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PRELUDE TO WATERLOO: QUATRE BRAS.
The French Perspective.
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2014. 8vo., pp.223, black hardcover, gilt, 8 colour plates, 18 b/w plates, 6 b/w maps; slight bruising to tail of spine, a near fine copy, in a near fine, unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket, which is now in a protective cover.
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WHEN JIM CROW MET JOHN BULL. Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.(vi),265, blue hardcover, gilt; toning to margins, a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SEARCHING FOR YANKEE DOODLE. Washington’s Soldiers in the American Revolution.
Staunton, Virginia: American History Press, 2016. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,300,(i), blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH JUSTICE: Law, Politics and Society in the Fourteenth Century.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. 8vo., pp.x,249, paperback; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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THE LAST PLANTAGENET CONSORTS.
Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 8vo., pp.xii,267, pictorial hardcover; a fine copy.
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LOCAL MAPS AND PLANS FROM MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, of which this is number 433, 4to., pp.xv,376, black cloth-covered boards, gilt, colour plates to rear, b/w tables, maps and figures; light soiling to edges of text-block, slight knock to upper fore-edge of front board, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and sunned to spine and extremities, with scuffing and creasing to head and foot of spine and to corners, a few small closed tears along margins, otherwise very good and now in a protective cover. Extremely heavy - will require an extra postage charge.
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NICOPOLIS 1396: THE LAST CRUSADE. Osprey Military Campaign 64.
Oxford: Osprey Military, 1999. Small 4to., pp.96, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to front wrapper verso, a very good, fresh copy.
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THE GREAT WESTERN SCHISM, 1378-1417. Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity
Cambridge University Press, 2022. 8vo., pp.xiii,406, black hardcover, copper lettering; a fine copy in a vg+ dust-jacket.
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RELIGION AND THE CONDUCT OF WAR, c.300-c.1215.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.viii,216,(i), blue hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE HYSTORYE OF OLYUER OF CASTYLLE.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1988. 8vo., pp. xxxvi,258, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a near fine copy.
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HENRY OF LANCASTER'S EXPEDITION TO AQUITAINE, 1345-46. Military Service and Professionalism in the Hundred Years’ War.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016. 8vo.,pp. xiv,373, pictorial hardcover, b/w maps and tables; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARMS: Medieval Ordinary. [Volumes One, Two, and Four]
London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1992. Three volumes only, lacking Volume Three, 8vo., pp.lxvi,530;xciv,677;cxvii,584, blue cloth, gilt; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper of all volumes, a fresh and near-fine set, in very good+ unclipped dust-jackets.
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ARMY, INDUSTRY AND LABOR IN GERMANY 1914-1918, The Legacy of The Great War.
Oxford: Berg, 1992. 8vo., pp. xxii,586, paperback, b/w frontispiece; lightly rubbed, small bruise to upper margin of rear wrapper slightly affecting text block, else a very good copy.
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THE SEPOY AND THE RAJ: THE INDIAN ARMY, 1860-1940.
Basingstoke, Macmillan Press Ltd, 1860. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xx,313, paperback; tiny crease to upper corner of front wrapper, a very good, fresh copy.
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THE LATER THIRTY YEARS WAR. From the Battle of Wittstock to the Treaty of Westphalia.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.ix,307, glazed hardcover, occasional b/w illustrations, b/w tables; a couple of light marks to rear board else a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BATTLES OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR: From White Mountains to Nordlingen, 1618-1635.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.ix,335, navy cloth, silver lettering, occasional b/w illustrations, b/w tables; internally clean, light rubbing to boards, glue outline where sticker has been removed from rear board, very slight bowing to boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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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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