Baedeker, K.MareMagnum
MACKENZIE C.B.MareMagnum
It was like this! (Zo was het!). A Short Factual Account of the Battle of Arnhem and Oosterbeek. Foreword by Major-General R E Urquhart. [Translation by W. Van der Heide]. Thirteenth Edition.
8vo., Thirteenth Edition, parallel text in English and Dutch, with a frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and a full-page map in the text, small neat signature on half-title; original photographic wrappers printed in red and black, a near fine copy. Mackenzie was Principal General Staff Officer of 1 Airborne Division. Well-illustrated booklet first issued in 1954. The photographs include the 'icons' (including Urquhart at Hartenstein, the GPR at the School and Sherriff's 75mm) but also a good many not easily available elsewhere. Particularly valuable are the images of the Airborne Memorial Days 1946-1969 (including shots of Hackett, Hicks, Horrocks, Sosabowski, Urquhart and Warrack).
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB18,20 €