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Abstract Abstract The Persian Gulf: An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. By Lieut.-Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O. Foreword by The Right Hon. L. S. Amery, P.C. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press). 25s. Sir John Hawkins; The Time and the Man. By James A. Williamson. (Oxford: Clarendon Press). 20s. The Voyages and Cruises of Commodore Walker. By H. S. Vaughan. (London: Cassell & Co.). 10s. 6d. The English Navy in the Revolution of 1688. By Edward B. Powley. (Cambridge University Press). 1928. 12s. 6d. net. History of the Great War. Military Operations in Egypt and Palestine: From the Outbreak of War to June, 1917. (With Maps). Compiled by Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., D.S.O.; and Captain Cyril Falls. (H.M. Stationery Office). 18s. A Study of the Strategy and Tactics of The Waterloo Campaign illustrating the Principles of War. By “Tacitus.” (London: Hugh Rees, Ltd.). 1927. 4s. Soldiering in India, 1764–1787. Edited by William Charles Macpherson, C.S.I. (Blackwood & Sons, Ltd.). 15s. Journal of William Amherst in America, 1758–1760. Edited with an Introduction by John Clarence Webster. (Printed by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London.) 1927. An Aide-de-Camp of Lee. Being the Papers of Colonel Charles Marshall, sometime Aide-Camp, Military Secretary and Assistant Adjutant General on the Staff of Robert E. Lee, 1862–1865. Edited by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company). List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758–1834. Alphabetically arranged and annotated with Biographical and Genealogical Notices by Major V. C. P. Hodson. Part II. (London: Constable & Co.). 1928. £1 1s. British Legion Journal. The Earl Haig Souvenir Book. (Published by the British Legion, 26, Eccleston Square, London, S.W.1) 5s. Combats au Maroc, 1925–26. By Capitaine C. Damidaux. Préface du général Boichut. (Paris: Berger-Levrault.) 1928. 12 fr. Deutsch-Englisches—Englisch-Deutsches—Militärwörterbuch. Bearbeitet von Studienrat Kurt Hilmar Eitzen. (Verlag Offene Worte, Berlin.) 1928. 8 Reichsmarken. (German-English Dictionary by Eitzen.) All the World's Aircraft, 1927. Edited by C. G. Grey. (Published by Sampson Low.) £2 2s. Letters from a Flying Officer. By Rothesay Stuart Wortley. (Oxford University Press.) 8s. 6d. The Story of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. By Lieut.-Colonel C. A. L. Graham, D.S.O., R.A., p.s.c., assisted by Officers of the Regiment. (Woolwich: Royal Artillery Institution.) 1928. 6d. The Coldstream Guards, 1914–1918. By Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. Two Volumes and one Volume of Maps. (Oxford University Press.) 1928. £3 3s. The Connaught Rangers. by Lieut.-Colonel H. F. N. Jourdain, C.M.G., and Edward Fraser. Vol. III. 1928. (London: Royal United Service Institution.)m£3 3s. History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Vol. I-From 1652 to 1860. Vol. II-From 1861 to 1922 (Disbandment). By Captain S. McCance. The History of the Rifle Brigade in the War of 1914–1918. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G, etc., Colonel-in-Chief. By Captain Reginald Berkeley, M.C. Volume I, August, 1914-December. 1916. 1927. (London: The Rifle Brigade Club, Ltd.). The Star and Crescent; being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922. (Printed for Private Circulation only.)