Search Results: Authors starting with J from William Robertson

London: BCA , 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Essential guide to NATO's air capability in the late 1980s from an established authority on the subject. Examines strengths, organisation and distribution of front-line NATO squadrons, as well as their transport and supply back-up organisation, in all major fronts: Northern Flank; Central Front; and the Southern Flank. Masses of detailed information on aircraft performance and operational capability, accompanied by numerous colour and b&w photographs. Probably required reading for every Soviet Air Force intelligence officer during the Cold War. Contains 146 pages, 30 x 215cm, and illustrated throughout with colour and b&w photos plus maps. Blue cloth boards in Very Good pictorial dust jacket, internally Very Good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

London: Bloomsbury, 2002. Paperback. Good. Good/-. Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest social chronicler. Her book is littered with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, including her hilarious account of Andy Warhol's eighties blind-date club; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; the day her sweat turned green; and testing as mentally retarded on an IQ test. Alongside revealing tales of New York life, its parties, its restaurants and fashion, Janowitz gives us her unique low-down on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies and Brooklyn, big hair days and bad hair days. Contains 336 pages, 19.5 x 13.5cm. Ex-library, front endpapers removed, some library markings. Pictorial, laminated, card covers in good condition. Internally, good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

Godalming: Ted Smart/Book People, 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The author was the first serving SAS commander to write about this secretive regiment. In this volume (first published by W. Kimber in 1980 as 'SAS Operation Oman'), he describes the regiment's role in what is regarded as the most successful counter-insurgency campaign ever fought - the Dhofar War of 1969-76. Despite its success, the SAS involvement was kept secret from the British public for many years and is still little known. This book sets the record straight and is still studied at the British Army Staff College as a text-book on counter-insurgency. The aim was not to kill the enemy, if possible, but to persuade him to see the error of his ways and turn him against his former comrades - something achieved with remarkable skill and professionalism. Contains 253 pages, 8 pages of colour photos and 5 maps. Pictorial, laminated boards in very good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, very good: clean and unmarked… Read More

London: John Murray, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Jenkins specializes in standing the world upside down and looking at it afresh, which is exactly what he succeeds in doing in this collection of writings. No party, politician or pressure group escapes his gaze in this hilarious and thought provoking anthology. Size, 24 x 16cm, 227 pages. Claret boards in illustrated dust jacket showing very slight wear on top/right edge, otherwise very good. Internally, fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new inside.

London: Macmillan, 1994. Hardcover. Good/good. Published to mark the centenary of England's largest land- and property-owning charity, The National Trust. Formed in 1894, the Trust's aim is to preserve and/or restore fine examples of English architecture, as well as gardens, prehistoric monuments and stretches of coastline. This is a comprehensive study of the charity's growth, describing its internal wranglings, its dealings with the government, and its cast of sometimes eccentric people who have been part of its life, from Beatrix Potter to G.M. Trevelyan and George Nathaniel Curzon to Vita Sackville-West. Along the way we are introduced to some beautiful historic buildings and other treasures. Contains 369 pages, 24 x 16cm, with 36 colour and b&w photos, plus maps on endpapers. Ex-library with some library markings. Blue cloth boards in good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, good: clean, bright and unmarked in sound bindings.

London: Bloomsbury, 1989. Hardcover. Good/very good. Rejected by the British Army despite service in the TA paratrooper reserves, the author signed up for five years with the elite airborne regiment of the French Foreign Legion. He deserted while on duty in East Africa, was recaptured by native bounty hunters and jailed, then deserted again in Europe in 1986 to make it back to Britain. His account of the Legion is a factual and irreverent view of military life, providing a unique insight into the soldiering process. Size, 24 x 16cm, 197 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, red cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket, internally good: clean and unmarked in sound bindings.

London: Bloomsbury , 1991. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good/poor. Harrowing account of the Lisa Steinberg child abuse/murder case, highlighting the glaring loopholes in the American adoption system. Size, 23 x 16cm, 303 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket showing large piece missing from rear. Internally, good: generally clean and unmarked in sound bindings.

London: Stanley Paul , 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. From two of WWII's greatest fighter pilots - Johnnie Johnson and Laddie Lucas - comes this concise analysis of aerial conflict, from WWI to the Gulf. Packed with detail and expert opinion on how/why the greatest air battles were fought. Size 265 x 20cm, 208 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photos and some colour, plus several 2-colour campaign maps and diagrams. Blue cloth boards in Fair illustrated dust jacket, showing crinkled edges top and bottom. Internally Very Good: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

London: Bloomsbury , 1989. Hardcover. Fair/good. Fair/Good. In this important volume on the Nazi occupation of France, the author shows how the active persecution of Jews was done with the active collusion of the Vichy government's police and administration systems. The initial indifference to the plight of the Jews by the French people is discussed, along with the change that came about in 1942 when they realized that deported Jews were being sent to their deaths. Also looked at frankly is the blind faith of those Jews who hoped to avoid death by assimilating themselves into the Nazi world. A major aspect of the book is the survival (at time of publication) of Alois Brunner, a Nazi living at that time in Syria, who was responsible for the deaths of 128,500 people, most of them French Jews, including many children. Size, 24 x 16cm, 192 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Red cloth boards in good illustrated dust jacket. Internally, fair: occasional stains, but mostly clean and unmarked in sound bindings.