The Great War by Carlyon Les - 2014

Sydney, Australia: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with black boards and pictorial dust jacket, first edition, 1580gms, 863 pages, purple/brown endpapers. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. Boards and dust jacket are in good condition with only mild shelf wear and scuffing, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs over 1.5kg and may incur additional postage..

Sydney, Macmillan, 2006.. xi+864pp. 8vo. Original boards, black and white plates. A very good copy.. First edition.

Sydney, Macmillan, 2006.. xi+864pp. 8vo. Original wrappers, black and white plates. A near fine copy.. First edition.

An account of Australian involvement in the First World War with the perspectives, global, political, strategic and individual perfectly balanced and showing the immense labours and appalling cost we bore as a nation. 862 pages with 48 pages of black and white photographs and 25 maps. Book in very good+ condition.

Sydney: Macmillan. 2006. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 863 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney, Macmillan, reprinted 2006.. xi+864pp. 8vo. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper, black and white plates. A fine copy.

Macmillan, Sydney, 2006. 23.0 x 15.5cms, 780pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover This book documents the Anzacs's engagements on the Western Front from 1916-1918. Carlyon uses the soldiers' letters and diaries to animate the men who fought in Flanders and on the Somme.

Picador, Australia, 2007. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback. 863 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Picador, Australia, 2007. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Edges of pages are moderately soiled. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon has produced a masterpiece that takes the reader from the generals formulating strategy to the troops fighting cold, filth and the terror of sudden death in their trenches. Written with the same narrative skill, humanity, vivid recreation and meticulous research that made Gallipoli a number one… Read More

Sydney; Pan Macmillan Australia Pty. Ltd; 2006.. First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xiv, 863; text illustrated with 25 b/w. maps, endnotes, select bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in white on spine, dustjacket, name on title page, good copy.

Macmillan, Sydney, 2006. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 780pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & dustwrapper This book documents the Anzacs's engagements on the Western Front from 1916-1918. Carlyon uses the soldiers' letters and diaries to animate the men who fought in Flanders and on the Somme.