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THE ORIGINS OF MILITARY THOUGHT. From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz.
Oxford University Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.xii,281, paperback; a very good copy indeed.
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THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN WARFARE. Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World.
Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.viii,203, paperback; a very good, fresh copy, with light creasing/rubbing to edges of wrappers.
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THE STAR AND CRESCENT.
Being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922.
Naval and Military Press in association with The Imperial War Museum. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,358, paperback, b/w illustrations; light vertical crease to front wrapper and peeling to laminate coating of wrappers at fore-margins, else very good, and internally fine.
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THE STORY OF THE ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT (FORMERLY THE SIXTH FOOT).
London: published at the Offices of ‘Country Life’ Ltd./New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 8vo., pp.x,235, pictorial full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, 12 b/w plates and 26 b/w illustrations, 4 folding maps to rear of volume; light toning to endpapers, foxing and toning to spine, with some further foxing and light toning to boards, overall a very good copy.
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THE WAR AS I KNEW IT.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,425, uncut, red cloth, top edges yellow, b/w frontispiece, b/w maps; ownership autograph, dated 1953, to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to edges, remains of dust-jacket pasted down to rear blanks, a tiny crease to cloth over spine, with just slight dulling to spine, a very good copy.
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THE WAR AT SEA, 1939-1945. [THREE VOLUME SET IN FOUR PARTS].
Vol I: The Defensive; Vol II: The Period of Balance; Vol III Part I: The Offensive, 1st June 1943-31st May 1944; Vol III Part II: The Offensive, 1st June 1944-14th August 1945. [History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series].
London: Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1954. Three volume set in four parts, Vol. I Fifth impression, Vol. II third impression, Vol. III first edition, 8vo., pp.xxii,664; xvi,523; xv,423; xvi,502, green cloth with title-bands in black, lettering gilt, b/w frontispieces, b/w maps (some which are foldout), b/w plates; very light fading/rubbing to boards, else a near fine set in vg+ price-clipped dust-jackets which are slightly toned and very lightly rubbed to extremities, with very slight surface soiling, particularly to rear top left corner of jacket to Volume II. Now in protective covers.
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THE WAR THE INFANTRY KNEW 1914-1919: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium
With the Second Battalion His Majesty’s Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on personal records, recollections and reflections, assembled, edited and partly written by, One of their Medical Officers.
London: P.S. King & Son Ltd, 1938. First edition, limited to 500 copies, 8vo., pp.xvi,613,(27), red cloth, gilt, b/w facsimiles of hand-drawn sketch-maps to rear of volume; foxing to prelims, light foxing to edges, some marking and light splash-marks to cloth, with foxing to spine and rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE WHITLEY BOYS The story of No. 4 (Bomber) Group’s Operations 1939-1940.
Walton on Thames: Air Research Publications, 1998. 8v., pp.245, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket,
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VANGUARD OF NAZISM. The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1970. Reissue (first published 1952), 8vo., pp.xii,344,(i), red cloth, gilt; fine, in a near-fine price-clipped dust-jacket.
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VICTORY IN THE EAST: A Military History of the First Crusade.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xv,425, hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; a very good and clean copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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VIKING PANZERS.
The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II.
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2011. 8vo., pp.viii,481, slate hardcover, gilt, b/w plates and maps; a near fine copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket which has a sticker to rear, else very good indeed.
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WAR BOOKS.
A Critical Guide.
London: Peter Davies, Limited, 1930. 8vo., pp.xiv,318, red cloth lettered in black; partial sunning to cloth (mottled sunning to spine, rear board, and - slightly - to front upper and fore-margins), else very good. No dust-jacket.
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WHAT HITLER KNEW.
Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xi,159, black hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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ZEN AND CONFUCIUS IN THE ART OF SWORDSMANSHIP. The Tengu-geijutsu-ron of Chozan Shissai.
London/Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. First English edition, 8vo., pp.xvii,118, ochre hardcover, gilt, 6 b/w illustrations; slight marking to boards, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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