Frost John Major General (11 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Printing. Red boards with gold spine lettering. In the early hours of 21 May 1982, the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment -- 2 Para -- came ashore at San Carlos in the Falkland Islands. Eight days later the outnumbered battalion had seized the settlements at Darwin and Goose Green from the Argentines; sixteen days after that they were the first British troops into Port Stanley. Those bald facts conceal an extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. The war on land in the Falklands was a soldier's war. This is a soldier's story, written from first-hand accounts and the battalion's written records, with the support and cooperation of the officers and men, and illustrated with many of their own photographs. It is a true story of a famous battalion preparing for, and going to war, and of how it fared in that war, telling not only of heroism, skill, sacrifice, discipline, but also of fear, humour, loneliness, sorrow, humanity -- the ordinary emotions of individuals who, collectively, form the living body of a battalion. Here are the characters, the actions, the weapons, the marches, set against the background of a war fought in most unpleasant conditions and inhospitable terrain, 8,000 miles from home. And here, too, are the fascinating details that lift the book above other accounts, set down by a man who knows only too well what it is to fight with a parachute battalion, and 2 Para in particular. Of how at Wireless Ridge, to prevent the recoil embedding the mortars in the soft ground, men stood on the baseplates as the weapons fired -- four suffered broken ankles. Of how the battalion 'hijacked' two snowcats and spirited them away to help evacuate the wounded during the Darwin and Goose Green battles. Of how the new CO parachuted into the sea near a British warship after Colonel Jones had been killed. Of what happened when an officer and an NCO from D Company met General Menendez at Government House. Of how Major Keeble bluffed the Argentines at Goose Green into surrendering. Of how Colonel H Jones's gallant sacrifice inspired A Company to victory on the burning, heavily defended slopes of Darwin Hill. Of the terrible day at Fitzroy when Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram were bombed. It is fitting that the record of2 Para's courage and skill in the Falklands should be set down by the man who led the battalion throughout the epic defence of Arnhem Bridge in 1944. General Frost does not seek to glorify war, nor to discount the many magnificent achievements of the other units of all three services during the campaign. What he gives is a superb portrait of a battalion at war, and, at times, a sad understanding of the price of freedom. Two sections of 68 black and white photographs. Six maps. Contents in Eight Chapters: Voyage South, The Move Ashore, Preparing For Action, Darwin and Goose Green, Victory -- and After, Fitzroy and Bluff Cove, Wireless Ridge and Stanley, and The End Of It All. Plus Six Appendices: Roll of Honour, Citation -- The Victoria Cross, Honours and Awards, Major Keeble's Ultimatum, The Brigade Log -- Goose Green, and Message to 2 Para from the CGS.…

192pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white plates. Some foxing to edges and sticky tape marks on ffe and rfe. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing of this SPHERE Edition, 271 pages, includes Index. Black/white picture sections.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good w/ Protective Cover. 2nd Edition. This book is in very good condition with tight binding and clean text. The dj is in very good condition with little to no wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 192pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., index, A Soldier's Tale based on personal accounts. Neat ownership inscription o/w nice copy.

Fine. Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket, 254 pages with illustrations. The service carreer of Major General John Frost, from Iraq through the Second World War to Arnhem and life as a POW. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Small red pen mark to front end paper. Pictures available.

new edition dust jacket As New octavo xvi + 271pp., b/w plates, maps, plans, index, Story of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment from formation to Arnhem. A New & enlarged edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original red gilt pictorial cloth profusely illustrated with steel engravings and wood engravings, some hand colored, light marginal foxing else a very good crisp copy of a famous biography of the 12th President of the United States before he was President, his military career with emphasis on the Mexican Wars under a mylar protective jacket Note the frontis portrait in steel hand colored of Taylor could be hand signed by the subject, however, it is bold and yet could be plate signed a very bold signature thus. John Frost (illustrator).…

2 vols., 8vo., Best Edition; First Edition respectively, with plates and maps, first volume with faint tape-mark on free endpaper.; red cloth, backstrips lettered in silver and gilt respectively, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: A Drop Too Many (New and Enlarged Edition, 1982); Nearly There (1991). This best edition of the first volume includes three additional chapters. Frost commanded 2 Bn Parachute Regiment at 'the Bridge', not for the twenty-four hours for which the battalion was equipped but for three days and four nights against overwhelming odds. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. …

Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Wie neu. 8°, 271 Seiten mit zahlr. Bildtafeln, OPbd. mit farbig illustr. Originalumschlag - sehr guter Zustand! Wie neu - 1994. c122094 ISBN: 0850523915 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 480.