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Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Military Miscellany I. Manuscripts From the Seven Years War, The First and Second Sikh Wars and the First World War edited by Alan J. Guy, Thomas and Gerard J. DeGroot. Bottom corners very slightly bumped. The Journal of George Durant, giving a vivid account of the Expedition to Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1758-1759, has passed through the family, by dirent descent to the present opwner, who has kindly allowed its reproduction in this volume. Daniel George Robinson's letters, describing the experiences of an engineer working on the Hazara Survey during the First and Second Sikh Wars (in which he participated), belong to the family of their editor, R. N. W. Thomas, who is himself related to the writer. The Diary of the Reverand G. S. Duncan gives a very personal view of Haig's GHQ from 1916 to 1918 and is interesting beftween the two men and how it fostered Haig's conviction that he had been singled out by God and that 'At the right time the Lord will bring about a gteat victory.'449 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

21.5cm, 449p., index, colour frontis portrait, map, illustration, red cloth, fine in fine jacket. (Mt).