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1938 A piece of pre Second World War ephemera. A dinner invitation from the first Nazi Mayor of Vienna, Hermann Neubacher for 9 o'clock on 18 September 1938; on the occasion of the European women's championships in the track-and-field events. Has creases and underlining. Postage will be reduced.. Good. ... more information

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London: Heinemann, 1971 Thirty years ago in World War II, four men, led by a fifth, banded together in the underground resistance to make life miserable for the occupying enemy in the South of France. They became known as the Zoo Gang to the harassed Germans. Described as a thrilling adventure story in the underworld that lurks not too far beneath that playground of sunshine, the Cote d'Azur. Dust jacket, not price clipped, has large tear on front, small one on the back. Book has small inscription by... more information

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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1950 The training of elephants and men into extraordinary teams to do extraordinary things during World War II. With introduction by Field-Marshall Sir William Slim. With 42 illustrations, 4 maps, one a foldout. 320 pages. Book has inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Covers with general light wear.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Wingate, 1950 "The 'Cicero Affair', or Operation Cicero, as we came to call it, was played out in Turkey, during the period between October 1943 and April 1944. It was perhaps the most spectacular single incident in that shadowy, secret, silent warfare that went on day and night for six long years, the struggle of brains to discover the enemy's intentions and thus to be in a position to frustrate them." A true 'Spy Story' with a postscript by Franz von Papen Spine ... more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950 Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-second President of the United States and Chief Executive from 1933 to 1945, the architect of the New Deal and the director of victory in World War II. Born in Hyde Park, New York in 1882 and died in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945. With 20 chapters, over three parts, Bibliography and Acknowledgments, Index, 441 pages, Slight fading to spine, inscription in pencil on front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No J... more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1998 The subject of the 1998 Reith Lecture was war - its origins, its history and its future. 87pp. Some shelfwear to dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Geoffrey Bles and The Book Society Ltd, 1957 If Kurt had not turned up in Trieste that day in 1947 there would have been no problem for Eugen Reichenbach. He would have continued his ordered and respectable life as a naturalized American with the World universities Relief Organisation, correlating data, seeking Broad Solutions, considering Policy, right to the end of the chapter. But Kurt did come: Kurt who had known him as a surgeon in pre-war Vienna, full of ideals for the service of humanity. And when Ku... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1943 "This is a record of war. Unlike some others, it does not seek to explain or criticise, being only a descriptive narrative of my journeys between April 1940 and the autumn of 1942. It is also a story of the sufferings and achievements of human beings in the fourteen countries that we have called the Middle East, an area of the world's surface that has a yellow desert for its heart, but of which all the frontiers are green." Richard Dimbleby, Summer, 19... more information

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Book Club Associates, 1975 The story of Thor Heyerdahl's first Pacific adventure long ago, before World War II which included and idyllic month spent with the last Polynesian cannibal. Beats working at Tescos. Numerous illustrations. 381pp. Dust jacket has tears around top edges and is a little sun-bleached on parts of front.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Book Club Associates, 1981 This book describes the first day of full-scale daylight attacks on Berlin as seen through the eyes of more than 160 Americans and Germans in the air and on the ground. 69 US four-engined bombers and 11 escorting fighters failed to return. Photographs, maps and diagrams. Sunning to spine.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Collins, 1964 This volume takes the story of Wavell's life from his youth to the time when he handed over command in the Middle East to go to India as Commander-in-Chief. It describes his early years: soldiering with his beloved Black Watch in India and during the South African war; learning Russian in Moscow before 1914; on the staff in France and with his hero Allenby in Palestine. With 14 chapters, Chronological Table, Notes, Glossary, Code names, Bibliography, Index, 23 illustrations, 574p... more information

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Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work, 1894 "Bunyan's early experiences in the Parliamentary army had taught him many things about the military art, and he has put all he had so learned to the most splendid use in the siege and subjugation of Mansoul." Covers have damp stains on spine, front and back; damp has not affected text pages which are in very good condition. Binding sound.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&frac3... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1944 Edgewear to grey cloth covers. 237 pages. With ten maps (two on endpapers). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Methuen & Co., 1950 A journalists impressions of Japan acquired during an eight months stay just after the Second World War. Front free endpaper has remnants of a sticker attached and some foxing. Some foxing too on back fep. Covers have some light edgewear and soiling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1944 Foxing on page edges and title page. Title page also a little grubby. 80pp.. First Edition. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Pluto Press, 2000 The superpowers and the acts they commit. 252 pages. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 215mm Tall. ... more information

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London: Macmillan & Co, 1943 339pp. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Cover corners bumped, small indentation on spine and edge of front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: W. Westall & Co., 1917 Written in biblical style and format by Arthur Telford Mason, the history of the First World War with an emphasis on the home front. Not paginated. Wear and browning to edges of leather covers. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.. Full-Leather. Good. 165mm Tall. ... more information

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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1948 From the archives of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Fading to spine and top of covers. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1968 Third impression, 584pp. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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