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When Dragons Flew. An Illustrated History of the 1st Battalion The Border Regiment 1939-1945. SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS

1994Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, 4 full-page coloured maps and very numerous photographs in the text, large signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON HALF-TITLE. Splendid pictorial history based on a huge compilation of photographs from public and private sources. As one would expect, about half the book is given over the battalion's role in Operation MARKET. Includes battalion ROH, honours and awards, battalion roll for Arnhem, operational orders for MARKET and much other data. Sutcliffe, p.293

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Royaume-Uni191,07 €

Mitsuo Hoshino (6th Regiment 4th Division)Biblio.com

White Youth

1990réf. 2090202120416078private version 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 private version paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour103,00 $US≈ 91,84 €

PACKE MichaelMareMagnum

Winged Stallion. Fighting and Training with the First Airborne. [Second Edition].

19888vo., Second Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1948. The author was one of the earliest volunteers.

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Royaume-Uni13,65 €

PACKE MichaelMareMagnum

Winged Stallion. Fighting and Training with the First Airborne. [Second Edition; First Edition titled thus.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

19888vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Includes North Africa, Italy, Sicily, Arnhem. First published as 'First Airborne' by Secker & Warburg in 1948. Enser, p.19 (recording the original edition).

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Royaume-Uni13,65 €

One of Its Officers (H. John Blampied)MareMagnum

With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-1917

1918An account of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch) in Mesopotamia - the two years spent by the Battalion in Iraq. When published both the regiment and author were kept anonymous. Gilt title on front cover. 165 pages, many photographs. Includes Summary of Officer Casualties, List of Officers who Served, Nominal roll of W.Os, N.C.Os., and men killed in action and list of same reported 'Missing' or 'Wounded' Covers worn at extremities, page edges greyed with dust marks. Inscription on recto of frontispiece photograph.

Andmeister Books · Royaume-Uni45,49 €

WARD J.MareMagnum

With the 'Die-Hards' in Siberia. THE ONLY BRITISH UNIT HISTORY IN THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION

19208vo., First Edition, with a portrait and 10 plates on 7, fore-edge browning slightly; original regimental grey cloth, upper board blocked with crest in black, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers mildly age-stained else a very good, clean copy. The astonishing, if gruelling, account of the 25th (Navvies) Battalion of The Middlesex Regiment in WWI, and THE ONLY BRITISH UNIT HISTORY IN THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION. 'Ward's story really belongs in the main to the 'after-the-war' period in Russia. He gives an interesting account of Admiral Koltchak, whom he admired, and shows how insuperable were the difficulties which that unfortunate patriot had to face. It is now beginning to be recognised that Koltchak was, with the possible exception of Wrangel, far and away the ablest of the White [Russian] commanders. For the rest, his [Ward's] story is one of gallantry and endurance in frightful conditions displayed by troops for the most part of a low physical category' (Falls). 'In 1915 [Ward] raised the 25th Navvies Battalion, which was then ordered to the Far East and ultimately to Siberia to support Admiral Koltchak.' (Sutcliffe). Very scarce. Enser, p.68; Falls, p.236; Sutcliffe, p.328; not recorded by White.

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Royaume-Uni125,11 €

LOCK H.O.MareMagnum

With the British Army in the Holy Land.

19198vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 5 double-page maps on japon, free endpapers browned from fold-ins; original maroon cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back (lettering faded but entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. Written on active service with the Dorsetshire Regiment, these are the author's personal reminiscences of service in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Palestine. Scarce in this condition. Not recorded by Enser.

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Royaume-Uni86,44 €

EVANS BrynMareMagnum

With the East Surreys in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy, 1942-1945. Fighting for every River and Mountain. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

20128vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Royaume-Uni13,65 €

09th Australian Light Horse Regiment; Darley, T HBiblio.com

WITH THE NINTH LIGHT HORSE IN THE GREAT WAR

2009réf. 103772Brisbane: A. Green 2009. Foreword by General Sir Harry Chauvel. Pp. viii208last blank double sided frontispiece and 26 plates appendices including rolls; post 8vo; quarter cloth papered boards lettered in black; A. Green Brisbane 2009. Facsimile edition limited to 400 numbered copies. See Tregellis-Smith 279. First published by The Hassell Press Adelaide 1924. A. Green unknown

Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller · Australie210,00 $AU≈ 130,79 €

Woman's Assoc; Of the 36th RegimentBiblio.com

Woman's Association of the 36th Regiment Mass; Volunteers Classic Reprint

réf. 0656978295.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover

Bonita · États-Unis63,07 $US≈ 56,24 €

Wood, Lambert Alexander (Lieutenant, 9th NY Regiment)Biblio.com

WORLD WAR I SOLDIER'S 77 HANDWRITTEN LETTERS TO GIRLFRIEND AND PARENTS BEFORE BEING KILLED IN BATTLE

1918réf. 88062Self-Published 1918. Manuscript. Very Good Plus. Half-bound dark green morocco over light brown woven linen. A large sturdy hand-crafted book with sewn signatures 11 3/4 in. x 8 in. x 3 in. housed within a sturdy wooden slipcase covered with woven linen matching the cover of the book itself. Letters envelopes official documents etc. are displayed behind within clear plastic "jackets" each mounted to individual pages of thick card stock. The large tipped in photo shows some spotty residue and the slipcase shows a bit of edgewear. The archive consists of 77 detailed letters written by Lieutenant Wood 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Division was killed in action southeast of Soissons France on July 18 1918 while in command of his machine gun platoon on a flank movement against an enemy group which was enfiltrating the advancing infantry line. This copy includes a tipped-in photograph of Lambert Wood opposite the title page and a tipped-in handwritten presentation slip written and signed by his mother Northwest author Elizabeth Lambert Wood "With the compliments of soldier-author's mother. Elizabeth Lambert Wood". A collection of remarkable letters written by Lambert Alexander Wood 1895-1918 who served with the Machine Gun Company 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Division reflecting an extraordinarily deep and philosophical grasp of both the lofty purpose justification and horrors of war "I am fighting for our very civilization" with none of the details left out "I have seen men die smiling." or "I haven't been out of my clothes for 30 days." . Roughly half of this notable 77-letter archive are addressed to both parents with some addressed individually to "Mother" "Father" "Dad" and the other half -- 36 letters -- addressed to M.S. his sweetheart. Woven throughout so many of the letters is Wood's profound and unstoppable sense of duty and responsibility and consistent view of himself as a crucial component of a much larger grand effort than merely his individual self -- one utterly dependent upon his steady and ferocious all-in participation. Further as an officer he felt his comportment had to be visibly far and above that required of the ordinary soldier . On a number of occasions he mentioned to M.S. that he deprived himself of sleep and duly awarded leave because he felt compelled to set an example; yet their seems to be no trace of egoism or grandstanding; Lambert Wood was fighting the good fight the real fight and coming to realize and mentioning that it was the brave two-fisted men who would win this very tough war. In his devoted sweet letters to M.S. he explains both the logistics of his various responsibilities and placements -- instructor in gas warfare for example -- and seldom neglectsto delve deeper into the reasons behind war as if in explaining it to his beloved and perhaps to himself. The young man was clearly a highly articulate writer who is able to clearly convey the American sense of righteousness against a loathesome enemy. Somewhat alarmingly reading through the letters one sees this soldier-leader's growing -- it must be called "joy" for he himself terms it so in this and other synonymous words in KILLING the enemy the cold and dispassionate"otherizing" which steadily grows to supplant his still youthful and natural 23-year-old nnocence and permits the taking of human life behind a script of justification. Reading through this archive one follows the horrific yet fascinating path through the eyes of an educated privileged young man from Portland Oregon as he gradually transforms into a focused and efficient killing machine a capable and effective instructor and leader of other men who had no choice but becoming the same if they were to survive. Their unit was the first in the actual trenches. Lambert Alexander Wood was the son of Dr. William Lee Wood a physician and Elizabeth Lambert Wood a Northwest author best known for her adventure stories for boys. His grandfather was J.H. Lambert Oregon pioneer horticulturist and originator of the Lambert Cherry. He grew up in Portland Oregon. While attending Williams College in Massachusetts Wood enrolled in the volunteer pre-enlistment training program in Plattsburgh New York as part of the "Preparedness" movement before actual U.S. involvement in World War I sailing for France in March of 1917. Note: Two books that contain excerpts from these letters were published and are included with the purchase of this letter-archive: The first entitled "His Job: Letters Written By A 22 Year-Old Lieutenant In The World War To His Parents And Others In Oregon" was published in 1936 by the Metropolitan Press of Portland OR. The second book is entitled "Certain Brief Conclusions: From Selected Letters Of Lambert Wood" which was issued by publishers Binfords & Mort Portland OR in 1939 and also printed by the Metropolitan Press in Portland OR. Self-Published unknown

Aardvark Rare Books · États-Unis5 280,00 $US≈ 4 707,98 €

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