SHEPHERD, Gordon. (Gordon Brook-Shepherd).

8vo., red cloth in original illustrated dust-wrapper, xiv+302pp., b/w illustrations, apps., bibliography, index, 2 folding maps in back. Author’s Telegraph (?) obituary loosely inside. A very nice bright copy. Complete with folding maps, Dust-wrapper just a little chipped at head and neat repair to lower edge. Owner name neatly inside. Book very good. Account of the ‘nerve centre’ of Central Europe from the exclusion from Bismarck’s Germany in 1866 until the mid 1950s by former British intelligence agent, journalist, and historian.