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(BURMA CAMPAIGN)
Major General O. C. Wingate D.S.O.
An appreciation of the planner and leader of the two Chindit Campaigns in 1943 and 1944 behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II.
Publisher: For private circulation only, compiled by members of the Chindits Old Comrades' Association United Kingdom, 1982
Stock code: 66263
Price: £175 Currency Conversion
Uncommon, just eight copies on OCLC. Loosely inserted is a photocopy of a letter sent out with copies, explaining how the association had refrained from "entering the public lists" on controversies arising out of the official histories and in the national press. But that in 1979, with the full backing of Lord Mountbatten, it was decided to produce the present appreciation; "It gives the views of a cross-section of 76 all ranks who served under General Wingate. It will, hopefully, provide an instrument for future historians to consider and balance against the opinions of writers who did not have the opportunity to know General Wingate so closely."
Quarto. Original spiral-bound grey printed light card wraps. Wraps just a little rubbed, a very good copy.
