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Shepherd, Christopher
German Aircraft of World War II with Colour Photographs
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing/bumping to spine ends, minor indent to front and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with minor indenting and signs of storage. 144pp. With detailed information on German aircraft types including six types of Messerschmitt, four of Junkers, four of Heinkel, three of Henschel, four of Dornier, three of Focke-wulf and three of Arado. With extensive colour and black & white photographs. Also includes a section on them in action with accounts of exploits by pilots of different types.
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James Durney
The Far Side of the World: Irish Servicemen in the Korean War 1950-53
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 249pp. The story of Irish soldiers who took part in the Korean War, either with the American troops as recent arrivals in the USA or with the British Army who came to Korea a few weeks later. Photographs.
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Mike Brown
Evacuees: Evacuation in Wartime Britain 1939-1945
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 122pp. The story of the children who were evacuated for their safety from dense centres of population to the countryside and smaller towns during the Second World War. Illustrated.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
Air Battle for Malta: Diaries of a Fighter Pilot
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint small creases to upper corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page margins and no bumping to corners. 208pp. The story of the key role of Malta in the Second World War and the air battle which raged over it for two and a half years during which time 14,000 tons of bombs were dropped on a defiant population.
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Stafford Hildred; Bill Waddington
Percy's War: Military Memoirs of Coronation Street's Bill Waddington
Inscription on front end paper. No other marks and no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 188pp. D-Day memories of Coronation Street's Bill Waddington.
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Brock, Michael and Brock, Eleanor
Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bumping to lower edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 417pp. The diary of the wife of the British Prime Minister who took us into the First World War. A fascinating look behind the scenes at No 10 Downing Street as the war unfolded.
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West, Rodney T.
Honolulu Prepares for Japan's Attack : May 15, 1940 to December 8, 1941 (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by the author on title page and traces of label removal to front cover. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. 75pp. The Oahu Civilian Disaster Preparedness Programs in Honolulu described by a U.S. Navy medical officer involved.
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The Editor
Lectures Pour Tous : 15 Juillet 1919
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. Clean tight well-tanned pages with well rubbed faded covers and a little loss to front corners. 1371-1448 pages. Cartoons, features, humour, stories, military articles from World War I, many celebrating the end of the War. All text in French. Very scarce.
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Smith, Joanna (research & captions) and Kee, Robert (intro)
We'll Meet Again: Photographs of Daily Life in Britain During World War Two
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with very light creasing and traces of storage. 216pp. Detailed pictorial study of what life was like for the millions who remained at home during the Second World War.
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Heinz J. Nowarra
Focke-Wulf FW 190-TA152: Aircraft and Legend
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 159pp. The story of the Luftwaffe's answer to Britain's Spitfire which was generally regarded as Germany's best piston-engined fighter. Tucked in is a large folded fully labelled cutaway drawing of the aircraft in excellent condition.
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Price, Alfred
Spitfire : A Documentary History
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nick/bumping to upper corners. 159pp. First American edition of this most detailed and accurate account on the evolution of the Spitfire. Very well illustrated.
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Joachim Dressel; Manfred Griehl
Bombers of the Luftwaffe
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to edges and traces of storage. 192pp. A superb pictorial reference study of the Second World War bomber aircraft of Germany's Luftwaffe with detailed technical and operational data.
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Sears, Stephen W. (editor)
The Civil War: The Best of American Heritage
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small crease to upper front edge. 244pp. An anthology of eighteen stories about the American Civil War, taken from the magazine 'American Heritage'.
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Mark R. McNeilly
Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare
Name/phone no to front ene paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to edges and minor traces of storage. 304pp. The author has taken the 2,000 year old principles of warfare of Chinese writer Sun Tzu and made them accessible to a modern audience for modern military situations. His 'acme of skill' was 'to subdue the enemy without fighting'.
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Clive Hardy
Sheffield at War: A Pictorial Account 1939-45
No marks or inscriptions. Very small crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A mainly pictorial account of the second world war and its effects on the city of Sheffield and inhabitants.
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Jack Merewood
To War with the Bays: A Tank Gunner Remembers, 1939-1945 (Signed by Author)
Signed 'Jack Merewood' on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor indentation to front. 209pp. A very well considered book drawing on the author's time as a tank gunner in North Africa and Italy in WW2 including the minutiae of army life. He was awarded the Military Medal after the Battle of the Mareth Line. Also tucked in is a letter from the author to the book purchaser.
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Erik Pilawskii
Soviet Air Force Fighter Colours 1941-1945
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny nick and slight creasing to top of spine. 224pp. A detailed study of the camouflage and markings of the Soviet Air Forces during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Extremely well illustrated. Scarce in the UK.
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Wicks, Ben
The Day They Took the Children
Small label to front end paper. Otherwise book in 'fine' condition. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing and indenting. 175pp. Illustrated personal memories of Britain's 3,500,000 evacuees from the Second World War.
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James Lucas
War in the Desert: Eighth Army at El Alamein
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, the tiniest small rub to rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 284pp. The story of the Battle of El Alamein, a tribute to the men who lived and fought in the Western Desert and who achieved their victory at El Alamein during the Second World War.
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Edmund Ions
Woodrow Wilson : The Politics of Peace and War
Appears to be in mint unread condition. 127pp. The author describes the background to America's entry into the First World War and how this launched the country as the new super-power onto the world stage.
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Stephenson, Jayne
Home Front : Stirling, 1939-45
Book in mint condition. 31pp. Photographs and memories of Stirling in Scotland during the Second World War.
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James J. Redmond Jr.
Reddo's Raiders: Memoirs of a B17 Bomber Aircraft Commander
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 251pp. The author's reminiscences as a B-17 bomber pilot before and during the Second World War. Illustrated.
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Michael Olive; Robert Edwards
Operation Barbarossa and the Eastern Front 1941
Book appears in mint unread condition. 200pp. A unique insight into the troops, tanks, weapons, uniforms and battlegrounds used during the bitter and costly campaign by the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 from an extensive collection of previously unpublished photographs with detailed captions.
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Martin Marix Evans
Over the Top: Great Battles of the First World War (Arcturus Military History)
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with minor mark to rear board, four adjacent page corners creased and tiny bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper and lower edges. 240pp. This study offers an innovative examination of trench warfare on the Western Front and Gallipoli during 1914-1918 in the major battles that influenced the outcome of the First World War.
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John Giles
The Somme Then and Now : The Western Front Then and Now ; Flanders Then and Now (3 volumes)
Three volumes in slipcase. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spines. Three very clean very tight copies with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Very slight fingermarking to a small amount on the book edges. Dust jackets not price clipped or marked or torn. Flander jacket is fine, Somme jacket has damp effect stretching to front and rear and crease to lower edge and Western Front jacket is near fine with small crease to upper front edge. Stout black slipcase in excellent condition. Total of 634pp. A very heavy set.
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Richard F Hamilton
World War I: A Photographic History
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 256pp. Text about each chapter plus captioned photographs showing the horror of the First World War. Photographs from the Daily Mail.
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Bradbrook, Bohuslava
Liberating Beauty Of Little Things : Decision, Adversity and Reckoning, Refugee's Journey from Prague to Cambridge (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by the author on half-title page. Also a little ink highlighting in the margin of some pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 102pp. The author tells of her escape from Czechoslovakia to England at the height of the Gold War. She describes the hardships and life without basic freedoms under Communism.
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Steven Fuller
1st Bedfordshires - Part Two: Arras to the Armistice
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, printer's mis-cut to upper corners of four adjacent pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nick to lower read edge. 230pp. Part two of the history of the 1st Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment, covering the period from October 1916 until the end of the First World War. In the final two years of the Great War the regiment was engaged at the Battle of Arras, the capture of Oppy Wood, several phases of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 - Passchendaele, the German Spring Offensives and the final '100 Days' of battles in 1918. In between they were designated to be amongst the handful of British divisions rushed to the Italian Front late in 1917. With a wide variety of official and personal sources, maps, and individual stories and photographs.
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The Editor
Royal Air Force :Gunnery Training Bomb Sighting Interrupter Gear
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated ca 400pp. This reprint gathers together a number of pamphlets from the First World War on air gunnery, and also includes one of the first aerial bomb aiming instruction pamphlets. It covers pilot gunnery training (fixed and free guns), the theory and practice of aerial sighting, the Lewis Gun, the Vickers gun, Bomb Sighting and three pamphlets on interrupter gear. All are detailed, none more so than the machine gun pamphlets. Many illustrations.. Reprint of the Official RAF document of 1918. Very scarce.
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The Editor
Tactical Operations of the Eighth Air Force June 44 - May 45
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Reprint of a typed document so small parts of the text may be difficult to read. 285pp. This is an account of tactical air operations carried out by the US 8th Air Force from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe. It relates what was done to support the ground operations on D-Day itself, and immediately thereafter. It then follows the campaign inland. It also covers general air operations, supply drops and operations against the V-bomb offensive, Operation Crossbow. Further details include attacks on radar installations, coastal batteries, air-sea rescue and leaflet drops. The appendices are detailed and give a statistical picture of Crossbow operations and anti-German Airfield attacks. Reprint of the USAF Historical Division document of 1952. Very scarce.
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The Editor
British War Office : The Campaign in Italy 1945
Mint unread copy. 92pp. British official short account of the campaign in Italy. This is a reprint of the pamphlet issued by the British War Office in 1945 dealing with the campaign in Italy, and gives details of all major operations up to March 1944.. Very scarce.
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Major General Walter Grabmann
German Air Defence 1933 - 1939
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Reprint of a typed document so small parts of the text may be difficult to read. 205pp. The first history of German air defence published in English, and was written by Major-General Grabmann, who was in the Luftwaffe throughout the period. It details the creation of the Luftwaffe, and the various branches of the German air defence system, including Flak, night fighters, and the air raid protection service. Very scarce.
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The Editor
The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force 1933 to 1945
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Fold-out map in excellent condition. 420pp. This study was issued by the British Air Ministry in 1948, and is a complete and detailed history of the German Luftwaffe from concept to defeat. It is an excellent history covering all aspects of the Luftwaffe story with ample illustrations, maps and tables. Reprinted from Air Ministry Restricted document of 1948.
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General (ret) Paul Deichmann
German Air Force Operations in Support of the Army
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 210pp. This fascinating report is one of a series written by German officers for the US Air Force after the Second World War. It covers in some detail operations carried out by the Luftwaffe in support of the German Army on all fronts. It starts with an examination of the history of air support in World War I, and the provisions made for expansion in the event of a subsequent conflict. It then looks at the development of the (independent) new Luftwaffe, and its role in ground support for the army, together with an account of the weapons needed for this task. The book then gets to the heart of the matter with accounts of the operations themselves - reconnaissance and the air defence of the ground forces in the campaigns in Poland, the West (1940), the Balkans and in Russia.. Reprinted from the USAF Historical Division publication 1962. Very scarce.
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Etherington, Andrew (editor)
War Diary 1940
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 333pp. The daily events of 1940, day by day, covering Great Britain, Europe (by individual country). USA, Mediterranean, Africa , Baltics, Arabia, Egypt, Russia etc. Very scarce.
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Etherington, Andrew (editor)
War Diary 1939
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small dent to rear and no bumping to corners. 147pp. The daily events of 1939, day by day, covering Great Britain, Europe (by individual country). USA, Mediterranean, Africa , Baltics, Arabia, Egypt, Russia etc. Very scarce.
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The Editor
Dornier Do-17 Flugzeughandbuch (aircraft Manual
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. ca 200pp. This is a reprint of the original, offical Luftwaffe handbook (L.Dv. 553/4) on the Dornier Do-17 bomber. It is in German, but for non-German speakers there are so many photographs and drawings that the book will inspire learning the language! It is a remarkable handbook, covering every aspect of the aircraft, with detailed descriptions and line drawings of every part of the aircraft.. Reprint of the 1940 Official Luftwaffe Dornier Manual. All text in German. Very scarce.
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The Editor
Fw 190 A-1 Bis A-8 (Bedienungsvorschrift-FI)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 112pp. This is a reprint of the official German service manual for the Fw 190 A 1-8 range of aircraft. It covers all basic aspects of the aircraft including the fighter bomber versions. All text in German.. Very scarce.
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Bourgogne, Adrien & Paul cottin/Maurice Henault (translators)
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 356pp. Well-respected biography of a French soldier in the Peninsular War in 1812-1813 whose military prowess was considered to be worthy of study by all who would understand military human nature. Reprint of the original work from 1899.
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The Editor
The 303 Lewis Gun
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 48 + 28pp. The American invented Lewis gun saw service in the British Army in both World Wars in calibre 0.303inch. The two manuals (the official British Army pamphlet and a privately published booklet) in this reprint give details of the gun and its stripping, assembly, handling and tactical use. With ample illustrations, anyone can now understand the weapon. Very scarce.
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The Editor
Italian Mines and Traps
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 54pp. This British War Office pamphlet covers all Italian mines and traps up to the end of the participation of Italy in the Second World War. It covers mines, igniters, prepared charges and improvised mines. Illustrated with a number of good sectioned drawings showing the internal details of each item catalogued. An important suppplement to Italian and French Ordnance. Scarce.
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The Editor
German Ski Training and Tactics
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 101pp. A translation of an original German military training manual for ski troops, the manual covers individual and unit training, heavy infantry weapons, movement on skis, patrols and raids. It includes details of the organisation of ski units to battalion level. Further information includes dog teams, ski maintenance and the evacuation of wounded. There are 42 good illustrations. Reprint of a Restricted US War Department document of 1944.
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The Editor
German Military Training
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 210pp. The training given to German troops in the inter-war period was probably the best of any army in the world up to that time. By the time this book was written proof of the value of that training had been seen in Poland, France and Russia. The book describes in detail the pre-military as well as military training, and puts the whole ethos of German preparations for war into context. It also covers the procurement and training of officers, and looks at leadership and the task force, aggressiveness and initiative and the use of terrain and surprise. A worthwhile addition to the library any student of the German army before and during the Second World War. Repinted from US War Department document of 1940.
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The Editor
Field Engineering (1944)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Two fold-outs in excellent condition. 65pp. A wartime field engineering pamphlet issued as one book. It covers all-arms field engineering and describes protective works, obstacles and minefields and how to overcome these as well. It also looks at the factors affecting the design of protective works and shows how important field engineering was despite the often rapid advances of the time. Repinted from Restricted War Office document of 1944.
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The Editor
Service Instruction Book for Alecto I
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage, slight sunning to front and no bumping to corners. Large number of fold-out plates, drawings in part colour all in excellent condition. 243pp. The Alecto was the SP Gun that nearly was. Designed as a tracked, mobile. lightly armoured SP gun it got to the earlty stages of trials. This is the standard Service Handbook for the vehicle and its 95mm QF howitzer. The manual gives every possible detail and is profusely illustrated with some exceptionally fine line and isometric drawings. The rarity of the original publication makes this a must for any tank manual collector. and for all others who are interested in the development of SP artillery. Restricted document originally published in 1945. Very well illustrated. Scarce.
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The Editor
SMLE Rifle 1937, 1942 : Small Arms Training
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 44+ 68pp. The SMLE rifle saw service in both World Wars and afterwards. Included in this publication are the Weapon Training Pamphlets of 1937 and 1942, covering the Number 1 and Number 4 rifles, with a short section on the sniper rifle No. 4 (T). Every aspect of training is included, including parts, stripping and assemby, firing positions and tactical use. The whole is a picture of this long-serving, much respected infantry weapon. Restricted documents originally published in 1940 and 1942. Well illustrated. Scarce.
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Lucinda Hersey; Catherine Mason (editors)
The West Country at War
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 182pp. Reminiscences from refugees, evacuees and the home front in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall during the Second World War.
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William James
A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America : Volume I (one)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 476pp. The story of the war between the United States and Great Britain and their respective allies in 1812. Includes an appendix of 107 pages of the correspondence between the warring factions. A complete facsimile of the original publication of 1818.
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William Pickering; Alan Hart
The Bandits of Cisterna
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to upper edge and slight rubbing to rear. 170pp. The story of the author's time with SOE during the later days of World War Two when he lived and fought with the 'Bandits of Cisterna', a group of Italian Partisans who had sided with the Allies against the Nazis. Only later did he realise that the greater significance of his job had been to help stop Italy degenerating into Civil War.
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War Office 4 December 1943. War Office 4 December 1943.
Handbook of Enemy Ammunition : Pamphlet No. 9 : German Telermines, Demolition Charges, Fuzes and Gun Ammunition of Czech Origin. Italian Fuze, Primers and Shell.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 33pp. Details of German and Italian ammunition from World War II. Illustrated. Single-sided printing.
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