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The History of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in the Second World War. Produced under the Direction of the Regimental History Committee, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. [Foreword by Major-General H. de R. Morgan.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

BARCLAY Brigadier C. N. · 1952 · Island Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

William Clowes [for] Regimental History Committee, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, 14 folding maps and 5 maps in the text; red buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dus...

The Flames of Calais. A Soldier's Battle 1940. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

NEAVE Airey · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Hodder & Stoughton, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and moving account of the fateful (and costly) battle which made poss...

Strange Intelligence. From Dunkirk to Nuremberg. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

PESKETT S. John · 0 · Island Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Hale, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.128.

The Memoirs of Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

MONTGOMERY Field-Marshal Bernard Law · 1958 · Island Books

£1,460.00 (€1,750.02 | $1,928.87 | ¥307,918)

Collins, 1958. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece and 65 plates and maps (a number full-page) on 39; original red cloth, gilt back, red top (lightly faded as often), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned on (predominantly white)...

Poland, SOE and the Allies. Translated from the original Polish by Paul Stevenson. [With a Foreword by Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

GARLINSKI Jozef · 0 · Island Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Allen & Unwin, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Scarce and important contribution by an eminent Polish author to the (largely unwritten) history of SOE...

Tapping Hitler's Generals. Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942-1945. Translated by Geoffrey Brooks. Foreword by Ian Kershaw. [First UK Edition.] FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

NEITZEL Sonke · 2007 · Island Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Frontline, [Barnsley], 2007]. 8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in Germany in 2005. This edition includes an updated introduction, Notes and Biographies, and a new Foreword [given on ...

War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918. Edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR

HAIG Douglas · 0 · Island Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [2005]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY SHEFFIELD ON TITLE.

Brigade in Action. The History of the Origin and Development of St. John Ambulance Brigade in Weymouth and of its Co-operation with THE Civil Defence Services during the War, 1939-1945. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

ACUTT D.G.F · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

[Privately Printed], Sherren & Son, Weymouth, [1945]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, covers unevenly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright,...

Unofficial History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SLIM Field-Marshal William · 0 · Island Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Cassell, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 folding maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and small label at ta...

War Memoirs. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

GEORGE David Lloyd · 0 · Island Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

Odhams, [1938]. 2 vols., 8vo., with portrait frontispiece and plates; red faux-morocco cloth, upper boards lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, gilt backs, red tops, marbled endpapers, small scuff at backstrip of first volume else a very good, bright, clean copy. First publ...

We Die Alone. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

HOWARTH David · 0 · Island Books

£124.00 (€148.63 | $163.82 | ¥26,152)

Collins, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; back cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head and tai...

The Treasure of the White Army. Translated from the French by Leonard Mayhew. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

SVIDINE Nicholas · 0 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in France in 1973.

London Calling North Pole. [With Appendix by H.M.G. Lauwers. Third Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

GISKES Hermann · 0 · Island Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

Kimber, [1953]. 8vo., Third Edition, small neat signature on paste-downs; original ivory cloth, gilt back, boards lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper browned at backstrip. With dustwrapper artwork by Roy Sanford. Publi...

Taurus Pursuant. A History of 11th Armoured Division. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

11th ARMOURED DIVISION. · 0 · Island Books

£112.00 (€134.25 | $147.97 | ¥23,621)

[BAOR], [c.1946]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text, 20 folding maps coloured in outline on japon, and front and rear endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, a remarkably bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper...

An Uncertain Hour. The French, the Germans, the Jews, the Klaus Barbie Trial, and the City of Lyon 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

MORGAN Ted · 0 · Island Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

The Bodley Head, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

The Trial of Marshal Petain. Translated from the French by Robert Baldick. With an Introduction by Douglas Johnston. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

ROY Jules · 0 · Island Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Faber, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.470.

SAS and the Met. With Alfred Draper. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY ROY FARRAN AND TANKY CHALLENOR

CHALLENOR Harry 'Tanky' · 0 · Island Books

£480.00 (€575.35 | $634.15 | ¥101,233)

Leo Cooper, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY WITH THE AUTHOR'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE, AND ADDITIONAL LENGTHY SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY ROY FAR...

Stauffenberg. The Life and Death of an Officer, 15 November 1907 - 20 July 1944. Translated from the German by R.H. Barry. Introduction by H. R. Trevor Roper. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

KRAMARZ Joachim · 0 · Island Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Andre Deutsch, [1967]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Enser, p.185.

Baker Street Irregular. NEAR FINE COPY

SWEET-ESCOTT Ernest Bickham · 1965 · Island Books

£212.00 (€254.11 | $280.08 | ¥44,711)

Methuen, 1965. 8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, red top, a near fine copy. The first lengthy general survey of SOE by one of its senior staff. Sweet-Escott served in th...

This Other Eden. Photographs and Text by Val Doone. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

DOONE Val · 0 · Island Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

John Lane The Bodley Head, [1943]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous fine full-page photographs throughout, contemporary signature on front paste-down; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, covers mildly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Spl...