THE ROMANCE OF THE LAST CRUSADE
With Allenby to Jerusalem

MAJOR VIVIAN GILBERT

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK
1923

First edition.
Personal account of Brigade Machine Gun Officer, 180th Bde., 60th Div. in Egypt & Palestine.

Troops in Palestine were forbidden to mention the word " Crusade," because the descendants of the Crusaders' enemies were now Britain's allies. Yet many of them thought of themselves as Crusaders, and with many the link with the companions of the Lion Heart was stronger than more directly Christian associations. Major Gilbert gives a good account of the conditions under which Lord Allenby's battles, like those of Richard and of the Latin Kings, were fought, and especially of the predominant problem of water supply. (Falls, War Books)

19 x 12 cm. [vii] + 232 pp + frontispiece.

Good condition. Ex-library in modern library binding. Front free endpaper scarred where a return slip has been removed. Stamped on the colophon page but no other library marks. Handwritten note tipped in on page 73, otherwise clean and tidy.