"Rommel?" - "GUNNER WHO?" : A Confrontation in the desert. [WAR BIOGRAPHY Vol.2.]

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around black background with subject+author's b/w portrait photographs to respective red and b/w flag backgrounds,with subject's [Rommel] name in Old German Gothic red lettering and other capitalised, black-lettered part of title both in white speech bubbles respectively,sub-title in red lettering and author's white lettered name to front of dw/dj.Spine/backstrip with slightly sunned 'Rommel',capitalised, white-lettered 'GUNNER WHO?' and white-lettered author name and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with author's b/w portrait photograph with black-lettered question in white speech bubble.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges with surprisingly minimal toning for a 50 year-old book - bright and clean and with minimal,if any foxing; contents bright, tight - virtually pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip and Army unit's immaculate b/w portrait photographic illustrated front endpapers,rear endpapers with front's photograph in silhouetted sketch form with person's name to each silhouette.UK, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,b/w illustrated,1st edn,12-191pp [paginated] includes profuse b/w illustrations,spoof document facsimilies and b/w photographs throughout the text and the book.The 2nd of six volumes in Milligan's (originally a trilogy) life in the ranks during World War Two.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 50 -year-old age. It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults.
This volume covers Spike's march to war in the desert: a tragi-comic saga of bawdy farce mixed with introspection and day-to-day reportage of the fears and fun of a group of gunners,nursing in their bosom the embryo Goon,forever punning, playing his trumpet or,if on guard duty, disguising himself as a tree in a hole. (His C.O. sent his batman to pour a can of water over him.)
The book spans events from January to May 1943, during Operation Torch the Allied invasion of Morocco and Algeria and the Tunisia Campaign in World War II.
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