Storia militare

The History of the Old 2/4th (City of London) Battalion The London Regiment of Fusiliers.

WALKER] [F.W. · 1919 · Island Books

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,389)

Westminster Press, 1919. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, 41 plates on 16 and 3 folding maps, some light soiling throughout; original regimental cloth, battalion badge in gilt on upper board, gilt back, covers moderately age-marked else a good,...

Famous Regiments. The Welsh Guards. With a Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, Colonel, Welsh Guards. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

RETALLACK John · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Warne, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the concise 'Famous Regiments' series. Sutcliffe, p.16.

Famous Regiments. The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). [Introduction by General Sir Peter Hunt]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BRANDER A.Michael · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Leo Cooper, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.21.

Famous Regiments. The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). (The 33rd/76th Regiment of Foot). [Introduction by Lt. General Sir Brian Horrocks]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

LUNT James · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Leo Cooper, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series, edited by Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.207.

An Act for enabling Her Majesty to grant the Rank of General Officers to Foreigners. now bearing Her Majesty's Commission, and to permit the Enlistment of Foreigners under certain Restrictions. WITH FINE WOODBLOCK ARMS AT HEAD

GENERAL OFFICERS 1837 Act of Parliament · 1837 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, 1837. 4pp (two blank), folio, with fine woodblock arms of Victoria at head, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. 1 Victoriae cap 29; granted royal assent ...

Canaris. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn.

HOHNE Heinrich · 1979 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Doubleday, New York, 1979. 8vo., First US Edition, with plates and endpaper charts, small unobtrusive personal book-stamp on half-title; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges. The best single-volume biography, f...

West Wall. The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line September 1944 - March 1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

WHITING Charles · 0 · Island Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Spellmount, Staplehurst, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'The Spellmount Siegfried Line series', vol. 1.

The Story of the Seventh Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). Collected and told by Captain J.L.J. Meredith. Designs and Illustrations by L.R. Stokes. A SCARCE SURVIVAL

MEREDITH J.L.J. · 1945 · Island Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

[Privately Printed, Germany (Hanover?), 1945]. 4to., First and Sole Edition, with several illustrations (one full-page) in the text and a folding map, free endpapers lightly spotted; original boards, printed coloured label incorporating battalion, divisional and army crests mo...

Hitler's Englishman. The Crime of 'Lord Haw-Haw' [William Joyce]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SELWYN Francis · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Routledge, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of Joyce's life and propaganda broadcasts to Britain which led to his execution in 1946.

Fort Regent. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

DAVIES William · 1971 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

[Privately Printed, St. Helier, 1971]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations and plans (many full-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE...

Purnell's History of the Second World War. [Second Edition. Extended Set.]. [Edited by Barrie Pitt.] PURNELL'S SECOND EDITION: EXTENDED SET COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDERS

PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR · 0 · Island Books

£396.00 (€474.66 | $523.17 | ¥83,518)

Purnell [in association with the Imperial War Museum], [1970]. 128 weekly parts in 8 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (including original wrappers) housed in black rexine binders blocked in gilt, a ...

A Man called Intrepid. The Secret War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

STEVENSON William · 0 · Island Books

£64.00 (€76.71 | $84.55 | ¥13,498)

Macmillan, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map; blue tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first publicly published account of British Security Coordination, 'the greatest Anglo-America...

Normandy '44. D-Day and the Battle for France. A New History. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

HOLLAND James · 0 · Island Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Bantam, [2019]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps, charts and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR [WITHOUT DEDICATION] ON TITLE. SCARCE.

With the Allied Armies in Italy. [Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SEAGO Edward · 1945 · Island Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Collins, 1945. 4to., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, 96 monochrome plates (all from drawings by the artist) and coloured endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, boards and backstrip mildly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclip...

Assignment to Catastrophe. Vol. I: Prelude to Dunkirk [with] Vol II. The Fall of France. [Mixed Impressions.] SPEARS' 'ASSIGNMENT' COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

SPEARS Major General Edward · 0 · Island Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Heinemann, [1954-55]. 2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers chipped with minor loss at extremities and mildly browned on (predominantly white) rear ...

The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. [Second Impression.] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

LYTTLETON, Lord Chandos Oliver · 0 · Island Books

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Bodley Head, [1962]. 8vo., Second Impression; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The author was a member of the War Cabinet, President of the Board of Trade and subsequently Minister of Production. A...

AfrikaKorps Volume 1 1940-1941 [with] AfrikaKorps Volume 2 1941-1942. Tropical Artefacts of the German Forces in World War II. [Complete set.]. AFRIKAKORPS. NEAR FINE SET

BUNCH David · 2025 · Island Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,835)

Military Mode, [Hitchin]. 2025. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine set. Please note that extra postage will be required for shipping outside the UK.

The Trial of Charles the First, King of England, before the High Court of Justice, for High-Treason: begun January 20, in the 24th Year of his Reign, and continued to the 27th.. To which is added the Journal of the High-Court of Justice, for the Trial of the King, as it was read in the House of Commons, and attested by Mr. Phelps, Clerk to that Court. With Additions WELL-PRESERVED COPY IN PERIOD BINDING

NALSON Dr. John · 1740 · Island Books

£680.00 (€815.08 | $898.38 | ¥143,414)

Printed and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1740. 8vo., with engraved portrait frontispiece and title in red and black, preliminaries, portrait and title mildly browned, first half of text lightly browned ; eighteenth-century diced calf, expertly rebacked in calf ...

SOE in France. An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-44. [Official History of the Second World War.] NEAR FINE STAFF COLLEGE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

FOOT M.R.D. · 1966 · Island Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,799)

HMSO, 1966. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 43 plates on 16, 2 folding charts, and 4 folding maps in pocket at end; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE STAFF COLLEGE LIBRARY AND BEARS ITS 'MINERVA'...

30 Corps in Germany. Which tells - who we are, where we are, why we're here and what happens next.. [Foreword by Lt.-Gen. B. G. Horrocks, Commander 30 Corps]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

30 CORPS · 1946 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

n.d. [c.1946]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with 16 plates, numerous illustrations in the text, front inner wrapper map and large folding coloured map at rear, some pages very lightly browning as often; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, ...