The Hood Battalion
by Sellers, Leonard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0850523869
- ISBN 13
- 9780850523867
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Leo Cooper (Pen & Sword Books).* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs, or shelf wear. Single small blemish to rear board. FINE* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing the Royal Marines, Naval Division, Ostend 1914, now in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £25.00. No visible faults. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 20pp of b/w photos within text throughout plus 6pp. of line drawn maps at front.* Pages: 285 pp. text. xlix pp. muster rolls, references, acknowledgements & index at rear.* Description: Len Sellers uses many first-hand accounts and original illustrations to trace the fascinating story of "Winston's Little Army", the Hood Battalion, through the idealism, bravery and subsequent tragedies of World War I. The Royal Naval Division, Churchill's brainchild, was formed at the beginning of the First World War by the Admiralty from large numbers of naval reservists. They were thrust into action before the division was weaned, as an infantry unit, in a hopeless but heroic endeavour to save the Belgium fortress of Antwerp and in order to delay the enemy and support the retreating troops to save our doors to Europe, the Channel ports. This is a story of a half-breed outfit, neither fish nor fowl, soldier or sailor. The army could never decide.* A FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with virtually no faults. Now in protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1618
- Title
- The Hood Battalion
- Author
- Sellers, Leonard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0850523869
- ISBN 13
- 9780850523867
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 334
- This edition first published
- 1995
- Size
- 24.2 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm
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