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SINGAPORE 1942 - Britain's Greatest Defeat.

Warren, Alan, · 2002

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,585)

Hambledon and London, London, 2002, 1st edn., xiv, 370pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 16 in text maps, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial wraparound dustwrapper, an account of the greatest and most humiliating defeat in British history and th...

BLUECOATS AND REDSKINS - The United States Army and the Indian 1866-1891 (originally published in the USA under the title Frontier Regulars).

Utley, Robert M., · 1866

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,320)

Purnell, London, ND, club edn., xiv, 462pp, 32pp half tone ills., 14 in text maps, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, a history of the post American Civil War drive by the US Army against the Indians of the Great Plains and t...

WITNESSES OF WAR - Children's Lives under the Nazis.

Stargardt, Nicholas, · 2005

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,742)

Jonathan Cape, London, 2005, 1st edn., xviii, 509pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a study of the effects of occupation on children during WW2, they who were not merely pa...

TRIBUTE - Combat Experiences of the Military and Aviation Book Society.

Sidnell, P. (edited by), · 2002

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,898)

Book Club Associates, London, 2002, club edn., viii, 280pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a book about men in combat, the specific experiences of 32 members of the Military and Aviation Book So...

EVADER - The Epic Story of the First British Airman to be Rescued by the Comète Escape Line in World War II.

Shuff, Derek, · 2003

£22.50 (€26.97 | $29.73 | ¥4,745)

Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2003, 1st edn., xiv, 176pp, 8pp half tone photo ills. and facsimiles, in text map, coloured endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the experiences of RAF Air-Gunner Jack Newton, ...

NO ESCAPE ZONE.

Richardson, Nick, · 2000

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Little, Brown and Co., London, 2000, 1st edn., xiv, 235pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map and facsimiles, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the experiences of Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot Nick Richardson, in April 19...

BLACK KNIGHTS : On the Bloody Road to Baghdad.

Poole, Oliver, · 2003

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

HarperCollins, London, 2003, 1st edn., xxii, 280pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., 3 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, a first hand account by a British journalist from the Daily Telegraph, who from his normal post of Wes...

TASK FORCE DAGGER - The Hunt for bin Laden.

Moore, Robin, · 2003

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Macmillan, London, 2003, 1st edn. UK, xxii, 391pp, half tone photo pictorial title, 16pp coloured photo ills., in text maps, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, the inside story of special operations forces in the war on terror, boards f...

VERSCHOLLEN - World War I [1] U-Boat Losses.

Messimer, Dwight R., · 2002

£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,534)

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, ND (copyright 2002), [xii], 341pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, [ii] notes, black cloth lettered in tan at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, details of the 203 German U-boats lost in WW1 compiled from German so...

FIGHTING THROUGH TO KOHIMA - A Memoir of War in India and Burma.

Lowry, Michael (fordwword by Richard Holmes), · 2003

£18.50 (€22.17 | $24.44 | ¥3,902)

Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2003, 1st edn., xxvii, 276pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the author was commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment in June 1939 and was en route to the 1st Battalion ...

THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM BOOK OF THE ZULU WAR.

Knight, Ian, · 2003

£18.50 (€22.17 | $24.44 | ¥3,902)

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 2003, 1st edn., xxiv, 294pp, 24pp half tone ills., 5 in text maps, coloured endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, drawing on the archives of the National Army Museu...

...AND A HARD RAIN FELL - A GI's true story of the War in Vietnam.

Ketwig, John, · 2002

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Sourcebooks, Naperville, ND (copyright 2002), updated edn., xviii, 368pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, first published ten years after the Vietnam war in 1985, a new edition of the memoir written by ...

THE BEDFORD BOYS - One Small Town's D-Day Sacrifice.

Kershaw, Alex, · 2004

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Simon and Schuster, London, ND (circa 2004), reprint, xiv, 274pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the boy soldiers of Company A, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, many from the small...

MIDNIGHT IN SOME BURNING TOWN - British Special Forces Operations from Belgrade to Baghdad.

Jennings, Christian, · 2004

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2004, 1st edn., 255pp, 8pp coloured photo ills., 2 in text maps, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the operations of British Special Forces in Britain and Sierra Leone (200...

THE IMPOSSIBLE VICTORY - A Personal Account of the Battle for the River Po.

Harpur, Brian, · 1980

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,214)

William Kimber, London, 1980, 1st edn., 202pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., in text map, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, written by a junior officer involved in the long Italian campaign and in the Battle for the River Po, a comple...

A STORM IN FLANDERS - The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918 : Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front.

Groom, Winston, · 2003

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,058)

Cassell, London, 2003, 1st edn. UK, xii, 276pp, 27pp half tone photo ills., 3pp maps, maps at endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the battles around the town of Ypres in Belgium during WW1, where Winston Churchill and ...

WOMEN AT WAR.

Fountain, Nigel (consulting editor), · 2002

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Michael O'Mara, London, 2002, 1st edn., 143pp, coloured frontis, facsimiles, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, in the Voi...

THE REAL BRAVO TWO ZERO - The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero.

Asher, Michael, · 2002

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Cassell, London, 2002, 1st edn., 233pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, written by an ex-member of 2 Para and the SAS, a fluent Arabic speaker who investigates what really happen...

THE CAGE.

Abraham, Tom, · 2002

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Bantam, London, 2002, 1st edn., [xiv], 299pp, 16pp coloured and half tone photo ills., in text map, facsimiles at endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, the experiences of one of the ve...

SHOCKWAVE - The Countdown To Hiroshima.

Walker, Stephen, · 2006

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

John Murray, London, 2006, trade paperback, xv, 352pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial wrappers, an account of three weeks in the summer of 1945, from the testing of the first atom bomb in New Mexico, the decision to use it against Japan and the preparations fo...