Hankey Man Secrets by Stephen Roskill (27 results)

Condition: Good. Reprint. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some edge wear and sun fading.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 608, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles, 1map, portraits ; 24 cm. Subjects: Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron 1877-1963. Statesmen Great Britain ; Biography. Great Britain Politics and government 20th century. Great Britain Foreign relations 20th century. Great Britain Hankey, Maurice, Baron Hankey Biographies. Great Britain History Twentieth Century 20th Life Biography. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 608, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles, 1map, portraits ; 24 cm. Subjects: Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron 1877-1963. Statesmen Great Britain ; Biography. Great Britain Politics and government 20th century. Great Britain Foreign relations 20th century. Great Britain Hankey, Maurice, Baron Hankey Biographies. Great Britain History Twentieth Century 20th Life Biography. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper a little worn and torn at edges.

THIS VOL ONLY. Super octavo, red buckram heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, grey eps, 608pp, illus - plates, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems, occasional soiling to page edges) in d/w Scruffy (heavy chipping to edgesm 3cm lossy tear to top front left corner, heavy sun fading to spine).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Hankey. Man of Secrets. Volume 1. 1877-1918. Slight foxing to top edge. Hankey was the only expert adviser of the British Government who had thought out the foundations of strategy. This book amply confirms that view. Contents: The Man and His Making. In the Mediterranean Fleet 1900-1901. From the Naval Intelligence Department to the Committee of Imperial Defence 1902-1908. Assistance Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence 1908-1914. The Test of War, August 1914-May 1915. Under the First Coalition, May-August 1915. Frustration and Disaster, August-December 1915. The Crumbling of the Coalition, January-May 1916. The Dardanelles Commission, The First Coalition Under Pressure, June-October 1916. The Fall of the First Coalition, October-December 1916. The War Cabinet in Action, December 1916-March 1917. The Darkening Scene, April-June 1917. Britain the Cornerstone, July-September 1917. Stalemate in Flanders: Disaster in Italy, October-December 1917. Calm Before the Storm, January-March 1918. Lloyd George and the Soldiers, April-May 1918. The Crisis Overcome, May-July 1918. The Scent of Victory, July-August 1918. Victory at Last, September-November 1918. Appendices: (A) Specimen of Hankey's Rough Notes For Minutes of a Cabinet Meeting. (B) Administration Staff Who Served in the Cabinet Office 1908-1918. Index. Illustrated and With Maps. 672 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Hankey. Man of Secrets. Volume II. 1919-1931. Slight foxing to top edge. Contents: Foreword and Acknowledgements. The First Steps to Peace, November-December 1918. The Hard Road to Peace, January-February 1919. The Council of Four, March-May 1919. The Treaties Signed, June-August 1919. The End of the War Cabinet, September-December 1919. Europe in Disarray, January-April 1920. The Era of Conferences I, May-December 1920. The Era of Conferences II, January-October 1921. The Washington and Genoa Conferences, November 1921-May 1922. The Near East Crisis and the Fall of Lloyd George, June-October 1922. Under Bonar Law, The Fight for the Cabinet Secretariat, October-December 1922. From Bonar Law to Baldwin, January-October 1923. The First Labour Government, January-October 1924. Back to Baldwin, November 1924-December 1925. The Essentials of Defence, January 1926-May 1929. The Second Labour Government, June-December 1929. A Year of Conferences, 1930. Crisis, 1931. Index. Illustrated. 608 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

1st edition. Very good cloth copies (2) in a good if somewhat edge-nicked, foxed and dust-dulled dust-wrappers. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; plates : illustrations,facsimile, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjecta; Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Baron Hankey. Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron 1877-1963. Naval history. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. (1971), First American Edition & 1972, First Edition, Near Fine/Near Fine djs, octavos, Volume 1: blue cloth hardcover 672pp.; Volume 2: red cloth hardcover 608pp.; both volumes with excellent unclipped pictorial djs, b&w ill's throughout, bindings tight, texts unmarked, requires extras postage for International shipping.…

1st edition. Very good cloth copies (2) in a good if somewhat edge-nicked, foxed and dust-dulled dust-wrappers. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; plates : illustrations,facsimile, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjecta; Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Baron Hankey. Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron 1877-1963. Naval history. 1 Kg. …

