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London: Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster Row, [ no date - c. 1920 ] .. First edition. 8vo. 9.0" x 5.75" x 1.25". [12pp.]/pp.268/[2pp.] + 24 plates (as called for). Original orange boards soiled and rubbed. Spine with dulled titles. No ownership marks etc. Light toning to endpapers, otherwise clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. "Illustrations by Ernest Blaikley, Artists'… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916.. 1st edition. A Chaplain's Experiences. Pp.xiv/191, 26 illustrations with two maps to endpapers, gift message to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, edge chips to preliminary pages. Red cloth, spine sunned with further sunning to board edges. G+.

Norwich: The Erskine Press, 2003.. 1st edition. "On the evening of 16th May 1943, the famous dam raids took place and though the operation was an outstanding success, there was a heavy price to pay. Of the nineteen Lancasters that took off, eight planes and fifty-five men did not return. Guy Gibson was awarded the Victoria Cros and thirty-three… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1978.. 1st edition. "The Blitz and the Battle of Britain are landmarks in English history, but this book shows them from the opposing, German, viewpoint. It is a unique collection of rare or otherwise interesting photographs taken on the spot by Luftwaffe war correspondents both on the ground and in the air, and includes many famous… Read more about this item

London: Military Book Society, 1971.. This survey of thje armament installations on British aircraft over a period of thirty years is, at the same time, a major contribution to the history of the aircraft themselves, covering as it does no fewer than 500 types of aircraft constructed by 48 private manufacturers and Government establishments....Many of the photographs show in… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 1984.. A photographer's account of the Vietnam War. "Tim Page has become part of the Vietnam War mythology, except that in his case the myths are reality. Twenty when he first arrived in Vietnam to report the most controversial and convulsive war of modern times, he soon became identified with a particular 'cool', buccaneering attitude… Read more about this item

Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1982.. 1st edition. "Airspeed Limited was an act of faith on the part of four men, Nevil Shute Norway [novelist Nevil Shute], Alfred Hessell Tiltman, Sir Alan Cobham and Lord Grimthorpe...Airspeed produced the Courier small airliner which was notable for introducing the retractable undercarriage, but its name will be for ever linked with two aircraft which… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.. Louis Barthas, a thirty five-year-old French barrelmaker, was mobilized to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I and spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat. An eloquent witness to battlefields from Flanders to the Argonne, Barthes keenly observes soldiers at the heart of the Great War. ...For… Read more about this item

Cardigan: Parthian Library of Wales, 2016.. A memoir of the author's time serving in British India. "Old Soldier Sahib is a unique account of the experience of a private soldier in the British Army in the early years of the twentieth century." Pp.266. Paperback. VG.

London: Osprey Aerospace, 1995.. Osprey Aircraft of the Aces series. "Although best remembered for its exploits with Eighth Air Force units, the Mustang, in its various marks, actually made its combat debut firstly with the RAF in the Army co-operation role, and then with the USAAF's tactically-optimised Ninth and Fifteenth Air Forces....Rarely given the exposure enjoyed by their high-scoring… Read more about this item

London: Arms and Armour, 1997.. 1st edition. "The remarkable collection of painted prints shown in this book represents one of the most valuable primary sources of reference to Napoleonic uniforms ever assembled. They are presented here, in book form and in this quantity, for the first time." 25cms x 19cms x 2cms. Pp.256, 162 full colour plates.… Read more about this item

London: Collins,1984.. 1st edition. "This book is one of the best to be written about the war in Burma; an evocation, at once poignant and compelling, of one of the strangest and most exacting military undertakings of the Second War." Pp.272, 1 map, slight toning to pages, owner's name to front free endpaper. Black cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Leatherhead: Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1993.. 1st edition. "In 1991, the Royal Observer Corps was finally "stood down" by Her Majesty the Queen after 66 years of meritorious service....The Author, himself a member of the R.O.C.A. has been allowed access to unique archive material...and many previously unpublished photographs have been included in this book". Pp.xvi/176, many black &… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1943.. 1st edition. An account of the author's experiences on a mission,, alongside Orde Wingate, to Fascist-occupied Ethiopia (then known as Abyssinia),during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. He also met and recorded the activities of other Special Operations Executive (SOE) comrades Tony Simonds and Billy Maclean. pp.126, 3 maps + 8 pages of photogravures, toning to pages,… Read more about this item

Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd., Wellington Works, 1933 .. A very good original booklet. pp.48. Cream card covers with red crest and title. Edges lightly rubbed. Clean text and black & white illustrations. VG.

London: Adam & Charles Black, Soho Square, 1903 .. Limited first edition, signed by the Author. "This Edition De Luxe Is Limited To Two Hundred And Fifty Copies, Of Which This Is No. 215." 4to. 11.0" x 9.0" x 1.75". pp.xiii./pp. 274. Soiled cream covers. Edges rubbed and bumped. Limited note and signature to erso of the half-title.… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, 1995.. Over 750 illustrations compiled from nineteenth-century sources. Includes detailed examples, arranged chronologically (and to some extent, geographically) of suits of armour, chain mail, swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields, knives, small arms and many other implements, together with scenes of battle, siege, jousts, soldiers, horses and more. 27.5cms x 21cms.… Read more about this item

Clenchwarton: Rooke Publishing, 2004.. 1st edition. "Ralph Kite was an ordinary Edwardian schoolboy, who was sent home at an early age from Tasmania to be educated in England. During his tragically short life he rose to command a company of the 52nd Light Infantry on the Somme. Having won the Military Cross he as mortally wounded and spent an… Read more about this item

London: Museum Press Limited, 1955.. 1st edition. "The first thirty-two chapters of this book covers the author's experiences from 1891 onwards, including both World Wars. Then follows Addendum Chapter I, in which the author, starting with a bref look back until the end o the First World War, then gives notes which largely concern the Second World War -… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944.. 2nd impression before publication. Collaboration beween Staff Officer Major John Dalgleish, a former Daily Express reporter and BBC Commentator, and Robert John Crawford, who met when the latter was driving him in England in 1943. Crawford's experiences first appeared in the British Army newspaper, Tiger News, where they created much interest among the troops.… Read more about this item