Author: Meredith, Roy.
Title: The American Wars 1755-1953: A Pictorial History from Quebec to Korea .
Description: Cleveland and NY: The World Publishing Company, (1955). (1955). - 4to, gray buckram (spine & extremities faded with light stain to head of spine) titled in white with vignette in B&W on front cover, in pictorial dw (rubbed, chipped & soiled; price crossed out in ink). 349 pp. (page edges slightly darkened; staining to inner edges of endpapers with numeral crossed out in black ink on front endpaper; light staining to fore-edge & to front edges of a few pages). Profuse full-page & textual illustrations in B&W. Good.

First edition.

"This is the pictorial history of the American wars as seen by artists in uniform, a unique compilation of the work in sketch book and on canvas of the men who recorded history as they made it..Soldiers sketched as they appeared in the field, fortifications, battle arrays are here; here also are portraits and battle scenes, drawn by eyewitnesses, some after the event, but all dramatic with the firsthand knowledge of the artist."--From the dw. Good .

Keywords: MILITARY; MILITARY ART; DRAWING; PAINTING; AMERICANA; AMERICAN WARS; PICTORIAL HISTORY; FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR; AMERICAN REVOLUTION; WEST; WESTERN FRONTIER; WEST POINT; MEXICAN WAR; CIVIL WAR; INDIAN WARS; SPANISH AMERICAN WAR; WORLD WAR I; WORLD WAR II; K

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