MARTEL ((Lt.-Gen. Sir Gifford LeQ., KCB, KBE, DSO, MC)
In the Wake of the Tank: The First Fifteen Years of Mechanisation in the British Army.
1st Ed., xii+259pp., 26 plates, fldg. chart of tank specs. & capabilities. VG in dw. Sifton Praed.
1931
#65508
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Brigade Major of Heavy Branch MGC & at Tank Corps HQ in France in 1917-18 as a GSO II. Contains much on experimental work in the 1920s. Excellent study written with an engineer's eye for mechanical detail. Orig. brown cloth, blocked black (as always), VG in dw with photo. of a Vickers Tank, Mk. II, to front (dw. neatly renovated & VG thus). Rare in dw. See illustrations on our website.
£165
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