ADCOCK F E
The Greek and Macedonian Art of War
VG $10 A/A California University Press 1967 paperback, 109pp. Covers Infantry, Naval, Mounted ( includes Elephants) and Siegecraft. [PB# 973 military history ancient ]
ALEXANDER Michael
The Reluctant Legionnaire
Great Pan G141
G+ some wear to covers and spine, foxing to closed edges $8 A/B Pan 1958 first thus paperback. [PB#1291 militaria]
ANATOLI A.
Babi-Yar
An account by a native of Kiev of the Nazi occupation.
Babi Yar is the ravine outside the city supposedly used to dispose of 200,000 victims of the Nazis.
VG paperback
$8 A/B
Sphere Books 1972 first paperback edition, 478 pages. [PB1416 military history ww2 third reich ]
anon
Winged Words, Our Airmen speak for themselves
R.A.F. reminiscences
VG VG DW minor spotting $15 C/C Heinemann 1941 first reprint. 261pp + plates. Anonymous reports from RAF crew detailing actions against the German forces. [# 1758 military history]
BAIN Hamish
The Morning Calm
British Infantry in Korea
VG- paperback rebound in boards and cloth spine, original wrappers laid over boards, spine cloth insect flecked $8 A/B Badger Book / John Spencer & Co undated about 1960, 157pp.
Story of British Light Infantrymen in action in late 1951. [PB# 862 military history modern]
BARKER Ralph
The Thousand Plan
The Story of the First Thousand Bomber Raid on Cologne.
The first strategic (terror?) bomber raid made against Germany, intended to level Cologne, it failed but made the way possible for the later large raids on German industry and civilian centres.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with large chips with loss to corners and spine ends, book has name stamps to paste down and closed edges, faint offsetting of red dye to bottom corner of closed edges (only) at the front part of the book
$20 C/C
Chatto 1965 first edition, ix 260pp + plates. [#2247 militaria]
BARNETT Correlli
The Desert Generals
Pan Giant X128
G+ light wear, age toned $6 A/B Pan 1962 first paperback edition, 336pp + plates. North Africa 1940-43. [PB#1295 militaria]
BEEVOR Antony Berlin
The Downfall 1945
VG- trade paperback with name to first page and AUTHOR"S SIGNATURE to title page $15 C/C Penguin 2003, xxxvii 490pp + plates ISBN 0141013443 [#1954]
BEEVOR Antony
Berlin, The Downfall 1945 
The end of the Reich in th rubble of Berlin.
ISBN 0141013443
untergang
VG- trade paperback with name to first page and AUTHOR"S SIGNATURE to title page.
$15 C/C
Penguin 2003, xxxvii 490pp + plates
[#1954-B ]
BELL Leslie
Destined Meeting
Singapore prisoners of war under the Japanese
VG VG- light chipping to DW $5 C/B Readers Book Club 1960 hard cover, 255pp + plates [# 1314 military history modern second world war]
BETHELL Nicholas
The Last Secret
The story of the Allied betrayal of the Axis Cossack units fighting with Nazi's against the Bolsheviks.
After negotiating terms they surrendered to the British and Americans only to be betrayed and forcibly repatriated to torture and death in Russia.
ISBN
ww2, wwii, russian, cossack, axis, anti-bolshevik, patriots, war crime
VG paperback
$7 A/B
Coronet 1987 first paperback edition, 287pp + plates.
[PB1658 ]
BLOCH Michael
Operation Willi 
The Plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor July 1940
Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor for use as a pawn in coercing the British to cease hostilities or surrender to a German invasion.
Based on declassified sources such as intercepted German telegrams and the Duke's private papers.
ISBN0297784625
wwii, ww2, espionage
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$15 C/C
Weidenfeld 1984 first edition, xiv 264pp + plates. [#2225]
BLUMENTRITT Guenther
Von Rundstedt, the soldier and the man 
Memoir by Field Marshal Gerd Von Runstedt's Chief of Staff.
Translated from the German, this gives a good insight into the worsening situation one of Hitler's greatest generals found himself confronted with.
wehrmacht, ww2, wwii, german high command,
VG hardback with lightly sunned spine and boards, light spots of foxing in places, missing the dust jacket.
$40 C/B
Odhams 1952 first edition, 288pp + plates. [#2261]
BOWMAN Martin.
Jane's Battles with the Luftwaffe
The Bomber Campaign Against Germany 1942-45.
Covers technological advances and secret weapons, and in-depth service details of Luftwaffe aces.
ISBN0007113633
Second World War, Fighter Pilots, Bomber Command, Aviation, Military, wwii
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$45 D/D
Harper Collins 2001 First Edition, 240pp.
[#4388 ]
BOYLE Andrew
No Passing Glory 
The Full and Authentic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire VC DSO DFC
Triple DFC winner with Bomber Command in the Second world War, Cheshire was an eye witness observer to the Nagasaki bomb and a devoted christian missionary.
G+ hardback in G+ unclipped dust jacket with short edge tears and rubbing, some browning to spine.
$20 C/C
Collins 1955 first edition, 384pp. [#5491 / BIO 18]
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and short edge tears at spine ends and corners, owners details to paste down.
$15 C/C
Collins November 1955 (third impression), 384pp.[#2294 militaria ]
G+ G+ DW rubbed and foxed, book foxed, head of fep trimmed, corners bumped.
