Deadlock von wintringham tom (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 280pp, with a map in text. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth is tired and marked, gently rounded at tips of a lightly sunned spine. Text block edges toned and spotted. Internally neat, clean bright and tight. Tom Wintringham - socialist, military historian and veteran of the Spanish Civil War - published this, his treatise on politics, war and military theory, in the anxious early days of the second world war. He questions why modern warfare had reached a static deadlock, and puts forward a theory for democratic societies to break it. It draws heavily on his experiences of fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War and serves as a precursor to his famous practical manual of guerrilla tactics, New Ways of War, all directed at defeating Hitler's Nazi Germany. Hard to find. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Faber and Faber, 1940. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 279pp. Endpapers and edges a little spotted, d/j worn, stained and chipped with loss. A fair copy. /0.5uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).…