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Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1961. 1st US. Hardcover. DJ shows some edge wear, small tears and chipping, light soiling. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 338 pages; An examination of the disastrous events of Great Britain's involvement in the Crimean War, and central to the book is the British commander who took much of the blame for Great Britain's blunder. "In March 1854, a British army of 30,000 men sailed for the Crimea to defend the crumbling Turkish empire from Russia. It was led by Lord Raglan, a verteran of Waterloo. The campaign quickly degenerated into a series of military disasters caused by incompetence at the highest level, bitter personal rivalries among the divisional commanders and inadequacies of transport, clothing and military and medical supplies. To enable to the British government to survive, Raglan was made the scapegoat. This text… Read More

Toronto: Dundurn. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550023438 . Signed by Editor; DJ shows very light shelf wear.; Signed by the editor on the title page. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. This is the hardcover edition. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.28 X 6.28 X 1.07 inches; 333 pages; "Georges Vanier, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1959-1967, was 26 when he became one of the the first men to join the newly established Royal 22nd Regiment - known as the "Van Doos". He was in his second year in the Montreal firm as Dessaules and Garneau, and very much the son of a Montreal upper-class family. His service in the First World War shaped his character, and he often described the four years spent on the battlefields of Euroe as the most rewarding of his life." blurb .

Military Book Club. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 073941044X . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; MBC Library of Military Masters; B&W Illustrations .

London: William Tegg. Very Good-. circa 1870. Later Printing. Hardcover. 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 408 pages; Purple cloth covered boards with gilt print on spine and black blind stamped design on front. Hinges intact. Colour frontispiece and 9 B&W engravings. First 35 pages of text is a biography of Southey dated 1867. The book is not dated but probably comes from 1870's or 80's. This is a solid little book. Corners are bumped, light edgewear. Some careless student has spilled black ink on the back board with small spots on spine & front, a latin notation on fore edges. Page 15 has bottom corner cut out, not extending into text. Very slight foxing. A few notations in book. Illustrated by G. Cruikshank. .

London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0246107553 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, 1/2" closed tear top front dustjacket, some sticker damage on front flap.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.3 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 245 pages; "Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, KB (13 November 1761 – 16 January 1809) was a British Army general, also known as Moore of Corunna. He is best known for his military training reforms and for his death at the Battle of Corunna, in which he repulsed a French army under Marshal Soult during the Peninsular War." .

Newton Abbot, Devon UK: David & Charles. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 0715319647 . Only light scuffing of DJ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; 1.34 x 9.29 x 6.06 Inches; 320 pages; -An incredible and unique insight into the life of Winston Churchill. Draws on previously unpublished, contemporary firsthand accounts of those who met him. Published in time for the 40th anniversary of Churchill's death "I play for high stakes and given an audience there is no act too daring and too noble." -Winston Churchill. Born to a privileged family, Winston Churchill was first a Conservative then a Liberal politician, a painter, a writer, Britain's greatest military leader, a prime minister, a Nobel Prize winner, and a proud father. But who was the real Winston Churchill? In this important book, Michael Paterson juxtaposes Churchill's prolific commentaries on himself with the opinions of those who knew him. From his dramatic escape as a… Read More