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OPERATION CERTAIN DEATH - The Inside Story of the SAS's Greatest Battle.
Lewis, Damien, · 2004
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
BCA, London, 2004, club edn., xx, 459pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account based on interviews with the participants of Operation Barras, the special forces operation in Sierra Leone to rescue the 12 m...
SOLDIER AGAINST THE ODDS.
Large, Lofty, · 2000
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Mainstream, Edinburgh, 2000, reprint, 288pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, much of the text originally appeared in the author's 'One Man's War in Korea' (1988) and 'One Man's SAS' (1987),...
MARCHING TO THE DRUMS - Eyewitness Accounts of War from the Kabul Massacre to the Siege of Mafiking.
Knight, Ian (ed.), · 2000
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
BCA, London, 2000, club edn., 303pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a description of the experiences of the British imperial soldier based on the first-hand accounts of nineteenth-century warfar...
TOBRUK - The Great Siege Reassessed.
Harrison, Frank, · 1997
£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)
Arms and Armour, London, 1997, paperback, 352pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, re-assessment of the longest siege in British military history, when in the Western Desert the Aust...
OPERATION BARRAS - The SAS Rescue Mission, Sierra Leone 2000.
Fowler, William, · 2004
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Book Club Associates, London, 2004, club edn., [viii], 214pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., 6 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the colonial background of Sierra Leone, the breakdown of government and civil war betwee...
HERALDRY DECORATION AND FLORAL FORMS.
Cole, Herbert, · 1988
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Bracken Books, London, 1988, 1st edn., [vi], 248pp, half title, frontis and title decorated in line and in text line drawings by the Author, large format (9.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial...
BRITAIN'S ARMY IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
Carver, Field Marshal Lord, · 1998
£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)
Macmillan, London, 1998, 1st edn., xx, 550pp, 8 pp coloured ills., 64pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the changes within the British Army during the 20th century as well as ...
FATAL DECISIONS - Errors and Blunders in World War II.
Blandford, Edmund L., · 1999
£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)
Airlife, Shrewsbury, ND (copyright 1999), 1st edn., viii, 242pp, half tone photo ills. in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of some of the decisions made by the men on the ground of both the Allied and Axis for...
FORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR.
Arthur, Max, · 2002
£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)
Ebury Press, London, 2002, 1st edn., x, 326pp, half tone photo ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, in 1972 the Allied the surviving veterans of the First World War were interviewed as part of ...
WELCOME HOME - True Stories of Soldiers Returning from World War II.
Wicks, Ben, · 1991
£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)
Bloomsbury, London, 1991, 1st edn., 189pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, true stories of the joys and pain of soldiers returning from World War II, when hasty marriages between childhood sweethearts in 1940 seeme...
'44 - In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes.
Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler), · 2000
£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)
Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2000, 1st in imprint, 219pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, volume 2 in the Siegfried Line series, eyewitness accounts of the exper...
RICH RELATIONS - The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945.
Reynolds, David, · 1996
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Random House, New York, ND (circa 1996), reprint, xxx, 555pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, 16pp half tone photo ills., tables, charts and 6 maps in text, [ii] notes, black paper covered boards backed with brown cloth lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, author i...
SUICIDE SQUADS: Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II: their Development and their Missions.
O'Neill, Richard, · 1981
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Salamander, London, 1981, 1st edn., 296pp, half tone photo pictorial half title and double title, 48pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, diagrams, half tone photo ills. and line drawings, maps at endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper...
DOODLEBUGS AND ROCKETS - The Battle of the Flying Bombs.
Ogley, Bob, · 1992
£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,692)
Froglets Publications, Westerham, 1992, 1st edn., 208pp, title page map, maps, diagrams, half tone and coloured ills. in text, large landscape format (8.5 x 10.5 inches approx.), white cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Geoff Nutkins, an accoun...
TEN DAYS IN MAY - The People's Story of VE Day.
Miller, Russell (with Renate Miller), · 1995
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Michael Joseph, London, 1995, 1st edn., [xii], 270pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of VE day it includes first hand interviews diaries and memoirs of the...
KOMMANDO - German Special Forces of World War Two.
Lucas, James, · 1985
£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)
Guild Publishing / Book Club Associates, London, 1985, club edn., 245pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 7 in text digrams, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the achievements won in secret operations by German agent provacateurs who...
THE FORTIES.
Jenkins, Alan, · 1977
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)
Book Club Associates, London, 1977, club edn., 232pp, 8 coloured plates and many in text line and half tone photo. ills., pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrap...
THE SOMME.
Farrar-Hockley, A. H., · 1976
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
Severn House, London, 1976, 60th anniversary edn., 224pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 12 in text maps, light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an authoritative study of one of the most protracted battles in history, from July to November 19...
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE GESTAPO.
Butler, Rupert, · 1992
£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)
Ian Allan, London, ND (copyright 1992), 1st edn., 240pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., bright red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo montage dustwrapper, an illustrated account of all the major events in the history of...
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE GESTAPO.
Butler, Rupert, · 1996
£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)
Wordwright Books, London, 1996, 1st in imprint, 240pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., red paper covered boards backed with red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo montage dustwrapper, an illustrated account of all the major events in the history of the...