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WALLACE Edgar
Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces. The Full Story of a Great Achievement. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and numerous photographs in the text; original red cloth, upper board framed and blocked in blind, and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers moderately age-soiled, case lightly shaken else a good, clean copy. With prize bookplate on front paste-down.
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HICKEY [Colonel] Michael
The Unforgettable Army. Slim's XIVth Army in Burma. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With statistical appendices. Graham & Cole, B12.
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KNIGHT Ian
The Anatomy of the Zulu Army. From Shaka to Cetshwayo 1818-1879. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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JAMES Lawrence
Mutiny. In the British and Commonwealth Forces, 1797-1956. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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JAMES N.D.G.
Plain Soldiering. A History of the Armed Forces on Salisbury Plain. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and plans in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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NOONAN Miles
Tales from the Mess. A Military Miscellany. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WILLIAMSON Howard
A Dictionary of Great War Abbreviations. NEAR FINE COPY
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DALLAS Gloden
The Unknown Army. [Mutinies in the British Army in World War I.] NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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WESTLAKE Ray
English and Welsh Infantry Regiments. An Illustrated Record of Service. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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SLEIGH Arthur
The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List 1850. [Facsimile reissue] 150 COPIES WEWERE PRINTED
8vo., red faux-morocco cloth, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO.51).
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CROWDER Norman K.
British Army Pensioners Abroad, 1772-1899. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
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BOR-KOMOROWSKI Tadeusz
The Secret Army. [First English Edition]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition thus, with front and rear endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Detailed and inspiring history of the Polish Underground by its foremost leader. A cornerstone of the literature of Poland in WWII. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.342.
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GARDYNE Charles Greenhill
The Life of a Regiment. The History of the Gordon Highlanders from its Formation in 1794 to 1816. [And from 1816 to 1898. Including an Account of the 75th Regiment from 1787 to 1881]. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT COPIES COMPLETE IN THEMSELVES
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispieces, title-vignettes, 6 fine coloured plates (mainly of uniform), 23 plates in monochrome, a folding panorama, 9 folding maps and 7 full-page maps (coloured or coloured in outline), and 32 illustrations (many full-page) and numerous tables and pedigrees in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original regimental cloth, badge blocked in silver on upper boards, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set. One of the great regimental histories. The set comprises Vol. I: 1794-1816; Vol. II: 1816-1898. Including the 75th Regiment 1787-1881. The first editions of these two volumes were published in 1901 and 1903 respectively. The first two volumes constitute a set in themselves. A third volume by Gardyne followed in 1939, and fourth, fifth and sixth volumes by Falls (1958), Miles (1961) and A.D. Gardyne (1972). White, p.120.
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STUBBS Mary Lee
Armor-Cavalry Part I: Regular Army and Army Reserve[with] Part II: Army National Guard. With lineages adapted by Janice E. McKenney. Army Lineage Series. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; navy buckram, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set.
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DELAFORCE Patrick
Monty's Highlanders. 51st (Highland) Division at War 1939-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DUNN] [Captain J.C.
The War the Infantry knew 1914-1919. A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium with The Second Battalion, His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on Personal Records, by One of their Medical Officers. [With an Introduction by Keith Simpson.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; original pictorial wrappers, crease in rear wrapper else a very goos, clean copy. This important work, to which Sassoon was a primary contributor, was first published privately in 1938 (see Keynes B16). A public edition was issued in 1987, which was followed, in turn, by this paperback version. Sassoon's main contribution A Subaltern's Service in Camp and Action (12 March to 1 April 1917) stands as Chapter XII where it is here retitled A Chapter in a Subaltern's Life (March 12th to April 16th 1917). The account was written early in 1926 and except for his diaries of 1918, was the first prose Sassoon wrote about the war. It was afterwards expanded in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) as pp. 190-237 (see Keynes A33). Not recorded by Enser.
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CLARKE Hugh
Barbed Wire and Bamboo. Australian POWs in Europe, North Africa, Singapore, Thailand and Japan. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RESERVE OFFICER'S TRAINING CORPS.
The R.O.T.C. Manual. Infantry. A Textbook for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Ist Year Basic. Volumes I and II. 24th Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WITH EPHEMERA
8vo., First Edition, with numerous diagrams throughout, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in yellow, leather thumb-tabs, covers mildly age-faded else a very good, clean copy. Loosely inserted are two contemporary training documents, together with publisher's mailing envelope containg a copy of Special Map 'A', a protractor graduated in degrees and a protractor graduated in mils.
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HOFFSCHMIDT E.J.
[Second World War] German Combat Weapons. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine copy.
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KREIDBERG Marvin A.
History of Military Mobilization in the United States Army 1775-1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous charts and tables (a number folding) in the text; black limp cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in yellow, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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CROOK Brigadier A.
Barbed-Wire Doctor. Memoirs of Brigadier Crook. One Doctor's War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DANBY Paul
The British Army Book. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8voo., with coloured double-page frontispiece, coloured plate and numerous plates in monochrome, title mildly spotted, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; pictorial olive cloth, upper board framed and blocked in cream and black, gilt back, green top, green endpapers, uncut, case a little shaken else a good, sound copy.
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HICKS Major James E
German Weapons, Uniforms, Insignia 1841-1918. [Fourth Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Fourth Impression, with plates, illustrations and diagrams in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. First published in 1937.
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KAHN, Jr. Chief Warrant Officer E.J.
Fighting Divisions. Histories of each US Army Combat Division in World War II. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured plates of insignia and monochrome insignia in the text; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1946.
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WALKER G.G.
