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Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, printer's mis-cut to upper corners of four adjacent pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nick to lower read edge. 230pp. Part two of the history of the 1st Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment, covering the period from October 1916 until the end of the First World War. In the final two years of the Great War the regiment was engaged at the Battle of Arras, the capture of Oppy Wood, several phases of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 - Passchendaele, the German Spring Offensives and the final '100 Days' of battles in 1918. In between they were designated to be amongst the handful of British divisions rushed to the Italian Front late in 1917. With a wide variety of official and personal sources, maps, and individual stories and photographs.