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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Orange hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 319pp.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 1st thus 2007. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. The Experiences of a Battery of Heavy Artillery on the Western Front During the First World War. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 184 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. A lovely copy in a clean dustwrapper. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Gambardier: the Experiences of a Battery of Heavy Artillery on the Western Front During the First World WarThe First World War with the big gunsGambardier is a title-not completely complimentary-for a heavy or siege artilleryman. It was bestowed most usually by his comrade (but rival) of the field artillery. This is the story of a young officer-a Gambardier-from the outbreak of the Great War to its end on the Western Front. In this compelling and unusual book, we experience life on campaign, the tension and danger of Observation Posts (O. Ps), the brutality of counter barrages from the enemy-the German artillery, and the humour and incident of life amongst a small group of men thrown together in adversity. The big guns themselves are the real characters of this book, and the author provides a fascinating and compelling detail about their various types, their rate of fire, their ammunition, transportation and maintenance.…

Black Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 319pp, free endpapers tanned, red top stain, other edges a little spotted, black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, covers rather rubbed, no dust jacket. Size: 7.5 x 5 Inches. Modern Fiction.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The experiences of two young men in a momentous conflictThe Battle of the Somme, fought in 1916 on the Western Front, became emblematic of the futility of the First World War. This grand attack was intended by the British and their allies to be the solution to the stalemate of trench warfare that had prevailed since the First Battle of Ypres in the winter of 1914/15. Instead, it proved to be yet another failed attempt to break through lines of heavily defended fixed positions. The resulting loss of life for no real tactical-much less strategic-advantage reached new and staggering numbers and revealed the inability of military commanders to deliver a decisive battlefield victory. The year of the publication of this Leonaur book marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme and in these pages readers will come to understand the battle from the perspectives of two young, British Army officers who experienced it standing beside their men on the front line. Both accounts reward the reader with intimate detail of life in the trenches, with all its discomforts and horrors, together with revealing insights into the thoughts and deeds of the men who went 'over the top' into the reaping fire of a battlefield of the industrial age.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThe Gambardier: the Experiences of a Battery of Heavy Artillery on the Western Front During the First World WarThe First World War with the big gunsGambardier is a title-not completely complimentary-for a heavy or siege ar.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThe experiences of two young men in a momentous conflictThe Battle of the Somme, fought in 1916 on the Western Front, became emblematic of the futility of the First World War. This grand attack was intended by the British .

[1] pp.; 27.9 x 21.5 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Program / press release for performance of "The Ice Queen" by Rosalyn Drexler performed in [1965]. Directed by Syeus Mottel. Advisor on puppet animation: Bud Wertheim. Puppets and stage by Sara Corless, Robert Corless, and Eddie Johnson. Puppets and voices by Marlene Wertheim, Warren Finnerty, Ruth Ford, Zachary Scott, Severn Darden, and Tony Ponzini. Music by Michael Sahl, sound by Ivan Berger assisted by Ann Perez, backstage by Cathy Solomon and Mark Solomon, costumes by Sara Coirless and Rena Mottel, and consultant to author: Sherman Drexler. Good / Very Good. Folded in four with light handling wear and light rubbing.…

First edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Lieutenant L. O. R. Ashley (1883-1947), opening: "Dear Ashley, It gives me great pleasure to sign this little book for you and, in doing so, I cannot help thinking of the great days in March 1918 when we all fought side by side together on the Bapaume-Cambrai road". Lionel Owen Randolph Ashley, who served with a Mechanical Transport company of the Royal Army Service Corps, was at one time officer commanding 194 Siege Battery Ammunition Column (SBAC). He has written these details, along with his dates of service (1917-19), and address on the front pastedown; his neat facsimile-signature ownership stamp is also here, and on the front panel of the jacket. On the half-title he writes in remembrance of Major Hugh Aglionby, who appears in the book as Hugh Merredew, noting that "at Oxford & in private life afterwards one of my greatest friends". A few days before the Armistice, Aglionby died of wounds received in action at Moen in Flanders. In his inscription, dated 3 January 1931, Lushington writes "I cannot help thinking of our mutual friend Hugh Aglionby" and concludes by remarking, "I should like to add a personal tribute to the A.S.C. without whose devoted and unselfish support we Gambardiers would not have been able to carry on". Lushington also supplies some 15 identifying marginal notes in his neat hand; Ashley naming Aglionby in the margin at pp. 220-1. "Gambardier" is army slang for an officer of the Royal Garrison Artillery. Lushington (1892-1964) commanded 244 Siege Battery - the unit in which the poet Edward Thomas (Thomas Tyler in the book), was serving when killed during the first hour of the Battle of Arras. Lengel 708. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece and 7 plates, in-text maps and plans. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With dust jacket, artwork by R. Hartman. Spine cocked and a little creased, scattered foxing, one plate a little proud at fore edge; spine of unclipped jacket toned and with a couple of small stains, nicks, chips and short tears, a few opaque tape repairs on verso: a very good copy in like jacket.…

First edition, first impression of this important artillery battery commander's account of service on the Western Front. This an excellent association copy from the library of gunner and military historian Major Archibald Frank Becke (1871-1947), with a letter from the author concerning Becke's, unacknowledged, involvement in the writing of the book, and Becke's typically meticulous annotations and comments. Lushington commanded 224 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery - "gambardier" is army slang for an officer of the RGA - the unit in which the poet Edward Thomas was serving when killed by a shell blast during the first hour of the Battle of Arras. Tipped in facing the acknowledgements is a two-page letter from Lushington apologising for Becke's omission from that list, due to a "mistake of the publisher or the printer", and thanking him for his "help in the matter of the early siege batteries". Becke's ownership inscription and armorial bookplate to the front pastedown, his pencilled underlines, marginal markings and occasional notes throughout, and index of comments recto of the rear free endpaper. Contemporary review from an unidentified source mounted recto of the front free endpaper - "this unpretentious work is very much more valuable than many of the most heralded 'best sellers' of the War-book boom". Covers the battery's service throughout the war, including Festubert, the Somme, Arras, Ypres and Messines, Cambrai, and the final days, and gives an account of Thomas's time on the Front, under the name of Tyler, laconically describing his death in battle. Becke was involved in the compilation of the British official history series, producing maps for several volumes and editing the Order of Battle, he was also the author of a well-regarded account of Waterloo, and numerous articles on artillery, including a critical study of artillery at Le Cateau, tactical and strategic matters. Uncommon and attractive in the dust jacket, this copy with wonderful provenance. Lengel 708. Octavo. Frontispiece and 7 other plates, maps and plans to the text. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the superb R. Hartman dust jacket. Slight foxing to edges and toning to text block; unclipped jacket slightly worn and brown with minor loss at foot of spine panel, closed tear to front panel, residue of tape repair to verso: a very good copy in good jacket. …