Book Details
| Author: | Hitchcock, Captain F.C.: |
| Title: | "Stand To" - A Diary of the Trenches 1915-18. |
| Published: | London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd., 1937. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 20 - Military |
| Description: | First edition. By Captain F.C. Hitchcock - Late 2nd Battalion The Leinster Regiment. "Dedicated to the Memory of my Regiment The Leinsters, Disbanded 1922". With a Preface by Major-General Sir John Capper. 358 pp + 16 pp ads. With 25 photographic illustrations, 24 sketches in text & 3 folding maps. A narrative of the day-to-day life of a Subaltern on the Western Front in the First World War. "The 2nd Leinsters, one of those very fine South Irish regiments, was indeed a battalion to which any man might be proud to have belonged". The headquarters of the 2nd Leinsters was at Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Text clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on fep. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt emblem of The Leinsters on bottom corner of front board. Top and bottom of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper. |
| Book Number: | #6849 |
| Price: | € 490.00 |
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