Author: Jackson, William,
Title: WITHDRAWAL FROM EMPIRE - A Military View.
Description: Batsford, London, 1986, 1st edn., xvii, 285pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., 19 maps in text, coloured endpapers, large format 9.5 x 6" approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a description of Britain's imperial past in Victorian and Edwardian times, the attempts to maintain her imperial role and subsequent to WW2 the gradual reduction of imperial orientation, the rearguard military involvement in the old empire, slight slant to spine, faint foxing to upper edge, label adhesive residue top cnr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extreems., very good in a very good dusstwrapper,

Keywords: military history commonwealth ww2 korea kenya cyprus borneo aden hong kong gibraltar


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