Open House in Flanders 1914-1918
DE LA GRANGE, Baroness Ernest
Chateua de la Motte au Bois. Translated from the unpublished French by Melanie Lind. With an Introduction by Field Marshal Allenby.
NEAR FINE COPY
Published: John Murray, [1929]
Stock code: 36277
Price: £44.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 16 plates and full-page map; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Baroness de la Grange, affectionately known as 'Mother of the British Army', remained hostess throughout the duration of the war. Numerous British and Commonwealth units were headquartered there, including Allenby and 1 ANZAC. 'The lady's pluck, intelligence and benevolence adds to the quality of the book' (Falls, awarding a star). Falls, p.201.