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BOMBER.
Deighton, Len, · 1980
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pan Books, London, 1980, reprint, paperback, 478pp, map in text, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the epic fictional account of a bombing raid on Germany in June, 1943, from the initial RAF preparations in England, the briefing, take-off and the raid itself, and simultane...
OPERATION HEARTBREAK.
Cooper, Duff, · 1973
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
Sphere, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, 156pp, [iii] ads., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, published as fiction but obviously based on the author's private and priveleged knowledge of 'Operation Mincemeat', a successful episode of deception used by the Allies prior to t...
THE SANDS OF DUNKIRK.
Collier, Richard, · 1974
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Fontana, London, 1974, reprint, paperback, 255pp, 8pp half tone photo ills. (complete), double page map of evacuation in text, [i] ad., wraparound coloured pictorial wrappers, written 20 years after the event and based on first hand testimony of those who survived Dunkirk, th...
FLIGHT INTO DANGER.
Castle, John and Hailey, Arthur, · 1979
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pan Books, London, 1979, reprint, paperback, 140pp, [iv] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of a flight deck emergency on a Candian airliner, rubbed at extrems., wrappers creased, edges tanned, fair,
A WEB OF SALVAGE.
Callison, Brian, · 1975
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Fontana, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., wraparound coloured pictorial cover art by Paul Wright, a novel of ship salvage in a storm ten gales by a salvage tug off the Algerian coast, slight slant to vertically creased spine, a littkle rubbed at extre...
TARGET ISLAND.
Brophy, John, · 1955
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Corgi, London, 1955, 2nd imp., paperback, 192pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper by 'RAo', a novel of the RAF defence of Malta in 1942 and of the Maltese, a littkle rubbed at tips, light creasing to cnrs., edges tanned, good plus,
KESSLER.
Brason, John, · 1981
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
BBC, London, 1981, 1st edn., paperback original, 205pp, pictorial upper wrapper, tv tie-in, from the BBC TV serial of the same name, tne hunt for an ex-SS Standartenfuhrer who hold the key to a powerful web of neo-Nazi organisations, a little rubbed at erxtrems. wrappers heav...
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.
Boulle, Pierre (trans. by Xan Fielding), · 1978
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Fontana, London, 1978 24th imp., paperback, 156pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Richard Clifton-Dey, novel of Allied POW's on the Burma Railway, lightlty rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,
LOOK DOWN IN MERCY.
Baxter, Walter, · 1967
£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)
Sphere, London, 1967, 1st in imprint, paperback, 318pp, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Jack Larkin, an acclaimed first novel of human relationships set in Burma in 1942 and the retreat from the Japanese into India, lightlty rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very ...
SHADOW OF THE WOLF.
Barwick, James, · 1980
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pan Books, London, 1980, 1st in imprint, paperback, 255pp, coloured lettered upper wrapper, a novel of the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland in 1941, roll and slant to vertically creased spine, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, fair
TO PERISH NEVER.
Archer, Henry and Pine, Edward, · 1955
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Viking, London, ND (circa 1955), 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, #W407coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a novel of Bomber Command in WW2, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good
THE FROGMEN - The Story of the Wartime Underwater Operators.
Waldron, T. J. and Gleeson, James, · 1954
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pan Books, London, 1954, reprint, paperback, 160pp, 8pp half tone ills., diagrams in text, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the work of the Royal Navy frogmen in WW2, both defensive in mine clearance from ships and harbours and offensive, attacking the enemy from 2-man to...
THE LONG ROAD HOME.
Vincent, Adrian, · 1974
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
New English Library, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 173pp, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers (unattrib), "...in the early hours of a cold May morning in 1940 a battalion of soldiers arrived at Dover. They were the 1st battalion of the Queen Victoria's Rifles...
ARNHEM.
Urquhart, Major-General R. E., CB, DSO, · 1960
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Pan Books, London, 1960, 1st in imprint, paperback, 221pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps/plans in text, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, by the commander of the 1st Airborne Division that had the task of seizing the final bridge over the Neder Rhine at Arnhem in Operati...
THE LOUSIER WAR.
Tucker, W. A., · 1975
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
New English Library, London, 1975, new edn., paperback original, 125pp, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, the experiences of a British solder who, after two previous attempts , managed to join the 15th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, swearing to be 19 when actually 17 years old...
ODETTE - The Story of a British Agent.
Tickell, Jerrard, · 1955
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 286pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 2 plans in text, [ii] ads., GP35, cover art by Sax, account of the war experiences of Odette Marie Sansom, a French woman who had married a Briton in 1931 and moved to the UK....
WITH ROMMEL IN THE DESERT.
Schmidt, Heinz Werner, · 1965
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
Panther, London, 1965, reprint, paperback, 192pp, maps in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper, the author a young Lieutenant, joined Lieutenant General Rommel's staff in March 1941 from Eritrea and remained in North Africa until shortly after the promoted Field-Marshal Rommel...
KRIEGIE - Prisoner of War.
Simmons, Kenneth W., · 1960
£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)
Hillman Periodicals Inc., New York, 1960, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, piictorial wrappers, the author Kenneth W. Simmons was an officer of 567 Bombardment Squadron flying B-24 Liberators from Hethel airfield south-west of Norwich. The author has written a most detailed ...
SAMURAI.
Sakai, Saburo with Caidin, Martin and Saito, Fred, · 1969
£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)
New English Library, London, 1969, reissued edn., paperback, 190pp, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the story of Saburo Sakai, the Japanese navy pilot of Zero fighters who was credited with 64 enemy planes but, as was the way in the Japenese forces, who never rec...
A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
Ryan, Cornelius, · 1977
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Coronet, London, 1977, 7th imp., paperback, 576pp, 8pp half tone ills., 10 maps, chart of command, pictorial wrappers, an account of Operation Market-Garden, an account of Operation Market-Garden, the airborne operation in September 1944 which planned to drop the US 101st and...