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CONCENTRATION SOLDIER.

Welsh, Ken, · 1979

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Sphere, London, 1979, paperback original, 156pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of a German soldier, after the 'brutal inferno' of the Russian front where he was wounded for rehabilitation he is posted to one of the Nazi death camps as a guard, slight s...

SQUADRON AIRBORNE.

Trevor, Elleston, · 1957

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pan Books, London, 1957, 8th imp., paperback, 221pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper by 'Gordon', a novel of an RAF Squadron during the Battle of Britain, a little rubbed at extrems., light marks to wrappers, edges tanned and a little foxed, very good,

90 MINUTES AT ENTEBBE.

Stevenson, William (with material by Uri Dan), · 1976

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Bantam, London, 1976, paperback, 216pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured lettered upper wrapper, a factual account of the hijacking of an Air France airliner by arab terrorists in July 1976, flying the passenger-hostages to Uganda, and of the Israeli commandoes Operation ...

THE CHEQUER BOARD.

Shute, Nevil, · 1969

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan Books, London, 1969, reprint, paperback, 272pp, pictorial montage upper wrapper, a man dying from the effects of an old wound received in a war-time air crash some years previously seeks out his three crash victim companions, a little rubbed at extrems., tiny chip tail of...

PRIVATE NAVY.

Satherley, David, · 1975

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi, London, 1975, reissued edn., paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, HM Motor Launch 127 lost its commanding iofficer overboard en route to UK in 1944 after a two year commission in the Mediterranean. On return to Gibraltar the new CO. a Com...

TOBRUK.

Rabe, Peter, · 1968

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Bantam, New York, USAND (circa 1968), reprint, paperback, [iv], 215pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, tie-in with the Universal Picture film Tobruk starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard, based on an original story and screenplay by Leo V. Gordon as a handful ...

S.O.S. TITANIC (based on the screenplay by James Costigan).

Piler, Jack, · 1980

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Futura, London, 1980, paperback original, 239pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, film tie-in, inspired by the Argonaut Films production of the same name for world wide distribution by EMI, a novel of the real life events surrounding the loss of the Titanic in April 1912, a...

SHADOW OF HANAKI.

Ornstien, Edwin J., · 1982

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Sphere, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, paperback, [viii], 179pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of the aftermath of WW2 when five ex-POWs survivors of the Burma railway swear to find and kill the Commandant of Changi jail, spine a little sunned, light cf...

THE GUARDSHIP - Book one of The Brethren of the Coast trilogy.

Nelson, James, · 2007

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi, London, ND (circa 2007), reprint, paperback, 477pp, line drawing and map in text, [iii] ads., wraparound coloured pictorial wrappers by Geoff Hunt, novel based in and around Chesapeake Bay in the early 18th Century, Thomas Marlowe takes command of Virginia's guardship ...

THREE CORVETTES, comprising HM Corvette, East Coast Corvette and Corvette Command.

Monsarrat, Nicholas, · 1957

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Panther, London, 1957, 1st in imprint, paperback, 224pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, ww2 naval memoir, originally published as three separate paperbacks, HM Corvette in which Sub Lt., Lt. (1st Lt. HMS Dipper), and Lt. in command (HMS Winger - later Lt. Cdr ) Monsarrat's...

ICE COLD IN ALEX.

Landon, Christopher, · 1974

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan, London, 1974, reset edn., paperback, 202pp, [v] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the classic novel of life in the Western Desert during WW2, NOT a tie-in with the feature film of the same name, sunned at spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good

THE SEA WOLVES (previously titled Boarding Party).

Leasor, James, · 1980

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi, London, 1980, reprint, paperback, 239pp, film tie-in, coloured pictorial upper wrapper showing Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven from the Euan Lloyd film of the same name, an account of Operation Creek, the expedition by the territorial unit Calcutta Light Hors...

THE FENRIS OPTION.

Jones, F. D., · 1981

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Tower, New York, ND (copyright 1981), US edn., paperback, 315pp, [vi] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of the German race to develop the nuclear bomb and the British counter intelligenece attempt to prevent them, slight slant to spine, light vertical creasing t...

THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE.

Innes, Hammond, · 1967

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Fontana, London, 1967, reprint, paperback, 254pp, maps in text, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, told by a salvage operator, the story of the three times torpedoed tramp steamer, slight slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrms., pages tanned, very good,

BULLER'S VICTORY.

Hough, Richard, · 1985

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi, London, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, 250pp, [vi] ads., wraparound coloured pictorial wrappers, the third novel in the Archy Buller series, set at sea in November 1914, slant to spine, rubbing and creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, lacks half title, good,

COURT MARTIAL.

Hassel, Sven, · 1979

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi, London, 1979, 1st in imprint, paperback, 319pp, [i] ads., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, a novel of the arrest and court matial as traitors of a group of german soldiers, roll and slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., wrappers creased with some surface loss, edg...

RIDE OUT THE STORM - A Novel of Dunkirk.

Harris, John (Max Hennessy interest), · 1980

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Arrow, London, 1980, reprint, paperback, 272pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of the rescue of the allied armies from the beaches of Dunkirk in WW2, ex public library, wrappers re-inforced with lamination, slant to spine, edges tanned, usual marks, labels and sta...

THE BITTER SEEDS OF HATE.

Frances, Stephen D., · 1968

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Mayflower, London, 1968, paperback original, 221pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial wraparound wrappers, Book Four of The Spanish Saga about the Spanish Civil War, lightly rubbed at tips, upper wrapper sunned, light damp staining to lower wrapper and topedges of final pages, f...

THE SHEPHERD.

Forsyth, Frederick, · 1976

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi, London, 1976, 1st in imprint, paperback, 125pp, half tone ills. throughout by Lou Feck, coloured pictorial wraparound wrappers, a 1957 RAF Vampire,flying from Germany to England in fog with failing instruments and short of fuel is guided to a disused airfied by a De Ha...

ACE.

Dunmore, Spencer, · 1982

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan Books, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, paperback, 271pp, [i] ads., lettered pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of an admired Luftwaffe ace, from the air war in France to the attritional war in Russia, with a fiancée in Cologne and a mistress in France, slight slant to spine, ...