Carver, Michael, — EL ALAMEIN.

B. T. Batsford, London, 1979, 3rd edn., 194pp, 23pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper (from a painting by Terence Cuneo), with a new foreword to the third edition, a detailed account of the Battle of El Alamein in October and November 1942 and of the background leading up to it from August, 1942, the battle which began to turn the tide against the Germans in North Africa, with maps or plans of the battlefield, of the Battle of Alam el Halfa, of Operation Supercharge and of the plan of the pursuit, with a chronology of events from August to November 1942, lightly rubbed at tips, crease in one leaf, tippex marks to three plans (which may have been detached and neatly re-attached), dustwrapper: price clipped ink name front free endpaper, lightly rubbed at tips, spine slightly sunned, very good reading copy in a very good dustwrapper,