The Supreme Command 1914-1918
HANKEY, Lord
NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Allen & Unwin, [1961]
Stock code: 51983
Price: £160.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, plates, maps and tables; navy coarse-grain cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on rear panels and chafed at extremities.
With personal bookplate on front free endpaper of both volumes. Hankey served successively as Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, of the Cabinet, the War Cabinet and Imperial War Cabinet. A unique account of the coordination of military and naval policy during the Great War. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.215; Enser, p.340.