Buy this book on-line WAR WALKS FROM AGINCOURT TO NORMANDY : HOLMES**, RICHARDLONDON.BBC BOOKS/BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING,1997. ISBN 0563387491.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,reprint.[First published (UK) in 1996 to aaccompany the television series entitle War Walks which was first broadcast 1996. Book was reprinted twice in the same year,and then in 1997,the 3rd reprint - this edn and this item.] FINE+/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around colour map (Northern France,Brittany) with capitalised black+red lettering to front,black, red+white lettered spine/backstrip,rear panel of dw/dj with superimposed/overlaid,b/w portrait photograph of author; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges bright, fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,near sharp-cornered - both lower corners with an almost uniform bump/dent to same - original red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,reprint,7-224pp [paginated] includes an introduction with double-page b/w regional map with the 6 battles discussed locations and a key to maps for symbols used,6 chapters,each with accompanying contemporary b/w photographs,b/w maps and other b/w illustration reproductions, and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title, title page with acknowledgements to its reverse,and a contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age.It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
For hundreds of years,battles have raged over the area of Northern France and Belgium known as the 'fatal avenue'.In 'War Walks',renowned military historian Richard Holmes explores six of the region's most intriguing battlefields, vividly recreating theatmosphere of their bloody history.
AGINCOURT 1415 - The triumph of the English longbow.
WATERLOO 1815 -The Allied defeat of Napoleon.
MONS and Le CATEAU 1914 - The opening battles of the First World War offensive.
ARRAS 1940 - a British attack on advancing German Panzer divisions.
Operation GOODWOOD 1944 - a British battle in the break-out from Normandy.
Using his expert knowledge of weapons and warfare,Richard Holmes provides a clear picture of the events which led up tp each battle,the conflicts themselves,and the men who fought them.Men such as the archers at Agincourt,who were so ill that many discarded their breeches and fought half-naked; theBritish commander who,in the middle of a bitter fight during Waterloo campaign,promised his men punishment for stealing fruit from an orchard; and the German officer who,when facing British rifle-fire at Mons,shared a bottle of champagne with his troops before giving the order to advance.
Holmes,using practical 'views of the field', journeys through the battlefields as they lie today,pointing out their places of interest, paying tribute to the men who fought there,and bringing history to life.
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