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Vg in worn dw. Political & Biographies-General The life and military career to June 1941, of Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC. Wavell was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in 1915, losing an eye. Following his recovery, he was assigned as a liaison-officer to the Russian Army in 1916, and in 1918, he was transferred to Sir Edmund Allenby's staff in Palestine. In August 1939 he was named as the head of Middle East Command and was in that post when World War II began. UL-XXXXXX. 574pp, photos, maps, glossary, bibliography, index.
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Good in worn dw. Political & Biographies-General The life and military career to June 1941, of Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC. Wavell was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in 1915, losing an eye. Following his recovery, he was assigned as a liaison-officer to the Russian Army in 1916, and in 1918, he was transferred to Sir Edmund Allenby's staff in Palestine. In August 1939 he was named as the head of Middle East Command and was in that post when World War II began. UL-XXXXXX. 572pp, photos, maps, glossary, bibliography, index.
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Original cloth, no dw, Good. Political & Biographies-General The life and military career to June 1941, of Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC. Wavell was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in 1915, losing an eye. Following his recovery, he was assigned as a liaison-officer to the Russian Army in 1916, and in 1918, he was transferred to Sir Edmund Allenby's staff in Palestine. In August 1939 he was named as the head of Middle East Command. UL-XXXXXX. 572pp, photos, maps, glossary, bibliography, index.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Copy in grey cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Spine lightl cocked. Jacket a little grubby with small portion missing at head of lower cover. Maps as end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text and b/w plates.
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Very good in Fair jacket. 24 cm., 573, [3] pages. Endpaper maps. Frontis illustrations. Illustrations. Maps. DJ soiled with some wear, tears and chips. The author was a noted novelist and journalist who also became a authoritative historian. His biography of W. E. Henley won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize as the best biography of 1949, The author served with Wavell during the Second World War and brings personnel knowledge as well as access to some of Wavell's personal papers and official correspondence, to this monumental work. Derived from a Kirkus Review: Written by an English author who served under Wavell, this first volume of a biographical study of "one of the greatest soldiers and noblest characters of his age" ends in June, 1941, when General Auchinleck replaced him as Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East. The book, which includes many excerpts from Wavell's terse and humorous personal and official papers, has also a strong autobiographical flavor. Born in 1883, Archibald Percival Wavell joined his father's regiment, served in the Boer War and in India, and as a Staff Officer was noted for efficiency, cool intelligence and great physical stamina. In World War I he served in France and in Palestine; in World War II, as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the Middle East, he won victories in East Africa, defeated the Italians in the Western Desert, and fell foul of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Wavell, the professional soldier, was reticent, disciplined and kept his plans for defensive strategy to himself. Obligatory for all soldiers, this will also appeal to non-military adherents of biography and personal history.