Montgomery Or Legio Octavia in Monte Africano.
T. A. (A.T.) ( pseud Harry Philby)
privately printed (1943)
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Great Britain  English
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Edition Llimited # 74 out of 500
Nationality British
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Reilly 321,

506. T, A (A T). MONTGOMERY or LEGIO OCTAVIA IN MONTE AFRICANO. 1943. Privately Printed. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. £12.00

In "Philby of Arabia" by Elizabeth Monroe Faber and Faber London 1973

He wrote this about Mongomery and the Eighth Army, Montgomery was a distant cousin and stood at philby's wedding. His poetry is noted in his papers kept at Oxford

Harry St. John Bridger Philby CIE (3 April 1885 – 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah (????? ???????), his Arabic name, was an Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer. He was born at St. John's, Badulla, Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka), and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied oriental languages under E.G. Browne, and was a friend and classmate of Jawaharlal Nehru, later prime Minister of India. Philby's son Kim Philby became famous for being a British intelligence agent who was a double agent for the Soviet Union