OPERATION OVERLORD: the history of D-Day and the Overlord Embroidery.
Pp. vi+154, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, appendices, sources, bibliography, index; oblong 4to; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board faintly scuffed; dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded; Ashford, Southampton, 1989. First edition. *'The Overlord Embroidery, commissioned in 1968 and seven years in the making, is a striking and historic achievement. Its thirty-four panels, all of which are faithfully reproduced here in vivid colour, depict some of the most decisive events of the Second World War, from Britain's darkest hour in 1940 through to victory in the battle of Normandy in 1944' [wrapper blurb]. Item #177187
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