Pond, Hugh, — SALERNO.

William Kimber, London, 1961, 1st edn., 256pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, an account of the Battle of Salerno, the first opposed large-scale landing of WW2, designed to relieve the stagnated advance of the Allies in central Italy but which became one of the fiercest and bloodiest actions of the war so far, a day by day account of the battle from invasion to D+11 in September, 1943, sl. cocked, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges tanned and foxed, no dustwrapper, good plus,