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Artillery & Trench Mortar Memories, 32nd Division. 1st Ed., 687pp. Printed by Unwin Bros. 1932  #63558
[HLMainPic] Very substantial compilation by Old Comrades, containing diaries of Lt. A.B. Scott, MC, of "X" & "W" TM Batteries & Reconnaissance Officer, 32nd Div. Artillery HQ; Rev. R.E. Grice-Hutchinson, MC, Chaplain, 32nd Div. Artillery; late Major L. Heathcote-Amory, Staff Capt., 32nd Div. Artillery (DoW Aug. 1918) & brief recollections by seven others. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
The Gallant Legion. Complete set of 12 Vols. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1930s.  #66392
[HLMainPic] Angus & Robertson was the most prolific publisher of war memoirs in Australia after the Great War & produced a number of notable & several classic texts recording the experiences of Australian men & women in the Army, Naval, Nursing & Air services. At some point during the late 1930s, presumably to give a new lease of life to unbound sheets, the publisher reissued all these works in a series called The Gallant Legion. The sheets of various (but not 1st) editions were bound in excellent quality blue cloth with the series title at the head of the spine, plus the number of the volume in the series, with the individual volume title & author below, & a fighting soldier motif at the foot of the spine. All the volumes in this edition are complete as per the original texts, with all maps & photos. as originally published. This fine body of work, complete here in 12 volumes, includes: IDRIESS (Ion L.) The Desert Column; MAXWELL (J., VC, MC, DCM) Hell's Bells & Mademoiselles; WHITE (T.W.) Guests of the Unspeakable; RULE (E.J., MC, MM) Jacka's Mob; WILLIAMS (H.R.) The Gallant Company; TILTON (May) The Grey Battalion; REID (Frank) The Fighting Cameliers; MORROW (Edgar) Iron in the Fire; BURTON (O.E., MM) The Silent Division: New Zealanders at the Front 1914-1919; JONES (T.M.) Watchdogs of the Deep: Life in a Submarine During the Great War; SUTHERLAND (L.W., MC, DCM) Aces & Kings; MONASH (Gen. Sir John) The Australian Victories in France in 1918. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG throughout & excellent complete set. See illustrations on our website.   £425
[HAIG (F-M Sir Douglas)] COOPER (Duff) Haig. 1st Ed., 2 Vols., 402+xii & 484pp., 21 plates, 20 maps. VG in dws. Faber. 1935  #64398
[HLMainPic] Competent biography; for many years the standard work on Haig. Mainly devoted to the Great War. Orig. black cloth, gilt, VG in sl. chipped dws. See illustration on our website.   £50
AQUILA [Pseud. of DELIUS (Capt. J.D.)] With the Cavalry in the West. 1st Ed., 246pp., 8 plates by F.W. Reed, 2 maps. John Lane/Bodley Head (On Active Service series). 1922  #63931
[HLMainPic] Unusual, & thus valuable, anonymous first-hand account by a junior officer: wartime Sandhurst course, then with a regiment of 2nd Cav. Div. (4th Hussars, 5th Cavd. Bde.) in France & Flanders from Oct. 1915-armistice inc. battles of Somme, Arras, Cambrai, March Retreat, Amiens & Final Advance. He records disappointments as, time after time, his regiment was held in readiness for a breakthrough but denied the opportunity to act; in between it was employed on working parties, dismounted infantry in trench warfare &c. The author was a troop commander & then adjt. during most of 1918. Orig. orange cloth, blindstamped & title in black, covers stained & worn, yet sound, & scarce. The author was the younger brother of the famous composer Frederick Delius. See illustration on our website.   £75
BEAN (C.E.W.) The Australian Imperial Force in France During the Allied Offensive, 1918: May 1918 to the Armistice. 1st Ed., lxxvi+1099pp., 430 illus. & maps. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1942  #66797
[HLMainPic] Vol. VI of the Australian Official History. The Allied Offensive of 1918 &c. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt, near fine in orig. plain paper wrap. & cardboard box of issue. See illustrations on our website.   £65
BEAN (C.E.W.) The Australian Imperial Force in France May 1918 to the Armistice. 1st Ed., lxxvi+1099pp., 430 illus. & maps. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1942  #66919
