Britannia Sickens - Sir Arthur Wellesley and the Convention of Cintra Tapa dura - 1970

United Kingdom: Leo Cooper Ltd. 208 pages. Free front end paper has been removed. Small private name stamp on title page. Clean hardback with a slightly torn dust jacket. Britannia Sickens - Sir Arthur Wellesley and the Convention of Cintra . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1970.

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Leo Cooper, 1970 Book. Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Well-researched account of events during the Peninsula War in the early 19th century. 208pp with index, illustrated with 8 black and white photographs and a map. Black lettering to spine. Slight bumping to top corners, small blemish to endpaper and minor marking to edges, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has slight edgewear and mark left by label, otherwise good..

Leo Cooper, 1970. 1st edition. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 208pp, 4pp b/w plates, 3 b/w maps, index, fine copy in a near fine dustjacket. After Wellesley's victory at the Battle of Vimeiro he lost his command. The book explores the system of military appointments at the time & speculates what might have been had Wellesley been able to exploit his victory to the full.

Leo Cooper Ltd, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket, b&w illustrations, 208pp.

London England: Leo Cooper. Very Good/Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0850520479 Harback Hardback. Price clipped to D/J. Deprived of his command after the battle of Vimeiro, Sir Arthur Wellesley was forced to stand helplessly by while the laurels of victory were snatched from his hand. The unbelievably inept diplomacy of Sir Hew Dalrymple and Sir Harry Burrard, the ageing commanders sent to to supersede 'so young a Lieutenant-General', as the Duke of York described Wellesley, is a terrible indictment of the system of military appointments at the time, and one is bound to speculate upon what would have been the course of European history if Wellesley had been permitted to exploit his victory to the full. In this book, the author does far more that to tell the story of a higherto scantily-recorded episode in the early career of the Duke of Wellington. The all-too-familiar human trafedy of a brilliant young man thwarted by the… Leer más

Pen & Sword Books Limited. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Leo Cooper Ltd, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 8x5x1. Slight edge wear to the dust jacket.

London. Leo Cooper. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1970. 21.5cm, 208p., 8 illustrations, bibliography, index, green cloth, fine in fine jacket (s7.3).

Leo Cooper Ltd, 1970. Hardcover. Good.