Military History

Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the Battle of Lepanto, very numerous b&w battle plans, diagrams and location maps, footnotes throughout, index, xiv & 602 pp, black boards in d/w, top edge of d/w a little creased, slight mark to closed fore-edge of pages, edges of pages just starting to brown, otherwise in very good condition, Cassell & Co 2001

23.4 x 15.3 cm, 1130g, ISBN 0 30435 867 3

See the description below from the dustwrapper flap.

Originally published in 1954, then owing to demand republished in this 2001 edition (and also, perhaps surprisingly for a book of this size, in paperback), but all editions are now out of print.