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London: Little, Brown, 1995. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. x, 297pp, including index. With 42 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - "This is the story of enemies who meet in Palestine and make peace. One branded an Arab 'terrorist', the other an Israeli army major. Bassam Abu-Sharif was a Palestinian hijacker, bent on liberating his country from Israeli occupation, and Uzi Mahnaimi worked as a spymaster for a secret unit of Israeli military intelligence. But both, for very different reasons, turned away from violence. " . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Little, Brown, 2004. Book and dustjacket in fine condition. On the endpapers the pattern of sails and the standing rigging, masts and decks of a 100-gun ship of line. xxiii, 392pp, including Ships and their Captains, Selected Reading, Bibliography and Index. With frontispiece, 10 colour, 32 black-and-white illustrations and maps and plans. In 1805 Nelson mastered the sea for the six hours of the Battle of Trafalgar, annihilating her French and Spanish opponents. The battle is described with first-hand accounts where sixty ships fought at terrifyingly close quarters, the scenes of jubilant celebration that followed the triumph of battle, and the hysterical mourning that greeted the tragedy of Nelson's death. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: J.M. Dent, 1980. Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in good condition, 1" closed tear by front top spine edge Spine ends, top edge and outer corner edges are rubbed.. 326pp, including Bibliography and Index. With 31 black-and-white photographs. The battle for the Rhineland, and the subsequent crossing of the Rhine in march 1945 by American, British and Canadian troops, saw some of the most desperately fought campaigns of all. First-hand accounts and archival material give the most detailed account of the closing stages of the war in Europe. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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California: Presidio Press, 1984. Fifth printing. Book in very good plus condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly rubbed. xiv, 204pp. With illustrations at the start of each chapter by Cornelius Cole Smith, Jnr. This is a true story of what happened to one Marine company during one 58-day operation. It is the story of the individual infantryman, the grunt, who bore the brunt of the fighting in the Vietnam War. Price clipped. Dustjacket and book in very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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1969. Four volumes in very good condition, just a hint of dust? marks on back covers, otherwise in fine condition. For the year 1969. January: 63pp. April: 61pp. July: 71pp. October 72pp. Each magazine (9"hx 7¼"w) ((24.5cms x 18.5cms) approx. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.. more information

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Oxford, U.K: Past Times, 1995. 138pp, plus 36 pages not numbered. With numerous coloured drawings throughout the book by the author, plus some maps. The author was born in Poland. In 1940 he to England and trained as a fighter pilot. In 1943, with a group of Polish pilots, he volunteered to go to North Africa where he and the others fought alongside the British 145 Squadron. In 1944 he was promoted to Squadron Leader of 316 Squadron. In September of 1944, during a flight over Holland, his plane caught fire and he was forced to bale out. He was captured and taken to Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp. It was during the seven months in this camp that he wrote what he called his ‘Log Book’ Prisoner of War. The journal was done by Arct purely to amuse his fellow inmates and to provide release and relaxation for himself. During his war service he received two important Polish decorations for bravery in the field, the Virtuti Militari and the Krzyz Walecznych, the latter four times. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by By Author. more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good plus condition, top spine edge and top outer corner edges very slightly rubbed. xiv, 412pp, including index. With 20 black-and-white photographs. The history of the Royal Air Force, which ranges from the RFC pilot of a SE5 on the Western Front in 1918 to the first Hercules to land in Sarajevo in 1992. Covering the aircrews who flew against the German advance into France and in the Battle of Britain, and includes an account front the highest scoring survivor of the battle. From interviews with over 150 members of the Royal Air Force. April 1993 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Royal Air Force.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996. Book and dustjacket in very good condition, both very slightly bumped at spine ends. xii, 292pp, including Chronology of Naval Events 1914-1939 and Index. With 29 black-and-white photographs. The author interviewed survivors of the First World War Royal Navy - Jutland, Gallipoli, Zeebrugge, Q ships, K boats and flying in the RNAS. Vivid accounts from the men who fought at Jutland, and from two privates of the Royal Naval Division who tell of the horrors of trench fighting at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. A Royal Marine officer reveals details of the mutiny of his men during the 1919 North Russian campaign against the Bolsheviks. There is action in China. The book ends at the start of the Second World War with the sinking of the Royal Oak and the heroic fight by the Exeter, Ajax and Achilles at the Battle of the River Plate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Chapmans, 1992. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in good condition, very slightly rubbed at spine ends. 236pp. The author writes about his time with the Special Air Service. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. more information

