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Somme.
Lyn Macdonald, Pan Macmillan, 1985. Reprint. ISBN: 0333366484. 366 pages, 630g. Soft card covers a little rubbed to edges, with light creaqsing to spine, and age toning to last page, Very Good. Illustrated with b/w phtographs. Explores one of the most harrowing battles in British history. 'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...'
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Spearhead No. 3 - 7TH FLIEGER DIVISION Student's Fallschirmjager Elite (Spearhead Series).
Ellis, Chris., Ian Allan Publishing, 2002. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711028559. 96 page. 320g. Pictorial card covers Near MINT. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Examines the units origins, organisation and battle history, together with insignia and markings.
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Stars in Battledress - A Light-hearted at Service Entertainment in the Second World War.
Pertwee, Bill., Hodder & Stoughton , 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 034054662X. 222 pages. 8vo. 550g. Black cloth boards with slight browning to page edges o/w FINE in a V.G. d/w with small repaired tear to base of slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w plates.
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£4.50
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Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park.
Smith. Michael, Channel 4 Books, 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0752221892. 184 pages. 450g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w plates.
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Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45.
BRIAN MACARTHUR, Time Warner Books, 2005. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0316861421. 495 pages, 930g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps to end-papers.
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Swords and Daggers - illustrated Booklet No. 3.
Hayward. John, HMSO, 1951. Reprint. ISBN: . 10 pages of text + 32 b/w plates. 105g. Stitched card covers marked and rubbed. Near Very Good with contents tight and clean.
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Tanks at War.
, Blitz Editions, 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1856053423. 96 pages. 710g. Pictorial laminated boards, Near MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Fully illustrated in colour throughout, with photographs and cutaway diagrams of over 20 battle tanks, with weight, perfomance and war record details.
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Ten Days to D-Day - Countdown to the Liberation of Europe.
Stafford, David, Little, Brown, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0316724777. 366 pages. 770g. 8vo. A history of the final preparations for the invasion of Europe. Illustrated with b/w plates and maps. Black cloth boards with slight darkening to page edges o/w FINE in a FINE d/w.
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They Fought in the Fields - The Women's Land Army The Story of a Forgotten Victory.
Tyrer, Nicola, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996. Reprint. ISBN: 1856195546. 242 pages. 590g. 8vo. The story of the Women's Land Army, an `army' of 80,00 at its peak. Illustrated with b/w plates Blue cloth boards with some `browning' to page edges o/w FINE in a FINE d/w in removable clear wrap.
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Tobruk - The Great Siege Reassessed.
Harrison, Frank, Arms and Armour Press, 1996. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1854093614. 352 pages. 800g. Green cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. This volume with stand as testimony to the brave allied defence, and adds significantly to existing material on the subject.
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Today's British Army in Colour.
Flack, Jeremy, Arms and Armour Press, 1992. 1st Edition. ISBN: 1854090062. 192 pages. 800g. Maroon cloth boards with internally light spotting to preliminaries, o/w FINE in a FINE d/w. Fully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this book is an attempt to show the range of current Army equipment and locations.
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Undercover - The Men and Women of the Special Operations Executive.
Howarth, Patrick, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0710005733. 248 pages. 590g 8vo. The events and the people that made up the S.O.E. and an assessment of their contribution to the Allied victory. Illustrated with b/w plates. Maroon cloth boards Near FINE with contents tight and clean., in a V.G. d/w with faded spine.
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The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794-1914 - No. 12 - The Yeomanry Cavalry of Norfolk..
R J & Harris, R G Smith, Army Museums Ogilby Trust, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0951571435. 32 pages, 120g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs. An ideal guide for the modeller and historian.
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Verdict on Vichy - Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regime.
Curtis, Michael, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0297842242. 419 pages. 850g. 8vo. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w plates. A appraisal of the nature of the Vichy regime in France during W.W.II.
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Victoria's Wars The Rise of Empire.
Saul David, Penguin, 2007. Reprint. ISBN: 0141005556. 508 pages, 415g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs. In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia and the Far East, Saul David shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her empire.
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Victory 1918.
Palmer, Alan, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0297841248. 368 pages. 850g. Black cloth boards FINE in a Very Good slightly edge-rubbed d/w. Illustrated with b/w plates. Examines the background to the allied triumph, and its aftermath.
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W.W.II - The People's Story - Includes original free 70 minute CD 'Real People Tell their Stories'.
