Author: CHARTERIS, BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN.
Title: Field-Marshal Earl Haig.
Description: First Edition; Thick Roy. 8vo; pp. xvi, 400; endpaper maps, portrait frontispiece, text with 8 half-tone plates and numerous line drawings, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, name on half title page, some very light foxing to first few pages, good copy. London; Cassell and Company Ltd.; 1929. Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1861 - 1928) was a controversial figure at the time this book was published he enjoyed a favourable reputation, but in the time since that reputation has soured. His offensives at the Somme and Passchendaele led to mass carnage, and his nickname of "Butcher Haig".
Keywords: gmil military biography general first world war ww1
Title: Field-Marshal Earl Haig.
Description: First Edition; Thick Roy. 8vo; pp. xvi, 400; endpaper maps, portrait frontispiece, text with 8 half-tone plates and numerous line drawings, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, name on half title page, some very light foxing to first few pages, good copy. London; Cassell and Company Ltd.; 1929. Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1861 - 1928) was a controversial figure at the time this book was published he enjoyed a favourable reputation, but in the time since that reputation has soured. His offensives at the Somme and Passchendaele led to mass carnage, and his nickname of "Butcher Haig".
Keywords: gmil military biography general first world war ww1
Price: AUD 45.00 = appr. US$ 31.13 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 113446
- Book number: 113446