The Anthill – James Ambrose Brown (Signed by the author)

Description

“When the Italians ended the war in 1942 small radio teams and their trucks were ordered into the Northern Frontier District to hold up the Italian invasion – by bluff. This is the desperate story of one of them; navigation by compass, which is upset by magnetic rock; of accident and attack from the air; of engagement with the enemy; of tensions of men driven on by heat and first and the pursuing enemy to amazing feats and terrible sacrifices, for the sake of an abstraction – “the Plan” with which they had been entrusted.”

Colour illustrated dust jacket, by Biro, with orange and yellow coloured titles.

Signed and inscribed by the author

Price: R250.00

Edition: First edition

Published: 1958

Publishers: Robert Hale Ltd

Hardcover in good condition. Scuff marks to the edges of the dust jacket, which is now covered in a plastic sleeve. Browning of pages with foxing to the end papers. Previous owners Ex Libris plate partly covers the inscription done by the author. Book internally clean and tightly bound.