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YANKEE SAMURAI - The Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory.

Harrington, Joseph D., · 1979

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pettigrew Enterprises, Detroit, 1979, 3rd edn., US, 383pp, half tone photo ills. in text, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper by Sheila Harrington, based on the testimony of about one thousand US born citizens o...

WARS AND SHADOWS - Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser.

Fraser, General Sir David, · 2002

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Allen Lane, London, 2002, 1st edn., viii, 328pp, half tone frontis portrait, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound photo pictorial dustwrapper, the memoirs include his accounts of an aristoctaic Scottish upbringin...

THE REICH'S LAST GAMBLE - The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944.

Forty, George, · 2000

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Cassell, London, 2000, 1st edn., 352pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and charts in text, turquoise cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands., half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the Third Reich's attempt to win back control of the c...

DANGEROUS LIAISONS: COLLABORATION AND WORLD WAR TWO.

Davies, Peter, · 2004

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Pearson Education, Harlow, 2004, 1st edn., viii, 218pp, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands., half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account collaboration during WW2, one of the most notorious, controversial and dramati...

BADER - THE MAN AND HIS MEN.

Burns, Michael G., · 1990

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Arms and Armour, London, ND, 1st in imprint, 322pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, light green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, originally published by Weidenfield in 1990, first an account of Douglas Bader's flying career in the Roya...

ODETTE - The Story of a British Agent.

Tickell, Jerrard, · 1955

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 286pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 2 plans in text, 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 and move...

ENIGMA - The Battle for the Code.

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh, · 2001

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Phoenix, London, 2001, 5th 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, a little rubbed at extrems.,...

THE FORGOTTEN SOLDIER - The true story of a young German soldier on the Russian front.

Sajer, Guy (intro. Doris Lessing), · 2003

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Phoenix, London, 2003, reissued edn., trade paperback, xiii inc. double page map, 558pp, photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, the first-hand story of a young German soldier, from 1942-45, in Russia, Poland and the Ukraine, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical creasing to ...

COCKLESHELL HEROES.

Phillips, C. E. Lucas, OBE, MC (with the co-operation of Lt. Col. H. G. Hasler, DSO, OBE, RM, foreword Admiral The Earl Mountbatten, KG, PC, GCB, GCS, GCIE, GCVO, DSO), · 1957

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1957, 1st in imprint, paperback, 256pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., double page map and line drawings in text, #GP59, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, account of the raid on shipping in the German occupied harbour of Bordeaux in December 1942, Operation Fra...

NORMANDY TO THE BALTIC.

Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal The Viscount, · 1961

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Arrow, London, 1961, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiii inc. double page map, 226pp, 2 maps in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the final thrust of the war in north-west Europe by the commander in the Field, a little rubbed at extrems., slight roll an...

EL ALAMEIN TO THE RIVER SANGRO.

Montgomery, Field -Marshal the Viscount, of Alamein, · 1960

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Arrow, London, 1960, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, frontis map and 16 maps in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the campaign in North Africa, and the invasion of Sicily and Italy, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, edges ta...

A FIELD-MARSHAL IN THE FAMILY.

Montgomery, Brian, · 1987

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Javelin, London, 1987, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xii, 372pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, decorated chapter heads, photo pictorial upper wrapper, an count of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein by his younger brother, himself a successful soldier, r...

PANZERKRIEG - A Hitory of the German Tank Division in World War II.

McCarthy, Peter and Syron, Mike, · 2003

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Robinson, London, 2003, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xvi, 332pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 11 in text maps, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the development and use of Germany's armoured divisions and their weapons during WW2, of the men who fought ...

DOUBLE CROSS - The True Story of the D-Day Spies.

Macintyre, Ben, · 2012

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Bloomsbury, London, 2012, 3rd imp., trade paperback, [xiv], 417pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo ills. and map in text, [iv] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the team of double agents, sent by Germany to spy on Britain they were captu...

WAR IN ITALY 1943-1945 A Brutal Story.

Lamb, Richard, · 1995

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1995, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, [xvi], 335pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps, photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, the author, who took part in the Italian campaign as one of the few Italian speaking British officers of the 8th Army descri...

HITLER 1889-1936 : Hubris.

Kershaw, Ian, · 2004

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Penguin, London, ND (circa 2004), 3rd imp., trade paperback, xxx, 845pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., pedigree in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, in the first part of a two volume biography the author charts the rise of Adolf Hitler from being a bizarre misfit i...

MONTY - Volume 3: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976.

Hamilton, Nigel, · 1987

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Sceptre, London, 1987, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxviii, 996pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the final part of a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, the definitive life of the British soldier, from his ...

DECISION IN NORMANDY.

D'Este, Carlo, · 2002

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Penguin Classic, London, ND (circa 2002), 2nd imp., paperback, 555pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 11 maps, [iv] ads., large format (8.5 x 5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the conception and execution of Montgomery's battleplan for Norm...

BADER : The Man and his Men.

Burns, Michael G., · 2003

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Rigel Publications / Marks and Spencer, London, 2003, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 322pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., pictorial montage upper wrapper, originally published by Weidenfield in 1990, this later issue was part of a set. The book is in two parts, the first an a...

SIEGE : MALTA 1940-1943.

Bradford, Ernle, · 1988

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1988), 2nd imp., paperback, xvi, 247pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the battle that the island and British base of Malta underwent during WW2, survival being crucial to being able to supp...