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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.

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Zustand: New. pp. 185.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, 8vo, xxii,261pp, illustrated, owner's bookplate, edges browned, text clean and sound, brown staining on endpapers, blue cloth, some old dampstaining on the boards; Good / no dustwrapper.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThe Blue Jackets who fought on landThe time of Nelson was not only notable because of the success in nautical warfare of the man himself, but also because it was the zenith of the age of sail that left British sea power .

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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The Blue Jackets who fought on land The time of Nelson was not only notable because of the success in nautical warfare of the man himself, but also because it was the zenith of the 'age of sail' that left British sea power so dominant that Britannia really did 'rule the waves.' No navy could stand against the might of the Royal Navy, and so until Jutland during the Great War it would not fight another major battle at sea. Queen Victoria's ever expanding empire meant that British forces were perpetually set against often underdeveloped powers and the navy took its part, but most of the hard work of empire building would inevitably fall upon the British army. Of course, the Royal Navy had its own 'soldiers'-the Royal Marines. The particular talents and skills of sailors were often required, particularly whilst manning 'the guns,' so the 19th century saw the 'blue jackets' in action in the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the Zulu War, the Boer War and several other conflicts. The early years of the 20th century brought a period of instability that inexorably dragged the great powers of Europe towards the cataclysm of blood which was to be the Great War of 1914-18. The entire British Empire mobilised and the industrial efficiency of modern methods of war and the global nature of the conflict drew more and more men into the services. The Royal Naval Division was formed around a cadre of Royal Marines and sailors and was expanded as a unit of the New Army by volunteers. The Division saw action in the defence of Antwerp in 1914, on Helles and Anzac during the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and on the Western Front where it took part in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. This book was written by one of the their number and is an often light-hearted account of the wartime record of the division, full of incident and anecdote and scattered with occasionally humorous line drawings. There is little in print about the Royal Naval Division in the First World War so this will make a welcome addition to any naval library. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

[30] pp.; 44.7 x 29 cm.; loose leaves; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; September 26 - October 2, 1975 issue of Berkeley Barb, edited by David Armstrong. Contents include: "Sally Moore's 'Radical' Trip," by Barb's S.F. News Interval; "'Chile Too, Will Triumph,'" by Gar Smith; "Dear Barb;" Patty, Sally and the Media Army," by Ric Reynolds, written a week after Patty Hearst's capture/rescue; "Berkeley Beat," by Avis Worthington; "Out of the Closet, Into the Bank," by Paul krassner; "How Real Is It? Patty's 'Brainwash' Rap,'" by David Johnston; "Straight Press Tries to Isolate SLA Supporters," by Kathie Stream; "Whole Earth's Stewart Brand Tools Off Into Space," by Dick Rosenblatt; "Tom Hayden: All-American Radical," by Andrew Ross; "Looking at the World with 'The Big Mind,'" by Laughingbird; "Turning Sex Into Dubious Dance," by Barbara L. Baer; "Vassar Clements' Country Jazz (?)," by Loren Means; "Miles, Bill Evans and the Techno-Rock Kid," by Michael Snyder; "Trane Betrayed by Jargon and Trivia," by F.D.; "Brian Aldiss - Through a Timeslip Darkly," by Ray Ramsay; "Opera? Why Not? Listen.," by James Roy MacBean "Barb Classified," and more. Contains many pages of advertisements for San Francisco massage parlors. Good. Folded in two, with light yellowing of covers and pages and edge-wear, bumping, folding and small tearing throughout including 5 mm. tear at spine and 3 mm. tear to bottom edge of recto. Otherwise clean and unmarked.

Zustand: fair. 261, illus., map, weakness to bds, staining & discolor ins bds & flylves, sm stains fore-edge, bds scuffed & stained, sp edges wn. Ink name and date inside front flyleaf. Scarce military medicine and unit history. Foreword by Surgeon-General Sir James Porter.