Winkles Books

Restoring Musical Boxes and Musical Clocks

Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume · 1997

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

Book Very Good Good 1st Edition Mayfield Books Mayfield 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall The dust jacket is edge worn and the spine has faded. Small owner's label on the front inner flap of the dust jacket, Describes how to repair all types of cylinder and disk musical boxes, singin...

Planes and Pilots 9: Focke Wulf FW 190 from 1939 to 1945

Dominique Breffort & Andre Jouineau · 2007

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Book Very Good 1st Edition Histoire and Collections Paris 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall The covers have just a hint of edge wear. The "other" Third Reich fighter is a symbol of technology as well as sturdiness. A mythical plane, the FW 190 first appeared in 1941 and, from then on,...

Planes and Pilots 4: Junkers Ju-87 from 1936-1945

Herbert Leonard & Andre Jouineau · 2003

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Book Very Good 1st Edition Histoire and Collections Paris 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall The covers have just a hint of edge wear. The symbol of Blitzkrieg in the air is detailed here in 200 colour profiles, illustrating a career which began as a terror plane in Spain and ended up ...

Planes and Pilots 3: P-40 Curtiss from 1939 to 1945

Anis Elbied & Daniel Laurelut · 2006

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Book Very Good 1st Edition Histoire and Collections Paris 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall The covers have just a hint of edge wear. S

The Blitz: Then and Now Volume 1

Winston Ramsey (editor) · 1987

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Fine Fair 1st Edition Battle of Britain Prints International London 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall This is an unread book, but there is damage to the rear panel of the dust jacket. This volume covers the first year of World War II, the period from phoney war to total war: Sept...

The North British Type 2 B-B Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotives B R Class 22: Detailed Insights

Anthony P. Sayer · 2024

£21.00 (€25.18 | $27.75 | ¥4,432)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Transport Barnsley 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall The British Railways 'Pilot Scheme' orders of 1955 included six North British Type 2 diesel-hydraulic locomotives, these being introduced during 1959 for use on the Western Region. Without operati...

The London Dennis Trident

Matthew Wharmby · 2021

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Transport Barnsley 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall Propelled towards the end of the 1990s by accessibility imperative requiring low floor buses both in London and the rest of Britain, Dennis developed a tri axle Trident double decker for Hong Kong...

Western Region Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives in Preservation

Fred Kerr · 2022

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.18 | ¥2,743)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Transport Barnsley 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall When British Railways initiated its Modernisation Plan in 1955, its Western Region elected to trial locomotive designs with hydraulic transmission whilst BR encouraged designs with electric transm...

Western Region Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives in Preservation

Fred Kerr · 2022

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.18 | ¥2,743)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Transport Barnsley 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall When British Railways initiated its Modernisation Plan in 1955, its Western Region elected to trial locomotive designs with hydraulic transmission whilst BR encouraged designs with electric transm...

Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers 1689-2014 Volume VIII 2001-2014 with Supplement 1689-2014

Compiled by Lieutenant General Jonathan Riley · 2025

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Book New New 1st Edition Helion & Company Warwick 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall This is the final volume of Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Records, which cover 325 years of proud history. The book has two major sections. The first deals with the chronicle of the final years and ...

Vergeltungswaffen the Third Reichs V-Missiles: Then and Now

Jean Paul Pallud · 2024

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Book New New After the Battle Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Whether it is their innovative technical development or the Nazi propaganda harping them as revolutionary wonder weapons, readers interested in World War II find the research on 'German secret weapons' very inter...

The Spanish Civil War at Sea: Dark and Dangerous Waters

Michael Alpert · 2021

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book New New Pen & Sword Maritime Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as at...

A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War: An Atlantic Wide Conflict Over Independence and Empire

Theodore Corbett · 2023

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book New New Pen & Sword Maritime Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Comparatively little has been published about the American Revolutionary War from the maritime standpoint, with most existing histories concentrating almost entirely on the conflicts that took place on the Am...

The Decline and Fall of the Ptolemies: Ptolemaic Egypt 146-30 BC

John D. Grainger · 2024

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book New New Pen & Sword History Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Explores the turbulent reign of Ptolemy VIII, his successors, and Egypt's decline under Roman influence. The death of Ptolemy VI brought his younger brother Ptolemy VIII to the kingship. This was the start of a...

A 17th Century Knight: The Life and Times of Simonds D'Ewes

Ben Norman · 2024

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book New New Pen & Sword History Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Sir Simonds D'Ewes, a seventeenth-century gentleman bred in Dorset, but ultimately shaped by a deep and lasting love for Suffolk, was not destined for greatness. Nor did he have greatness thrust upon him in his...

Mosquito Special Operations in the Second World War: The Ultimate Fighter Bomber

Peter Saxton · 2024

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book New New Pen & Sword Aviation Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall The Mosquito was the most successful battle-winning multi-role combat aircraft of the Second World War. It was introduced by the de Havilland Aircraft Company as an unarmed, un-interceptable, long range, high ...

SOE in the Netherlands: The Special Operations Executive's Dutch Section in WW2: An Official History

2024

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book New New Frontline Books Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Until 1943 there was little effective resistance to the German occupation of The Netherlands. Though numerous small opposition groups had formed immediately after the German invasion in 1940, there was no concerted...

Proposed Airborne Assaults in the Liberation of Europe: Cancelled Allied Plans from the Falaise Pocket to Operation Market Garden

James Daly · 2024

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book New New 1st Edition Frontline Books Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall The bitter fighting in the so-called Falaise-Argentan Pocket in August 1944, during which the Allies encircled and destroyed a substantial part of Hitler's forces in northern France following the D-Day ...

The SAS Deniables: Special Forces Operations Denied By the Authorities, from Vietnam to the War on Terror

Tony May · 2022

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book New New 1st Edition Frontline Books Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall During the 10,000-day Vietnam war Australia had agreed with the United States to have a team of Australian Army Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers conduct covert missions into Cambodia. The SAS soldier...

9 Troop in the Falklands: A Royal Marine Fighting Troop in 1982

Chris Pretty · 2024

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Military Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall This is an adventure story about Royal Marine Commandos going to war during the Falklands War of 1982. Myth and legend. War is an odd thing. It brings out the very best in a person and probably the...