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Rollcall. The Delville Wood Story
by Uys, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0958317313
- ISBN 13
- 9780958317313
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Johannesburg: Uys Publishers, 1991) 0958317313. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xvi + 302, incl. index; contemporary photographs and artwork; maps. Dustwrapper partially sunned; merest trace of foxing to edges and endpapers. Very good condition. "On 20 July, 1916, when Lieut-Col Frank Thackeray, two wounded officers and 140 bone-weary men were relieved, after fighting for six days and five nights, they marched from the shattered Delville Wood into history - and a legend was born. ... The personal information and human tales, together with extensive appendices, containing the names of over 4000 men, makes this book unique and a valuable source of reference." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9483
- Title
- Rollcall. The Delville Wood Story
- Author
- Uys, Ian
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0958317313
- ISBN 13
- 9780958317313
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: Uys Publishers, 1991) 0958317313
- Place of Publication
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- This edition first published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Military History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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