 | - Book Title: Poems From the Desert
- Author: Members of the Eighth Army
- ISBN: MW0012659813
- Publisher: George Harrap
- Year Published: 1944
- Our Price: £31.90 GBP ($48.17 USD)
- Description: George Harrap, 1944 first edition: blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine: gilt numeral 8 to front: approximately 5.5 x 8.75 inches tall: no dust jacket 46 pages. Synopsis: A collection of 27 poems written by members of the Eighth Army and selected from a competition in the Christmas 1942 edition of the Eighth Army's regimental weekly paper, The Crusader. A foreword by Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery is followed by the following poems: -- Battle Interlude by Lance -corporal I Celner. The Desert by Lieutenant M. St J Wilmoth. In The Desert Today by Bombardier L Challoner. At Sunrise by Trooper E. J. Barton. The Enduring People by Trooper L E S Cotterell. Libya by Bombardier L Challoner. Caravans by Lance- corporal P A A Thomas. .To a Would-Be King by Lance- corporal P A A Thomas. Poems of Exile by Lance- corporal P AA Thomas. With apologies to Wordsworth anonymous. On Parting by Private W. E. Jones. Cyprus by Sgt N Boodson. There Was the Richness by Lieutenant E Y Barnard. Voyage by Corporal S. Abel. Christmas in Tobruk by Signalmen H G Knight. ... But Not Forgotten by Gunner P. J.Flaherty . To C--- by Lance- corporal P A A Thomas. M.E Medley by Private J. Broome. Western Oriental by Corporal N. A. Brown. White Cliffs by Sgt D Seton- Smith. Midday Swim -- Mersa Matruh by Lieutenant P N R Russell. Think At This Time by Private G. O. Physick. Desert Warfare by Signalman G Harker. Morning after the Barrage at El Alamein by Bombardier F. E. Hughes. To A Letter by Bombardier S. O. Watkins. We March -- Crusaders All ! by Lieutenant S. Z Smith. A Soldier -- His Prayer anonymous. Condition: Cover slightly marked: preliminary pages slightly foxed: gift inscription to front endpaper: overall clean and good
- Condition: Collectable- Good
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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