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Fair. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
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Good Minus in Fair jacket. 8vo. Dust jacket chipped at corners and head/foot of spine with some loss especially at head of spine and corner of front cover, rear cover rubbed in places with several spot stains, boards lightly edgeworn at corners and head/foot of spine, also along spine edges, some light spotting to head and foot of front board, previous owner's inscription to fep, light spotting to closed edges of text block, pp clean and clear to read, binding sound.
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1961. Michael Joseph. Second imp. Hard Cover. Book-VG. Dj-VG, edgewear. 8.5x5.5. 344pp. 12 b/w photos, illus chapter heads. John Masters was a professional officer in the middle ranks, sharing both the view from the top and the worm's-eye view. As well as describing the battle for Burma, this is also a personal story of one man's life, intimate and direct, charting the growth and development of a human being. *************** is this signed on f.e.p. ? ? ? *************
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1st edn 1st printing signed by author on front endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt decorated green cloth (spine and boards discoloure-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (chipped at edges-in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 343, illus with b&w plates and drawings (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).
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VG. No Jacket. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, some offsetting to outer leaves, cloth a little rubbed & sunned, some marks; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 344, with illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy.
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VG+ in VG+ jacket. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & flecked, paperstock a little toned, prev. owner's name to FFE, occ. faint marks, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper priced 21s net (a trifle rubbed & nicked, slight toning, occ. spots); pp. 344, with illustrations & 2 maps. A very good copy.
John Masters was an English officer in a Gurkha Rifle regiment of the Indian Army. After the war he settled in the US and became an author. He wrote a series of novels of an English family that lived and worked in India between the days of Elizabeth I and 1947. This book is the second volume of his autobiography.
The first volume, "Bugles and a Tiger" describes his career as an officer, from a Sandhurst cadet through everyday life in a cantonment in North India to a campaign in the area on the border to Afghanistan.
This book takes up the tale at the beginning of World War II. Masters is fighting the Vichy French Army in the Iraq and begins to work as a regimental staff officer. He is then sent to staff college in India. His Rifle regiment makes up part of the Chindit force operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma. The tale is exciting in itself and shows how important staff organisation and logistics are to keep a fast-moving conventional force in the field. It also shows the limits of how long such a force can fight in the jungle.
The text is fascinating reading, and one absorbs quite a lot of technical knowledge without noticing. I like the descriptions of the countryside, the author"s dry humor and his personal frankness. Both books together belong to a limited list that I read again and again.
