We Hope to Get Word Tomorrow: The Garvin Family Letters, 1914-1916 Tapa dura - 2009

Hardback. Very Good.

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Frontline. New in New dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. New hardback copies at a reduced price. ; Previously unpublished letters from the First World War. The exchanges of letters between a young subaltern on the Western Front, Gerald Garvin, and his mother and father at home in London. Illustrated. ; 280 pages .

Frontline Books, 2009. 9781848325456. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (stain on upper cover, not price clipped). Pp. xviii + 280, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions).

This fascinating collection of letters traces the exchanges between a young subaltern on the front, Gerard 'Ged' Garvin, and his mother and father at home. Correspondence was eagerly awaited by all. Ged savoured letters home like 'Jim Hawkins trickling the doubloons through his fingers'. Equally, his mother and father at home were always fearful that each letter they received would be the last. In a letter J. L. Garvin sent to his son 21 July 1916 he wrote: 'Of course there's no fresh letter from you and we didn't expect it. But we hope, all the same, to get word tomorrow ...' Ged was killed the very next day. He was just twenty years old.Few editions of First World War letters include those from home as well as from the front. That Ged's father was J. L. Garvin (1868-1947) - editor of The Observer and an important figure in pre-war politics and society - adds a further dimension to this fascinating collection. During the war J. L. Garvin was in almost daily contact with those at the head of political… Leer más

UK: Frontline Books. 280pp., b/w plates & maps. Both book and dustwrapper in excellent condition. . As New. Hardcover. 2009.

London: Frontline Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 1848325452 . Foreword by Hew Strachan, With photographic illustrations, maps, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; 240 x 160mm; xviii, 280 pages .

Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2009. Hardcover. New. 280 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches.

Frontline Books, 2010-03-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!