Storia militare

A Drop Too Many [with] Nearly There. Some Memoirs. [Best Edition with First Edition] JOHN FROST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

FROST Major-General John · 19821991 · Island Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

Buchan & Enright [and] Leo Cooper, [1982; 1991]. 2 vols., 8vo., Best Edition; First Edition respectively, with plates and maps, first volume with faint tape-mark on free endpaper.; red cloth, backstrips lettered in silver and gilt respectively, a near fine set in unclipped dus...

The Big Drop. The Guns of Merville, June 1944. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

GOLLEY John · 0 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Jane's, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the airborne assault on the Merville Battery commanding the Ouistreham Estuary. Enser, p.63.

First In! Parachute Pathfinder Company. A History of the 21st Independent Parachute Company, the original Pathfinders of British Airborne Forces 1942-1946. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

KENT Ron · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Batsford, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Covers, England, Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland (Arnham), Greece, Norway, Palestine.

Charles de Gaulle. War Memoirs. Volume Two. Unity 1942-1944. Text. [THIS VOLUME ONLY.]. Translated by Rich Howard. [Second Impression thus.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

DE GAULLE General Charles · 0 · Island Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1960]. 8vo., Second Impression thus, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities.

War Memoirs. The Call to Honour 1940-1942 (2v) [with] Unity 1942-1944 (2v) [with] Salvation 1944-1946 (2v). [Complete set.]. Translated by Jonathan Griffin (Call to Honour); Richard Howard, Joyce Murchie, Hamish Erskine (Unity; Salvation). [First UK Editions (save one volume).] DE GAULLE'S WAR MEMOIRS: COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

DE GAULLE General Charles · 1955 · Island Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,361)

Collins; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Simon & Schuster, 1955-56-60. 6 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus (save one volume), with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; cloth gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrappers (save one volume). The set comprises: The ...

My God, Soldiers! From Alamein to Vienna. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

HOWARTH Patrick · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Hutchinson, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Howarth tracks the Eighth Army from Alamein to Vienna.

An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing. and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons and Surgeons Mates WITH FINE WOODBLOCK ARMS AT HEAD

MILITIA 1837 Act of Parliament · 1837 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Excellent Majesty, 1837. Sm. folio, 20pp, with fine woodblock arms of Victoria on front cover; disbound, a crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. 1 Victoriae, Cap. 63; granted Royal Assent 15 Ju...

Documents concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939. Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

UK GOVERNMENT · 1939 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

HMSO, 1939. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939). This historic record, published as Cmd 6106, includes the text of the Prime Minister's ultimatum to the German people.

A Popular History of the Great War. UNUSUALLY CRISP, CLEAN SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

HAMMERTON, ed. Sir John Alexander · 0 · Island Books

£126.00 (€151.03 | $166.46 | ¥26,574)

Fleetway House, [1933]. 6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 6 frontispieces, around 800 photographs and over 100 maps and diagrams in the text; original pictorial red cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in black, backs blocked and lettered in gilt and black, backstrips lig...

The Gehlen Memoirs. The First Full Edition of the Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen 1942-1971. Translated by David Irving. [First English Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

GEHLEN General Reinhard · 1972 · Island Books

£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,702)

Collins, 1972. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates, faint offsetting from fold-in to rear free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, boards lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Originally published in shorte...

Spearhead in Malaya. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

MORAN J. W. G. · 0 · Island Books

£84.00 (€100.69 | $110.98 | ¥17,716)

Peter Davies, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title and preliminaries lightly spotted; green cloth, upper board blocked with crest in silver, backstrip lettered in slver, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremitie...

The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. [Mixed Impressions.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

BRYANT Arthur · 1957 · Island Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Collins, 1957-59. 2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with portrait frontispieces, 9 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps in the second volume, tops lightly dust-soiled; cloth (black/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwra...

Inside the Third Reich. Memoirs by Albert Speer. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Introduction by Eugene Davidson. [First UK Edition.] FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SPEER Albert · 0 · Island Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 68 plates on 48; black cloth, gilt back, red top (slightly faded), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities and with two short closed tears. Dustwrapper artwork by George ...

The Lucy Ring. Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith from the French. [First UK Edition.] FIRST UK EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER

ACCOCE Pierre · 1967 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

W H Allen, 1967. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.395.

Arnhem. With Wilfred Greatorex. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

URQUHART Major-General Roy · 0 · Island Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,181)

Cassell, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24, and 13 full-page maps (one double-page) in the text, top faintly dusty; maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This classic memoir by the commander of 1 Airborne Division ...

Tarnfarben. Camouflage Painted Relics of the German Forces in World War II. Volume 1 [with] Volume 2 [with] Volume 3. [Complete set to date.]. COMPLETE SET TO DATE

LOCK Oliver · 2015 · Island Books

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.80 | ¥72,762)

Military Mode, [Hitchin]. 2015-2025. 3 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine set. Please note that additional postage will be required for shipping outside the UK.

The Ultra Secret. [Third Impression]. FIRST PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF ULTRA

WINTERBOTHAM Frederick William · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1974]. 8vo.,Third Impression, tiny personal book-label on front free endpaper; rose cloth, gilt back, mark on upper board else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This relatively unassuming title is the first public disclosure of t...

British Tanks 1946-1970. NEAR FINE COPY

ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS TANK MUSEUM. · 1973 · Island Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,898)

RAC Tank Museum, Bovingdon Camp, 1973. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

Mes Reveries. Ouvrage Posthume de Maurice Comte de Saxe, Duc de Curlande et de Semigalle, Marechal des Armees de sa Majeste Tres-Chretienne. Augmente d'une Histoire abregee de sa vie, et de differentes Pieces qui y ont rapport, par M. L'Abbe Perau. THE INVERQUHARITY COPY: REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP ISSUE WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES

SAXE Maurice, Comte de · 1757 · Island Books

£2,540.00 (€3,044.56 | $3,355.71 | ¥535,693)

Arkstee et Merkus, Amsterdam and Liepzig, 1757. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, [Large Paper?], text in French, on laid paper, with 84 fine engraved plates (52 large and folding), ALL BUT TWO FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, and numerous fine engraved head- and tail-pieces, title a...

Feldzug 1917. The Uniforms, Headdress and Equipment of the German Soldier in 1917. Volume 4. NEAR FINE COPY

BALDWIN Michael · 2018 · Island Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.53 | ¥31,214)

Military Mode, [Hitchin], 2018. 8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.