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ULTRA GOES TO WAR - The Secret Story.
Lewin, Ronald, · 1978
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Book Club Associates, London, 1978, club edn., 398pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a history of the Enigma encoding machine, its development and marketing in the 1920's, the early work of the Polish intellig...
CONVOY! Drama in Arctic Waters.
Kemp, Paul, · 1999
£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)
Brockhampton Press, London, 1999, 1st in imprint, 256pp, 48pp half tone photo ills., laminated pictorial boards with matching coloured pictorial dustwrapper, decorative headband, a history of the WW2 PQ/QP and JW/RA arctic convoys, from the first on 28th September 1941 to the...
MINK COATS AND BARBED WIRE.
Kaminska, Ruth Turkov, · 1979
£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)
Collins and Harvill Press, London, 1979, 1st edn., 255pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., ochre cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, a young actress and her Trumpet playing finaceé, Polish Jews in Warsaw 1939, run away from the invading Germans to Russi...
V FOR VENGEANCE - The Second Battle of London.
Johnson, David, · 1981
£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)
William Kimber, London, 1981, 1st edn., 203pp, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, red cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the development of the German V1 and V2 rockets and the campaign against London and ...
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
Ireland, Bernard, · 1979
£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)
Marshall Cavendish Books, London, 1979, 1st edn., 168pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., maps and drawings in text, photo pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches), an account of the develop...
THE GREASEPAINT WAR - Show Business 1939-45.
Hughes, John Graven, · 1976
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
New English Library, London, 1976, 1st edn., 216pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth grain paper covered bds. gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Terry Griffiths, an account of the Entertainments National Service Association - ENSA - which provided entertainment to...
DAWN OF D-DAY.
Howarth, David, · 1960
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
The Companion Book Club, London, 1960, club edn., 256pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 maps in text, maps at endpapers, dark blue cloth with red title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge col'd, patterned and lettered dustwrapper, an account of the experiences of those i...
THE HUNTING OF FORCE Z.
Hough, Richard, · 1974
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
White Lion Publishers, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, 255pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., line ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of the value of capital ships and an account of the development of naval defence against aer...
MOUNTBATTEN - Hero of our Time.
Hough, Richard, · 1981
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Book Club Associates, London, 1981, club edn., 335pp, 32pp half tone ills., family tree at endpapers, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, life story of Mountbatten including chapters on HMS Kelly, Combined Operations and Supreme Command, edges...
BLESS OUR SHIP - Mountbatten and the Kelly.
Hough, Richard, · 1991
£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1991, 1st edn., 194pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, illustrated eps., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the brief career of the 'K' class Destroyer, HMS Kelly, nearly sunk in the North Sea in May...
GERMAN JETS VERSUS THE U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE.
Hess, William A., · 1996
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Specialty Press, North Branch MN - USA, ND (copyright 1996), 1st edn., 175pp, [i] ads., in text half tone photo ills., blue/black leather style cloth covered boards lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a record of USAAF cl...
RESISTANCE AGAINST TYRANNY.
Heimler, Eugene (ed), · 1966
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1966, 1st edn., 168pp, black cloth lettered in red, accounts of tyranny, including those from a German colonel who became aware of what Hitler really stood for, a Polish writer who had to fight the Nazis and the Hungarian Jewish poet who reci...
1943 - THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS.
Grigg, John, · 1980
£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)
Eyre Methuen, London, 1980, 1st edn., 255pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of WW2 from Pearl Harbor, of the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill, and a re-appraisal of the poli...
AIRBORNE WARFARE 1918-1945.
Gregory, Barry and Batchelor, John, · 1979
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)
Phoebus Publishing, London, ND (copyright 1979), 128pp, col'd frontis port., numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., maps drawings and insignia in text, large format (12 x 9 inches), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the use ...
HISTORY OF THE SS.
Graber, G. S., · 1978
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Book Club Associates, London, 1978, club edn., [xii], 244pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., tables of SS structure, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, woven round the life of Heinrich Himmler the author reveals little known aspects of the milita...
SCRAMBLE - A Narrative History of the Battle of Britain.
Gelb, Norman, · 1986
£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,536)
Michael Joseph, London, 1986, 1st edn., xiv, 286pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a vivid and compelling narrative of the Battle of Britain, compiled from interviews, diaries, letters, combat...
TARGET GERMANY.
Freeman, Roger A.; Middlebrook, Martin, et al, · 1974
£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)
Marshall Cavendish, London ND, (copyright 1974-83), 64pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., maps drawings and diagrams in text, coloured endpapers, coloured photo pictorial laminated boards, matching dustwrapper, oversize (11.5 x 9 inches), an account of different key...
B-17 FORTRESS AT WAR.
Freeman, Roger A., · 1979
£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)
Ian Allen, Shepperton - Surrey, 1979, reprint, 192pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills. in text, orange cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches), a history of the Boeing B-17, from the under armed and less reliable earl...
AND WE SHALL SHOCK THEM - The British Army in the Second World War.
Fraser, David, · 1983
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Book Club Associates, London, 1983, club edn., xiii, 429pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 30 maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of how complacency and myopia by successive governments and lack of professionalism by th...
OKINAWA - The Great Island Battle.
Frank, Benis M., · 1978
£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)
Elsevier / Dutton, New York, ND (copyright 1978), 1st edn. US (stated), 184pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a record of one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war, from eyewitness accounts fr...