$10 C/C
Collins 1955 (second impression), 384pp. [#125]
BRICKHILL Paul
Escape - or Die
Authentic Stories of the RAF Escaping Society
VG- minor handling $5 A/A Pan 1957 paperback reprint,190pp. Introduction by H E Bates. Pan 292 [PB#1355 militray history]
BRYANT Arthur
Triumph in the West 1943-1946
A history of the Second World War based on the War Diaries of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, one of the British Commanders.
Military history, ww2, wwii
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket with light foxing to prelims and closed edges, jacket edge worn with sunned spine.
$15 C/C
Collins 1959 first edition cloth, 576pp.
[#2979 ]
CAIDIN Martin
Me 109: Willy Messerschmitt's Peerless Fighter
Illustrated History of World War II Weapons Book
G+ some pages detaching as glue perishes otherwise tidy $8 C/B Pan/Ballantine 1968 soft cover, 160pp, illustrated. ISBN 0345097904 [#1959 military history]
CARELL Paul
Invasion-They're Coming
The German account of the Allied landings and the 80 days' Battle for France
G creased cover, bookshop stamps to first page $5 A/A Bantam 1973 paperback, 325pp. English translation from the German. ISBN 55307597125 [PB# 1009 modern military history second world war ]
CHAPMAN F Spencer
The Jungle is Neutral
Second World War British guerilla in Malaya.
Second World War Malayasian campaign and the British guerilla leader working with the locals to ambush the Japanese.
VG- lightly soiled cloth, name to endpaper $10 C/C Chatto 1949 reprint (another copy 1951) xiv 436 pages + plates and folding map at rear. [#2223 military ]
COLVIN Ian
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Chief of Intelligence (Canaris) |
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G foxing and soiling to book and boards.
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$9 C/B [Item# 120 MH]
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Gollancz 1951 2nd imp. cloth 223pp. Biography and history of Canaris and the Abwehr in Second World War.
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CORTESI Lawrence
Target: Daimler-Benz
Allied bombing of German industry
G+ cover wear $5 A/A Leisure Books 1980 paperback, 222pp ISBN 0843907134175 [PB# 1010 modern military history second world war ]
COWLES Virginia
The Phantom Major, The Story of David Stirling and the S.A.S. Regiment
G+ sunned spine, faint marker price to cover, age browned paper stock, rubbed joints $10 C/B Collins 1958 first edition hard cover, 320 pp+ frontis port. [# 1356 military history modern second world war]
COWLES Virginia
The Phantom Major, the story of David Stirling and the SAS Regiment
Special Forces Library volume 1
VG+ VG+ $20 Arms and Armour Press 1985 first reissue in this series, hardcover, 320pp. ISBN 0853687242 [# 1693 military history modern]
DAVIDSON Basil
Special Operations Europe, scenes from the anti-nazi war. 
Basil Davidson's work with the partisans of Yugoslavia and Italy during the Second World War.
ISBN0575028203
VG hardback in VG dustjacket lightly scuffed to lower panel. A blank leaf between dedication and chapter one has been neatly removed, light foxing to closed edges.
$20 C/C
Gollancz 1981 second impression, 288pp. [#2284 militaria ]
DEACON Richard
A History of the British Secret Service 
British military intelligence and spying from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War with emphasis on the First and Second World Wars.
ISBN0584101279
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
$30 C/C
Muller 1969 first edition hardcover, 440pp + plates. [#2266 militaria]
DILLON E. J.
A Scrap of Paper
The Inner History of German Diplomacy and Her Scheme of World-Wide Conquest
The author was proclaiming Germany's expansionist warmongering for years before the outbreak of war, and here reviews German belligerance leading up to the outbreak.
ww1, wwi, great war, armaments, prussianism
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Bookseller stamp to free end paper, some age browning.
$25 A/B
Hodder 1914 first edition decorative cloth 16mo xxvii 220pp + frontis, newsprint stock but sewn binding.
[#4918 ]
DUNNIGAN James F. & Albert A. Nofi
Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War
Military Information you are not supposed to know.
VG $15 C/C Thomas Dunne Books 2000 first thus edition, softcover xx 374pp ISBN 031225282X [#1906 military history]
ELFORD George Robert & Hans Josef Wagemueller
Devil's Guard
Recounts the experiences of German soldiers who, fleeing Soviet gulags after the defeat of the Reich, join the French Foreign Legion and fight in Indochina. The ghost-written memoirs of Hans Josef Wagemueller
ISBN0450013367
G+ handling soiled used paperback.
$15 A/A
New English Library 1973 first reprint, 349pp.
[PB1732 ]
EZELL Edward C.
Personal Firepower
The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War volume 15
G+ wear to spine ends $9 C/B Bantam 1988 soft cover 158pp. ISBN 0553345494 [#1927 militaria vietnam war]
[FALKLANDS] THOMPSON Julian (Major-General
No Picnic 3 Commando Brigade in the South Atlantic; 1982. 
Falklands War between UK and Argentina as seen by 3 Commando Brigade, of which the author was the commanding officer.
[ISBN 0436520524]
Goose Green, Port Stanley, British forces
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$15 C/C
Guild Publishing/ Book Club Associates 1985, 201pp + plates in colour and black and white, map endpapers.
