THE BICKERSTETH DIARIES: 1914-1918.
Edited by John Bickersteth. Introduction by John Terraine. Foreword by Donald Coggan. Pp. xx+332, 8 plates, endpaper maps, appendix, notes, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse; Leo Cooper, London, 1995. First edition. *'Edited version of the eleven volumes and more than three thousand pages of the diarist's original work. Ella Bickersteth began to put it together for her six sons, because one of them was in Australia at the outbreak of war. By the spring of 1915, four of her boys were on active service. She persevered year after year with her task - and we are now presented with a vivid mixture of English social, military and family history from 1914-1918' [wrapper blurb]. Item #173174
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