Routh guy montgomery (2 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: [Naini Tal: privately printed, 1936] 1936
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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First edition, one of 30 copies only. These minutely detailed accounts of Colonel Routh's service form part of his War Memoirs of Eastern Campaigns, a multi-volume, continuously paginated series also covering his service in Mesopotamia and Waziristan. Written to share vital lessons learned in these theatres, the memoirs are also… invaluable records for military historians. Commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1900, Routh (1882-1962) transferred to the Indian Ordnance Department in 1908. He served in East Africa, 1914-16, Mesopotamia, 1916-18, and, in the final months of the war, as Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services for "Dunsterforce" and the South Persia Field Force. Fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, he was an active member of the Royal Central Asian Society. Concerning East Africa, Routh reproduces letters to the Director of Ordnance Stores in Simla, quotes from his war diary, and provides a special section on Smuts's advance in 1916. The Persia section analyses the inception of Dunsterforce, comments on Dunsterville and his staff, and explains how he drew on his experiences in East Africa to "visualize the cure for many of the anxieties now threatening to overwhelm the hopelessly inadequate staff attempting to administer the Force" (p. 294). A 20-page section describes his dealings with the intelligence officer Gerard Leachman, Sir Arnold Wilson, and Gertrude Bell. The second part covers September-October 1918, when the two brigades at Bushire were organized to open a cart road to Shiraz on the Central Persian Plateau. Provenance: Humphrey Winterton, the major travel collector, with his book label on the inside of the custom box. This was number 587 in Maggs Catalogue 1343, From the Abyssinian Expedition to the Mau Mau Insurrection: The African Library of Humphrey Winterton (2003). Octavo. With 5 folding mimeographed maps, mimeographed diagram laid down on p. 266, 6 folding letterpress forms and tables, tables in text. Original black cloth, printed labels on spine and front cover. Housed in black quarter morocco custom box. Binding lightly worn, split at foot of front joint, front inner hinge starting, maps toned, blank leaf with tipped-in map of East Africa now loosely inserted: very good.
Weitere BilderVerlag: [Naini Tal: privately printed, 1936] 1936
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes KönigreichPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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EUR 4.176,78
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First edition of this scarce, minutely detailed account of two important and underreported campaigns to protect British interests from German influence in Persia and Afghanistan, written by an intelligent and observant officer. We have traced a single institutional copy only (Imperial War Museum). Commissioned into the Royal Gar…rison Artillery in 1900, Colonel Routh (1882-1962) subsequently served in India, transferring to the Indian Ordnance Department in 1908. He served in East Africa, 1914-16, Mesopotamia, 1916-18, and, in the final months of the war, as Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services for "Dunsterforce" and the South Persia Field Force. His distinguished military career in India ended on his retirement in 1936. Fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, he was an active member of the Royal Central Asian Society. These two parts belong to Routh's War Memoirs of Eastern Campaigns, a multi-volume, continuously paginated series also covering his service in East Africa, Mesopotamia, and Waziristan. In the first, concerning Dunsterforce, Routh analyses the inception of the campaign, comments on Dunsterville and his staff, and explains the changing operational role that required his logistical expertise: "Dunsterville, a fine Russian scholar of the Indian Army, arrived in Basra en route to North Persia in Jan. 1918. His choice [of staff] had naturally fallen mainly on Colonials, whose ribbons indicated a high degree of gallantry, but complete ignorance of the east and its tongues and methods of working. There were so many points of similarity with my past campaign in East Africa, that I was able to visualize the cure for many of the anxieties now threatening to overwhelm the hopelessly inadequate staff attempting to administer the Force. Knowing Persia and the Persians, it seemed to me that an urgent need was an organized system of equipping the growing military personnel" (pp. 292-4). In his narrative of operations, an appealing 20-page section, "Circumstances leading up to the appointment of D.A.D.O.S.", describes his work in Persia with the intelligence officer Gerard Leachman, Sir Arnold Wilson, and Gertrude Bell. "It was one of Miss Bell's foibles to despise the shallow soldier in his superficial outlook on life" (p. 327). Part II, on South Persia, covers September-October 1918, when the two brigades at Bushire were organized to open a cart road to Shiraz on the Central Persian Plateau. Routh recounts the ordnance situation on his arrival and provides extracts from his diary and other materials. Octavo (239 x 157 mm). With 3 mounted folding mimeographed maps (2 with hand colouring), tipped-in letterpress form for local purchase of stores; tables in text. Original brown cloth, recently rebacked and re-cornered in dark half calf, front board with title in gilt on red label, cream endpapers. Binding a little rubbed and marked, contents toned, one map and first and last leaves with a little browning: very good.