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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985. Book in very good plus condition, spine ends slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. Price clipped. 228pp, including index. With illustrations. Paul Ernst Fackenheim is the only Jew to have been released from a concentration camp during WWII. His First World War service, when he won the Iron Cross, his acknowledged patriotism, and his Jewish blood, made him a suitable candidate to spy on the British in Palestine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: J.M. Dent, 1968. Book in very good condition, spine ends just very slightly bumped, small white label on front free endpaper. Dustjacket in good condition, slightly rubbed at spine sides and at spine ends. Price clipped. xviii,155pp, including Index. With 16 black-and-white photographs and 7 maps. Appendices include: The 'Fourteen Points - The Armistice Agreement with Germany - The Peace Treaty between the Associated Powers and Germany. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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London: Leo Cooper, 1995. Book in very good condition, slightly bumped at bottom spine edge, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped. ix, 190pp, including index. With 14 black-and-white photographs. Through his letters Stokes gives an insight into his schooldays at Rugby and to the horrors of trench warfare on the Western Front. He was with the Royal Marines Light Infantry when he met with a tragic and untimely death on the Somme in November 1915. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Huddersfield, U.K: Richard Netherwood, 1990. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, top of spine very slightly rubbed. 172pp, including Appendices: Appendix One: Victoria Cross Awards - Appendix Two: War Graves - Appendix Three - The Schlieffen Plan, and Bibliography. With 66 black-and-white photographs, and 6 maps. This is the story of one town's efforts and sacrifice during the First World War and the part played by the Hull Pals of the East Yorkshire Regiment. (9¾"h x 7"w) (24.5cms x 17.5cms) approx.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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Huddersfield, U.K: Richard Netherwood, 1990. Book in very good plus condition, only fault, slightly rubbed at corners of bottom spine edge, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, has tiny piece missing at back top edge (see picture). 172pp, including Appendices: Appendix One: Victoria Cross Awards - Appendix Two: War Graves - Appendix Three - The Schlieffen Plan, and Bibliography. With 66 black-and-white photographs, and 6 maps. This is the story of one town's efforts and sacrifice during the First World War and the part played by the Hull Pals of the East Yorkshire Regiment. (9¾"h x 7"w) (24.5cms x 17.5cms) approx.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Leo Cooper, 1994. Revised edition. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 159pp, including Index. With 30 black-and-white photographs, 1 map, and diagram of the Gnome and Le Rhone 110 HP rotary engine. Philip Bartlett's account of a pilot's life in the dawn of aerial warfare and, as history, of the first use of the bomber in war by the Navy's aircraft. He flew 101 missions, with attacks on the U-boat bases to bombing the German Gothas as they prepared to raid London, and then to the support of Haig's drive to the coast which ended in the mud at Passchendale. In March 1918 his squadron finds itself directly in the path of Ludendorff's massive thrust, which broke the British 5th Army and nearly decided the War. Attacked by Richthofen's aces, No. 5 Squadron RNAS flew continuous and desperate missions against the advancing troops .. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Bloomsbury, 1995. Book in very good condition, pages just very lightly tanned along edges, otherwise pages are clean and bright. A very good tight copy. Dustjacket in very good condition, front cover has some light indentations by spine near front top edge. 216pp, including Appendix One: The Significance of U859's Secret Cargo - Appendix Two: The Key Documents, and Index. With 29 colour and 4 black-and-white photographs and one cartoon. From d/j flap - " On the 28 August 1944 three torpedoes from the German submarine U-859 sank the American merchant ship USS John Barry in the Arabian Sea. The holds of the ship contained three million silver Saudi riyals worth 80 million dollars and over 30 million dollars in silver bullion. The 7200-ton ship broke into two pieces and sank to a depth of one and a half miles. A team led by Jean Roux recovered the treasure. It is a story of politics and intrigue between governments during World War II. The story of the John Barry is recreated with the help of living survivors, including one of the German U-boat officers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Edinburgh: Pentland, 1987. