Latest book on my wishlist is an original set of the 12 volume "History of the Ministry of Munitions". It has been an expensive week already for books.
I nearly bought the OH Egypt and Palestine full set with maps last week but wavered at the last minute. My last purchase of a rarity was the massive three volume History of the Connaught Rangers by Col Jourdain which took three years to find a set in good condition. Memories of the 32nd Field Ambulance, 10th (Irish) Division 1914-1919 by C Midwinter. We gain insight into His nature, His activity, and His purposes. God reveals Himself to us on the pages of scripture. The History of the Seventh South Staffordshire Regiment by Maj A H Ashcroft (ed.) Boyle and Watchurst, London 1919. Here are ten reasons to treasure God’s Word: 1.The Bible teaches us about God. The Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Great War by Capt Hon H A Adderley 1922. I have been looking for these books for years. A few books elude me.all with a Gallipoli angle. Both of mine are pretty dull - OH Vol 1 and the History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 1898-1922: The Great Cavalry Campaign in Palestine. I think I have several hundred books on WWI of which maybe a hundred are first editions but only two have a dust-jackets which perhaps illustrates just how scarce they are. I'd probably expected too much of one our more colourful generals, perhaps a biography is required to redress the balance.ĭust Jacket Collector - a fascinating website. I'd waited years to find a copy (even avoided reading it on the 'Internet Archive' to preserve the experience) and when I did I found it unutterably dry. On a rather flatter note, I have to say my DJ'd 'Stalky' would top my list of my most disappointing reads of all time. I wonder if this is the source of his obsession with the collection of "coconuts" (please note quotation marks before prosecution).
Just come across this post - must have missed it on first reading the thread.Īm well aware Carton De Wiart is always cited as the model for Waugh's Brig.Ben Ritchie Hook but, given the character must be a composite, the Kuchik Khan comment sounds pure Hookian. A jacketed copy of Taylor's 'Boy with the Guns' which came with an album of photo's from the family & 'Stalky' Dunsterville's 'Adventures of Dunsterforce' with a whole batch of letters from him including an original photo of the rebel leader, Kuchik Khan's, head on a table! Gruesome or what! "Occupation of the Rhineland!!! where on earth did you get that from!!"Īs Blanche Dubois once said 'I rely on the kindness of strangers'Ī couple of other rarities come to mind.