Author: HAMILTON Ernest W.
Title: The First Seven Divisions. Being a detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres. Fourteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. With six additional Maps and an Index. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Description: Hurst & Blackett,, 1916. 8vo., Fourteenth Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece and 9 other maps (a number folding), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, backstrip sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. A classic account of the Old Contemptibles, and arguably the introduction of the Western Front to the British public. 'Even today it is not to be despised, for it contains many episodes and recollections not to be found in later histories and is written with force and point' (Falls). This edition includes six additional maps and an index. Enser pp. 58, 129; Falls p.38 (both recording the first edition).

Keywords: military, ww1, wwi, great war, mons, ypres, ypres salient, bef, british expeditionary force, old contemptibles, ernest hamilton, unit history, unit histories


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