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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. CRAFTSMEN OF THE ARMY: THE STORY OF THE ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. COMPLIED BY B.B. KENNETT, & J.A. TATMAN, WITH A FOREWORD BY FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN. PUBLISHED IN 1970 BY LEO COOPER IN ASSOCATION WITH SECKER & WARBURG, THIRD IMMPRESSION 1984. A blue coloured hardback book with gilt titles on the spine and a pair of gilt crests on front board. Comes with dust jacket, price clipped, a tad worn around the edges, please see photos. 425 pages all intact, and good tight binding. Its a used book in good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Please note for overseas buyers, postage/shipping abroad may increase from listed postage/shipping price depending on final destination. "From Rapier to Rocket" might well have been the title of this book which traces the story of the Corps, born in the darkest days of the Second World War, to the present time. Whilst it is historically correct, the work is a story rather than history. After an interesting chapter on the ancestry, and the awakening to mechanization in the First World War, the story traces the advances in technology which led inevitably to the formation of a Royal Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to cope with new and complex weapons in the Second World War.