20068vo., First Edition thus, with 12 photographs and 12 maps; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Photocopy facsimiles of the original edition of 1956. Covers the three major airborne operations in NW Europe during World War II: NEPTUNE (D-Day), MARKET GARDEN (Arnhem) and VARSITY (Rhine Crossing). Well illustrated and with much statistical detail of troops and transports.

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TREW SimonMareMagnum

Battle for Caen. [Battle Zone Normandy 11].

20048vo., First Edition, with illustrated title, and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and maps throughout; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. Battle Zone Normandy 11.Sutton's valuable 'Battle Zone Normandy' series provides an innovative historical survey of the Normandy landings and immediate aftermath. Each of the fourteen volumes is divided into four parts: a general introduction by series editor Simon Trew, a descriptive account by a recognised authority; detailed battlefield tours, and guides for further research. The series is well illustrated and particularly well mapped.

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DELAFORCE PatrickMareMagnum

The Polar Bears. From Normandy to the Relief of Holland with the 49th Division.

19998vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; laminated pictorial boards as issued, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. High quality re-issue of the first edition of 1995

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GAVIN General James M.MareMagnum

On to Berlin. Battles of an Airborne Commander 1943-1946. [Third Impression].

19788vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 22 maps in the text; grey boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt and blue, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. Gavin commanded 82nd Airborne through Sicily, Salerno, Normandy and perhaps most famously, at Nijmegen as part of MARKET GARDEN. Enser, p.3

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HARRIS Brigadier L.H.MareMagnum

Signal Venture. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

19518vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 20 plates on 12 and a large folding map on japon; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted. Harris begins his account as a linesman with Australian Signals during the Great War; between the wars he served as telecommunications engineer with the Post Office and at the same time a Territorial Army officer of Royal Signals, As a Signals officer during WWII he served with BEF during the withdrawal from Dunkirk, later at GHQ Home Forces, and finally as Chief, Telecommunications Section, SHAEF. Uncommon in this condition. Enser, p. 78.

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HORROCKS Lieutenant-General BrianMareMagnum

A Full Life. J.H. OWEN'S COPY

19608vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 10 maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography by one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe (including a central role in GARDEN). This copy was formerly in the library of the eminent naval and military historian J H Owen and bears his signature on front free endpaper. Enser, p.266.

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LEFEVRE EricMareMagnum

Panzers in Normandy Then and Now. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

1983Roy. 4to., with many hundreds of photographs and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Another engrossing 'then and now' study from this publisher. The research for this title resulted in the discovery of the grave of panzer ace Michael Wittman.

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SCARFE NormanMareMagnum

Assault Division. A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany.

19478vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 32 plates on 22, 7 maps (one double-page) in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, covers moderately worn and faded else a good, sound copy of an uncommon unit history. The British 3rd Division landed near Caen, linked up with the 6th Airborne and fought right through to the Surrender. Not recorded by Enser.

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TOUT KenMareMagnum

The Bloody Battle for Tilly. Normandy 1944.

20008vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and a map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A 'sequel' to Tout's 'A Fine Night for Tanks' (1998). Here he focuses on the infantry battles south of Caen during Operation TOTALIZE. Many valuable eye-witness accounts.

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TUTE WarrenMareMagnum

D Day. [Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma]. SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS

19744to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, maps and diagrams in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps, four leaves poorly opened at upper margin, page-edges very lightly browned as usual; cloth, gilt back, a very good, firm copy in price-clipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SIGNED BY TUTE, COSTELLO AND HUGHES ON A BOOKPLATE AFFIXED TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Excellent overall survey by three acclaimed naval and military historians. Published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the landings, the strong and deceptively detailed text is supported by a wealth of well-chosen and captioned photographs. It was the first major publication to utilise recently declassified official records, and also includes numerous eye-witness accounts. Material signed by Costello in particular is very scarce.

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HART Captain Basil H. LiddellMareMagnum

The Tanks. Volume I: 1914-1939 [with] Volume II: 1939-1945. The History of the Royal Tank Regiment and its Predecessors: Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps, Tank Corps and Royal Tank Corps, 1914-1945. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

19592 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous portraits, plates and maps (a number folding); black cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A splendid copy of the standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.123; White, p.26.

