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PIPELINE TO BATTLE: AN ENGINEER'S ADVENTURES WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY by Rainier, Peter W., Major
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Book desription: Heinemann, London, (1944).. 238 pp, small 8vo (7 1/4" H), hard cover - no dust jacket, green cloth, red lettering on spine. Map endpapers, b&w maps. "By profession a mining engineer...Major Rainer was assigned the task of getting water to the men on the front lines. When th. e British advanced, he would build pipelines just as close behind the foremost column as he possibly could. When they retreated, he would destroy his work - if he could. In the course of the three years of the desert campaigns across Egypt, Lib. y a , Tripolitania and Tunisia, Major Rainier built many hundreds of miles of pipelines, drilled scores of wells, and used the reservoirs or birs which had been constructed two thousand years ago by the Roman colonists and which he found well hidde. n un de rground in a fairly good state of preservation. He built these water works with their accompanying pumping stations, supply depots, etc., under constant fire. He became known throughout the Eighth Army as 'The Water Bloke', and even gained. t he res pect of the ribald Australians..." Interior - previous owners bookplate on back of free front endpaper, gift inscription on half-title page, slight waviness on some pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exter. ior - ligh t edge wear, slight bump to corners and on bottom edges of boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small foxing mark on fore-edge of textblock, light browning to edges of textblock. Good,.
- Bookseller: Capricorn Books
 (CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 16354
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Heinemann, London, (1944).
- Keywords: Sappers, R.A.F., Sabotage, Alamein, Medenine, Marketh Line, Wadi Aknkerit, Afrika Korps, Sidi Barrani, North Africa, Army of Nile, Engineers, Engineering, Desert campaigns, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Tanks, Water, Tripolitania.
- Subjects:
HISTORY / Military / World War II;
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