ORIGINAL Signed Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Brooks Letter addressed to Peter, Graham Brooks informs Peter on how some of the guys in the ?OLD REGIMENT? are getting on and mentioning some of their horrific injuries and talking about his just released book ?Grand Party?

Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Brooks

Published by 29th November 1943

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Sm. 8vo size. 3 page, hand written letter. In good condition. Letter folded. Brooks wrote an illustrated book about his experiences with 140th Field Regiment in France and Flanders entitled ?Grand Party? The book, written in 1941, is now out of print but rare copies still circulate and are obtainable through antique bookshops. I?ve reproduced the entire text in the following pages within this ?Biography? section. Grand Party is a valuable record of day-to-day life in the Regiment, and in particular contains the only account of 366 Battery after the separation of the two Batteries of the Regiment on 23rd May 1940. It includes a graphic description of their escape to Dunkirk and return to England. Brooks describes the men of the Regiment in admiring and affectionate terms and also writes some personal analysis of how in his view the German assault of 1940 had been so devastatingly successful. Some of the information in the book was subjected to censorship as it was written during wartime. Brooks describes the Officers of the new Regiment in a light-hearted chapter entitled ?Bugle Party? thus:

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• Title: ORIGINAL Signed Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Brooks Letter addressed to Peter, Graham Brooks informs Peter on how some of the guys in the ?OLD REGIMENT? are getting on and mentioning some of their horrific injuries and talking about his just released book ?Grand Party?
• Publisher: 29th November 1943
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