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Lunt, James. SCARLET LANCER.
Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1964, first edition.
223 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates, maps. "John Luard was a typical product of his age, the early nineteenth century. Of moderate means, some intelligence and much courage, he made a career as an officer in an army wher e squalor and opulence, bumbledom and bravery, ignorance and professionalism were not considered strange bedfellows. This was an army in which a twenty-four-year-old Arthur Wellesley could buy a colonelcy. John Luard was forty-eight before he b o u g ht his, but then Luard was no Wellesley. Indeed he would probably now be forgotten by all but a few ardent bibliophiles (for he was author and artist) had he not written the diary which forms the backbone of this remarkable book. This, then, i s th e story of a man and of a period: the period of the Napoleonic wars, of Vittoria and the rape of King Joseph's silver chamber-pot, of Waterloo, and of the disastrous Afghan episode. Round the energetic officer of the 16th, The Queen's Lance rs (' The Scarlets') James Lunt has spun his tale, drawing widely on contemporary sources and later studies to give depth to his portrait. Here intermingled with Luard's day-to-day commentaries and thoughts are the unforgettable aroma of dung-smok e a nd jasm ine blossom on the plains of India; the charge at Waterloo; the devotion of the womenfolk on the battlefield; the looting and the deaths; the senility of the leaders; incidents of sadness and of humour. (It) is a magnificent evocation a nd a bo ok wh ich enriches our understanding of that curiously uneven fifty years of history." Previous owner's small stamp at top of both front endpapers. Dust jacket has been price clipped, has two tiny edge tears, light edge wear/wrinkling, li ght r ubbi ng - m ainly on rear panel, slight browning and foxing on spine, tiny stain on spine. Very Good+/Very Good-
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Lunt, James. Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S REGIMENT (WEST RIDING) (THE 33rd/76th REGIMENT OF FOOT). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.
Leo Cooper, London, 1971, first edition.
116 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0850520673 B&w photographs, reproductions, music for Regimental March. "The appearance of a young ensign in the 33rd Regiment of Foot in the year 1787 attracted little notice at the time. T he young ensign's name was Arthur Wellesley. The 33rd had come into being eighty-five years earlier, and had already been thoroughly 'blooded'; at Almanza in 1707 they had been practically cut to pieces; then followed Dettingen, Fontenoy and the Ja cobite Rising of 1745. Wellesley's promotion was meteoric, and by 1793 he was in command of the Regiment. In 1853 the 33rd became the only regiment of the British Army to be named after a subject not of Royal blood - the Duke of Wellington's Regim ent. The 'Iron Duke' died in 1852, but had he lived he would have been proud of his Regiment in the years that followed - at the battles of Alma, Inkerman and Sevastopol; in the Indian Mutiny and in Abyssinia; at Kimberley and Paardeberg in the So uth African War. In 1914 the 2nd Dukes (the old 76th) were early into action at Mons, Le Cateau and in the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and the first battle of Ypres. By the end of the war the 'Dukes' had put 21 battalions in the field; they st ormed the Ancre Heights, were mown down in heaps on the Somme, fought at Gallipoli and harried the Turks in Egypt. The cost to the Dukes, in killed alone, was over 8,000. The Regiment's records in the Second World War was no less fine; there had b een Dukes in the retreat to Corunna, and there were Dukes in that equally fearful retreat out of Burma in 1942; there were Dukes in North Africa, in Italy and on 'D' Day; there were Dukes operating as Chindits, hundred s of miles behind Japanese lin es. And in one of the hardest-fought battles of the Korean War, the Battle of the Hook, the Dukes stood firm against hordes of Chinese. The story of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment is lit with greatness, like the career of the soldier who gave i t its name." Light cigarette smoke odor, book very slightly cocked, light waviness at top & bottom edges of approx. last 15 pages, light browning to edges of text block, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, one very small corner bump. Dust jack et has been price-clipped, has light wrinkling and slight wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light rubbing, very light browning at edges and on spine and flap-folds. Very Good-/Very Good-
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