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POCKET BATTLESHIP (original title on first publication The Battleship 'Scheer').

Krancke, Theodor and Brennecke, H. J., · 1975

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Tandem, London, 1975, reprint, paperback, 252pp, [iv] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, account of the German Pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer, sister ship to the Admiral Graf Spee and Deutschland (later renamed Lützow), a commerce raider which sank the Jervis Bay in No...

EIGHT BALED (BAILED) OUT.

Inks, James M., · 1944

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Viking, London, ND, paperback, 159pp, map in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in July 1944 the author, Lieutenant James M. Imks, a native of Texas was navigator in a B-24 Liberator based in Spinazzola, Italy with the 776th Bombardment Squadron, USAAF.. His 43rd mission...

CLOSING THE CIRCLE - War in the Pacific 1945.

Hoyt, Edwin P., · 1984

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Avon, New York, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiii, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of matters both political and military during the last 60 days of the war against Japan during 1945, when the Potsdam option of u...

THE LAST ENEMY.

Hillary, Richard, · 1969

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Pan, London, 1969, 5th imp., paperback, 184pp, [iv] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the classic account of an RAF Spitfire fighter pilot's experiences during the early days of WW2, being shot down and badly burned during the Battle of Britain, and his recovery in hosp...

THESE MEN ARE DANGEROUS.

Harrison, D. I., · 1958

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Corgi, London, 1958, 1st in imprint, paperback, 255pp, [i] ads.], coloured pictorial upper wrappert, bored with being left behind by the war in Egypt, Lt. Harrison, Cheshire Regiment volunteers for the SAS, with accounts of action in the invasions of Sicily and Italy, parachu...

ENEMY COAST AHEAD.

Gibson, Guy, VC, DSO, DFC, · 1955

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Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 287pp, 4pp half tone photo ills. [i] ads., #GP28, pictorial upper wrapper by Carl Wilton, the personal experiences of the legendary bomber pilot who, at the start of WW2, was a career RAF Flying Officer with Bomber Command 83 Squa...

THE LAST DAYS OF MUSSOLINI.

Deakin, F. W,, · 1966

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966, paperback, 378pp, [v] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, first published as parts 2 and 3 of The Brutal Friendship by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1962, covering the fate of Mussolini from the collapse of Fascism in Italy in July 1943...

ESCAPE FROM GERMANY.

Crawley, Aidan, · 1968

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Corgi Books, London, 1968, 1st in imprint, paperback, 284pp, [iv] ads., coloured pictorial upper, in April 1945 the author, who was Head of Escape Intelligence at Stalag Luft III and had been a POW for four years, conceived the idea to record every POW escape attempt. In autu...

THE CITY THAT WOULDN'T DIE - London, May 10-11, 1941.

Collier, Richard, · 1967

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Fontana, London, 1967, 1st in imprint, paperback, 253pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., #1498, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the worst raid of the London Blitz told by way of recollections of those involved and/or those who experienced it, chronolog...

THE DAM BUSTERS.

Brickhill, Paul, · 1954

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Pan Books, London, 1954, 1st in imprint, paperback, 252pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [iv] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the story of the exploits of 617 squadron, formed specially for the 'Dam Buster' operation against the Moehne and Eder dams it went on to become ...

REACH FOR THE SKY.

Brickhill, Paul, · 1964

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Fontana, London, 1964, 2nd imp., paperback, 382pp, 8pp half tone ills., [ii] ads., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, the life story of Douglas Bader, the legless fighter pilot of the Royal Air Force during WW2, including his accident, his battle to return to flying, ...

ESCAPE - OR DIE : Authentic stories of the RAF Escaping Society.

Brickhill, Paul (commentary by. H. E. Bates, foreword Air Chief Marshall Sir Basil Embry KBE, CB, DSO, DFC, AFC, · 1954

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Pan Books, London, 1954, 1st in imprint, paperback, 190pp, [ii] ads., #292, coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Carl Wilton, authentic stories of eight escapes by members of the RAF during WW2, slight slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., light creasing and soiling to wrappers,...

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.

Boulle, Pierre (trans. by Xan Fielding), · 1958

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Fontana, London, 1958, 5th imp., paperback, 189pp, [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the classic novel of Allied POW's on the Burma Railway, tie-in with the Columbia Pictures 1957 production of the same name starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins and Alec Guinness...

AMIENS: 1918.

Blaxland, Gregory, · 1981

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Star, London, 1981, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiv, 274pp, maps in text, pictorail upper wrapper, 1918 began with the British feeling defeated and demoralised having lost a quarter of a million men in the previous 6 months but Amiens was to be the fulcrum of the Allied line d...

FIRST LIGHT.

Wellum, Geoffrey, · 0

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, reissued edn., trade paperback, xiv, 338pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., pictorial upper wrapper,, the experiences of an RAF fighter pilot during WW2, joining aged 17 two months before the outbreak it covers his training and includes his service with 92...

FIRST LIGHT.

Wellum, Geoffrey, · 2003

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (c2003), reprint, trade paperback, xiv, 338pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial montage wrappers, the experiences of an RAF fighter pilot during WW2, joining aged 17 two months before the outbreak it covers his training and includes his s...

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL - Men of Secrets.

Staffford, David, · 2000

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Abacus, London, 2000, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxix, 359pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an examination of the unique relationship between two leaders, President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States of Amertica and Prime Minis...

ENIGMA - The Battle for the Code.

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh, · 2001

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Phoenix, London, 2001, 7th imp., trade paperback, xvi, 491pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, a new examination of all the component contributions which went into the cracking of the German Naval Enigma code, in particular the contrbution...

CHURCHILL AND THE ADMIRALS.

Roskill, Stephen, · 2004

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Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2004, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 351pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, Winston Churchill had a great affinity for the Royal Navy having had periods at the start of both WW1 and WW2 as First L...

IAN FLEMING'S COMMANDOS - The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII.

Rankin, Nicholas, · 2012

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Faber and Faber, London, 2012, 1st paperback, trade paperback, xvi, 397pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 2 maps, [ii] ads.coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, in 1942 Lt. Cdr. Ian Fleming was working as a personal assistant to the British Director of Naval Intelligence whe...