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A CHILD'S WAR - Growing Up on the Home Front 1939-45.

Brown, Mike, · 2000

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Sutton, Stroud, 2000, reprint, paperback, x, 118pp inc. index and puzzle, half tone ills.and line drawings in text, large format (9.5 6.5 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the effect of WW2 on British children including evacuation, rationing, gas masks,...

CHESHIRE V.C. - A Story of War and Peace.

Braddon, Russell, · 1966

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Arrow, London, 1966, 1st in imprint, paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., pictorial wrappers, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire was one of the major innovative flying brains of Bomber Command, serving with 102 squadron and in command of 76 and 617 squadrons, he introduced low level targe...

WAVE ME GOODBYE - Stories of the Second World War.

Boston, Anne (ed. by), · 1989

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1989, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 317pp, [i] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a collection twenty-eight short stories of the Second World War, by some of the best known women authors and others less experienced, who lived through the period...

BOMBER BOYS - Fighting Back 1940-1945.

Bishop, Patrick, · 2009

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Harper Perennial, London, ND (circa2009, reprint, trade paperback, xli inc. maps and half tone photo ill. in text, 429pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone ills. in text, [xvi] p.s., photo pictorial upperwrapper, an account of the experiences of the young men who joined t...

WILD BLUE - 741 Squadron - On A Wing And A Prayer Over Occupied Europe.

Ambrose, Stephen E., · 2004

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pocket Books, London, ND (c2004), reprint, trade paperback, 300pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, 8pp half tone photo ills., [iv] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the WW2 experiences of a B-24 Liberator bomber crew, concentrating on 'Dakota Queen' o...

D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 - The Climactic Battle of World WarII.

Ambrose, Stephen E., · 2003

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pocket Books, London, ND (circa 2003), reprint, trade paperback, 655pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 8 maps and double page diagram in text, [iii] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, by the author of 'Band of Brothers' and drawing on hundreds of interviews with US A...

WAITING FOR THE ALL CLEAR.

Wicks, Ben, · 1990

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Guild Publishing, London, 1990, club edn., 211pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, reminiscences of firemen, police, home guard, air-raid wardens and the civilian population abou...

NO TIME TO WAVE GOOD-BYE.

Wicks, Ben (intro. Michael Caine), · 1988

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

St. Martin's Press, New York, ND (copyright 1988), 1st edn. US, x, 228pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, moving personal records of the experiences of children who were evacuated during WW2, top corner front fre...

SUPREME GALLANTRY - Malta's Role in the Allied Victory 1939-1945.

Spooner, Tony, · 1996

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

John Murray, London, 1996, 1st edn., xxvi inc. 3 maps, 358pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, described as the first book to describe in full details the attacks made from Malta in the Second ...

HITLER'S ELITE - Biographical Sketches of Nazis who Shaped the Third Reich.

Snyder, Louis L., · 1990

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1990, 1st edn. UK, xvi, 320pp, half tone photo ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, descriptions of the prominent Nazis who put into effect the will of Adolf Hitler and without whom Hitler would ...

HITLER - THE VICTORY THAT NEARLY WAS.

Quarrie, Bruce, · 1988

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, ND (copyright 1988), 1st edn., 208pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 double page maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a theoretical extrapolation of the consequences of the fall of Malta to an airborne Ge...

TICKET TO HELL VIA DIEPPE - From a Prisoner's Wartime Log 1942-1945.

Prouse, A. Robert, · 1982

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

Webb and Bower, Exeter, 1982, 1st edn., 192pp, 8pp coloured ills., half tone ills. and facsimiles in text, pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the author joined the Canadian Provo...

WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT 1941-1945 - The German Soldier in Russia.

Lucas, James, · 1979

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

Jane's Publishing, London, ND (copyright 1979), 1st edn., x, 214pp, 40pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, as well as a history of the Russo-German war of 1941-45 this is a record of the experie...

EAST ANGLIA AT WAR 1939-1945.

Johnson, Derek E., · 1978

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Jarrolds, Norwich, 1978, 1st edn., 160pp, frontis and many half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, account of WW2 as it affected the people of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, lightly rubbed at tips, d...

FALLEN EAGLE - The Last Days of the Third Reich.

Cross, Robin, · 1995

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Michael O'Mara, London, 1995, 1st edn., vi, 282pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the final months of the war in Europe during WW2, when the eventual defeat of Germany was o...

LOVE, SEX AND WAR - Changing Values 1939-45.

Costello, John, · 1985

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Book Club Associates, London, 1985, club edn., 384pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., light brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, a wide ranging book of statistics, anecdotes and memoirs covering the changes of social conditions, attitudes ...

ACTION STATIONS - 1. Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945.

Bowyer, Michael J. F., · 1980

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1980, 3rd imp., 232pp, numerous in text half tone and line ills., photo pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, a comprehensive account of the numerous airfields of East Anglia ...

FOOD FOR THE CHILDREN.

Boguslawska, Anna (trans. by Ewa Barker), · 1975

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Leo Cooper, London, 1975, 1st edn., xx, 201pp, maps at endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound coloured pictorial dustwrapper, originally written in Polish and published in the British zone of occupied Germany in 1947/8 and now translated into English...

GREEN SLEEVES - The Story of WVS/WRVS.

Beauman, Katharine Bentley, · 1977

£20.50 (€24.57 | $27.08 | ¥4,325)

Seeley Service, London, 1977, 1st edn., [xii], 193pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, the history of the Women's Voluntary Service, and a tribute to the woman who founed it, Lady Stella, Ma...

THE BATTLE OF MALTA.

Attard, Joseph, · 1980

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

William Kimber, London, 1980, 1st edn., 252pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account by a Maltese eye-witness of the WW2 Axis offensive against the Mediterranean island of Malta, the v...