[HLMainPic] Vol. VI of the Australian Official History. Orig. maroon cloth, sides speckled o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
BOND (Lt.-Col. R.C., DSO) The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914-1918. 1st Ed., xviii+[352]pp., frontis., 12 plates, 14 maps (some fldg.). Lund, Humphries & Co. nd 1929  #63165
[HLMainPic] Almost entirely Western Front inc. all main battles from Mons & Le Cateau to the Final Advance. Excellent detailed history with awards, officers killed/wounded noted in text. Orig. blue cloth., gilt, sp. stained & worn, generally VG. See illustration on our website.   £75
BOND (Lt.-Col. R.C., DSO) The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914-1918. 1st Ed., xviii+[352]pp., frontis., 12 plates, 14 maps (some fldg.). Lund, Humphries & Co. nd 1929  #67199
[HLMainPic] Almost entirely Western Front inc. all main battles from Mons & Le Cateau to the Final Advance. Excellent detailed history with awards, officers killed/wounded noted in text. Orig. blue cloth., gilt, VG. This copy presented to the United Service Club. See illustration on our website.   £65
BRECKENRIDGE (William) From Vimy to Mons: A Historical Narrative by William Breckenridge, ex 42nd Canadian Black Watch, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 254pp., dup. typescript, large format (275x220mm approx.) compiled by the author in 1919 but issued by him in this duplicated form in 1957.  #66441
[HLMainPic] A rare personal memoir of service with the 42nd Bn. CEF in France & Flanders, compiled by the author in 1919 but not circulated by him until 1957, & then presumably in a limited edition. He was a signaller & joined his battalion with a draft in 1916. Foreword states: "Of the many stories that have been written about wars but few of them have given the truth concerning the suffering & hardships that the front line fighting infantrymen are called upon to endure.. In this story I have endeavoured throughout to give the front line fighting infantryman's account... I have given the plain facts regarding the actualities of battle, naturally as I, in my own small way, saw them, & every statement or fact about any incident mentioned can be accepted as true... I have served on more than three dozen front line sectors... from Ypres to Amiens... I was fortunate to pass through many of the principal battles with the first wave of attacking troops & return unscarred... many dear friends fell... I saw my regiment decimated five times - at Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens, Arras & Cambrai... Every trench that I have mentioned, & the dates given, are genuine... The official signalling messages & documents that I refer to are in my possession & are the original papers that were actually received in the trenches, & the names of the persons used are not fictitious..." The Contents include: Going to the Front; Life in the Trenches; Battle of Vimy Ridge; Dodging Trench Mortars in Avion; Fritz Uses Mustard Gas...; Almost Drowned in Flanders Mud; The Great Battle of Amiens; Smashing the Hindenburg Line, &c., & the whole piece is informative, well-written & gripping: a fine personal account. Issued by the author in card wraps., this copy bound in handsome black cloth with gilt title to sp., with author presentation inscription: "To Mr C.E. Dornbusch, The Author, William Breckenbridge." See illustrations on our website.   £350
BURNE (Major A.H., RA) Some Pages from the History of "Q" Battery, R.H.A., in the Great War. Strung together by A.H.B. 1st Ed., orig. limp wraps., [iv]+51pp., 6 photos., 3 fldg. maps. Woolwich: RA Inst. 1922  #63040
[HLMainPic] History summarising events 1914-17 then concentrating mainly on the last twelve months: Battles of Bullecourt 1917; The Knoll 1917; Cambrai 1917; events of March-April 1918; Hamel; Amiens; Hindenburg Line, &c. Nicely detailed inc. notes of casualties & awards to all ranks, several good maps & six excellent photos. of Battery positions taken in 1921. VG & rare. See illustrations on our website.   £145

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