orange boards with black titles, light bumping to corners and spine ends, black mark to rear board, frontispiece, 282pp, pages clean and very good condition. Seller Inventory # 002605
Title: Ludendorff: The Tragedy Of A Specialist
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
Publication Date: 1932
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First English Edition. Translated by W H Johnston. Orange cloth covered boards with black titling, soiled. Name and date on ffep. Very light foxing mainly to prelims. Frontis plate portrait. 282 pages clean and tight. It is the early morning of August 7th, 1914; a German officer strikes with the pommel of his sword upon the gates of Liege. Major-General Ludendorff is alone except for his aide-de-camp. The chauffeur of the Belgian car who brought the two officers to the spot watches them with amazement-surely the man does not hope to capture a citadel with a bare sword? The General and his aide-de-camp had expected to find the citadel in the hands of the advance guard of their brigade; but not a single German soldier is in sight. The garrison of the citadel answer the knocking and open the gates. The two officers continue on their audacious course and, undeterred by the sight of some hundreds of Belgian soldiers, penetrate into the courtyard. The defenders are paralysed by surprise; soon after, a German regiment is heard approaching, and the garrison surrenders to General Ludendorff. ASIN: B002FZTWTI Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 121574