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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new,seemingly unread, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Cuthbert Headlam joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1910 and deployed with them to France in 1915. He moved across to the General Staff and, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, served in a variety of mainly intelligence posts before becoming the British Expeditionary Force's principal doctrine writer. After the First World War he became a Conservative politician but also edited the Army Quarterly until 1942. Combining the social connections of an insider with the professional detachment of an outsider, his letters and diary entries provide an always informative, often acidic, and sometimes entertaining insight into the British Army in the era of Total War. Ref A5 6.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover First Edition The Crimean War (1854-56) between the United Kingdom, France and the Ottoman Empire on the one hand, and Russia on the other, has become notorious for the poor administration and bad generalship suffered by the British forces. Four-fifths of their deaths were due, not to enemy action, but to sickness and disease. Contemporary accounts have often glossed over the culpability of the generals. The discovery, therefore, of a journal and letters written by a key member of the staff of Lord Raglan and his successors, throws new light on events. William Govett Romaine was Deputy Judge-Advocate to the Army of the East, the senior civilian at Headquarters. He was called 'the eye of the army' by Raglan and regarded by the editor of "The Times" as a better source than the official despatches. Romaine took a keen interest in all aspects of the campaign, touring the field of operations and recording significant events. His letters include his frank judgements - sometimes savage - on the conduct of the campaign and the quality of individual officers. His papers are of the utmost importance to any study of the Crimean War.(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.).