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CHAMBERLAIN, Peter
German Anti-Tank Weapons 1916-1918 and 1930-1945. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
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SPIELBERGER Walter J.
Die Halbkettenfahrzeuge des Deutschen Heeres 1909-1945. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
Roy. 4to., text in German, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, small neat signature on front free endpaper; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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LARGE Lofty
One Man's War in Korea. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
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PICKERING Major Jim
Soldier of the Sixth. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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WORSLEY T.C.
Fellow Travellers. A Memoir of the Thirties. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written portraits of five very different British volunteers leaving pre-war Britain to fight in Spain.
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TERRAINE John
The Smoke and the Fire. Myths and Anti-Myths of War 1861-1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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MOYNIHAN, ed. Michael
A Place called Armageddon. Letters from the Great War. Edited with an Introduction by Michael Moynihan. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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SMYTH VC Sir John
Leadership in Battle 1914-1918. Commanders in Action. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Concerns primarily the campaigns in France, Gallipoli and Palestine. Mulholland & Jordan S68.
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TURNER E. S.
Dear Old Blighty. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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BARBUSSE Henri
Under Fire. [Translated by Fitzwater Wray. Introduction by Brian Rhys]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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THOMAS Edward
Essays of To-Day and Yesterday. [Introductory Note by F.H. Pritchard]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
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PALMER Alan
The Kaiser. Warlord of the Second Reich NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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MOYNIHAN, ed. Michael
Greater Love. Letters Home 1914-1918. Edited by Michael Moynihan. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Letters from several fronts written by six British combatants.
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WESTWOOD John
Railways at War. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
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MATAS David
Justice Delayed. Nazi War Criminals in Canada. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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OVERY Richard
Interrogations. The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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MASER Werner
Nuremberg. A Nation on Trial. Translated from the German by Richard Barry. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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MONTYN Jan
A Lamb to Slaughter. [First US Edition] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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OLSEN Jack
Silence on Monte Sole. [First UK Edition]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; ivory cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The little-known story of the massacre of some 1800 civilians on the slopes of Monte Sole during the German retreat in WWII. Enser, p.229.
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PARKINSON Roger
A Day's March Nearer Home. The War History from Alamein to VE Day based on the War Cabinet papers of 1942 to 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Third and final volume of Parkinson's history of WWII based on newly-released War Cabinet papers.
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SHIROYAMA Saburo
War Criminal. The Life and Death of Hirota Koki. Translated by John Bester. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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WILLIAMSON Henry
The Patriot's Progress. Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock. Illustrated by W. Kermode. [Third Impression.] BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with numerous illustrations in the text; original burgundy buckram, gilt back, red top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately browned at backstrip and with minor loss (not affecting lettering at tail of backstrip. Published a month after the first edition. In the trade issue three of Kermode's illustrations are different from those in the limited edition; the present arrangement was maintained in all subsequent UK editions. Gretton 13; Matthews A13; 1930b (both recording the first trade edition).
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NEILLANDS Robin
The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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WESTMAN Stephen K.
A Surgeon's Story. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served in the German Army in WWI and in Britain during WWII.
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WINTER J.M.
The Experience of World War I. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WILSON Dale E.
Treat 'm Rough!. The Birth of American Armor, 1917-1920. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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MOORE William
The Thin Yellow Line. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.208.
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MACMILLAN Norman
Tales of Two Air Wars. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RICHARDS D.S.
The Peninsula Years. Britain's Redcoats in Spain and Portugal. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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WESTLAKE Ray
First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent. Volume 2. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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TERRAINE John
White Heat. The New Warfare 1914-18. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1982 by Sidgwick & Jackson.
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TSOURAS, ed. Peter G.
Rising Sun Victorious. The Alternate History of how the Japanese won the Pacific War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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WEBER Ralph E.
United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers 1775-1938. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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SLESSOR Kenneth
The War Diaries of Kenneth Slessor, Official Australian Correspondent 1940-1944. Edited by Clement Semmler. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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ORWELL George
The War Commentaries. Edited with an Introduction by W.J. West. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.183.
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TWINCH Carol
Women on the Land. Their Story during Two World Wars. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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WADE Ashton
A Life on the Line. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served with Royal Signals in both world wars and Malaya.
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DUFFELL Gunner W.J.
Soldier Boy. The Letters of Gunner W.J. Duffell, 1915-18. Introduced and edited by Gilbert Mant. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; white buckram, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Duffell served with 2nd and 22nd Batteries, Australian Field Artillery Brigade in Egypt, France and Belgium.
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NORTH John
Gallipoli. The Fading Vision. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with maps in the text, front free endpaper clipped; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1936. Enser, p.144.
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WARNER, ed. Philip
The Fields of War. A Young Cavalryman's Crimea Campaign. Editred by Philip Warner. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
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NICHOLSON Colonel G.W.L.
More Fighting Newfoundlanders. A History of Newfoundland's Fighting Forces in the Second World War. Maps drawn by Master Warrant Officer R.W. Cole NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text, folding maps (several coloured in outline) and endpaper maps; white cloth, upper board blocked in black, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The official history of the Island Dominion's contribution to WWII. Two RA regiments were formed: 166 Field Regiment and 59 Heavy Regiment; almost 3500 men joined the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy; some 700 airmen served as air or ground crew. Includes ROH and awards.
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WHITEHOUSE Arch
Tank. The Battles they fought and the Men who drove them - from Flanders to Korea. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MacDONALD Callum A.
Korea. The War before Vietnam. [First US Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the UK Edition.
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RUSS Martin
The Last Parallel. A Marine's War Journal. [BOMC Edition]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with maps and diagrams in the text; green boards, black cloth back lettered in red, uncut, a good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. With a copy of the BOMC flier loosely inserted.
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WARNER Denis
Out of the Gun. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps in red; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased with minor loss at edges. The Far Eastern Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph newspaper relates a decade of covering south-east Asia immediately after WWII. SCARCE.
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DISTEL [Barbara
Concentration Camp Dachau 1933-1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
4to., with very numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, ONE GATHERING LOOSE, very lightly browned at extremities else a very good, clean copy. Profusely illustrated catalogue of the Dachau Memorial Museum. Includes full list of photographic sources (many of these, particularly those of documentation, are not easily available elsewhere). The front endpapers carry a large chart of the principal concentration camps with their numerous subsidiaries.
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TAYLOR Eric
Women who went to War, 1938-1946. [Foreword by Air Commodore Dame Felicity Hill.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TRAVERS Tim
The Killing Ground. The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900-1918. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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SLOWE Peter
Fields of Death. Battle Scenes of the First World War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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PERKINS Dave
Canada's Submariners 1914-1923. Foreword by Vice-Admiral James C. Wood. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread, very numerous photographs throughout and illustrated endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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