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly rubbed. Price clipped. x, 42pp. With frontispiece and 2 black-and-white photographs. The author went to Spain and 'toured' the battle area in the Civil War on a bicycle. In the Second World War he served with our Mission to Tito in Yugoslavia and later helped escaping prisoners in Italy, and in his sixtieth year he organised his own expedition to Mount Everest. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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London: Hambledon and London, 2003. Book and dustjacket in fine condition. xv, 272pp, including Notes, Bibliographical Note and Index. With 12 black-and-white photographs. The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. The variety of tasks it had to undertake gave its officers and men an extraordinary range of challenges and experiences: putting down the Indian Mutiny, fighting in the jungles of West Africa, facing a Zulu impi and Boer sharpshooters, or garrisoning the many outposts of empire. The author looks at the men from a variety of angles, using incidents and battles to show how the army lived and fought. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Little, Brown, 2000. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 305pp. With 16 pages of illustrations. From the d/j flap - "The author was studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with 'J'. She was then taken to a labour camp, and when she returned home, her mother had been deported. Edith took off her yellow star and went underground, and then she fled to Munich, were she met a Nazi party member who fell in love with her and married her, even though he knew she was a Jew. She lived in constant fear of being found out. Her husband was then captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia. Edith was then bombed out of her house and had to hide in a closet with he daughter as drunken Russian soldiers roamed the streets." . First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Leo Cooper, 1977. Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, page 49 has a few spots of foxing, no foxing on other pages which are in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends and back top and bottom edges very slightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded. xii, 123pp. With 10 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - "The author was a genius among escapers in the Second World War. He escaped and was captured a number of times before he finally succeeded. He describes the horror of the eastern camps, the long battle of wits with his later captors and his extraordinary adventures with the French Resistance. "A very good read" - bookseller's comment.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Viking, 2002. Book and dustjacket in fine condition. xxxvii, 490pp, including References, Source Notes, Select Bibliography and Index. With 49 black-and-white photographs, and 16 maps. The author, with material from former Soviet files, as well as from German, American, British, French and Swedish archives, has reconstructed the experiences of the millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. (9½"h x 6¼"w) (24cms x 16cms) approx.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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Norwich, U.K: Jarrold, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover in near fine condition, just tips of spine ends very slightly faded. Dustjacket in near fine condition, bottom end of spine very slightly bumped. ix, 259pp, including index. With 16 full-page drawings, and 6 maps. From d/j flap - 'A whole division of the British Army found itself marooned on a narrow strip of land, six miles long and two wide, between the Tigris and the Suwaikieh marsh. It was hemmed in by the Turkish Army in front and hostile Arab tribes behind. For ten months men and animals had to endure the scorching sun and bitter weather of the Mesopotamian summer and winter.". more information

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London: Collins, 1978. Book in very good condition, small mark on front and back endpapers where cellotape has been removed, otherwise pages are in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, small mark on front and back inside flap where cellotape has been removed, on the back flap the removal of the cellotape has taken off four words. Price clipped. 320pp, including Glossary, Bibliography and Index. With 24 black-and-white photographs and 21 maps. Belcham's military career began at Sandhurst and when he left the army he was its youngest General. He saw service in Palestine, and was in the Middle East to take part in Wavell's campaigns in the desert and in the disastrous expedition to Greece in 1941, when became head of Monty's Operations in Sicily, Southern Italy, and for the invasion of Western Europe. He also gives an account of the Ardennes Battle, and gives first-hand description of what a desert battle was actually like. Bookseller's comment - "This book is a very good read." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Collins, 1978. Book in very good condition, small light mark on front edge, no marks on pages, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, two ½" closed tears at bottom front edge, top front edge slightly rubbed. 320pp, including bibliography and index. With 24 black-and-white photographs and 21 maps. The author took part in Wavell's campaigns in the desert and in the disastrous expedition to Greece in 1941. He was head of Monty's Operations staff in Sicily, Southern Italy and for the invasion of western Europe, and gives an account of the Ardennes Battle.