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JOSEPH GOEBBELS.

Riess, Curt, · 1949

£26.50 (€31.76 | $35.01 | ¥5,591)

Hollis and Caret, London, 1949, 1st edn., x, 460pp, coloured and lettered paper covered boards, a biography of Joseph Goebbels, based on unpublished speeches and pamphlets and on notes taken of interviews with his relatives and the people round him, the author is able to give...

THE GREATEST RAID OF ALL.

Phillips, C. E. Lucas, · 1959

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Companion Book Club, London, 1959, club edn., 272pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 22 maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge col'd, this edition does not include the map of the Loire Estuary at endpapers mentioned in th...

BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.

Pape, Richard, · 1954

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

The Companion Book Club, London, 1954, club edn., 288pp, 8pp half tone ills., double page plan in text, maps at endpapers, ochre cloth with navy blue title panel lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, the classic tale of an airman's WW2 ...

BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.

Pape, Richard, · 1954

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

The Companion Book Club, London, 1954, club edn., 288pp, 8pp half tone ills., double page plan in text, maps at endpapers, ochre cloth with navy blue title panel lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, the classic tale of an airman's WW2 ...

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...

THE ALEXANDER MEMOIRS 1940-1945.

Alexander of Tunis, Field-Marshal Earl (Ed. John North), · 1962

£22.50 (€26.97 | $29.73 | ¥4,747)

Cassell, London, 1962, 1st edn., xiv inc. double page map, 210pp, half tone frontis portrait, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, light brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the edited memoirs of the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, deputy...

JERSEY UNDER THE JACKBOOT.

Maugham, R. C. F., · 1948

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

W. H. Allen, London, 1948, 2nd edn., x, 168pp, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the German occupation of Jersey from July 1940 until their surrender in May, 1945, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges stanned, ink name/da...

REPORT FROM TOKYO - A Warning to the United Nations.

Grew, Joseph C., · 1944

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Hammond, Hammond and Co., London, 1944, reprint, [ii], 103pp, lettered card wrappers, an account by the ex United States Ambassador to Japan after his exchange after internment there in 1942, explaining the peace-loving nature of the majority of the people of Japan and the do...

THE SECRET WAR.

Johnson, Brian, · 1978

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), London, 1978, 1st edn., 352pp, half tone photo pictorial half title and frontis, numerous in text half tone photo and line illustrations, large format (10 x 7 inches), grey cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper,...

BOMBER INTELLIGENCE - 103, 150, 166, 170 Squadrons Operations and Techniques '42 - '45.

Jones, W. E., · 1983

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Midland Counties Publications, Earl Shilton, 1983, 1st edn.,304pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map and diagrams in text, maps at coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author served as RAF intelligence officer in WW2 and de...

BYWATER - The Man Who Invented The Pacific War.

Honan, William H., · 1990

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

Macdonald, London, 1990, 1st edn., xiv, 337pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps in text, grey cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of the journalist and naval historian Hector Bywater, British born his family had emigrated to USA in 1901...

BATTLE OF BRITAIN - The Forgotten Months November and December 1940.

Foreman, John, · 1988

£29.50 (€35.36 | $38.97 | ¥6,224)

Air Research, New Malden, 1988, 1st edn., 222pp, half tone photo ills. in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound coloured pictorial dustwrapper, telling for the first time the combats between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force during November and Decem...

SOE - An outline history of the Special Operations Executive 1940-46.

Foot, M. R. D., · 1984

£16.50 (€19.78 | $21.80 | ¥3,481)

British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1984, 1st edn., 280pp incl. 24pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, tie-in with major BBC television series on the SOE, an account of the section of the Brit...

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...

FLYING MEMORIES.

Bradshaw, Stanley Orton, · 1934

£20.50 (€24.57 | $27.08 | ¥4,325)

John Hamilton, London, ND [1934], unpaginated [106pp], [vi] ads., large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in black at spine and upper board, and introduction and a collection of 48 half tone drawings mainly of aircraft with two of airships and one of an air...

THE BLOCKADE BUSTERS.

Barker, Ralph, · 2005

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2005, 1st in imprint, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., facsimile and 2 maps in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, originally opublished by Chatto and Windus and reissued by Pen and Sword, an account of Ope...

THE BLOCKADE BUSTERS.

Barker, Ralph, · 2005

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2005, 1st in imprint, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., facsimile and 2 maps in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, originally opublished by Chatto and Windus and reissued by Pen and Sword, an account of Ope...

I AM FIFTEEN AND I DO NOT WANT TO DIE.

Arnothy, Christine (trans. by Antonia White), · 1956

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,743)

Collins, London, 1956, 1st edn., 128pp, dichromatic blue/grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, the autobiography of a young girl at the Russian siege of German occupied Budapest in early 1945, and of how by living in cellars and only...

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

Bowyer, Michael J. F., · 1979

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1979, 1st edn., 232pp, numerous in text half tone and line ills., maps and diagrams, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, a comprehensive account of the numer...

ACTION STATIONS - 8. Military Airfields of Greater London.

Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore, · 1984

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge, 1984, 1st edn., 248pp, frontis map, half tone photo pictorial title, numerous in text half tone photo ills.maps and diagrams, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, a ...