The Secret War, 1914-1918
by Tompkins, Stuart Ramsay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0919203027
- ISBN 13
- 9780919203020
- Seller
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North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
The Secret War, 1914-1918, Tompkins, Stuart Ramsay. Published by Morriss Publishing Ltd., Victoria, BC, 1981. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 71pp. Postcard commemorating Vimy Ridge laid in. Aua blue coated boards with gilt titles front and spine; published without a jacket. Light rubbing to spine edges and corners, contents in unread condition.
The Secret war is a criticism of the "behind-the-lines development", attempts by Great Britain and her allies to destabilize the alliances that Germany formed during the First World War. Stuart Ramsay Tompkins served as a soldier in the First World War including at Vimy Ridge; his war time letters to his wife were published as A Canadian's Road to Russia, Letters From the Great War Decade.
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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4474
- Title
- The Secret War, 1914-1918
- Author
- Tompkins, Stuart Ramsay
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0919203027
- ISBN 13
- 9780919203020
- Publisher
- Morriss Pub
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- This edition first published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART, HISTORY AND POLITICS, ART; HISTORY AND POLITICS, MILITARY;
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