Spears Maj Gen Edward (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. 1st ed. 333p. Photos. Spears was Churchill's Representative to the French Government. Very Good/Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st. 222pp.incl.index; HB quarter-bound; gray&red w/gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/blue&red; slight rub. France in the World Wars.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. When sent on a mission to help bring Vichy held Syria and Lebanon to the Allied side by Churchill Spears quickly found himself at war not only with the Germans and the Vichy French but also with the Free French and the Foreign Office! Spears rapidly became disinchanted by the man he helped to raise to leader of the Free French, De Gaulle and his caustic style of writing spares no-one from his views of their performance. The book was written soon after the war but held from publishing until 1977 due to the sensibilities of those mentioned until the authors' own death. Includes 14*b/w photographs. 311pp. Book in very good condition, but the DJ is faded to the spine, has a nick and a little lifting of the surface plastic to upper edge and is roughly price-clipped.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint of 1930. 588p. Photos. Maps. Heavy. Wraps. Spine creased. Near Fine Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd ed. Reprint of 1930. 588p. Photos. Maps. Heavy. Red cloth. Shelf wear. Jacket priced. Very Good/Fair Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of 1930. 588p. Photos. Maps. Heavy. Red cloth. Title rubbed. Small hole at top of front gutter. Very Good Copy. Book.

8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at extremities. Combines the author's two fine studies 'Prelude to Dunkirk' and 'The Fall of France' (first published in 1954) in a single volume. The dustwrapper reproduces Cundall's well-known painting of 'Dunkirk' in wrap-around format. Enser, p.170. …

1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo xi + 311pp., b/w pls., index, The Spears Mission to Syria & Lebanon 1941-1944. Spears brought de Gaulle to Britain and virtually created him leader of the Free French. This account describes his gradual disenchantment with the Monster he had created. Scarce.