Major Sixsmith (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London): Arms and Armour Press, (1970). First Edition. 8vo. 312pp, Index. Hardcover, very good plus condition (few spots on fore-edge of text block, corner of page creased), no dj. With 12 photographs and 13 maps. Theme: "the apparent conflict between two essential military requirements: on the one hand the will to stand and fight and the habit of unquestioning obedience; on the other the need for initiative, for subtlety and subterfuge, and the necessity to use all possible means of overcoming the will of the enemy at the least cost to oneself" (Introduction). ISBN 0853680396; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. CLipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear. Clean, no writing, no marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and design to spine. Price clipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 312pp. B/w map frontispiece, b/w photographs and maps throughout, b/w map endpapers. Not library copy, name/date in ink to top corner of ffep, 2 small tears to edges of rear dustjacket. (45/7).

Condition: Gut. 312 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen; Guter Zustand. /lager 0165 ISBN: 0853680396 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 8°; gebunden, Orig.-Pappband mit Original-Schutzumschlag;

First edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers slightly foxed, o/w very good in like price-clipped dustjacket Illustrated with b/w maps/photographs.

312 pp. With 12 b/w photographic illustrations and 13 maps. An examination of the military thinking and tactical ability of all British commanders of note between 1899 and 1945. Accounts of the Boer war, Mongomery's methods as instructor in the period between the wars, the great commanders of the Second World War - Alanbrooke, Wavell, Alexander, Montgomery and Slim and their relationships with Churchill, Lloyd George, Robertson and Haig. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Overall condition VG. In Good+ chipped dust wrapper.

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy octavo 312pp., b/w plates, maps, plans, appendix, index, Heavy emphasis on WWI. Looks at the respective outlook of Douglas Haig & Ian Hamilton.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 312pp., b/w plates, maps, plans, appendix, index, Heavy emphasis on WWI. Looks at the respective outlook of Douglas Haig & Ian Hamilton.

1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo 312pp., b/w pls., maps, plans, appendix, index, Heavy emphasis on WWI. Looks at the respective outlook of Douglas Haig & Ian Hamilton.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. this is a small archive of World War Two ephemera kept by Major H. L. W. Sixsmith Who Served in the Eighth Army in North Africa with Montgomery, the archive consists of items mostly dating to 1943, including a signed bank statement signed by Sixsmith from the Ottoman Bank, dated 31st Dec 1942, A Broadside from Montgomery announcing that the Eighth Army is going to take Tripoli, a Memorial dinner menu for Major O.B.S. Poole which has been signed by many of his friends, a number of handwritten pieces, one "Auld Lang Syne" translated into Greek, another small note on the Egyptians, a message sent in cypher, a collection of pieces of Newspaper extracts on events in the war, a few typed songs and odes, six wartime booklets, etc, all housed in an old card folder, with a couple of later bits added, the folder measures 13.75 inches by 10 inches approx. Signed by Author(s).