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[JACKSON (Lt. Col. G.S.) et al.]
The River Rhine to the Baltic Sea: A Narrative Account of the Pursuit & Final Defeat of the German Armed Forces, March-May 1945.
1st Ed., 105pp., 13 photos., 4 lge. fldg. maps in end-pocket. No imprint/date. (Germany, c.1945).
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The advance of 8 Corps from the Rhine Bridgehead to the Baltic compiled by Staff officers of the Corps from war diaries &c. Orders of Battle & various interesting appendices, good photos. & maps. Orig. printed paper covd. boards with red cloth backstrip, VG with contemp. ink presentation inscrip. from the Corps Commander during the operations described to his superior officer: "To Lieut. Gen. Sir Miles Dempsey. With my best wishes from Bubbles. B.A.O.R. 26 Mar. 1946." Note: 'Bubbles' Barker, Lt.-Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, commanded 49th (West Riding) Div. in Normandy &c., then VIII Corps from November 1944 to 1946. Later GOC British Forces in Palestine & Tans-Jordan, where he was a controversial & brutal leader & subject to several assassination attempts. Interesting association copy.
£125
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