9780919203020 - The secret war, 1914-1918 (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. The Secret War, 1914-1918, Tompkins, Stuart Ramsay. Published by Morriss Publishing Ltd., Victoria, BC, 1981. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 71pp. Postcard commemorating Vimy Ridge laid in. Aua blue coated boards with gilt titles front and spine; published without a jacket. Light rubbing to spine edges and corners, contents in unread condition. The Secret war is a criticism of the "behind-the-lines development", attempts by Great Britain and her allies to destabilize the alliances that Germany formed during the First World War. Stuart Ramsay Tompkins served as a soldier in the First World War including at Vimy Ridge; his war time letters to his wife were published as A Canadian's Road to Russia, Letters From the Great War Decade.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. 71 pages. A book concerned with the extra-military attempts - what the author calls the "behind-the-lines development" - commencing almost at the outset of the First World War, to bring about an end to the hostilities; or, at least, by frustrating further alliances (as between the Turks and the Germans), by disrupting the existing alliance between Germany and Austria, and by fomenting further, and capitalizing on existing, disorders in Russia to foreshorten appreciably the period of conflict. That the war obscured the struggle between social classes that would in the future override all the issues that gave rise to the conflict was for the author a supreme irony." Published posthumously.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; History Military World War One Diplomatic History 71 pages. A book concerned with the extra-military attempts - what the author calls the "behind-the-lines development" - commencing almost at the outset of the First World War, to bring about an end to t.