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La Place De La Concorde Suisse
by McPhee, John
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1986
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- Paperback
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. A near Fine copy which has an inscription to front endpaper else unmarked. The author was an observer during exercises of a 'refresher course' among the high Alps by the Swiss Army. The Swiss Army is a militia, composed of 650,000 people who can be fully mobilised in less than 48 hours… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Smoke and the Fire - Myths and Anti-Myths of War 1861-1945
by Terraine, John
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First
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- 1980
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- Hardcover
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- 9780283986826
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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a decorative bookplate to front endpaper. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is VG+. 25 plates. Examines the mythology of war such as did tanks win the First World War, the American Civil War and the Second World War. A fascinating investigation examining the famous… Read more about this item Item Price
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Peacemakers - The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End the War
by Macmillan, Margaret
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- 2019
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- Paperback
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- 9780719562372
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London: John Murray, 2019. A near Fine unmarked copy. 574 pages. 30 illustrations. Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Kings,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Living With the Enemy - An Outline of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands with First-Hand Accounts By People Who Remember the Years 1940-1945
by Mcloughlin, Roy
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- As New
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- No Jacket
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- 2015
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- Paperback
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- 9780952565901
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Jersey, Channel Islands: Seeker, 2015. An As New copy. 222 pages. Photographic illustrations throughout. During World War II the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be overrun by the Germans. The book shows that Islanders learned how to contend with Nazi regulations, how to survive and how to trust those Germans whose human side was often in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Churchill's Desert Rats - From Normandy to Berlin with the 7th Armoured Division
by Delaforce, Patrick
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- As New
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- Near Fine
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9780753702642
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Stroud, Gloucestershie: Chancellor Press, 2001. An As New copy in pictoial laminated boards with dustjacket which has a minor taped repair to lower front flap edge and which is not price clipped. 200 pages. Illustrated throughout. The Desert Rats, the 7th Armoured Division, wore its famouse insignia of the jerboa, the long-tailed rodent, with pride. It was… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lancaster Down - The Extraordinary Tale of Seven Young Airmen at War
by Darlow, Stephen
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- As New
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- Very Good
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- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 9780753715277
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London: Bounty, 2007. An As New copy in pictorial laminated boards with a dustjacket which has a close repaired tear and a stain (not visible to front) and is price clipped. 215 pages. 27 illustrations. Over 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives in World War II. On one raid alone, Nuremburg in March 1944, more airmen lost… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Victors - The Men of World War II
by Ambrose, Stephen E.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 2004
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- Hardcover
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- 9780743263665
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London: Simon and Schuster, 2004. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 396 pages. The eminent Second World War historian Dr. Stephen E. Ambrose book follows the momentous events of the war from D-Day, 6 June 1944, through to the final days when the Allied soldiers pushed the German troops out of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Marked for Death - The First War in the Air
by Hamilton-Paterson, James
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2015
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- Hardcover
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- 9781784970390
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London: Head of Zeus, 2015. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 356 pages. 34 illustrations. Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000… Read more about this item Item Price
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Soldiers - Fighting Men's Lives, 1901-2001
by Ziegler, Philip
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 9780375412066
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$15.22
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket. Stated First American Edition. xi + 331 pages. 18 photographs. The book explores the lives of nine British soldiers or 'Chelsea Pensioners', whose wartime experiences span the 20th century. A particularly British institution, the Royal Hospital Chelsea was opened in 1692 and,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War
by Brown, Malcolm and Adamson, June
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- As New
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- As New
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 9780330414944
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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London: Pan Books, 2002. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. a large format volume of 288 pages. Lavishly illustrated throughout. The first of the distinguished series of books about the two world wars published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this flagship work opens a window on to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Few - July - October 1940
by Kershaw, Alex
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- As New
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- As New