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Virgin, 2002. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. xii, 371pp, including index. With 38 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - "Containing over 500 entries covering every aspect of modern-day intelligence gathering and counter-terrorism, along with a comprehensive overview of its history. Focuses in particular on developments in the field of intelligence since the end of the Cold War. With entries on individual spies, politicians, diplomats, from the players to the patsies and profiles of the key historical events and scandals from the history of spying." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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W.W. Norton, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. Price clipped. 191pp, including bibliography and index. The untold story of the German officer who revealed Hitler's plans for the invasion of Western Europe.. more information

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London: Cassell, 2003. Book and dustjacket in fine condition. 350pp, including Appendices: Principal Actors - Estimate of Forces - Orders of battle - Casualties, Bibliography and Index. With 10 colour and 17 black-and-white illustrations, 13 maps and 3 diagrams. with Chronology of Rulers from 1500-1600 and Principal events from 1492 to1600. On the morning of 7th October 1571, at the mouth of a gulf in western Greece, the fleets of the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Roman Catholic Holy League collided in the last great battle ever to be fought between oared fighting ships. Many believed that it changed the balance of power in the Mediterranean forever, and turned back a Muslim tide that threatened to engulf Europe.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: HarperCollins, 2003. Book and dustjacket in fine condition. xxi, 310pp, including bibliography and index. With 31 colour, 3 black-and-white photographs, plus 35 maps in the text. America's War of Independence 1775-1783 - a vicious struggle between brothers, friends and families that forged a new nation. A Foreword by Richard Holmes to accompany the BBC television series.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Longmans, 1969. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, ¼" tear at top edge, inside front flap has two creases. xii, 162pp, including appendixes and Index. With 30 black-and-white photographs. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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Shrewsbury, U.K: Airlife, 1999. Book in very good condition spine ends and bottom outer corner edges very slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, top edge very slightly bumped and 1" crease near back top edge. 266pp, including appendix - Tank Production, Bibliography and Index. With 85 black-and-white photographs. The story of D-Day and the Invasion of Europe as seen by both the attacking and defending forces. It includes comments and descriptions from a wide range of Allied and German forces, from Generals to front-line infantry soldiers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Shrewsbury, U.K: Airlife, 2000. Book fine condition. Previous owners name inside front board. Dustjacket in very good condition, top spine edge slightly rubbed. 270pp, including bibliography and index. With numerous black-and-white photographs in text. From d/j flap - "The Nazi SS Security Service was created by Reinhard Heydrich - the author traces its early beginnings and its triumphs across Europe, including the successful operation of spies in Allied countries. Of particular interest is a series of events that took place in 1940 when the exiled Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson were targeted by Hitler. The plan was to snatch the couple from Portugal before they departed by sea across the Atlantic. It involved Hitler's agents, Spain, Portugal, Churchill and the British Secret Service.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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U.K: Alan Sutton, 1986. Book in very good condition, previous owners named embossed on front free endpaper. Dustjacket in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped. Price clipped. 126pp. With numerous black-and-white photographs throughout the book. The letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman family.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Blandford Press, 1988. 150pp. Book in very good condition, no tears or marks. Previous owner's inscription inside front board. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. The pen-and-ink drawings and cartoons were made by the author in Normandy and Brussels at the time he writes about. The true story of a small Army detachment of 0ff-beat soldiers who were landed on the Normandy beaches to provide a technical service for the war machines at the Front Line. They were known as the Normandy Nobodies because they got lost and during the first few battles, the Brass Hats did not even know of their existence. When Brussels was being liberated the Nobodies sampled the delights of the Big City. There is an account of Belgian resistance members taking revenge on collaborators, and on Christmas Eve a drunken Commanding Officer attempts to round up his troops to help stem the German breakthrough in the Ardennes. The author shows how the lighter side of war goes hand-in-hand with the darker side.