[#5638 ]
FARAGO Ladislas
The Game of the Foxes 
British and German intelligence operations and personalities which changed the course of the Second World War.
An exhaustive and complete account.
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with light edge wear with chipping and short tears and some minor loss at head of front panel.
$40 B/D
Hodder 1972 first edition, xxi 696pp. [#2258 militaria]
FARRAR-HOCKLEY Anthony
The Edge of the Sword
The Gloucestershire Regiment and the Battle of Imjin River
VG VG DW has sunned spine. $10 C/B Readers Book Club 1955 hardcover, 286pp + plates, map end papers. Korean War and British regiment. [#1943 military history]
FEATHERSTONE Donald
All for a shilling a day
Military History series No 1
VG-paperback with light cover wear $10 A/B NEL 1974, 174pp. Fiction firmlly based n historical research. Follows a group of recruits in a cavalry regiment in the 1840s and their service in India. Author is a military expert and designer of war games rules. [PB# 473 military history modern]
FEATHERSTONE Donald
Bowmen of England
Military History series No 2.
G+ paperback with light cover wear $10 A/B NEL 1974, 174pp. Firm historical research on the medieval Eglish longbowman and archer. Author is a military expert and designer of war games rules. [PB# 983 military history medieval]
FERGUSSON Bernard
The Watery Maze, the story of Combined Operations. 
The Combined naval and army landings in France North Africa and the Mediterranean,
which saw the beginning of the end of the second World War, also some South East Asian actions,
and the Port Said raid of 1956.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Name to half title.
$35 C/C
Collins 1961 first edition, 445pp + plates.[#2285 militaria ]
FOLEY Charles
Commando Extraordinary
Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's go to man for special missions, infamously rescuing Mussolini with a daring glider operation.
wwii, SS, special operations, commando raids, nazi hero
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1954, 232pp + plates
[#1981/5563 ]
G+ paperback with cover wear.
$5 A/B
Great Pan GP52 1956 first edition paperback, 251pp + plates.
[PB1289 ]
FORESTER C S
The Naval War of 1812
G worn spine, aged paper stock $7 A/A Four Square 1958 first thus paperback, 221pp + plates and maps. Anglo-American naval war. [PB# 448 military history modern]
FRASER Edward
The Fighting Fame of the King's Ships, dreadnoughts and captains of renown.
British naval greats.
Some plates loosening, one blank page has a pen scribble to it, lacks rear fep, frontis and guard are present.
G+ cloth hardback, Navy League gilt stamp to cover, scuffed, edgeworn some soiling internally.
$20 C/C
Hutchinson 1910, xi 348pp + 24 plates and 11 illustrations.
[#5740 ]
FRASER Ian
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Frogman V.C. |
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VG lightly sunned boards.
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Angus & Robertson 1957 first edition hardcover, 216pp+ plates, decorative endpapers. X and XE craft midget submarines and frogmen of the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
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GAVSHON Arthur and Desmond Rice
The Sinking of the Belgrano
The torpedo sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano ended any hope of peace without bloodshed in the Falklands conflict.
This is an account of the political, diplomatic and military circumstances around the incident.
ISBN0450057860
G+ paperback
$5 A/A
NEL 1984, 238 pages. [PB1415 military history falklands ]
GEHLEN General Reinhard (translated by David Irving)
The Gehlen Memoirs
The first full edition of the Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen 1942-1971 The head of Nazi Germany's Intelligence Service.
Gehlen transferred his intact espionage service to the Americans at the end of the war, which was later transferred to the German Federal Government and was a bulwark against Communism in Eastern Europe.
Extremely insightful in regard to Nazi German politics and actions as well as Cold War activities.
ISBN0002112930
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket which has fading to red titling on the spine, and paper tape on the reverse at the top and bottom edges.
$30 C/C
Collins 1972 first English edition, 381pp + plates. [#2245 militaria ]
GRIBBLE Leonard H.
Heroes of the Merchant Navy
first edition
G+ sunned cloth with light rubbing $8 C/B Harrap 1944 first edition, cloth, 204pp + plates. [#1877 military history]
GUDERIAN General Heinz
Panzer Leader
VG small area label lift to cover, reading crease to spine $10 A/B Futura 1974 first thus paperback edition, 528pp + plates. Autobiography by the foremost German tank commander of the second world war. ISBN 0860070883 [PB# 953 military history modern ]
GUILLIATT & HOHNEN
The Wolf
German Warship raiding in the Pacific in WW1
VG+ $9 C/B Heinemann 2010 paperback, 366pp + plates. ISBN 9781741666250 [#2094 militaria]
GUILLIATT & HOHNEN
The Wolf
German Warship raiding in the Pacific in WW1
VG corner crease to front cover $9 C/B Heinemann 2009 trade paperback, 366pp + plates. ISBN 9781741666243 [#2095 militaria]
HADJIPATERAS C. N. and M. S. FAFALIOS
Crete 1941 Eyewitnessed
Authentic testimonies from Australian, New Zealand, British, Cretan, Greek and German participants in the Battle for Crete.
From the airborne invasion, to the surrender of the German Garrison.
ISBN 9781869411152
Kreta, fallschirmjaegar,
VG softback
$20 C/C
Random Century 1991, 328pp.
