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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 164 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library. "School House Library", presented by the author. Inscription by the author on front endpaper "School House Library With best wishes from E.C. & V. Crosse Dec 16th 1930. Later label "Glen Historic Collection / Southland". Rebound in leather boards, original printed card covers bound in. Binding poor with front board detached and spine worn. Internally good.; Scarce. Second impression (in same year as first edition). 63, [1] pages. Leather boards, front board detached and spine worn with abrasions. Marbled endpapers. Original ochre printed card covers with illustration on front cover are bound in. Page dimensions: 160 x 110mm. With a 2 page Preface by General Sir Hubert de la P. Gough. Theological and Christian justifications for war. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Work of God in a Soldier's Training and on Active Service; The God of Battles; The Soldier's Life After Death; Epilogue. "The English nation as a whole has at present no adequate conception of the part God can play in this war." - from the Introduction, page 9. "The life and training of a soldier are both designed to make him an efficient instrument in war. The declaration of war is the work of the rulers of a state. The soldier's task is to be prepared for war at any time, with the twofold object in view, first, of ensuring peace where possible; secondly, of winning the war if war is inevitable." - page 15."If he is a clean fighter your take him prisoner, and rightly so. But the type of Fritz for whom you have no mercy is the Fritz who fires at you, killing your chums all the time, and when you get up to him, like the coward he is, howls 'Mercy, kamerad!' 'No bon that game!' 'Mercy' is out of place when dealing with him. You know it and act accordingly. 'Carry on, Thomas Atkins.' You've got your faults and some of them are bad one, but your Mother Country has taught you one thing which, in the heat of battle, when men act on instinct, and not on forethought, shows itself as plain as gold. That quality is British justice and British mercy, which is exactly what our Lord meant by the phrase 'Love your enemies,'" - pages 24-25. "The true meaning of the defeat of the Spanish Armada is that God found a more congenial home in the reformed England of the sixteenth century than He did in the corrupt and decadent empire of Spain." - page 32. "In conclusion, I beg leave to give one illustration of how this faith in God can so inspire a soldier in battle so that his hown life and his own safety county in his eyes as things of no value in comparison with the cause he is defending." - page 51.; Signed by Author.…

hardbound. Zustand: Good. Illustrated manual for students of operative surgery, prepared by E.S. Meyers (and contributors); here in draft form (titled 3rd draft); 2 case-bound volumes of duplicated typescript with photographic reproductions of illustrations roughly taped in, detailing a broad range of surgical procedures; Errol Solomon Meyers was a distinguished surgeon, and one of the founders of the University of Queensland School of Medicine; from the library of prominent Brisbane physician Brian Hirschfeld, himself the son of Otto Hirschfeld, Chancellor of UQ in the 1950's; no date but 1940's (Trove); one or two Brian Hirschfeld name-stamps, and signed by Hirschfeld to both volumes; generally rough and ready throughout (as per your standard draft), with tape-stains, and some illustrations loose or detached, edgewear to some pages, boards from both volumes a little rubbed, o.w. Good with all text clear and readable. no dustwrapper. 201pp. 2 volumes landscape 8vo. Good. b&w illustrations (illustrator).…