Original cloth, dust-jacket designed by Paul Nash; browning to title page, dust-jacket with large tape-burns to inside front flap and rear panel, small chip to spine, but overall very good.
Aldington (Richard) Death of a Hero
£120
Chatto & Windus, London, 1929
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London, John Murray, 1924
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A scarce work in the original dust-jacket; an impressive autobiographical study by a man of equally impressive military standing, with a career spanning almost 35 years and seeing action in India, Africa and Sudan, as well as service in New Zealand and Cyprus. The foreword is by Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, a divisive figure in military history, garnering the unfavourable, and possibly unfair, moniker 'The Butcher of the Somme' for his strategic role in WW1.