The Honourable Artillery Company 1537-1926.. With a Foreword by the Earl of Denbigh and Desmond. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 40 plates in monochrome, and 35 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. White, p.198.
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VICTORIA CROSS
[Catalogue of] The Victoria Cross Centenary Exhibition. 15 June - 7 July 1956. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE MARLBOROUGH HOUSE ORIGINAL
4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. This catalogue should not be confused with its similarly titled but much smaller counterpart [Mulholland & Jordan H81] issued in purple wrappers to accompany the same exhibition held at Marlborough House. THE PRESENT WORK IS THE ONLY CATALOGUE TO LIST IN FULL THE CITATIONS OF ALL 640 VICTORIA CROSSES ON DISPLAY AND IS CONSIDERABLY SCARCER THAN THE ABRIDGED 39PP VERSION. The catalogue is arranged chronologically from inception to 1951. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Mulholland & Jordan, H80.
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JOSLEN Lieut.-Col. H.F.
Orders of Battle. Second World War 1939-1945. Prepared by Lieut.-Col. H.F. Joslen. Reprinted by the London Stamp Exchange by permission of HMSO. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm.folio, First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the standard reference, published originally in the UK Government's official series 'History of the Second World War'. The first edition appeared in 1960.
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GOUGH General Sir Hubert
The Fifth Army. EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps (a number folding),neat contemporary inscription to veteran on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in red and lettered in gilt, uncut, an exceptionally bright, crisp, clean copy. Enser,p.58.
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STACEY Colonel C.P.
The Canadian Army 1919-1945. An Official Historical Summary. Illustrated with Paintings by Canadian Army War Artists. Maps drawn by Lieutenant C.C.J. Bond. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates, numerous maps (the majority folding and many coloured in outline) and coloured endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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WOOD Walter
The Romance of Regimental Marches. BRIGHT COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, upper board letered in black, a good, firm copy.
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CHRISTIE N. M.
Officers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who died Overseas 1914-1919. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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GREEN Lieutenant-Colonel Howard
The British Army in the First World War. The Regulars, the Territorials and Kitchener's Army, with some of the Campaigns into which they fitted. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly faded dustwrapper.
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GILMORE Allison B.
You can't fight Tanks with Bayonets. Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; black boards, upper board lettered in white, red cloth back lettered in white, black endpapers, a near fine copy.
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GAYLOR John
The Regimental Capbadge Collection. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates; black cloth, black rexine back lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy.
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PARKYN Major H.G.
A Short History of the Rifle Brigade. With an Introduction by Colonel Willoughby Verner. Second [and Best] Edition. BRIGHT COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece; green cloth, upper board blocked in regimental badge in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Considerably enlarged version of the original edition of 1917. Sutcliffe, p. 447; White, p.134.
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WINDEATT Lieut.-Colonel J.K.
The Devonshire Regiment. August 1945-May 1958. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 maps (one double-page); green cloth, upper board lettered and blocked with regimental badge in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The recipient is Drum-Major Nosworthy. An important post-war history covering as it does both the Malayan Emergency and Mau-Mau in Kenya before service with BAOR. Includes honours & awards, casualties and officers. Sutcliffe, p.82.
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BROOKES Kenneth
Battle Thunder. The Story of Britain's Artillery. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; purple cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
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BAMFIELD Veronica
On the Strength. The Story of the British Army Wife. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CROW, ed. Duncan
AFVs of World War One. Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the World. Volume One. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured illustrations and monochrome photographs throughout; green tweed cloth, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers armoured cars, tanks, gun carriers, supply tanks and experimentals of Britain, France and Germany.
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FARQUHAR Jr, William R.
Bridging the Imjin. Construction of Libby and Teal Bridges during the Korean War (October 1952-July 1953). Edited and with an Introduction by Charles Hendricks. Studies in Military Engineering No.5. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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SMITH Kenneth B.
'Duffy's Regiment'.. A History of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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SWAIN John
Destiny '39. A Young Soldier's Experiences during World War II. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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RUTHERFORD Ward
The Ally. The Russian Army in World War I. [First Paperback Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE SANDHURST.
The Royal Military College Magazine and Record. [Christmas 1927]. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; ivory wrappers printed in red, yapped edges, a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean, crisp copy. With numerous trade advertisements at front and rear. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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ANDORFER, Volker
Nuts and Bolts 15. Marder III.. Panzerjager 38 (T) fur 7.65cm PaK 36 (Sd. Kfz. 139). NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SEIDLER Hans
Hitler's Tank Killer. The Sturmgeschutz at War 1940-1945 NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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BLAXLAND Gregory
The Regiments Depart. A History of the British Army 1945-1970. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with loss at lower edge of front panel.
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MOLLO Boris
The British Army from old Photographs from the National Army Museum. Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templar. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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HUDSON General Sir Havelock
History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers 1858-1921. Formerly 18th King George's Own Lancers and 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse), amalgamated in 1921. With certain Appendices to 1936. [Indian Army.] PRESENTATION COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 2 coloured plates, monochrome plates, and 6 folding maps; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and colours, gilt back, marbled endpapers, backstrip just slightly dulled and rubbed at head and tail else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. A MS NOTE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN STATES 'ORIGINAL PROOF COPY 1936'. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN SHEET STATING THAT THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED TO RMA SANDHURST ON BEHALF OF THE OFFICERS OF 19TH KGO LANCERS. Includes service in the Mutiny, Second Afghan War, NWF (Tirah) and WWI ( Western Front and Palestine). 'A superb publication, beautifully prepared and presented' (Perkins). EXTREMELY SCARCE. Perkins, p.418.
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FORTY George
Called Up. A National Service Scrapbook. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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