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Published by Naval and Military Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1845748212ISBN 13: 9781845748210
Seller: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, United Kingdom
Book
2010 N&M Press reprint (original pub c1916). SB. xv+128pp 4 maps and 3 illustrationsPublished Price £11.50 General Sir Ian Hamilton was a brave (twice recommended for the VC); cultured (he wrote and published his own poetry) and civilised soldier - with a breadth of interests and intellect rare indeed in the often hidebound ranks of the British army at the acme of Empire. Unfortunately, Hamilton was given an impossible job when he was appointed Commander of the expedition to take and hold the Gallipoli peninsular in 1915. Aged 62, and not universally admired in the Army, he lacked the ruthlessness of truly great commanders. After the element of surprise was lost when warhips trying to rush the Dardanelles struck Turkish mines; there were delays as Hamilton prepared for the landings. Lacking landing craft, the landings were fiercely opposed; the terrain was harsh and the Turkish opposition so fierce that little headway was made, despite landings elsewhere on the peninsular. These despatches, published while the fighting was still underway, pay ribute to the bravery of his troops, but cannot disguise the fact that the grand operation had become a disaster.
Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Softcover. Condition: Good. With an introduction by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood. Including a folded Map at the back of the book. No date stated, c1915. Publication of 116 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. There is little foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by George Newnes 1917, 1917
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, folding map to prelims, 254pp, illus, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy fading to spine, minor discolouration & foxing to spine & boards, moderate cracking & fraying to front hinges, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, sm ink stamp to ffep, occasional cracking to gutters).
Published by Cassell and Company, London, 1916
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rebound into blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates with tissue guards, and plans. A previous owner has traced a few of the plates onto the tissue guards. There is a bit of foxing to the pages throughout.
Published by Cassell and Company Ltd, 1915
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes (complete). A benign set. The blue boards of both are plain: un-titled and un-decorated. The boards have wear about the edges and corners and seams from shelving. They are scuffed and marked from handling and storage. They are secure and comfortable. The contents are clean and clear, eager, assiduously engaging. Vol 2: the guttering along the title page is cracked, but the security of the book is unaffected. An assured, very heavy, companionable set. Please note that due to the weight of the books, should they need be posted to the outside of South Africa, extra postal charges may required. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Cassell and Company, 1916
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Our Fighting Services and How they Made the Empire by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, 1916, Published by Cassell and Company Ltd, Printed by Cassell and Company Ltd, Hardback, has fading to covers and spine, All pages appear present,thou there is a small piece of paper between the Last Contents Page and the List of Plates Page, Pages are yellowing, All Full Page Plates appear present as listed, On front cover inside page is a Previous Owners name and date written in fading Black fountain pen ink: Leslie Stephens, 1916, Last index page has a tear to top of page,
Published by Dutton, 1906., 1906
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd ed. 2 Volumes. 322p. + 299p. Folding Maps. Midshipman in Crimea, Mutiny (awarded VC), Ashanti War , Gaika Expedition;, Zulu War 1879, Boer War 1880-81; Soudan 1884-85. Later senior commands in Britain. Red cloth Gilt lettering. Gilt decoration on spines. Top edge gilt. Volume I: Water fading to bottom of spine and rear board, water stains effecting page bottoms near the spine. Vol II water stains effecting page bottoms near the spine . Good Set. Book.
Published by Cassell, 1915., 1915
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2 Vols. 948p. total. Color Illustrations. B/w Illustrations. Maps. Original decorated blue cloth. Very Oversize Set. Rear hinge on Vol. I cracking. Top of spine torn/chipped. Spine decoration rubbed. Fair Set. Book.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A comprehensive and colourfully illustrated history of British battles on land and sea, the first edition of this work. A very comprehensive history of British battles on land and sea, from the formation of the British Army and Navy in the Tudor and Stuart eras, through the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo, Culloden, and more.Complete in two volumes.The first edition of this work.Containing forty-eight plates illustrated in colour, and over five hundred in-text illustrations. Collated and complete.Edited by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, a nineteenth and twentieth century British Army Officer.Containing a prize bookplate from Farnham Grammar School to the front pastedown of Volume II, dated 1921. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, bright, with some minor shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Cloth is split slightly to the front joint and head of the spine of Volume II. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume II. Internally, binding generally firm. The odd spot and handling mark to the pages, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.
Published by Cassell & Co., London,1915, 1915
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
4to.Two Volumes. pp.xii +clxxxiv +948+ xii.profusely illustrated with 500 illustrations in b/w and 24 in colour. A little bumped at heads and tails of spine,a little foxing on prelims else a very good very bright set in original Very Good decorated dark blue cloth,gilt. A comprehensive work. The set is Very heavy about 6.25k packed so overseas buyers please note.