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TOWNSHEND, Major General Sir Charles V. F.
My Campaign in Mesopotamia.
Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1920
Stock code: 32702
Price: £175 Currency Conversion
First Edition, First Impression of the most important early work on the subject. Townshend had been commander of the force taken captive near Kut in which town the army was besieged. At one stage T. E. Lawrence was dispatched to buy their freedom with a colossal bag of gold which he apparently and rather unfortunately lost somewhere. Townshend and his force survived nonetheless. Scarce in first edition.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With a portrait frontispiece and fifteen maps and plans. Text a little thumbed in places, one map lightly creased in folding, ownership inscription to half title page, bookplate to front free endpaper, spine somewhat faded and chipped at the head. A very good copy however of a book produced under severe postwar constraints.
