The Battle of the Somme: First Phase
London: T. Nelson, [1916]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 108, wraps, illus., fold-out map, library stamp on front cover, some wear and soiling to covers, edges soiled. More
London: T. Nelson, [1916]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 108, wraps, illus., fold-out map, library stamp on front cover, some wear and soiling to covers, edges soiled. More
London: R. Bentley, 1859. 23 cm, 479, spine torn at top, some foxing to text, boards weak. More
London: Constable & Company Limited, 1920. 339, illus., weakness to bds, foxing to text & fore-edge, flylves discolored, bds & spine quite scuffed & stained & edges worn. More
London: R. Hale, 1985. 23 cm, 175, illus., sticker on DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by John Ellis. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.75 inches. xvii, [1], 493, [1] pages. List of Maps, List of Colour Plates, List of Contributors, Chronology, Bibliography, Acknowledgment of Sources, and Index. Illustrations. Maps. David Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on the Napoleonic era. As a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Oxford University awarded him the D. Litt. in 1991. He held three visiting professorships: at Ohio State in 1970, at the Virginia Military Institute in 1988, and Marine Corps University in 1991. According to his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" (The Campaigns of Napoleon) is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals. ... General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career." He was also the author of a military biography of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and of The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough. Among the contributors to this volume are: Edward Spiers, Brian Bond, Carlo D'Este, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, John Strawson, and Michael Yardley. More
Springfield, MA: Loring-Axtell Company, 1926. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], xi,[1], 3-40, [2]8 pages. Illustrations. Large, 4 panel fold-out group photo between pages vi and vii. Foreword by Franklin H. Martin. Roster. Several instance of yellow highlighting to next noted. Some minor soiling inside boards and flyleaves. Some wear and edge rubbing to cover and edges. From an article in JAMA from 1908--After a struggle of four years on the part of the Surgeon General of the Army, backed by the medical profession, Congress at its last session was induced to give much needed relief to the Army Medical Corps, by an Act, approved last April, entitled "A bill to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the Army." Conditions in the Army prior to this were deplorable, so far as the organization of the Medical Department was concerned, as apparently no thought had been given to requirements for war. In fact, officers were far too few to perform the ordinary duties of peace times. To be capable of ready expansion in war time. the act authorized the Medical Reserve Corps, a peacetime pool of trained civilian physicians. This represented the first United States Army volunteer reserve and proved the forerunner for the entire Army Reserve system. The Medical Reserve Corps had grown to 1,757 officers, plus 146 on active duty, compared to 443 Regular Army medical officers at the time. By 30 June 1917, less than three months after the declaration of war, this had grown to 9,223 officers in the Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Officers' Reserve Corps, most recently enrolled. More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1929. First Edition. 400, illus., endpaper maps, index, discolor ins bds, some foxing, bds scuffed. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 407, illus., endpaper maps, index, pages have darkened somewhat, bds slightly scuffed. More
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom: Gower Publishing Company, 1982. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xvii, 246 p. Occasional footnotes. Index. One sheet of related ephemera laid in. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Printing. 611, footnotes, index, slight soiling to fore-edge, DJ scuffed and edges worn. More
London: Sifton Praed & Co., Ltd., 1933. First? Edition. First? Printing. 116, footnotes, covers somewhat worn and soiled, corners bumped, some dings to edges. More
New York: Dutton, 1964 [c1963]. First Edition. Second Printing. 22 cm, 383, illus., endpaper maps, usual library markings, boards worn and soiled, some page discoloration, especially edges and back pages The uprising in India of the Meerut 3rd Light Cavalry against the British in May 1857, its spread, and its bloody conclusion. More
New York: Dutton, 1961. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 319, illus., bibliography, front DJ flap price clipped, some soiling to endpapers, DJ worn, soiled, & edge tears, edges soiled. More
London: Collins, 1964. First U.K. Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 573, illus., maps, endpaper maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ soiled, discolored, and worn: small edge tears. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. , 573, [3] pages. Endpaper maps. Frontis illustrations. Illustrations. Maps. DJ soiled with some wear, tears and chips. The author was a noted novelist and journalist who also became a authoritative historian. His biography of W. E. Henley won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize as the best biography of 1949, The author served with Wavell during the Second World War and brings personnel knowledge as well as access to some of Wavell's personal papers and official correspondence, to this monumental work. More
Berlin: Vorhut-Verlag Otto Schlegel GmbH, c1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Text is in German script. 483, [1] pages. Mit 20 bildern und 6 karten (including a folding map at back). Minor loss at bottom edges of covers. Some page discoloration. Alfred Duff Cooper (1890- 1954), First Viscount Norwich, was a Conservative politician who rose to become Secretary of War 1935-37. He resigned from the government in 1938 over Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy, but served as Minister for Information during the war and became ambassador to France 1944- 47. Duff Cooper fought in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was a family friend of the Haigs, and he was officially invited to write Haig's biography by Lord Haig's executors. At the time, however, Duff Cooper's account of Haig was especially useful and important. Because he was close to the Haig family, Duff Cooper had access to two sources which were to be unavailable to other historians for many years. The first were Haig's personal Diaries, and the second was a memorandum on the war, penned by Haig himself, but sent to the British Library with orders that it only be made available to the public in 1940. More
Carlisle: G. & T. Coward, 1914. Second Edition. 17 cm, 160, illus., boards slightly stained, bookplate inside front board, ink name on flyleaf. More
London: John Murray, 1863. First? Edition. First? Printing. 339, v.3 only, footnotes, binding worn, soiled, & stained, boards partially separated, # on spine, endpapers discolored/brittle. More
London: John Murray, 1862. First? Edition. First? Printing. 314, v.2 only, errata slip, footnotes, previous owner's stamp inside front board, bds worn, soiled, & damp stains, endpapers brittle. More
London: John Murray, 1893. First? Edition. First? Printing. 402, v.4 only, boards worn and soiled, ink number on spine, front endpaper separated, endpapers brittle, some page browning. More
London: Peter Nevill, 1953. 158, frontis illus., endpaper maps, appendices, library stamp, barcode, and bookplate, boards soiled, lib call # on spine. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. First Edition. 399, illus., index, foxing to a few pages, rear board somewhat scuffed, top and bottom edges of spine worn. More
London: J. M. Dent, [1954]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 242, illus., index, ink notation on front endpaper, small tear at inside hinge. Foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Harding. More
New York: Putnam, 1955]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 242, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, DJ is incomplete and in tatters, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Second Impression [stated]. Hardcover. xxxvii, [1], 414 [2] pages. VOLUME I ONLY. Maps (including diagram). Vover has some wear and soiling. Top front right corner chipped. Some edge rubbing. Top and bottom of spine frayed. This volume takes Field Marshal Haig's story to the Battle of Cambrai. George Albemarle Bertie Dewar (1862-1934) was an author and editor. Lieutenant-Colonel John Herbert Boraston (1885-18 March 1969) was an army officer and local politician. At the beginning of the First World War he joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, gaining a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in January 1915. He was promoted to the rank of captain by March 1918, when was records officer at General Headquarters in France and was awarded the OBE. He acted as private secretary to Field Marshall Earl Haig. After the war he remained in the Royal Field artillery as a Territorial Force officer: he reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was made a Companion of the Bath in the 1920 New Year's Honours. A member of Holborn Borough Council, he served as Mayor of Holborn in 1949-50. In 1957, following 35 years membership, he was made an Honorary Freeman of the borough. More