Bloody Years Decade Plot Counter Plot by Yeats Brown (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. BLOODY YEARS, A DECADE OF PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT BY THE GOLDEN HORN, Yeats-Brown, Viking Press, 1932, 312p, xlib/ex-textbook, hc no dj, w/ usual stamps/markings/librarian/borrower abuse--5.50.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The author's account of his time as a British soldier in the Middle East from 1908-1918, including two years as a prisoner-of-war. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the edges, boards a bit soiled. Binding solid, foxing to the end papers. Signed by Yeats-Brown on the half title page. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Original dark green cloth on boards. The author gained fame with his previous work, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, two years before. This book is in excellent condition. 312 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, some soiling. Content is clean with slight age tone. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. 312 Pp. Orange Cloth Stamped In Red And Black. First American Printing, 1932 Date On Title Page. Signed By Author On The Half Title Page. Lightly Used, All Cover Printing Strong, No Fraying; Browning To Endpapers, Hinge Lightly Cracked In Upper Half Of Gutter Edge Between Half Title And Title Pages. Yeats-Brown, After A Military Career (Including A Dfc), Took Up Journalism And Published A Number Of Books. Per Wikipedia, "During The 1930S, Yeats-Brown Also Became Involved In Right-Wing Politics. He Was A Member Of The January Club And The Right Club, And Wrote Newspaper Articles In Praise Of Francisco Franco And Hitler, Asserting That Hitler Had Solved Germany's Unemployment Problem. He Also Wrote Articles For New Pioneer, A Far-Right Journal Controlled By Viscount Lymington And Closely Linked To The British People's Party. In 1937, Hitler Told Yeats-Brown In Person In Nuremberg That The Film The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer Was One Of His Favorites And Had Made It Compulsory For All Ss Members.". Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good plus Signed. Spine faded/ minor bumps and rubs at corners; Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. SIGNED by the author. 1st ed (US) Viking 1932. No jacket. Moderate external wear. Pages have occasional foxing, smudges, minor blemishes. Binding has some cracking, remains reasonably firm.

Cloth. Condition: Good. 312pp, frontis port. yellow cloth. Maj. Yeats-Brown's autobiographical account of his experiences in the Balkans and Middle East from 1908-1918. He was in the Royal Flying Corps in Mesopotamia (on a mission for Townshend of Kut), when he was captured by Turks, taken to Baghdad, Mosul, and the "Black Opium City" of Afion karahissar, but escaped by 1918. He incorporated material (pp.107-268) from "Caught by the Turks" published 13 years earlier. Known also as the author of "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer". Istanbul (Stanboul, Constantinople) during the reign of Abdul Hamid.and he rise of the Young Turks, Balkan wars, armenian genocide, through the murder of the Archduke at Serajevo up to the World War.…