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BRITISH GALLANTRY AWARDS
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London: Guinness Superlatives,, 1971. 316pp. 58 coloured ribbons, b/w & colour medals. A few tape marks on the end-papers otherwise a bright fresh tight copy in fine condition. 1st edition. hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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THROUGH TO 1970,
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Royal Signals Institution, London, 1970, , 122pp, illustrated, large octavo, laminated pictorial wrappers, fine condition. .. more information
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THE WATERLOO COMPANION : The Complete Guide To History's Most Famous Land Battle
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London: Aurum Press Ltd,, 2001. 448pp, illustrated throughout. 2008 printing as new. hardback. Mint/mint. 4to. more information
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THE TRAFALGAR COMPANION
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London: Aurum Press Ltd,, 2005. 560pp. 40 commissioned paintings of uniforms, 12 portraits of ships, 29 maps, 30 battle diagrams, 60 colourillustrations of how ships were constructed. . hardback. Mint/mint. 4to. more information
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POONA'S GREAT DAYS,
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Sign of the Crown, Poona, 1944, , 49pp, illus. and plans, octavo, paper covers, V.G., Describing the Palace of the Peshwas when they were paramount in India; the British Embassey and its residents; the battles of Kirkee and Koregaon ,. more information
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FRONT LINE 1940-1941,
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HMSO, 1942, 1st, 131pp, many illus., octavo, paper covers, v.g., The official story of the Civil Defence of Britain,. more information
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BELGIUM The Official Account of what happened 1939-1940
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London: The Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1941. 110pp, 5 illus., 5 maps. Internally fine, boards a little damp stained. 1st edition. Blue cloth, gilt. Very Good. octavo. more information
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THE HISTORY OF THE GREEN HOWARDS,
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The Green Howards, Richmond, 1954, 1st edition, 56pp., one colour plate, 1map, 12mo., paper wrappers, fine. A series of short lectures given to new recruits,. more information
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LAST POST : The Final World from Our First World War Soldiers
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. 272pp. Illustrated. 1st edition. hardback. mint/mint. 8vo. more information
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True Glory/Royal Navy : Jutland to Today
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London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, 1995. xii,292pp, illus. throughout. A nice clean copy with a little wear to very top edge of d.j. and a n owners inscription. d.j.. Fine/fine a little rubbed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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LAND OF LAKES: MEMORIES KEEP ME COMPANY
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London: Robert Hale Limited., 1950. x, 246pp, with 33 illustrations. With preface by Sir Paul Dukes. Divided into 4 books, telling Finland's story, in a series of sketches of things and people and the authors own personal experiences.. First Edition. Green Cloth. V. G./No Jacket. Illus. by David Dixon Mcgregor.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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A GENERAL SKETCH OF THE EUROPEAN WAR The Second Phase,
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Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., London, July 1916, 1st ed., 404pp, octavo, orig. red cloth, gilt, spine a little mottled otherwise a tight copy. Foxinf to edges andpreliminaries. .. more information
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THE MARNE- AND AFTER
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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1917. xii, 324pp, with 4 plates and 5 maps. A companion volume to ''The Retreat from Mons''. Owners inscription. Front hinge cracked but firm. Spine sunned and binding a little grubby. A good reading copy. First Edition. Red Cloth. V.g.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945 ARMY THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE
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London: The War Office, 1946. 299pp. Including six appendix [one folding]. "Restricted" classification. Frontis. photo of Princess Royal. The A.T.S., history and activityin WWII. The ATS was a womens organisation that was formed on September 27th 1938. Covers a little dusty. Unworn copy with no markings. Boards a trifle bowed.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g./No Jacket. 8vo. more information
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THREE YEARS WAR [OCTOBER 1899- JUNE 1902]
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London: Archibald Constable and Co Ltd., 1902. 520,64 [pub. cat.] pp. Folding map of South Africa- 1902 and 2 illustrations.. Preliminaries and page edges have a little foxing. Mottled and sunned covers. A little shaken. First Edition. Brown Cloth. V.g.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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KISWAHILI A Kiswahili Instruction Book for the East Africa Command
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The East African, 1942. 141pp.Swahili language instruction with English text.. Second Edition with additions. Paper Wrappers. V.g.. 8vo. more information
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The silent general: horne of the first Army : A Biography of Haig's Trusted Great War Comrade-in-Arms
