No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked brown cloth boards, some foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine and minor traces of storage. 288pp.

Biography of Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck, a soldier in both World Wars, he was the first British commander of the Second World War to defeat a German general in battle. He began his career with the Indian Army, but during the turbulent days of Partition, he sadly had to supervise its destruction.