Men Under Fire. by Thompson, R. W - 1945

Macdonald, N.d., c.1945, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Some edge wear & tears to the dust jacket.

London: MacDonald & Co., (1945). 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. dust jacket 160pp, A selection of the Sunday Times War CorrespondentÕs despatches. He landed in Normandy on 18 August 1944 & accompanied the Allied armies to Germany & the surrender at Luneberg Heath. Very good copy in rather chipped dust jacket

London: Macdonald & Co. Ltd, [1945]. 160pp. Original publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in white, with the striking unclipped dust wrapper by Redgrave. Boards slightly bumped, wrapper torn and faded without major loss. Internally bright and clean, decorative endpapers showing warfare scenes from the London Illustrated News. Annotated throughout by Henry Williamson with his reactions to the text. Some passages marked in red pencil, highlighting his true feelings about the Holocaust, including striking through some passages entirely. Collected dispatches from R. W. Thompson, one of the few Second World War Correspondents with a 'roving commission', meaning he could travel freely behind Allied lines. Thompson has here collected his best dispatches for the Sunday Times in 1944-45, including the assault on Walcheren, the Rhine, the surrender on Luneburg Heath, and his report of Belsen on April 19*, four days after the liberation. . First edition. 8vo.