[#5559 ]
HAMMER Richard
One Morning in the War The Tragedy at Pinkville ( My Lai massacre)
VG VG gift inscription to fep, price clipped DW $10 C/C Hart-Davis 1970 first edition hard cover, xvi 207pp ISBN 0246640162 [#1933 militaria]
HASTINGS Max & Simon Jenkins
The Battle for the Falklands 
The military and political aspects of the Falklands War from the experiences of an enmbedded combat journalist and a political reporter.
ISBN0718122283
Vg hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 B/C
Micahel Joseph 1983 second impression, ix 384pp+ plates. Excellent first hand account from a reporter with the Task Force. Hastings was with the Marines and Paras at the major actions of the Falklands war. [#2259 militaria]
HISCOCK Eric
The Bells of Hell go Ting-a ling-a ling
war memoir
VG+ $10 A/A Corgi 1977 first paperback edition, 157pp. A 14 year old volunteer in the Great War, this is a chilling memoir. ISBN 055210583X [PB# 501 military history first world war]
HOHNE Heinz & Hermann ZOLLING
Network, the truth about General Gehlen and his spy ring
Gehlen's role in Nazi Germany's intelligence services and his work for the West German anti-Communist espionage effort. Draws on hitherto untapped sources - including the German edition of Gehlen's own memoirs - and describes the vigorous growth of the German secret service in the last century.
ISBN0436200686
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends, red lettering to spine lightly sunned. Minor tape scar to paste down
$25 C/C
Secker 1972 first edition buckram, xxxiv 347pp + plates. [#2246 military history]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, pen initial to free end paper
$25 C/C
Secker 1972 first edition buckram, xxxiv 347pp + plates. [#1864 military history]
HORRABIN J F
An Atlas of Current Affairs
inter-war geo-politics
G+ papered boards rubbed through at spine ends and corners, inscription to paste down $5 C/B Left Book Club 1938 (June eighth impression revised) hard cover, 168pp Shows the then current borders and political climate, treaties etc of various states in the period immediately before the Second World War. [# 1338 modern military history]
HOWARTH David
Sledge Patrol Greenland resists the Germans
VG aged paper stock, one page folded otherwise tidy $10 A/A Ballantine 1957 first thus paperback edition, 160pp. Film still cover. Ballantine 283 K. Seven men in Greenland to protect the weather station against Nazi sabotage. [PB# 940 military history second world war ]
JACKSON Peter
A Sacrificial Pawn
A member of the Suffolk Regiment, Peter was captured at the Fall of Singapore and managed to survive the Thai-Burma Death railway.
He wrote this memoir for his New Zealand wife.
He spent four years as a POW.
ISBN9780958292399
ww2, wwii, singapore, pow, british, 1942-1945
VG softback.
$20 C/B
Wily Productions Ltd. 2011, 200pp + plates.
[#3632/4991 ]
JACKSON Major General W. G. F.
The Battle for Rome
Account of Operation Diadem by one who took part, culminating in the Fall of Rome.
ISBN 071341152X
second world war, Italy, Italian campaign
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket under plastic sleeve.
$15 C/C
Batsford 1969 first edition, 224pp + plates.
[#5083 ]
JARVIS C S Major C.M.G O.B.E.
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G+ cloth soiled, names to fep.
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$5 C/B [Item# 126 BIOG]
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John Murray 1951 reissue cloth 184pp. Biography includes World War One and the middle East, illustrated with cartoons.
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JONES E. H.
The Road to En-Dor 
Being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom.
ww1, wwi, First World War, Great War, World War One, Escape, Turk, Turkey, ottoman
VG hardback with no dust jacket.Spine ends rubbed/ frayed.
$15 A/B
Bodley Head 1930, first edition in The Week End Library series, 16mo cloth, 336pp.
[#4440 ]
JONES E. H.
The Road to En-Dor
escape from Turkish POW camp in Great War
VG $7 A/B Pan (364) 1955 first thus paperback. [PB#1290 militaria]
JONES Ira 'Taffy'
Tiger Squadron 
History of the British First World War RFC Tiger Squadron later 74 Squadron RAF in Second World War.
Jones recieved DSO, MC, DFC, MM during his time in the RAF in both World Wars.
VG hardback in G+ unclipped DW rubbed to edges with chipped spine ends and corners.
$25 C/C
W H Allen 1954 third impression, 295pp + plates. [#2231 militaria]
VG hardback in VG facsimile dust jacket that is lightly faded. Book has light soiling or foxing to prelims.
$20 C/C
W H Allen 1954 third impression, 295pp + plates. [#4727]
JULLIAN Marcel
The Battle of Britain, July-September 1940
VG paperback $7 A/B Panther 1969, 256pp.
Air war between RAF and Luftwaffe, Second World War. [PB1755]
KNOKE Heinz
I Flew for the Fuhrer, The Story of a German Airman.
Knoke was with the fighters until the last, awarded: Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st Class / Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold for Fighter Pilots / Wound Badge (1939) in Silver / German Cross in Gold (17 November 1943) / Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (27 April 1945)
VG hardback with no dust jacket
$10 C/C
Evans, sixth printing March 1954. 187pp + plates. [#2940 military history]
G+ hardback with no dust jacket, spine leans, pages browned, minor paper residue to cloth boards
$8 C/C
Evans, seventh printing December 1954. 187pp + plates. [#2151 military history]
LANGELAAN George
Knights of the Floating Silk
VG VG light foxing to prelims and closed edges, light wear and foxing to DW $15 C/C Quality Book Club 1959 first thus hard cover, 320pp. Allied secret agent parachuted into occupied Vichy France. [#821 milhstmod]
LE FLEMING H M.
Warships of World War One
Number 1 - Battleships. 
British and German battleships and battle cruisers, illustrated with black and white photographs.
ww1, wwi, naval, military, battleships
G+ stapled in pictorial wraps, some soiling, wear, and a light waterstain to top margin.
$10 A/A
Ian Allan 1961 revised, 64pp.
[#4204 ]
Le FLEMING H M
Warships of World War 1 No 3 Destroyers (British and German) 
Destroyers from 1893 to their scrapping etc after the war.
Gives full details of tonnage etc.
Illustrated Ian Allan abc series.
ww1, wwi, naval, military, battleships
VG softback with small area label lift to cover.
$15 A/A
Ian Allan abc series, undated stapled wrappers, 80pp. B&W photos. [#2222 military ]
LIDDELL HART B H
The Other Side of the Hill German Generals at war
G- well worn, glue perishing, first (blurb) page torn $15 A/B Panther 1956 paperback, 346pp. In depth look at the German Generals under Hitler's command. Scarce title.[PB# 980 military history modern ww2]
LODWICK John
Bid the Soldiers Shoot
VG VG- dust wrapper has short edge splits to head of spine, light browning or foxing to closed edges. $10 C/B Quality Book Club 1959 hard cover, 296pp. Autobiography of a French Legionnaire during the Second World War and his periods of captivity. [# 661 milhstmod]
LUKACS John
June 1941
Hitler and Stalin
FINE in FINE DW $8 C/B Yale Univ. Press 2006 first edition hardcover, 169pp. ISBN 0300114370 [#2161 militaria]
MACINTYRE Donald
Jutland
VG paperback $9 A/A Great Pan 1960 first thus, 222pp + plates.The greatest naval battle of World War One. [PB# 41 milhstmod]
MACKSEY K.J.
Afrika Korps
Purnell's History Of The Second World War; Campaign Book 1
VG- some names to page facing title, one blacked out, small area label lift to cover, good copy, 160pp well illustrated $8 B/B MacDonald 1968 first edition soft cover, 160pp. Well illustrated. ISBN 0356025470 [#1828 military history]
MAJDALANY Fred
The Battle of El Alamein
Great Battles of History Series
VG name to fep $10 C/B Weidenfeld 1965 first edition cloth, 164pp + plates, maps. Decisive battle in the Second World War. [# 911 milit hst mod]
MANGOLD Tom & John Penycate
Tunnel Warfare
The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War volume 6
G+ $9 C/B Bantam 1987 soft cover, 158pp. ISBN 0553343181 [#1926 militaria vietnam war]
MANUS Max
Underwater Saboteur
rare book on famous frogman
G+ cloth rubbed and light insect damage to surface, inscribed fep. No DW. $40 C/C William Kimber 1953 first edition cloth, 239pp + plates. Author's war time missions as a frogman saboteur in occupied Norway.The exploits of the famous naval frogman, Max Manus. [Item# 121 military history modern]
MANUS Max
Underwater Saboteur
rare book on famous frogman
VG- reading crease to spine, some age browning $15 A/A Kimber first thus paperback edition, 203pp + plates. The exploits of the famous naval frogman, Max Manus. [PB# 866 military history modern]
MARSHALL Bruce
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The White Rabbit |
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G+ erased name to fep, cloth sunned/ faded, interior tidy.
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Evans 1953 cloth, 262pp + plates. Second World War aviation.
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MASON David
U-Boat the secret menace
Purnell's History Of The Second World War; Weapons Book 1
VG- name to title page $9 B/B MacDonald 1968 first edition soft cover, 160pp. Well illustrated. ISBN 0356025470 [#1805 military history]
MAULE Henry
Out of the Sand General LeClerc and the Fighting Free French
VG name to fep $9 A/B Corgi 1967 paperback, 286pp + plates. [PB# 981 military history modern ww2]
MIDDLEBROOK Martin
The Berlin Raids RAF Bomber Command 1943-44
NEW /FN $25 C/C Viking 1988 407pp + plates, month by month account of the RAF raids against Berlin, targeting war factories, but also civilian infrastructure and homes in 'Bomber' Harris' attempt to destroy German morale and force a surrender through air terror alone. ISBN 0670806978 [# 684 milhstmod]
MONDEY David
The Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II. 
The warplanes of Germany, Italy and Japan during World War Two
ISBN0765197065
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with short tear to top of upper joint.
$25 C/C
Smithmark 1996, 256pp. Colour plan illustrations and colour and black and white photographs. [#2267 militaria ]
MURLAND Captain J R W
The Royal Armoured Corps
A history of the British Army Armoured Corps in both World Wars and the period between them.
With information on the beginnings and development of armoured vehicles, their capabilities, and the organisation of them within the army structure.
tanks, armoured vehicles, armoured cars, ww1, wwi, ww2, wwii,
G+ hardback with no dust jacket, spine cloth faded and worn at head and tail. Rear free end paper removed.
