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NEVER CALL RETREAT (THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR VOLUME THREE)
Written by Bruce Catton.
Stock no. 1831230
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition.

This book is the final installment of Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. It covers the period from late 1862 to the surrender of Lee's army and Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 to the end of the Confederacy in May 1865 with the surrender of the last rebel army. Green cloth spine with black titles and silver title on black, grey cloth boards with silver title to front. Maps. xi and 555 pages including index. Top edge red. Boars grubby. Top & tail of spine lightly worn. Text block grubby. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Contents otherwise clean.

CROMWELL'S ARMY (UNIVERSITY PAPERBACKS)
Written by C.H Firth.
Stock no. 1831222
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1967. Very good condition.

Fourth Edition. A history of the English soldier during the Civil wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. This book describes the main features of Cromwell's military system and the character of the army which he organized. Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford 1900-01. Cardwraps. xvi and 432 pages including index. ISBN: 0416678904. Reprint. Reading creases and rubbing to spine. covers are foxed. Text block grubby and browned. Some foxing to last few pages else contents clean.

SOPWITH CAMEL: KING OF COMBAT
Written by Chaz Bowyer.
Stock no. 1831131
Published by Glasney Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos and b/w diagrams. 192 pages includes appendices 1-13, Index (Places & Names). ISBN: 095028257X. Light browning and shelf wear to horizontal edges. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Minor glue mark to lower edge of front endpaper. Light page edge browning else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, a little creased and a few minor marks, remains of label to lower edge of front flap.

DUXFORD TO KARACHI: AN RAF ARMOURER'S WAR
Written by Fred Roberts.
Stock no. 1831122
Published by Victory Books. 1st 2006. Almost very good condition.

The author, an RAF armourer, who served on a famous Spitfire squadron at Duxford throughout the Battle of Britain in 1940, and later in India. This memoir is a window on the wartime years, seen through the eyes of an ordinary young man who found himself in extraordinary circumstances and did his 'bit'. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w photos. 202 pages. ISBN: 0955043182. Slight lean to spine, covers lightly worn at corners. Previous price-label to rear cover. Front joint starting to pull away (glue drying out). Contents clean.

VICTOR BOYS: TRUE STORIES FROM FORTY MEMORABLE YEARS OF THE LAST V BOMBER
Written by Tony Blackman; Garry O'Keefe.
Stock no. 1831101
Published by Grub Street. 2017. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Victor Boys tells the story of all the great things that were achieved, recounted first hand by the operators themselves, aircrew and ground crew. Published to coincide with the Victor's 60th anniversary. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w photos. 198 pages including index. ISBN: 9781908117458. Reprint. Minor mark to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

RBK A VERY PARFIT GENTIL KNIGHT
Written by Simon Harris.
Stock no. 1831082
Published by Rooke Publishing. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Ralph Kite was an ordinary Edwardian schoolboy, who was sent home at an early age from Tasmania to be educated in England. During his tragically short life he rose to command a company of the 52nd Light Infantry on the Somme. Having won the Military Cross he was mortally wounded and spent an agonising month dying of his wounds. In essence this is an informal history of the 52nd Light Infantry between the spring of 1915 and late 1916. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xxiii and175 pages including index. ISBN: 095486400X. SIGNED with a personal dedication to half-title page. Also includes a letter signed by the author. A lovely copy.

TO BURMA SKIES AND BEYOND
Written by Reginald Jordan.
Stock no. 1831051
Published by Janus Publishing Co.. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An Airman's Story (Group Captain Reg (Lucky) Jordan DFC AFC). A stimulating and immensely absorbing story of an RAF officer's forty years in aviation. B/w photos. With a foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir John Aiken. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. vi and 302 pages. ISBN: 1857561384. SIGNED by the author with a gift annotation in ink to title page. Also includes a letter from the author. Boards and contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

A STURDY RACE OF MEN 149 BRIGADE: A HISTORY OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS TERRITORIAL BATTALIONS IN THE GREAT WAR
Written by Alan Isaac Grint.
Stock no. 1831026
Published by Pen & Sword Military. 1st 2018. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A war history of the four battalions that made up 149th Infantry Brigade: the 4th to 7th Northumberland Fusiliers, headquartered respectively at Hexham, Walker, Newcastle and Alnwick but with company drill stations stretching from Gosforth up to Berwick. The Territorial battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers (149 Brigade) served with distinction in France and Flanders from 1915 until May 1918. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 402 pages including index. ISBN: 9781526741783. Base of spine lightly shelf-worn. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a very nice example.

REPUBLIC P-47 THUNDERBOLT: THE OPERATIONAL RECORD
Written by Jerry C. Scutts.
Stock no. 1831002
Published by Airlife. 1st 1998. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of the single seater second world war fighter plane. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 167 pages including index. ISBN: 1853108219. Light bump to lower front board corner. Couple of minor small brown marks to front endpaper. Brown mark to top vertical edge of rear endpaper. Text block browned and has a few small marks. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

THE CLIMATE OF TREASON: FIVE WHO SPIED FOR RUSSIA
Written by Andrew Boyle.
Stock no. 1330886
Published by Hutchinson. 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

How did it happen that three young men, all contemporaries, all members of the English upper class, all products of public schools and Cambridge University, should join the profession in the service of the Soviet Union and, over a period of years, consistently betray their country? Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 504 pages including index. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 009139340X. Reprint of December 1979 (published in same year as first edition). Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

THE DOUBLE-CROSS SYSTEM IN THE WAR OF 1939 TO 1945
Written by J.C. Masterman; M.R.D. Foot.
Stock no. 1330857
Published by Folio Society. 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduced by M.R.D. Foot. German agents serving the Allied cause. Dark blue spine, gilt title. B/w pictorial front cover. B/w photos. Small crease to pictorial onlay to front cover (beside spine), else a fine copy. Contained in original publishers slipcase which is slightly scuffed.

THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by A.J.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1830951
Published by Folio Society. Fine condition.

1919-1939. Re-issued as a single volume. Black cloth, gilt titles, red & gilt line pattern to front. Red endpapers are maps of Europe and Germany between the Wars. B/w photos. Still in original shrinkwrap! Unread!