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Peter Davies, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. XII, 13-264 pages, last page blank, list of illustrations. At the beginning of the text there is a double page map showing the journeys of the author. The text is illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photography between page 128 and 129. Dark purple coloured cloth boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. There is self embossed illustration of a plane on the front book panel. Bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Flecking to the lower edge of the front dustwrapper panel, along the front spine gutter edge, lower edge of the backstrip and to the top right-hand corner of the backstrip. Rubbing to the book panels and browning and foxing to the text block edge. Light browning to the internal text. Photographic dustwrapper with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear dustwrapper panel. Rubbing and…
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Battle Hymn
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Behind the Lines: One Woman's War 1914-18. The Letters of Caroline Ethel Cooper. Edited and with an Introduction by Decie Denholm
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Collins, Sydney, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. pp. [viii], 312; map, 12 plates, biographical notes, chronology, index; born into an old established Adelaide family, she was not one to be content with the normal run of activities deemed "proper" for young ladies of her class. She began travelling the world of the age of 26 and had been living in Leipzig and studying music for some years when the war was declared in 1914. Ethel chose to stay "so as to have a complete record of how one country has gone through it". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Biography -- Military; ISBN: 0002165716. ISBN/EAN: 9780002165716. Inventory No: 0213394. . 9780002165716
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The Devil's Doctor: Felix Kersten and the Secret Plot to Turn Himmler Against Hitler
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John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: photographic and Diagrams. 725 g; X, 310 pages, includes appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, index; the text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout the text, and a diagram showing German intelligence command structure. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. The book shows no signs of damage, other than having been gently read. In May 1940, as Nazi panzers overran the Netherlands, Felix Kersten received a summons he dared not refuse. A successful and prosperous physical therapist who administered the Dutch Royal family, Kersten was "asked" to forsake his adopted home in the Netherlands and become personal physician to the Nazi Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler. While others might have spent the ensuing years paying fearful obeisance to this monstrous and unpredictable master, Kersten discovered that he had both the means and the courage to manipulate the surprisingly…
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A Field-Marshal in the Family
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Constable, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. XII, 372 pp., foreword by author, list of illustrations, acknowledgements, appendix and index. Illustrated endpapers, with the Montgomery family coat of arms, on a blue background. Black and white photographic frontispiece, showing Field- Marshal Montgomery taken in 1967. The text is illustrated with contemporary black and white photographs. Red speckled boards with gilt titles to the backstrip with light blue coloured tint to the top text edge. Minor rubbing to the edges. Photographic dustwrapper, same illustration as for frontispiece, with maroon coloured background and black and white writing on front panel and spine. Minor rubbing to the dust wrapper corners, but the major damage is sun fading to the spine. Brian Montgomery has written a story about his older brother Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery "..a fascinating account of influences of hereditary and environment…
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From Private to Air Marshal; The Autobiography of Air Marshal Sir George Jones KBE, CB, DFC
by Jones, Sir George KBE, CB, DFC
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Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. X, 158 pages, last 3 pages blank, last three blank, foreword by Sir Edward Dunlop, acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with contemporary black and white photographs. Red coloured boards with white titles to the backstrip. Shelf wear to the bottom edges of the book. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a pilot in profile, with grey background and white and yellow titles on front panel and white and black on the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the corners of the dustwrapper and there are some creases to the top and bottom edges. The biography of Sir George Jones, from The Ninth Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli in World War I through to chief of Air Staff of the Australian Airforce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Military History;…
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Marcel Caux ; A Life Unravelled
