J H Boraston (133 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Faded red covers, some wear, one volume w/o colour maps volume (f/o map does exist in rear of this copy), ill, 362pps + index, fascinating look at the mind and manner of man who sent so many millions of young soldiers to their deaths, minor smell (from living in a basement so many years not from rotting bodies although that would have been fitting), gutters repaired, fep diagonally cut, some foxing, f/o name on tp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. paperback, pictorial card covers, crease at the very corner tip of the rear cover otherwise a near fine tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, maps, xviii [3] 378pp.

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Condition: New. 2001 SB reprint by N & M Press (original 1926). 360pp with 22 b/w illus, a colour plate (on back cover) depicting system of divisional shoulder patches, and 19 maps Published Price £22 The story of the 8th Division began in Southampton when its HQ was set up in the Polygon Hotel on 19th September 1914. Apart from the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, Wessex (Territorial) Field Ambulance and the Signal Company, it was an all-regular division, the infantry battalions coming from overseas garrisons. Its first commander was Major-General F.J. Davies, a Grenadier, who had come from the post of Director of Staff Duties at the War Office. Prior to that he had been Haig's Chief of Staff when the latter was GOC Aldershot Command. In his foreword Earl Haig highlights the fact that despite its unfailing gallantry in all its efforts, the division was signally unfortunate in its lack of success in the major offensives in which it took part. This is reflected in the appalling total casualty figure of just under 64,000 and the fifty pages of honours and awards, including Mention in Despatches, that constitute one of the appendices. Twelve VCs were won.It is a very good history, well written and supported by excellent maps. It strikes a balance between detailed descriptions of the operations in which the division took part and anecdotes and personal experience. Each major action described is preceded by a review of the situation thus providing a background to the part played by the division. Appendices include, most usefully, complete order of battle with names of commanders down to unit level, staffs down to grade three, and all changes; a table showing sectors occupied with dates of periods spent in the line, actions and casualties sustained on each occasion. By some strange oversight, the division's first VC, Lt Neame, is omitted from the list of honours and awards. Book.…

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Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Dustwrapper. reprint of the first edition of 1926.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Reprint. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to edges and prelims. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Physical description; xxii, 371 pages, [24] leaves of plates ; 25 cm. Notes; Facsimile reprint of the first edition, originally published in two volumes in 1919. Introduction by Field-Marshal Foch. Includes index. Contents; The Opening of the Wearing-Out Battle -- The Campaigns of 1917 -- The Cambrai Operations -- The Great German Offensive -- The Advance to Victory -- The Final Despatch. Subjects; Haig, Douglas Earl (1861-1928) Dispatches. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front Sources. Somme, Battle of the, 1916. Cambrai, Battle of, 1917. Arras, Battle of, 1917. 1 Kg.…

Reprint. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to edges and prelims. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Physical description; xxii, 371 pages, [24] leaves of plates ; 25 cm. Notes; Facsimile reprint of the first edition, originally published in two volumes in 1919. Introduction by Field-Marshal Foch. Includes index. Contents; The Opening of the Wearing-Out Battle -- The Campaigns of 1917 -- The Cambrai Operations -- The Great German Offensive -- The Advance to Victory -- The Final Despatch. Subjects; Haig, Douglas Earl (1861-1928) Dispatches. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front Sources. Somme, Battle of the, 1916. Cambrai, Battle of, 1917. Arras, Battle of, 1917. 1 Kg.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (1929), 141pp, 375pp, maps, red cloth, 2 volumes in one, heavy water damage to covers, does not affect contents, corners bumped, some shelfwear to cover, no dj, contents clean.

Paperback. Condition: New. New ed of 1926 ed.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches. Book.

