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MILITARY WORLD WAR 1 BEF SOMME FLANDERS MARNE

	Farrar-Hockley, Anthony - DEATH OF AN ARMY(Wordsworth , 1998 (orig 1968)) pp 195 Pages Wordsworth Military Library edition of the the excellent account of the First Battler of Ypres, October and November 1914 in which the British Army was virtually destroyed. Maps and illusts. 13x22 cms (View image) Very fine. Pictorial paper covers. Price: $13.20
	Freytag-Loringhoven, Lt Gen Baron Alexander von - DEDUCTIONS FROM THE WORLD WAR(Constable, London , 1918) vi, 176 Pages Written by the then Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the German Army in World War I, von Freytag-Loringhoven (1849 - 1926). Of particular interest in that, even a year before the end of hostilities and the Versailles Treaty that decimated Germany`s military power, it predicts that Germany can not win the present war yet will win the inevitable next world war and explains the need for Germany to regain her strength to fulfil that destiny. It ends with chilling words: `In the future, as in the past, the German people will have to seek firm cohesion in its glorious army and its belaurelled young fleet.` His son (?) Wessel von F-L was one of the anti-Hitler plotters with von Stauffenberg and committed suicide after the failure of the bomb plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. Good. Various fading and marks of age to cloth brds, but sound copy. Price: $22.00
	Livesey, Anthony - GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR I(Guild Publishing, London , 1989) pp 200 Pages Splendidly illustrated with advanced computer graphics) complementing 100`s of photographs and diagrams. Succeeds in making the chaos of battle comprehensible to the layman. Large format25x31 cms. Very attractive book. (View image for part of cover) Very fine. Cloth brds in pictorial dustwrappers. Price: $26.40
	Wren, Jack - GREAT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR I(Hamlyn , 1972) pp 434 Pages Well illustrated. Large format 23x30 cms Very good. Cloth brds; lacks d/w Price: $17.60
	Barnett, Correlli - GREAT WAR, THE(Paul Hamlyn , 1979) pp 192 Pages Barnett was co-author of the BBC series `The Great War`. 100`s of colour and b/w illustrations. 23x30 cms. (View image) Cloth brds fine in vg dustwrapper with minor rubbing Price: $22.00
	Chapman, Ivan - IVEN G. MACKAY : CITIZEN SOLDIER(Melway Publishing, Melbourne , 1975, 1st edition) pp. 316 Pages Memoirs of World War I with AIF incl Gallipoli and World War II incl Bardia, Tobruk and the `Brisbane Line` controversy. Illustrations and maps. Hardcover cloth brds. Fine crisp copy, no marks. No d/w Price: $15.40
	Palmer, Alan - KAISER, THE : Warlord of the Second Reich(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London , 1978) 276 Pages Interesting focus on Wilhelm II`s Anglo-German background and his ambivalent attitude to Britain. Bismarck, Tirpitz, Hindenburg. See attached image of cover. Fine cloth brds, gilt spine title, light browning to fep, no inscripts. D/w edgewear. Crease on p66 Price: $28.60
	Haig, Countess - MAN I KNEW, THE(Moray Press , 1935) xiii, 320 Pages Biography of Sir Douglas Haig. NOTE: This is the 1935 edition and therefore presumably pre-dates other copies on offer as `first editions`. Illustrations. VG+ cloth brds, no d/w Price: $33.00
	Terraine, John - MONS : The Retreat to Victory(Batsford , 1960 2nd impress) 224 Pages Covers the whole of the first, or mobile, phase of the Great War in the West, from the opening encounters of mid-August 1914, to September 6, when Joffre struck back across the Marne. (VIEW IMAGE) VG cloth brds, edgeworn d/w, some sunning, prev owner name (ex Guards Tank Regiment) on fep Price: $27.50
	Vaughan, Edward Campion - SOME DESPERATE GLORY : The diary of a young officer, 1917(Frederick Warne , 1981, 1st ed) 232 Pages Memoirs of enthusiastic young officer at Western Front in 1917, who marched into battle with a copy of Palgrave`s `Golden Treasury` in his pack. Was one of only 15 survivors of a company of 90 at the Battle of Ypres. Foreword by John Terraine (author of `The Western Front 1914-1918`, etc.) Contemporary of Wilfred Owen at Hare Hall training camp. Fine cloth brds in Fine d/w, price clipped; no inscriptions Price: $22.00
	Farrar-Hockley, A. H. - SOMME, THE(Batsford, London , 1964) 223 Pages Profusely illustrated with battle plans, maps, photographs. Generally considered to be the standard work on the Battle of the Somme. (View image) Very Good cloth brds in edgeworn d/w, prev owner`s name on fep Price: $33.00
	Terraine, John - TO WIN A WAR : 1918, The Year of Victory(Sidgwick & Jackson, London , 1978 1st ed) 283 Pages Large number of illusts, photographs, maps. The central thesis is that Germany`s `Stab in the Back` myth about the 1918 defeat (which fuelled nationalist and ultimately Nazi propaganda) was indeed a myth and that the German Army was decisively defeated.The nature of the Allied victory is considered in detail. Fine cloth brds in Fine priceclipped d/w Price: $28.60
	Holmes, Richard - WESTERN FRONT, THE(BBC , 1999) pp 224 Pages Published to accompany acclaimed BBC series. `Richly detailed authoritative book clarifies the complexities ofthe Western Front.` Well illustrated. 16x24 cms (View image) Very fine in pictorial dustwrappers. Price: $24.20
	Terraine, John - WESTERN FRONT, THE(Hutchinson, London , 1967 repr) 230 Pages A model of accurate, well-argued and readable military history and a classic on WWI. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Very sound copy. Especially interesting sections on Passchendaele and `The Big Battalions : The Napoleonic Legacy`. VG+ cloth brds, rerd d/w, name corner cut from fep Price: $19.80
	Tuchman, Barbara - ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM, THE(Macmillan, London , 1983 reprint) pp.xii, 244 Pages In January 1917, with WWI locked in weary stalemate, a telegram from Zimmermann the German Foreign Minister, to the German Ambassador in Mexico was intercepted and sent to Whitehall for routine decoding in the legendary Room 40. As the secret message was unravelled it became clear that this was no ordinary cable - its impact was to propel the USA into the war and change the course of the 20th century. Softcover. Fine (unused) Price: $16.50