War & Wartime

London: Dealerfield, 1994. No Inscriptions, slight wear to edge, a little wrinkling to dustwrapper. 272pp The complete story of World War II and its aftermath. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1982. Former owners name and address sticker to inside cover, a little wear to edge and corners. 142pp. This is the first time that such detailed information has been made available to the general public. Five research scientists give a straightforward account of the consequences of a nuclear attack on a major city, using London as their prime example.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London: Bodley Head, The, 1972. Slightly twisted, some spotting to page ends. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, but some scribbling over price, a little wrinkling to edge. 227pp. From June 22, 1940, when France surrendered to the Germans, until June 22, 1941, when Hitler invaded Russia, Britain alone stood against the German conquest of Europe. That period of still hardly credible survival, which saved the Western world, is Herbert Agar's theme.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. more information

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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: Collins, 1974. No Inscriptions, shelf-worn, spine-ends flattened, some staining to edge, pages tanning. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, creased and worn, nicks and chipe to edge. 340pp. The Second World War was the most massive and the most appalling military conflagration the world has ever known. It altered the balance of power, killed millions of people, destroyed much of the old Europe, and left behind a dramatic period of world history.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. First Impression. Authors signature to title page, slight bump to edge, UNREAD. 272pp. The final word from our First World War soldiers.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. more information

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London, 1985. Black boards, gilt titles. No Inscriptions, lean to spine, some bumping and shelf-wear, a little staining to page edge. 290pp. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. more information

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London: Guild Publishing, 1989. 431pp. It is June 1938. The sun is shining on the terrace of the splendid Villa Magari in Settignano, below Fiesole, just outside Florence; and it shines too on the high spirits, hopes and dreams of three yound men.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Bath: Cedric Chivers Ltd, 1976. Blue boards, some shelf-wear. 361pp. Large print edition. The group of men who settle for a spell, to rest and refit in a Sicilian town, quickly make themselves at home with the inhabitants.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1980. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight lean, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wrinkling to edge. 318pp. Starting with the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, taking us among other places to the Vatican where Pope Pius XII's motives for not speaking out against Nazi oppression are subtly unfolded; to London, where Churchill's obsession with Germany's total defeat leads him to the view that Heydrich must be killed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Macmillan General Books, 2003. First Impression. No Inscriptions. UNREAD. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. 407pp. In the Spring of 1982, when Argentina invades an obscure British colony off the South American coast, the Falklands, provoking a national crisis and a patriotic revival. The repercussions for the residents of Anglefield Road will reach far beyond the events of that momentous summer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. more information

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London: Little, Brown & Company, 2001. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight lean, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some wear and a little creasing to edge. 375pp. Devon 1912 and Tim Wilson cannot believe his luck. He has landed the job of his dreams as a newspaper reporter on the Torquay Times. He is also captivated by Katherine Coates, the daughter of a business colleague of his late father.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Arrow Books, 1984. Slight lean, some creasing and wear to edge and corners. 255pp. Classic account of the heroic and tragic breakout from Stalag Luft III.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Kenyon, Ley. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Usual library marks and stamps, library sale price to ffep, lean to spine, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little edge-wear, in protective wrapper, stuck to boards with sticky tape. 338pp. It is Hollywood in 1914. Handsome box-office draw Phillip Inshroin takes a film crew to the blood-bath in France and his war-footage ends up as about 40 seconds' backdrop for a soppy romance starring a writhing Olive West. This is a book about how America was not immortalized by Hollywood.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Grafton Books, 1990. First Impression. No Inscriptions. Slight bump to corners and top of spine, dustwrapper is very slightly creased accordingly, small corner torn from final page, well away from text. 320pp. This story of what happened to women - working-class, middle-class, gentry - when their men went to the War is warm, poignant, wholly compelling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Macdonald, 1981. First Impression, usual library marks and stamps, ffep missing, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, worn to edge, in protective wrapper, stuck to boards with sticky tape. 734pp. David Butler's majestic novel tells the story behind the outrage, when on Friday 7th May 1915, when she was hit by one German torpedo, without warning and within sight of the Irish Coast.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1981. Usual library marks and stamps, library sale price to ffep, lean to spine, shelf-worn. Dustwrapper in protective cover, some wear to edge, stuck to boards with sticky tape. 205pp. Describing vividly both the background of the Peninsular campaign and the soldier's lot on active service in a country devastated by war - the boredom of camp, the slogging marches, the extremes of climate, the expectation and terror of battle and skirmish, the despair of retreat and death, and still the hope of ultimate victory.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002. First Impression. No Inscriptions, creasing to cover, a little edge and corner wear. 206pp. Telling the story of a man and his family forging their lives against the backdrop of World War II and the twentieth century.. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Good. more information

