HELL'S FOUNDATIONS. A Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli by MOORHOUSE, Geoffrey

Hodder Education Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London, Great Britain: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. First Edition . Buckram. Very Good++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. 8vo. 256 pages including detailed index and numerous good black and white photographic plates. Good end paper maps. This is a stirring account of the Gallipoli campaign and the massive contribution the Lancashire Fusiliers made. It also deals with the effect this had on the small Lancashire town of Bury which is the home of the Lancashire Fusiliers (splendid new museum to the Fusiliers in the town centre - well worth a visit). In original olive green cloth gilt binding. Very Good++ in Very Good++ attractive pictorial dust wrapper. Loosely inserted is a good whole page newspaper article on the author. Quite a substantial book. MAY REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE OUTSIDE UK.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. None. Hardback. Good. Outline:- Publisher`s Synopsis Australians New Zealanders Indians the French and the Turks all have reason to remember Gallipoli but in this book the author concentrates on its bitter effects on the small mill town of Bury in Lancashire which sacrificed 1600 men a large proportion of its youth in the campaign. The "Six VCs Before Breakfast" won by the Fusiliers in the Dardanelles were no author shows how the memory of Gallipoli has been revered and glorified in the town ever since especially in a public commemoration comparable to Anzac Day on the other side of the world. Yet deep in the local psyche the scars refused to heal. Why else did recruitment to the regiment fall far behind that in other Lancashire towns in the approach to World War II?;Geoffrey Moorhouse himself a Lancastrian whose grandfather served in the Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli offers a study of war and its effect.-> the publisher of this HARDBACK book is Hodder & Stoughton The… Read More

UK: Hodder & Stoughton. Good. Hardcover. 1992. pp 256 .

London: Hodder, 1992 ex-library, DW has plastic cover taped to the reverse of the wrapper with some adhesive shadows showing through to the front, stamps, tape stain and library marks to map front end paper, verso of TP has stamp, discrete stamps at foot of some pages. 256pp + plates illustrated with black and white photographs, maps of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles on endpapers. More than 1600 from three local battalions of the Fusiliers failed to return in 1915. In Depth Study of the Lancashire Fusiliers in the Gallipoli campaign and its subsequent effect on the regiment's home town, Bury. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0340430443 . Green Boards with bright gilt titling to spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket which is not price-clipped but does have some very slight smudging to the rear covers which can only be seen if held up to the light. The page fore-edes are lightly tanned, otherwise there are No Inscriptions or other Marks. (16) + 256 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs and map endpapers. Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Sources; Index. Overall, this is an Excellent, Clean, Tight and Bright, 'Fine' copy." Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, the French and the Turks all have reason to remember Gallipoli, but in this book the author concentrates on its bitter effects on the small mill town of Bury in Lancashire." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. 1st edition. Fine. octavo. dust jacket xiv + 256pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, The Town of Bury in Lancashire which lost 1816 dead in Gallipoli alone