Storia militare

Famous Regiments. The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. (The 51st and 105th Regiments of Foot). [Foreword by Lt. General Sir Brian Horrocks]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

COOPER Leonard · 0 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Leo Cooper, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe,...

Having been a Soldier. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

MITCHELL Colin · 0 · Island Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Hamish Hamilton, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's autobiography majors on his exemplary command of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in Aden. VERY SCARCE I...

When France Fell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

GREENWALL Harry J. · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Allan Wingate, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, contemporary signature on front paste-down; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.372.

The Jacobite Movement. The First Phase 1688-1716 [with] The Last Phase 1716-1807. [Complete set.]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE EXPANDED EDITION

PETRIE Sir Charles · 0 · Island Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1948-50]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispieces, plates and maps, neat inscriptions and personal bookplate on front free endpapers; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised and expanded versio...

The Story of 79th Armoured Division. October 1942-June 1945. [Foreword by Field-Marshal B.L. Montgomery]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

BORTHWICK] [Major John · 1945 · Island Books

£112.00 (€134.25 | $147.97 | ¥23,621)

[Privately Printed, Hamburg, 1945]. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with over 250 fine photographs, panoramas and facsimiles in the text, 40 maps in colours (36 folding, 3 full-page and 1 double-page; one with captioned tissue overlay), and coloured endpaper maps; original holland cl...

Famous Regiments. The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). [Introduction by Lt. General Sir Brian Horrocks]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

HARVEY Basil · 0 · Island Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Leo Cooper, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, with 25 plates on 12, free endpapers faintly spotted; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. Sutcliffe, p.446.

Grivas and the Story of EOKA. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BYFORD-JONES Colonel Wilfred · 0 · Island Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Hale, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with 23 plates on 12 and full-page map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Biro. This remains the best contemporary account of the notorious head of EOKA, whose ...

HMS Tarana [SOE Trawler]. Under Two Flags. Foreword by Major General A.J. Deane-Drummond. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHORS

PARLOUR Sue · 2009 · Island Books

£56.00 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,811)

Ten Bells Publishing, [St. Osyth, 2009]. 8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 16 and a photograph in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY BOTH CO-AUTHORS ON TITLE. The first dedicated account of life aboard the clandestine trawler as part of S...

A Hilltop on the Marne. Being Letters written June 3 - September 8, 1914. [First US Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

ALDRICH Mildred · 1915 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge MA, 1915. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 4 plates and endpaper maps, neat contemporary signature in pencil on frontispiece recto; original green cloth blocked and lette...

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. SIGNED BY LORD ALANBROOKE

BRYANT Arthur · 1957 · Island Books

£780.00 (€934.94 | $1,030.49 | ¥164,504)

Collins, 1957-59. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, 9 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps in the second volume; cloth (black/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly cha...

Berlin. The Downfall 1945. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR [WITHOUT DEDICATION]

BEEVOR Antony · 0 · Island Books

£86.00 (€103.08 | $113.62 | ¥18,138)

Viking, [2002]. 8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates on 24 and 16 full-page maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR [WITHOUT DEDICATION] ON TITLE. Detailed and harrowing account by an e...

The Longest Day. June 6, 1944. [Maps by Richard Edes Harrison.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

RYAN Cornelius · 1960 · Island Books

£212.00 (€254.11 | $280.08 | ¥44,711)

Gollancz, 1960. 8vo., First Edition, with 28 plates on 16 and coloured endpaper maps, half-title lightly browned, top and fore-edges lightly dust-soiled as often; red cloth, gilt back, backstrip gilt dulled (but wholly legible), a bright, firm copy in price-clipped, lightly br...

Justice not Vengeance. Translated from the German by Ewald Osers. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

WIESENTHAL Simon · 0 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1989]. 8vo., with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, orange endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The autobiography of the world's most persistent Nazi-hunter.

History of the 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). NEAR FINE EX-RMA SANDHURST COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

SHAKESPEAR Colonel L. W. · 1912 · Island Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.34 | ¥63,271)

[Gale & Polden, Aldershot], 1912. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, full-page plan and 3 large folding coloured battle plans; original green cloth, roan corners, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY ...

Failure of a Mission. Berlin 1937-1939. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

HENDERSON Sir Nevile · 0 · Island Books

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,389)

Hodder & Stoughton, [1940]. 8vo., First Edition; pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The original edition of the detailed account by the British ambassador to Berlin of the diplomatic attempts to prevent...

Red Berets and Red Crosses. The Story of the Medical Services in the 1st Airborne Division in World War II. [Includes major coverage of Arnhem. Revised edition.] BEST EDITION; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

CHERRY Niall · 0 · Island Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

[Sigmond Publishing, Renkum], [2014]. Roy. 4to., Best Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps (a number full-page) in the text; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAP...

The Quiet Canadian. The Secret Service of Sir William Stephenson. With a Foreword by the Hon. David Bruce. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

HYDE H. Montgomery · 0 · Island Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

Hamish Hamilton, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 12 plates on 10 and map in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red tweed cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first detail...

Diary of the German Occupation of Guernsey 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SAUVARY J. C. · 0 · Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Self Publishing Association, Upton-upon-Severn, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author's daughter on title.

Orders of Battle. Second World War 1939-1945. Prepared by Lieut.-Col. H.F. Joslen. Reprinted by the London Stamp Exchange by permission of HMSO. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

JOSLEN Lieut.-Col. H.F. · 0 · Island Books

£124.00 (€148.63 | $163.82 | ¥26,152)

London Stamp Exchange, [1990]. Sm.folio, First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the standard reference, published originally in the UK Government's official series 'History of the Second World War'. The first edition...

The Devil's Birthday. The Bridges to Arnhem, 1944. Foreword by General Sir John Hackett. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

POWELL Geoffrey · 0 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Leo Cooper, [1992]. 8vo., Revised Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper charts; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of one of the best modern accounts of both ground and airborne components of MARKET-GARDEN (and a wo...