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HOEHLING A. A.
Lonely Command. A Documentary. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and with small loss at head of backstrip. The story of the German High Seas raider SMS EMDEN in the Great War. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.117.
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NUREMBERG TRIALS
The Trial of Major German War Criminals. Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany. Taken from the Official Transcript. [23 Parts plus 4 Supplementary Volumes. Complete Extended Set of the UK Edition.] THE NUREMBERG TRIALS. COMPLETE EXTENDED SET OF THE ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS
Together 27 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 large folding charts; original printed wrappers, one or two backstrips scuffed at head and tail else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. The extended set comprises: Part 1: 20 Nov 1945 to 1 Dec 1945 (1946); Part 2: 3 Dec 1945 to 14 Dec 1945 (1946); Part 3: 17 Dec 1945 to 4 Jan 1946 (1946); Part 4: 7 Jan 1946 to 19 Jan 1946 (1946); Part 5: 21 Jan 1946 to 1 Feb 1946 (1946); Part 6: 2 Feb 1946 to 13 Feb 1946 (1947); Part 7: 14 Feb 1946 to 26 Feb 1946 (1947); Part 8: 27 Feb 1946 to 11 March 1946 (1947); Part 9: 12 March 1946 to 22 March 1946 (1947); Part 10: 23 March 1946 to 3 April 1946 (1947); Part 11: 4 April 1946 to 15 April 1946 (1947); Part 12: 16 April 1946 to 1 May 1946 (1947); Part 13: 2 May 1946 to 13 May 1946 (1947); Part 14: 14 May 1946 to 24 May 1946 (1947); Part 15: 27 May 1946 to 6 June 1946 (1948); Part 16: 7 June 1946 to 19 June 1946 (1948); Part 17: 20 June 1946 to 1 July 1946 (1948); Part 18: 2 July 1946 to 15 July 1946 (1948); Part 19: 16 July 1946 to 27 July 1946 (1949); Part 20: 29 July 1946 to 8 August 1946 (1949); Part 21: 9 August 1946 to 21 August 1946 (1949); Part 22: 22 August 1946 to 31 August 1946; 30 Sept 1946 and 1 October 1946 (1950); Part 23: Index (1951). WITH Opening Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors (1946); Speeches of the Prosecutors against the Indicted Organisations (1946); Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors against the Individual Defendants (1946); Judgement of the International Military Tribunal (with the Dissenting Opinion of the Soviet Member) (1946). Volume 1 includes the folding chart of the organisation of the NSDAP; Volume 3 contains the folding chart of the organisation of the SS. EXTENDED SETS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE.
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DELAGE Edmond
The Tragedy of the Dardanelles. Translated by Winifred Ray. With an Introduction by General Sir Ian Hamilton. [First English Edition.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with full-page map on japon; original pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, fresh, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. First English edition of Delage's classic account. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.102.
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ARDIZZONE Edward
Diary of a War Artist. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, pale blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. Ardizzone's diary begins with Sicily in 1943 and carries through to the mopping-up in Germany in 1945. The striking wrap-around dustwrapper illustration reproduces 'Naval Control Post on the beaches of Normandy, 1944'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Sherston's Progress. [First English (Limited) Edition.] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION: 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus, Large Paper, on hand-made laid paper, free endpapers mildly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned (but all gilt bright and clear), a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 127). This splendid edition of the final volume of the 'Sherston' trilogy is considerably scarcer than the signed edition of 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' of which 750 copies were printed. Keynes, A40b.
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WHEATLEY Dennis
The Deception Planners. My Secret War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Fascinating account of Wheatley's work with the War Cabinet in WWII. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.129.
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JAMESON Rear-Admiral William
The Most Formidable Thing. The Story of the Submarine from its earliest Days to the End of World War I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter scuffed at backstrip.
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REMARQUE Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated by Brian Murdoch. Introduction by Geoff Dyer. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and pictorial endpapers; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in brown and white, a near fine copy. The publisher's slip-case is not present with this copy.
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ELLIS et al Major L. F.
