SALUTE THE SAPPERS VOLUME 8 PART 1 - BY NEIL ORPEN WITH H.J. IN SOUTH AFRICA

 Published by the Sappers Association, copyright date 1981, hardcover. The jacket is whole, but edge-worn, with several small tears at the top of the spine; the faces are rubbed as too are the external folds. The boards are clean and square. The pages are all clean and unmarked, with the exception of some pencil notes on the front inside paste-down and first free end paper. This part 1 deals with the formation of the South African Engineer Corps and its operations in East Africa and the Middle East to the Battle of Alamein.