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WEBSTER (Leslie)
Desert Patrol.
Foreword by Col. C.S. Jarvis, Governor of Sinai. 1st Ed., 279pp., map. Eldon Press.
1935
#70209
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Rare novel of military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula in 1915-16. In his Foreword Col. Jarvis states: "So far as I am aware, despite the great output of war literature, no novel has as yet been published giving as its setting the life led by certain of the Empire's troops during the holding of the Suez Canal in 1915 & the advance eastwards to Palestine across the Sinai Desert in 1916. There is a general impression that the Army in Egypt had a 'good war' as compared with their comrades in France, & this book will do something towards dispelling this misconception, for the author portrays with a ready pen the discomforts & hardships suffered by the men who for two years of the war marched & fought through the shifting sands of Sinai. His description of the battle of Romani is a particularly strong piece of writing... as a subaltern in the 42nd Division, he helped to hold the canal... This book should certainly be read by the survivors of those divisions who served in Sinai... by no means least the Australian Light Horsemen who were in the van of the advance." Orig. red cloth, titled in black, sp. sl. sunned o/w VG indeed & inscribed by the author to the distinguished contributor of the Foreword: "To Colonel C.S. Jarvis with grateful acknowledgement. Leslie W. Webster. Bridgnorth, Salop. 10th Oct. 1935." Note: author served with the 11th (S) Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers. Just five copies on Library Hub (formerly Copac) & none online.
£225
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