DALTON (Hugh)
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement.
1st Ed., xv+267pp., 8 plates, 3 maps. Methuen.
1919
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Subaltern with 464th Siege Battery RGA 1917-18 inc. retreat from Caporetto &c. One of few accounts of the allied campaign in Italy: "His accounts of the operations, though strictly from the point of view of a battery subaltern, are excellent & informative, but the best part of his book consists in his descriptions of the country & of the Italian army." - Falls. The author was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Attlee government of 1945. Orig. red cloth, gilt to sp. & blindstamped title to front, nice copy, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£145
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