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Bristol: Dempsey-Parr, 1999. First Impression. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some creasing and edge-wear, remnants of adhesive sticker to front. 320pp. Over 300 entries, fully illustrated and with full specifications.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Cassell and Company, 1951. 8vo. In black cloth covered boards with gilt title stamp to spine. Slight rubbing to boards. In patterned, unclipped, DJ with wrinkling and small tears at top of spine, and slight wrinkling at bottom. Spine of d/j miscoloured and small tears at top of d/j at rear, there is a small brown mark on d/j at rear. Contains fold-out maps and charts. In this volume Mr. Churchill has described with the broad sweep of the great historian, and with loving care for the revealing detail which only one in his unique position can command.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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London: Collins, 1984. Usual library marks and stamps, ffep missing, shelf-worn, lean to spine. Dustwrapper clipped, with publishers price sticker, worn to edge, in protective wrapper, stuck to boards with sticky tape. Reprint. 320p. A war novel telling the story of ordinary fighting men in heroic terms; of Middle East veterans returned to a Sydney changed by war, of the multiple threads of their home lives in war-time Australia, and of the sufferings which they had the qualities to surmount on the bitter battlefields of New Guinea.. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: William Kimber & Co. Limited, 1988. First Impression. No Inscriptions, lean to spine, minor shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little surface scratching, minor wrinkling to edge. 189pp. Ben Grant is a war hero. By the time of the war in Korea, however, he is still not commissioned. It is by his own choice and a choice over which his conscience rages as the submarine Audacity of which he is coxswain races on to play a part in the war.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins, 1998. First Impression. Signed bookplate laid in to half-title, pages a little tanned, slight lean, a little bumping and edge-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some edge-creasing and wear. 298pp. India, 1803. It is four years since Richard Sharpe earned his sergeant's stripes at the siege of Seringapatam, and four years in which Sharpe seems to have discovered the easiest billet in the British army. But that comfort is rudely shattered when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary army of the Mahratia Confederation commanded by the flamboyant Hanoverian Anthony Pohlmann.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, Limited, 2001. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight lean, a little bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little edge-wear. 261pp. Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. First Impression. No Inscriptions, very minor bump to corner. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, tiny tear at corner, and at rear. 309pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. First Impression. No Inscriptions, lean to spine. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some creasing to edge. 343pp. Nathaniel Starbuck, the northern preacher's son who fights for the Confederate South, is plunged into the most desperate battle of America's Civil War, the fight at Antietam, in this, the fourth novel in the Starbuck Chronicles.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. Second Impression. No Inscriptions, very slight lean, slight bump to spine, smudge to page edge. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wear to corners. 351pp. Sharpe's Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portugese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena's crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where French hopes of occupying Portugal and finishing the war quickly die.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London, 1998. No Inscriptions. 298pp. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, Limited, 2001. First Impression. Authors signature to title page, small mark to top page edge. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, in protective wrapper. 261pp. Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: William Kimber & Co. Limited, 1986. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight bump to spine-ends and corners. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, slight wrinkling to edge. 268pp. The battleship was old, poorly armed and on her way to a refit. But first she had a mission - to see the convoy through to beleagured Malta safely. In the enemy-dominated Mediterranean of 1941 the odds were stacked against them. Odds in the form of U-boats and Stukas. In this fast-moving novel of the war at sea, Barry Coward has written a gripping saga, full of dangers, dramas, tragedies and triumphs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1980. First Impression, usual library marks and stamps, ffep missing, sticky tape repair to hinge. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, in protective wrapper. 351pp. This gripping novel is set in the Belgian Congo in the period immediately after independence when Tshombe was fighting for the survival of his secessionist province of Katanga.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Century. Library stamps and markings, fep removed, as is the copyright page. Ex-library sale price written to endpaper. Dustwrapper not price-clipped and in protective plastic wrapper. 504pp. The English summer that preceded World War I is legendary, but nowhere was it more golden, more enchanted than in the tiny Dorset village of Tarrant Royal, dominated by Tarrant Hall, the exquisite old house which was the birthright of the three Sheridan brothers. At the Going Down of the Sun is the story of these three men and of the women who loved them and waited for them through four long years of this savage war.. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1995. Minor wear to edge. 262pp. Last Letters Home brings together the memories, both good and bad, and captures the spirit of the lives of soldiers and civilians, young and old, from the Second World War. Through the last letters they wrote and received, and through interviews, we learn the everyday stories of lives transformed by separation, bombing, internment and the horror of battle.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Granada, 1983. Some creasing to cover, no inscriptions. 448pp. A brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war ... and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London, 1992. Some shelf-wear, some marking to page ends. Dustwrapper has a little wear to edge. 323pp. January 1942. Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt, perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself. In the heady confusion of war, rumours and counter-rumours flow thick and fast. But one thing is certain - Rommel has a spy in the city; a source so well-informed that the German commander knows, in advance, every movement of the forces that oppose him.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London, 1977. Former owners name inscribed to ffep, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper a little worn and creased to edge. 304pp. The true story of the Battle of Britain, with an introduction by A. J. P. Taylor.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. First Impression, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some fading to spine, a little wear to corner. 319pp. This dramatic and surprising account of all that contributed to the military feat of Whitsun 1940, and brought Manstein, Guiderian and Rommel into World History, will come as a shock to those who believe that these events bear no lessons for today's world.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Little Brown & Company, 1998. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight lean, tiny bump to edge and corner. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little creasing to edge. 338pp. A dramatic personal account of life in the SBS.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1998. No Inscriptions, lean to spine, some shelf-wear, a little bumping to corners. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some creasing and wear to edge and corners. 393pp. It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the Vichy regime clings ever closer to the Nazi occupier in their danse macabre.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980. First Impression, usual library marks and stamps, ffep removed, library sale price to fep. Dustwrapper not price clipped, in protective wrapper, stuck to boards with sticky tape, sticky residue seeped to facing pages. 218pp. Before the Lend-Lease Bill went through Congress in 1941 Britain was virtually on her knees through bankruptcy. In December 1940 top German economists discovered that Britain's last remaining gold reserves were in South Africa : if they could prevent this gold reaching London, the British would be forced to sue for peace.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Pan Books, 2002. Minor creasing to corners. Reading creases to spine. No inscriptions, pages clean and bright. Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London: Macmillan, 2001. No Inscriptions, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some edge and corner wear, in protective cellophane. 455pp. It is May 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain ... . Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984. First Impression, usual library marks and stamps, ffep removed, lean to spine. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some creasing, in protective wrapper. 224pp. It was in the village of Xuan The that it happened. Not that anyone quite knew what had really occurred, not for a long time anyhow. Not until Billy Morgan's tour of duty was over, and he and the man who was his hero and his friend were back home again.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London, 1975. A little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper has a little wear to edge. 286pp. When the Second World War separates Victoria Wymering and her husband three different men are powerfully attracted to her : a veteran of the Great War, a schoolboy and a secret agent of Special Operations Executive.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1980. No inscriptions, slight lean, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not priced, a little edge-wear. First Edition book in Book Club Dustjacket. 359pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London, 1978. Some shelf-wear, a little bumping to corners. Dustwrapper a little worn and wrinkled to edge. 286pp. The year is 1942. London is battered but unsubdued while Paris lies at the proud feet of her conquerors, and the moment of truth has come for Britain's new American allies.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Hutchinson. Not dated, but stamped War Economy standard. A little shelf-wear, slight bump to corners. Dustwrapper has wear and small tears to corners, worn to edge. 184pp. Historical fiction dealing with the second world war as it affects the ordinary man and woman in this and other countries.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. more information

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London: Hutchinson. Not dated, former owners name neatly inscribed, written date 1944, slight lean, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, worn and creased to edge, small tears, chip to head of spine. 184pp. Dealing with the war as it affects the ordinary man and woman in this and other countries. Many of the characters are the solitary wives whose husbands are away in the forces.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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London: Hutchinson. Not dated, former owners name neatly inscribed with a written date of 1950, some shelf-wear, a little bumping to corners. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little grubby, some wear to edge. 316pp. This is a novel with a tragic human story, recounting the suffering of the German people during WWII.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 2004. First Impression. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little edge-wear. 288pp. Despite the regular and devastating bombing raids that rained down on Britain's major cities, people settled into a surreal normality. From Orkney to Dover, Glasgow to Grimsby. the records of daily life experienced by the population of Britain tell of bravery, despair, exhaustion and an unbreakable spirit of resistance.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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