WARSHIP 2013
Written by John Jordan; Stephen Dent.
Stock no. 1829162
Published by Conway. 1st 2013. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume XXXV. Light brown boards with silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9781844862054. Base of spine a little bashed else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly scuffed, base of spine lightly worn.

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SERCRET PROJECTS OF THE LUFTWAFFE: HEINKEL HE 162
Written by Dan Sharp.
Stock no. 1829160
Published by Tempest Books. 1st 2020. Slightly better than very good condition.

Heinkel's single-jet He 162 fighter arrived in Luftwaffe service at the very end of the Second World War - but its development can be traced back to the beginning of July 1944. A contest had been set in motion to design a powerful and aerodynamically advanced replacement for Messerschmitt's twin-jet Me 262 and Heinkel believed it could win. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations and photos. 167 pages including index. ISBN: 9781911658245. Light rubbing to lower edge of covers. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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A CHINDIT STORY
Written by James Baggaley.
Stock no. 1829153
Published by Souvenir Press. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

James Baggaley commanded an infantry platoon with Wingate's Chindits'a platoon which took part in the famous 700 mile march into Burma. This is his personal account - a realistic close-up of the reactions of one man, a junior officer, and the men under his command to a very unusual kind of warfare. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Lower corners of boards lightly bumped. Page browning to contents. Minor foxing to text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with slight loss, grubby to rear panel.

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THE GOTHIC LINE: THE AUTUMN CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, 1944
Written by Douglas Orgill.
Stock no. 1829149
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Allied offensive in Italy in the autumn of 1944 plunged the British Fifth Army into some of the fiercest fighting of the war. Against them were rnged two great German armies, which were to put up a struggle unsurpassed in German military history. The scene of the fighting was the Gothic Line, a chain of defences which stretched across Italy, through the tall mountains of the Northern Apennines, from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w photos and battle plans. xii and 257 pages including index. Some light mottling/staining to boards. A few minor foxspots to text block. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly browned and scuffed, foxed to verso.

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BY RAIL TO VICTORY: THE STORY OF THE LNER IN WARTIME
Written by Norman Crump.
Stock no. 1829140
Published by London & North Eastern Railway. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

the war story of the London and North Eastern Railway and of the men and women who kept it running. White cloth boards with blue titles. B/w photos. xii and 196 pages including index. Folding map to rear. Foxing to boards, browning to spine. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is torn and messily repaired with now yellowed tape to verso, browned and grubby, a few small chips.

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THE JANISSARIES
Written by Godfrey Goodwin.
Stock no. 1829119
Published by Saqi Books. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 288 pages. ISBN: 0863560490. Lower edge of boards lightly rubbed. Text block browned. Contents clean. Red dustwrapper is a little marked & scuffed, spine very slightly faded.

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MALTA CONVOYS 1940-1943
Written by Richard Woodman.
Stock no. 1829118
Published by John Murray (publishers) Ltd.. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the day Mussolini's Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940, the island of Malta was under siege. Its strategic importance was obvious to both sides, standing as it did in the central Mediterranean, athwart the supply route between Italy and the Axis armies in North Africa. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. xx and 532 pages including index. ISBN: 0719557534. Top & tail of spine lightly bumped/shelf-worn. Lengthy gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is creased & scuffed, small mark to rear panel.

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LIVING WITH THE WIRE: CIVILIAN INTERNMENT IN THE ISLE OF MAN DURING THE TWO WORLD WARS
Written by Yvonne M. Cresswell.
Stock no. 1829116
Published by Manx National Heritage. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

How 25,000 men women and children coped with their internment behind barbed wire on the Isle of Man during the two World Wars. Staple-bound booklet. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. 72 pages. ISBN: 0901106356. A lovely copy.

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COMMANDO DESPATCH RIDER: WITH 41 MARINES COMMANDO IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-1945
Written by Raymond Mitchell.
Stock no. 1829045
Published by Leo Cooper. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The author served as a Despatch Rider (DR) with 41 Royal Marines Commando throughout the North-West Europe campaign. Fortunately, he considered his position in the military hierarchy as too low for the ban on keeping diaries to apply to him. As a result, this book is both an accurate and atmospheric record of one man's war seen from an unusual perspective. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvii and 234 pages including index. ISBN: 085052797X. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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CAVALRY ON THE ROADS TO GETTYSBURG: KILPATRICK AT HANOVER AND HUNTERSTOWN
Written by George A. Rummel.
Stock no. 1829044
Published by White Mane Books. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Bringing to life the cavalry actions before Gettysburg. This account shows the importance of the other cavalry commanders in those days leading up to that decisive clash of early July 1863. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. viii and 554 pages including index. ISBN: 1572491744. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, faded to spine, lightly scuffed.

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THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-1939
Written by Carlos J. Medina.
Stock no. 1829012
Published by Andrea Press. 1st 2011. Nearly fine condition.

Still a matter of political debate in Spain more than 70 years after its end, and often underrated abroad as little more than a national confrontation. It sprouted from the political and social upheaval that shook the European continent in the early 20th century and was a prelude to WWII. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos, colour illustrations. 119 pages. ISBN: 9788496658202. A lovely copy.

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THE S.E.5 FILE
Written by Ray Sturtivant; Gordon Page.
Stock no. 1828981
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos, colour illustrations. 168 pages. ISBN: 0851302467. Spine is faded to a lighter blue. Contents clean.

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