To the Last Man : A Novel of the First World War

New York: Ballanine Books, 2004. A bright, shiny, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Rear panel of Dust Jacket is lightly rubbed. NOT price clipped (27.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with maps. "First Edition: November 2004" is so stated, with complete number row (246897531) on the copyright page. Bound in the original blue boards with red spine, lettered in silver. From the Dust Jacket: "Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power. Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe's western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire, a fierce German army is on the other. Shaara shows us the otherworldly tableau of trench warfare as seen through the eyes of a typical British soldier who experiences the bizarre and the horrible -- a 'Tommy' whose innocent youth is cast into the hell of a terrifying war. In the skies, high above the chaos on the ground, meanwhile, technology has provided a devastating new tool, the aeroplane, and with it a different kind of hero emerges -- the flying ace. These solitary knights duel in the splendor and terror of the skies, their courage and steel tested with every flight.". First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. xxix, 636pp..