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Rifles - Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters.
by Mark Urban
- Used
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571216803
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216802
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber. Good/Very Good. 2003. Hard Cover. 8vo 0571216803 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, slightly cocked. Evidence of a label being removed from ffep. No ownership marks. Colour illustrations on plates. 352 pages clean and tight. Slight darkening to page edges. Neatly written list of other books written onto to free end paper. As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of a six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144563
- Title
- Rifles - Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters.
- Author
- Mark Urban
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571216803
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216802
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
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About the Seller
CHARLES BOSSOM
Biblio member since 2010
ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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