1971, ISBN: 9780002118255

London England: Collins, 1971. Hardback. Slight foxing to edge. Marks, foxing and small tear to D/J. Browning to spine of D/J. This is the autobiography of a soldier. Even more, it is an … Mehr…

London England: Collins, 1971. Hardback. Slight foxing to edge. Marks, foxing and small tear to D/J. Browning to spine of D/J. This is the autobiography of a soldier. Even more, it is an affirmation of faith in and love for an ancient institution with all its values and traditions. The theme is perhaps unfashionable, but the author has never been disposed to bow to fashion. Bernard Fergusson is an intellectual, a romantic and an apparent hippophone - hardly, one might think the characteristics most suitable for an officers' mess/ The Black mWatch, he knew he had found not just a job but a vocation. His career was usually unconventional, and sometimes lurid. After a spell as ADC to Wavell, he served before the war as an Intelligence Officer in palestine, then after a plain-clothes mission in Turkey, fought in Syria against the Vichy French. The siege of Tobruk was followed by the dramatic ordeal of Wingate's campaigns in Burman. A Second spell in Palestine, the early days of NATO and a tragi-comic epilogue - in charge of psychological warfare during the Suez operation - concluded his military career. The book ends in 1958, when he sent in his papers: but his life has continued eventful and has included five crowded years as Governor-General of New Zealand. Bernard Fergusson is by no means uncritical of his chosen service, yet it is doubtful whether the colour, the humour, evey the joy of a soldier's life have ever been more vividly conveyed. This is a book to make even the most ardent anti-militarist stop and think. 286 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 3rd Impression. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback., Collins, 1971, 2.5<

1970, ISBN: 9780002118255

Collins, 1970., 1970. 3rd ed. 286p. Maps. Author's military memoirs: Service as ADC to Wavell, Intelligence Officer in Palestine & Turkey, fought Vichy forces in Syria, in Tobruk … Mehr…

Collins, 1970., 1970. 3rd ed. 286p. Maps. Author's military memoirs: Service as ADC to Wavell, Intelligence Officer in Palestine & Turkey, fought Vichy forces in Syria, in Tobruk for its siege and with Wingate in Burma. NATO in the post war years. Bookplate. Fine/Very Good Copy. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Book., Collins, 1970., 1970, 4<

ISBN: 9780002118255

Hardback. Acceptable., 2.5