TurnerDonovan Military Books Catalogue 176 “Contalmaison” September 2021 TurnerDonovan Military Books Catalogue No. 176 “Contalmaison” - September 2021 I have pleasure in presenting another excellent catalogue of new stock including interesting and scarce works in all sections. There is a fairly wide-ranging selection of works on South African history and campaigns, alongside the customary offerings of military memoirs, histories, regimental accounts &c. We are a leading dealers in rare and second hand books on British military history from around 1800 to 1945. the Great War, 1914-1918, has always been our speciality and we hold extensive stocks of regimental and divisional histories, official histories, standard works, memoirs, Rolls of Honour, Army Lists and so forth. A further selection of stock can be viewed on our fully searchable website www.turnerdonovan.com If you are not already on our mailing list and wish to receive our catalogue and periodical, The TurnerDonovan Telegraph, please click here: Join Our Mailing List How to Order Click on the title or the image of the item(s) you wish to order. This will take you to the item on our website where, if the item is still available, you can add it to your cart. Please provide all details, including card details, in the order form. We will confirm your order as soon as possible. We will add postage at cost when processing your order. Or Telephone: 01273-566230 Or Email: [email protected] Catalogue “Contalmaison” © TurnerDonovan Military Books 2021 Turner Donovan Military Books Flat 1, 22 Florence Road Brighton BN1 6DJ 2 Contents To go straight to the subject of your choice simply click on the page number of the relevant section below. Alternatively you can scroll through from the beginning to the end. When you are viewing a book in this catalogue you can click on the image or the title to be taken straight to our website, where in some cases you will find further images. You can add the item to your basket if it is still available. If the item has already been sold you will see a notice to that effect. India 4 Indian Army Regimental History 7 Africa 9 Other Campaigns and Wars 19 Training Manuals and Works of Instruction 20 The First World War: General History and Memoirs 21 Official History 1914-1918 39 Trench Maps 1914-1918 41 The Second World War 42 Official History 1939-1945 46 Regimental History 47 Rolls of Honour 1914-1918 51 Miscellaneous 52 Terms and Conditions 53 3 India 1. CHEVENIX TRENCH (Charles) The Indian Army 4. HODSON (Rev. G.H.) Ed. Twelve Years of a & The King's Enemies 1900-1947. Soldier's Life in India: Being Extracts from the 1st Ed., 312pp., 50 illus., 20 maps Letters of the Late Major W.S.R. Hodson... Including & plans. VG in dw. T&H. 1988 A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Delhi & Capture The Indian Army in WW1 (Western of the King & Princes. Front, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, 1st Ed., xix+365pp., portrait frontis. Palestine &c.) & WW2 (Eritrea, Parker. 1859 North Africa, Italy & Far East). Commandant of Hodson's Horse, Skilful account. Author served with killed at Lucknow, who had played the Indian Cavalry inc. NWF & Italy in decisive & controversial role in the WW2. VG in dw. [Ref: 62883] £15 arrest of Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, & the execution of his sons. There were a number of editions, later ones including refutations of various 2. EDWARDS (William, BCS) Personal Adventures charges against Hodson made by during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Bosworth Smith. This edition is scarce Futtehghur, & Oude. & includes a portrait not included in some later versions. 4th Ed, revised, iv+206pp. Smith, Orig. red cloth, gilt, boards somewhat stained, frontis. Elder. 1859 also, generally VG & inscribed: From the Editor to Sir Atmospheric account of flight from James Outram. [Ref: 62964] £50 mutineers (& reliance on loyal Indians) by magistrate of the Budaon 5. MEEK (Rev. Robert) The Martyr of Allahabad. district of Rohilcund. Orig. red cloth, Memorials of Ensign Arthur Marcus Hill Cheek, of blindstamped & gilt, minor wear, VG. the Sixth Native Bengal Infantry, Murdered by the [Ref: 62963] £165 Sepoys at Allahabad. 4th Thousand, with Additions, [vii]+86pp., portrait frontis. Nisbet & Co. 1858 Memoir of a sixteen-year-old 3. GRIMWOOD (Ethel St. Clair) My Three Years in subaltern killed by mutineers. Manipur & Escape from the Recent Mutiny. Includes account of Mutiny 1st. Ed., xiv+321pp., portrait frontis., 8 events at Allahabad, letters of plates. Bentley. 