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Solihull: Helion & Company., 2007. 319 pages index notes b/w photos . 1st edition. hardback. Mint/mint. 8vo. more information
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The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942
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Stroud: Tempus, 2005. 405pp. Wrapper a trifle dusty otheriwse unread. hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo. more information
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BEYOND THE CHINWIN
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London: Collins, 1945. 255pp. Map end-papers. 11 plates. An account of of Number Five Column of the Wingate expedition into Burma 1943. First pub. Ap 1945 this ed. May 1945. 2nd impression. hardback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. more information
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THE GREAT BATTLES OF 1870 AND BLOCKADE OF METZ
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London: Trubner & Co., 1887. 318 [80 pub. cat.] pp. Frontis., 2 maps and 1 diagram. Lacks folding map for rear board envelope. Pictorial cover showing crossed flags [blocked in colour]/ A very scarce book in fine condition. Signed dedication on the half-title page to Lt. General Sir George Willis and a 4 pp hand manuscript signed letter from the author to Willis. [The printers note at the foot of the last page is 1000-5/3/87-1]. 13 line errata slip bound in before contents page.. Letter By Author. 1st edition. brown buckram, gilt. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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ROYAL AIR FORCEFighter Command Losses of the Second World War: Volume 1: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews, 1939-1941
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Hersham: Midland Publishing, 2008. 160pp. Illustrated. Pictorial glossy card wrappers. 2nd edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. more information
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CENTRAL PLANNING AND CONTROL IN WAR AND PEACE
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London: The London School of Economics/Longmans, 1947. 61pp. 1st edition. Paper Wrappers. V.g.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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THE SOMME THEN AND NOW
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FOLKSTONE: Bailey Brothers, 1977. xii, 140pp. Illustrated throughout. Maps. A nice copy lacking a d.j.. 1st edition. red cloth, gilt. Fine/No Jacket. Oblong 4to. more information
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An Assemblage of Indian Army Soldiers & Uniforms
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London: Perpetua Press Ltd, 1973. xxi, 34pp, 41 colour plates, xxvii. 1st edition. hard back. Fine/Fine, price-clipped. 8vo. more information
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AN ILLUSTRATED ARMY LIST
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London: Moss Bros. & Co. Ltd Composed, Illustrated, and Thrust upon Moss Bros. & Co. Ltd by....This is the army seen by a perishing marine. 16 pages, illus. throughout. ND [1938 reference in corner of one plate]. A very nice copy with some rubbing and a trifle dusty. Attracive pink covers edges chipped but complete. Pictorial Wrappers. V.g.. oblong quarto. more information
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General Patton : A Soldier's Life
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New York: Perennial Books, 2003. 826pp, illus.. paperback. V.g.. 8vo. more information
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BEFORE WE GO BACK
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London: His Majesty's Staitonery Office, 1944. 64pp. with 60 illustrations and 2 maps. Norway's fight since April 1940. A pictorial Record of Norway's Fight against Nazism, both inside and outside the country. With a postscript by Philip Noel-Baker .M.P. Published on behalf of the Royal Norwegian Goverment Information Office. Almost mint.. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Back.. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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THE MEDALS OF OUR FIGHTING MEN
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London: A.& C. Black, Ltd ND [circa 1914]. 120pp, 4 colour plates, 12 black and white of photographs of medals. A good reading copy. Spine faded and soiled. Tight clean contents. 1st Edition. Red Cloth. V.g.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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The Red and Green Life Machine : A Diary of the Falklands Field Hospital
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London: Century Publishing, 1983. 146pp, illustrated. 1st edition. hardback. V.g./V.g.. large 8vo. more information
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THE STANDARD CATALOGUE OF BRITISH ORDERS DECORATIONS AND MEDALS 1969 WITH VALUATIONS
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London: Spink & Son Limited, 1969. 114pp.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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WORLD ARMIES Second Edition
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Macmillian Publishers, 1983. 688pp. D,J a trifle rubbed to the rear cover overwise a nice copy. . 2nd edition. hardback. Fine/V.g.. 4to. more information
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THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR The First Battalion
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Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1997. 223 pp. Illustrated. Maps on endpapers. Orig. pub. 1923. Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers with a foreword by George Webb. re-issue. hardback. Fine/Fine. Illus. by A. Frederics. small 4to. more information
