Description
Title: Sojourn in Tobruk
Author: Fearnside, Geoffrey Harry
Condition: Very Good – Gift inscription on the front end page. Minor shelf wear to board edges and corners.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Hard Cover without (missing) Dust Jacket – 159 pages
Comments: A highly desirable early first-hand account of the siege of Tobruk (Lieutenant Fearnside served as a platoon sergeant in the 2/13th Battalion AIF) throughout the campaign. He later wrote the 2/13th Battalion unit history “Bayonets Abroad”.
The siege of Tobruk was a confrontation that lasted 240 days between Axis and Allied forces in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The siege started on 11 April 1941, when Tobruk was attacked by an Italo–German force under Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel, and continued for 240 days up to 27 November 1941, when it was relieved by the Allied 8th Army during Operation Crusader.
Very Good Cond – Presented to Lt Col G.E Colwin DSO by the author. Includes a personal inscription by the author and his signature.
