LA BATAILLE DE DAKAR.
[Text in French]. Pp. 320(last colophon, verso blank), 2 plates, 12 maps (4 folding, 8 full page); printed paper wrappers, slightly foxed and browned, edges a trifle worn, the backstrip slightly creased, short split at foot of upper joint; uncut; dust wrapper featuring portraits of 8 French & English military personnel (including Churchill and De Gaulle) on the flaps, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with closed tears at backstrip extremities and a longer (5cm.) closed tear from top edge into front panel; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, pages browned, piece torn from fore-edge pp. 55/6, scattered light foxing; Editions Ozanne, Paris, 1956. First edition. *The Battle of Dakar, in September 1940, was an unsuccessful attempt by Allied forces to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa. The hope was to overthrow the colony's pro-German Vichy French administration and replace it with a pro-British Free French one under General Charles de Gaulle. Item #147002
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