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Le Crapauillot: The Chronicle of 101st Trench Mortar Battery & its Activities During the World War.
1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 116pp., 4to, num. portraits & other photos., lge. fldg. group photo. of unit bound in at end (this split & chipped but complete). Lewiston, Maine: Journal Print Shop. nd (c.1920)
#67079
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A record of this American unit in France in 1918, Chemin des Dames &c., nominal rolls &c. Orig. red printed wraps., worn but sound. See illustration on our website.
£45
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DELAMAIN (Frank) Ed.
Going Across, or With the 9th Welch in the Butterfly Division: Being Extracts from the War Letters & Diary of Lieut. M. St. Helier Evans.
1st Ed., 228pp., portrait frontis., fldg. oblique aerial photo. (of Hollebeke Chateau &c., June 1917). VG in dw. Newport, Mon: R.H. Johns Ltd.
1952
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Rare & acclaimed memoirs of Lt. F.M. St H. Evans, who was commissioned in 1914 & served with the 9th (S) Bn. Welch Regt. in the 19th (Western) Division on the Western Front, 1915 (when wounded) & 1916-18. The earliest letters having been lost, those included in this book commence in April 1916 & continue until he was taken PoW at the Chemin-des-Dames on 30/5/1918. They contain lengthy, interesting & detailed letters throughout his second stint of active service including Mametz Wood in July 1916, Messines & 3rd Ypres 1917 &c. Orig. red cloth, silver gilt to sp., VG in pictorial dw with cancelled stmaps of NZ National Lib. to endpapers, VG thus. See illustration on our website.
£165
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EDMONDS (Brig. Sir J.E., CB, CMG)
Military Operations France & Belgium 1918 Part III: May-July: The German Diversion Offensives & the First Allied Counter-Offensive.
1st Ed., xxxii+385pp., 3 fldg. maps in end-pocket + 19 sketch maps. Macmillan.
1939
#62949
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Issued without separate mapcase. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG & scarce volume. See illustration on our website.
£125
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ROGERSON (Sidney)
The Last of the Ebb.
1st Ed., xxii+147pp., 16 plates, fldg. map. VG in sl. chipped dw. Barker.
1937
#65545
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The 2nd Battle of the Aisne, as experienced by a staff officer of 23rd Bde., 8th Div., IX Corps, with a narrative from the German side by Maj.-Gen. A.D. von Unruh. Orig. wheat cloth, titled in black, very nice copy & very scarce in attractive dw, this little chipped & neatly internally restored. See illustrations on our website.
£220
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ROGERSON (Sidney)
The Last of the Ebb.
1st Ed., xxii+147pp., 16 plates, fldg. map. Barker.
1937
#67044
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The 2nd Battle of the Aisne, as experienced by a staff officer of 23rd Bde., 8th Div., IX Corps, with a narrative from the German side by Maj.-Gen. A.D. von Unruh. Orig. wheat cloth, gilt, sp. mottled, generally VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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TRENCH MAP:
Chemin des Dames S.E. 1:10,000.
Large scale & large sized French paper map of the region around Maizy & Muscourt, along the river Aisne & south of it, with much interesting detail & a certain amount of defensive positions &c. No date but. c.1917/1918 including Beauregarde Ferme &c. See illustration on our website.
#61401
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£75
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