{"product_id":"the-history-of-the-51st-highland-division-1939-1945-first-edition","title":"The History of the 51st Highland Division, 1939-1945. FIRST EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe History of the 51st Highland Division, 1939-1945 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by William Blackwood, 1953 First edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood hardback with fair jacket, binding firm, some minor rubbing, chipping, bumping, foxing, fading and marks, inscription to ffep, light tanning, creasing and foxing, pages very good, minor marks. \u003cbr\u003eJacket has marks, chipping, rubbing, creasing and repaired tears, fading to spine area, some loss.\u003cbr\u003e287 pages, illustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e190 x 250 mm.\u003cbr\u003ePhotographic frontis, illustrated throughout with maps and b\/w photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 51st Highland Division fought and lost in France in 1940, was reborn, and fought and won in the North African desert, Sicily and finally in North Western Europe from D-Day to the end of the war. As a division the men earned the respect of friend and foe alike, and this is their story. Amply illustrated with 36 photographs, 18 maps and battle plans (many coloured) that help the reader to follow the course of the conflict. A good index (persons, units and place names) and a statistical battle casualties list complete this good WW2 Divisional History.Montgomery commented on the 51st: \"Of the many fine divisions that served under me in the Second World War, none were finer than the Highland Division\", and later \"It was the only infantry division in the armies of the British Empire that accompanied me during the whole of the long march from Alamein to Berlin\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648275386615,"sku":null,"price":73.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/7687\/5255\/files\/IMG_6824_0429e4d7-f16b-418e-a1ce-8bdc77ef6bd8.jpg?v=1774910433","url":"https:\/\/phoenixbooksnz.com\/en-au\/products\/the-history-of-the-51st-highland-division-1939-1945-first-edition","provider":"Phoenix Books NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}