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REES Wing Commander Ken
Lie in the Dark and listen. The remarkable Exploits of a WWII Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper. With Karen Arrandale. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written account of over fifty bomber sorties, capture, imprisonment in Sagan Stalag Luft III, and participation in the The Great Escape and subsequent Death March to Bremen.
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RANDLE Bill
Kondor. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Vividly-written novel based closely on the author's service in WWII.
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LONDON Peter
U-Boat Hunters. Cornwall's Air War 1916-19 NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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LUCAS Laddie
Flying Colours. The Epic Story of Douglas Bader. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CUTHBERT Geoffrey
Flying to the Sun. Quarter Century of Britannia Airways, Europe's leading leisure airline. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHARTRES John
Shackleton at War and Peace. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographic title-spread and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, neat personal name-stamp on endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FRANKS Norman L.R.
Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War. [Complete set.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET
3 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises Vol. 1: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941 (1997); Vol. 2: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943 (1998); Vol. 3: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1944-1945 (incorporating Air Defence Great Britain and 2nd TAF) (2000). The standard reference. COMPLETE SETS ARE NOW VERY SCARCE.
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JAMESON William
Ark Royal 1939-1941. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 24 plates on 16, a double-page plan and numerous maps (a number full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt anchor, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. One of the most detailed and scholarly single-ship biographies, this is the best account of the wartime career of one of the most famous ships of WWII. Includes a bibliography. Enser, p.21; Law, 0961.
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ROYAL AIR FORCE
No. 5 Group Operation Order No. B.976. [Photocopy of the Operational Order for Operation CHASTISE]. THE 'DAM BUSTERS' OPERATIONAL ORDER IN FACSIMILE
Foolscap, 6pp typescript, with 8pp supplementary material in typescript; wire-stitched, a very good, clean copy. Classified 'Most Secret', the operational order is dated 16 May 1943 and arranged under the following headings: General, Enemy Defences, Intention, Code Name, Date of Attack, Effort, Outline Plan, Detailed Plan, Method of Attack, Time of Attack, Routes, Diversions, Armament, Fuel, Navigation, Synchronisation of Watches, Secrecy, Reports, Special Devices, Nickels, Wireless Silence, MF/DF Section, Executive Order. Three technical Appendices covering routes, timings, signals procedures, and light and moon tables are not present with this copy. The order itself is accompanied by a further 8pp of photocopies comprising 1) 2pp of prose by Marshal of the RAF Arthur 'Bomber' Harris written for ex-Pathfinder Hamish Mahaddie and used by him during lecture tours in Australia and New Zealand; 2) a full-page copy of the well-known photographic portrait of Harris with his signature; 3) 5pp photocopy of the Service of Thanksgiving for Air Marshal Sir Harold Martin held at the RAF church St. Clement Danes on 4 January 1989, including the tribute written and delivered by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire.
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AERO MODELLER.
Aero Modeller Annual 1957-58. A Review of the Year's Aero-modelling throughout the World in theory and practice. Compiled by D.J. Laidlaw-Jackson and edited by C.S. Rushbrooke A RARE SURVIVAL IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and very numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper with small label scar on front panel. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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GRAHAME-WHITE Claude
Heroes of the Flying Corps. A Description of the Work of the Airmen during the Early Stages of the War. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo. THE ORIGINAL EDITION, WANTING FRONTISPIECE
8vo., First Edition, with 5 fine coloured plates BUT WANTING COLOURED FRONTISPIECE; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, blue edges, pale blue endpapers, expertly recased, covers worn else a sound, firm copy. Arguably the scarcest of the Grahame-White and Harper collaborations, with striking plates by Cuneo senior. The missing frontispiece notwithstanding, a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.305; Noffsinger 557 (recording only the second edition of 1919).
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AIRCREW ASSOCIATION
Intercom 1-10. [The magazine of the Aircrew Association.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
10 numbers in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, passe-partout backstrip, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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LISIEWICZ, et al, eds.] [M.
Destiny can wait. The Polish Air Force in the Second World War. Foreword by Marshal of the RAF Viscount Portal of Hungerford. THE SCARCE ORIGINAL EDITION
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, 108 monochrome photographs on 48, 12 full-page plates of drawings by Topolski and numerous illustrations, diagrams and tail-pieces in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, boards and backstrip very lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Classic account prepared by the Polish Air Force association in London as the official English language history of Polish flyers in WW 2. The text is based on combat reports, squadron diaries and official records, with personal narratives by many former aircrew and (all-important) ground staff. It is the definitive account of the ten fighter squadrons (302, 303, 306, 307, 308, 309, 315, 316, 317, 318) and four bomber squadrons (300, 301, 304, 305) that flew with the RAF to such notable effect. VERY SCARCE
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HERWIG Dieter
Luftwaffe Secret Projects. Strategic Bombers 1935-1945. [Translated from the German by Elke and John Weal. First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with coloured title, and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published two years after the German edition.
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LANDE D.A.
