Death of a Regiment

Cassell, London, 1959, 1st Edition. Black hard cover in tidy condition. Silver titles on spine. Some general age-toning of pages. No inscriptions. Slight musty odour. DW is tidy with general age-toning. It has not been price clipped.
This is the story of the pains of an old-established infantry regiment when it dies and is reborn in a totally different shape as an armoured regiment. It is the task of the new commanding officer, Lt. Col. Charles Lewis, gradually to transform a raw, disjointed, disgruntled collection of individualists into a first-class fighting machine. The regiment is blooded in the battle of Normandy, facing once more the prospect of being wiped out...