MARLBOROUGH: Hero of Blenheim.
Foreword by Major General Julian Thompson. Pp. 256(last blank), 7 plates (one double page), text maps (some full page), appendix, sources consulted, notes, index; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little foxing (heavy on top edges of leaves); Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004. First edition. *'John Churchill was born in 1650, the sone of a defeated Cavalier captain, in a household which had been ravaged and rendered almost destituted by the English Civil war. Yet well before his death in 1722 he was among the richest men in the country, with a dukedom, a palace and the foreign title of prince to his name' [wrapper blurb]. Item #180037
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