Montgomery day

Signed Springbok Rugby Jersey of team that played England 24/06/2000 at Bloemfontein Free State Rugby stadium. Original match day program in mint condition. Very nice big frame. Frame size: W 1,13m x H 1,10m. South African Team: 15 Percy Montgomery 14 Breyton Paulse 13 Robbie Fleck 12 De Wet Barry 11 Pieter Rossouw 10 Braam van Straaten 9 Joost v d Westhuizen 8 Andre Vos (C) 7 Andre Venter 6 Corne Krige 5 Kreynauw Otto 4 Selborne Boome 3 Cobus Visagie 2 Charl Marais 1 Robbie Kempson

  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.

1981 first edition very large hardcover with dust jacket and 256 pages in very good condition. R60 postage in SA. Inside also: Napoleon at Austerlitz, Wellington at Waterloo, Lee at Chancellorsville, Grant at Vicksburg, Meade at Gettysburg, Von Moltke at Sedan, Hindenburg at Tannenberg, Joffre at the Marne, Petain at Verdun, Haig and the black day, Guredian at the Meuse, Rommel at Tobruk, Montgomery at Alamein, Patton at the Bulge, Zhokov at Berlin, Macarthur at Inchon.