$10 C/B
Methuen 1943 second edition, 106pp + plates and folding charts.
[#3715 ]
MURPHY Audie
To Hell and Back
The personal adventure story of America's most-decorated hero of World War II
G+ spine faded, name to fep $15 C/C Hammond 1956 reprint hardcover. 282pp + dverts. [#1987 military history]
NELSON Richard B
The Battle of Salamis 
In the 'Background Books for Wargamers and Modellers' series.
Ancient Greek and Persian naval battle rules.
Intended for wargamers and modellers has strategy and tactics as well as the history of the action etc.
ISBN0860020568
VG hardback in VG- chipped dust jacket.
$15 C/B
William Luscombe 1975 first edition,160pp with illustrations and diagrams. [#2233 ]
Oxford Faculty of Modern History
Why We Are at War; Great Britain's Case
original documents pertaining to the outbreak of the First World War
G mottled watermarked cloth with some minor dye staining to the endpapers $15 C/C Oxford Clarendon Press 1914 revised third edition, cloth, 264pp. Includes appendices with; authorized English translation of the German White Book, Russian Orange Book and Belgian Grey Book. Gives the political climate and diplomatic communications between the various participants in the crisis leading to the war. [# 1339 modern military history]
OWEN Frank
The Fall of Singapore
VG shows minor age $5 A/A Pan Giant 1962 first thus paperback, 206pp + plates. [PB# 1008 modern military history second world war ]
PAKENHAM Thomas
The Boer War
VG+ VG- DW small edge tear, handling soiling $20 B/D Jonathan Ball 2004 reprint hardcover, xxii 659pp + plates ISBN 186842202X [#1881 militaria]
PEDDIE John
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$40 C/C [HST 17]
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Alan Sutton 1994 first edition hardcover, xiii 169pp, illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams, maps and photos. Complete survey of Roman military structure and tactics. ISBN 0750906731
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PERRETT Bryan
A History of Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg tactics in the First and Second world wars and after.
Near fine hardback in tidy dust jacket under plastic sleeve. $25 C/C Hale 1983 first edition, 296pp + plates. History of the equipment and tactics employed by early blitzkrieg in the First World War and widely by nazi forces in the Second World War as well as an investigation into post world war adoption by other armed forces. ISBN 0709188676 [#2243 militaria ]
PHILLIPS C E Lucas
Cockleshell Heroes
Royal Marine Commando raid on the Bordeaux / Gironde port. Canoe borne limpet miners sank six German cargo ships, but only two men survived.
Very good hardback with small area blanked to fep, in good dust jacket unclipped with edge wear and short edge tears, chipped corners.
$20 C/C
Heinemann 1956 hardcover, ix 262pp. Illustrated throughout. [#2265 militaria ]
PIEKALKIEWICZ Janusz
The Air War; 1939-1945
Axis and Allied accounts and reports of all aspects of the air war in Europe and the Far East/ Pacific theatres.
VG hardback with VG price clipped dust jacket with light edgewear
$25 B/D
Blandford 1985, 436pp illustrated throughout with b&w photos, covers Nazi German, Fascist Italian, Imperial Japanese, Soviet Russian and Royal British air forces as well as their allies. ISBN 0918678056 [#2241 militaria]
PITT Barrie
Special Boat Squadron
The story of the SBS in the Mediterranean, Second World War
Thorough history of the squadron in the Mediterranean theatre during World War Two.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket with faint foxing to fold in flaps.
$30 C/C
Century 1983 first edition, 212pp + plates. Thorough history of the squadron in the Mediterranean theatre during World War Two. ISBN 0712601802 [#2237 militaria ]
POOLMAN Kenneth
Ark Royal
VG two pen doodles to cover, bookshop stamp to first page
$5 A/A
NEL 1975 paperback, 173pp ISBN 0450018032 [PB# 971 military history second world war]
POPHAM Hugh
Sea Flight, A Fleet Air Arm pilot's Story
The author's service in Hurricanes on the Carrier Indomitable with the Malta Convoy and in Seafires from HMS Illustrious
Good only hardback in soiled cloth, grubby endpapers and fore edge.
$15 C/C
Kimber 1954 first edition, 200pp + adverts and plates. [#2242 militaria]
Good hardback with ownership inscription to middle of title page, rubbed boards, foxed edges.
$10 C/C
Kimber 1954 first edition, 200pp + adverts and plates. [#122 militaria]
RAWICZ Slavomir
The Long Walk
The author, a young Polish cavalry officer was arrested by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp. He later escaped with a group of others and trekked across the Gobi desert and Himalayas to freedom.
Very good hardback in Very good dust jacket with minor tape rust to endpapers and dust jacket flaps.
$25 C/B
Constable 1956 (seventh imp) hardcover, 239 pages. [#2256 militaria ]
RAWICZ Slavomir
The Long Walk
The author, a young Polish cavalry officer was arrested by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp. He later escaped with a group of others and trekked across the Gobi desert and Himalayas to freedom.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with rubbing and light chipping to corners and spine ends. Gift inscription to endpaper.
