1920 2 Vols History of the Norfolk Regiment 1685-1918

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original red cloth binding.

First edition.

Complete in two volumes. 

These volumes are undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at The National Archives Library. 

This is an authoritative regimental history tracing over two centuries of service by the Norfolk Regiment, from its origins as Henry Cornwall’s Regiment of Foot in 1685 through to the end of the First World War.

The first volume is illustrated with three full-page maps, numerous in-text sketches and additional maps, and twenty-three plates, while volume two is illustrated with two full-page maps, numerous in-text sketches and maps, and twenty-one plates. Collated, complete. 

Francis Loraine Petre (1852–1925) was a British military historian and member of the Foreign Office, best known for his detailed studies of the Napoleonic Wars.