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THE BATTLE.

Overy, Richard, · 2001

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Penguin, London, 2001, reprint, trade paperback, xiv, 162pp inc. table and maps, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the battle of Britain by the Professor of Modern History at King's College, London, with tables of aircraft production, operational strength...

THOSE WHO FALL.

Muirhead, John, · 1988

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Bantam, London, 1988, 1st edn. UK, [x], 258pp, [i] note, in text line drawings, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the recollections of the experiences of a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot, transferred from B-24's to the B-17's of 301st Bomb...

AFTER THE LIBERATORS : A Father's Last Mission, A Son's Lifelong Journey.

McGuire, William C. ll, · 1999

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Parkway, Boone, North Catolina, 1999, 1st edn. US, paperback original, 197pp, 16pp half tone photo ills, diagram and map, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial upper wrapper, the author's father was navigator of a USAAF B-24 Liberator of 392 Bomb Group, based a...

JUSTICE DELAYED - Nazi War Criminals in Canada.

Matas, David with Charendoff, Susan, · 1987

£16.50 (€19.78 | $21.80 | ¥3,480)

Summerhill Press, Toronto, ND (copyright 1987), 275pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head band, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a moral and legal argument for Canada to end its decades long inaction over the provision of sanctuary for suspected Nazi war cr...

NUREMBERG - A Nation on Trial.

Maser, Werner (trans. by Richard Barry), · 1979

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,585)

Allen Lane, London, 1979, 1st edn. UK, 368pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in orange at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an analysis of the preparation, proceedings and effect of the Nuremberg Trials as well as their legality and competence unde...

THE KILLING OF SS OBERGRUPPENFUHRER REINHARD HEYDRICH.

Macdonald, Callum, · 1989

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

The Free Press, New York, 1989, paperback, viii, 239pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., [i], large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial upper wrapper, an advance reading copy of an account of the German leader Richard Heydrich, whose brutality and commitment to Nazi pri...

SKORZENY - 'The Most Dangerous Man in Europe'.

Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler), · 1998

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Leo Cooper, London, 1998, 1st ed., [vi], 145pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, first published in Ballantine History of a Violent Century in USA, this hardback is the first British edition with much...

HITLER'S FORTRESS ISLANDS.

Toms, Carel, · 1979

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

New English Library, London, 1979, reprint, 160pp, half tone photo ills. throughout, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the occupation and fortification of the Channel Islands, lightly rubbed at tips, pages tanned, dustwrapper...

ORDE WINGATE.

Sykes, Christopher, · 1959

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,691)

Collins, London, 1959, 2nd imp., 575pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 12 maps in text, magenta cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, a biography of the soldier, from childhood to his untimely death in a air accident in 1944, leader of the C...

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

Sydnor, Charles W., JR.,, · 1977

£16.50 (€19.78 | $21.80 | ¥3,480)

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...

THE KELLY.

Poolman, Kenneth (foreword by Admiral The Earl Mountbatten of Burma), · 1954

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,214)

William Kimber, London, 1954, 2nd edn., 219pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 1 in text map, maps at endpapers, [v] ads., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, HMS Kelly was one of a new class of destroyer, the leader of the fifth flotilla under...

THE COURAGE OF FEAR.

Pitt, Roxane, · 1957

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,847)

Jarrolds, London, 1957, 1st edn., xii, 242pp, half tone frontis portrait, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper by 'Chadwick', memoirs of an unconventional woman and described as 'one of the most resourceful British secret service agents in the ...

I SURVIVED.

Lias, Godfrey, · 1954

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,847)

Evans Brothers, London, 1954, reprint before first publication, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the author was a young Austrian merdical student who gained a commission into the German Army, captured by the Russia...

EAST ANGLIA AT WAR 1939-1945.

Johnson, Derek E., · 1978

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

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...

ANNE BRUSSELMANS M.B.E..

Duncan Sylvia and Peter, · 1959

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Ernest Benn, London, 1959, 1st edn., 207pp, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the wartime work of Anne Brusselmans who from late 1940, in German occupied Brussels, played an active role in assisting Allied airmen evading and escap...

OURSELVES IN WARTIME.

Anon., · 0

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Odhams Press, London, ND, 256pp, half tone photo ills. throughout, blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, decorated in dark blue upper board, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a detailed illustrated account of the home front during WW2 covering the mobilization of lab...

THE WAR IN PICTURES - Second Year.

Anon., · 1940

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Odhams Press, London, ND, 1st edn., 320pp, half tone ills. and maps throughout, coloured pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated in blind at spine and upper board, volume two only of a six volume pictorial his...

THE CANVAS FALCONS - The Men and the Planes of World War I.

Longstreet, Stephen, · 1995

£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,425)

Leo Cooper, London, 1995, 1st edn. UK, xiv, 365pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., light brown paper covered boards backed with deeper brown cloth lettered in orange at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial dustwrapper, the story of the air war over Europe in WW1, ligh...

BOMBERS.

Kaplan, Philip, · 2000

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,742)

Aurum Press, London, 2000, 1st edn., 240pp, coloured photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, photo pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 10 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictor...

GLORIOUS SUMMER - The Story of the Battle of Britain.

Johnson, Air Vice-Marshal J. E. 'Johnnie' and Lucas, Wing Cdr. P. B. 'Laddie', · 1990

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,269)

Stanley Paul, London, 1990, 1st edn., 213pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an anthology of some of the best writing about the Battle of Britain, the crucial battle of WW2, chosen by two of the period's...