THE ARMY AND THE CURRAGH INCIDENT 1914 by Ian F.W.,Editor Beckett - 1986

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Random House (UK), 1986. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Bodley Head for the Army Records Society, 1986. First Edition So Stated. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 8x5x1. This book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a First Edition. hardcover book with 456 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are a bit yellowed along the edges. The pages are otherwise clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page states 1986 First Published. The dust jacket is also in great shape with just a hint of edgewear (No Chips). This book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

London: The Bodley Head for the Army Records Society, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo; VG-/G+; red spine with black and white text; first edition; dust jacket has modest shelf wear to exterior; few dings to edges; previous bookshop's sticker to front flap; cloth has very mild exterior wear; lightly bumped front head fore corner; strong, straight boards; text block edges shows modest age toning; frontispiece; tight binding; interior good; illustrated; pp 456. 1343670. FP New Rockville Stock.

Bodley Head / Army Records Society, London, 1986, first edition. 456 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0370307380 "The events at the Curragh Camp near Dublin on 20/21 March 1914, and the drama continued in London over the following nine days, have a special significance in British military his tory. The outline of the story is well enough known: Brig.-General Hubert Gough and fellow-officers in the 3rd Cavalry Brigade threatened to resign rather than implement what seemed to them a policy of coercing Ulster into accepting Irish H o m e R u l e ; Gough secured a written guarantee from J.E.B. Seely, Secretary of State for War, that the army would not be so employed; Asquith's Liberal cabinet, however, repudiated the guarantee, which led Seely to resign, along with the Chie f o f th e I mp er ia l General Staff Field Marshal Sir John French and the Adjutant General Lt-General Sir John Spencer Ewart. Although sometimes erroneously referred to as a 'Mutiny',… Read More

London, The Bodley Head for the Army Records Society, 1986. Hardcover. Good.

The Army and the Curragh Incident 1914 edited by Ian F. W. Beckett (Bodley Head / Army Records Society, 1st edition 1986).
Military history.
Hardback in dustwrapper. pp. xii, 456, frontispiece. 8.75 x 5.75 inches approx. (222mm x 142mm).
Dustwrapper sunned/faded to spine. A previous owner's name and date in ink to front free endpaper; pages age-toned/tanned throughout otherwise clean.
Light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy.
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London: The Bodley Head, 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xii, 456, [2] pages. Frontispiece. Map. Note on Editorial Methods. Notes. Appendix 1 Biographical Notes. Appendix 2 Serving officers not previously mentioned, sending letters or telegrams of support to the Gough brothers. Appendix 3 The Irish Command in March 1914. Bibliography. Index. Some page discoloration noted. Published for the Army Records Society; Publications of the Army Records Society, Vol. 2. Ian Beckett is Professor of Military History at the University of Kent. Former positions include Professor of History at University College Northampton, Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst, Professor of Modern History at the University of Luton, and Major-General Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Professor of Military Theory at the US Marine Corps University in Virginia. He is also Chairman of the Army Records Society. Other publications include 'The Oxford History of the British Army' and 'The… Read More