The Second Great War. A Standard History
( Second World War ) ( WWII ) HAMMERTON, ed., Sir John
Edited by Sir John Hammerton. Military Editor Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Gwynn.
SPLENDID SET IN PUBLISHER'S DE LUXE BINDING
Published: Amalgamated Press, [1939-47]
Stock code: 50664
Price: £340.00
8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in red and black, and many thousands of photographs and maps (many coloured and many double-page) in the text; publisher's half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt backs, red sprinkled edges, lower board of one volume mildly age-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean, crisp set in publisher's de luxe binding.
THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WITH THOUSANDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS (MANY NOT PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE) FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF OFFICIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOURCES. Crisp set of the largest of the three great published British photographic records of WWII (the others being Hutchinson's 'Pictorial History' and Odhams' 'The War in Pictures'). This massive compilation first appeared as 'The War Illustrated', published in 255 parts beginning with Issue I (16 September 1939) and concluding with Issue 255 (11 April 1947). The series was issued first fortnightly, then monthly (due to the shortage of paper), then again fortnightly in the final year. The partwork was then revised and reset with continuous pagination in eight volumes as here and subsequently reissued by AP. COMPLETE SETS IN THE DE LUXE BINDING ARE VERY SCARCE.