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PRISONER OF WAR - Voices from Captivity during the Second World War.
Rollings, C, · 2008
£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)
Ebury Press, London, ND (circa 2008), 2nd impr., vii, 392pp, half tone photo ills. in text, maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in ssilver at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, extracts from written accounts of life as a prisoner of war held by the Imperial War Mueum, ...
AN EXPENDABLE SQUADRON - The Story of 217 Squadron, Coastal Command, 1939-1945.
Nesbit, Roy Conyers, · 2014
£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)
Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2014, 1st edn., [vi], half tone fronti portrait, 250pp, maps, diagrams and numerous half tone photo ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the operational experiences of Coastal Command's 21...
AN EXPENDABLE SQUADRON - The Story of 217 Squadron, Coastal Command, 1939-1945.
Nesbit, Roy Conyers, · 2014
£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)
Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2014, 1st edn., [vi], half tone fronti portrait, 250pp, maps, diagrams and numerous half tone photo ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the operational experiences of Coastal Command's 21...
THE SECRET LIFE OF BLETCHLEY PARK - The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Were There.
McKay, Sinclair, · 2010
£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)
Aurum, London, 2010, vi, 336pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the birth and WW2 life of Staion 'X', the codename for Bletchley Park the home of GC & CS, the Goverement Code and Cypher School, whi...
MAN OF ARMOUR - A study of Lieut.-General Vyvyan Pope and the development of armoured warfare.
Lewin, Ronald, · 1976
£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)
Lee Cooper, London, 1976, 1st edn., 152pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the military career of Vyvyan Pope who joined the 1st Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment and served in Ireland, at ...
CORPS COMMANDER.
Horrocks, Sir Brian with Belfield, Eversley and Essame, Major-General H. Essame, · 1977
£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)
Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1977, 1st edn., xvi, 256pp, half tone photo frontis portrait, numerous in text half tone photo ills. and maps, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, sign of XXX Corps in gilt upper board, pictorial montage dustwrapper, after spending 14 months rec...
1943 - THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS.
Grigg, John, · 1980
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
Eyre Methuen, London, 1980, 1st edn., 255pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 3 maps in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of WW2 from Pearl Harbor, of the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill and a re-appraisal ...
MI9 - The British secret service that fostered escape and evasion 1939-1945 and its American counterpart.
Foot, M. R. D. and Langley, J. M., · 1979
£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)
Bodley Head, London, 1979, 1st edn., 365pp, half tone frontis and several in text maps and ills. in line, grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper illustrated on lower panel, account of the work of department of British Military Intelligence MI9 (an...
NO MOON TONIGHT.
Charlwood, Don, · 1956
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
Angus and Robertson, London, 1956, 2nd imp., 221pp, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the WW2 experiences of a Royal Australian Air Force observer/navigator with RAF Bomber Command. He was one of a group of 20 Australians trained ...
WAR OF THE MOTOR GUN BOATS - One Man's Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces, 1943-1945.
Chapman, Tony, · 2013
£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)
Practorian / Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2013, 1st edn., xii, 163pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, the author's experiences in RN Coastal Forces 1943-1945, in the English Channel, North Sea, Mediter...
NO PASSING GLORY - The Full and Authentic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire, VC, DSO**, DFC.
Boyle, Andrew, · 1972
£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)
Collins, London, 1972, reprint, 384pp, half tone frontis port., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper (black and blue on white, mirroring the 1st edition dustwrapper nwhich was black and white on blue), biography of Group Captain Leonard Cheshir...
DIEPPE TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH.
Whitaker, Brigadier General Denis DSO and Bar, CM, ED, CD and Whitaker, Shelagh, · 1952
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Lee Cooper, Barnsley, xix, 372pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, lettered dustwrapper, a re-assessment of the Dieppe raid that saw 3000 Canadians killed, wounded or taken pri...
THE RELUCTANT ENEMIES - The story of the last war between Britain and France 1940-1942.
Tute, Warren, · 1990
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Collins, London, 1990, 1st edn., 334pp, 6 maps in text, a library rebind in unlettered blue cloth, original half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the tensions and in some cases real antipathy between former allies Britain and France, after the President Marshal...
CHURCHILL AND THE GENERALS.
Pitt, Barrie (Editorial Consultant: Jack Le Vien), · 1981
£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)
Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1981, 1st edn., 196pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the events upon which the BBC-Le Vien TV play, by Ian Curteis, titled 'Churchill and the ...
AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II.
Munson, Kenneth, · 1980
£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)
Ian Allan, London, 1980, reprint, 272pp, half tone photo frontis, 8 coloured and numerous halt tone ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by George F. Heiron, the highly regarded compact reference guide to the warplanes of 1939-1...
ULTRA GOES TO WAR - The Secret Story.
Lewin, Ronald, · 1978
£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)
Hutchinson, London, 1978, 1st edn., 398pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., facsimile in text, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, a history of the Enigma encoding machine, its developmnent and marketing, and an account of the work of Bletchley Park, th...
THE LONELY LEADER - MONTY 1944-1945.
Horne, Alastair with Montgomery, David, · 1994
£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)
Macmillan, London, 1994, 1st edn., xxvii, 381pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in white at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a re-assessment of Field Marshal Mongomery as a leader as well as a narrrative of the campaign...
MOST OF MY LIFE.
Harvie-Watt, G. S., · 1980
£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)
Springwood Books, 1980, 1st edn., 263pp, 12pp half tone ills.,dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, Member of Parliament and barrister, he was Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary for four years from 1941-45 and his memoirs gi...
TRAVEL WARRANT.
Fergusson, Bernard, · 1979
£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)
Collins, London, 1979, 1st edn., 253pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, cream cloth lettered in black at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, after nearly 30 years in the British army the author relates his early life and his subsequent experiences inc...
IN ACTION WITH THE ENEMY - The Holders of the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Flying).
Cooper, Alan W., · 1986
£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)
William Kimber, London, 1986, 1st edn., 205pp, half tone photo ills. in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, instituted in November 1942 the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Flying) filled a gap between the DFM and the VC for non-commis...