Hardcover
1974 · London
by Wavell, Field-Marshal Viscount
London: White Lion Publishers, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. 383 pp + illustrations, with maps and plans, appendix, index. Minimal edge wear, light impression of 4 inch ring on back cover, a spot of soiling to front free endpaper; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Allenby's "fame as a soldier rests secure on two brilliant campaigns in Palestine and Syria ... the following pages will attempt to devlop into a portrait, the portrait of a great soldier and a very gallant and honourable gentleman, whose family motto, Fide et labore ('By loyalty and service'), records the faith by which he lived and died" (introduction). (Inventory #: 824)