HAMILTON, Ernest W. The first Seven Division. Being a detailed account of the fighting from Mons to Ypres … Second Edition. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1916.
8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. vi, [2], 312, 24 (publisher's catalogue), four maps (one large folding in four colours); cloth a little rubbed, offsetting from endpapers, light spotting internally, the maps with darkened margins; ownership stamp to front paste-down; a good copy.
'Even today it is not to be despised, for it contains many episodes and recollections not to be found in later histories and is written with force and point' (Falls, p. 38). 'Undoptedly the most important book that has as yet been attempted on the activities of the British Expeditionary Forces during the first three months of the war, and will doubtless continue to hold its place as a work of great historical value' (review on p. 14 in the catalogue).
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