Condition: New. 2024 N & M reprint (first pub 1919). xviii + 378pp with seven portrait photos (Haig and his Army commanders) and 25 mapsPublished Price £24.99 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) took command of the BEF on 19th December 1915, replacing Sir John French who had been in command since the outbreak of war. During the previous ten years Haig had been successively Director of Military Training, Director of Staff Duties (very much involved with the S of S for War, Haldane, in his reforms that led to the formation of the TF and the BEF), Chief of Staff, India and from March 1912, GOC in C Aldershot Command, which consisted of 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions. On mobilization this became I Corps which he took to France in August 1914. His corps was scarcely touched by the Battle of Mons (40 out of a total 1,600 casualties), but suffered severely at First Ypres. At the end of 1914 First and Second Armies were formed with Haig commanding the First. 1915 was a bad year for the BEF, First Army conducting several unsuccessful offensives culminating in the Battle of Loos. French's despatch describing the battle was challenged by Haig who maintained that the GHQ Reserve was put at his disposal significantly later than stated in the despatch; Haig made his complaint in writing. A few weeks later French resigned command of the BEF and, on 19 December 1915 Haig became C in C. On 1st January 1917 he was promoted to Field Marshal. The book contains the eight despatches covering Haig's command from 19th December 1915 to 21st March 1919, but the Government, then led by Lloyd George, no fan of Haig's, insisted on the deletion of certain passages before granting permission to publish. These deletions, indicated in the text by asterisks, were made in the Despatches of 25 December 1917 and 20 July 1918 and relate to the Third Ypres offensive (commonly known as Passchendaele) and to the BEF manpower shortages of early 1918 which led to divisions being reduced from twelve to nine battalions plus the pioneer battalion. This new edition publishes all those deleted passages in a special Preface and also, in two instances where the Government actually inserted its own words, gives the original text. Book.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Eighth Division in War 1914-1918. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Includes 23*b/w photographs and 20*maps. 360pp. Black cloth boards with emblem to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Heavy wear to surface and edges of boards. Corners heavily rubbed and turned. Hinges split leaving boards tender.

Condition: New. 2001 N & M reprint (first pub 1919). SB. xviii + 378pp with seven portrait photos (Haig and his Army commanders) and 25 maps Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) took command of the BEF on 19th December 1915, replacing Sir John French who had been in command since the outbreak of war. During the previous ten years Haig had been successively Director of Military Training, Director of Staff Duties (very much involved with the S of S for War, Haldane, in his reforms that led to the formation of the TF and the BEF), Chief of Staff, India and from March 1912, GOC in C Aldershot Command, which consisted of 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions. On mobilization this became I Corps which he took to France in August 1914. His corps was scarcely touched by the Battle of Mons (40 out of a total 1,600 casualties), but suffered severely at First Ypres. At the end of 1914 First and Second Armies were formed with Haig commanding the First. 1915 was a bad year for the BEF, First Army conducting several unsuccessful offensives culminating in the Battle of Loos. French's despatch describing the battle was challenged by Haig who maintained that the GHQ Reserve was put at his disposal significantly later than stated in the despatch; Haig made his complaint in writing. A few weeks later French resigned command of the BEF and, on 19 December 1915 Haig became C in C. On 1st January 1917 he was promoted to Field Marshal. The book contains the eight despatches covering Haig's command from 19th December 1915 to 21st March 1919, but the Government, then led by Lloyd George, no fan of Haig's, insisted on the deletion of certain passages before granting permission to publish. These deletions, indicated in the text by asterisks, were made in the Despatches of 25 December 1917 and 20 July 1918 and relate to the Third Ypres offensive (commonly known as Passchendaele) and to the BEF manpower shortages of early 1918 which led to divisions being reduced from twelve to nine battalions plus the pioneer battalion. This new edition publishes all those deleted passages in a special Preface and also, in two instances where the Government actually inserted its own words, gives the original text. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Excellent WWI Divisional history with action on the Western Front including Neuve Shapelle, Somme, Ypres, German Offensive, etc. 1st Edition 1926. 360pp., Although only listed as good this is in better condition than usual as there is only modest wear to head spine and a few blemishes, otherwise binding very firm. Realistically price.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Condition: New. 2001. New ed of 1926 ed. paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 2nd Imp. 375pp. Maps. Tiny tear to edge of half-title. Some minor foxing. Cloth sl. frayed and mottled. Size: 8vo.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing. dust jacket of map volume damaged; very nice set.