Brigadier Harris (11 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Russian, Revolution, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Ex-library octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 278 pages. Shelf wear, pages yellowed; a little soiling to the foreedge. Stamp inside the front cover; ink notes on the rear endpaper; a good solid book. The dust jacket is scuffed, worn and torn; some staining. Contents are World War I; Between the Wars; Dunkirk to D-Day; North-West Europe. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military History; Inventory No: 207159.

HARDCOVER. 6-C-18 Aldershot 1951 Hardcover. No dust jacket. Page edges have some yellowing but text is clean and unmarked. Covers have moderate wear. Book Condition; Good . 1951. HARDCOVER.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Wilson Harris "Rumours From Russia" / Peter Townsend "400,000,000 Farmers" / D W Brogan "In The Low Countries" / R A Voigt !Makronesos" / Edward Montgomery "America Faces The Cost" / Brigadier G S Brunskill "African Transport (Colonial Prospect)" / Peter Fleming "Stratford, 1949" (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Wilson Harris "THE FAILURE OF U.N.O." / George Brinsmead "Argentina Today" / Peter Townsend "The New Tide In China" / Brigadier A H Head "The Army We Need" / Cyril Ray "New Deal For Old Vic" (Papers).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A lovely clean copy in a rubbed and bumped dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Puerto Rico's Fighting 65th U.S. Infantry. From San Juan to Chorwan. Previous owners name and address stamped to inside cover. Wear and a couple to tears to edge of D/J. Slight browning to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. In the second week of June 1951, the heights overlooking the village of Chorwan, Korea - the centre of the Iron Triangle - were taken by the all-Puerto Rican 65th U.S. Infantry Regiment. The Chinese withdrew to the North, and from that point on the war wound down to the peace table. This was the final combat action of the hard-fighting 65th, a regiment given little recognition outside of the Puerto Rican press. Nevertheless, one hundred and twenty-five of their number were awarded the Silver Star; four the Distinguished Service Cross. Their commander, General Harris, reaped praise and commendations from the highest sources for the action of his troops. Certainly no one is more qualified to tell their story. And this he does, with verve, wit, and enthusiasm. When first assigned to the 65th General Harris thought he was being relegated to the boondocks. From the start of training in San Juan, however, he rapidly changed his mind. In the Vieques maneuvers his men distinguished themselves against the experienced men of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division. In combat they were fearless. All Korean veterans remember the bitter cold of the winters. To those used to warm climates, it was particularly gruelling, but the Puerto Ricans stood their ground. Here is a book to make every Puerto Rican proud. It is also an important eyewitness account of action in a war that has not been written about popularly but whose fighters certainly deserve as much recognition as soldiers in any war. Illustrated. 220 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.).

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 20 plates on 12 and a large folding map on japon; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted. Harris begins his account as a linesman with Australian Signals during the Great War; between the wars he served as telecommunications engineer with the Post Office and at the same time a Territorial Army officer of Royal Signals, As a Signals officer during WWII he served with BEF during the withdrawal from Dunkirk, later at GHQ Home Forces, and finally as Chief, Telecommunications Section, SHAEF. Uncommon in this condition. Enser, p. 78.

Hardcover without Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition. This is a very good copy of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket with faint edge wear at the spine head, else fine. Virtually mint. 8vo (280 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, one fold-out map).

Condition: fine in very good dust jacket. photo's (illustrator). 0891410562.