RARE war memoir by Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders (1855-1929) - a German general who served as an adviser and military commander to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War and in 1918 commanded an Ottoman army during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. Contains a frontispiece with von Liman`s portrait in uniform and his signature in facsimile. Contains three fold-out maps laid in pocket on rear cover. 225x150mm. 408 pages. Yellow board Hardcover with blue gilt cloth spine. Cover yellowing. dirty and slightly stained. Cover edges bumped/worn. Cover corners peeling. Rear cover coming loose/partly detached from binding. Spine worn, wrinkled and detached. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine faded and rubbed-off. Spine edges peeling. Binding slightly visible and coming loose on inner cover. Previous owner`s ex-libris sticker and pencil inscription on front inner cover upper part/edge. Pages 15-42 fore edge slightly torn - NO damage to text. Pages 375-408 upper corner bumped/creased. Small hole on pages 405-408 with minimal damage to several words of the text. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare war memoir, of immense interest to scholars and/or collectors of materials on the legendary Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the Great War, has sustained slight damage to three last pages, but is otherwise in good reading condition.