Smyth John Vc (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1974 1st Am. ed. 247pp. cloth 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [endpp. and edges are age browned; text is lightly age browned; else VG; dj = p-c; else nrF].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. American First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs. Book.

Hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Very good brown cloth hard back with a very good unclipped dust jacket. Which is just a trifle edge worn. No inscriptions. ; Black & white photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 236 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fair condition book and DJ not price clipped. ex County Library. Stamp sheet at the back of the book, no ticket pocket. 247 pages good with clear print, indexed. End papers front and back brown with age. Black and white photographs. No tears to DJ, although the bottom left near spine surface crease. 'What, Sir John Smyth once asked, makes a general? No one, he admitted, seems to have produced a satisfactory answer - particularly the generals themselves - except that the illusive quality of leadership is the single most important attribute a battle commander can have.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1966 First edition with unclipped dustjacket. Interior has ex libris plate for Edwina Iredale, ex British actress from whose library this copy originated. Interior otherwise extremely clean with no writing, marks or tears. Dustjacket has been well preserved in clear plastic removable sleeve.

London, David & Charles 1976. 191 Seiten m. Abbildungen. Orig. Hardcover, 8°. Kleiner Stempel am Vorsatz, sonst gut erhalten.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book neat and clean and firmly bound, with just a few marks and some darkening and spotting to page edges. It has an ink gift inscription to FFEP. Neat DJ has been clipped.

Cloth. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: G. First Edition. 236pp. Plates. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prev owner's inscription on fep.

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 cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust wrapper with lightly sunned spine, tears and some edge & corner wear. Internally Good - Quick flick through pages could not see any issues, clean and tidy copy in tight binding. Unclipped dust wrapper will be fitted with removable archive acetate film. ** 566g ** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE20334.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Written by a decorated veteran and Victoria Cross recipient, The Only Enemy examines the concept of war's inexorable adversary "the only enemy" and explores the internal and external battles faced by soldiers. Awarded the VC at twenty-one, Brigadier Sir John Smyth has since followed on the flood tide of England's history for close on half a century, and he here recounts his life with no hint of vainglory in the direct simplicity of the telling. Whether he writes of that first fine exploit in France in 1915, at the head of his small band of great-hearted Sikhs, or of Dunkirk, where he was the only Indian Army officer to command a fighting formation, or of the disastrous battle of the River Sittang in the tragic Burma campaign, his steadfast courage burns through the words of the narrative. In victory and in defeat, in his premature retirement from the Service after his advice was ignored and the Burmese defeat made inevitable for himself and his men, he remains unchangingly loyal, only the cold lucidity of his analysis of the situation in military terms revealing with steely logic where blame should be apportioned. In later years he has made a name for himself as a journalist and Member of Parliament. With first-hand reflections on campaign service, leadership, strategy and the enduring face of conflict, Smyth's memoir invites both historian and collector into the mind of a warrior whose era bridged imperial and modern warfare. No writing or marks on the cover or in the text, nice tight copy with some shelf wear, bumps, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. edition. Minor wear along the DJ edges.

8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Concerns primarily the campaigns in France, Gallipoli and Palestine. Mulholland & Jordan S68.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. The Generals in Victory and Defeat. B&W photographs throughout. 22 x 15 cm. 247 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. SERVE TO LEAD. This is the Sandhurst motto , the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst , came from two famous establishments , the Royal Military Academy Woolwich and the Royal Military College Sandhurst , they were amalgamation in 1947. The author has written the first comprehensive account of this military training school. 8vo.Pp, 301,[1]. previous owners signature on front free , otherwise good illustrations all correct, book came from the library of Bertram Ratcliffe . Original red cloth covered boards with title in gold on spine. Dust jacket slightly sunned .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A nice clean copy with the minimum of wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 301pp including index. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in price clipped dustwrapper. Top edge red. Ownership inscription to ffep. Dustwrapper lightly foxed with some light wear to extremities. Eps foxed. Otherwise textblock and illustrations clean tight and bright. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. General wear to the book, boards, edges and corners, slightly faded spine. Pages with a little Age discolouration, odd page with the odd mark otherwise Internally Good - Quick flick through pages could not see any other issues, clean and tidy copy in tight binding, A Good personal copy for a book of this Age. **598g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE21673.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dark brown boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped DJ, now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 35/-net. 223 pp, clean and bright pages throughout. Map illustrated endpapers (Any digital image available on request).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is the descendant of two famous cadet establishments, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and the Royal Military College, known respectively as 'the Shop' and 'RMC' or "Sandhurst'. Sir John Smyth tells the story of 'the Shop' and 'RMC' from their foundation in the eighteenth century, when the life of the gentleman cadet was wild and his studies spasmodic, through the reforms of the Victorian period and their vital contribution during two World Wars, until their amalgamation in 1947: He then gives an absorbing account of the life of the Sandhurst cadet in the 60s and concludes with an analysis of the functions of Sandhurst in the nuclear age.Sir John Smyth has written the first comprehensive and authoritative account of this great military training school. Spotting to endpapers.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered metallic turquoise back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (vi), 208 pp with 22 monochrome photographs and 4 maps throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing to the tips and corners, not price clipped, 25/-. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 298pp + 6pp index, frontisplate and mono plates A Vg/Vg copy.

Clloth. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: G. First Edition. 208pp. Plates. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. By informed scrutiny of the leading protagonists in the campaigns of the Second World War, Leadership in War enables us to see battle as the commanders saw it. As the author points out, military historians are as prone to error as commanders - in - chief, and his book often readdresses the balance of opinion on these leaders. This book is an important contribution to military history. The text block is lightly discoloured on its edges and f.e.p's, and the DJ front flap as two small creases to the corners. Please note: Standard shipping ( 2nd class ) to World zone 1 and world zone 2 is by sea and will take between 60 and 90 days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Only Enemy by Brigadier Sir John Smyth V. C. first edition. Very good hardback, minor bumping. Jacket is chipped at edges with some small closed tears. 352pp., frontis., index, Autobiography of the Famous VC winner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Michael Leonard (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition hardback in d/w; vg/vg-; author inscription on fep; 'To -------- with kind regards and good wishes from the author Jackie Smyth Christmas 1958' (this author better known for adult works on war etc. Very clean copy of book; d/w not price clipped (9/6) ; a couple of v. Small chips at d/w ends and cover corners ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages; Signed by Author.

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 8vo, xv, 236pp, mono frontis, mono illustrations throughout SIGNED and Dedicated By The Author on the fep to Colin (" Mad Mitch" Mitchell) 24.5.78. A Vg/Vg copy.

1st Edition. Hb in Dw xx,192pp, mono plates SIGNED and Dedicated on fep to Colin " Mad Mitch" Mitchell From the Author 1978, A Vg/Vg copy.

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 304pp mono fp, plates to text SIGNED and dedicated to title page by the Author to Colin " Mad Mitch Mitchell" A Vg/Vg copy.