Ike’s Last Battle : The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, April 1945

224pp, plus numerous pages of black and white illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. (Boards strong, clean, sharp, and square.) Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (tiny indentation at head of spine). Dust jacket now protected in an archival-quality mylar sleeve which is not adhered to the volume or the jacket. This account of the last few weeks of the war presents a sorry picture of the confusion that reigned as the Top Brass squabbled amongst themselves while Europe crumbled into ruins. Surprisingly, it was the one man, Monty, to whom the American generals were most anxious to deny the laurels of victory who ended up stealing the headlines. Charles Whiting, second world war veteran and historian, Charles also wrote under the names Leo Kessler, Duncan Sterling, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan and others. Almost always writing on a war or military theme, whether fact or fiction, by the time of his death in 2007, Whiting was known as a phenomena of the publishing industry, with more than 350 titles to his (several) names, most associated with accurately researched and well-written war histories and novels with a war background drenched in sex and violence. He has become collectible, especially for novels and histories published under his own name and those of Ian Harding, Leo Kessler and John Kerrigan. We have many titles by the same author – please inquire for discounts if purchasing multiple titles.