Take These Men (1955, first edition)
A classic account of tank warfare in the Western Desert in the Second World War
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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 357pp
A 1955 military memoir offering a first-hand account of life in the British 7th Armoured Division during World War II. From 1940 to 1943, battles raged back and forth as one side or the other gained the upper hand, only to lose it again. Often the obsolescent British armour was outnumbered by the Italians or outgunned by Rommel’s Afrika Korps, and frequently it suffered from the ineptitudes of higher command. Cyril Joly’s first-hand narrative of these campaigns tells the story through the eyes of a young officer in the 7th Armoured Division, the famous Desert Rats. It describes in accurate, graphic detail the experience of tank warfare, recalling the fortitude of the tank crews and their courage in the face of sometimes overwhelming odds.
Condition
The book is in good strong readable condition but with heavy tanning and spotting to the page edges, which has gone through to the margins a little. The dustwrapper has a small amount of loss to the spine ends and corners, and some tanning, but has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.
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£18.00