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John Wiley & Sons Australia, Limited, Milton, QLD, Australia, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 650 g; (6), 250 pages, includes sources, and index. Illustrated with facsimiles of documents, 16 pages of black-and-white photography and a central section, and a facsimile of the newspaper announcing his death at the age of 105. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. The book shows no damage the dustjacket is slightly ruffled at the top edge of the rear panel. The subject of this book attended his 1st Anzac Day commemoration when he was over 102 years old. This is his story. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography -- Military; ISBN: 1740311132. ISBN/EAN: 9781740311137. Inventory No: 0229894. . 9781740311137
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Odette; The Story of a British Agent
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Chapman and Hall, London, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/good. 336pp., author's preface, list of illustrations, official citation and epilogue. Black and white portrait frontispiece. The text is illustrated with black and white photography. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. the dustjacket is rubbed with some chipping to the top edge, and a 2 inch tear to the bottom left of the front panel, and a 0.5 inch tear at the bottom right of the same. Rubberstamped with a 07/52 (year of publication probably) on the rear panel of the jacket. The book comes from a smoking environment." "Biography of Odette Sansom, a young Frenchwoman married to an Englishman, who during World War II returned to France as a resistance fighter. A picture can be provided to confirm condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare;…
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Odette; The Story of a British Agent
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Chapman and Hall, London, 1955. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Poor Condition. 600 g; 336pp., author's preface, list of illustrations, official citation and epilogue. Black and white portrait frontispiece. The text is illustrated with black and white photography. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Minor shelf wear evident to the bottom edges of the book and the head and the heel of the spine are bumped. Photographic/map dustwrapper, with photograph of Odette superimposed over a map of France, with white background and back writing on the front panel and spine. The dust jacket is rubbed and chipped, and missing a couple of pieces of the spine section, and has a 1.5 inch tear on the rear panel top edge. Priceclipping, original bookseller's sticker on front paste down. Biography of Odette Sansom, a young Frenchwoman married to an Englishman, who during World War II returned to France as a resistance fighter. A picture can be provided to confirm condition. Size: 8vo - over…
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The One That Got Away
by Ryan, Chris
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Century, London, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 500 g; X, 246 pages, with eight pages of colour photography. The edges of the pages are browned, and there are six numbers neatly written at the bottom left-hand corner of the rear free end page. Photographic illustrated dust jacket shows no damage. The author's "adventures" behind enemy lines in Iraq. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Biography -- Military; ISBN: 0712676163. ISBN/EAN: 9780712676168. Inventory No: 0226901. . 9780712676168
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Pin-Stripe Saboteur: The Story of "Robin" British Agent and French Resistance Leader
by WIGHTON, CHARLES & PEIS, GÃNTER
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Odhams Press Ltd, London, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. forward by Captain Peter Churchill, D.S.O., author's note, preface by " Robin" and appendices. Facsimile document frontispiece, "confirmation of "Robin's" commission as Lieutenant -Colonel -- with his real name obliterated.". At the rear of book there is a section of facsimile documents. Red coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Biography of one of the most decorated espionage agents, during World War II, "Robin". Rubbing of the book edges with age toning and foxing of the text block edges. Offset tanning to the end pages. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners with creasing and some small tears to the top dustwrapper edge; with a couple of small tears to the lower edge of the front panel. Rubbing of the dustwrapper panels…
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the Riddle of MacArthur -- Japan, Korea and the Far East
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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. XII, 220 pages, indexed. In original illustrated price clipped dust jacket. Slight darkening of the edges of the text block. the dustjacket has several trips on the front panel and a pale red stain on the rear. Now protected. "Here, with his usual wealth of excitingly vivid detail, he shows us what the Japanese of the day think about Americans, about communists and about the future; he so analyses MacArthur as to make him a comprehensible, if not an altogether sympathetic, figure and finally examines the effect of recent events upon the Far East situation as a whole." -- front fold over blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography -- Military; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 0238167. .
