WW2 Assignment To Catastrophe by Major General Sir Edwards Spears
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For sale is a WW2 Interest Assignment To Catastrophe by Major General Sir Edwards Spears. This is a 1956 Reprint that comes with its original dust cover.
An extract from the book is as followed:
“ASSIGNMENT TO CATASTROPHE
IT is given to fow men to have
written books of superlative merit about both World Wars. Sir Winston Churchill has done it; and he stands in a class by himself. But Sir Edward Spears runs him close. This is history in the raw, history as it happened in detail at one of its most dramatic moments. But it is also a good deal more than that: it is the account by a skilled observer, his own emotions deeply involved, of the last days in a great historic partnership - the Anglo - French Alliance which had for long represented Western Civilisation at its best and then dissolved on 16th June, 1940, never to be resurrected in its original form.
Sir Edward Spears had been among the most strenuous and devoted upholders of that Alliance. Speaking perfect French and highly knowledgeable in all French affairs, he had helped to promote the cooperation of the two armies during the First World War; and he never wavered in his advocacy of France during the inter-war period. He loved France as a man loves a woman; and the terrifying undertone of this book is its ruthless revelation of how Sir Edward fell out of love how he gradually came to realise that his beloved mistress was not only older, jaded and battered, but that she had lost all spirit and loyalty. A. J. P. Taylor in the BROADSHEET SPECIAL CLUB EDITION FOR WORLD BOOKS MEMBERS ONLY”
This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.
