Journey to the End of an Era

460pp. Indexed. Publisher’s cloth boards (a little faded and worn at edges but clean and sharp). Text block edge a little toned, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, now somewhat edge-chipped dust jacket (art work by Biro). Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. In this informal biography, Colonel Melvin Hall takes us with him in his travels through Europe, India and Persia in the days before the Second World War, before the Iron Curtain clanged into place. Student days in Paris, with the American Army in Persia and military missions to Turkey and Romania.