Military

London: Pocket Books, 2002. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight crease to corners. 528pp. The author draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. Citizen Soldiers tells the real story of World War II - from the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany - from the perspective of the American men and women who fought it.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Cassell & Co, 2002. First Impression. No Inscriptions. 233pp inc index. The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Cassell, 2003. No Inscriptions, slight lean. 259pp. Michael Asher's expose of the men who call themselves 'Andy McNab' and 'Chris Ryan'.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Cassell Military, 2002. NEW UNREAD Bravo Two Zero was the code name of the most famous SAS operation in recent times. It was a classic British story of glorious failure and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. . First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. more information

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Bristol: Parragon, 1997. First Impression. No Inscriptions. Tiny tear to dustwrapper at top. Profusely illustrated. Learn what it takes to be the best of the best. SAS in Action goes behind the scenes with the British Special Air Service (SAS), tracing the path from initial training through to soldiers' accounts of their most famous actions. Detailed equipment summaries profile the weapons, aircraft and vehicles used by the Regiment. All the SAS's battles and campaigns analysed in detail.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. First Impression. No Inscriptions, creasing to cover, wear to edge and corners, some staining to page edge. 328pp. A guided tour inside a nuclear warship. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Fair. more information

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Rochester, Kent: North Kent Books, 1981. A little crease to corner, slight discolouration of cover. Contain black-and-white and colour illustrations. The life history of TB752, a Spitfire Mk XVI handed over to the RAF in February 1945.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Arrow Books, 1993. Minor wear to corners. 402pp. Recruited from remarkably diverse callings, the men and women who were members of this most secret agency lived in great and constant danger. Their job was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines; their credentials fortitude, courage, immense patience and a devotion to freedom.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First Impression. No Inscriptions, some shelf-wear, a little bumping to corners. Dustwrapper not price-clipped,a little wear and creasing to edge. 273pp. 14 Intelligence Company is the cover name of an intensely secretive unit set up by the SAS to conduct surveillance operations in Northern Ireland. Uniquely, this organisation recruits and trains women on the basis of equality with men. Using strategies first developed by the SAS and military intelligence during the seventies, Sarah Ford's unit succeeded in taking the war to the IRA with devestating effect.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Arms and Armour Press, 1982. A little shelf-wear, dustwrapper has creasing to edge. 249pp. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First Impression. No Inscriptions, reading crease, a little edge-wear. 408pp. The military history of a domestic conflict.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Macdonald, 1960. Some shelf-wear, ffep missing, a little foxing. Dustwrapper worn to edge, with small tears and a larger tear or approx 3 cms. 128pp. With a foreword by Group Captain Johnnie Johnson. Providing a detailed history of the most famous fighters as used by the air forces of Britain, the United States, Germany and Japan. Illustrated with a wealth of detailed drawings and a unique collection of photographs.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Heumann, G. W.. more information

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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1982. First Impression. Inscription to former owner, bump to corner, a little marking to upper page-ends. Dustwrapper a little wrinkled to corner and edge. 446pp. In 1978 The Third World War: August 1985 was published and became an international bestseller. Dramatic changes in the world scene since 1978, new developments in the technology of war, and important information from inside the Soviet Union have enabled General Hackett to provide an even more authoritative and vivid picture of what a Third World War could be like .... First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Bison Books Ltd, 1992. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper has a little creasing to edge. Todays Royal Air Force is in the front line of the Western world's defences. The heart of the RAF's work is in the defence of the British Isles and the commitment to the NATO alliance.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Odhams Press Limited. Blue embossed boards. No Inscriptions, front end-paper split along spine, a couple of small tears to spine-ends, a little bumping to corners. Not dated, circa 1950's. 384pp. Illustrated.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. more information

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Westbridge Books, 1979. First Impression. Complete with erratum. Dustwrapper not priced. 229pp. War in 2080 looks at the trends of current military technology and scientific progress and extrapolates these into the future, working on the assumption that human civilisation will expand too swiftly to be destroyed by the military.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: William Kimber & Co. Limited, 1980. Authors dedication to previous owner and signature to title page. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little surface scratching. 208pp. The HMS Intrepid, commissioned in 1937, was one of the I class destroyers, the sixth of her name. George Mack was a seaman gunner aboard this gallant little ship from 1937-1940. He recounts what life was like in a destroyer in those days, both in peace and war.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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London: Macmillan, 2003. First Impression. UNREAD. No Inscriptions, slight lean, minor wear to heel of spine. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wrinkling to heel of spine, faint surface scratching. 391pp. The war in Afghanistan was the most secret conflict since the CIA's covert war in Laos; thousands of journalists covered it, yet, ironically, little is known about how it was waged or what really happened - until now.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. more information

