Stephen Wood IN THE FINEST TRADITION First Edition
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Stephen Wood IN THE FINEST TRADITION First Edition
First edition, first print hardback of IN THE FINEST TRADITION The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiners & Greys); Its History and Treasures, by Stephen Wood and published by Mainstream Publishing Company Ltd., Edinburgh in 1988. Foreword Lieutenant-Colonel M. S. Jameson. Preface Lieutenant-General Sir Norman Arthur.The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine), with minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges, very slight rubbing to the top edge near the corner at the back). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is slight waving to the pages but no visible liquid damage.
In the Finest Tradition is the first book of its kind. Eschewing the traditional approach to regimental history, wherein battles are dissected and hoary anecdotes repeated, Stephen Wood tackles the subject from an alternative angle. Appreciating the quality and quantity of the possessions held by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers & Greys), Scotland's only cavalry regiment and one known and respected throughout the world, he decided to re-tell its story and illustrate it using the accumulated treasures of the three regiments which go to make up The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
It is a story rich in facts and in fable, in myth and in legend, but the reality of the regiment as an extended and ancient military family permeates it throughout. The book's subject is military history but its illustrations take it into the fields of applied and fine arts, fields never far removed from the subject itself but ones often regarded as separate by traditionalists on both sides of the supposed military/art divide. This is a book which will arouse, charm, annoy and enrapture the reader with its revelations about the history of an exclusive cavalry regiment and its illustrations of the quality of that regiment's possessions."
160 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs throughout.
SBN: 1 85158 174 X
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