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BRITISH MILITARY UNIFORMS
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London and New York: Penguin Books, 1948. 37pp, 24 full colour plates. K42 from the King Penguin series edited by N. Pevsner.. 1st edition. hardback. Fine/no jacket. small 8vo. more information
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GUNS OR BUTTER
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London: Putnam, 1938. 382 pp. Preliminaries a little foxing. Small tear to 1 cm of front joint. Binding un-faded. 1st edition. Blue cloth, gilt. V.g./No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Panzer Commander : The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck
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Cassell, 2006. 355pp. reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. more information
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WIND OF FREEDOM,
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Chatto & Windus, London, 1944, third impression, xi, 280pp, 16 plates, 1 map, octavo, original blue cloth, gilt, sun damage spine and boards. 'the history if the invasion of greece by the axis powers. 1940-1941'.. more information
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THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS CHRONICLE
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London: Jordon-Gaskell Ltd, 1959. 4 volumes of the Regimental Year book 1959;1960;1962;1964 All as new. Well illustrated and printed on quality paper. 1st edition. Paper Wrappers. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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FROM THE DREADNOUGHT TO SCAPA FLOW VOLUME 5 1918-1919: VICTORY AND AFTERMATH
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London: Oxford University Press, 1970. 417pp, 7 folding charts at rear, 8 plates, 2 text plans. D.j. rubbed and lightly worn but complete and intact, edges of book a trifle foxed otherwise a tight clean copy. . 1st edition. Blue cloth, Silver Lettering. Fine/V G. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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THE WHITE RABBIT,
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Evans Brothers, Limited. London, 1952, first edition, 262pp, 1 plate, octavo, original dark blue cloth, spine faded. 'From the story told to him by Wing Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, G.C., M.C.'.. more information
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AN APPROACH TO SANITY A study of East-West Relations,
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Collins, London, 1959, 1st edition, 94pp, octavo, black cloth, gilt, fine condition. A very nice copy lacking a d.j.. more information
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Claws of the Bear
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London: Hutchinson, 1989. 468 pages b/w photos maps.. 1st edition. hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo. more information
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SAS Heroes: Remarkable Soldiers, Extraordinary Men
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Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2008. 288pp, index colour photos . 1st ed., 1st imp.. hardback. Mint/mint. 8vo. more information
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JAPAN'S ISLANDS OF MYSTERY
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1944. 225pp, edges foxed and a trifle rubbed otherwise fine. The war in the Pacific. 1st reprint. Blue cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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COLLECTING
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London: B.A.Seaby Ltd, 1971. [ii], 192; frontispiece, 15 plates, 18 figures, 3 appendix . A fine copy with just a couple of tape marks on the end-papers. revised edition. Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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THE LAST BATTLE
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London: New English Library, 1979. 446pp, with 4 maps.This is a story of ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians, caught up in the build up to the Allied offensive in Berlin in 1945 .. Reprint. Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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No Escape Zone
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London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. 235pp.. hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Douglas Haig : The Preparatory Prologue: 1861-1914 Diaries and Letters
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Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2006. xv, 336pp, 37 plates. 1st edition. hardback. Mint/mint. 8vo. more information
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A CANADIAN AUTUMN
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ND [circa pre 1914]. (6),[vii]-xvii,(1),[1]-156 pp.. Illustrated (with 76 photographs. Published privately and printed by William Clowes and Sons. The story of an expedition, in 1907, to Canada by The British Artillery Association to compete against the Canadian Artillery. A very nice copy with no wear or marks.. green cloth, gilt. Fine. large octavo. more information
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The Right of the Line : The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985. 841pp. A lovely copy, un-faded and no inscriptions, un-clipped. 1st edition. hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo. more information
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NORMANDY TO THE BALTIC,
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Hutchinson & Co., London, ND[1946], 1st ed., 226pp, 46 maps and 3 diagrams in pockets., octavo, orig. red cloth, fine condition, a little foxing to pockets. A very nice example with all maps present.. more information
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