1891 condolence &c. Raugh 6862. Ladendorf 176 ("A Author's husband was Political Agent collection of material on the Mutiny at Allahabad, at Manipur, north-east India near the particularly concerning the fate of Ensign Cheek.") Burmese border (state capital Imphal), Modern brown cloth, gilt to sp., VG ex-NAM. Unlovely but where he was murdered in the scarce. [Ref: 62956] £65 uprising there in 1891 which resulted in a brief Indian Army campaign to 6. PINCOTT (Frederic) Analytical Index to Sir John suppress the dissidents. Interesting W. Kaye's History of the Sepoy War & Col. G.B. account of life in the region. Orig. blue Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny. (Combined cloth, bevelled boards, little worn, in One Volume). generally VG. [Ref: 62976] £35 1st Ed., iv+201pp. W.H. Allen & Co. 1880 The invaluable adjunct to Kaye & Malleson's important six Volume history of the Indian Mutiny. Contemp. qtr. red morocco, gilt, red cloth covd. boards, sp. sl. rubbed o/w VG. [Ref: 62970] £65 4 7. [Second Afghan War, 1880] The Royal Engineer 8. SHEPHERD (J.W.) A Personal Narrative of the Journal. 1880. Seven issues: 1/1/80; 1/3/80; 1/6/80; Outbreak & Massacre at Cawnpore, During the 1/9/80; 1/10/80; 1/11/80 & 1/12/80. Sepoy Revolt of 1857... And in Connection Therewith 140pp. in all, with around 10 is Now Added England's Great Mission to India, in maps & sketches. Three Parts. Brompton: Woolley & Son. 2nd Ed., revised & corrected, Contemp. [ii]+vi+161+70+xxxixpp., engraved The RE Journal was a frontis., 4 sketch maps (2 fldg.). monthly publication which Lucknow: Printed at the London commenced in 1870 & Printing Press, by R. Craven. 1879 ceased in 1904 (when a By "One of the Survivors of the New Series was started). Garrison Under Major-General Sir Until the 1904 it was a Hugh Massy Wheeler, KCB." The "private newspaper" & author was a Eurasian clerk of the became the official Corps Cawnpore commissariat who left the organ only with the New cantonment as a spy on 24th May Series. Alongside, until 1857 & was later asked to prepare a 1905, the Corps published report for the Commissary General. While he was not its own Professional present at events towards the end of the siege, he was Papers, which in that year became incorporated in the evidently able to question witnesses. His account was new RE Journal. The original organ contained reports on first published in 1857 in several newspapers & then in active operations during the period of the issues, rolls & several revised editions, with, at the end, a roll of all the postings of officers, obituaries, reports from various Europeans & loyal Indians killed at Cawnpore. All posts, extracts from both the British & Indian Gazettes, versions are rarely seen. Ladendorf 375. Raugh #2567 &c. Many contained excellent loosely inserted maps/ at p.246. Contemp. half red cloth, gilt, marbled paper plans/sketches relating to the content of the issue. The covd. boards, lacking 6 plates (a tipped-in printed note sequence here offered (seven of the 12 issues for 1880) explains that it was not possible to provide the plates in contains much material on the Second Afghan War & RE all copies of this edition as the artist had "failed in his operations connected therewith, including excellent engagement" to provide enough plates. Even so, it maps & sketches of Kojak Roads; Country round Kabul; should have some plates.), worn title page trimmed & plan of City of Kandahar; map of Country round laid down of ffep., sound thus & commensurately priced. Kandahar; Halmand operations in July 1880 & sketch of [Ref: 62966] £145 the action at Maiwand, July 1880. Contents include Diary of Major Le Mesurier RE, Brigade Major with the Quetta 9. STILES (Richard G.M.) The Story of the India Column; accounts of Battle of Kushk-I-Nahud & other General Service Medal 1908-1935. operations near Kandahar; Looting in Afghanistan; 1st Ed., orig. dec. limp wraps., Operations at the Halmand & Battle of Maiwand. These [iv]+158pp., A4 format, 12 issues also include matter re Russo-Turkish War, maps. Knighton, Powys: operations in Naga Hills, &c. These issues loose, rather Terence Wise. 1992 worn, but excellent source material on 2nd Afghan War Describes the various with useful maps & sketches. [Ref: 62921] £150 campaigns & claps awrded for this medal inc. NWF 1908, Abor 1911-12, Afghanistan 1919, Mahsud & Waziristan 1919-21, Malabar 1921-22, Waziristan 1921-24 & 1925, Burma 1930-32, Mohmand 1933 & NWF 1935. Includes various orders of battle, casualty returns &c. VG. [Ref: 62797] £20 5 10. THOMSON (Capt. Mowbray) The Story of 11. WIMBERLEY (Capt. Douglas, sometime Lt. & Cawnpore. Adjt., 79th) Some Account of the Part Taken by The 1st Ed., vii+262pp., 3 plates., fldg. 79th Regiment or Cameron Highlanders in the Indian plan. Bentley. 1859 Mutiny Campaign of 1858. Fine personal account of the 1st Ed., [iv]+82pp., fldg. map in siege & subsequent escape of end-pocket (plan of Lucknow). one of the four British officers who Printed at the Northern Chronicle got away from the massacre at Office, Inverness. 1891 Cawnpore, & hence the standard A very useful account including the account of events.