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- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 9780718147464
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London: Michael Joseph, 2007. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 314 pages. 62 photographs. In the bleak, early days of the Second World War Britain stood alone against the terror of Hitler's all-conquering Third Reich. Our future and the future of the free world hung in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Normandy Battlefields - Bocage and Breakout
by Forty, Simon and George and Marriott, Leo
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2017
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- Hardcover
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- 9781612004198
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Oxford: Casemate, 2017. An As New copy in pictorial laminated boards with As New dustjacket. First Edition, First Edition. A large format book printed on glossy paper of 192 pages. Mixing texts, maps, and images, many of them specially commissioned including aerial photography. The book examines the three months after the successful invasion of France - the battle of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Were There
by McKay, Sinclair
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- 2010
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- Hardcover
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- 9781845135393
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London: Aurum Press, 2010. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 336 pages. 26 photographs. At a rambling Victorian country house in the Buckingham countryside thousands of young men and women had spent the last war working arduously long hours minding deafening Bombe machines, decoding and translating intercepted messages, while some of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eight Lives Down - THe Story of a Counter-Terrorist Bomb-Disposal Operator's Tour in Iraq
by Hunter, Chris
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 9780593058602
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London: Bantam, 2007. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 369 pages. Colour photographs. The job is the most dangerous in the world - to make safe the British sector in Iraq against some of the most hardened and technically advanced terrorists in the world. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Short History of the Royal Marines
by Carter, Colonel B.L.
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- 2013
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- Paperback
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- 9781908123053
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Southsea, Hants.: Royal Marines Historical Society, 2013. A Fine unmarked copy. Special Publication No. 39. Fourth Revised edition. This fourth revised edition has been updated to include the most recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya and maritime counter piracy operations in the Indian Ocean. This history traces rthe development from soldiers who served at sea to the modern day… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lie in the Dark and Listen - The Remarkable Exploits of a WWII Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper
by Rees, Wing Commander Ken
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2004
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- Hardcover
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- 9781904010777
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London: Grub Street, 2004. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. 224 pages. 44 illustrations. Life is pretty dull for Ken Rees these days. At seventeen he craved danger and excitement; fast planes and cars, rugby, speed and women. Then war came and by the age of twenty-one he… Read more about this item Item Price
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Steaming To Victory - How Britain's Railways Won the War
by Williams, Michael
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- First
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- 2013
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- Hardcover
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- 9781848093140
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London: Preface, 2013. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. vii + 374 pages. 37 illustrations. The overlooked story of the part British railways and the extraordinary men and women who kept them running from 1939 to 1945. Churchill himself certainly did not underestimate their importance to the wartime… Read more about this item Item Price
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Spitfire - The Biography
by Glancey, Jonathan
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First
- Published
- 2006
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- Hardcover
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- 9781843545279
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London: Atlantic Books, 2006. A Fine copy which has an inscription to half title page ' To dear Jimmy One of the gallant men who flew the 'lovely lady' with all good wishes for your 86th and many more' - David 29 Sept. 2007. else unmarked. Dustjacket is also Fine and not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 260… Read more about this item Item Price
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Some of the People All the Time
by Mackie, Alastair (former Air Commodore)
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2006
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- Hardcover
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- 9781846240560
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Brighton: Book Guild Publishing, 2006. An As New copy. 352 pages. Illustrated throughout. Alastair Cavendish Lindsay Mackie (1922-2018) was formerly an Air Commodore and H-bomber pilot, twice decorated in war and twice again in peace. He Left his RAF career early because he disagreed with British and NATO defence policy - in particular what he describes as 'Britain's idiotic… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Pity of War
by Ferguson, Niall
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- Used - Very Good
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- Near Fine
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- First
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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- 9780713992465
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London: Allen Lane Penguin Press, 1998. A Very Good+ unmarked copy (near Fine apart from abrasion to lower margin of one page of introduction not affecting the text) and some minor marks to top edge with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xlv + 624 pages. First edition, first printing. 19 figures, 46 tables and 34 illustrations. More… Read more about this item Item Price
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