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ALL THE BLUE BONNETS - The History of The King's Own Sccottish Borderers.

Woollcombe, Robert, · 1980

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Arms and Armour, London, ND (copyright 1980), 208pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 10 maps in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, onw e of the oldest Scottish regiments. Orogonally the 2...

BUGLES AND A TIGER - A Personal Adventure.

Masters, John, · 1973

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Corgi, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, paperback, 254pp, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the first volume of autobiography of the author and soldier, born in Calcutta he left Wellington School for the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1933, served with the Duk...

SECRET WARFARE - The Battle of Codes and Cyphers.

Norman, Bruce, · 1989

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1989, trade paperback, 187pp, maps, line drawings and diagrams in text, coloured photo pictorial panel upper wrapper, in the Battle Standards Military Paperbacks series, an account codes and cyphers from the time of the Greeks to the present d...

IF BY CHANCE.

Strawson, John, · 2003

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Macmillan, ondon, 2003, 1st edn., [xx], 260pp, 7 maps, coloured endpapers, large format (9.5 x 6" approx.), black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tailbands, half tone pictorial montage dustwrapper, an amusing exercise in 'consequences', speculating on t...

WITHDRAWAL FROM EMPIRE - A Military View.

Jackson, William, · 1986

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Batsford, London, 1986, 1st edn., xvii, 285pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., 19 maps in text, coloured endpapers, large format 9.5 x 6" approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a description of Britain's imperial past in Victorian and...

THE SHARP END OF WAR - The Fighting Man in World War ll.

Ellis, John, · 1980

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, ND copyright 1980, 1st edn., 396pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., coloured endpapers, large format (9 x 6" approx.), dark green boards lettered in gilt at spine, a collection of first-hand accounts of the experiences of infantrymen from many all...

THE LAST OF THE REGIMENTS - Their Rise and Fall.

Dietz, Peter, · 1990

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Brassey's (UK), London, 1990, 1st edn. UK, xiv, 271pp, large format (9 x 6" approx.), dark blue boards lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a study of British military tradition and of the regimental system in particular, together with an argument for mod...

OUT OF STEP - Memoirs of a Field Marshal.

Carver, Michael, · 1989

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Hutchinson, London, ND copyright 1989, [x], 581pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 9 in text maps, large format (9.5 x 6" approx.), dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the memoirs of Field Marshal Lord Carver, commissioned into the Royal T...

TWENTIETH-CENTURY WARRIORS - The Development of the Armed Forces of the Major Military Nations in the Twentieth Century.

Carver, Field Marshal Lord, · 1988

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Weidenfield and Nicolson, New York, 1988, 1st edn. US, [x], 468pp, 6 in text maps, large format (9,5 x 6" approx.), grey paper covered boards backed at spine with maroon cloth lettered in silver, decorative head and tailbands, half tone pictorial dustwrapper, slightly cocked,...

THE OUTLINES OF MILITARY GEOGRAPHY - Vol.II Maps.

Macdonnell, Colonel A. C., · 1911

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Hugh Rees, London, 1911 1st edn., unpaginated, 19 folding maps, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, a volume of 19 (as called for) folding and mounted maps which would have illustrated the text of volume I of the title, a little rubbed and lightly bumped at...

TALES FROM THE MESS - A Military Miscellany.

Noonan, Miles, · 1983

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Hutchinson, London, 1983, 1st edn., 176pp, in text line drawings, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an affectionate and thoroughly amusing collection of anecdotes about various units of the British Army, from the Boer war until almost the present ...

BEHIND THE LINES Revealing and Uncensored Letters from Our War-torn World.

Carroll, Andrew, · 0

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Ted Smart / The Book People, St. Helens, ND, 1st in imprint, [xii], 450pp, half tone photo ills. in text, photo pictorial paper covered boards with matching dustwrapper, an anthology of letters sent to and from those involved in military conflicts all over the world, from th...

STORM OVER THE LAND - From Abraham Lincoln : The War Years 1861-1865.

Sandburg, Carl, · 1944

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Readers Union, London, 1944, club edn., 250pp, half tone frontis port, 11 maps in text, dark brown buckram lettered in light blue at spine, upper edge coloured, biography of Abraham Lincoln concentrating of the years of the Civil War, his relationship with his commenders and ...

B.P. - The Story of His Life.

Reynolds, E. E., · 1948

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Oxford University Press, London, 1948, 5th imp., 122pp, col'd frontis port, 12pp half tone photo ills., in text line drawings and maps at endpapers by Baden-Powell, green cloth lettered in black at spine, decorative vignette in black upper board, the biography of Lord Baden-P...

THE LIFE OF FRANCIS DRAKE.

Mason, A. E. W., · 1943

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Readers Union, London, 1943, club edn., vi, 378pp, half tone frontis portrait, chapter tailpieces in line, maps at front endpapers, light blue cloth with yellow title panel at spine lettered in blue, biography of Sir Francis Drake, lightly rubbed and bumped at cnrs., edges fo...

MR. CHURCHILL - A Portrait.

Guedalla, Philip, · 1951

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1951, 1st in imprint, paperback, 222pp, [ii] ads., #167, Churchill portrait upper wrapper by 'Low', an account of the life of Winston Churchill from his early years to his becoming Prime Minister in 1940, an early Pan, lightly rubbed at tips with sl. flakin...

CHURCHILL - by his Contemporaries.

Eade, Charles (editor), · 1953

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Reprint Society, London, 1953, xvi, 368pp, frontis port. and 12pp half tone photo ills., cream cloth with blue title panel at spine lettered in gilt, blue facsimile author sig. on upper board, top edge coloured, a collection of biographical accounts by his contemporaries at d...

LOST VOICES OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE.

Arthur, Max, · 2008

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Hodder, London, ND (circa 2008), reprint, trade paperback, [viii], 504pp, photo pictorial upper wrapper, eyewitness accounts of life in the Royal Air Force between 1918 and the early years of the 21st century, with brief cover of its roots in the RFC and RNAS, tanned at edges...

A GENIUS FOR DECEPTION - How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars (Churchill's Wizards).

Rankin, Nicholas, · 2011

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,269)

Oxford University Press, New York, ND (circa 2011), 3rd imp., xiv, 466pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black paper covered boards backed with red paper lettered in black at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, the US edition of the UK t...

A HISTORY OF THE S.A.S. REGIMENT.

Strawson, John, · 1985

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Guild Publishing, London, 1985, club ed., xvi, 292pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 13 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the first fully comprehensive history of the Special Air Service, the youngest regiment in the British Army...