J w b merewether and frederick smith (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. This is a historically important and thrilling narrative of the deeds of the Indian Corps in Flanders in France in the early days of the Great War. During the course of the First World War, an Indian Army was raised, trained and equipped for service in India alone and upon its frontiers. Soon, this army was deployed from Egypt on the west to China in the east, and had embraced most of the intervening countries. The landing of two Indian Divisions of the Indian Corps in the harbor of Marseilles in September and October 1914 was not only a great event in the chronicles of the Indian Army, but in the entire human history. This book describes the manner in which the soldiers and the drafts and reinforcements by which it was followed, comported themselves in the fierce struggle of 1914-15 to a country where the climate, the language, the people, the culture were all alien to them.…

Zustand: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint of the 1918 edition. Hardback. Fine and unread, minor shelf wear and marks to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. 2nd Ed. 558pp, octavo hardcover in red cloth. fading to board edges, mild darkening to spine, binding solid and strong, toning to endpapers, interior text clean.

2nd Ed. xxviii + 558pp. Many plates and maps including some folding. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, signed in pencil to half title 'Major Alan Saunders Nov. 1919', some spotting, hinges cracked, gilt lettered red cloth with gilt armorial device to upper board, some soiling and fading particularly to chipped spine. US$37.…

Zustand: New. . hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Essential reference on the Indian Corps in France by two Officers who were intimately acquainted with the Corps. 1st Edition 1918 550pp., ills., maps, extensive index. Slightest chip at head of spine and usual fading, else very nice example. Ships from UK.…