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EAST OF MALTA WEST OF SUEZ.

[Ritchie, Capt. Lewis, RN (Bartimeus)], · 1943

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 63pp, many half tone photos, drawings and maps in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, printed by The Amalgamated Press, London, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7", the admiralty account of the naval war in the Ea...

COASTAL COMMAND.

[Saunders, Hilary (aka Francis Beeding)], · 1942

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

HMSO, London, 1942 [1943], 1st edn., paperback original, 143pp, numerous half tone photo ills., printer Sanders Phillips and Co., Baynard Press, London, pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7", the Air Ministry account of of the part played by Coastal Command in the Arctic, Atlantic and N...

BY AIR TO BATTLE - The Official Account of the British First and Sixth Airborne Divisions.

[Saunders, Hilary (aka Francis Beeding)], · 1945

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

HMSO, London, 1945, 1st edn., paperback original, 144pp, 7 maps in text, stapled pictorial wrappers (9 x 5.5" approx.), with Pegasus design [by Edward Seago], a history of the birth, training and use of British parachute and glider troops, with an account of their missions in...

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

[Cotterell, Anthony], · 1943

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., printed by Whitefriars Press, London and Tonbridge, stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the asp...

BOMBER COMMAND CONTINUES.

[Saunders, Hilary (aka Francis Beeding)], · 1942

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

HMSO, London, 1942, 1st edn., paperback original, 56pp, 8pp photo ills., maps inside wrappers, stapled coloured lettered wrappers, 8 x 5", the Air Ministry account of the offensive against Germany July 1941 to June 1942, after the first well illustrated publication 'Bomber Co...

BOMBER COMMAND.

[Saunders, Hilary (aka Francis Beeding)], · 1941

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

HMSO, London, 1941, 1st edn., paperback original, 128pp, many half tone photo ills. in text, printed by Harrison and Sons, London, photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7" approx., the Air Ministry account of Bomber Command's offensive against the Axis Sept. 1939 to July 1941, well i...

ARCTIC WAR - Norway's Role on the Northern Front.

HMSO, · 1945

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

HMSO, London, 1945, 1st edn., paperback original, 64pp, half tone photo ills. in text, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7", account of the free Norwegians battle against the Germans in WW2, starting with the Norwegian Company in Iceland training British and American troo...

HAMMERSTRIKE.

Winward, walter, · 1980

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

corgi, London, 1980, 1st in imprint, paperback, 303pp, map and plan in text, [i] ads., lettered decorated upper wrapper, a plan to release all Axis prosiners of mwar held in the Brisih Isles in WW2, is put at risk when its mastermind is shot down on a civilain flight and inte...

NIGHT RAIDERS.

Stubbington, Colin, · 1980

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Futura, London, 1980, 1st edn., paperback original, 270pp, decorated upper wrapper, a novel of WW1 German night bombing raid on south-east England and of the fighter protection it encountered, roll and slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., creasing to spine and wrappers, chip t...

THE SKY ABLAZE.

Schuller, Victor, · 1959

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Kimber, London, 1959, pocket edn., paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, translated from German, an account iof the war in the air as seen by a young Luftwaffe pilot, first in the skies over Malta and his gradual disillusionment with the war as he ferr...

SWORD OF BONE.

Rhodes, Anthony, · 1958

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

WDL, London, 1958, 1st in imprint, paperback, 224pp, coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, an epic story of the fight for the beaches of Dunkirk, slight roll to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

TELL ENGLAND - A Study in a Generation.

Raymond, Ernest, · 1973

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Corgi,London, 1973, 1st in imprint, paperback, 319pp, [i] ads., coloured pictorial vignette to upper wrapper, the classic story of the death of a generatation of young men in WW1, divided into two 'books', ther first dealing with the character building years at school and the...

THREE CORVETTES, comprising HM Corvette, East Coast Corvette and Corvette Command.

Monsarrat, Nicholas, · 1972

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Mayflower, London, 1972, reprint, paperback, 223pp, coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, ww2 naval memoir, originally published as three separate paperbacks, HM Corvette in which Sub Lt., Lt. (1st Lt. HMS Dipper), and Lt. in command (HMS Winger - later Lt. Cdr ) Monsarrat'...

THE SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME and other stories.

Monsarrat, Nicholas, · 1959

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Pan Books, London, 1959, 1st in imprint, paperback, 201pp, 3pp postscript, [iv] ads., #G511, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the novelette of the title and nine short stories with a postscript, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good plus,

THE MASTER MARINER - Book 1 Running Proud,.

Monsarrat, Nicholas, · 1979

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Pan Books, London, 1979, 1st in imprint, paperback, 509pp, maps and line drawings by Peter McClure, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper by Chris Mayger, the story of Matthew Lawe, Drake's coxswain, cursed to '...sail the seas for the rest of time to purge his guilt of one fat...

THE CRUEL SEA.

Monsarrat, Nicholas, · 1956

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1956, 1st in imprint UK, paperback, 445pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, first UK paperback issue, the classic WW2 account of the war at sea based on the author's personal experiences, slight roll and slant to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., ed...

THE VALKYRIE ENCOUNTER.

Marlowe, Stephen, · 1979

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

New English Library, London, 1979, reprint, paperback, 299pp, 4pp glossary, coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, set in Berlin in July 1944, a plot by Moscow and London to prevent the assassination of Hitler, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good plus,

THE GUNS OF NAVARONE.

MacLean, Alistair, · 1959

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Fontana, London, 1959, 1st in imprint, paperback, 255pp, map in text, [i] ads., coloured lettered upper wrapper, the author's second book relating the Allied Commando raid to destroy coastal protection guns of the fortress of Navarone, guarding the Aegean Sea off Turkey, tie-...

THE UNCONQUERABLE.

MacInnes, Helen, · 1976

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Fontana, London, 1976, reprint, paperback, 511pp, [i] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, Sheila Matthews, a British visitor to a small Polish village uin September 1939 is cut off in Warsaw by the German invasion and stays to join the underworld of spies and counter-spie...

VAPOUR TRAILS.

Lithgow, Mike (ed. and foreword by), · 1957

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Panther, London, 1957, 1st in imprint, paperback, 160pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a collection of the experiences of the test pilots and pioneers of jet powered flight of the British air industry, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,