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BROWN, MALCOLM The Western Front
BCA & Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0283061405) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front, covering all aspects of the Great War fought by the Allies on the Western Fron. Contents: Author's Acknowledgements. Preface by Alan Borg. Foreword: The Western Front. Background Note. Part One: Movement, August - November 1914. Introduction to Part One. Advance to Mons. From Mons to the Aisne. Casualty of the Great Retreat. 1st Ypres & Entrenchment. Killed in Action at 1st Ypres. A Nurse at 1st Ypres. Part Two: Deadlock, November 1914 - March 1918. Introduction to Part Two. First Winter, & the Christmas Truce. The Trenches. The Guns. 'Rest' - and Rest. First Battles. The Battle of Loos. Wounds, Fatalities. Religion & Fatalism. Executions at Dawn. Soldiers' Humour. A French Artist with the BEF. Patrols & Raids. The Somme. The Death of Capt Geoffrey Donaldson. The Australians at Pozieres. Unhappy Warriors. Nightmare of a Brigadier-General. First Tanks. 'Over the Top'. The 'Bomb-proof' Canadian. Winter, & the German Withdrawal. Diary of a Battalion Runner. Entertainments, for the troops, various. Arras. Liaison Officer with the Portuguese. Messines, June 1917. The Treatment of Prisoners. The First Day of 3rd Ypres. A Stretcher-Bearer during 3rd Ypres. The War in the Air. The Battle of Menin Road. The View from Passchendaele. Cambrai. Part Three: Break-Out, March - November 1918. Introduction to Part Three. The 'Kaiser's Battle'. The March Retreat. 'Bakc to the Wall'. A World of Rare Women. Americans. The Last Hundred Days I & II. Endings. The Changing Face of Ypres. An Afterword on Attitudes. Index to Contributors. General Index. xiv + 274pp. Illustrated with superb colour plates by various War Artists, including Williamson, Nash, Holiday, Orpen, Strang, Gill, rogers, Handley-Read, Mackey & Jones; b/w photographs of portraits, groups, the trenches, battle & camp scenes, fighting vehicles, guns & equipment, and b/w line drawings, maps. Original black cloth covered boards with white lettering to spine. Original pictorial dust-jacket in loose and removable protective wraps. Fine/Fine.
Offered for GBP 12.00 = appr. US$ 23.88 by: Addison Phillips - Book number: 001558