His wide-ranging interests and influence made him a significant figure in Victorian society
compression and unsentimental realism make it one of the most distinctive military books of the twentieth century
but substantially complete and retaining its striking original design
With photographic plates throughout
" Orwell remarked that "Animal Farm was the first book in which I consciously attempted to merge political and artistic purposes into a cohesive whole
Donald Armstrong The Reluctant Warriors - Signed Copy from Lord Portal’s Library Rook His wide-ranging interests and influenceARMSTRONG, Donald. The Reluctant Warriors: The Decline and Fall of the Carthaginian Empire. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, from the library of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Portal. Octavo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in red and black, map, original pictorial dust jacket priced $5. 95. Foreword by Admiral Arleigh Burke. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper: