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BATTLE OF BRITAIN : THE HARDEST DAY 18 AUGUST 1940.

Price, Alfred, · 1979

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Book Club Associates, London, 1979, club edn., 223pp, 36pp half tone photo ills., in text maps and diagrams, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the combat actions on the day of heaviest losses to both sides in the Battle of Britain, ...

IS BOMBING DECISIVE? A Study in the orgainsation and tactical employment of modern air fleets.

Miksche, Captain F. O., · 1943

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

George Allen and Unwin, London, 1943, 1st edn., 101pp, in text diagrams, yellow paper covered boards backed with green cloth lettered in black at spine, lettered in black upper board, an early demolition of the arguments of Douhet and Seversky, proponents of air power alone, ...

MEETING AT POTSDAM.

Mee, Charles L. Jnr., · 1975

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Andre Deutsch, London, 1975, 1st edn., xiv, 370pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, pictorial wrappers (unattrib.), through log books, eyewitness accounts and recently opened conference...

INVASION - The German Invasion of England July 1940.

Macksey, Kenneth, · 1980

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Arms and Armour Press, London, ND (copyright 1980), 1st edn., 224pp, decorated title page, 24pp half tone photos and 8pp maps, 12 other full page maps in text, several diagrams and line ills. in text, dark blue coloured endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, co...

THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK.

Lord, Walter, · 1983

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

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, a fresh account of the greates...

WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT 1941-1945 - The German Soldier in Russia.

Lucas, James, · 1980

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Book Club Associated, London, 1980, club edn., x, 214pp, 40pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, a selection of experiences and events as seen by the Germans and their allies, which serve to illustrate the peculiarities of life on th...

THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR - The Second Battalion.

Kipling, Rudyard (edited and complied by), · 1997

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,320)

Spellmount, Staplehurst, 1997, 1st in imprint, 223pp, half tone photo ills. and 3 maps in text, maps at endpapers, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, an account of the operations of the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards during WW1, written as a me...

THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Keegan, John, · 1997

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Pimlico, London, 1997, 1st in imprint, paperback, [x], 514pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial upper wrapper, a major one volume study of the Second World War by the one-time senior lecturer in military history at ...

HELLFIRE CORNER - Reminiscences of Wartime in South-east England.

Humphreys, Roy (ed.), · 1998

£16.50 (€19.78 | $21.80 | ¥3,480)

Budding Books, Stroud, 1998, 1st in imprint, viii, 184pp, in text half tone photo ills. and line drawings by Gos Wilson, coloured laminated photo pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, previously published by Alan Sutton in 1994, the events of six years of war in...

ON LAUGHTER SILVERED WINGS - The Life and Times of Paddy Kirkwood.

Hughes, Howard A., · 2003

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Woodfield, Bognor Regis, 2003, 1st edn., trade paperback original, [viii], xii, 246pp inc. 23pp half tone photo ills., coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, a biography of Paddy Kirkwood, who attended school in Belfast and studied veterinary medicine at Dublin and Edinburgh...

TO THE LAST ROUND - The South Notts Hussars 1939-1942.

Hart, Peter, · 1996

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Leo Cooper / Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 1996, 1st edn., 223pp, decorative title, in text maps and numerous half tone photo ills., brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, in the Second World War Regimental Actions series, based on interviews with...

MARIANNE IN CHAINS - In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45.

Gildea, Robert, · 2002

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

Macmillan, London, 2002, 1st edn., xx, 5 maps in text, 524pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured endpapers, blue cloth lettered in red at spine, decorative head and tailbands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, winner of the Wolfson History Prize for 2002, based on recently re...

HUNTING THE BISMARCK.

Forester, C. S., · 1973

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Michael Joseph, London, 1973 2nd imp., 110pp, 8 in text maps, dark blue cloth lettered in white at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, a reconstruction of the events involving the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck in May, 1941, the dramatic sinking of th...

PEARL HARBOUR [HARBOR] - An eye-witness account.

Clark, Blake, · 1942

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1942, 1st edn. UK, 75pp, half tone frontis, 3 half tone plates, [i] ad., light green cloth lettered in black at spine, a first person eye-witness account of the attack on Pearl Harbour expanded with accounts from other vantage points, sunned...

MEN OF THE RED BERET - Airborne Forces 1940-1990.

Arthur, Max, · 1990

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,269)

Hutchinson, London, 1990, 1st edn., xviii, 430pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 22 in text maps, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the operations of British airborne forces especially the Parachute Regiment, f...

YOUNG PEGGY IN TOYLAND - A Fairy Tale (originally published as Wooden).

Marshall, Archibald (ills. by Mabel Lucy Attwell), · 1928

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,429)

Collins' Clear-Type Press, London, 1928, new edn., 266pp, 3 coloured plates by Mabel Lucy Attwell, [iv] ads., red cloth with lettering and vignettes in gilt at spine and upper board, first published in 1920 as 'Wooden', lightly rubbbed at extrems., spine sunned, edges tanned ...

BIGGLES WORKS IT OUT - A Story of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and his Comrades of the Air Police.

Johns, Capt. W. E., · 1951

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1951, 1st edn., 192pp, frontis and 7 other two colour half tone plates, vignette in line to title, 3 in line chapter headsby Stead, maroon cloth lettered in black at spine and upper board, vignette in black upper board, coloured pictorial dustwra...

THE DANDY BOOK 1970.

Anon., · 1969

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

D. C. Thomson, London, ND (copyright 1969), unpaginated {140pp], coloured pictorial double title, coloured ills. throughout, coloured pictorial endpapers, large format (11 x 7.5 inches approx.), coloured laminated pictorial montage paper covered boards, lightly rubbed at tips...

TRAVELS WITH ASTERIX - Asterix in Britain, Asterix in Spain, Asterix in Switzerland and Asterix in Corsica.

Goscinny (trans. by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge), · 1983

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

WHSmith, 1983, 48pp x4, coloured ills. throughout by Uderzo, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), coloured laminated pictorial boards, four volumes in one in coloured comic strip format, lightly rubbed at tail of spine and lightly bumped at extrems., light impressed marks ...

ROY ROGERS - King of the Cowboys.

McLeod, John, · 1955

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Purnell, London, ND (copyright 1955), 93pp, coloured pictorial title, coloured and half tone ills. throughout by Peter Alvarado, G. A. Facey, Reg Forster and Bernard, coloured pictorial montage endpapers by J. Pollack, large format (11 x 8 inches approx.), coloured laminated ...