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THE BURMA ROAD.

Webster, Donovan, · 2004

£19.50 (€23.37 | $25.76 | ¥4,114)

Macmillan, London, 2004, 1st edn., [vi], 370pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, with China's seaports occupied by the Japanese a road between China and Rangoon, the 'Burma Road', was cut to give...

THE BURMA ROAD.

Webster, Donovan, · 2004

£19.50 (€23.37 | $25.76 | ¥4,114)

Macmillan, London, 2004, 1st edn., [vi], 370pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, with China's seaports occupied by the Japanese a road between China and Rangoon, the 'Burma Road', was cut to give...

PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE R.A.F. - Volume Two 1939-1945.

Taylor, J. W. R. and Moyes, P. J. R., · 1973

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Ian Allan, London, 1973, 4th imp., 240pp, numerous half tone photo ills., light blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a profusely illustrated history of the RAF covering the war years of 1939 to 1945, sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, upper ed...

PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE R.A.F. - Volume One 1918-1939.

Taylor, J. W. R. and Moyes, P. J. R., · 1968

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Ian Allan, London, ND (copyright 1968), 1st edn., [vi], 202pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills., light blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a profusely illustrated history of the RAF from founding in 1918 until then last days of peacetim...

BATTLE OF BRITAIN : THE HARDEST DAY 18 AUGUST 1940.

Price, Alfred, · 1979

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1979, 1st 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, S...

BATTLE FOR ANTWERP : The Liberation of the City and the Opening of the Scheldt 1944.

Moulton, Major General J. L., · 1978

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Book Club Associates, London, 1978, club edn., 208pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 17 in text maps, orange cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, account of the hard-fought campaign to take Antwerp in the Autumn of 1944, a bitter encounter for th...

I SURVIVED.

Lias, Godfrey, · 1954

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,692)

Evans Brothers, London, 1954, reprint before first publication, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the author was a young Austrian merdical student who gained a commission into the German Army, captured by the Russia...

GERMANY CALLING - A Personal Biography of William Joyce, 'Lord Haw-Haw'.

Kenny, Mary, · 2003

£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,536)

New Island, Dublin, 2003, 1st edn. Ireland, xx, 300pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., Joyce family pedigree in text, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, black endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, dustwrapper: unpriced, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

CODE-NAME MARIANNE - An Autobiography.

Katona, Edita with Macnaghten, Patrick, · 1976

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Collins and Harvill Press, London, 1976, 1st edn., 213pp, [x facsimiles], 4pp half tone photo ills., dark brown cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of how, as a young Czech refugee, the author gained a post in French Naval Intel...

THE COMMANDOS AT DIEPPE : REHEARSAL FOR D-DAY - Operation Cauldron, No. 4 Commando attack on the Hess Battery August 19th, 1942.

Fowler, Will, · 2002

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

HarperCollins, London, 2002, 1st edn., 256pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., in text maps/diagrams and table of chain of command, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of one of the few success stories to come out of the Dieppe raid, tha...

THE LAST BATTLE Montgomery's Campaign April-May 1945.

Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler), · 1989

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

Crowood Press, Marlborough, 1989, 1st edn., 302pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps in text, [i] ads., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, account of the last six weeks of the war with Montgomery's race against the Russians for the Baltic ports of ...

SIEGFRIED - The Nazis Last Stand.

Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler), · 1983

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Leo Cooper in assoc. with Secker and Warburg, London, 1983, 2nd imp., [xii], viii, 268pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, three months after D-Day, in September 1944, the allies had reached the German S...

DEATH ON A DISTANT FRONTIER : A Lost Victory, 1944.

Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler), · 1996

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

Leo Cooper, London, 1996, 1st edn., xiv, 162pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text map, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the Allied advance in France in September 1944, with the 1st SAS Brigade behind enemy lines in the Vosges ...

ARDENNES : THE SECRET WAR.

Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler), · 1984

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Century, London, 1984, 1st edn., [x], 196pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of one of the Allies greatest intelligence failures when a German army of 600,000 counter-attacked the total...

AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS.

Whitehouse, Arch, · 1964

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

Frederick Muller, London, 1964, 1st edn., 351pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 10 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an examination of amphibious military operations throughout history, from the invasion of Bri...

TANKS AND OTHER ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES OF WORLD WAR II (first published as two volumes 'Tanks and other AFVs of the Blitzkreig Era 1939-41' and 'Tanks and Other Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1942-45').

White, B. T., · 0

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

Peerage Books, London, ND, [viii], 327pp, 168pp coloured ills. by John Wood, Brian Hiley, J. Pelling and E. Bruce, light green cloth lettered in white at spine, decorated in white at upper and lower boards, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a comprehensive reference with over 30...

THE SPECIAL AIR SERVICE.

Warner, Philip (foreword by David Stirling), · 1982

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

William Kimber, London, 1982, 5th imp., 285pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a history of the Special Air Service 1941-71, from the pioneer raiders who wrought havoc in the Western D...

ANZIO 1944 : An Unexpected Fury.

Verney, Peter, · 1978

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

B. T. Batsford, London, 1978, 1st edn., 265pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 21 in text maps, maps at front endpapers, dark brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the near disaster at Anzio, the amphibious landing design...

INVASION '44 - The Full Story of D-Day.

Turner, John Frayn, · 1959

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

George G. Harrap, London, 1959, 1st edn., 253pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.), the story of the greatest ever invasion from the sea as 130,000 men of the Allied forces overcame ...

WOMEN WHO WENT TO WAR 1938-46.

Taylor, Eric, · 1988

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Robert Hale, London, 1988, 1st edn., 254pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, '...by 1945 nearly half a million British women, drawn from all classes, were in the Forces. F...