2001 Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary June 1944 - April 1945

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper, With Letter

First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. With a handwritten letter on the author's headed paper, dated 23rd March 2001, addressed to a Roy Stockman. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. Shortly after D-Day, Robert Boscawen, fresh from Cambridge, found himself in Normandy with his Coldstream Guards tank troop. This work explores the month that followed until his evacuation as a casualty in the closing stages of the Second World War. His diary became a record, full of perceptive commentary, during this period. Written by Robert Thomas Boscawen, a British Conservative politician. He was the last member of the House of Commons to hold a Military Cross for action during the Second World War.