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A STUDENT IN ARMS.

by HANKEY, DONALD

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UK,12mo HB,3rd 'POCKET' edn,1st thus.VG. Ink gift presentation inscrptn to top,right-hand corner of ffe.Clean, publisher's original,sharp-cornered,navy blue cloth bds (boards) with a single line border to front board/ cover,dulled spine/backstrip with slightly faded blue ink printed lettering to same,rear board/cover undecorated and without line bordered edges.Both bds with narrow,light sunning bands from proximity of a smaller book's presence when shelved.Top edges with dust-soiling and ageing/ toning,fore-edges with ageing/toning; contents tight,solid and sound,with page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB,3rd 'POCKET' edn,1st thus,5-255pp includes a preface (In Memoriam) by Editor of 'The Spectator', author's foreword,contents list/table,XX+I (20+1 - essays + appendix).Plus ]unpaginated] half-title page,author's oval, monochrome portrait photograph with an aged/toned tissue guard and title page. Wartime and posthumous publication of writings by one of the fallen heroes. Articles regarded as especially good at interpreting the sentiments of the troops to the world elsewhere. A posthumous memorial of life at the front and a collection of his contributions to the Spectator & Westminister Gazette.
Donald William Alers Hankey (27 October 1884 12 October 1916) was an English soldier best known for two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in WWI both titled 'A Student in Arms'.The thoughts and observations of Donald Hankey,born Brighton,England,in 1884,who enlisted in the British Army during August,1914. Wounded and repatriated home a year later, on recovery and receiving a commission,he returned to the front.He was a 2nd Lieutenant 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was killed in action on the Somme,12th October, 1916. His brief first-hand participation in the cataclysmic opening day of the Battle of the Somme and its sickening aftermath mark some of Hankey's final letters with unmistakable signs of shock. After a short respite at an Army School behind the lines,Hankey was back in the trenches near Le Transloy.On 6 October,he wrote in calm resignation to his sister Hilda that heavy fighting was just ahead.In October,1916,after leading his men 'over the top',he was struck down under heavy machine and rifle fire. Buried near where he fell,the grave was never located,and his name appears on the Thiepval memorial to the 70,000 missing and unidentified dead who fought on the Somme.
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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja877220
Title
A STUDENT IN ARMS.
Author
HANKEY, DONALD
Format/Binding
Hardback.
Book Condition
Used - VG..
Jacket Condition
No dw/dj - as issued?
Quantity Available
1
Edition
UK,12mo HB,3rd 'POCKET' edn.
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
LONDON.ANDREW MELROSE,LTD.,1918.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.BIOGRAPHY.UK,12mo HB,3rd 'Pocket' edn,1st thus.WW1_1914-1918_British personal narrative_propaganda.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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