SOME DESPERATE GLORY: The World War I Diary of a British Officer 1917
by Edwin Campion Vaughan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805006710
- ISBN 13
- 9780805006711
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a mint-condition first edition of the famous book Some Desperate Glory, the diary of the British officer, Edwin Campion Vaughan (1897-1931). It was written during the first eight months of 1917, while he was deployed near the Cambrai sector and then moved up to Ypres at the start of the Battle of Passchendaele. The diary was published posthumously in the UK in 1981, then in the US in 1988.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal in 2006, James J. Cramer cites Some Desperate Glory as one of the five best books on war: "Vaughan describes the screams of the wounded who had sought refuge in the freshly gouged holes only to find themselves slowly drowning as rain fell and the water level rose. A relentlessly stark account of the war's bloodiest, most futile battle."
This copy has an unclipped dust jacket with tiny bits of shelfwear to the back only. The book itself may have been read once, but there are no marks of any kind in it or on it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 532
- Title
- SOME DESPERATE GLORY
- Author
- Edwin Campion Vaughan
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805006710
- ISBN 13
- 9780805006711
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Cambrai, Passchendaele, World War I
- Bookseller catalogs
- War Stories; Military History; British History; French History; World History; Biography, Autobiography, True Stories;
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