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HERBERT (Hon. Aubrey)
Mons, Anzac & Kut.
1st Imp. of 2nd Ed., 270pp., 4 maps. Hutchinson.
1930
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At Mons with the Irish Guards & an intelligence officer in the Dardanelles, present at the first landing, fierce fighting at Suvla Bay & as a Turkish speaker was involved in armistice with the Turks to bury the dead. Later in Kut Relief Force. Falls (awarding a rare two star accolade) states: "A delightful book, one of the minor classics of the War, by a most remarkable personality... He gives us a most graphic account of the Retreat from Mons... His pictures of Egypt during the days when the Suez canal was threatened by Turkish raiders & of Gallipoli have the same simplicity & nervous force. His final section deals with Mesopotamia, where he had an extremely interesting mission to the Turks under a white flag after the fall of Kut & a long interview with the Army Commander, Khalil Pasha." The 1st Ed. of 1919 was anonymous, this 1930 re-issue identifies the author, who died in 1923, & contains an 18pp. memoir of him by Desmond McCarthy. Orig. red cloth, titled in black, covers creased/worn, generally VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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