HISTORY / Military / Other from JimsOldBooks

London: Bell & Hyman, 1984. Some creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of black boards, original owners gift message on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with war correspondent William Howard Russell's coverage of the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, American Civil War, Franco-Prussian War , accompanying the… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1901. No dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of maroon boards, some wear to bottom corners of same. Some fading to edges of (mostly) front board, but gilt lines to the edge of front board and gilt titles on spine are still bright. Some foxing to outer pages, but otherwise… Read more about this item

London: George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1952. A lot of tears and creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrappe, with the bottom two inches missing at the spine, also a lot of wear to the folds. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, some fading to gilt titles on spine, some yellowing to the pages, but… Read more about this item

London: Bickers & Son, 1890. "Revised, Condensed and Completed" edition from 1890. No dustwrapper, green bevelled-edged boards have minor wear to outer corners and rather more so to the spine ends, with a quarter-inch tear to the middle of top end of spine. Slight fading to spine, but gilt decoration thereon is still bright, as is the gilt… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1962. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of gray boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with activity during the American Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley which lies in north-eastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York. … Read more about this item

New York: Clarkson N Potter, 1964. Creasing and tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper with about a half-inch being missing at bottom end of spine of same. Some bumping to spine ends and corners of gray boards which also have a few old water-marks on, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with… Read more about this item

London: Readers Union, 1965. Readers Union edition from 1965. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's account of his time serving (as a cook) with a British Red Cross unit in Montenegro during the First Balkan War of 1912-13. … Read more about this item

Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucs: The Windrush Press, 1999. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. An account by a German soldier from Wurttemberg who served in the French army in Poland, Austria, and in Russia in 1812, surviving the Retreat from Moscow. His… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2009. A very good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. Originally published in German in 1846, the memoirs of Friedrich Lindau, who served in the 2nd Light Battalion of the Kings German Legion between 1809 and 1816, seeing action in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Translated and edited by… Read more about this item