The Fortress: A Diary of Anzio and After (Raleigh Trevelyan) lands on the shelves of my shop, where it will be found in my Fiction Author: T shelves. priced at £8.50! Call in and get 40% OFF that price when you mention this post…
London: Collins, 1956, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Maps [1];
From the cover: Englishmen tend to make excellent diarists, particularly in war, and Raleigh Trevelyans diary, covering his part in the righting at Anzio in the early months of 1944, takes its place as the latest, and by no means the least, in this fine literary heritage, Trevelyan, whose life hitherto had followed a conventional pattern, found himself, a raw twenty-year-old subaltern serving with an infantry battalion at close quarters with the enemy, often in pos…
Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with several small nicks and chips. Previous owners’ name stamp to the first blank.
Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 221 pages. 8¾” x 5¾”.
