henniker brigadier (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. * CONDITION : Used - Good * OTHER: * ex-library book * The red boards are clean with some bumping and wear to the edges, the spine has bright lettering. The binding is firm. The tanned pages are clean, with a sticker pull to the ffep and some stamps. This book has 303 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp XIV, 303. 1st printing. Upper joint weak, spine sun faded, otherwise near fine.

Condizione: Very Good+. Hardcover book, 5.5" x 8.75", covers are fine, text is very good+ (two stamps from the Victoria Public Library and one number, very occasional light spotting to pages and text edges); no dustwrapper; xiv, 303 pp, 8 illustrations, 5 maps. Book.

First Edition. Brigadier Sir Mark Henniker (1906-1991) was commander of the 63rd Gurkha Brigade in Malaya between 1952 and 1955, with the present work chronicling this three-year period. He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1926, serving on the north-west frontier of India in 1929-34 and in Europe and North Africa during the Second World War. He retired from active duty in 1958. (PH) The book is in good condition. The back board was some print on it. The endpapers appear to be new with some residue of library marks with the book rebound into its original boards.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by William Blackwood, London, UK. Date: 1955. 1st edition. Original cloth. Dustwrapper. Size: 14.8cm x 22.3cm. Pp. xiv + 303. Illustrated with plates and maps. A detailed account of his time spent as Commander of 63 Gurkha Infantry Brigade and the operations against the bandits in Malaya from January 1952 to December 1954. Includes chapters on 'Singapore', 'Seremban', 'The Green Howards Kill Two Bandits', 'Abu Nur and the Pawang', 'The Fijians Join 63 Brigade', 'Operative Hive', and 'Malacca'. Henniker was mentioned in despatches during the campaign and retired from active service in 1958. Binding nice and tight. Pages nice and clean. A near fine, tight, clean copy in very good plus, slightly nicked, rubbed and faded dustwrapper. Scarce.