Bell Lieut Commander a C (7 results)

Condition: New. 2011 N & M Press reprint (original pub 1951). SB. xx + 554 pp portraits, Plates, mapsPublished Price £18 After strenuous service in the Great War, the 1st Battalion of the Manchesters returned to Britain in 1919, but were soon back in action fighting the guerilla action that preceded Irish independence. After garrison duty in various corners of the Empire between the wars, the 1st was converted to a machine-gun battalion in Egypt in 1936 , and were rushed to Palestine to quell an Arab revolt. here they took part in the Soecuakl Night Squads counterinsurgency pioneered by Orde Wingate. In 1938 the Battalion were fatally deployed to Singapore, where they were captured by the Japanese following the islands' capitulation.The 2nd Battalion garrisoned Mesopotamia ( Iraq) in 1920 where Capt. Henderson won a Posthumous VC in an action against a tribal attack. Another officer attached to the Battalion was Jack Churchill, Winston Churchill's younger brother. During the Second World War the 2nd, 5th and 9th Manchesters formed part of the British Expeditionary Force in 1939/40 and got involved in the Dunkirk evacuation. The 2nd subsequently fought in the Burma campaign. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. (1954), First Edition, Near Fine/Near Fine dj, thick octavo, 554pp., green cloth hardcover, bright gold lettering on backstrip & silver seal on front cover, b&w photo and map ill's throughout, color frontispiece of the Queen, bottom corner front flap of dj price-clipped o/w excellent, binding tight, text unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and with silver emblem to the upper cover,the book comes housed in the rather rare dust-wrapper graded Only 'Good' with numerous chips and repaired closed tears to the outer edges of the wrapper.Rubbed to extremities also.Price Clipped to the inner flap.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.There is some foxing showing to the front endpapers and also along the text block edges.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece of the Queen Mother plus there are several black and white photographic plates and some 25 maps in the text.Top edge of the book is stained green as called for.8vo 554pp First Edition 1st Impression [1954].…

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth binding and dust jacket. Published Altringham: John Sherratt and Son, 1954, first printing. 8vo., xx+554pp., illustrated with b/w plates, maps, color frontis. Green cloth with silver and gilt tiles. Light foxing on front edge of page block. Near fine in very good dust jacket.…

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 8vo, xx,554pp frontisplate portrait of Queen Mother, Maps and illustrations. Honours and Awards The WW2 Story of the regular battalions of The Manchester Regiment in Far East, & NW Europe. FINE/FINE Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and with silver emblem to the upper cover,the book comes housed in the rather rare dust-wrapper graded Very Good with a couple of small tape repairs to extremities and a couple of tiny nicks to base of spine and bottom edge of the upper cover,modest rubbing noted to the extremities also.Price Clipped to the inner flap.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.This copy was acquired from the Private Library of Robert Tranter-Owen who served in Malaya with the Manchester Regiment and the book has his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece of the Queen Mother plus there are several black and white photographic plates and some 25 maps in the text.Top edge of the book is stained green as issued.Great copy to own especially with the connection to an ex serviceman,8vo 554pp First Edition.…

1st Ed. xx + 54pp. Tipped in colour port. frontis., numerous b/w. ills. from photos., 25 maps. F.e.ps. lightly browned, original gilt lettered lightly dampstained green cloth, in lightly soiled and sl. chipped price clipped d/w. repaired in part to verso. US$37.