First edition. 328pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Pages tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. A novel about power, about good and evil and the shadowy land between as the author catches so well what is was like to be a soldier in the field in World War II.