Item #E27754 The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign. Andrew Stewart.

The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine, fresh example in equallt fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 308 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Remarkably scarce in the actual first edition/printing. A work that tells of one of the neglected Allied wartine triumphs, the British and Commonwealth forces' stunning and important victory in East Africa against an overwhelmingly superior Italian opponent. Never larger than 70,000 troops, the British led-forces advanced along two fronts to defeat nearly 300,000 Italian and colonial troops. Fine / fine. Item #E27754
ISBN: 9780300208559

Price: $17.95

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