Canada, Commonwealth. A Second War "A Short History of the Tenth Canadian Infantry Brigade" Book

Entitled "A Short History of the Tenth Canadian Infantry Brigade", authored by Major R.A. Paterson, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, with a Forward on page 5 by Brigadier H.P. Bell-Irving DSO OBE dated 30 October 1945. Includes the history of the Tenth Canadian Infantry Brigade, incorporating the Lincoln and Welland Regiment, the Algonquin Regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, the South Alberta Regiment and the New Brunswick Rangers during the Second World War, and also includes eight maps and officer lists. It is a soft cover publication with a three-colour front cover, illustrating the insignia of the five regiments, along with silhouetted graphics of infantrymen running beside tanks, the cover itself on a thicker card stock, containing 80 pages on a heavier newspaper stock, printed by De Jong & Co., Hilversum, Netherlands, measuring 158 mm (w) x 240 mm (h). The front cover and spine exhibits light wear, along with missing a small piece in the lower right corner, staining present on the back cover, with some creased pages inside. Fine.

Footnote: The 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade was a formation of the Canadian Army in both the First World War and the Second World War. The brigade fought on the Western Front during the First World War, and in Normandy and north-west Europe during the Second World War, as part of the Canadian 4th Armoured Division, alongside the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade, as part of the 4th Canadian Division.