MARTIAL INDIA
The Story of Two Million Volunteers
1945
First English Edition
Eyre and Spottiswoode Publishers Limited [London]
8vo (200 pages 25 illustrations, 10 maps)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Red cloth]
Item Number: 5580
$50.00
Description
A very good copy of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket with slight corner wear and fractional loss at the spine head, else fine. There is a discreet ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The contents are fine.
A history of Indian forces in World War II through Monte Cassino, by the author of THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER, source of the 1935 Gary Cooper film. Published posthumously, following the author’s death in 1944 after touring Burma battlefields while researching this book.