CARVER, Sir Michael [Ed.]
The War Lords
London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., 1976
8vo., specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in full black morocco, embossed with a central skull and wreath device to the upper board, single-ruled in gilt to upper covers and along spine; with five raised bands, lettered in gilt direct; and with three gilt devices in compartments and publisher’s device to foot; all edges gilt; gilt ruled turn-ins; grey watered silk endpapers and decorative headbands; pp. [xv], x-xvi, [i], 2-624, [iv]; with eight double-sided pages of black and white photographs a couple of tiny scratches to the front board, else fine, housed in the original cloth-lined slipcase.
Limited edition, one of just 5 copies reserved by the publishers for fine binding by Zaehnsdorf. This copy no. 1 for Dr W. B. Young, and presented to him Christmas 1977.
A collection of short biographies taking as their subjects forty-three of the most dominant military commanders of the 20th century, including among them Douglas Haig, Paul von Hindenburg, Georgii Zhukov, Erwin Rommel, Louis Mountbatten, Bernard L. Montgomery and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Covering both World Wars, Carver includes both famous figures and lesser-known subjects, and writes in his introduction that his choices were based upon “those who were perhaps more truly ‘war lords’ in that they directed policy at the highest level…the man should have exercised command of a considerable force - land, sea or air.”
Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver (1915–2001) was born during the First World War to a British Army officer, and was educated at Sandhurst before himself being commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Tank Corps of the British Army in 1935. In 1938 he became a lieutenant and was posted to Egypt, where he began the Second World War before serving in several of the most critical battles of the North African campaign as part of the XXX Corps. Awarded the Military Cross in September 1942, he was just 27 years old when he achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel, and subsequently chief of staff, of the 7th Armoured Division. Engaged in combat in North Africa for the rest of the war, he participated in the Second Battle of El Alamein and was promoted to the rank of brigadier, making him the youngest of his rank in the British Army at the time. The War Lords followed three prior pieces of literature, Second to None, on the cavalry regiment of the Royal Scots Greys, Tobruk on the 1941 siege of the same name, and El Alamein, an account of the battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein.
Rare indeed, in a fabulous binding.
CARVER, Sir Michael [Ed.]
The War Lords
London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., 1976
8vo., specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in full black morocco, embossed with a central skull and wreath device to the upper board, single-ruled in gilt to upper covers and along spine; with five raised bands, lettered in gilt direct; and with three gilt devices in compartments and publisher’s device to foot; all edges gilt; gilt ruled turn-ins; grey watered silk endpapers and decorative headbands; pp. [xv], x-xvi, [i], 2-624, [iv]; with eight double-sided pages of black and white photographs a couple of tiny scratches to the front board, else fine, housed in the original cloth-lined slipcase.
Limited edition, one of just 5 copies reserved by the publishers for fine binding by Zaehnsdorf. This copy no. 1 for Dr W. B. Young, and presented to him Christmas 1977.
A collection of short biographies taking as their subjects forty-three of the most dominant military commanders of the 20th century, including among them Douglas Haig, Paul von Hindenburg, Georgii Zhukov, Erwin Rommel, Louis Mountbatten, Bernard L. Montgomery and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Covering both World Wars, Carver includes both famous figures and lesser-known subjects, and writes in his introduction that his choices were based upon “those who were perhaps more truly ‘war lords’ in that they directed policy at the highest level…the man should have exercised command of a considerable force - land, sea or air.”
Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver (1915–2001) was born during the First World War to a British Army officer, and was educated at Sandhurst before himself being commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Tank Corps of the British Army in 1935. In 1938 he became a lieutenant and was posted to Egypt, where he began the Second World War before serving in several of the most critical battles of the North African campaign as part of the XXX Corps. Awarded the Military Cross in September 1942, he was just 27 years old when he achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel, and subsequently chief of staff, of the 7th Armoured Division. Engaged in combat in North Africa for the rest of the war, he participated in the Second Battle of El Alamein and was promoted to the rank of brigadier, making him the youngest of his rank in the British Army at the time. The War Lords followed three prior pieces of literature, Second to None, on the cavalry regiment of the Royal Scots Greys, Tobruk on the 1941 siege of the same name, and El Alamein, an account of the battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein.
Rare indeed, in a fabulous binding.