$20 C/B
Constable 1956 (fourth imp) hardcover, 240 pages. [#2431 militaria ]
ROFE Cyril
Against the Wind
RAF 40 Squadron POW WWII escape story
RAF 40 Squadron Bomber Command crewman's third escape attempt suceeds after he travels across Poland and meets up with Russians
VG but foxed hardback with name to free end paper, dust jacket is chipped to spine ends with a sunned spine.
$10 C/C
Hodder 1956 first edition cloth, 319pp. [#2220 military ]
SAUNDERS Hilary St George
The Red Beret
The story of the British Second World War Parachute Regiment, The Red Devils.
Four Square 334
ww2, wwii, paras, UK,
G paperback with rubbed joints, one page taped in.
$5 A/B
Four Square 1961 first paperback edition, 315pp.
[PB1657 ]
SEYMOUR William
British Special Forces
World War Two and up to and including the Falklands War.
Foreword by David Stirling.
Extensive maps at start of book, covers Commandos, Long Range Desert Group, Special Boat Section, Combined Operations Pilotage Parties, Popski's Private Army, The Special Air Service (SAS), The Special Boat Squadron and Raiding Forces, Royal Marines Special Forces
ISBN0283988738
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 C/C
Sidgwick & Jackson 1985 first edition, xvi 334pp.[#2240 militaria]
SHTEMENKO General S M
The Last Six Months
Soviet conquest of the Reich
VG book exchange stamp to first page $10 A/B Zebra 1978 paperback, 436pp, illustrated. Soviet General's own account. ISBN 089083377X 225 [PB# 978 military history modern ww2 ]
SIMS James
Arnhem Spearhead A Private Soldier's Story
G ex library with stamps, and label residue to blank of rear fep G dustwrapper has flaps removed and is taped down to endpapers via plastic sleeve $12 C/B Imperial War Museum 1978 first edition hard cover, xiii 118pp+ plates, with some illustrations in the text, a Good working copy.
Account of Operation Market Garden by a soldier in 2nd Battalion of The Parachute Regiment. ISBN 0901627100 [#1878 military history]
SLEDGE E. B.
With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa
VG $8 A/B Ballantine Books 2007 pb xvii 353pp + plates. ISBN 9780891419198 [PB#1144 militaria]
[STALINGRAD] GERLACH Heinrich
The Forsaken Army
German account of Stalingrad
VG handling soiling to wrappers $15 A/B Paperback Library 1967 first thus paperback, 320pp. The real story of the 'forsaken' German Sixth Army encircled at Stalingrad by one who was there. [PB# 880 military history modern]
[STALINGRAD] SCHROTER Heinz translated by Constantine FitzGibbon
Stalingrad
An account form the beginning to the end of the campaign, compiled from official German military records.
The horrors of the Easter Front.
third reich, wwii, ww2, wehrmacht
VG hardback, name to half title, lacks dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Michael Joseph 1958 first English translation, 263pp + plates
[#5717 ]
STARACE Carlo
A Prison-camp Diary
23 September 1943 - 24 September 1944
POW diary of Italian soldier interned by the Germans after the Italian declaration of war on Germany.
Includes some facsimiles of documents etc.
ISBN0473057891
Second World War, Italy, Biography, Prisoner of War, New Zealand
VG softback.
Presentation inscription to title from the editor and publisher ( the author's daughter ) and signed above the imprint on the copyright page.
$25 C/B
Paola Starace, Timaru 1999 first edition, 123pp.
[#4123 ]
STEINHOFF Johannes
The Last Chance Luftwaffe Jagdwaffe Me262
G+ handling and some sunning to wrappers, foxed edges. $7 A/A Arrow 1979 first pbk edition, 204pp. ISBN 009920410X [PB#1139 militaria ]
SWOFFORD Anthony
Jarhead A Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles
"One of the best books ever written about military life"
VG paperback $7 A/B Pocket Books 2005. ISBN9781416513407 [PB#1379 mil hst]
SYKES Christopher
Orde Wingate 
WWII Chindit guerilla in Burma.
A biography of this military leader, with the Chindits in Burma against the Japanese, with Haile Selassie in Ethiopia and as an advocate for Zionism.
VG hardback with light foxing to endpapers, in G+ DW chipped to head of spine and short tear rear panel.
$20 C/C
Collins 1959 first edition cloth,575pp + plates. [#2224 military ]
TAFFRAIL
Endless Story Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders, Torpedo-boats, and Patrol Boats in the Great War
First world war naval history.
VG- hardback with spine and head of upper board browned, endpapers foxed.
$15 C/C
Hodder July 1932 first cheaper edition cloth, 451pp + plates including colour frontis. [#2244 militaria]
TAYLOR J C
German Warships of World War II Illustrated Ian Allan abc series
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Ian Allan abc series, 1977 hardcover, 168pp. Well illustrated in B&W. Gives full details of tonnage etc. ISBN 711001545 [#2221 military ]
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TEDDER Lord
With Prejudice
The War Memoirs of Lord Tedder the Marshal of the Royal Air Force during WW2.
With plates and unpaginated prelims and index, heavy 8vo book.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with closed tear to bottom edge of cover, small area chipped from head of front fold in flap. Book has name label to fep,
$25 C/D
Cassell 1966 first edition, 692pp.[#2286 militaria ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with a few small nicks from edges. Book has light foxing endpapers, small bookseller stamp to fep.
