Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977
ISBN 10: 0684153246 ISBN 13: 9780684153247
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Hardcover. Zustand: USED_GOOD. Good condition with wear and markings.
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Verlag: Independently Published, 2023
ISBN 13: 9798386300661
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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Verlag: Magnum Books, 1979
ISBN 10: 0417026307 ISBN 13: 9780417026305
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Paperback. Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1977
ISBN 10: 0283983205 ISBN 13: 9780283983207
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Hardback. Zustand: NEW. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. First Edition. CORPS COMMANDER Sir Brian Horrocks with Eversley Belfield & Major-General H. Essame. Sidgwick and Jackson, London 1977 First edition ISBN 0283983205 256pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in new condition in red cloth boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and XXX Corps badge to the upper board. The unclipped dustwrapper is lightly sunned to the spine but is still in as new condition. Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (7 September 1895 ? 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer. He is chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War. He also served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was a prisoner of war twice, and competed in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Later he was a television presenter, authored books on military history, and was Black Rod in the House of Lords for 14 years. In 1940 Horrocks commanded a battalion during the Battle of France, the first time he served under Bernard Montgomery, the most prominent British commander of the war. Montgomery later identified Horrocks as one of his most able officers, appointing him to corps commands in both North Africa and Europe. In 1943, Horrocks was seriously wounded and took more than a year to recover before returning to command a corps in Europe. It is likely that this period out of action meant he missed out on promotion; his contemporary corps commanders in North Africa, Leese and Dempsey, went on to command at army level and above. Horrocks' wound caused continuing health problems and led to his early retirement from the army after the war. Since 1945, Horrocks has been regarded by some as one of the most successful British generals of the war, "a man who really led, a general who talked to everyone, down to the simplest private soldier", and the "beau ideal of a corps commander". Dwight D. Eisenhower called him "the outstanding British general under Montgomery". Ref ZZZ 2.
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Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977
ISBN 10: 0684153246 ISBN 13: 9780684153247
Anbieter: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: USED_FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with near fine jacket. Spine lightly faded.
Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60075509: Non daté. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 256 pages. Photo en noir et blanc en frontispice (portrait). Illustré de nombreuses photos et cartes en noir et blanc, dans et hors texte. Titre doré sur le dos. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Verlag: Sidgwick & Jackson London 1977, 1977
Anbieter: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
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1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xvi + 256pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, plans, index, Story of the major Campaigns from D-Day to VE Day, told by the Commander of XXX Corps.
Verlag: Sidgwick & Jackson London 1977, 1977
Anbieter: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
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1st edition dust jacket As New octavo xvi + 256pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, plans, index, Story of the major Campaigns from D-Day to VE Day, told by the Commander of XXX Corps.
Verlag: Sidgwick and Jackson London, 1977
Anbieter: A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. 1st edn., xvi, 256pp, half tone photo frontis portrait, numerous in text half tone photo ills. and maps, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, sign of XXX Corps in gilt upper board, pictorial montage dustwrapper, after spending 14 months recovering from being wounded in North Africa the author took command of XXX Corps in August 1944. As well as an account of the Corps through the Falaise Pocket, crossing the Seine, Arnhem (much expanded from his autobiography A Full Life), Antwerp, Geilenkirchen, Ardennes, Rhine crossing and the liberation of the Netherlands, he relates the day-to-day trials and tribulations of command, light tanning to edges and faint foxing to upper edge, dustwrapper: loightly creased at extrems.sunned at spine, ISBN:0283983205 - very good in a very good dustwrapper,
Verlag: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1977
ISBN 10: 0283983205 ISBN 13: 9780283983207
Anbieter: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
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Hardcover. Zustand: USED_FINE. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Stated first published in Great Britain in 1977.
Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0684153246 ISBN 13: 9780684153247
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 256 pages. Index. Many reproductions of black and white photos. "The story of a great campaign, from D-Day to VE Day, told from the standpoint of one of Britain's foremost fighting generals.The role of XXX Corps is presented in the context of the whole campaign. The book is a gripping narrative of the actions of a key fighting unit, combined with a vivid and authoritative account of how the Allies won final victory in the West." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's bookplate inside front board with name stroked out. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A quality copy.
Verlag: Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1978
Anbieter: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
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Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Pp. xvi+256, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and maps (some double page), index; med. 8vo; red boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, worn, browned and sunned, laminate lifting with some loss to front panel, front flap creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, small surface damage at foot of upper pastedown (label removal), leaves browned, edges foxed; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1978. First U.K. edition. *Inscribed by Sir Brian Horrocks to his old regiment, 'The Middlesex' on the upper free endpaper.