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341. PALMER, ALAN. VICTORY 1918. Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1998.

368 pp. with maps and photo illus. Orig. cloth, gilt in D/W. 

£ 20.00
342. PANICHAS, GEORGE A. (EDITOR). PROMISE OF GREATNESS. THE WAR OF 1914 - 1918. A MEMORIAL VOLUME FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMISTICE. Cassell. 1968

572 pp. Orig. cloth, gilt in D/W. 

Forty-two essays and a foreword by Sir Herbert Read - all specially written for the 50th anniversary.

£ 30.00
343. PARKER, ERNEST. INTO BATTLE. 1914 - 1918. Longmans, 1964.

98 pp. Orig. cloth in D/W. A fine copy. 

First edition of this well written account of a Durham Light Infantry officer's war, which includes Loos, the Somme, and Passchendaele.

£ 30.00
334. PATTERSON, A. TEMPLE. (EDITOR).

THE JELLICOE PAPERS. Selections from the private and official correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe. Volume II 1916 - 1935. Navy Records Society, 1968.

497 pp. Orig. blue and white cloth, gilt. 

Important correspondence covering the principal war years.

£ 35.00
345. PEAT, HAROLD R. PRIVATE PEAT. EX-THIRD BATTALION FIRST CANADIAN CONTINGENT. Indianapolis, Bobs Merrill Co., 1917.

235 pp. with maps and photo illus. Orig. decorated cloth. 

Personal memoir by a Canadian - he describes 2nd Ypres, the Somme in September 1916, and is finally seriously wounded back on the Ypres salient.

£ 45.00
346. PERKINS, A.M. BETWEEN BATTLES AT A BASE IN FRANCE. T. Fisher Unwin, 1918.

127 pp. Orig. cloth. Presentation Copy from the Author. 

Scarce account of work with the Y.M.C.A. at Etaples behind the front line. The Rev. Perkins describes his work in the YM.C.A huts and in hospitals &c. illustrated by personal reminiscenses - a fascinating picture of life behind the line.

£ 45.00
347. PERRIS, G.H. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1914 IN FRANCE & BELGIUM. Hodder & Stoughton, 1915.

447 pp. with numerous maps throughout and 12 pp. of original photo illus. Orig. cloth, gilt. 

Scarce account of the early 1914 campaigns and specifically that of the Battle of the Marne.

£ 85.00
348. RARE PERSONAL MEMOIR

348. PHILIPPS, COLWYN ERASMUS ARNOLD. CAPTAIN, ROYAL HORSE GUARDS. Elder Sons of John Wynford Philipps. Ist Baron St. Davids and 13th Baronet of Picton and Leonora his Wife.

Born December 11th, 1888. Killed in Action Near Ypres, May 13th, 1915. Smith, Elder. 1916. Third edition.

128 pp. with 2 portrait illus. Orig. white boards, gilt. 

Scarce personal memoir divided into three parts - his poetry, his prose including notes from the front, and finally his letters describing his experiences at the front line from November 1914 to April 1915. He was killed in a charge of the Royal Horse Guards near Ypres on May 13th, 1915. Reilly 252.

£100.00
349. PICKERING WAR MEMORIAL. 1914 - 1918. UNVEILING CEREMONY. ON EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 17TH, 1922 AT 3.30 PM. BY LT. GEN. SIR IVOR MAXSE. G.O.C. NORTHERN COMMAND. Pickering, J. Hodgson, 1922.

Sm. oblong 4to. 4 pp. with 2 illus. and Order of Service. Orig. printed wrappers. 

£ 15.00
350. PITT, BARRIE. 1918. THE LAST ACT. Reprint Society, 1964.

318 pp. with photo illus. Oorig. cloth in D/W. 

Good portrayal of the final year of the war.

£ 20.00

 


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