Victory in the West. Volume I. The Battle of Normandy [with] Vol. II. The Defeat of Germany. [Official] History of the Second World War. With Captain G.R.G. Allen, Lieut-Colonel A.E. Warhurst, Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and charts (a number coloured in outline and folding); original series binding of green cloth, gilt backs, first volume a little loose (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. Published in the official series History of the Second World War. The set comprises Vol. I: The Battle of Normandy 1962); Vol. II: The Defeat of Germany (1968). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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NEAVE Airey
Nuremberg. A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945-6. [Foreword by Rebecca West]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper Following his war service with MI6 and MI9, Neave was appointed to the British War Crimes Executive and served the Allied indictments on twenty-one leading Nazis, among them Doenitz, Goering, Hess, Keitel, Ribbentrop and Streicher. An extraordinary and valuable account of personal experiences. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HAMMERTON, ed. Sir John
I was There. The Human Story of the Great War of 1914-1918. Edited by Sir John Hammerton. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
4 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, title-vignettes and many thousands of remarkable photographs (many tinted or toned in sepia) and maps in the text; original publisher's binding of navy faux-morocco cloth grained in black, upper boards framed and blocked in blind, gilt backs, blue tops (lightly faded), a near fine copy. Hammerton's extraordinary compilation of eye-witness accounts (all individually sourced and credited) covers virtually every aspect of the conflict; the photographs in particular are breathtaking in their scope and clarity. A SPLENDID SET OF A UNIQUE AND IMPRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.166.
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RAPIER Brian J.
White Rose Base. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Detailed register of WWII airfields in Yorkshire during WWI and WWII. Includes list of squadron markings.
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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. [Second (First Trade) Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second (First Trade) Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. This important work, to which Sassoon was a primary contributor, was first published privately in 1938 (see Keynes B16). 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). THIS EDITION IS NOW UNCOMMON IN ITS OWN RIGHT. Not recorded by Enser.
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BROOKE Rupert
Four Poems. The Fish, 1911. Grantchester, 1912. The Dead, 1914. The Soldier, 1914. Drafts and Fair Copies in the Author's Hand. With a Foreword and Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. [Edited by A.N.L. Munby.] 400 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with four card folders of facsimiles in pocket; dark blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, covers lightly faded else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. An additional 100 de luxe copies were issued with vellum backs. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted.
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HASTINGS Max
Catastrophe. Europe goes to War 1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GRAVES Robert
Goodbye To All That. Introduced by Raleigh Trevelyan. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; grey pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in black, gilt back, yellow top, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The text follows the revised edition of 1957.
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POLIAKOV Leon
Harvest of Hate. Introduced by Lord Russell of Liverpool. Forewords by Francois Mauriac and Reinhold Niebuhr. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and 16 plates on 8, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled and worn dustwrapper. An early and important record of the Holocaust, with useful and detailed cross-references to the Nuremberg archives. Enser, p.241.
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COUPLAND Sir Reginald
Zulu Battle Piece, Isandhlwana. [With new Introduction by Ian Knight.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with plates, maps in the text and front endpaper map; orange cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Coupland's account of the fateful action was first published in 1948. This much-needed reissue includes the author's original introduction together with a reappraisal by Zulu War historian Ian Knight. SCARCE.
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LLOYD Nick
Passchendaele. A New History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HOCHSCHILD Adam
Spain in our Hearts. Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WAR OFFICE.
Manual of Field Engineering 1911. General Staff, War Office. Reprinted 1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE GREAT WAR ISSUE
Sm. 8vo., with numerous technical illustrations and diagrams; original series binding of red cloth, radial corners, boards framed in blind, gilt back, boards edges frayoing slightly as often, a very good, bright, clean copy. Publication code: 40/WO/1071. With the publisher's catalogues on the usual pink stock at front and rear.
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SUTCLIFF Rosemary
The Flowers of Adonis. [A Novel of Alkibiades and the Peloponnesian War] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; burgundy cloth, gilt back, red top (faintly faded), fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Purnell's History of the Second World War. [Second Edition. Extended Set.]. [Edited by Barrie Pitt.] PURNELL'S SECOND EDITION: EXTENDED SET COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDERS
128 weekly parts in 8 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (including original wrappers) housed in black rexine binders blolcked in gilt, a bright, clean set. The considerably revised version of the original edition of 1966-1969. Purnell's mammoth endeavour is arguably the crowning achievement of the 'partwork' fashion of the late 60s. Produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, edited by Barrie Pitt and written by a host of eminent historians, scholars and veterans, the series is equally fortunate in having Liddell-Hart as editor-in-chief. Produced in 'magazine' format, the work as a whole makes full use of its size and space to create a lucid, vivid and valuable account of the conflict. The number, choice and quality of the photographs, illustrations and diagrams are worthy of special mention. The work was intended originally in six volumes (ending with the Japanese surrender), but as the series neared its conclusion it was decided to extend it to eight volumes to include the consequences of the conflict such as the birth of the nuclear era, the foundation of the UN and so on. Technically the set is complete in the original six volumes (complete with detailed index issued at that point); an additional cumulative index was issued for those subscribers who wished to continue collecting the extended set as here. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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RICHMOND, Sir Herbert
War Pictures by British Artists. War at Sea [with] Blitz [with] RAF [with] Army. [Series I complete]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE FIRST SERIES
4 vols., sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; original plain wrappers, hinges starting as usual (but all bindings wholly sound), one backstrip scuffed else a very good, bright, clean set in pictorial dustwrapper. No.1: War at Sea; No. 2: Blitz; No. 3: R.A.F.; No. 4: Army. Complete set of the first series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period, including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. A second series (dealing primarily with the Home Front) was published separately in the following year. UNCOMMON AS A SET, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Eads, A43 (recording H. E. Bates' introduction to 'RAF').
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WEDGWOOD C. V.
The King's Peace 1637-1641 [with] The King's War 1641-1647 [with] The Trial of Charles I. [The English Civil War complete.]. Introduction by Richard Ollard. [Maps drawn by Reginald Piggott. Index compiled by Meg Davies.] NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, coloured and monochrome plates, and maps in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, burgundy tops and endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt. The volumes of Wedgwood's classic trilogy were first published in 1955, 1958 and 1964 respectively. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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DUCKWORTH Admiral Sir John Thomas
Papers and Correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth. Volume I: The French Revolutionary War, 1793-1802. Edited by John D. Grainger. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 169.
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SEAGO Edward
With the Allied Armies in Italy. [Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, 96 monochrome plates (all from drawings by the artist) and coloured endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. Fine collection of coloured, tinted and monochrome paintings and drawings by one of Britain's leading war artists. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p. 38.
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COOPER Duff
Haig. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, plates and maps; black cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, git tops, a very good, bright, clean set. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.160.
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ROBERTSON Bruce
Sopwith. The Man and his Aircraft. Line Tracings by W.F. Hepworth. Based on original Drawings by Peter G. Cooksley. Produced by D.A. Russell and G.R. Duval. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous monochrome photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by J.D. Carrick. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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JEFFREY John V.
Cromwell's Deputy. The Life and Times of General Charles Fleetwood. Foreword by Dame Joan Fleetwood Varley. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unc;lipped dustwrapper. Surprisingly, the first dedicated biography of the man most likely to have been Cromwell's true successor.
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HASTINGS Max ax
All Hell Let Loose. The World at War 1939-1945. [With new Preface by the Author.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs and maps; pictorial cloth, a near fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-case.
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MASON Francis K.
Battle over Britain. A History German Air Assaults on Great Britain, 1917-1918 and July-December 1940, and of the Development of Britain's Air Defences between the World Wars. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates of insignia and uniforms, numerous monochrome photographs throughout the text, and endpaper maps on blue stock; burgundy buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. German research material edited by Martin Windrow. Colour and tone illustrations by Michael P. Roffe. A BRIGHT COPY OF THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY. Enser, p.63.
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MASON Francis K.
Battle over Britain. A History of German Air Assaults on Great Britain, 1917-1918 and July-December 1940, and of the Development of Britain's Air Defences between the World Wars. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured illustrations of aircraft and insignia, and numerous monochrome photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. German research material edited by Martin Windrow. Colour and tone illustrations by Michael P. Roffe. First published in 1969. much-ndded reissue of the definitive account. Enser, p.63 (recording the first edition).
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KNIGHT, Laura
War Pictures by British Artists. Women [with] Production [with] Soldiers [with] Air Raids. [Series II Complete]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE SECOND SERIES
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. No.1: Women; No. 2: Production; No. 3: Soldiers; No. 4: Air Raids. Complete set of the second series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period, including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. The first series (dealing primarily with the fighting forces) was published in the preceding year. This second series deals with the Home Front and was issued without the dustwrappers present in the earlier series. UNCOMMON AS A SET AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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SUTHERLAND Jonathan
The Battle of Jutland. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes useful summary histories of all major vessels involved.
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WILLIAMS Max
Reinhard Heydrich. The Biography. Volume I: Road to War [with] Volume 2: Enigma. COMPLETE SET
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout; original pictorial boards, a near fine set. The set comprises Vol. I: Road to War; Vol. II: Enigma. Ten years in the making, this comprehensive study chronicles the life of Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler's probable heir apparent. This extraordinary man rose to become second only to Himmler within the SS, controlling the entire Security Service through a career of controversy which continues to this day. He was considered so dangerous that the British had him assassinated. Volume 1 details Heydrich's life from birth to the outbreak of WWII; Volume 2 covers Heydrich's involvement in the Jewish question, the Wannsee Conference, his posting as Acting Reichsprotector for Bohemia-Moravia, his assassination in 1942, his State Funeral, and the precarious life of his wife Lina and their family until her death in 1985. A major feature of this work is the unique collection of over 700 photographs, many never seen before, assembled by the authors during a decade of intensive research. Already very scarce.
