Books - "military"
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Norway 1940
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, x + 340pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & staining to edges, 2cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover, price clipped, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1964
KEYWORDS: first edition military history Norway ww2 second 2nd world war two 2
Forced March to Freedom: An Illustrated Diary of Two Forced Marches and the Interval Between - January to May, 1945
Octavo, red cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 98pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG (light creasing & tanning to edges & spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Canada's Wings 1984
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 pows prisoners of war diary journal Robert Buckham autobiography memoir rcaf Canada Canadian air force
For You the War is Over: American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to black buckram spine, author's name in gilt to front board, 200pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (adhesive protective mylar covering, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Stein and Day 1984
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 pows prisoners of war US American soldiers
The Endless Years
Octavo, green buckram boards, yellow lettering & rule to spine, printed eps, frontispiece, xxii + 160pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & fading to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Chantry Publications 1951
KEYWORDS: military history autobiography memoir Captain John T Barnard British officers pows prisoners of war Japan Japanese ww2
Operation Tombola
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 256pp, illus/maps, VG (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & staining to edges, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1960
KEYWORDS: first edition military history ww2 2nd second world war two 2 autobiography memoir Roy Farran Tombola sas operations British armed forces
Of Death But Once
Octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 213pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, spine sl cocked, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy annotations in ink to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, moderate cracking to some gutters) in d/w, scruffy (v heavy creasing & chipping with loss & ugly yellowing tape repairs to edges & spine, price clipped, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: F. W. Cheshire 1947
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 pows prisoners of war Australian Java Japan Japanese
The Jungle in Arms
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 207pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to ffep, 2cm peel to lower corner of pg 206) in d/w, VG (light to moderate staining to edges, light foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1962
KEYWORDS: Balfour Oatts military history autobiography memoir ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 Burma
Escape to Captivity
THIRD IMPRESSION, octavo, orange cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 210pp, VG+ (sl bruising & fading to extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate soiling & staining)
PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1952
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 pows prisoners of war Japan Japanese autobiography memoir Peter Hartley
The Hunter
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 299pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG, in removable protective plastic cover (price clipped, sl soiling & chafing, light adhesive staining to edges beneath wrapper)
PUBLISHER: Anthony Gibbs & Phillips 1961
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Tuvia Friedman military history ww2 holocaust war criminals Jewish persecution Adolf Eichmann
Clipped Wings
Octavo, blue cloth heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 159pp, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, light folding/creasing to page edges of prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges with internal reinforcement, moderate tanning to spine & edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Stanhope Press (Printer) N/D
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 British battle of Britain raf air force aviation autobiography memoir Donald Blair pilots
Maquis: Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, xi + 512pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's label to inside front cover)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1990
KEYWORDS: military history French resistance France ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 maquis
Through Japanese Barbed Wire: A Thousand-Mile Trek From a Japanese Prison Camp
Octavo, orange cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 144pp, VG (light bruising & soiling to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping with heavy tape repairs to edges, some heavy loss, moderate tanning to spine, price clipped, moderate chafing & surface loss)
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Co 1944
KEYWORDS: military history pows prisoners of war Japan concentration camps Japanese Gwen Priestwood autobiography memoir civilians
Captive in Shanghai
Octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xviii + 160pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, strip of tanning to half title page, prev. bookseller's adhesive label to verso of full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 Hugh Collar autobiography memoir
Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
Octavo, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained grey, illus eps, 350pp, VG (light bruising & fading to board extrems & edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1965
KEYWORDS: military history Jewish holocaust nazis Poland ghettos Warsaw diary journal Chaim A Kaplan nazi occupation
No Time For Geishas
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, 217pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light discolouration to spine & board edges) in d/w, VG+ (in adhesive clear mylar covering, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1973
KEYWORDS: military history pows prisoners of war Japan Japanese concentration camps British army soldiers Geoffrey Pharaoh Adams autobiography memoir ww2 second 2nd world war two 2
Escape From the Rising Sun: The Incredible Voyage of the 'Sederhana Djohanis'
Octavo, yellow heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 198pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, moderate fading to spine, in adhesive mylar covering)
PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1973
KEYWORDS: military history Singapore biography Lord Langford escapees ww2 second 2nd world war two 2
Rice and Salt: A History of the Defense and Occupation of Mindanao During World War II
Octavo, blue buckram boards, yellow lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, xviii + 242pp, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, prev. bookseller's label to prelims) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, price clipped, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Naylor Company N/D (c.1962)
KEYWORDS: military history autobiography memoir John Hugh McGee Davao Penal Colony pows prisoners of war politics communism
Prisoner of the British: A Japanese Soldier's Experiences in Burma
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, xiv + 202pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (in adhesive protective covering, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Cresset Press 1966
KEYWORDS: military history pows prisoners of war Burma Japanese soldiers ww2 second 2nd world war two 2
Black Monastry
Super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 409pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine & edges)
PUBLISHER: Chatto and Windus 1934
KEYWORDS: pows prisoners of war military history Aladar Kuncz France French autobiography memoir
History in My Time
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, 262pp, VG (spine sl cocked, light bruising & soiling to extrems & edges, light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name to ffep, moderate cracking to rear gutters) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1941
KEYWORDS: first edition military history Europe Otto Strasser early 20th twentieth century