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RANKS AND MEDAL RIBBONS OF THE FIGHTING SERVICES.

, · 1940

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Daily Mirror, London, ND (circa 1940), paperback, 31pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, stapled lettered paper wrappers, a handbook of the rank markings and decorations and medals worn by members of the armed forces of Great Britain, with details of eq...

WE'LL MEET AGAIN.

Lynn, Vera (with Robin Cross and Jenny de Gex), · 1994

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1994, reprint, paperback, 192pp, numerous coloured and half tone photo ills., cartoons in text, large format (11 x 8 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, the forces sweetheart's memoirs of WW2 and a social history of the 'home front', with...

KELLY.

Poolman, Kenneth, · 1975

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

New English Library, London, 1975, new edn., 1st in imprint, paperback, 220pp, [iv] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers, HMS Kelly was one of a new class of destroyer, the leader of the fifth flotilla under the command of Mountbatten, which saw action in the Arctic, North Sea...

THE SECRET LISTENERS - The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park.

McKay, Sinclair, · 2013

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Aurum, London, 2013, trade paperback, [x] inc. double page map, 354pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in order that Bletchley Park had the raw material of enemy wireless transmissions to try and decode there had to be numerous listening posts ac...

MY YEARS WITH CHURCHILL.

McGowan, Norman, · 1959

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan, London, 1959, 1st in imprint, paperback, #G307, 156pp,. 4pp half tone photo ills., [iv], pictorial wrappers, memoirs and anecdotes of Winston S. Churchill from his valet of the late 1940's and early 1950's, a little rubbed at extrems., edges well tanned, lighht creasing ...

BETTER BORN LUCKY THAN RICH - The Diary of an Ordinary Airman.

Lovejoy, Flt. Lt., E. W. (Eddie) DFC, · 1986

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Merlin Books, Braunton, 1986, 1st edn., paperback original, 191pp, half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, large format (8 x 6 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, the author relates his RAF experiences having joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in ...

MONTY - The Making of a General 1887-1942.

Hamilton, Nigel, · 1984

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Coronet, London, 1984, 1st in imrpint, trade paperback, xviii, 828pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the first of what was to become a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, winner of the Whitbread Award in 1981 fo...

THE COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SAS.

Davies, Barry, · 2001

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Virgin, London, 2001, paperback, [vi], 376pp, 16pp coloured and half tone photo ills., [i] note, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial wrappers, a comprehensive history and index of the British army's Special Air Service and of their sister units of A...

COMBAT CREW.

Comer, John, · 1994

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Warner Books, London, 1994, reprint, trade paperback, 268pp, half tone photo ills., map and diagrams in text, [iii] ads., wraparound photo pictorial wrappers, the author arrived in the UK in time for the build-up to the height of the allied daylight bomber offensive against G...

THE BADER WING.

Turner, John Frayn, · 1999

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Wrens Park, London, 1999, 1st in imprint, 153pp, 16pp half tone photo ils., [iii] Index, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wrapraound coloured pictorial dustwrapper, in which the tactics and strategy of Douglas Bader's 'Big Wing', a concept which had it prevailed wou...

AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1918-57.

Thetford, Owen, · 1957

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

Putnam, London, 1957, 1st edn., 528pp, half tone photo frontis, half tone photo ills. and line drawings throughout, light blue buckram cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, an excellent reference to the specification and operational history of 187 front-line a...

A PECULIAR OCCUPATION - New Perspectives on Hitler's Channel Islands.

Tabb, Peter, · 2005

£14.50 (€17.38 | $19.16 | ¥3,059)

Ian Allan, herssham, 2005, 1st edn., 256pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and facsimiles, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, TLS from author and separate signature on piece loosely inserted, an account of the four and a half years o...

BOMBERS FLY EAST.

Sanders, Bruce, · 1943

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Herbert Jenkins, London, ND [1943], 1st edn., 186pp, half tone photo frontis, 8p half tone photo ills., [ii] ads.,blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, a series of accounts about different aspects of Bomber, Coastal and Transport Commands of the Royal Air Force, detailin...

GENERAL MARSHALL - A Study in Loyalties.

Payne, Robert, · 1952

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

William Heinemann, London, 1952, 1st edn., xii, 335pp, half tone frontis portrait, 4pp half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine and upper board, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a full length portrait of the American soldier from his days as a milit...

THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, KG.

Montgomery, Field-Marshal the Viscount, of Alamein, · 1958

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Collins, London, 1958, 1st edn., 574pp, half tone frontis portrait, 24pp half tone photo ills., 14pp maps, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the autobiography of a leading soldier which covers much personal detail incl...

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN - The Men Who Changed A Nation.

Francis, Charles E. (ed. Adolph Caso), · 0

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,692)

Branden, 5th commemorative edn., 559pp, numerous half tone in text illustrations, no dustwrapper, coloured pictorial boards as issued, an account of the history and achievements of African Americans in the US Army Air Corps during WW2, of their struggle to overcome the racial...

LINE OF LOST LIVES.

Cosford, J. S., · 1994

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Gryphon Books, 1994, reprint, [xii], 202pp, half tone ills., line drawingsmaps and facsimiles in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the author enlisted in the territorial 1st. Btn. Cambridgeshire Regiment in April 1939, as mobilised in...

CHURCHILL'S SECRET AGENT - Codename 'Jay Bee' (also published as 'Cyanide in my Shoe').

Butler, Josephine, · 1983

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Blaketon-Hall, Ashburton, 1983, 1st edn., 205pp, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an interesting account of one person's experiences of WW2, having been personally recruited by Winston Churchill to his 'Secret Circle' with their own special radi...

KEEP SMILING THROUGH.

Briggs, Susan, · 1975

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

BCA, London, 1975, club edn., 256pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, pictorial montage endpapers, large format (10 x 8 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of all domestic aspects of WW2 ...

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

Bishop, Edward, · 1960

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

George Allen and Unwin, London, 1960, 2nd imp., 235pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by 'M•M', not so much a diary of the battle but an examination of the actual and perceived strengths of the RAF and Luftwa...