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MCCUE PaulMareMagnum

SAS Operation Bulbasket. Behind the Lines in Occupied France in 1944. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

19968vo., First Edition, with 44 plates on 16 and 2 pages of maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first detailed account of this little-known SAS operation carried out during and after D-Day. Only now, with the release of hitherto classified documents and thanks to a remarkable amount of painstaking research and detective work by the author, can anything like the full story be told. Very scarce, especially in this condition

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HART Stephen A.MareMagnum

Sherman Firefly vs Tiger. Normandy 1944. FINE COPY

20078vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.

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ROWE VivianMareMagnum

Return to Normandy.

1951Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the series 'Windows on the World'. Uncommon in the dustwrapper.

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MILLER RussellMareMagnum

Nothing Less than Victory. An Oral History of D-Day. [Third Impression]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

19938vo., Third Impression, with numerous plates, and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. A wide-ranging compilation of eye-witness accounts from both sides.

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SHAW F.MareMagnum

We Remember D-Day. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

1994Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-compiled and illustrated series of vernacular accounts by participants.

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HORROCKS Lieutenant-General BrianMareMagnum

A Full Life. IN FULL MOROCCO

19608vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 10 maps in the text; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography by one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe (including a central role in Operation GARDEN). Enser, p.266.

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STAFFORD DavidMareMagnum

Ten Days to D-Day. Countdown to the Liberation of Europe. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO J H OWEN

20038vo., First Edition, with 33 plates on 16 and a double-page map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE EMINENT HISTORIAN J H [HUGH] OWEN WITH THE FORMER'S LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. With a copy T.L.s from Owen and another piece loosely inserted.

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ADMIRALTY.MareMagnum

Invasion Europe. [comprising] Operation 'Neptune' Landings in Normandy June, 1944; The Campaign in North-West Europe June 1944-May 1945; Invasion of the South of France Operation 'Dragoon' 15th August 1944. FINE SET IN SLIP-CASE

1994Together 5 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 31 figures, and 30 folding maps and plans in separate wallets; navy cloth gilt, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs [text volumes], original printed wrappers [map, diagram and errata wallets], a fine copy in the publisher's pictorial slip-case as issued. Admiralty Battle Summaries were written relatively soon after the events they describe (the last of the present collection was produced in 1952) and are based on official documentary material which did not become available to the public at large until 1968. They were written by authors who understood thoroughly their topics, as follows: Operation 'Neptune': Commander L.J. Pitrcairn-Jones; The Campaign in North-West Europe: Commander J.H. Lloyd-Owen; Operation 'Dragoon': Commander W.E.H. Westall. In due course, the volumes became basic reference sources for the authors of the Cabinet Office series of OFFICIAL HISTORIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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ELLIS et al Major L. F.MareMagnum

Victory in the West. [Official History of the Second World War]. Volume I. The Battle of Normandy. THIS VOLUME ONLY. With Captain G.R.G. Allen, Lieutenant-Colonel A.E. Warhurst, Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

19628vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and charts (a number coloured in outline and folding), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, fore-edge browned, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily browned at edges and backstrip. Published in the official series History of the Second World War. Enser, p.290.

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ROHMER RichardMareMagnum

Patton's Gap. An Account of the Battle of Normandy 1944. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

19818vo., First Edition, with plates, and maps in the text; grey boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.80

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DELAFORCE PatrickMareMagnum

Churchill's Desert Rats. From Normandy to Berlin with the 7th Armoured Division. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

19998vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1994. Arguably the best complement to Verney, with useful index of veterans but no units quoted. Smith 276.

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BADSEY StephenMareMagnum

Campaign 1. Normandy 1944. Allied Landings and Breakout. NEAR FINE COPY

20038vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy

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EDWARDS KennethMareMagnum

Operation Neptune. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

19468vo., First Edition, with several plates and endpaper maps; decorative black cloth gilt, gilt back, covers slightly age-marked at edges else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-sloiled and frayed at edges. A standard secondary source. Covers the naval component of OVERLORD, the clearing of the Channel ports and Walcheren. Enser, p.290; Law, 0589

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METHUEN LordMareMagnum

Normandy Diary. Being a Record of Survivals and Losses of Historical Monuments in North-Western France, together with those in the Island of Walcheren and in that Part of Belgium traversed by 21st Army Group in 1944-45. [Introduction by C.L. Woolley]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

1952Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, monochrome illustrations in the text and a very large folding coloured map on japon, small signature on front free endpaper; original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a very good, clean copy. Lord Methuen's painstaking and well-illustrated inventory is now increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.37.