The Luck To Survive: A Family Experience Of Disaster And War 1912-1920 (FINE COPY OF SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER) Tapa dura -

South Croydon, Surrey: Gordons Fine/Fine. First edition in d/w. Profusely illustrated with photographs, line-drawings and maps. The experiences of branches of inter-related families, (including Barkworth/Pease; Draffin/Blundell; Bailey/Mackillop families), and their abilities to survive disaster and the First World War. The disaster is the sinking of RMS 'Titanic'. The majority of the book deals with experiences of the First World War covering people of the infantry, field artillery and field engineer units; on fronts as varied as Flanders to Gallipoli, Salonica to the Carpathions, and Egypt to Palestine. These accounts have been augmented and supplemented with diaries, letters, and photographs, and war diaries of their battalions, batteries, brigades and divisions and, from newspapers, memoirs, and campaign accounts and regimental histories. With Bibliography. A fine copy, in a fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition. NO inscriptions, underlining or highlighting. . First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine.