Engineer History, Mediterranean Theater, Fifth Army, Volumes I, II and III.

Complete in three volumes. Vol I: pp1-156; Vol 2: pp157-268. Vol 3 contains unpaginated appendices and tables etc. All three volumes uniformly bound in soft card covers, illustrated, with stapled gatherings. 4to. . Covers a little worn for all three volumes, with heavy tanning around cracked spines and edges and a few marks. Card crumbling at spine ends. Each is marked Confidential but this has been changed in manuscript to Restricted on each volume. A few marks and some toning on text block edges, but internally neat, clean, and bright. The first gathering of volume one is detached and binding a little loose and fragile for each volume. Second world war operational documents, rare survivals, which reveal the story of the Fifth Army Engineers. No campaign in military history has posed more engineering challenges than the battles for Italy during the Second world war, and no one contributed more to the campaign that the Fifth Army Engineers. Sections include chapters on Africa, Salerno and Naples, etc, addressing tactical situations, the work of Engineering Headquarters and unit operations. Wonderfully detailed with lots of photographic illustrations, maps etc.