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Royal Engineers Battlefield Tour: Normandy to the Seine.
1st Ed., ix+187pp., foolscap, 30 photos., 26 maps (most fldg.). dw. Prepared under the direction of Chief Engineer British Army of the Rhine. Aug.
1946
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Restricted. "Prepared by HQ 8 AGRE so that succeeding generations of RE officers visiting the battlefields of N.E. Europe may get as realistic as possible a picture of the problems confronting the REs in a major campaign in Europe & of some of the methods used to solve them." Fabulous detail on RE aspects of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Breakout & advance to the Seine, inc. RE Order of Battle & numerous accounts by participating officers & NCOs. Excellent photos., very nicely printed on large plates inc. several fldg. panoramas, one an impressive view of the invasion fleet off Courseulles on D+4, another of the area of the 6th Airborne Div. landings. Equipment shown includes DD tanks, flail tank in action &c. Equally exceptional, detailed col. printed maps of operations, beach defences &c. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, in chipped dw (front panel of dw & front board dampstained o/w VG), ink. inscrip. 'The Property of Major R.G. Bishop, RE.' Rare.
£245
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