$25 C/D
Cassell 1966 first edition, 692pp.[#2295 militaria ]
TOKAYER Marvin & Mary Swartz
The Fugu Plan
The untold story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II
VG hardback with name to fep in VG dust jacket with edge wear and short tears
$15 B/C
Paddington Press 1979 first edition, 287pp + plates. A plan to evacuate Jewish refugees to a Japanese controlled colony in Asia which foundered after the Japanese declaration of war on the USA. ISBN 0709207751 (0448230364) [#2260 militaria ww2]
TUCKER W. A.
The Lousier War
British Prisoner of War in the First World War
VG minor foxing closed edegs $5 A/A NEL 1975 paperback, 125pp ISBN 0450026353 [PB#1268 military history]
WALBANK F Alan
Wings of War, an Air Force anthology.
Pieces excerpted from many aviation books dealing with the British air force
Covers both World Wars, as well as Imperial duties such as Afghanistan, air mail to Baghdad, long haul flights.
The air defense against Zeppelins in First War, Fleet Air Arm and aircraft production in Second War.
G+ hardback in rubbed cloth, tail of upper joint frayed, name to paste down, light foxing. $25 C/B Batsford 1942 cloth, 164pp + many plates. [#2312 military history ]
WARREN C E T & James Benson
Above Us The Waves
The magnificent story of human torpedoes and midget submarines.
British marine commandos using midget submarines to sabotage Axis shipping during the second world war.
G+ paperback with rubbed joints, stamp to first page, age browned.
$7 A/B
Horwitz ( NA45 ) 1962, 226pp. [PB43/1011]
G+ hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket under a plastic sleeve that has been taped down to endpapers, some tape damage to map endpapers and edges of covers
$10 C/C
Harrap 1953 second impression, 256pp + plates.[#2148]
WEBSTER Graham
Boudica 
The British revolt against Rome in C.E.60, based on archaeological investigation and a thorough understanding of the Roman Military establishment.
The British-Roman relations leading up to the revolt of the Iceni under Queen Boudica, and the military aspects of the revolt.
Very good hardback in very good dust jacket.
$15 B/C
BCA 1978, 152pp+ plates. [#2257 militaria]
WERNER Herbert A.
Iron Coffins
A U-Boat Commander's War 1939-1945
VG $8 C/C Cassell 1999 paperback 329pp + plates. German U-boat commander's memoirs. ISBN 0304353302 [#1958 military history]
WERTH Alexander
Russia at War 1941-1945 unabridged
VG light wear $10 A/C Pan 1965 first thus paperback, 984pp Author was a foreign correspondent with the Soviets from 1941.[PB 979 military history modern ww2]
WHITING Charles (Leo Kessler).
Werewolf, the story of the Nazi resistance movement.
Non fiction piece on the Nazi resistance (to Allied forces) movement named Unternehmen werwolf (werewolf) and who carried out attacks designed to harry the occupation forces in the hope of a national-socialist counterstrike.
Explains how a team of five men and a woman was chosen for "Operation Carnival", which was a plot to kill Franz Oppenhoff, the new mayor of Aachen, who the Germans saw as an American stool-pigeon and traitor.
Whiting is well known as Leo Kessler as well as writing other novels under this name and non-fiction as well.
ISBN 0850520975
guerilla, special forces
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, some mild foxing to closed page edges.
$25 C/C
Leo Cooper, 1972 First Edition, 209pp+plates.
[#5598 ]
WHITING Charles
Hunters From the Sky
The History of the German Parachute Regiment 1940-1945 ( Fallschirmjaeger )
VG inscription at head of first page $8 A/B Corgi 1975 first paperback edition, 223pp. ISBN 0552098744 [PB# 1007 modern military history second world war ]
WHITING Charles
Siegfried
The NAZI's Last Stand
G+ tidy used copy but photo section detached and missing a few $5 A/A Granada 1984 paperback, 335pp + plates. ISBN 0586060707 [PB#1345 military history]
WILCOX Peter & G A Embleton
Rome's Enemies: Germanics and Dacians 
Useful for wargamers and modellers. Covers the Germanic tribes that came into conflict with Imperial Rome.
ISBN0850454735
VG softback
$12 B/B
Osprey Men-at-arms series #129, 1982 softcover, 40pp + colour plates. [#2298 militaria ]
WOODHAM-SMITH Cecil
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The Reason Why |
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G+ boards soiled and canted.
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$5 C/C [Item# 25 MH]
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Constable 1953 first edition hardcover, 293pp + plates, col frontis, folding map at rear. Crimean campaign and the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava.
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WRIGHT Lt Cmdr Bruce S.
The Frogmen of Burma
The Story of the Sea Reconnaissance Unit.
Second World War amphibious commandos against the Japanese.
WWII, Pacific, S E Asia
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with light wear and soiling.
$20 C/C
William Kimber 1970 first edition hardcover, 168pp + plates.
[#5383 ]
YOUNG Edward
One of Our Submarines
Second World War naval submarine 'Storm' in Mediterranean and East Indies.
An account of the naval submarine 'Storm' by one who sailed in her.
G+ hardback in lightly soiled cloth with small cup ring to cover, spine lean, name to fep.
$10 C/C
Hart-Davis 1953, 320pp + plates, plan of submarine to endpapers. [#2228 military ]
