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Graves C.

The Thin Red Lines. [With an Epilogue by Sir Edward Wilshaw]. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER

Standard Art Book Co., 1946

39,10 €

Island Books

(Devon, Royaume-Uni)

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Détails

Année
1946
Auteur
Graves C.
Éditeurs
Standard Art Book Co.
Thème
mstock, military, ww2, british army, home front, cable, wireless, porthcurno, c. graves, military, wwii, general, thin, red, lines
Langues
Anglais

Description

8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 33 plates on 26 and endpapers maps in red and blue; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges. The first published record of the ten thousand men and women working in more than seventy countries and on the high seas who maintained the life-lines of British and Commonwealth communications throughout WWII. The 355,000-mile global system was based on the Cable & Wireless network; Wilshaw was Chairman during six years of conflict. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION