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SIXSMITH E.K.G.
Eisenhower as Military Commander. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and numerous plates and maps, inscription on front free endpaper; orange cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.146.
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STRAWSON John
The Battle for the Ardennes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly sunned dustwrapper.
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SOROS Tivadar
Maskerado. Dancing round Death in Nazi Hungary. Edited and translated from Esperanto by Humphrey Tonkin. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait plates, coloured Rorschach cards and photographs in the text; black cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in Esperanto in 1965.
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BARON, Richard
Raid!. The Untold Story of Patton's Secret Mission. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map, fore-edge lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Patton commissioned a secret raid on Oflag XIIIB ahammelburg to free American POWs. Surprisingly, not recorded by Enser.
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LEES Dodo
Dodo. [Originally recorded and edited by Clive Murphy.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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DUPUY, Trevor N.
Hitler's Last Gamble. The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 - January 1945. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous maps and charts in the text; black cloth, gilt back, top lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.
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DANK Milton
The French against the French. Collaboration and Resistance. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter taped to boards. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted. Enser, p.90.
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HEARSEY John E.N.
City of Constantine 324-1453. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and plans in the text; red boards, black back lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BOSCAWEN Robert
Armoured Guardsmen. A War Diary, June 1944-April 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 33 plates on 16; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's experiences with the Coldstream Guards of the 1st (Armoured) Battalion through North West Europe, concluding when the author was seriously wounded. Smith, p.245.
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WILLIAMSON George C.
The Cities of Northern Italy. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. Second Edition, revised and corrected. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with title in red and black; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy. Considerably revised version of the first edition of 1901.
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CRUICKSHANK J.W.
The Smaller Tuscan Towns. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, and 32 plates; original series binding of blue ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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CRUICKSHANK J.W.
The Smaller Tuscan Towns. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, and 32 plates; original series binding of blue ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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CRUICKSHANK J.W.
The Umbrian Towns. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, and diagrams in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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PICOT Geoffrey
Accidental Warrior. In the Front Line from Normandy till Victory. Foreword by Sir Philip Goodhart. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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MONTGOMERY Field-Marshal Bernard Law
Normandy to the Baltic. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map coloured in outline, 3 folding diagrams (one coloured in outline) and 46 maps on 45 (the majority folding and coloured in outline) in pockets at front and back; red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Baxter, 269; Enser, p.476.
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BOSCAWEN Robert
Armoured Guardsmen. A War Diary, June 1944-April 1945. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 33 plates on 16; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. The author's experiences with the Coldstream Guards of the 1st (Armoured) Battalion through North West Europe, concluding when the author was seriously wounded. Smith, p.245.
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RANDEL] [Major P.B.
A Short History of 30 Corps in the European Campaign 1944-1945. [Edited by Major D.B. Wilson. Maps by Lance-bombardier W.H. Crawford. Foreword by Lieut.-General B.G. Horrocks]. 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Folio, First Edition, with badge on title and 46 large folding maps coloured in outline; original black boards, upper board with badge and title in gilt, white cloth back, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 NUMBERED COPIES. Includes OOB for OVERLORD, MARKET GARDEN, VERITABLE, PLUNDER; Artillery Fire Plan for VERITABLE; itinerary of Main Corps HQ. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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EBBS Jane C.
The Hidden War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the relatively few accounts of the 'Civil Affairs' personnel who followed the troops across NW Europe, providing civilians and refugees alike with food, shelter and medical aid. SCARCE.
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BREE Germaine
Defeat and Beyond. An Anthology of French Wartime Writing, 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; sand cloth, upper board lettered in red, backstrip lettered in black, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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NORTH-WEST EUROPE.
From Beach-Head to Berlin. A Story in Pictures of a Great Feat of Arms. GOOD WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in English and French, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly age-soiled, backstrip rubbed and worn (but binding wholly sound), a good, clean working copy. Collects an impressive array of valuable photographs.
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AUBRY Docteur Paul
L'Agonie de Saint-Malo. 6 Aout - 14 Aout 1944. NEWLY BOUND IN BOARDS
8vo., text in French, with photographs in the text and full-page map, page-edges tanning lightly; newly bound in grey boards, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a very good, bright,clean copy.
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AUBRY Docteur Paul
L'Agonie de Saint-Malo. 6 Aout - 14 Aout 1944. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., text in French, with photographs in the text and full-page map, page-edges tanning lightly; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, front cover frayed at top edge, backstrip rubbed (but binding wholly sound), a good, clean copy of a fragile production.
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BOND Professor Brian
The Battle of France and Flanders 1940. Sixty Years On. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BRUSSELMANS Madame
Rendez-Vous 127. The Diary of Madame Brusselmans, September 1940-September 1944. Transcribed by Denis Hornsey. With Forewords by Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry and General Carl Spatz. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, gilt back, backstrip gilt slightly dulled, fold-in scars on paste-downs else a very good, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. SCARCE. Enser, p.60.
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CRUICKSHANK Charles
The German Occupation of the Channel Islands. [First Illustrated Edition.] FIRST IlLUSTRATED EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs throughout, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated version of the original edition of 1975. Enser, p.49 (recording the first edition).
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MOUNTFIELD David
The Partisans. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HIGGS Dorothy Pickard
Life in Guernsey under the Nazis, 1940-45. BRIGHT COPY
Sm., 8vo., with frontispiece and photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a bright, clean copy.
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CHANNEL ISLANDS
Channel Islands Occupation Review No.24.. The German Defences. Fortress Tour 1945. Russians in Jersey. German Artillery Sites. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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WILLIS Donald J.
The Incredible Year. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served with 67 Field Artillery Battalion of 3rd Armoured Division from Omaha to the Elbe.
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NEILLANDS Robin
The Battle for the Rhine 1944. [Arnhem and the Ardennes. The Campaign in Europe]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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NEAVE Airey
Saturday at M.I.9. A History of Underground Escape Lines in North-West Europe in 1940-5 by a leading Organiser at M.I.9. [Fourth Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Fourth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 25 plates on 14, 6 maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps in red; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges and with small loss at bottom edge of rear panel. The first account of the escape lines by an insider, himself the first British officer to escape from Colditz. Tragically, Airey Neave was assassinated by the INLA at the Houses of Parliament in 1979. Published three months after the first edition. Enser, p.151 (recording the first edition).
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GRAND' COMBE, pseud. Felix de
The Three Years of Fighting France. June 1940 - June 1943. PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original wrappers, lower quarter of backstrip worn, wrappers rubbed at extremities else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER.
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WHITING Charles
Bloody Bremen. Ike's Last Stand. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ELSTOB Peter
Hitler's Last Offensive. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip. Enser, p.33.
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OOCUPIED FRANCE.
Heros et Martyrs 1940-45. Les Fusilles. BRIGHT, CLEAN WORKING COPY
Folio, First Edition, text in French, with illustrated title, very numerous photographs and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, and pictorial front free endpaper; red fuax-morocco cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, gilt back, covers moderately age-faded, upper joint rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper and title verso [only]. SCARCE.
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FREE FRANCE.
La Lettre de la France Combattante. Volume Two. Nos. 15-26, February 1942 - January 1943. [News of the Free French Movement.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
12 numbers in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs, illustrations and maps (a number coloured in outline) throughout, minor damp-mark at lower margin of upper board and first few leaves; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, ALL ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a very good,bright, clean copy. BOUND VOLUMES ARE SCARCE.
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JOURDAN, Louis
Glieres. Haute-Savoie 31 Janvier - 26 Mars 1944.. Premiere Bataille de la Resistance. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, text in French, with photographs and facsimiles in the text, and large folding map at end; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY JOURDAN AND ANOTHER WITH LENGTHY INSCRIPTION AND ASSOCIATION STAMP ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE.
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LE MAREC Gerard
La Bretagne dans la Resistance. Preface du Colonel Remy. 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, text in French, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 620).
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MONTGOMERY Field-Marshal Bernard Law
Normandy to the Baltic. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE SECOND IMPRESSION
8vo., Second Impression, with large folding map as frontispiece; red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Published two months after the first edition. Baxter, 269; Enser, p.476 (recording the first edition).
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BEAN George E.
Aegean Turkey [with] Turkey's Southern Shore [with] Turkey Beyond the Maeander [with] Lycian Turkey. BEAN'S TURKEY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerpus plates and maps, small, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper of final volume; black cloth, gilt backs, yellow tops, a near fine set in dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped). Bean's invaluable archaeological survey comprises: Aegean Turkey (1966), Turkey's Southern Shore (1968), Turkey Beyond the Maeander (1971) and LycIan Turkey (1978). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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WEITZ Margaret Collins
Sisters in the Resistance. How Women fought to free France, 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. An important account of the women of the French Resistamnce and Maquis in Occupied and Vichy France.
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BRITISH SECOND ARMY.
Thanksgiving Service on Conclusion of the Campaign in North West Europe. 6th June 1944 to 5th May 1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY: A RARE SURVIVAL
Sm. 4to., with coloured formation signs of twenty-six Second Army units on front wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled, staples very lightly rusting else a remarkably crisp, bright, clean copy. This humble Order of Service is surely the single document which, for every individual soldier in Dempsey's Second Army, symbolised the end of the gruelling twelve months which lasted from from the beaches of Normandy to the heath at Luneberg and brought the end of war in Europe. The front wrapper carries a striking coloured montage of badges of the major formations involved, comprising Second Army, 1 Corps, 8 Corps, 12 Corps, 30 Corps, Airborne Corps, Guards Armoured Division, 7 Armoured Division, 11 Armoured Division, 3 Infantry Division, 5 Infantry Division, 15 (Scottish) Infantry Division, 43 (Wessex) Infantry Division, 49 (West Riding) Infantry Division, 50 (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, 51 (Highland) Infantry Division, 52 (Lowland) Infantry Division, 53 (Welsh) Infantry Division, 59 (Staffordshire) Infantry Division, 6 Guards Tank Brigade, 4 Armoured Brigade, 8 Armoured Brigade, 27 Armoured Brigade, 33 Armoured Brigade, 34 Armoured Brigade, 115 Independent Infantry Brigade. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cole reproduces the wrapper in his standard reference 'Heraldry in War' (plate facing p.120).
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DAVIES Norman
Europe: A History. Newly introduced by the Author. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured plates, and monochrome illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial boards, gilt backs, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked slip-case.
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CHANDLER, ed. David
A Traveller's Guide to the Battlefields of Europe. Volume I: Western Europe. Edited by David Chandler. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous plans in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LE COURRIER DE L'AIR
Le Courrier de l'Air. 1942. No. 2. [January 1942]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Single sheet folded once, 8vo., text in French, with photographs in the text; a very good, bright, clean copy. 'Apporte par vos amis de la RAF. Distribue par les patriotes francais' (masthead). Propaganda leaflet air-dropped by rhe RAF to French civilians. A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY.
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SHAEF WWII.
Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with full-page plan and 11 full-page maps in the text; original coloured printed wrappers, backstrip lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. The official SHAEF account of operations in Europe from D-Day to the German surrender.
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HORROCKS Lieutenant-General Brian
A Full Life. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates and 14 and 10 maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed and creased at edges and chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography of one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was widely regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe (including a central role in Operation GARDEN). SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Enser, p.266.
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BREMEN PORT COMMAND. APO 751
[Menu]. Christmas 1945. With Christmas Message from Major-General H.B. Vaughan, Jr. USA Commanding. A RARE SURVIVAL SIGNED BY DINERS
4pp., 8vo., wrappers printed in green, a very good, bright, clean copy. SIGNED ON REVERSE BY THIRTEEN DINERS. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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SITWELL Sacheverell
The Gothick North. A Study of Mediaeval Life, Art and Thought. [Complete set.]. The Visit of the Gypsies [with] These Sad Ruins [with] The Fair-Haired Victory. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispieces and plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original yellow cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers moderately browned at backstrips. First appearance of Sitwell's classic study, comprising 'The Visit of the Gypsies' (1929), 'These Sad Ruins' (1929) and 'The Fair-Haired Victory' (1930). The three works were combined without change of text in a one-volume edition in the US (Houghton Mifflin, 1929) and the UK (Duckworth, 1938). UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Fifoot, SA17.
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1 CORPS [British Army]
The Germany of 1 Corps District in Legend and Battle. [Foreword by General Sir Gwilym Ivor Thomas.] NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with folding map; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Crocker's I Corps fought from Normandy through NW Europe to Germany. Following the Armistice, 1 Corps was designated an administrative district under Ivor Thomas until disbandment in 1947. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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