Item #155138 TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF MOLTKE'S STRATEGY, Fritz Hoenig.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF MOLTKE'S STRATEGY,

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF MOLTKE'S STRATEGY,

displayed and explained from the Battles of Gravelotte and St. Privat on the 18th of August 1870. The first detailed account of the struggle of the First Army in the Mance Ravine. Translated by Colonel N. L. Walford. Pp. x+184, 2 folding maps at end, short marginal tear from hinge in map 2; roy. 8vo; half brown calf, spine with raised bands and red and green gilt titling labels, the leather marked and frayed at head and tail of spine and fore-corners, marbled papered boards, rubbed, edges worn; speckled edges; pastedowns marked, leaves lightly buckled, some light soiling and foxing, with last few leaves lightly water stained; Royal Artillery Institution Printing House, Woolwich, 1895. First edition in English. *With the bookplate of the Library of the Royal Artillery Institution on upper pastedown and their stamp on several leaves; later from the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label also on upper pastedown. Item #155138

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