World Wars I And II from

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1998 Book. Very Good. Black Cloth Boards. Presumed First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vivid and frank biography which draws on a vast amount of private and unpublished material, poems, diaries, letters and photographs. 600pp with index, illustrated with 53 black and white photographs. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight creasing and… Read more about this item

Worcester: Osborne Heritage, 1997 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 7.25" Tall x 6.5" wide. Tribute to Geoffrey Ankerell Studdert Kennedy, the diminutive but legendary World War I chaplain and poet. 96pp illustrated with black and white photographs. This copy presented to Dr Ingrid Roscoe, the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, on the occasion of her opening the Woodbine… Read more about this item

Retford, Nottinghamshire: Quill Press in association with The Aegis Institute, 2003 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Presumed First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unique collection of testimonials by 40 Holocaust survivors, covering the whole range of experiences. Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert. 427pp with index, illustrated with black and white photographs. Minor shelfwear with minimal marking to… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1946 Book. Very Good. Pale Blue Cloth Boards. 2nd Impression. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second collection of verse, published posthumously following his death in Burma, by the Welsh World War II poet Alun Lewis (1915-1944) with a foreword by Robert Graves. 75pp, illustrated with black and white portrait to frontis. Black… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1939 Book. Very Good. Red Cloth Boards. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Phoenix Library edition. Book of essays on the effects of the First World War by the English journalist and novelist Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928), first published in 1922. 228pp. Gilt lettering and design to spine. Minor bumping to spine and corners,… Read more about this item

Actes Sud, 1998 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Semi-autobiographical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz (1929-2016), first published in 1975 in Hungarian with the title Sorstalasag (Fatelessness), about a Hungarian boy who survives internment in two concentration camps. Text in French, translated from the Hungarian by Natalia and Charles Zaremba.… Read more about this item

London: Aurum Press Ltd, 2010 Book. Near Fine. Red Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first history of Bletchley Park from the perspective of the men and women who worked there during World War II. 336pp with index, illustrated with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Gilt lettering to spine. Boards very slightly… Read more about this item

Omnibus by arrangement with the BBC, 2010 Book. Very Good. Card Covers With French Folds. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First volume of the texts of radio broadcasts from London to the French population during the German Occupation, delivered in French. 1137pp. Occasional light margin lining in pencil, otherwise very good copy..

London: Red Fox, 2007 Book. Illus. by Angela Barrett. Very Good. Soft cover. New Edition. 9.5" Tall x 10.25" Wide. The story of Anne Frank retold for children as a picture-book biography. 28 pages, illustrated throughout with colour drawings. Minor creasing to corners, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions..

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020 Book. Near Fine. Black Cloth Boards. 2nd Impression. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. History of the organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces behind enemy lines in WWII, drawing on newly declassified files. 327pp with index, illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Endpapers illustrated with colour… Read more about this item

Gallimard Book. Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated edition of the novel first published as The Road Back or The Way Back in 1931, possibly as a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front. Text in French. 432pp. Slight creasing to spine and corners, minor marking to edges and former owner's marks to endpapers,… Read more about this item

Gallimard, 1996 Book. Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Text in French. 444pp. Some creasing to spine and former owner's stamps to endpapers, otherwise good copy..

Flammarion, 1965 Book. Good. Soft cover. Presumed First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Under Fire: The Story of a Squad. Novel by the French writer, poet, journalist and political activist Henri Barbusse (1873-1916), first published in 1916, one of the first novels to be published about World War I. Text in French. 411pp. Slight edgewear, some creasing… Read more about this item

London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1917 Book. Illus. by M Watson-Williams. Good. Quarter Bound in Brown Cloth. 5th Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Diary of daily life during the First World War, with entries from July 1914 to December 1915, written in the style of the diarist Samuel Pepys. 316pp, illustrated with 16 black and… Read more about this item

London: Imperial War Museum, 2014 Book. Near Fine. Card Covers With French Folds. First Thus. 8.5" Tall x 7" Wide. Selection of some of the most compelling art from the First World War from the collection of the Imperial War Museum. 64pp illustrated throughout with colour reproductions accompanied by details of each work. Minimal surface wear, otherwise near fine copy… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 2014 Book. Near Fine. Green Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Story of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and other villages of the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon, whose inhabitants worked together during the Second World War to save several thousand people from the concentration camps. Based on first-hand testimonies and unseen archives. 374pp with index, illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Headline Book Publishing, 1997 Book. Very Good. Black Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Comprehensive history of the little known SBS, the maritime equivalent of the SAS, from its foundation in 1941 to its activities in the Gulf War and the Falklands. 311pp with index, illustrated with 32 pages of black and white photographs.… Read more about this item

London: Headline Publishing Group, 2021 Book. Illus. by James Gardner. Near Fine. Red Cloth Boards. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Story of the young people who designed, built and flew the iconic Spitfire, based on the BBC World Service podcast 'Spitfire: the People's Story', using contemporary diaries and memoirs. 358pp with index, illustrated with… Read more about this item

Newark, Nottinghamshire: Quill Press Ltd, 2006 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Story of a young Polish boy whose family was killed by the Nazis. 158pp illustrated with black and white photographs and a map. Minimal shelfwear, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions..

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: This England Books, 2000 Book. Near Fine. Illustrated Boards. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second volume of a collection of articles first published in the magazine 'This England', featuring poetry by soldiers from the First and Second World Wars. 240pp illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Possible minor fading to spine, otherwise… Read more about this item