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1997. Book in very good plus condition, spine ends slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, 1" closed tear by top back outer corner. 412pp, including Sources, Bibliography and Index. With 26 black-and-white photographs. Revealing the role played by the Swiss Banks and the Swiss Government in exploiting the Second World War to their financial advantage; a role which included helping the Nazis to hide and sell their loot from occupied Europe and stealing the deposits made in those banks by Jewish individuals and organisations. The author tells the story from 1930 upto 1997. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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U.K: Patrick Stephens, 1996. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. Price clipped. 232pp, including index. With 195 illustrations in text. From backcover of d/j - " The untold story of the secret war of radar and electronics conducted by RAF Bomber Command's 100 Group. Night after night RAF crews went 'spoofing' and radar interception and countermeasures were used to confound the enemy's intelligence systems and reducing the heavy losses by the main bomber forces penetrating German air space. With many first-hand accounts of participation in these daring raids. The author explains the various radar detection and jamming techniques employed, together with the meaning of the often mysterious code names used." (9½"h x 6¾"w) (24.5cms x 17cms).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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New York: St. Marin's Press, 1997. Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. Dustjacket in very good condition, slightly bumped at top spine edge. xix, 442pp, including a chronology of aerospace power since 1903, bibliography and index. With 18 colour and 43 black-and-white photographs. The history of the United States Air Force - from the prop-driven armada of World War II to the most advanced Stealth weaponry, from pioneers like General Henry 'Hap Arnold to the conquests of the Gulf War.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Sidgwick and Jackson, 1983. First edition. 752pp, including index. With frontispiece, 92 illustrations, and one map. Hardcover in near fine condition, bottom front corners and bottom of spine very slightly bumped, maps on endpapers. Dustjacket in near fine condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. Bradley led the American troops in the D-Day invasion of France. He eventually commanded four field armies (1.3 million men) in Europe, the largest American fighting force in history.. more information

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London: Leo Copper, 1989. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine very slightly faded, lettering still bright. xiii, 160pp, including bibliography. With drawings at the start of each chapter. Using diaries of soldiers from Private to Lieutenant, serving in the continent of Europe and as far afield as India, from the 18th century to the 1914-1918 War. Showing the effects of war on the men themselves, largely in their own words. All young, none more than their early twenties when they wrote their diaries. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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Birmingham, U.K: Cornish Bros, 1921. Book in very good condition, slightly bumped at spine ends. Light marks on front board. Free endpapers are partly lightly tanned. Top edge dust? marked, just a little foxing on a few pages. A very good tight copy. viii, 350pp, including index. With frontispiece, 13 illustrations. Includes: The Territorials - City Battalions - Manufacture of Munitions - Care of the Wounded - Belgian and Serbian Exiles - Women's War Work, etc. (8¼"h x 5½"w) (21cms x 14.5cms) approx.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Bodley Head, 1986. Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped. Price clipped. viii, 208pp, including References and Index. The conditions of service in the British Army from its establishment on a regular footing under Charles II upto 1986. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good./Very Good. more information

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Malvern, U.K: Dr. A.L. Brown/Self Pub. Assoc, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in near fine condition, top front and top of spine slightly bumped. Signed by author on half-title page "To Eddie best wishes. A.L. Brown." 240pp. From d/j flap - " This is an unedited and uncensored account of one man's experience of war. Alex Brown, a doctor, serving in the RAMC and attached to a Royal Artillery unit (51st Medium Regiment R.A. (T.A.), wrote a journal of events for his family virtually as they happened.". more information

