Prasad bisheshwar editor (7 risultati)

1st U.K. edition. 8vo. xv + 351pp. Pages lightly browned. Original cloth slightly raised by damp. Rubbed and browned d/w. with green spine lettered in brown and white. US$12.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Folding maps throughout.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hardback. Excellent volume in the Indian official history series, The Retreat From Burma 1941-42. New Impression 1959 with new Preface, errata. "note a few alterations and corrections have been made". 500pp., numerous maps, some coloured, 42 appendices, bibliography, index. Really nice example in blue cloth, gilt, (slight crease at head of spine) in very nice unclipped dustwrapper. Again very good condition+ Ships from UK.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. First published in 1954, this is a New Impression 1959 ( stated). Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine.xxxiv + 500pp., 41 maps (19 folding)Scarce volume in the Indian official history series, especially in its original jacket, price-clipped but with new publisher's price sticker attached to base of front jacket panel. A NEAR FINE book( some corners lightly bumped) in VERY GOOD jacket. A heavy volume ( will require extra post). Inquire for quote.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. 1st Edition. Hardback. Useful volume in the Official history series for WWII. 1st Edition 1963. 278pp., folding maps and plans, index. Original blue cloth, fading to spine title and a few blemishes to various centrefolds as usual. Good copy with good+ dustwrapper (slight fading and chips to top edge.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Complete with 41 maps. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

First edition. In two volumes. xxvi, 467, [1]; xxv, [1], 539pp, [1]. Numerous photographic illustrations and maps (some folding). Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrappers. A trifle rubbed, spines sunned. Armorial bookplate of Field Marshal Slim to both FEPs. The first edition of an official history of the operations of the Indian Armed Forces during the Second World War, particularly the reconquest of Burma. Field Marshal William 'Bill' Slim, first Viscount Slim (1891-1970), British Army officer. Slim joined the army at the outbreak of the First World War and fought in the Dardanelles, France, and Iraq. In 1920 he received a regular commission and joined the Indian army, in which he served throughout the interwar period. At the beginning of the Second World War, he participated in the British conquest of Italian East Africa (1940). In 1942 he was appointed to command the 1st Burma Corps, conducting the retreat from superior Japanese forces that had overrun Burma. In 1943 he was given command of the 14th Army, with which he stabilised the front of the first Arakan campaign (February 1944), arguably up to then the worst-managed British offensive operation of the war. In consequence Slim devised new tactics adapted to jungle warfare, using aerial resupply and guerrilla warfare to assist his efforts in pushing the Japanese out of Burma. Rangoon (Yangon) fell on May 3, 1945, and in June Slim was made supreme Allied commander of ground forces in Southeast Asia. Following the war, in 1946, Slim was appointed commandant of the Imperial Defence College, and in 1948 became chief of the Imperial General Staff with a promotion to field marshal. He served as governor-general of Australia from 1953 to 1960. His memoirs, a personal narrative of the Burma campaign entitled Defeat into Victory (London, 1956) are a classic of the genre and amongst the best thought of campaign histories of the Second World War. Size: 8vo.…