Fountain. Nigel. (Editor), Reader's Digest, 2003. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0276428080. 320 pages. 1.75Kg. Pictorial laminated boards FINE in a Very Good d/w with light creasing. Original CD inside sleeve attached to front paste-down. A wonderfully illustrated book, with hundreds of rarely seen colour and b/w photographs from the period, with contributions from the Imperial War Museum and State Historical Society of USA.
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War in the Desert - The Eighth Army at El Alamein.
Lucas, Lucas, Arms & Armour Press, 1982. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0853685495. 284 pages, 600g. Black cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps.
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A Wartime Christmas .
Maria; Hubert, Andrew Hubert, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996. Reprint. ISBN: 0750911026. 146 pages, 350g. Soft card covers FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings.
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Wartime Memories.
Anquetil. Audrey F. , Privately Printed, 1997. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 40 pages. 90g. Stapled card covers FINE. SIGNED on reverse of rear cover by the author. illustrated with b/w photographs, this is the true account of the authors life in Bailiwick from 1940-1945.
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The Weapons That Changed the World - The Key Weapons of Modern History, from 1860 to the Present Day.
Hogg, Ian V., Ebury Press , 1986. 1st Impression. ISBN: 0852235909. 159 pages. 920g. 4to. Fully illustrated in colour and b/w including specially drawn explanatory drawings. Putty colour cloth boards, with a small light stain mark to leading edge of first few pages o/w with contents tight and clean. Near FINE in a Near FINE price-clipped d/w with light crease along top edge.
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White Heat, The New Warfare 1914 - 18.
Terraine, John, Book Club Assiciates, 1982. Book Club. ISBN: . 352 pages, 905g. Red cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w with slightly sunned spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Participants in the 1914-18 conflict were to witness the birth of air combat, the first true underwater war, the use of the internal combustion engine and radio-telegraphy for military ends, and the appearance of chemical warfare.
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Winged Diplomat - The Life Story of Air Commodore 'Freddie' West, V. C..
Reid, P. R., Chatto & Windus, 1962. 1st Edition. ISBN: . 219 pages, 480g. Red cloth boards FINE in a Very Good edge-rubbed d/w with small repaired tear to bottom edge. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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WIRE AND WORSE - RAF Prisoners of War in Laufen, Bibarach, Lubeck and Warburg 1940-42.
Rollings, Charles., Ian Allan Publishing, 2004. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0711030502. 296 pages. 660g. Black cloth boards MINT in Near MINT d/w. Illustrated with contemporary b/w photographs and with drawings made in camp. A detailed history base upon correspondence with survivors and unpublished diaries and manuscripts.
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The World at War - The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives.
Holmes, Richard, Ebury Press, 2007. 1st Edition. ISBN: 9780091917517. 661 pages, 1.03kg. Black cloth boards with interneally slight age toning to pages, FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs. The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It told the story of the war through the testimony of key participants from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live.
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World War I in Photographs.
Adrian Gilbert, Macdonald Orbis, 1987. Reprint. ISBN: 035614870X. 192 pages, 700g. Soft card covers a little edge-rubbed, Near FINE. Illustrated with period b/w photograpgs.
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World War II.
Ronald Heiferman, Canceller Press, 2004. Reprint. ISBN: 0753700352. 256 pages, 1.475kg. Pictorial laminated boards MINT in a Near MINT d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. World War II was the first to be fought in equal intensity in Europe, Africa and Asia simultaneously. The author of this history describes the epic struggle of World War II, which killed tens of millions of soldiers and civilians alike.
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World War II - The Best of American Heritage.
Sears. Stephen W. (Editor) , American Heritage, 1991. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0395619041. 280 pages. 500g. Cream coloured boards with black cloth spine, FINE in a FINE d/w. A selection of stories taken from the pages of the popular 'American Heritage' magazine.
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The World War One Source Book.
Haythornthwaite, Philip J., Arms and Armour Press, 1996. . ISBN: 1854093517. 412 pages. 1.15Kg. 8vo. Pictorial card covers a little edge-worn on extremities and a small crease across bottom rear corner o/w FINE. Illustrated with over 200 b/w photographs, charts and maps. Includes the campaigns, weaponry, the commanders, etc. of WW1.
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World War One: A Narrative (Cassell Military Classics Series).
Philip Warner, Cassell and Company , 2000. Reprint. ISBN: 0304350575. 256 pages, 210g. Soft card covers with a little age toning to pages, Near FINE. Illustrated with b/w photographs. In this volume, the reader is led through the complexities of World War I, from trench warfare, the leadership and the first use of tanks, to battles such as Ypres, Passchendaele and Mons.
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