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SPITFIRE INTO BATTLE.

Duncan Smith, Group Captain W. G. G., DSO DFC RAF (Ret), · 1982

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Hamlyn, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, paperback, [xiv], 235pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [iv] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, the personal experiences of RAF Volunteer Reserve pilot who completed his training during the first year of the war and served on front-...

THE LAST ESCAPE.

Nichol, John and Rennell, Tony, · 2004

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Penguin, London, ND (circa 2004), reprint, trade paperback, xxiii, 471pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper, after the Normandy landings in June 1944 thousands of Allied Prisoners of War were moved away from the liberatuing forces . The P...

THE SILVER SPITFIRE.

Neil, Tom, · 2015

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, Nd (circa 2015), reprint, trade paperback, xi, 302pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, during the build-up of American forces in UK in 1943/44 the author, an RAF Squadron Leader, was assigned as RAF liaison of...

STRIKE FROM THE SKY - The Story of the Battle of Britain.

McKee, Alexander, · 1969

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

New English Library, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, paperback, 272pp, map and formation diagrams in text, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), an account of the Battle of Britain from July to September, 1940, opening with daylight German attacks against shipping in and aircraf...

SPITFIRE - The Autobiography.

Lewis, Jon E. (ed.), · 2010

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Robinson, London, 2010, trade paperback original, [vi] 328pp, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the birth and debvelopment of the Supermarine Spitfire, designed by R. J. Mitchell, from its conception as an entrant for the Schneider Trophy in the 1920s thro...

RAF BECCLES AT WAR 1943-45.

Holmes, Malcolm R., · 2010

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Privately published, Beccles, 2010, revised edn., paperback, viii, 64pp, half tone photo ills. in text, stapled pictorial montage card wrappers, expanded from the original 56 pages, this revised and enlarged edition relates the history of Ellough Airfield at Beccles, built or...

ARISE TO CONQUER.

Gleed, Wing Commander Ian, DFC, foreword by Flt. Lt. John Strachey, · 1943

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Grub Street, London, ND (circa 1943), new edn., trade paperback, viii, 214pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, at the outbreak of WW2 the author was serving as the senior pilot of a section of a Hurricane squadron of the Royal Air Force, based in Linc...

ESCAPE AND EVASION - POW Breakouts in World War Two.

Dear, Ian, · 2002

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Cassell, London, 2002, reprint, trade paperback, 192pp, maps and diagrams in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, the author examines the planning and execution of 18 WW2 escapes, details of some of them not having previously been published, and describes those who ...

NO MOON TONIGHT.

Charlwood, Don, · 2010

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Goodall, London, 2010, reprint, trade paperback, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo picorial ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, 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 Austr...

SCAPA FLOW.

Brown, Malcolm and Meehan, Patricia, · 2002

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan. London, 2002, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 264pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., in text map, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan Grand Strategy series, based on the experiences of hundreds of service personnel, from the lower deck and barrack room as well as the offic...

THE GREAT ESCAPE.

Brickhill, Paul, · 2002

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Cassell, London, 2002, reprint, trade paperback, xiii, 264pp, diagrams in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper shows Steve McQueen in the film of the same name, the classic account of the escape of British Commonwealth prisoners of war from Germany's Stalag Luft III,...

THE DAM BUSTERS.

Brickhill, Paul, · 1983

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan Books, London, 1983, revised edn., trade paperback, 272pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in the Pan Grand Strategy series, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, the story of the exploits of 617 squadron, formed specially for the 'Dam Buster' operation against the Moehne a...

CIVILIANS ON THE ROMAN FRONT.

Birley, Robin, · 1979

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Frank Graham, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1979, 2nd edn., paperback, 64pp, half tone photo ills., line drawings and diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wraapper, an account of the life and times of the civil population resident in the frontierlands of Roman Britain, where civ...

THE LUFTWAFFE WAR DIARIES (trans. and ed. by Frank Ziegler).

Bekker, Cajus, · 1974

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi, London, 1974, reprint, paperback, 509pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., many maps and diagarams in text, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the complete story of the Nazi Air Force at war, from the Luftwaffe War Diaries, official archives, personal ...

STRIKE HARD, STRIKE SURE - Epics of the Bombers.

Barker, Ralph, · 2003

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2003, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 208pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, accounts of the men who flew Britain's bombers during WW2, included are a number of the more memorable raids including the...

THE FIGHTER ACES OF THE R.A.F. - 1939-1945.

Baker, E. C. R., · 1965

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Kimber, London, 1965, new edn., slim trade paperback, 208pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured lettered wrappers, only a very few RAF fighter pilots of WW2 became household names but the feats of many exceeded those who were better known. The author has collected the perso...

THE COLDITZ STORY.

Reid, P. R., MBE, MC, · 2001

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Cassell, London, 2001, 1st in imprint, 223pp, double page plan in text, pictorial paper covered boards, the classic story of the German POW camp Oflag IVB at Colditz Castle in Saxony, where the most persistant Allied officer escapers of WW2 were imprisoned, of the many escape...

THE 21 ESCAPES OF LT. ALASTAIR CRAM.

Guss, David M., · 2018

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Macmillan, London, 2018, 1st edn., [xvi], 432pp, 8pp photo ills., 2 double page maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured endpapers, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the amazing account of the WW2 experiences of Lt. Alastair Cram, captured in North Africa in Novemb...

War Museum - Souvenir Handbook.

, · 1981

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

National War Museum Assoc., Malta1981, reprint, paperback, 43pp, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, stapled half tone photo pictorial wrappers, a souvenir of the Malta War Museum and an ilustrated account and/or images of some of the incidents that took place in Malta du...

THE WHITE FUNNEL HANDBOOK.

, · 1950

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Ed. J. Burrow, Cheltenham and London, undated, paperback, 104pp, 2 folding maps, half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a guide to the White Funnel steamship services in the Bristol Channel and the South Coast of UK, with descriptio...