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Synopsis

[first reprint].

Item Description

4to. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. viii + 327 + [1] pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Very slight wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Author's signature on title page. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece and by 8 pages of black and white plates. The memoirs of General Sir David William Fraser (1920-2012). Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1941 and served in the North West Europe campaign as part of the Guards Armoured Division. He was Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies, 1978-80 and was a prolific author.