Red clothed board with gilt lettering to the spine. Yellow pictorial dust jacket, in red and black lettering, with brodart cover, large piece of dj missing to the back (see photo). Pages are crisp and clean and firmly bound almost as new with only slight marking on the title page. Overall in an excellent condition.When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the \"age of heroics is over.\"As relevant today as it was half a century ago,The Centurions is a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency.