Naval, Maritime & Military

London: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1981 First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Ian Allan, 1953 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: HMSO, 1966 Chairman: R.M. Geddes.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: HMSO, 1963 Concerns the organisation of domestic Civil Defence in a nuclear war scenario, with useful easy to follow illustrations. An important publication from the Cold War. Rare.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Lloyds, 1981 Contents:- Publications issued by Lloyd's Register. Forword. Notes relative to this Register. Key to the Register of Ships (as an insert plastic card inserted into front pocket). Abbreviations used in the Register of Ships. Profiles illustrating decks, superstructures spaces, tanks. Government authorisation. Contractions of place names; REGISTER OF SHIPS. Buckram binding. Three Volumes 1. A-G. Red buckram 1816pp. Volume II H-O bound in black buckram, 1773pp. Volume III P-Z 1822pp. All in very good condition.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Russell & Russell, 1958 The account of the Civil War is also a study of the transformation of a nation.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Kendal: Irish Academic Press, 1994 This book chronicles the important role of Ireland's seabourne military forces in the Civil War and in the Emergency and explains the rebirth of the Irish Naval Service in the late twentieth century. Ever since the Boreal Seas rose sufficiently to form the islands of Ireland and Britain some 8000 years ago, both have been dependant on water transport for their being. Their history has been formed by the sea from the days of the later Stone Age cultures to the present. In this century there have been so many changes to the approach of the Irish to the sea that Aidan McIvor's book is both timely and necessary. Much has been written about the manifold problems of Ireland and many books deal with her extraordinary history. But this is a book in a different category. Based on a great deal of research, it is the tale of the maritime country which, since the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, has consistently turned her back to the sea unless unusual events have caused a temporary change of heart. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Kendal: World Ship Society, 1982 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Port Pirie: World Ship Society (Australian Section), 1948 Orignally published by His Majesty"s Stationery Office in 1947. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Australian Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Haddington: Albyn Press, 1988 Account of life inside Scottish lighthouses Stroma in Pentland Firth and Buchan Ness off the Aberdeenshire coast.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. Illus. by Ian Macinnes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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München: J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1968 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canberra: Topmill Pty. Ltd, 1996 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Dublin: DFHQ, 1996 Booklet produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Irish Naval Service held at Cork and Cobh 1996. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Cambridge University Press, 1939 Some minor spotting to covers. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Barnet: The Naval Wargames Society, 1969 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Barnet: The Naval Wargames Society, 1968 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Barnet: The Naval Wargames Society, 1968 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Barnet: The Naval Wargames Society, 1969 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Barnet: The Naval Wargames Society, 1968 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Barnet: The Naval Wargames Society, 1968 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Barnet: The Naval Wargames Society, 1969 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971 First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: En Sorbonne Pour L'esbaudissement des Escholiers, 1930. Rare and important two volume set of a unique collection of bawdy student and army songs. Edited by Edmond Dardenne Bernard. French text. Covers showing wear. Rare.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994 The extraordinary story of a time when giant zeppelins held the promise of the future of air travel.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Fine. Illus. by Ken Marschall . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Osprey Publishing, 1990 The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and other cities actually resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the North. In this excellent assessment of the key battle of the Vietnam conflict, James Arnold details the plans and forces involved and explains how, despite the outcome of the battle, the American people and their leaders came to perceive the war for Vietnam as lost. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1958 Contents include chapters on The Failure of Atomic Disarmament; The a Failure of Conventional Rearmament; Unity and Plurality of the Diplomatic Field; Polymorphous Violence; Total Threat and Graduate Reprisals. Translated by Terence Kilmartin.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1939 An account of the author's visit to wartime China in the spring and early summer of 1938. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Windsor: Profile Publications, 1971 The Supermarine Seafire was a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire specially adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. The name Seafire was arrived at by collapsing the longer name In late 1941 and early 1942 the Admiralty assessed the Spitfire for possible conversion. In late 1941 48 Spitfire Mk. Vb were converted by Air Training Service Ltd. at Hamble to become "hooked Spitfires". This was the Seafire Mk. Ib and would be the first of several Seafire variants to reach the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. This version of the Seafire was mainly used to allow the Royal Navy to gain experience in operating the Spitfire on aircraft carriers. The main structural change was made to the lower rear fuselage which incorporated an A-frame style arrestor hook and strengthened lower longerons. It was soon discovered that the fuselage, especially around hatches, was too weak for sustained carrier operations. In an attempt to alleviate this condition, reinforcing strips were riveted around hatch openings and along the main fuselage longerons. A further 118 Seafire Ibs incorporating the fuselage reinforcements were modified from Spitfire Vbs by Cunliffe-Owen at Eastleigh and Air Training Service. These aircraft were equipped with Naval HF radio equipment and IFF equipment as well as a Type 72 homing beacon. In these and all subsequent Seafires the instruments were re-caibrated to read knots and nautical miles rather than mph and miles. The fixed armament was the same as that of the Spitfire Vb; two 20 mm Hispano Mk II cannon with 60 rounds per gun fed from a "drum" magazine, and four .303 inch Browning machine guns with 350 rpg. Provision was also made to carry a 30 gallon "slipper" fuel tank under the fuselage. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Hutchinson & Co., 1932 Some fading to boards. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1964. The brief military operation between Britain, France and Israel carried out against Egypt in 1956.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Bradford: School of Peace Studies University of Bradford, 1982 First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior National Park Service, 1962 Second Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Ottawa: Canadian War Museum, 1979 English text.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1972 First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1972 First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975 Guide to Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will celebrating Nazi Germany. Includes analysis, critique, filmography, production history and bibliography.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1968 History of the Warsaw Ghetto including an index of the Nazi Terror Victims and Members of the Polish Resistance at the rear.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Navy Records Society, 1977 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Stroud: Silent But Deadly, 1991 First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Patrick Stephens, 1980 First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Bowker, 1977 First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Published for The Historical Association By P.S. King & Staples Limited, 1943 Historical Association Pamphlet no. 125.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: CND Publications Ltd., 1981 First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1970. A revised and updated edition of the author's He-Ketzuna we-ha-shilton ba'olam ha-'aravi, published by Sifriat Poalim, Tel Aviv, 1966. Be'eri presents a detailed analysis of military coup d'etat, commencing with a survey of their history from that of Bakr Sidqi in Iraq, in 1936, up to that of February, 1966, in Syria. Other ways in which army officers have participated in the political life of Arab states are also considered. The author goes on to analyse patterns of military coups d'etat and, in particular, the nature of military dictatorship and points of similarity and difference between coups d'etat in the arab world and other regions. He examines the social origins of Arab officers, their status in society, and points distinguishing the officer class of a specific Arab state from that of others. Translated from the Hebrew by Dov Ben-Abba.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1963 Stroy of a submarine voyage.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993 Edited by Bryan Ranft. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1969 The brief military operation between Britain, France and Israel carried out against Egypt in 1956 with material on the Plan Musketeer and the Airborne Operation. Translated from the French by Richard Berry. Scarce. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Guild Press, 1984 Delta Force is the only authoritative account of America's elite counterterrorist unit and the definitive work on its personnel-their selection, training, weapons, and tactics. Because the action is also the man, the book chronicles the career of Col. Charlie A. Beckwith and reveals how his combat record and experience with the British Special Air Service Regiment and the Green Berets inspired him to bring Delta Force into being-and earned him the right to command it. Here is told for the first time the story of the gallant rescue by a small force commanded by Beckwith of the besieged Special Forces camp at Plei Me, which in October 1965 was surrounded by two North Vietnamese regiments. Here, too, are Beckwith's struggles against the military bureaucracy as he attempts to create and build America's only military counterterrorist unit. Delta Force is the premier insider's account of a bold, complex, and incredibly difficult rescue mission. The book reveals what was then America's closest-kept secret-the plan to release the U.S. Embassy personnel held hostage in Iran. Here is a complete, minute-by-minute account of what happened in Iran the night of April 24, 1980: the landing at Desert One, the late arrival of the Marine helicopters, the terribly painful decision not to go forward, the tragic events leading to the fiery accident costing eight American lives. Colonel Beckwith describes the decision-making, the planning and preparation and training, behind the rescue mission. Expressed with a unique combination of excitement and candor, Delta Force gives the reader all the emotion and action of a novel-yet its abundance of highly specific information also enables the reader to stand in the historian's place and judge whether the mission could ever have succeeded.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Williams & Norgate, 1912 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Arrowsmith, 1931 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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