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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> DECORATED four times for heroism under fire General Sir Frank Messervy played a unique part in the Second World War for nearly five years. Perhaps to a greater extent than any other commander Messervy was “the Soldiers’ Gen- eral” never asking his men to go where he was not eager to be first himself; imperturbable in the most bloody and desperate situations; ready in the words of one of his men “to stand and fight hand to hand if necessary with his troops beside him.” He was prominent in the East African cam- paign; fought the Afrika Korps in the Western Desert; inflicted the first military defeat on the Japanese Army and played a decisive role against the Japanese in Burma. Henry Maule as readers of Safer Than A Known Way have found is well able to convey the tension terror and dramatic excitement of battles and their aftermath. In writing the com- pelling story of General Messervy’s adven- turous career he has also recorded history-a history of some of the bitterest fighting the world has ever known. He gives the first full detailed account of the capture of the supposedly invincible rockbound fortress of Keren in which Messervy and his men played a decisive part. (SP)