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WILLIAMS-ELLIS (Major Clough, MC, & A.)
The Tank Corps.
Intro. by Maj.-Gen. H.J. Elles, CB, DSO. 1st Ed. 421pp., portrait frontis. (Hugh Elles), 35 photos., several diagrams, fldg. map. Country Life.
1919
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Valuable early history of the Corps: "...a short but clear history of the tank from the time of its conception in the minds of numerous inventors to the end of the War. Major Williams-Ellis reaches the conclusion that, 'every other factor being cancelled out, the fact that the French & the English possessed tanks & the Germans did not was just enough to win the last war for the Allies." - Falls. Neatly complements other contemp. histories & memoirs. Orig. rust cloth with titles in enamelled panels, somewhat rubbed, generally VG with ink ownership inscrip. "Ex War Library Henry Williamson ii Skirr Cottage Georgeham N. Devon November 1925" alongside a naiive rendering of HW's "Wise Owl" colophon. A number of passages in the Cambrai chapter underlined in red ink, together with one or two marginal notes. See illustration on our website.
£145
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