A Book for all Reasons, ibooknet & PBFA

DOG BOATS AT WAR - A History of the Operations of the Royal Navy D Class Fairmile Motor Torpedo Boats and Motor Gunboats 1939-1945.

Reynolds, Leonard C. OBE, DSC (foreword by Admiral of The Fleet Lord Lewin), · 2000

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000, 1st in imprint, paperback, x, 289pp, oversize (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the development and service of the the Fairmile Co. type 'D' boat, the longer (115ft) semi-hard chine 4 engine boats that ...

UNTOLD STORIES OF SMALL BOATS AT WAR - Coastal Forces Veterans Remember.

Pickles, Harold (compiled by), · 1996

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Consort Print, Fareham, 1996, 1st in imprint, paperback, xii, 252pp, half tone photo ills. and cartoons in text, large format (8 x 6" approx.), coloured pictorial wraparound wrappers, a collection of the experiences of members of Coastal Forces, first published in their veter...

UNTOLD STORIES OF SMALL BOATS AT WAR - Coastal Forces Veterans Remember.

Pickles, Harold (compiled by), · 1996

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

Consort Print, Fareham, 1996, 1st in imprint, paperback, xii, 252pp, half tone photo ills. and cartoons in text, large format (8 x 6" approx.) coloured pictorial wraparound wrappers, a collection of the experiences of members of Coastal Forces, first published in their vetera...

ODETTE - The Story of a British Agent.

Tickell, Jerrard, · 1955

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 286pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 2 plans in text, [ii] ads., #GP35, coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Sax, account of the war experiences of Odette Marie Sansom, a French woman who had married a Briton in 1931 an...

DARE TO BE FREE.

Thomas, W. B., DSO, MC, · 1955

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 253pp, 3 plans in text, [iii] ads., #328, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the author was a yound subaltern of the New Zealand 23rd Infantry Battalion in Crete when the German airborne invasion started and he relates the progress...

THE FIGHTER PILOTS.

Sims, Edward H., · 1970

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Corgi, London, 1970, 1st in imprint, paperback, 318pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., diagrams in text, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a comparative study of the Royal Air Force, the Luftwaffe and the United States Army Air Force in Europe and North Africa 1939-4...

FIGHTER EXPLOITS (originally published as Fighter Tactics and Strategy 1914-1970).

Sims, Edward H., · 1973

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Corgi, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, paperback, 286pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Michael Turner, a study of air combat from WW1 through WW2 to Vietnam, based on interviews with fighter pilot veterans from many countries, describing and com...

THE RED BERET.

Saunders, Hilary St. George (aka Francis Beeding), · 1978

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

New English Library, London, 1978, reprint, paperback, 315pp, map in text, [v] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers by Colin Andrew, a detailed account of the birth and growth of British airborne troops in WW2, the establishment of the Central Landing School, training by trial...

EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II - Vol 2 Siege.

Rothberg, Abraham, · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Bantam Books, New York, 1966, reissued edn., paperback, 215pp, [ix] ads. and blanks, half tone photo ills throughout, pictorial wrappers, volume two of a four pictorial volume history of WW2 covering the period of the Battle of Britain and the blitz, the war in the Mediterran...

FIGHTER PILOT - A Personal Record of the Campaign In France 1939-1940.

Richey, Wing Cdr. Paul, D.F.C. (edited by Diana Richey), · 1969

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Pan, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, extensively revised edn., paperback, [xii], 147pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map and diagrams in text, [i] ad., pictorial upper wrapper, in the Battle of Britain Series, originally published anonymously in 1941, a personal record of the RAF...

THE LATTER DAYS AT COLDITZ.

Reid, P. R., MBE, MC, · 1955

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 320pp, double page plan of castle, double page plan of French tunnel and single page of glider, #GP37, pictorial upper wrapper by 'Sax', continues the story started in The Colditz Story of the German POW high security camp for off...

FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY.

Poolman, Kenneth, · 1974

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

New English Library, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 159pp, [i] ads., #017664, wraparound coloured pictorial wrappers, the story of the air defence of Malta in the early days of WW2 when three Gloster Gladiators provided the only fighter cover, lightly rubbed at extr...

BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.

Pape, Richard, · 1955

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 254pp, 4pp half tone photo ills, 5 plans/maps in text, [ii] ads., #GP33, pictorial upper wrapper, the classic tale of an airman's WW2 bombing mission: the author was navigator in an RAF Stirling returning from a Bombing mission in...

THE BATTLE.

Overy, Richard, · 2001

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Penguin, London, 2001, reprint, trade paperback, xiv, 162pp inc. table and maps, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the battle of Britain by the Professor of Modern History at King's College, London, with tables of aircraft production, operational strength...

THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS.

Neave, Airey, · 1955

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 221pp, double page map and three plans in text, [iii] ads., #329, pictorial upper wrapper, foreword by Lord Justice Birkett: captured at Calais in 1940 the author relates his three escapes, the final being a successful from Coldit...

EAST COAST CORVETTE.

Monsarrat, Nicholas, · 1943

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cassell, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 80pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, 6pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial paper wrappers with flaps, the second of the author's three titles about his experiences in corvettes during WW2, later published in hardba...

CORVETTE COMMAND.

Monsarrat, Nicholas, · 1944

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cassell, London, 1944, 1st edn., paperback original, 100pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, 6pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial paper wrappers with flaps, the third of the author's three titles about his experiences in corvettes during WW2, later published in hardba...

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

McKee, Alexander, · 1978

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

New English Library, London, 1978, new edition, paperback, [viii] inc. [ii] map, 272pp, map and formation diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the Battle of Britain from July to September, 1940, opening with daylight German attacks against shippin...

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN - July - September 1940.

Jullian, Marcel, · 1969

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Panther, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, paperback, 256pp, double page map, wraparound pictorial cover art from a painting by John Young, translated from the original French and working from both contemporary public records and private previously unpublished sources, a chronol...

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR.

Jones, E. H., · 1955

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 254pp, [ii] ads., #364, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, slightly abridged from the original 1919 edition, the classic POW escape story of WW1, covering the exploits of a young Welsh Lieutennant E. H. Jones with his Austrla...