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London: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 1987. First Impression. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, creased along spine edge, and across rear, two small bumps, a little surface scratching. 315pp. Alpha Bug is a first-class military thriller, set against a background of current defence issues and state-of-the-art military and space technology.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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London: Michael Joseph, 1989. First Impression. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wear, tiny nick and a little creasing to edge. 486pp. Ever since the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 the reality of nuclear weapons and their awesome destructive power has pervaded our lives.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Leicester: Blitz Editions, 1994. Slight bumping, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some creasing and wear to edge, small nicks to corners. 224pp. The definitive analysis of the elite regiment that wears the winged dagger.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1977. Former owners name inscribed, pages tanned, some creasing and edge-wear. 541pp. Suborned and sold off by their chiefs, insulted by the harsh discipline of the eighteenth-century army, the clansmen of the highland regiments were the victims of the cynicism of their masters, both English and Scots. Their only redress lay in mutiny and, between 1743 and 1804, sixteen regiments took that road, with sore results.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1975. First Impression. Bookplate laid in with authors signature to ffep. Dustwrapper price-clipped, a little wear and creasing to edge. 144pp. This unique book is the first of its kind to be published on German aircraft of World War II. Magnificently reproduced colour photographs are used to show the planes as they really were. Each type of aircraft is accompanied by a brief 'biography' together with tables of the most important marks and their specifications. With an introduction by Adolf Galland.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Bath: Ashgrove Press, 1982. First Impression. Authors inscription to ffep 'To Johnnie who has done so much to help Britain's Defences and Security' signed off with 'Best Wishes Keith. June 1983', a little shelf-wear, slight foxing. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little creasing to edge. 194pp. A major examination of the shifts in British, American, NATO and Soviet maritime power since the time of Denis Healey's Defence Review in 1966.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Pan Books Limited, 1973. Creasing to cover, some edge-wear. 301pp. Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now a Regular Army sergeant defending the Empire in the beds and bars of Hong Kong.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1975. First Impression. Bookplate laid in with authors signature to ffep. Dustwrapper price-clipped, a little wear and creasing to edge. 144pp. This unique book is the first of its kind to be published on British aircraft of World War II. Magnificently reproduced colour photographs are used to show the planes as they really were. Each of the forty-nine types of aircraft is accompanied by a brief 'biography' together with tables of the most important marks and their specifications. With an introduction by Douglas Bader.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Salamander Books Ltd, 1984. Glazed pictorial boards, a little wear to edge. 160pp. A magnificently illustrated compact directory of international secret special warfare units, their weapons, training and uniforms.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Sphere, 1983. A little creasing and edge-wear, title on spine has been covered with sticky tape. 304pp. The full official history of the men who are the SAS, from the pioneer raiders who carved through German supply lines in Africa in 1941 to the professional attack squads who took out the Iranian Embassy terror group and smashed the Argentinian forces in 1982.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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Osprey Publishing. Usual library marks and stamps. Title page removed. An elite part of the German Navy, the U-boat crews were seen as heroes by the public and armed services alike, fighting the elements as well as enemy destroyers. Twice within the space of 25 years they came close to bringing Britain to her knees, strangling the vital transatlantic supply line that fed her war effort.. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Pavlovic, Darko. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. Slight lean, minor bump to corners, pages tanning. Inscription to former owner on ffep. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, though price inked. 341pp. The year is 1982, the place Two Sisters on the Falklands. The Rainbow Soldiers are the red-bereted paratroopers, the green-bereted commandos, the blue berets of Daddy Rankin's battalion. Facing the attacking British are the cream of the Argentine armed forces, among them a company commanded by Captain Ricardo Jordan-Arditti, the fiance of an English girl, Sara Ballantine, whose brother Peter commands a company in Colonel Rankin's battalion. The author takes the reader from December 1981 and peacetime soldiering to the grim killing grounds of San Carlos Water, Goose Green, Mount Tumbledown and the rest, showing how it was for the Argentines and the British, and how attitudes changed among the men who had to do the fighting.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. more information

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