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THE CELTS.

Chadwick, Nora (intro. J. X. W. P. Corcoran), · 1979

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979, reprint, paperback, 302pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, [ii] ads., coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the origin, rise and spread of the Celts and their arrival in the British Isles about the eighth century, a little ...

THE VIKINGS.

Brondsted, Johannes (trans. by Kalle Skov), · 1973

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973, reprint, paperback, 347pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, the background and origins of the Vikings, the motives of the voyages and raids, their industries and equipment, ships and armi...

THE ONLY WAY OUT - An Infantryman's Autobiography of the North-West Europe Campaign August 1944 - February 1945.

Wingfield, R. M., · 1956

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Hutchinson's Universal Book Club, London, 1956, club edn., 190pp, half tone photo frontis, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured decorated dustwrapper, the experiences of an infantryman, a 'replacement' who in August 1944 joined a unit of motorised infantry attached t...

SPECIAL FORCE - A CHINDIT'S STORY.

Shaw, Jesse, · 1986

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,269)

Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1986, 1st edn., [viii], 272pp, half tone frontis portrait, [vi] postscript and ads., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a 1917 enlistment in the Middlesex Regiment meant he was too late to see action before di...

THE ORDER OF THE S.S..

Reider, Frederic, · 1981

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

W. Foulsham, London, ND (copyright 1981), 1st edn. UK, 256pp, half tone and coloured ills. in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, originally published in French as L'ordre S.S., a pictorial account of the founding, evolution and expansio...

DOUBLE STANDARDS - The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up.

Picknett, Lynn, Prince, Clive and Prior, Stephen (with additional research by Robert Brydon), · 2001

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Little, Brown and Co., London, 2001, 1st edn., xxiv, 578pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and facsimiles in text, coloured endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head band, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an exposé of the cover-up of Rudolf Hess's peace ...

GREEN BEACH.

Leasor, James, · 1975

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,847)

Heinemann, London, 1975, 1st edn., 250pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., plans/maps in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of one of the objectives of the Dieppe raid in 1942, the examination of the German radar at Pourville,...

THE WAR BETWEEN THE GENERALS.

Irving, David, · 1981

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Allen Lane, London, 1981, 1st edn., [x], 446pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, tan cloth lettered in brown at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very g...

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN - The Jubilee History.

Hough, Richard and Richards, Denis, · 1989

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

John Curtis / Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1989, 1st edn., xviii, 414pp, 8pp coloured ills., 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, coloured pictorial endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head band, coloured pictorial dustwrap...

TOBRUK - The Great Siege Reassessed.

Harrison, Frank, · 1999

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Brockhampton Press, London, 1999, 1st in imprint, 352pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 16 in text maps, laminated half tone photo pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, decorative head bands, a re-issue of the re-assessment of the longest siege in British military ...

HISTORY OF THE SS.

Graber, G. S., · 1978

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,847)

Robert Hale, London, 1978, 1st edn., [xii], 244pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 4pp table of the structure of the SS in 1944 in text, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, woven round the life of Heinrich Himmler the author reveals little known a...

CASSINO - The Hollow Victory - The Battle for Rome January-June 1944.

Ellis, John, · 1984

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,585)

Andre Deutsch, London, 1984, 1st edn., xx, 587pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., diagram and maps in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a detailed account of the campaign to take Monte Cassino, the citadel barring the road to Rome, of the f...

BANZAI, YOU BASTARDS!.

Edwards, Jack (in collaboration with Jimmy Walter), · 1991

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Souvenir Press, London, 1991, 1st edn. UK, [xvi], 264pp, 36pp half tone photo ills., 4 half tone photo ills in text, unpaginated 85pp appendices, [iii] blank, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in metallic red at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial du...

THE PUTSCH THAT FAILED - Munich 1923 : Hitler's Rehearsal for Power.

Dornberg, John, · 1982

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, ND (copyright 1982), [viii], 385pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., double page street plan of Munich showing route of Putchists' march, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, lettered dustwrapper, a reconstruction of the Munich beer-hall putsch, bas...

ATLANTIC BRIDGEHEAD - The Story of Transatlantic Communications.

Clayton, Howard, · 1968

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Garnstone Press, London, 1968, 1st edn., 192pp, 32pp half tone ills., in text map, maps at coloured endpapers, light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the development of cross-Atlantic communications, including the even...

FIRE IN THE NIGHT - Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion.

Bierman, John and Smith, Colin, · 2000

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

Macmillan, London, 2000, 1st edn., [x], 434pp, half tone frontis portrait, 16pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, [i] acknowledgments, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of the brilliant maverick covering his early life and his ti...

THE SWORDBEARERS - Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War.

Barnett, Correlli, · 1963

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1963, 1st edn., 386pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 42 in text maps, maps at endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in silver and lined in red at spine, upper edge coloured, laminated lettered dustwrapper, a study of four of the major military comma...

THE GREAT BRITISH CHRISTMAS.

Hubert, Maria (compiled by), · 1999

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1999, 1st edn., viii, half tone pictorial frontis, half tone ills. in text, coloured endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, a collection of stories from numerous original sources about the celeb...

CHRISTMAS RECIPES - THE CRAFTY WAY.

Barry, Michael, · 1997

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Jarrold Publishing, Norwich, 1997, 1st edn., 64pp, decorated title, coloured photo ills. and line drawings in text, coloured laminted photo pictorial montage boards, a selection of minimum effort maximum effect recipes for Christmas, lightly rubbed at extremms., no dustwrappe...

THE VICTORIANS.

Wilson, A. N., · 2003

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Arrow, London, 2003, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xiv, 738pp, 8pp coloured photo ills., 24pp half tone photo ills., coloured photo pictorial montage wrappers, "...people, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowehere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb po...