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181. |
HALL, JAMES NORMAN.
KITCHENER’S MOB. The adventures of an American in the
British Army. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
202 pp. with frontis portrait. Orig. decorated cloth
with barbed wire and trench designs on the end papers.
Orig. cloth sl. worn around the edges and fraying at top
and bottom of spine. £35
The author served with 9th(Service) Battalion Royal
Fusiliers and gives a good account up to and including the
Battle of Loos.
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£ 35.00 |
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182. |
HAMILTON, ERNEST W.
HAMILTON. THE FIRST SEVEN DIVISIONS. BEING A DETAILED
ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHTING FROM MONS TO YPRES. Hutchinson,
1916.
253 pp. with 4 maps. Orig. cloth, gilt.
First Edition.
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£ 35.00 |
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183. |
HAMILTON, GENERAL SIR IAN.
GALLIPOLI DIARY 1915. (SHORTENED). Edward Arnold, 1930.
420 pp. with 3 maps (2 coloured & folding), and photo
illus. Orig. printed cloth.
This usefull shortened version was published ten years
after the first edition apparently due to the rank and file
of men who fought at Gallipoli complaining that the two
volume version was too expensive.
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£ 45.00 |
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184. |
HAMMERTON, SIR J.A.
(EDITOR). A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR. Amalgamated
Press. (1934)
6 vols. small 8vo. with over 1000 maps and illus. Orig.
quarter blue leather, spines decorated in gilt with
military motifs. A fine set.
Attractively bound history. |
£ 85.00 |
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185. |
HAMMERTON, SIR J.(EDITOR)
THE GREAT WAR ... 'I WAS THERE!' UNDYING MEMORIES OF 1914
- 1918. Amalgamated Press, 1938 - 1939.
4to. 4 vols. Orig. blind stamped cloth, gilt in the
extremely rare dust wrappers. A fine set.
Particularly good photographic content complimented by
a fine literary text published twenty years after the war
and uses some interesting first hand sources from many
famous personal accounts including John Lucy's description
of the Battle of Mons from his classic "There's a
Devil in the Drum" and passages from Frank Richard's
"Old Solders Never Die". The near final chapter
covers the war seen through the eyes of the war poet.
Please note: We also have a set without dust wrappers
priced at £85.00
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£120.00 |
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186. |
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HARGRAVE, JOHN. THE SUVLA
BAY LANDING. Macdonald, 1964.
266 pp. with maps and photo illus. Orig. cloth in
pictorial D/W.
The author served with the 32nd Field Ambulance during
the campaign. |
£ 35.00 |
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187. |
HARMER, MICHAEL. THE
FORGOTTEN HOSPITAL. AN ESSAY. Springwood Books, 1982.
170 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth in D/W.
Fascinating story of the Anglo-Russian Hospital in
Petrograd which had
several Field Hospitals along the Eastern Front in 1916
and 1917. |
£ 35.00 |
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188. |
HARRIS, JOHN. COVENANT
WITH DEATH. Hutchinson. 1961. First edition
447 pp. Orig. cloth in the scarce pictorial dust
wrapper - a fine copy.
Harris's fine novel of a voluntary City battalion from
its formation to its destruction on Ist July 1916 - the
first day of the Battle of the Somme. |
£ 40.00 |
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189. |
HART, CAPT. B.H. LIDDELL.
THE TANKS. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL TANK REGIMENT AND ITS
PREDECESSORS - HEAVY BRANCH MACHINE GUN CORPS, TANK CORPS,
AND ROYAL TANK CORPS. 1914 - 1945. VOLUME I 1914 - 1939.
Cassell, 1959.
462 pp. with folding maps and photo illus. Orig.
decorated boards within the original D/W’s (Wrappers
covered in film).
The first volume covering the First War period - a
highly detailed and classic reference on the history of
Tank Warfare. |
£ 75.00 |
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190. |
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HARVEY, HAROLD. A
SOLDIERS SKETCHES UNDER FIRE. Sampson Low, 1916.
176 pp. with 42 original illus. by the author. Orig.
pictorial cloth.
Harvey joined the Royal Fusiliers and sailed from
Southampton in September 1914 by way of Malta and then the
Ypres Salient. He provides a clever, often light hearted
view of trench warfare illustrated with fine drawings. He
was gassed in the first German gas attack in April 1915
and invalided home. |
£ 65.00 |