Condition: Good. Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:0002113325.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 608 pages. Some wear to dust jacket edges. Includes Abbreviations, Foreword and Acknowledgments, and Index. Also includes numerous black and white illustrations, Hankey's draft "Manifesto" August 1931 on page 549, and MacDonald's amended note on financial measures on page 551. Also includes a map the the Dardanelles in 1922 on page 278. Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, CBE, DSC, FBA (1 August 1903 - 4 November 1982) was a senior career officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his enforced medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960. He is now chiefly remembered as a prodigious author of books on British maritime history. For his actions in helping keep HMS Leander afloat, Roskill was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In March, 1944 he was promoted acting captain and joined the British Admiralty delegation in Washington, D.C. as chief staff officer for administration and weapons. He was the senior British observer at the Bikini Atomic tests in 1946, and served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, 1946-48 before retiring as a captain. On retiring from service in 1948, Roskill was appointed by the Cabinet Office Historical Section to write the official naval history of the Second World War. His three volume work The War at Sea was published between 1954 and 1961. He was a visiting lecturer at several universities, including being Lees Knowles Lecturer in 1961, the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1965, and Richmond Lecturer at Cambridge University in 1967. This book covers the period from the Armistice to the fall of the Labour Government in 1931. The Paris Peace conference which Hankey in effect organized and to which he acted as secretary, in itself glitters with fascinating material. The characters of Wilson, Chemenceau, and Foch as depicted by Hankey come through sharply and offer an interesting contrast to Keynes's famous study. But, as in the earlier volume, Hankey's account of Lloyd George in action is incomparable. Derived from a Kirkus review: The book jacket makes him look like David Niven, but this second volume of a staggeringly thorough biography of the British Cabinet Secretary confirms the impression that Maurice Hankey was the quintessential civil servant, a man of humble origins who rose to Colonel and a knighthood. Hankey's own power as Cabinet Secretary fluctuated depending on the Prime Minister, and after the fall of his beloved Lloyd George, Hankey suffered, especially during Baldwin's tenure. This installment stretches from the Paris Peace Conference to the 1931 crisis, and it does give a sense of the workings of the British bureaucracy. Hankey had his fingers in everything as a sort of majordomo to the elite -- he was a ferocious organizer of strike-breaking, for one thing, and a stalwart advocate of rearmament during this period (though his relations with co-thinker Churchill seem tenuous and vexed). Roskill conscientiously points out that during these years Hankey exhibited "a hardening of character and a loss of sentiment and sensibility." Moreover, this remains a necessary source for students of British policy and practice between 1919 and 1931. The enthusiastic reception of the first volume guarantees a follow-up readership.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three-volume set No jackets. Nautical bookplate and press-clipping on paste down of volume one. Slight wear only.Maps, plates. Vg++. LISTING PHOTO DOES NOT NECESSARILY MATCH THIS COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Volume 2 only. 608 pages in excellent condition. Illustrated with photographs. Orange hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. Illustrated DJ with black titles. Spine a little faded, small tears at head/tail. Light wear on corners and edges. NEAR FINE/VG-. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st impression, not price clipped (£6.50 net), appears little read despite some creasing to spine, no owner's name or other inscription, page ends age toned, D/j spine discoloured and has loss to head, D/j has loss to base of front cover plus shelf wear at extremities ( see photos), D/j now protected by a clear removable sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 672 pages. Some wear and pieces missing from dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments, Appendices, Index, and Footnotes. Includes 26 b/w photos, and 8 full-page b/w maps. Also includes appendices showing a specimen of Hankey's rough note for Minutes of a Cabinet Meeting, the Administration Staff who served in the Cabinet Office from 1908-1918, and Index. Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, CBE, DSC, FBA (1 August 1903 - 4 November 1982) was a senior career officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960. He is now chiefly remembered as a prodigious author of books on British maritime history. For his actions in helping keep HMS Leander afloat, Roskill was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In March, 1944 he was promoted acting captain and joined the British Admiralty delegation in Washington, D.C. as chief staff officer for administration and weapons. He was the senior British observer at the Bikini Atomic tests in 1946, and served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, 1946-48 before retiring as a captain. On retiring from service in 1948, Roskill was appointed by the Cabinet Office Historical Section to write the official naval history of the Second World War. His three volume work The War at Sea was published between 1954 and 1961. He was a visiting lecturer at several universities, including being Lees Knowles Lecturer in 1961, the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1965, and Richmond Lecturer at Cambridge University in 1967. From 1908 when he joined the office of the Committee of Imperial Defence until 1942, Hankey was at the center of policy. Both Asquith and Lloyd George came to rely unhesitatingly on his discretion and his capability, and had neither had reason to regret it. Asquith promoted him to be Secretary of the Committee of the War Cabinet. Between the wars Hankey was to serve every Prime Minister and to be valued by each as a confidential adviser. Captain Roskill, the author of this book and the leading authority on naval policy between 1914 and 1945, has been given complete freedom to use the diary and all the other papers that Lord Hankey took with him into retirement. Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC, FRS (1 April 1877 - 26 January 1963) was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office. He is best known as the highly-efficient top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet, which directed Britain during the First World War. In the estimation of his biographer John F. Naylor, Hankey held to the "certainties of a late Victorian imperialist, whose policies sought to maintain British domination abroad and to avoid as far as possible British entanglement within Europe. His patriotism stands inviolable, but his sensitivity to processes of historical change proved limited". Naylor found, "Hankey did not altogether grasp the virulence of fascism. except as a military threat to Britain; nor did he ever quite comprehend the changing face of domestic politics which Labour's emergence as a party of government entailed. In these shortcomings Hankey was typical of his generation and background; that his responsibility was greater lay in the fact that he was better informed than nearly any of his contemporaries". In 1908, he was appointed Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence and became Secretary to the Committee in 1912, a position that he would hold for the 26 years. In November 1914, he took on the additional duty of Secretary of the War Council. In that function, he took notice of the ideas of Major Ernest Swinton to build a tracked armoured vehicle and brought them to the attention of Winston Churchill on 25 December 1914. That led to the eventual creation of the Landships Committee. Lloyd George's War Cabinet In December 1916, David Lloyd George became Prime Minister and greatly changed how the government was run. A small War Cabinet was instigated, and Hankey was appointed as its Secretary and served as Secretary of the Imperial War Cabinet, which also incorporated representatives of the Colonies and Dominion governments. He gained such a reputation for strong competency that when the full Cabinet was restored in 1919, the secretariat was retained, and Hankey then served as Secretary to the Cabinet for 19 years. In 1923, he acquired the further position of Clerk of the Privy Council. During his long tenure, he would also often serve as British Secretary to many international conferences and Secretary-General of many Imperial Conferences.…