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WWI.
The Western Front then and now. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy. One of the first 'before and after' publications, pioneering the photographic style later popularised by 'After the Battle'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
Greatest War Speeches 1939-1945. With a Foreword by [Churchill's Grandson] Nicholas Soames. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; pictorial boards, brown back lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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MICHELIN ILLUSTRATED GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS.
Lille before and during the War. A Panoramic History and Guide. Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields (1914-1918). NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; printed wrappers lettered in brown, wire-stitched as issued,a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With advertisement endpapers at front and rear. INCREASINGLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MICHELIN ILLUSTRATED GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS.
Amiens Before and During the War. Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields 1914-1918. [A Panoramic History and Guide]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; light brown wrappers printed in in darker brown, sewed as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy Iin dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed at extremities. With advertisement endpapers at front and rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CHURCHILL Winston S
The War Speeches of the Rt. Hon Winston S Churchill. Compiled by Charles Eade in Three Volumes. NEAR FINE SET OF THE WAR SPEECHES
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; blue leatherette, upper boards framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, backstrips letterd in silver, a near fine set. Churchill's War Speeches were first published by Cassell in seven volumes between 1941 and 1946, followed by Charles Eade's definitive edition in three volumes in 1952. This later edition, published by Purnell in association with the original publisher, preserves Eade's text and retains the much-needed index. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Woods A136 (recording the 1952 edition).
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
The World Crisis 1911-1918. [First Two-Volume Edition]. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 6 facsimiles (2 double-page and 4 full-page), 39 maps, charts and diagrams (19 double-page and 20 full-page) and 12 smaller maps, charts and diagrams all in the text, tops lightly dust-soiled; original red pebble-grain cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt backs, red tops, marbled endpapers, upper board of second volume lightly faded at upper edge else a very good, bright, clean copy. First two-volume edition, containing the unabridged text of the original four volumes augmented with revisions from the 1931 re-issue. For this edition, Churchill prepared a new Foreword to Vol. I and an updated Appendix I in Vol. II. In order to achieve the compression, the publishers provided slightly fewer and smaller maps. See Woods, p.46; ICS A31f.
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MONTGOMERY Field-Marshal Bernard Law
The Path to Leadership. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head of backstrip. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Baxter, 270 (recording the US edition published by Putnam later the same year).
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POLLENDINE Chris
Campaign 1914. Volume 1. Uniforms and Equipment of the British Soldier in the First World War. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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POLLENDINE Chris
Campaign 1915. Volume 2. Uniforms and Equipment of the British Servicemen in the First World War. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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BECKHURST Kevin
WWI British Battle Insignia. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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LOCK Oliver
Battle Damage. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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LOCK Oliver
Stahlshutzhelme. The German Steel Combat Helmet 1915-1918. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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BRITISH ARMY.
Infantry Training (4-Company Organization). 1914. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE GREAT WAR ISSUE
Sm. 8vo., with numerous plates (a number folding), illustrations and diagrams in the text; original red cloth, covers framed in blind, gilt back, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy. Publication code 40/2052. The standard Great War issue, with 23pp advertisements on red stock at front and rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BRITTAIN Vera
Vera Brittain. Diaries. [Complete set, comprising 'Chronicle of Youth', 'Chronicle of Friendship' and 'Wartime Chronicle']. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; cloth (red/brown/green respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. The set comprises: 'War Diary 1913-1917. Chronicle of Youth'. Edited by Alan Bishop with Terry Smart [With a Preface by Clare Leighton], (1981); 'Diary of the Thirties 1932-1939. Chronicle of Friendship'. Edited by Alan Bishop, (1986); 'Diary 1939-1945. Wartime Chronicle'. Edited by Alan Bishop & Y. Aleksandra Bennett, (1989). Brittain's Great War diary is the basis of her classic 'Testament of Youth'; among the deeply moving entries are those recording the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton (at Hebuterne, December 1915) and the loss of the 'Lusitania'. Clare Leighton, the eminent illustrator and engraver who contributes the preface, is Roland Leighton's sister. The Thirties saw the publication of 'Testament of Youth', with Brittain mourning her dead and fearing the coming of the second onslaught. During the Second World War she increases her pacifist activities, primarily through the Peace Pledge Union, and delivers a vivid account of life at home during the Blitz.
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