The War That Never Was : The True Story of the Men who Fought Britain's Most Secret Battle
xviii, 382pp plus two sections of plate illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering (the cloth on spine is bruised and warped but still strong). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (the dust jacket jas several short creases at the base). The true story of the men who fought Britain's most secret battle which ended when Egypt's President Nasser described the outcome in the Yemen as 'my Vietnam'.