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Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pan MacMillan, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Little Brown & Co (T), 1976-10. First American. Hardcover. Good/Good Dust Jacket. Good hardcover copy with dust jacket. Stated 1st American edition. With articles on Jellicoe, Joffre, Haig, Hindenburg, Petain, Ludendorff, Hamilton, Kemal, Von Falkenhayn, Foch, Monash, Allenby, Pershing, Trenchard, Von Rundstedt, Dowding, Wavell, Von Manstein, Zhukov, Auchinleck, Rommel, Koniev, Guderian, Harris, Alexander, Stilwell, Mountbatten, Slim, Yamamoto, Nimitz, MacArthur, Halsey, Spruance, Cunningham, Doenitz, Tedder, Montgomery, Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, Spaatz, Freyberg and Juin. Writers include Beaufre, Terraine, Stone, Horne, James, Kinross, Falkus, Farrar-Hockley, Smythe, Lyall, Temple-Patterson, Carver, Hillgruber, Fergusson, Seaton, Erickson, Barnett, Douglas-Home, Erickson, Strawson, Middlebrook, Nicolson, Sunderland, Brockman, Evans, Pineau, Adams, Ambrose, Bassett, Kemp, Norris, Lewin, Cook, Pogue, Blumenson, Goldberg, Davin, and Goutard.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1976 1st Am. ed. 624pp. illus. black cloth sm 4to: near Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [edges are age foxed; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = some tears @ extremities & some loss @ spine head; else G] A fat volume containing biographical sketches or over 40 military commanders ranging from Jellicoe to Juin. The author Lord Carver (1915-2001) was a decorated British officer who achieved the highest military ranks in the United Kingdom.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1976. Essays about 43 of the century's foremost military leaders, from Ludendorf and Hindenburg to Rommel and Patton. X-lib with usual markings and labels, dust jacket in plastic sleeve, flyleaves glued to boards.. 1st U.S. Edition. Good/Good. Thick Octavo.

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1976. Harcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 624pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs. Stated first American edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. A collection of short, detailed biographis of 43 of the twentieth centuries dominant military commanders by a variety of leading military historians. Most, such as Hindenburg Pershing, Rommel, Nimitz and Patton, will be known to all, though several lesser known commanders are also critiqued such as Monash, Trenchard, Harris, Tedder and Juin. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ n a very good+ dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Little Brown, 1976. Hardcover. Good. Not Ex-Library Copy. Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.Text Unmarked.Binding Is Solid.Not Ex-Library Copy.D.J. Not Clipped. Stated First Edition, First Printing.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 17x124x160. First edition. Top edge foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. 288 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps throughout text. Includes foreword by His Royal Highness Field Marshal The Duke of Edinburgh KG, KT. "This volume, spanning nearly three centuries of professional warfare, chronicles sixteen battles, from Blenheim in 1704 and Waterloo in 1815 to Burma in 1945. David Chandler, the head of the War Studies Department at Sandhurst, has gathered a team of widely respected military historians to describe the major battles. Each battle is placed within its strategic context, with ample discussion of both cause and outcome. The battle accounts focus on the actions of the British forces and, when appropriate, of the Australian, Canadian, American, and the French allies who fought alongside them.

Boston, MA and Toronto, ON, Canada,: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First US Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Binding of black cloth w/gilt titles, blind stamp imprinted on front. Clean and unmarked, sewn binding tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Slight rubbing of extremities. Crimson 16-page B/w photo illustration section. Fore-edge of text block lightly soiled. Pages spotless, no underlining, no highlighting, no creasing. Introduction by Field-Marshal Sir Michael Carver, General Editor. Different authors describe the character and achievements of each military figure included in this book-43 in all-- Montgomery, Eisenhower, Mountbatten, Guderian, Halsey,MacArthur, Von Rundstedt, Zhukov, Stilwell, Foch, Pershing--to name a few. 624 pages with index. 9.5 x 1.8 x 6.75 inches. Little, Brown and Co., Boston, MA and Toronto, ON, Canada,1976

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little, Brown and Company,, 1976. Previous owners bookplate on ffep and three numbers written in ink just below the bookplate. Moderate sun fading to spine, shelf/edge and corner wear with rubbing. 624 pages.. First American Edition.. Cloth-Black. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1976]. Thick 8vo. xvi, 624 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Black cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (sml tear hd of spine, edgewear, creasng, couple sml clsd tears),VG/G. First edition of this excellent anthology containing biographies of such military figures as Joffre, Haig, Hindenburg, Petain, Kemal, Von Falkenhayn, Allenby, Pershing, Zhukov, Guderian, Stilwell, Mountbatten, Yamamoto, Nimitz, Bradley, Patton, Spaatz, and others.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1976. This Stated First American Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in close to Fine condition, with a close to Fine unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver has assembled 43 biographies of dominant military commanders of the 20th Century, including Rommel, MacArthur, Patton, Montgomery, Zhukov, Halsey, Foch, Pershing, Ludendorff, Hindenburg and many more. The book includes photo inserts. The book is bound in black cloth with gilt spine lettering and orange endpapers. The dust jacket has light edge rubbing. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book meausres 6 3/8 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 624 pages, with Index.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/G, used, ix-xvi, 624pp. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Shelf rubbing to dj, small chip at the tail of the spine, tiny tears to all edges, dj is not price-clipped.

Little, Brown. Very Good in Very Good- Dust Jacket. 1976. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. 0316130605 . An engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of this century. Each figure--his character and strategy, his talents and eccentricities--is assessed both in the context of his own period and in the overall history of twentieth-century warfare. The list not only includes those commanders whose names remain household words, but also men whose military genius has earned them unquestionable distinction even if their sphere of command was less extended. Minimal edgewear, DJ in new mylar. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 624 pages; 18336 .

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Hardcover has bumped corners, smudged text edges, dustwrapper chipped around edges, spine and corners, price-clipped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Sidgwick & Jackson. Very Good/Very Good. 1999. First Edition, First Impression.. Hard Cover. 8vo 0283063335 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. One stamp on rear of title page Suffolk CC Libries and Heritage. Book is very clean and tightly bound. Illustrated with photographs on plates. 301 pages. The book quotes extensively from the Museum's unpublished archive of diaries, letters and documents, giving a depiction of Britain's first modern war through the authentic voice of the combatant, and a new perspective to the Boer War. .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 624pp. Black and white illustrations. Page edges foxed, modest edgewear, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. 624pp. Black and white illustrations. Very good with the spine cocked in a very good dustwrapper with chips and edgewear.