The Tree of Gernika; A Field Study of Modern War by Steer, G. L

London: Faber and Faber 978-0-571-25513-9 [978-0-571-25513-9] 2009. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 400pp. Photographs, diagrams, illustrations, notes, index. "George Lowther Steer raced through his life, packing eight books and four wars into his final decade, and died abruptly at the age of thirty-five when he crashed an overloaded jeep in wartime Bengal on Christmas Day 1944. By then he was a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army, commanding the Indian Field Broadcasting Units he had founded for the Special Operations Executive" -from the Introduction by Nicholas Rankin. Time Period 1930's & 1940's. Introduction by Nicholas Rankin. Locale: ; Basque Provinces. (Military, Military History, Modernity, Spanish Civil War).