1924-27 Britain's Sea-Soldiers

Description

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

The first edition.

Uncommon to see complete in four volumes, including the scarce map volume.

Bound by Wood & Sloane, Liverpool.

Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and forty-eight monochrome plates. 

Volume II illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and forty-six monochrome plates. 

Volume III illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-seven monochrome plates, and in-text plans. 

The scarce map volume contains a total of seven large folding maps. 

Collated, complete.

An in-depth look into the activities of the Royal Navy during their long history, an important and comprehensive study on the Royal Marines and their predecessors. 

Including extensive studies on the Napoleonic Wars, the heyday of the British Navy. 

The third volume focuses solely on the battles and victories of the Royal Marines during the First World War and immediate aftermath.


By Colonels Cyril Field and H. E. Blumberg. Blumberg was a Royal Marines officer, and the Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

Volumes I and II with a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty.