A Journal of the Great War (2 vols)
by Dawes, Charles G
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921 Hard Cover, 8vo., 344pp; 283pp. Condition: About Very Good or better, with light marks to covers. One page in volume one has a light stain to the edges. The ghost of an ownership plate can be seen to the front paste-downs of both volumes. ** An account of the 1914-18 First World War by Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951), who was the chairman of the general purchasing board for the American Expeditionary Forces. After the war he led the effort to resolve the issue of the reparations Germany had been forced to pay by the Treaty of Versailles, for which he shard the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. He subsequently became Vice President of the United States (1925-1929). *** Volume one consists of journal entries for the war from 1917 to 1919, and volume two consists of his daily reports to his Commanding General. OCLC 873195.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8425
- Title
- A Journal of the Great War (2 vols)
- Author
- Dawes, Charles G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
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