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    By W. T. Massey
    London   Constable and Company Ltd
    9" by 6" x, 295 pp.
    A first edition of the firsthand account of General Allenby’s 1917 campaign in Palestine, written by war correspondent W. T. Massey and detailing the British conquest of Jerusalem during the First World War, illustrated with fold-out maps and plates.
    By W. T. Massey

    1919 How Jerusalem Was Won: Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine

    London   Constable and Company Ltd
    9" by 6" x, 295 pp.
    A first edition of the firsthand account of General Allenby’s 1917 campaign in Palestine, written by war correspondent W. T. Massey and detailing the British conquest of Jerusalem during the First World War, illustrated with fold-out maps and plates.
    £69.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 984H12
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    Description

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

    In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. 

    First edition.

    Illustrated with four maps, two of which are fold-out, and nineteen double sided monochrome plates and a monochrome frontispiece. Collated, complete. 

    This is a contemporary first-hand account of the British conquest of Jerusalem during the First World War.

    Written by William Thomas Massey (1864–1934), the official war correspondent attached to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, the book provides a detailed chronicle of General Edmund Allenby’s 1917 campaign in Palestine, culminating in the capture of Jerusalem from Ottoman control.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Spine slightly faded. The odd very minor handling mark to boards. Bookplate of Francis E. B. Witts to front paste down. Library stamp and annotation to front paste down and library stamp to rear paste down. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Library stamp to verso of title page.

    Very Good

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