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THE SECRET HISTORY OF SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940-1945.
London: St Ermin’s Press, 2000. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xxix,814, hardcover, gilt; light toning to margins and edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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GENERAL REGULATIONS AND ORDERS FOR THE CONDUCT OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Printed for the War-Office, sold by T. Egerton, 1799. 8vo., pp.181, paper-covered boards, complete with the nine folding charts; ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper, foxing and light toning to endpapers, missing spine, stitching intact, edges a little chipped, with small area of paper loss to rear board, a good, internally clean copy.
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FIGHTING PROUD. The Untold Story of the Gay Men who Served in Two World Wars.
London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 8vo., pp.xix,236, maroon hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
London: Simon and Schuster, 1986. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 886, hardcover, with black cloth covered spine, gilt lettering, b/w illustrations and figures; light toning to endpapers and to edgesof text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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FAR EASTERN FRONT.
London: Jarrolds, 1934. First edition, 8vo., pp.318,viii, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates, endpaper maps; marginal creasing to two of the plates, with light chipping to edge of plate at p.112, foxing to prelims and somewhat throughout, stitching on occasion visible between leaves, spine sunned, marking to cloth, with partial light sunning to boards, a good working copy of this scarce volume.
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ROBERT PARKER AND COMTE DE MERODE-WESTERLOO: The Marlborough Wars.
Military Memoirs.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1968. 8vo.,pp. xxiv,276, orange cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; light soiling to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good price clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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IAN FLEMING AND SOE'S OPERATION POSTMASTER.
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. 8vo., pp.x,255, red hardcover, gilt lettered in silver, b/w plates; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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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 LAMPI: A Story about some Gunners. The Famous 109 Miles of Road they Built from Lakhipur to Bishenpur.
Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co, 1944. 8vo.,pp. xii,85, pale blue cloth, red lettering, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, fold-out map; ownership autograph to front paste down endpaper, light toning to margins, foxing to edges of text block, toned and lightly foxed to spine and extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with chipping to head of spine and upper margins, a small creased tear to rear upper corner, light sunning to spine.
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MUSKETRY (’303 and ‘22 Cartridges). Elementary Training, Visual Training, Judging Distance, Fore Discipline, Range Practices, Field Practices.
London: John Murray, 1915. Square 12mo., pp. xxviii,260, brown cloth, black lettering, b/w illustrations, fold-outs and tables, advertisement pages to endpapers, light toning and soiling to margins, rubbed to extremities, lightly creased to spine, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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MY BALKAN LOG.
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1921. 8vo., pp.vii,311, cloth, gilt, b/w plates; edges foxed, boards heavily dampstained, spine lightly rolled, internally clean, a good working copy only.
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THE MEDICAL RESPONSE TO THE TRENCH DISEASES IN WORLD WAR ONE.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 8vo., pp.xiv,250, black cloth lettered in silver; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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AIRCRAFT OF THE FIGHTING POWERS, Volume VII.
Harborough Publishing Company Limited, 1946. 4to., pp.v,70, blue cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w plates including numerous folding plates; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly worn to extremities, with chipping, small closed tears, and light loss. Now in a protective cover.
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ANGLO-SAXON RIDDLES OF THE EXETER BOOK.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1963. 8vo.,pp. xx,70, red cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly soiled to extremities, with light wear to corners and head of spine.
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RADETZKY.
Imperial Victor and Military Genius.
London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. 8vo., pp.xiv,(x)maps,262, black hardcover lettered in silver, 28 b/w plates, b/w maps; slight rubbing to extremities, else near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, with barcode sticker to rear of jacket.
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HISTORY OF THE QUEEN’S ROYAL REGIMENT, Vol. VII (1905-1923). In Two Volumes (text volume and volume of maps).
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd, 1905. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo., pp.xvi,308;14 folding maps in colour, pictorial bevelled blue cloth, gilt, marbled endpapers, monochrome frontispieces and plates; foxing to edges and to early leaves, rubbing to extremities, darkening to spines, else very good.
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SOPWITH SCOUT 7309.
London: Cassell, 1968. First edition, 8vo., pp.(x),177, blue hardcover lettered in silver; very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is a little rubbed to extremities, with light creasing at headband, else very good.
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THE CONFEDERATE ARMY 1861-65 (4): Virginia & Arkansas. Men-at-Arms, 435.
Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2006. 8vo.,pp. 48, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; a very good copy.
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A RECORD OF D245 BATTERY, 1914-1919.
London: Renwick of Otley, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),182, textured blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, large folding map to rear of volume; b/w sellotape repair stain to inner margin between prelims, mostly erased (but still visible) scribbles to rear endpapers, paper repair to reverse of map, foxing to endpapers, a few marks to front board, rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good.
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FAMOUS REGIMENTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY.
A Pictorial Guide and Celebration.
Stroud: The History Press, 2009. Three volumes, small 4to., pp.192;208;208, hardcover, gilt, colour and b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jackets.
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