Military And War from JWMah

London: Collins, 1949. (UK) 9th printing June 1949 of the first edition (Feb 1949) . No markings, tiny bump to lower corner of front cover, otherwsie Very Good in unclipped Very Good (-) dust jakcet with cloed tear to top edge of rear panel, and a couple of minor edge faults. Hardcover, 256pp, a few line drawings. This is the… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Imperial War Museum, 2018. (UK) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, Fine, as New; no dust jacket as published. Photo boards, 205pp, colour photos throughout of the intallation of the poppies at different locales. Of the countless commemorations of the centennial of World War I, the most striking and unforgettable was surely an art installation at the Tower of… Read more about this item

Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press., 2019. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition No markings, Fine. Wraps with flaps, 247pp, index, colour and B&W photos. From 1914 to 1920 thousands of men who has immif=grated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly imprisoned as "enemy aliens", some with their families, in cconcentration camps. Most were… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. (UK) 1st publication. No markings, Very Good in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with faint scratched to cover panel not breaking the paper surface. (Or perhaps lfine ridging of dust jackt coating) Hardcover, 436pp, index, B&W photo plates. From the jacket: Drawing on written accounts of war over the past two centuries, and on… Read more about this item

Victoria: Cappis Press, 1985. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the head of the spien panel. Hardcover, 285pp, B&W photos. These are personal narratives of priosoners of war in German and Japanese camps during WWII; escape via Russia; an Irishman doing a brisk trade in overcoats in… Read more about this item

Montgomery AL: New South Books, 2011. (USA) 3rd printing 2015. SIGNED BY daniel Haulman to the title page, no other markings, there is aahint of waviness to the edges of the pages, thus Very Good used copy in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 239pp, index, maps. B&W photos. From the jacket: Many documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and… Read more about this item

Paris: Marabout, 2014. (FR) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Near Fine. Wraps with flaps, [168]pp, B&W phtoos of 1944 wartime France showing the lives of civilians and soldiers. Morris was born in New Jersy in 1916 and was charged with photographing the Western Front during the war. The text is entirely in French. Londres, juillet 44, les bombes… Read more about this item

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2014. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, illus endpapers, 339pp, a few B&W photos to chapter heading pages. This is an extraordinary narrative that follows two parallel journeys, one laid on top of the other like a sketch on opaque paper over the lines of an old map. The first journey is… Read more about this item

NY: Vantage Press, 1969. (USA) Stated 1st edition, No markings, a touch of rubbing to spine extremities and to cover corner tips, Very Good used copy; lacking the dustjacket Red cloth, 183pp, 4 small B&W photos showing the attack against a Uboat by the HMCS Skeena, July 31, 1942. It is difficult to classify this book. It seems to… Read more about this item

Toronto: Dundurn, 2002. (CAD) 1st printing, no markings, hint of rubbing to cover corner tips, there are 2 faint smudges to page 66 (possibly a manufacturing fault) otherwise Near Fine. Wraps, 362pp, index, map, B&W photos.This is ahistory of this imporatant, yet forgotten battalion of WWI. The soldiers who formed the 58th exemplified the ideal citizen soldiers and later evolved… Read more about this item

Toronto: Signal, 2022. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 342pp, index, B&W and monochrome photos and illus. This is the definitive and tue story of the escape of POWs from Colditz prison. (2.0 JM 012a4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1955. (UK) Stated first publication. No markings, Fine in price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 294pp, index, map endpapers, maps and B&W photos. The regiment existed continuously for 111 years and served in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. An Army Order of the 28 November 1946 stated, due to distinguished… Read more about this item

London: Greenhill, 2003. (UK) Presumed 1st of this edition, No markings, Fine. Wraps, 371pp, bibliography,B&W drawings. This is a history of swordsmanship and the use of various kinds of swords throughout history to the 19th century. (1.7 JM 0732. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Toronto: Macmillan, 1993. (CAD) 1st printing, published in association with Book Productions Cobsultants in Britain. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, ribbon marker, 276pp, B&W and colour photos and illus. The content allocates 10 pages to each of 25 aircrew who served as pilots, navigators, bomb-aimers, signallers, flight engineers, and gunners. Each as a biography, and photos… Read more about this item

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998. (USA) First Touchstone edition. No markings, soft crease to top corner of first few leves, Near Fine. Wraps, 713pp, maps,index. B&W portrait of Thucydides. This is anewly evised edition of the Richard Crawley translation with maps, annotations, appendices and encyclopedic index. This has been praised as the best book, throughly readable, with which… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1988. (NETH) Presumed 1st of this edition. Owner's 7 word inscription to the title page, a brace of tiny very faint spots (from foxing?) to the top edge of pages, otherwsie Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with a small faint stain just to the base of the spine panel, noticeable only… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan & Co., 1900. (UK) Later printing of the thrd edition (1900) No markings, slight fading to red colour of the spine panel, faint spotting to back cover, faint spots to pages here and there,otherwsie |Very Good; no dust jacket. Red cloth, with illustration of Greek warriors, gold spine title, 407pp index..Tissue protected frontis and 6 B&W… Read more about this item

Nanton AB: Nanton Lancaster Society, 2012. (CAD) Presumed 1st of this edition. There is an owner's inscription to the half title, no other markings, Fine except for the inscription. Wraps, 298pp, B&W photos. Birrell was a founding director of the Nanton Lancaster Society which developed and operates the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. JOe McCarthy was an American… Read more about this item

Toronto: Dundurn, 2001. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, soft crease to lower corner of front cover, Very Good used copy. Wraps, 302pp, B&W photos. Murray describes the often zany career of the only complete signals unit Canada sent to the War in the Pacific, and the significant part it played in the Allied signals intelligence operation known as "Magic." (1.9… Read more about this item

Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2009. (FR) 5th printing of first edition (2009). There is a name chop to the lower corner of the frotn endpaper, no other markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Glossy boards, 272pp, index, hundreds of colour photos throughout covering insignia, uniforms, small arms, tentage, armoured troops, airborne troops, mountian troops, female personel, military police,… Read more about this item