EP "SCRUBBS" HARTSHORN (Gen. Klopper account) - AVENGE TOBRUK - WW2 1st ed. 1960 illus photos

An account (memoirs)  of an episode in North Africa during the Second World War. Pp. xvi,(i) includes extracts from the court of enquiry, made public here for the first time.  237, photo-plates, portraits, maps  mostly from SA National War Museum Johannesburg  of:   The beginning, Comrades of the Abyssinina campaign, Major-Gen. Wetherall, At Amba Alagi, Two famous brothers, Gen. Brink and Gen. Auchinleck, Panzers left on the field of Sidi Rresegh, Major-Gen. Theron, Sergeant Quentin Smythe, creating alarm & terror, Gen. HB Klopper, Ice Beer and Ginger Beer etc. Contents of  Political pipe-dream, Apostles of Terror, Racing the Rains, Wetherall tries to Sack Pienaar, Coup de Grace to an East African Empire, Operation Crusader, Twilight of Tobruk, Scapegoat and fall of Tobruk,  Over to Italy, etc.  Appendix A-E, Bibliography.

Purnell & Sons, Black Hardback 1960 First Edition good condition. Dust jacket show wear to edges, previous owner's name scratched out on map end pages. Hardback well-binded and clean white pages, lovely plates, interesting book.