One of a Legion by BELL, Cynthia C - 1995

GB: Book Guild (Lewes), 1995. Slightly cocked.. 1st Edition. Hardback. nrFine/VG DW.

UK: The Book Guild Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. Hard Cover. 8vo 0863329659 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, fade to spine colour. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling and decorations. No ownership marks. 228 pages clean and tight. In the early summer of 1942 the demands of war separate Norman Bell from his girl, and he enters army life as a sapper, training in a succession of British camps before embarking for North Africa and the Atlas Mountains. 'I'm not a big strong soldier in the thick of it,' he writes to Cynthia. But it is. perhaps, this very fact that allows him, from there, and later from Sicily, from mainland Italy and from Greece, to send constant messages of love which afford glimpses of the splendour, if also the squalor of his surroundings, the frustrations, hazards and comradeship of army life, and the pain of separation. Cynthia C. Bell, Norman's wife, has collected and edited her husband's letters home between 1942 and 1945,… Read More

The Book Guild Limited. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. Hardback; very good in faded dustjacket. ; A collection of edited letters home, written by Norman Ellis a British sapper who served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Greece. Letters cover the period from June 1942 to August 1946. A personal insight to one man's experience of the Second World War. ; 228 pages .