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London: Peter Owen, 1965. hardbound. Very Good in Good-Very Good dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w plates. Dustwrapper 1st UK Edition of historian and writer Jean Giono's account of the Battle of Pavia between Emperor Charles V and king of France Francois I, fought in the marshlands of the Po Valley, and lasting only one hour, but seeing the deaths of over 10,000 soldiers; details aspects of prelude and aftermath and investigates the concept of war in the sixteenth century; includes chronology and bibliography; being one in a series of thirty volumes by eminent French historians, each dealing with a decisive event in the history of France between 496 and 1944; introduction by Gerard Walter, translated and edited by AE Murch; this copy has some foxing to endpapers, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, price clipped, o.w. VG (mylar protected).