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By: Ellis, Geoffrey
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Seaford, East Sussex, S. B. Publications: 1998
Edition: Fully Revised Edition
Seller ID: 041507
ISBN: 1857701011
Condition: Very Good
The author achieves his long-standing ambition in determining the true facts concerning the purpose of the most secret Royal Naval Headquarters accommodated in a labyrinth of tunnels beneath Heighton Hill during the Second World War. Seldom has such a comprehensive history and authentic account been written about a secret wartime underground establishment, and includes information provided by veterans now resident in the UK, America and Australia. Clean, bright copy with previous owner's sticker inside cover. Protected in a clear, plastic jacket - 100 pages including a veterans roll of honour.... View more info
By: Enever, Ted
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, The Book Castle: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 061629
ISBN: 1871199891
Condition: Near Fine
The author recounts his evacuation following the heavy bombing of the capital with this snapshot of the wartime years remembered by the village children of the time. Clean, bright paperback which appears unread - 147 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Fishwick, V.C.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1944
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 044178
Condition: Good
Published during The Second World War to explain how farming was carried out to produce the maximum economic output from the land. Published for English Universities Press. Good, clean copy with previous owner's details to prelims. Unclipped ( 3/- NET) d/w shows light shelfwear & tear - 264 pages including glossary and index. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Flanner, Janet; Drutman, Irving (editor)
Price: £10.50
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 052278
ISBN: 0718113993
Condition: Good
A look at the capital's life and times leading up to the Second World War. Includes reporting of the Abdication in detail. Clean copy in an unclipped d/w protected in a taped-down plastic jacket which has left the usual residual marks to the blank endpapers - 160pp including index. Next post dispatch. View more info
By: Fowler, Simon; Spencer, William; Tamblen, Stuart
Price: £8.50
Publisher: Kew, Surrey, Public Record Office: 1997
Edition: Revised & Updated Edition
Seller ID: 049061
ISBN: 1873162553
Condition: Near Fine
Second edition of the PRO reader's guide No. 19. This new edition now includes officers service records. Some faint sunning to page edges else a clean bright large format paperback - 77 pages including bibliography. Next post dispatch. View more info
By: Fussell, Paul"
Price: £6.50
Publisher: London, Phoenix: 2005
Seller ID: 023808
ISBN: 0753819767
Condition: As New
Reveals devastating examples of 'friendly fire', the hostility between the Americans and the French, the cover-up of appalling fiascos, the full extent of desertion and self-inflicted wounds, and the remarkable bravery of the medics. 184 pages including index. Next post dispatch." View more info
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 034214
ISBN: 0851771246
Condition: Very Good
A collection of photographs taken at sea during the Second World War, gathered from official, commercial and private sources, many of which are previously unpublished. A very good clean copy in price-clipped protected dustjacket. 192 pages. Slight tanning to page edges. Illustrated with 250 b.w. & 16 pages of full colour photographs. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Gilbert, Martin
Price: £10.50
Publisher: Loggerheads, Nr. Market Drayton, Shropshire, Macmillan: 1981
Edition: TV Tie-in
Seller ID: 042238
ISBN: 0333325648
Condition: Very Good
Published in association with the ITV Series. Examines the ten remarkable years up to the Second World War during which Churchill remained alone and abused in the political wilderness. Clean, bright copy in a price-clipped d/w - 279 pages including index. Next post dispatch. View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Oxford, The Historical Accociation and Blackwell Publishing: 2015
Edition: Quarterly Edition
Seller ID: 063592
Condition: Very Good
Articles include: - A King of Jerusalem in England: The Visit of John of Brienne in 1223; The Bishops and the Duke of Buckingham, 1624-1626; History and the Making and Remaking of Wales; Preparing for a Future War: Pre-War Planning in the British Post Office, 1918-1939; Ukrainian in the German Armed Forces During the Second World War. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Harper, Stephen
Price: £10.50
Publisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 060047
ISBN: 0750923164
Condition: Near Fine
The incredible story of how HMS Petard and her gallant crew seized priceless German Enigma code books from a sinking U-Boat - U-559, and in doing so changed the course of The Second World War View more info
By: Harris, John
Price: £8.50
Publisher: London, Psychic Press Ltd: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 060082
ISBN: 0727821032
Condition: Good
