Condition: Acceptable. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) LImited Edition, numbered, 1 of 1500 printed. Stated First Edition, 1995. 404 pages, includes glossary. Size: 9" x 11.5". Pages: stains along top front inside cover and at top inner corner of back inside cover, otherwise, not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: bright, wrinkle across front top, light stains and wrinkles on top front inside, bumping and rubbing to edges, a few small tears to edges. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: Aptly described as a 'military hothouse' in the middle of the nineteenth century, Gibraltar until the present century maintained its reputation on the fact that the military presence has moulded not only its physical and social environment but its standing fame in the rest of the world. Riddled with lofty, strong batteries and carved out in subterranean galleries, that from time to time poke their mighty weapons out like hungry baby birds looking for enemy prey, the Rock has been attacked or contemplated by Moor, Spaniard, French and German alike. But it resisted! It resisted with such tenacity and fervour that it has surely become an emblem of strength, and impregnability. Its mighty. weapons either repulsed or deterred efforts to capture it and its naval installations provided a welcome victualling point for British and allied fleets on their passage to the Eastern Mediterranean or the open Atlantic Ocean beyond. The study of its military history provides both a fascinating and rewarding insight into military architecture and fortifications worldwide. There is an uniqueness about the place. The Rock of the fifteen sieges is still going strong. Its petrified 100-ton gun is now begging for world recognition, but the whole territory right-fully deserves a glorious mention in the annals of history. Strong as the Rock of Gibraltar is the manifestation of an experience moulded by external threat and maintained by internal ingenuity and determination. Gibraltar is the world's monument to the grandeur and folly of war. Its present nascent assertiveness as a new nation is a constant reminder to the world of bygone troubled eras.