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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991. Book in fine condition. Ex-Libris label inside front board and previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Price clipped. Dustjacket in very good condition. just a hint of rubbing on outer corner edges. 288pp, including index. With frontispiece, 27 colour and numerous black-and-white illustrations, and 2 maps. From d/j flap - "The experiences of the fighting fronts and the home fronts, and the great battles in the West, the 'sideshows' like Gallipoli or Kut, soldiers from Britain and the Empire, workers in the factories, nurses at the front. The experiences of early pilots, civilians in the first Zeppelin raids, the gunners behind howitzers or in the turrets of the Grand Fleet battleships. Prisoners in camps, sailors in convoys, the bereaved, the wounded, the brave, the bemused and much, much more." (10"h x 7½"w) (25cms x 19.5cms) approx.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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Shrewsbury, U.K: Airlife, 2000. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. x, 228pp, including index. With frontispiece, 13 black-and-white photographs, and 3 maps. Maps on endpapers. The author was granted a commission in 1941 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards and joined them shortly after the historic battle at El Alamein. He was captured by the Germans, but somehow he was able to convince his captors that their best move would be to abandon all their British prisoners and allow them to retreat to allied lines. And so it turned out that Christopher led a large band of captive soldiers to freedom. With the battalion he then became embroiled in the invasion of Sicily and Italy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Aurum Press, 2002. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends and top front edge slightly rubbed. 266pp, including bibliography and index. With 34 black-and-white illustrations, maps on endpapers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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London: George G. Harrap, 1965. Book in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in good condition, ½" piece missing from back top edge, spine ends and top edge slightly rubbed. 200pp. With 8 black-and-white photographs and sketches in text by the author's wife Alice Caddy. From d/j flap - "The author's experiences during the Second World War in Lisbon, to the inland waterways of French Equatorial Africa, and into the remote Sahara with the camel troops, the confusion of war-time Cairo, then onto the Syrian War, and in a hair-raising episode in the Druse mountains, which set off the famous Churchill-de Gaulle misunderstanding.". First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Alice Caddy. more information

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London: Chris. Johnson, 1952. The Merchant Navy in the Second World War. Book in very good condition, spine slightly faded and spines slightly bumped. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. A very good tight copy. Dustjacket in fair condition, pieces missing at top front edge and top of spine, 1½" closed tear at top front edge, spine tanned and back cover marked (dust?), please see picture. 207pp, plus Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet Honours and Awards. The total number of awards up to 31 March 1947 was 8,449 - it gives a list of the number of the different awards given each year. With frontispiece and 14 black-and-white photographs. The Malta and Russian Convoys, Dunkirk, the saga of the Jervis Bay, the story of the Graf Spee, and other lesser known stories of the war at sea are told. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. Book in very good condition, spine ends and bottom outer corner edge very slightly bumped. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. On last page a list of 'Belgian Terms' written in pencil, and on back free endpaper a diagram of the 'Battle for Ypres 1914, 19 Oct to 18 Nov in biro. A very good tight copy. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, a few spots of foxing on inside flaps. Price clipped. viii, 230pp, including Bibliography. This is a sequel to 'The Vanished Army' and gives a vivid terrifying picture of this extraordinary struggle, and of the extreme gallantry of the British Expeditionary Force. Based on eye-witness accounts straight from the trenches from ordinary soldiers rather than the commanders.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Barnsley, U.K: Pen and Sword Military, 2005. Book and dustjacket in fine condition. viii, 184pp, including Glossary of Military Terms, Notes, Selected Bibliography and Index. With 26 black-and white photographs and 34 maps. Through the exploration of twenty-six battles, the author surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems - heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry - focusing on how shock and missile combat evolved from tentative beginnings in the Bronze Age to the highly developed military organisation created by the Romans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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Barnsley, U.K: Pen and Sword Military, 2006. ix, 262pp, including Glossary of Military Terms, Selected Bibliography, and Index. With 2 Figures and numerous maps. Through the use of multiphase tactical maps, this introduction to the art of war during western civilisation's medieval period pulls together the primary and secondary sources and creates a powerful historical narrative. Tactical Map illustrator Joshua B. Allfree and Regional Map illustrator John Cairns. (9½"h x 6½"w) (24cms x 16.5cms) approx. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Bellew, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in near fine condition, spine ends very slightly rubbed. 217pp. From d/j flap - ' Stories of soldiers at war as they march through the years from the Peninsula Campaign to the Battle of Britain. Including contributions from - Rudyard Kipling, C.S. Forester, Leo Tolstoy, Bartimeus, Boyd Cable and Jeffery E. Jeffery. They cover, humour, heroism, loyalty and sacrifice.'. more information

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