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March Retreat   19 Books
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332 Siege Battery R.G.A. An Account of its Adventures in the Great War, 1917-18. Compiled from Notes & Recollections of Officers of the Battery. 1st Ed., ix+134pp., 22 photos., 5 fldg. maps. Windsor: Oxley & Son, Printers. nd (c.1920s)  #61958
[HLMainPic] 6-In. How. Battery formed Jan. 1917: F&F from May starting in Ploegsteert Sector then 3rd Ypres, down to Bertrancourt for March Retreat & Final Advance from Mericourt to Bois l'Evecque. Detailed history. Roll of officers & WOs (with brief services), Roll of Hon. Orig. dec. blue cloth, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £95
King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1918. 1st Ed., xv+339pp., 7 illus., 8 fldg. maps. Winchester: Warren & Sons. 1919  #64659
Detailed war records of all bns. on service inc. March Retreat, Final Advance &c., excellent maps inc. coloured trench maps. Rolls of officers killed & wounded, obituaries, roll of awards. Orig. green cloth, silver gilt, sp. chipped & somewhat worn, generally sound & VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
With The Forty-Fourths: Being a Record of the Doings of the 44th Field Ambulance (14th Division). 1st Ed., 83pp., portrait frontis. (of five officers), several sketches, 4 maps, diagram of the method of evacuation of wounded from front line to base. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. 1922  #66926
[HLMainPic] With the 14th (Light) Div. throughout the war: from training in the UK to Ypres Salient 1915, Somme 1916, Arras 1917, March Retreat &c. Nominal roll (noting those killed & wounded). Deluxe full maroon morocco binding (has also been seen in printed wraps.), VG & rare in any form. See illustration on our website.   £125
BEHREND (Capt. & Adjt. A.F.) Nine Days: Adventures of a Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Third Army during the German Offensive of March 21-29 1918. 2nd Ed., xvi+115pp., 13 photos., 3 drawings, 2 fldg. maps. Privately printed at Cambridge by Heffer & Sons. 1921  #62110
[HLMainPic] Appealing & detailed account of the activities of 90th Bde. RGA during this hectic period. Roll of Officers & WOs. Orig. pale blue cloth, gilt, dec. with Bde. sign to front, VG. See illustration on our website.   £95
BEHREND (Capt. & Adjt. A.F.) Nine Days: Adventures of a Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Third Army during the German Offensive of March 21-29 1918. 1st Ed., xvi+115pp., 13 photos., 3 drawings, 2 fldg. maps. Privately printed at Cambridge by Heffer & Sons. 1921  #68203
[HLMainPic] Appealing & detailed account of the activities of 90th Bde. RGA during this hectic period. Roll of Officers & WOs. Orig. pale blue cloth, gilt, dec. with Bde. sign to front, lacjs ffep & to trimmed. VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £60
BENSTEAD (C.R.) Retreat: A Story of 1918. 4th & Cheaper Ed., 318pp., ep map (Distribution of British & German Divisions for the Initial Attack on 21st March 1918, & the Area Covered by the Subsequent Retreat). VG in worn dw. Methuen. 1931  #64514
[HLMainPic] Controversial novel of the German offensive taking as its theme the inefficacy of chaplains at the front. Lauded by Falls who - awarding a star - stated: "...a fine book, giving us to alternate with pictures of [the chaplain] Warne's misery unforgettable glimpses of the retreat of the Fifth Army. The saddest part of the book is the chaplain's yearning to minister to the spiritual needs of his flock & that flock's complete indifference to him." Orig. light brown cloth, titled in black, VG in chipped & torn dw (with loss at head & tail of sp. panel). See illustration on our website.   £45
BONNER (Robert) Wilfrith Elstob, VC, DSO, MC, The Manchester Regiment. 1st Ed., xiv+33pp., 4to, 24 photos., map. Knutsford: Fleur de Lys. 1998  #67458
[HLMainPic] Outstanding temporary officer of 16th Bn. Manchester Regt. (Pals) & the epic story of Manchester Hill, near St. Quentin, in March 1918. Orig. laminated wraps. VG. See illustration on our website.   £15
BOYD (Donald [F., MC]) Salute of Guns. 1st Ed., 389pp., 4 plates (from aerial photos.). Cape. 1930  #65955
[HLMainPic] Eloquent & scarce memoirs of war commissioned RFA officer in France May 1915-Oct. 1918 (with one six-month break); much on the Somme, 3rd Ypres & March Retreat. The late Bob Wyatt included the work in his revised edition of Falls (Greenhill, 1989): "...describes attitudes of Indian Army Regulars to the newly joined schoolboys; the Somme, Hill 60, Arras & the Spring Retreat are all covered with the sort of skill one usually expects only from writers such as Sassoon & Blunden. The story is told here of the deserters who lived in High Wood who came out at night to search for food amongst the corpses & when the Gunners went out to capture them seven or eight surrendered & the rest were bombed in their dug-out..." Orig. orange cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £100
BOYD (Donald [F., MC]) Salute of Guns. 1st Ed., 389pp., 4 plates (from aerial photos.). Cape. 1930  #68195
[HLMainPic] Eloquent & scarce memoirs of war commissioned RFA officer in France May 1915-Oct. 1918 (with one six-month break); much on the Somme, 3rd Ypres & March Retreat. The late Bob Wyatt included the work in his revised edition of Falls (Greenhill, 1989): "...describes attitudes of Indian Army Regulars to the newly joined schoolboys; the Somme, Hill 60, Arras & the Spring Retreat are all covered with the sort of skill one usually expects only from writers such as Sassoon & Blunden. The story is told here of the deserters who lived in High Wood who came out at night to search for food amongst the corpses & when the Gunners went out to capture them seven or eight surrendered & the rest were bombed in their dug-out..." Orig. orange cloth, gilt, sp. little tanned & sl. chipped o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £90
COUSLAND (Kenneth H., MC) The Great War 1914-1918: A Former Gunner of the First World War Looks Back. [xiv]+204pp., printed card wraps., 4to, dup. typescript, portrait frontis., 33 photos., real photo. col. plate of author's medals (MC, 1914 Star trio [although entitled to 1914-15 Star], French & Belgian Croix de Guerre), 2 maps. Privately compiled by the author in Canada, c.1974.  #66548
[HLMainPic] Cousland was Ed. at George Watson's College & in August 1914 was at Edinburgh University, where he was a member of the OTC. He applied for a commission & was posted to the 1st City of Edinburgh Battery: after various courses he served in France from Sept. 1915 where he spent two months; then posted back to England to command C Battery, 325th Brigade; to France again in May 1916 with 17th Battery, 6th London Field Artillery Brigade until wounded the following month. Returned to France in May 1917 with 383 Battery & participated in operations at Vimy, Lens, Hill 70 &c. November 1917 was spent at a Battery Commander's Course at Shoeburyness, then in France 1917-18 inc. Welsh Ridge (Cambrai), German attack at St. Quentin in March 1918, Battles of Amiens & Final Advance. Three times wounded, three times MiD, MC &c. An in-depth record of his various services based on his diary & letters home, including excellent recollections of service life, various operations & training procedures. Various details of artillery work are contained in appendices. Produced to a high standard: the portrait frontis. & other photos. reproduced on art paper. VG throughout & signed by author on title page, & presumably printed in a very small edition for family circulation. See illustrations on our website.   £275

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