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A CROWD IS NOT COMPANY.

Kee, Robert, · 1984

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Triad/Panther, London, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, 304pp, wraparound pictorial cover art by Kevin Tweddell, now a well known journalist and television reporter, the author was shot down over Holland and became a POW for over three years, he relates an account of his capt...

DUNKIRK - The British Evacuation, 1940.

Jackson, Robert, · 2002

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Cassell Military, London, 2002, reprint, trade paperback, [viii], 206pp, 8 maps, photo pictorial wrappers, a detailed account of the confusion and incompetence which lost the battle for France and the defence and holding action which permitted Operation Dynamo, the evacuation...

HITLER'S SCIENTISTS - Science, War and the Devil's Pact.

Cornwell, John, · 2004

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 2004, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xvi, 535pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of scientific achievement in Germany between the end of WW1 and the end of the Third Reich, winning the lion's share of Nobel prize...

SQUADRON AIRBORNE.

Trevor, Elleston, · 1969

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1969, 5th imp., paperback, 219pp, 2pp glossary, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper by Glenn Steward, in the 'Battle of Britain' series, a novel of an RAF Squadron during the Battle of Britain, sl. roll and slant to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., light...

THE WHITE WAR.

Raymond, Patrick, · 1981

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1981, 1st in imprint, paperback, 206pp, [ii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover art by Paul Simmons, sl. slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT.

Kerr, Judith, · 1994

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Lions, London, ND (circa 1994), reprint, paperback, 272pp, title and chapter head ills. by the author, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), this novel tells of a Jewish family's flight from Germany in the 1930's, '....a powerful and....moving story for ten-year-olds and upwar...

HARKAWAY'S SIXTH COLUMN.

Harris, John (Max Hennessy interest), · 1984

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Arrow Books, London, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, 285pp inc. 1pp map, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), a novel of small group of British soldiers behind enemy lines in 1940 Somaliland form themselves into a guerilla band, lightly rubbed at tips, faint creas...

IF I ONLY HAD WINGS.

Daneman, Paul, · 1996

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Warner, London, 1996, reprint, trade paperback, [vi], 313pp, [i] ads., pictorial cover art by Mark Entwistle, a 'coming of age' novel of a young man on the RAF groundstaff of a WW2 bomber station in the wilds of Yorkshire, faint vertical creasing to spine, light diag. creasin...

EAGLES OF THE REICH.

Berthold, Will (trans. by Fred Taylor), · 1984

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Sphere, London, 1984, reprint, paperback, [iv], 281pp, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), light vertical crease in spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

THE IRON PIRATE.

Reeman, Douglas, · 1992

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, ND (circa 1992), reprint, paperback, [viii], 295pp, [i] ads., wraparound pictorial cover art by Brian Sweet, summer 1944 and the German heavy cruiser Prinz Luitpold is ordered to leave the Baltic to attack shipping in the Atlantic, lightly rubbed at tips, e...

RAMAGE AND THE DRUM BEAT.

Pope, Dudley, · 1969

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Corgi, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, paperback, 255pp, [i] ads., wraparound pictorial cover art (unattrib.), the second Ramage novel, Lieutenant Ramage in command of the cutter Kathleen, running the gauntlet of Napoleon's Mediterranean fleet to Gibraltar, light creasing and s...

RAMAGE.

Pope, Dudley, · 2003

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Redwood, Dingley - Australia, 2003, 1st in imprint, paperback, [viii inc. double page map], 379pp, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, the first Ramage novel, Third Lieutenant Nicholas Ramage, in command when all other officers of the frigate Sibella are killed, is ordered t...

THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA.

Cortesi, Lawrence, · 1984

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Ace / Stoneshire, London, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, 188pp, [iv] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), a novel of the successful Allied air attack on the Japanese convoy of troop reinforcements to New Guinea in 1943, sl. sunning to wrappers, edges tanned, very good...

THE FALL OF SINGAPORE.

Owen, Frank, · 1976

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1976, reprint, paperback, 206pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the arrogance, complacency and incompetance, the unpreparedness and tactical blunders that led to the fall of Singapore to the Japene...

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1820-1910.

Woodham-Smith, Cecil, · 1955

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1955, revised and slightly abridged edn., paperback, 445pp, in text line drawing, [ii] ads., Penguin orange and white livery, biography of the pioneer of professional nursing, roll and slant to spine, well rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, wrappers a l...

MASTER OF MIDDLE-EARTH - The Achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien in Fiction.

Kocher, Paul, · 1974

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 222pp, [i] ad., photo pictorial upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

BETWEEN EXTREMES.

Keenan, Brian and McCarthy, John, · 1999

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Bantam, London, 1999, reprint, 346pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., 2 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustw...

MOUNTBATTEN - Hero of our Time.

Hough, Richard, · 1980

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, ND (copyright 1980), xiv, 290pp, 32pp, half tone photo ills., pedigrees at endpapers, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, life story of Mountbatten including chapters on HMS Kelly, Combined ...

STEPHEN MORRIS.

Shute, Nevil, · 1961

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Heinemann, London, 1961, 1st edn., [xii], 273pp, blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by 'Fratini', two short novels pre-dating the authors's first novel but unpublished until after his death, with the same character, Stephen Morr...

TORPEDO RUN.

Reeman, Douglas, · 1981

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Hutchinson, London, 1981, 1st edn., 290pp, blue cloth lettered and lined in silver at spine, maps at endpapers, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper by Chris Mayger, novel of an MTB flotilla in the Black Sea 1943, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned and a little foxed, ligh...