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BATTLE OF BRITAIN : THE HARDEST DAY 18 AUGUST 1940.
Price, Alfred, · 1998
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Cassell, London, 1998, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 223pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, pictorial wrappers, an account of the combat actions on the day of heaviest losses to both sides in the Battle of Britain, Sunday 18th August 1940, in which t...
ARK ROYAL.
Poolman, Kenneth, · 1974
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New English Library, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 173pp, [iii] ads., wraparound coloured pictorial wrappers, account of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, completed in 1938, Home and South Atlantic Fleet 1939, Home and Mediterranean Fleet 1940, Force H 1941 (Bism...
Volume 1 EL ALAMEIN TO THE RIVER SANGRO (originally published as El Alamein to the River Sangro).
Montgomery, Field -Marshal the Viscount, of Alamein, · 1974
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Corgi, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, x, 8pp half tone photo ills., 16 maps in text, [ii] ads., pictorial montage uopper wrappers a more detailed account of the campaign in North Africa and the invasion of Sicily and Italy than that contained in the author's memoirs...
THE SECRETS OF D-DAY.
Perrault, Gilles, · 1974
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Corgi, London, 1974, reissued edn., paperback, [vi] in. map, 216pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an examination of the German and Allied intelligence gathering communities in the mionths up to D-Day in June 1944, of the information both genuine and planted that they were...
COCKLESHELL HEROES.
Phillips, C. E. Lucas, OBE, MC (with the co-operation of Lt. Col. H. G. Hasler, DSO, OBE, (foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten, KG), · 1965
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Pan, London, 1965, 2nd imp., paperback, 256pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, #X458, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in the Trus Stories of World War ll series, account of the raid on shipping in the German occupied harbour of Bordeaux in Decembe...
THE RACE FOR THE RHINE BRIDGES - 1940, 1944, 1945.
McKee, Alexander, · 2001
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Souvenir, London, 2001, 1st in imprint, paperback, 488pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maaps, diagram and line drawing in text, large format (8.5 x 5 inches approx.) half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, three accounts of the battles for the bridges, the gateway to the indu...
THE SECRET LIFE OF BLETCHLEY PARK - The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women who Worked There.
McKay, Sinclair, · 2011
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Aurum, London, 2011, reprint, trade paperback, vi, 336pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., pictorial montage upper wrapper, an account of the birth and WW2 life of Staion 'X', the codename for Bletchley Park the home of GC & CS, the Goverement Code and Cypher School, which had been...
UNBROKEN.
Mars, Alastair, DSO, DSC*,, · 1954
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Pan, London, 1954, 1st in imprint, paperback,160pp, 4pp ills. incl. half tone photos and map and line sectional drawing, #306, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the commander's account of one year of service of the submarine Unbroken in the Mediterranean in 1942, during which...
NARVIK.
Macintyre, Donald, · 1973
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Pan, London, 1973, reprint, paperback, 238pp, 8pp half tone photo ills, maps in text, [ii] ads., wraparound coloured pictorial wrapperst, in the British Battles Series, an account of the principal British naval achievements of the ill-fated Norwegian Campaign 1940, where thre...
1938 - HITLER'S GAMBLE.
MacDonogh, Giles, · 2010
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Constable, London, 2010, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxii inc. map, 407pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, as at 1st January 1938 Germany was led by a Nazi dominated right wing coalition with Hitler as Chancellor, army commanders were...
THE CORVETTE NAVY - True Stories From Canada's Atlantic War.
Lamb, James B., · 1979
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Futura, London, 1979, 1st UK, paperback original, [vi], 179pp, [i] ad., coloured pictorial wraparound wrappers, the author joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in October 1939 and commanded the Bangor class minesweeper HMCS Minas and from November 1944 the Flower...
FLYING START - A Fighter Pilot's War Years.
Dundas, Hugh, · 1993
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Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1993), reprint, paperback, 226pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, [iii] ads., pictorial montage upper wrapper, the author's WW2 experiences, joining 616 Squadron, Auxilliary Air Force as a pupil pilot in May 1939, flying a Spitfir...
SEA WOLVES - The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines,.
Clayton, Tim, · 2012
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Abacus, London, 2012, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, [x] inc. 3 maps, 436pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, a comprehensive account of the development of the Royal Navy's Submarine Service during WW2, relating the history up to WW2, the state pre...
SOE'S ULTIMATE DECEPTION - OPERATION PERIWIG.
Boyce, Fredric, · 2009
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The History Press, Stroud, 2009, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 256pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured lettered upper wrapper, an account of Operations Periwig, the UK's SOE (Special Operations Executive) plan to destabilise the Third Reich in its final days with a sho...
RAF BIGGIN HILL.
Wallace, Graham, · 1959
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Four Square, London, 1959, 3rd imp., paperback, 221pp, 8pp sepia tone photo ills., [iii] ads., coloured pictorial wrappers, a history of the famous RAF fighter station from the early days of 1917 when occupied by the Royal Flying Corps and the home of the Wireless Experiment...
FLIGHT TO VICTORY - An account of the RAF's first year of the war.
Walker, Ronald, · 1940
£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)
Allen Lane Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1940, 1st edn., Penguin Special paperback original, 127pp, 32pp sepia tone photo ills., account of the early days of WW2 leaflet dropping, the fighter support given to France, the Battle of Britain (with tables of respective losses for...
IN HARM'S WAY - The Sinking of USS INDIANAPOLIS and the Extraordinary story of Its Survivors.
Stanton, Doug, · 2002
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Bantam. London, 2002, paperback, 411pp,16pp half tone photo ills., in text photo ports. of crew members at chapter heads, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the South Pacific in July 1945, en route to San Francisco after ...
WITH ROMMEL IN THE DESERT.
Schmidt, Heinz Werner, · 1968
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Panther, London, 1968, reprint, paperback, 192pp, maps in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper, the author a young Lieutenant, joined Lieutenant General Rommel's staff in March 1941 from Eritrea and remained in North Africa until shortly after the promoted Field-Marshal Rommel...
ONLY OWLS AND BLOODY FOOLS FLY AT NIGHT.
Sawyer, Group Captain Tom, DFC, · 1991
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Goodall, London, 1991, 2nd imp., paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Geoff Perrott DFC, an account of the build-up of Bomber Command, from the outbreak of WW2, when the author was a Squadron Leader i/c of a training flight and had a total of only 2...
BOMBER HARRIS - The Story of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, Bt, GCB, OBE, AFC, LLD, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (sic), Bomber Command, 1942-1945.
Saward, Dudley, · 1985
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Sphere, London, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, xx, 458pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 2 double page maps and a diagram in text, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the authorised biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris and the account of the p...