Storia militare

I Flew for the Fuhrer.

KNOKE, HEINZ. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Corgi Books, 1969. The exciting, uncensored diary of a German fighter pilot. Pp.156, pages toned, owner's name to front free endpaper. Paperback, creasing and wear to spine with chipping to top of spine. Good.

Making Shore.

ALLERTON, SARA. · 2012 · Chilton Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Glasgow: Saraband, 2012. 9781887354929. Winner of the 2011 People's Book Prize. A gripping story inspired by a true World War II incident. "Torpedoed by a German U-boat, adrift on the open ocean, gravely weakened and slowly dying of thirst - the odds of making shore are length...

Handbook for Derricks, Sheers, and Holdfasts, 1898 .

MILITARY BOOK - L. L. HOARE . · 1898 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, By Harrison And Sons, St. Martin's Lane.. 1898 . 0. A very good original military handbook. 5.0" x 4.0" x 0.25". 16mo. pp.143/[1p. - Colophon] . Maroon morocco over thin card cover. Bright gilt titles to front board and spin...

History of the Late 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment.

SLACK, MAJOR JAMES. · 1884 · Chilton Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London : Army and Navy Co-Operative Society, Limited, Victoria Street, Westminster, 1884 . 0. A very good first edition in the original cloth binding. 8vo. pp.263/[2pp. - Erratum. 8.5" x 5.75" x 0.75". Dark green cloth. Titles in red to both the spine and front board. Spine wi...

The Very Thing. The Memoirs of Drummer Richard Bentinck, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1807-1823.

CROOK, JONATHAN. · 2011 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Frontline Books, 2011. 9781848325982. 1st edition. Hitherto unpublished first-hand accounts and illustrative material from the Napoleonic wars. Vivid and compelling recollections of life on campaign, particularly at the Battle of Waterloo. Written by the great-great-gr...

The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1946-1959.

GODFREY, F.A. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Leo Cooper, 1988. 0850522536. 1st edition. "Covers the Regiment in action in Palestine, India, Malaya, Trieste and Cyprus, as well as when soldiering to Egypt, Greece, BAOR and at home. A complete chapter is devoted to the activities of the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire T...

Heroic Endeavour. One Attack, a Victoria Cross, and 206 Brave Men. (Signed).

FEAST, SEAN. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Grubb Street, 2006. 1904943519. 1st edition. "It is 23rd December 1944 and a heroic yet dreadful action is about to take place over Cologne, involving the bravest of the brave - The Pathfinder Force..Journalist Sean Feast has written Heroic Endeavour in two parts, the ...

The Guards' Chapel. (Centenary edition).

WILKINSON, NEVILE. · 1938 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: Chiswick Press, 1938. Centenary edition. Pp.xiv/246, illustrated title page, black & whilte photo frontispiece + 16 further black & white illustrations, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper, spotting to closed page edges. Blue cloth, bright gilt title and sta...

The Story of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

GRAHAM, BRIGADIER GENERAL C.A,L. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Woolwich: Royal Artillery Institution, 1944. 5th edition. Pp.108, 11 black & white plates + further occasional in the text, owner's details ( including 14820879 Gnr Gibson G.F.) to front free endpaper. Blue card covers with red zigzag outline. VG.

The Militiaman.

HYNES, PATRICK. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Avon Books, 1994. 1860330010. 1st edition. "A vivid account of the autthor's wartime experiences and conveys with triumphant good humour and attention to detail the confusion, fear and often hilarious unpredictability of those days. Young men were plucked bewildered ou...

Top-Hats in Tobruk.

RANKIN, KENNETH. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Odiham: Kenneth Rankin, 1983. 1st edition. "The story of a Troop of Anti-Aircraft Gunners who took part in the early North African Campaigns. Taken from the diary of one of its officers, it gives an authentic and intimate almost hour by hour account of the Siege of Torbruk, wr...

The Fourth Battalion The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and the Great War.

WADHAM, LIEUT.COLONEL W.F.A. AND CROSSLEY, CAPTAIN J. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Crowther and Goodman (printers),1935. Notes, compiled, more or less in the form of a diary. Contents includes: I.Early Days; II.Festubert; III.Picardy; IV.Arras; V.The Somme; VI.Ypres; VII.Third Battle of Ypres; VIII.Givenchy. Pp.136/xxiv(index), slight toning to endpa...

Eyewitness to Trafalgar.

HUSKISSON, THOMAS. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Royston: Ellisons' Editions, 1985. 0946092095. Recollections of Thomas Huskisson, RN covering his first eight years in the Royal Navy (1800-1808). Limited edition (No.99 of 1000 copies). Pp.xii/118, occasional black & white illustrations. Paperback. VG.

To Live in the Fire. The Photographic Journal of an Israeli Soldier.

BOGER, JAN. · 1977 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

New Jersey: Paramus, Jolex Inc, 1977. 0891490353. Original German title "Im Feuer Zu Leben". Photographic record of the Arab-Israeli October War of 1973. 27.5cms x 21cms. Pp.143, black & white and colour photographs throughout. Paperback, edges rubbed. VG.

R.A.F.A. Annual 1952.

BLUNT, RAYMOND J.(EDITOR). · 1952 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: R.A.F.A Publishing Company Limited/Gale & Polden Ltd, 1952. Annual publication of the Royal Air Forces Association, containing articles, photographs, illustrations of Air Force badges, cartoons and humour. Pp.96, black & white photographs and cartoons throughout, adver...

The George Medal.

FEVYER, W.H. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London: Spink, nd.(c.1980). Introduction + list of the George Medallists, 1940-1945. Pp.xvi/114, 2 pages of black & white photos, notation to half-title page giving reference to two medallists with marginal marks on pages against the corresponding description, title page absen...

Why the Germans Lose at War: The Myth of German Military Superiority.

MACKSEY, KENNETH. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Greenhill Books, 2006. 1853676934. Previously published as "From Triumph to Disaster". "Complete with campaign maps, command-structure charts, and lists of major German military leaders, "Why the Germans Lose at War" combines brilliant military and political analysis w...

An Outline of Arms and Armour in England From the Early Middle Ages to the Civil War.

MANN, SIR JAMES. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: HMSO, 1965. Reprint. "Designed to assist the visitor to the Armouries of the Tower of London to understand the terminology and the changes that took place over the years against the historical background of the times." Pp.44, 4 colour plates + further black & white pho...

Secret Weapon.

DOBERER, K.K. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Loindon: Practical Press Limited, 1944. 0. 1st edition. "To-day, civil progress is so intense that there is not only a danger but a certainty that no army can in the full sense be kept up to date. This means that in war-time evolution will be extremely rapid, and, consequently...

Prisoner of War. The Story of British Prisoners Held by the Enemy.

BARBER, NOEL. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1944. 0. 1st edition. Published before the end of the war, the author compiled his information mainly from the letters of the prisoners themselves, sourced through the British Red Cross and St John War Organization. He also looked at official...