 Author Name: WAUCHOPE, Major-General A.G. (edited by)
Title: A HISTORY OF THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS) IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918. Three Volumes
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London Medici Society 1925
Seller ID: 6489
All three volumes in very good condition. Vol. I Pub. 1925 - Vols 2 and 3 pub. in 1926. Only Vol. One is half leather, the other two volumes have navy blue cloth boards. Regiment's crest in gilt on front boards (see picture). Vol. One is half leather with five bands on spine. Gilt top edge. Very slightly rubbed at top spine edge and outer corner edges, a few spots of foxing on back endpapers, no foxing on rest of pages, which are in fine condition. Some pages are rough-cut at front edge. xviii, 370pp. With 14 illustrations and 20 maps (10 folding). Vol. Two - free endpapers are tanned, most pages are rough-cut at front and a few at bottom edge. xx, 386pp. With frontispiece, 13 illustrations and 10 maps ( 7 folding). Vol. Three - slightly bumped at spine ends and outer corner edges, some pages are uncut at front edge and some are rough-cut at front edge. xx, 362pp. With frontispiece and 8 illustrations, 11 maps (3 folding). Regiment's badge in gold on all front boards. All three volumes are very good tight copies and all have Battle Honours. A record of the Black Watch during the Great War shows how some thirty thousand men served in the Regiment in France, Belgium and Salonica, in Palestine and Mesopotamia, of whom eight thousand were killed and over twenty thousand were wounded. (All three volumes are (10"h x 6½"w) (26cms x 16.5cms) approx.
Military Black Watch Royal Highlanders Great War World War One WWI Battle Honours Battles Somme Passchndaele Germans Arras trench warfare battalions Ypres France Marne history Great War
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