The Eighty-Five Days (1957, first edition)
The Battle of the Schledt, a WW2 narrative
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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 253pp with map endpapers.
"On September 4th, 1944, the great port of Antwerp fell intact to the 11th Armoured Division. Three months later, on November 28th, the first Allied ships docked with supplies that were the prerequisite of final victory. The story of what happened in those three months is one of the most terrible and controversial of the Second World War." This is the account of the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary that cost 60,000 lives as the German Fifth Army under Gustav von Zangen attacked over a "bitter, sodden, coverless, winter death trap of the Dutch Polder lands".
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The book is in good condition, with some dusting and tanning to the pages edges. The dustwrapper is a little scuffed to the edges and lightly faded to the spine but otherwise remains good.
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£20.00
