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FARNDALE.KCB, General Sir Martin: : HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY: THE FORGOTTEN FRONTS AND THE HOME BASE 1914-1918.

LONDON.The Royal Artillery Institution,Woolwich,1988.

ISBN 1870114051.

UK,thick Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat, handwritten blue ink inscrptn: 'Sydney Robertson With very best wishes Martin Farndale. (underscore) 1st march 1989.' to front free endpaper.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,central colour pictorial painting band - 'Heavy batteries moving up Mount Zion on the Road to the Jaffa Gate,Jerusalem,21st December,1917' (by James McBey,Imperial War Museum) with red lettering to navy blue horizontal bands to front panel of dw/dj,some inevitable but minimal sunning/fade, of an approx. 1/2" narrow, horizontal band of front's top edge and an approx. 1/4" vertical strip,top to bottom,to front cover's gutter fold/crease,due to at some time,the proximity of a shelf-stored,but slightly smaller book beside it.Spine/backstrip also sunned/faded to a lighter blue horizontal top+bottom bands and to red lettering too,rear panel with continuation of navy blue top+bottom bands from the front with gold coloured Regimental badge+motto in top band,white background to the middle band with black lettered text of Regiment's other published or in preparation titles.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners,head+foot of spine with minimal bumping and reciprocal creasing and miniscule closed snicks at foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with some minimal scoring indents,leaving a very faint trace to board beneath.Top+fore-edges generally bright, crisp and clean,a small smuge - partial thumbprint(?) on top edge,but no foxing/spotting to either edges; contents bright tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any ages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked Regimental badge+motto and title to front board,spine/ backstrip with bright,crisp,blocked title,author and regimental badge to same and clean, immaculate plain white endpapers - author inscrptn excepted.UK,thick Qrto HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,1-490pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters and an Epilogue with profuse contemporary b/w photographs,(82) b/w maps with red+blue printed annotaions interspersed throughout the text and the book,Annexes,a Glossary and an Index.Plus [unpaginated] author SIGNED+ dedicated front free endpaper,half-title +title pages,separate contents.illustrations and maps lists/tables,an Introduction,a References list and b/w photographic frntis to the reverse of recto of last page of References,and 2pp blanks at rear of the book. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s age and nature, i.e. a Regimental history reference book.It is only the exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness. In his retirement at the end of December 1987, Farndale wrote four volumes of the History of the Royal Artillery of which,this is the 2nd of them.  [This book] Continues the story of a Regiment at War.It tells of the exploits of those Artillerymen from Britain and her Empire who fought around the World outside France and Flanders from 1914 to 1918.It is a unique story of how Gunners from Britain, Australia,South, East and West Africa,New Zealand,India and Ceylon,fought side by side for the same great cause in Egypt,Italy,the Western Desert,along the Suez Canal,in the Sinai and Palestine,in Jordan,Lebanon and Syria,at the Dardanelles,in Greece and Bulgaria,in Mesopotamia,the Caucasus and Persia and in Togoland,the Cameroons, British,German and Portuguese East Africa and South West Africa.All served the guns,under the same cap badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. General Sir Martin Baker Farndale,KCB [Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.],(6th January,1929 – 10th May,2000) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1980s, serving from 1948–1987. Educated at Yorebridge Grammar School,Askrigg, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Farndale was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1948.He went to the Staff College, Camberley in 1959. In 1969 Farndale was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, which was deployed to Northern Ireland at the early stages of The Troubles. In 1973 he was appointed commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade in Germany before, in 1978, he returned to the UK to become Director of Operations at the Ministry of Defence in which role he had to organise the disarming of guerillas in order to facilitate the creation of the future nation of Zimbabwe. Appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2nd Armoured Division in Germany in 1980. In 1983, Farndale became GOC of 1st British Corps. In 1985, he was made GOC of British Army of the Rhine and Northern Army Group. He was also Colonel Commandant of the Army Air Corps from 1980 to 1987. Following his retirement at the end of December 1987, Farndale was a defence adviser to Short Brothers plc and to Deloitte Touche. [Wiki.] Please contact seller because of the excess weight of this item - just in excess of 1.5Kg unpackaged - for correct,insured (optional) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! 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