From Somewhere in England. [The Life and Times of 8th AF Bomber, Fighter and Ground Crews in WWII.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KINGSFORD-SMITH Sir Charles
My Flying Life. An Authentic Biography prepared under the personal supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates, wanting front free endpaper; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrpper, the latter rubbed and frayed at edges. Published a month after the first edition.
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KINGSFORD A. R.
Night Raiders of the Air. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1930. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Noffsinger 848 (recording the 1939 edition).
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LAMONT-BROWN Raymond
Kamikaze. Japan's Suicide Samurai. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LEE Asher
Air Power. [Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably revised version of the original edition of 1955.
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LEA John
Reggie. The Life of Air Vice Marshal R L G Marix NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates;mblue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LUCAS John
The Big Umbrella. The History of the Parachute from Da Vinci to Apollo. With a Foreword by Group Captain Douglas Bader. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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HONAN William H.
Bywater. The Man who invented the Pacific War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LONGMATE Norman
The Bombers. The RAF Offensive against Germany, 1939-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.32.
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LEE Asher
The Soviet Air Force. [Revised and Enlarged Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged version of the original edition of 1950.
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HILDEBRANDT A
Balloons and Airships. Translated by W.H. Story. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition ('Airships Past and Present') of 1908. The author was Captain and Instructor in the Prussian Balloon Corps.
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HARVEY J. Douglas
The Tumbling Mirth. Remembering the Air Force NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; buff boards, blue cloth back lettered in cream, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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HUNT Leslie
Veteran and Vintage Aircraft (Enlarged Edition). SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, dustwrapper laminated to boards, a good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTIONPON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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HENDRIE Andrew
Short Sunderland in World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KAPLAN Philip
Two-Man Air Force. [Don Gentille and John Godfrey. World War II Flying Aces.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAMER David
Bombers versus Battleships. The Struggle between Ships and Aircraft for the Control of the Surface of the Sea. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WHITE Roger Henshaw
Spitfire Saga - with a Spell on Wellingtons. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.84.
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HUGHES Thomas Alexander
Over Lord. General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue boards, white cloth back lettered in blue, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HARDY M J
The North American Mustang. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KLINKOWITZ Jerome
Their Finest Hours. The RAF and Luftwaffe in World War II. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.
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KING Benjamin
Impact. The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GLINES Carroll V.
Chennault's Forgotten Warriors. The Saga of the 308th Bomb Group in China. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; buff cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KINSEY Gordon
Pulham Pigs. The History of an Airship Station. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs throughout and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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GEUST Carl-Fredrik
Under the Red Star. [Luftwaffe Aircraft in the Soviet Airforce.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HALLEY James J.
The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force. AIR MARSHAL SIR ERIC DUNN'S COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF AIR MARSHAL SIR ERIC DUNN AND BEARS HIS BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Summary squadron histories with bases and aircraft types.
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POLISH AIR FORCE. WWII.
Memorial to the Polish Airmen who fell in World War II.. [Edited by Zbigniew Kumos.] PRESENTATION COPY TO AIR MARSHAL SIR ERIC DUNN
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, title, captions and history in Polish and English, mian text in Polish, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE POLISH AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION TO AIR MARSHAL SIR ERIC DUNN WITHPREENTATION SLIP MOUNTED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Includes extensive ROH. VERY SCARCE.
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KNOTT Captain Richard C.
The American Flying Boat. An Illustrated History. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm., folio, First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a very good,bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.
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LAUNAY A.J.
Historic Air Disasters. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LAUWICK Herve
Heroines of the Sky. Translated from the French by James Cleugh. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates, inscription on front paste-down; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LEVINE Isaac Don
Flying Crusader. The Story of General William Mitchell, Pioneer of Air Power. With a Foreword by Peter Masefield. FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top dust-soiled, backstrip faded at head, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately frayed and worn at edges, and neatly repaired at joints. The UK edition is far scarcer than its US counterparts. EXTREMELY SCARCE, PARTICULARLY IN DUSTWRAPPER. Noffsinger 890.
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KAISER Hans K.
Rockets and Spaceflight. Translated by Alex Helm. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE REVIEW COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. PUBLISHER'S REVIEW COPY WITH REVIEW REQUEST LOOSELY INSERTED. Published two years after the German edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LEWIS Peter
The British Bomber since 1914. Sixty Years of Design and Development. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed with minor loss at edges. Standard reference first published in 1967. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LEWIS Peter
The British Fighter since 1912. Fifty Years of Design and Development. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, dark top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed with minor loss at edges. Standard reference first published in 1965.
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STANNAGE John
Smithy. [The Story of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Third Impression] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates, endpapers and edges foxed; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1950.
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KENNEY General George C.
Dick Bong. Ace of Aces. Introduction and Notes by Michael O'Connor. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, fore-edges lightly spotted; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, red endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the first edition of 1960. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LACEY-JOHNSON Lionel
Point Blank and Beyond. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the Allied 'Transportation Plan' aimed at disrupting the German supply system as part of D-Day.
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