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WITNESSES OF WAR - Children's Lives under the Nazis.

Stargardt, Nicholas, · 2005

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Jonathan Cape, London, 2005, 1st edn., xviii, 509pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a study of the effects of occupation on children during WW2, they who were not merely pa...

THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR - Western Desert 1941.

Pitt, Barrie, · 1980

£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)

Book Club Associated, London, 1980, club edn., xx, 506pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, coloured maps at endpapers, brown cloth with red title panel lettered in gilt at spine, coloured decorated dustwrapper, an introductory background history of ...

WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, MUMMY?.

Nicholson, Mavis, · 1995

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Chatto and Windus, London, 1995, 1st edn., [viii], 264pp, half tone photo ills. in text, light brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, a collection of interviews with women from all walks of life about their experiences during WW2, from a...

A FAMILY LIFE - 1939-45.

Moore, Katharine, · 1989

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Allison and Busby / W. H. Allen, London, 1989, 1st edn., 173pp, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the war diaries of a pacifist wife, mother and teacher living in Sevenoaks in Kent, from the start of 1939 until the Japanese surrender, recording...

ONE CHILD'S WAR.

Massey, Victoria, · 1978

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

BBC, London, 1978, reprint, 126pp, half tone photo frontis, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the recollections being evacuated from Merseyside to the heart of Welsh-speaking Wales during WW2, a young seven year old girl separated from her b...

THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK.

Lord, Walter, · 1983

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Allen Lane, London, 1983, 1st edn. UK, xii, 323pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawing and 6 maps in text, maps at endpapers, light blue paper covered boards backed with black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial dustwrapper, a fresh...

WHEN WE WON THE WAR - The Story of Victory in Europe, 1945.

Longmate, Norman, · 1977

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Hutchinson, London, 1977, 1st edn., 192pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map in text, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a record of the summer of 1945, when no-one apologized for being patriotic, of the crushing military victories...

SBS - THE INVISIBLE RAIDERS - The History of the Special Boat Squadron from World War Two to the present.

Ladd, James D., · 1983

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Book Club Associates, London, 1983, club edn., 283pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams in text, coloured endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the Special Boat Squadron, from the...

THE SECRET HUNTERS.

Kemp, Anthony, · 1986

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Michael O'Mara, London, 1986, reprint, 128pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagram in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the painstaking detective work carried out by a handful of people to discover the fates of ...

TARGET BERLIN - Mission 250 : 6 March 1944.

Ethell, Jeffrey and Price, Alfred, · 1981

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Jane's, London, 1981, 1st edn. UK, xii, 212pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, wrapround pictorial dustwrapper, a minute-by-minute account of the first large scale American daylight raid on Berlin, mission 250 on ...

THE BROKEN PLUME - A Platoon Commander's Story, 1940-45.

Craig, Norman, · 1982

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,848)

Imperial War Museum, London, ND (copyright 1982), 1st edn., 191pp, half tone frontis portrait, maps, half tone and sepia ills. in text, coloured endpapers, brown cloth lettered in silver at spine and upper board, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, selected by t...

END OF THE BEGINNING.

Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil, · 2002

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2002, 1st edn., x, 438pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, pictorial endpapers, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, continuing the stories of some of the men and women first encountered in 'F...

EL ALAMEIN.

Carver, Michael, · 1979

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,743)

B. T. Batsford, London, 1979, 3rd edn., 194pp, 23pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper (from a painting by Terence Cuneo), with a new foreword to the third edition, a detailed account of the B...

THE FALL OF FORTRESSES - A Personal Account of one of the Most Daring - and Deadly - Air Battles of the Second World War.

Bendiner, Elmer, · 1981

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Souvenir Press, London, 1981, 1st edn. UK, 258pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the author, who enlisted a few days before Pearl Harbor, served as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses and in August 1913,...

THE NORTH ATLANTIC FRONT - Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War.

Miller, James, · 2005

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2005, 1st edn., 176pp, maps and half tone photo ills. in text, large format (10.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a description of the North Atlantic Front in two world wars, in WW1 the Nor...

THE ROYAL NAVY - An Illustrated History.

Watts, Anthony J., · 1999

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,848)

Brockhampton Press, London, 1999, 256pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, half tone photo ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams in text, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), coloured decorated laminated boards with matching dustwrapper, re-issue of an original Arm...

SOLDIERS OF DESTRUCTION - The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945.

Sydnor, Charles W., JR.,, · 1977

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

Princeton University Press, Princeton, ND (copyright 1977), 1st edn. US, xvi, 372pp, 4 maps and 15 in text half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in metallic red and gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the S...

A GLORIOUS WAY TO DIE - The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945.

Spurr, Russell, · 1982

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1982, 1st edn. UK, x, 341pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawings and 4 maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the biggest battleship in the world, the Japanese Navy's Yamoto, of ov...

MY WARRIOR SONS - The Borton Family Diary 1914-1918.

Slater, Guy (ed. and intro. by), · 1915

£25.50 (€30.57 | $33.69 | ¥5,380)

Military Book Society, London, ND, x, 228pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, purple cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the edited diary of Lt. Colonel Arthur C. Borton (retired) who kept a diary of family news and experiences throughout WW1,...

HIGH ENDEAVOUR.

Seago, Edward, · 1944

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Collins, London, 1944, 1st edn., 79pp, frontis and 19 half tone plates by Edward Seago, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an illustrated account of one man, with a circus background, and his efforts to over...