SUTTON (F.A., MC)
One-Arm Sutton.
1st Ed., viii+297pp., 15 plates, ep maps. Heinemann.
1933
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Remarkable character ed. at Eton & London University, railway pioneer in Argentina then served RE 1914-19, losing his arm at Gallipoli, MC, inventor & tester of bombs in UK, France & America then in Siberia during the Russian Civil War, apparently acquired the rights to the Stokes Bomb & spent the '20s organising arsenals for Chinese warlords with rank of Major-General. Orig. dec. grey cloth, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£45
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