Grey boards, red endpapers with maps. pp (xvi), 345, [7] + plates. Index. Remainder dot to bottom page edges, else fine. Jacket has nicks to head of spine, short corner tear to front panel, VG otherwise. "Lieutenant General Guy Granville Simonds was one of the Second World War's most dynamic strategists and commanded enormous respect from British generals such as Bernard Montgomery and Alan Brooke." - jacket. In his book "The Normandy Campaign" Victor Brooks lists Simonds as the most effective corps-level commander of the Allied Forces in Normandy.