Bill Gentry's War 1939-45

The Dunmore Printing Company Ltd, 1996. Spine bumped at top, previous owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise good second-hand condition

A compilation of Bill Gentry's (Major General Sir William Gentry) letters he wrote to his wife, Lalla, while overseas as an officer with the 2nd New Zealand Division during World War II.

Exerpt from back cover: Bill brings to us the experience of life in the turbulent days of war. We share the uncertainties, the pleasures, the tedium, and the triumphs, the comradeship and the heartache. We enter the world of 50 years ago through the eyes of a keen observer and travel from Maadi Camp in Egypt to Greece, Crete, Syria, Libya, Tunisia and Northern Italy up to Trieste