Fascinating look at victims of military law abuse with documented accounts ranging from the mid-eighteenth century through to the Second World War, gathered from British, French and American military history. Some light sunning to page edges and the odd minor blemish else a good, clean copy in an unclipped d/w - 258 pages including bibliography. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Held, Warner
Price: £27.50
Publisher: U.S.A., Schiffer Publications Ltd: 1991
Seller ID: 034239
ISBN: 0887403557
Condition: Near Fine
Depicts in photographs the development of the German day fighter arm and its operations in the Second World War. A clean, crisp copy in unclipped jacket. Appears unread. Illustrated with b.w. photographs. 224 pages. Slight tanning to page edges. Next post UK dispatch View more info
By: Herrmann, Hajo
Price: £125.00
Publisher: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Airlife Publishing Ltd: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 063155
ISBN: 1853101613
Condition: Very Good
The autobiography of one of the best known, and successful Luftwaffe pilots of the Second World War. Translated from the German by Peter Hinchcliffe OBE. Inscription to the half-title reads ''Dennis, this is an excellent book! It is great fun to work with people like you and Hajo. - David'' On the previous page is a SIGNED inscription with the subject's photo '' To Dennis David from his friend Hajo'' Also, laid in, is a coloured photo of four ex-servicemen and an explanatory note SIGNED by the author '' W. Dennis David CBE, DFC, AFC and ? in remembrance of the gathering of Eagles 1990 in the S... View more info
By: Hodges, David
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Temple Press Books: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 066992
Condition: Good
The history of the first Grand Prix to be run within a town, and one of only two classic races founded before the Second World War which is still run on a circuit unchanged since its inception. Good clean hardback in unclipped jacket which shows signs of wear/tear. 133 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Prompt dispatch. View more info
Price: £10.50
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1985
Edition: First Edition - Second Impression
Seller ID: 056434
ISBN: 0297787063
Condition: Very Good
An appraisal of Churchill's stormy association with the navy, and latterly with his remarkable friendship with Roosevelt which resulted in their momentous achievements during the Second World War. Clean, bright hardback in dustwrapper. 244 pages including index. Next post UK dispatch. View more info
By: Isemonger, Paul; Scott, Christopher
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 052925
ISBN: 0750914130
Condition: Good
Good clean hardback in dustjacket which shows signs of light shelfwear with rubbed patch to spine strip. 266 pages. Illustrated with b.w and colour photographs. The story of the soldier from the age of Napoleon to the end of the Second World War. View more info
By: Ivan Margolius
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, John Wiley & Sons: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 066375
ISBN: 0470022191
Condition: Very Good
The story of the Margolius family who lived Prague during the most turbulet period of the twentieth century, from the turmoil of the First World, Nazi occupation of the Second World War, to the subsequent Soviet occupation and finally the democracy and freedom at the end of the 80's. Very good clean hardback in very good dustjacket. 318 pages including index. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Prompt dispatch. View more info
Price: £10.50
Publisher: London, Batsford: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 066199
ISBN: 0713444975
Condition: Very Good
Masterly survey with a prologue outlining the early accumulation of imperial riches, the luxury of Victorian and Edwardian evangelism and liberal morality, imperial growth in the first two decades of the century, the rise of new rivals for world power, the factors leading to the idea of the Commonwealth, and the cost of victory of the Second World War. Some faint sunning to page edges else a clean square hardback in a d/w - 285 pages including index. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: James, Leonard F. (Editor)
Price: £82.50
Publisher: Massachussetts, Phillips Adademy: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010894
Condition: Near Fine
Attractively bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering. 603pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes service details of those who attended the Phillips Academy and served in WW 2. Being sold with this copy are two letters from Leonard James (the editor) to Mr. Laurence W. Viney in England - the first letter dated Feb 6th 1947 refers to a photograph of Mr Viney's family that Leonard James wants to use in the book - the letter is signed and the photograph referred to was used in this book. The second letter from Leonard James dated May 5th 1947 refers to a citation, a package and a book e... View more info
Price: £17.50
Publisher: Raydon, Suffolk, Raydon Wings Ltd: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 064666
ISBN: 095522960X
Condition: Very Good
Memories of faces and tragic events and comical interludes lie side by side in this typical taste of an 'ordinary' fighter pilot during The Second World War. Clean, square hardback in a d/w showing light shelfwear - 118 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info