of the tank battle, the Australian sergeant with the infantry, the tank commander of the Panzer Division and the charismatic Italian commander of a parachute battalion. Through them and others we see the flow of battle, the strategies, the individual actions and skirmishes, the fear, the determination, the extraordinary courage on both sides.

Buy A History of Warfare, by Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery for R45.00

In November 1942, 48 hours after the great battle of El Alamein, Col Butler-Porter of the RDLI had a visit from General Montgomery, full of congratulations for that very fine Royal Regiment. This is the pictorial story of that very fine regiment a remarkable institution which has served the country and Durban for over 150 years and seen extraordinary and illustrious service in widely different situations, such as the deserts of Egypt and Libya; the bush of South West Africa and Ovamboland;  the jungles of East Africa and the DRC;  the snow-covered Appenines of Italy;  the streets of Fordsburg, Cato Manor and Soweto. Drawn from the formidable archives of the Regiment illustrations and many narratives which tell of the lives of the men, their NCOs and their officers. It also tells of their comraderie and their ability to confront change. It is all about Durbans own regiment. Hardcover, 445 pages.

1982 large hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.  584 pages. Name of previous owner in front. R50 postage in SA.  Inside: Ancient Greeks, Rome, Barbarian, Medieval, Middle Ages, Spain, Turks, Marlborough, Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Mongols, Japanese, Chinese, India, 1914, WW2, ethics of war, Iron curtain, nuclear....

1982 large hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.  584 pages. Name of previous owner in front. R55 postage in SA.  Inside: Ancient Greeks, Rome, Barbarian, Medieval, Middle Ages, Spain, Turks, Marlborough, Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Mongols, Japanese, Chinese, India, 1914, WW2, ethics of war, Iron curtain, nuclear....