8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, grey endpapers, a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Volume 3 only. 688 pages in excellent condition. Illustrated with photographs. Orange hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. Illustrated DJ with black titles. Spine a little faded, small tears at head/tail. Light wear on corners and edges. NEAR FINE/VG-. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HANKEY: MAN OF SECRETS. THREE VOLUMES, VOLUME I 1877-1918, VOLUME II: 1919-1931, VOLUME III: 1931-1963. All three volumes are cloth bound, hardback books, with gilt titles on the spine, volume one is a blue cloth bound book, whilst volumes two and three are red cloth bound hardbacks. All three books are in good condition and as they are used books, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Volume I: has 672 pages, first published in 1970, reprinted in 1978. Volume II: has 608 pages, was first published in 1972. Volume III: has 688 pages, was first published in 1974. All three volumes originally purchased from Henry Sotheran Ltd, Sackville Street, London bookshop with original labels on inside boards. All pages intact and nice tight bindings, the odd mark on edge of papers please see photos. Please note in the measurement section I have chosen to put the size of Volume I, but in the weight section I have listed the weight of all three books. Please note when packaged properly these three books will be a heavy item to post/ship overseas, therefore postage shipping will increase from listed postage/shipping price. Three books that deserve to be preserved for future generations.…

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 672pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy.

reprint dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 672pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The first two volumes of Roskill's definitve three volume work. Captain Roskill, the leading authority on naval policy between 1914 and 1945 has given us a unique account of war government from the inside. Invaluable for the historian. Blue and red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped spines. 672 pp., 608 pp. With maps, illustrations and appendices. One DJ with a short closed tear, neatly mended, on bottom rear panel. Both in new protective mylar covers. The books are bright and crisp, no name or other markings and appear unread.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 3 volumes : illustrations, facsimile, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents: v. 1.1877-1918.-v.2.1919-1931.-v.3.1931-1963. Subjects: Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron 1877-1963. Statesmen Great Britain ; Biography. Statesmen Great Britain ; Biography. Official secrets Great Britain History 20th century. Great Britain Politics and government 20th century. Great Britain Politics and government 20th century. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 3 volumes : illustrations, facsimile, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents: v. 1.1877-1918.-v.2.1919-1931.-v.3.1931-1963. Subjects: Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron 1877-1963. Statesmen Great Britain ; Biography. Statesmen Great Britain ; Biography. Official secrets Great Britain History 20th century. Great Britain Politics and government 20th century. Great Britain Politics and government 20th century. 1 Kg. …

3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; original cloth (blue/red/red respectively), gilt backs, blue tops, grey endpapers, a near fine set in dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped). A PRESENTATION SET FROM THE AUTHOR TO SIR ARCHIBALD JAMES, WITH THE FORMER'S WARM SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE OF FIRST VOLUME. James has subsequently annotated the title with two or three notes. A UNIQUE SET OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY WITH OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE.…