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The Riddle of MacArthur -- Japan, Korea and the Far East
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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. 450 g; XII, 220 pages, indexed. In original illustrated dust jacket. Slight darkening of the edges of the text block, and the previous owner has written a note relating to MacArthur on the front end page. The dust jacket is chipped at the lower right-hand corner of the front panel, and has a 1 inch tear at the top right of the same, and chipped with minor loss at the bottom of the spine section. There is a rubber stamp the numbers 0551 at the bottom of the rear panel of the jacket, probably relating to May 1951. "Here, with his usual wealth of excitingly vivid detail, he shows us what the Japanese of the day think about Americans, about communists and about the future; he so analyses MacArthur as to make him a comprehensible, if not an altogether sympathetic, figure and finally examines the effect of recent events upon the Far East situation as a whole." -- front fold over blurb. Size: 8vo - over…
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Rommel
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Collins, London, 1954. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. IV, 288 pages, acknowledgements, foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, two appendices and index. Map illustrated endpapers, both different, front end paper -- showing a map of France, the rear end paper showing a map of north Africa. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Field-Marshal Rommel. The text is illustrated with 10 sepia toned photographs throughout the book and the occasional map. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor bumping to the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners. Browning to the text block edges and age toning to the internal text. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Faint foxing and offset tanning to the half title page and rear endpapers. There is a small abrasion mark to the top right-hand corner of the free front end paper. Illustrated dustwrapper, of Rommel, with white titles to the…
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Collins, London, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. IV, 288 pages, acknowledgements, foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, two appendices and index. Map illustrated endpapers, both different, front end paper -- showing a map of France, the rear end paper showing a map of north Africa. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Field-Marshal Rommel. The text is illustrated with 10 sepia toned photographs throughout the book and the occasional map. Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. The biography of the North African Fox -- Field-Marshal Rommel. He was the scourge of the English Eighth Army. Despite being starved of all support and supplies he fought the English to a standstill until the lack of supplies made his North Africa campaign a losing proposition. He then went back to Germany, where loyalty to his country, rather than the High Command ie., Hitler, caused him to attempt to assassinate Hitler. He was summarily executed.…
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Collins, London, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. IV, 288 pages, acknowledgements, foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, two appendices and index. Map illustrated endpapers, both different, front end paper -- showing a map of France, the rear end paper showing a map of north Africa. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Field-Marshal Rommel. The text is illustrated with 10 sepia toned photographs throughout the book and the occasional map. Dark red coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed illustration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. The biography of the North African Fox -- Field-Marshal Rommel. He was the scourge of the English Eighth Army. Despite being starved of all support and supplies he fought the English to a standstill until the lack of supplies made his North Africa campaign a losing proposition. He then went back to Germany, where loyalty to his country, rather than the…
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Sutherland's War; An English Gentleman Goes in to Battle
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Leo Cooper in Association with Secker & Warburg, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Timothy Jaques. VI, 7-186 pages, last two pages blank. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white drawings, some part page some full page, by Timothy Jaques. Yellow coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edge and to the top right-hand corner of the front panel. There is a crease, production fault, to the top half of the front book panel. Light browning of the text block edges and internal text. Previous owner has placed their name to the top left-hand corner of the front paste-downs and to the top right-hand corner of page 7 colour Illustrated dustwrapper, by Timothy Jarques, with a red background and white and black titles to the front panel and yellow and white titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author (as a young military officer) to the rear dustwrapper panel. Creasing to the dustwrapper…
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The Tartan Pimpernel
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Oldbourne, London, 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. list of illustrations. Within the text there are contemporary black and white photographs. Light blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Donald Caskie was Minister of the Scottish Kirk, Paris, when Germans invaded. On the Gestapo Black List he escaped and engaged in underground work. He was then arrested, sentenced to death by Nazis, passed through seven camps, & survived. Shelf wear to the bottom edges of the book and the head and the heel of the spine are slightly softened. Dust marks to the top paper edge and there are other marks to the book panels. Booksellers sticker on the front paste down, and there is a gift inscription on the free front end paper, but, more importantly there is a piece cut out from the ffep., measuring 2.5" x 4.5" . The internal pages have slightly discoloured. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 270 pages,. Please refer…
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The War Maker; Being the True Story of Captain George B. Boynton
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A.C. McClurg, Chicago, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 416 pages., note. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece. Purple coloured boards with orange stamped illustration on front panel and orange titles to the backstrip. The book is in ordinary condition. The corners of the book are bumped and rubbed and cloth is frayed. There has been water damage to the front edge of the book causing the cloth to be bleached, and paper edges to be brown. The head and the heel of the spine are bumped and soft. Heavy dust marks to the top paper edge. Sun fading to the spine. Previous owners name to the ffep. The front-end has small puncture marks and the internal pages are slightly brown. A fictional history of a true soldier of fortune during the latter half of the 19th-century and the early part of the 20th century. This is the First USA Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to…
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