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$16.50
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I Burn For England: An Anthology of the Poetry of World War II


HAMBLETT, CHARLES (Selected & Intro)

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Leslie Frewin 1966

KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature soldiers military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$32.50
xx95pol212748

Aircraft Versus Submarine


PRICE, ALFRED

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jane's Publishing 1980

KEYWORDS: military history design evolution anti-submarine aircraft aviation naval navies

$25.00
xx95pol212751

Geoffrey Keyes: Royal Scots Greys


KEYES, ELIZABETH

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: George Newnes 1956

KEYWORDS: first editions Geoffrey Keyes biography biographies memoir military history

$45.00
1a4a/8

Flying Navy: The Story of New Zealanders Who Flew in the Fleet Air Arm in World War I and World War II and the Roll of Honour of Those Who Died in Action and on Active Service


ALLISON, DAVID

OWNERSHIP OF FORMER DIRECTOR OF AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 320pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light creasing to rear cover, sl chafing to covers, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, aforementioned prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Fleet Air Arm Museum of New Zealand 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history aviation Fleet Air Arm soldiers roll of honour honor 20th twentieth century FAA RNAS Royal Navy Air Service

$55.00
1a4a/11

The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm


STURTIVANT, RAY

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 544pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & moderate rubbing to board edges/extrems, binding a little sloppy, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, prev. owners' names/labels to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy wrinkling/creasing, moderate chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Air-Britain (Historians) 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history aviation Fleet Air Arm squadrons aerial aircraft carriers naval navy

$40.00
1a4a/12

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915


A NURSING SISTER

Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 154pp, VG+ (prev. bookseller's label to rear board, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, minor internal foxing)

PUBLISHER: Leonaur 2011

KEYWORDS: military history women nursing nurses ww1 dirst 1st world war one i 1 the great war dairies journals

$60.00
1a4a/14

The Battle: Arras, 1917


LOGEZ, FREDERIC

Lg quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine & boards, illus eps & title page, 79pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine, sl chafing to boards) with red title band, VG- (heavy creasing to rear, full vertical tear at rear with tidy archival repair)

PUBLISHER: Editions Degeorge 2014

KEYWORDS: graphic novels comics comic books military history famous battles Arras centenary centennial ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war

$17.50
xxa3ab212920

63 Days: The Story of the Warsaw Rising


GIBSON, GEORGE (Fore)

Octavo stapled light card covers (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Montgomeryshire Printing Company (Printer) N/D

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Warsaw Poland Polish uprisings

$50.00
1h15a/8

Nine Lives to Berlin: With a Tank Brigade 1939-1946


COX, ERIC

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 140pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Pentland Books 2001

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 1st 4th 8th armoured brigade campaigns Eric Cox autobiography autobiographies memoir British Army armed forces soldiers

$75.00
1h15a/11

Tales of Three Campaigns


BRERETON, Major C B

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, ix + 290pp, illus/plates, VG (moderate scuffing to extrems, light chafing to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, single plate loose but present, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Selwyn & Blount 1926

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand military history campaigns ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war 12th (Nelson) Company

$100.00
1h15a/13

Petrol Company (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45)


KIDSON, A L

LACKS D/W, tidy ex-library, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 363pp, illus/folding maps, VG (usual library markings/stamps, spine sl cocked, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs / War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs 1961

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history official history guides ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Petrol Company army corps

$47.50
1i24a/5

Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand


BARBER, LAURIE & LORD, CLIFF

LACKS D/W, SPECIAL NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION (#37), super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 296pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Signals Incorporated 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals Army Signalling

$300.00
1i24a/7

The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War 1914-1918


CARBERY, Lieut.-Col. A D

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, black letetring & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece, xix + 567pp, 3x lg folding maps to rear pocket, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, minor fading to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, some prelim pgs detached)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1924

KEYWORDS: first editions military history New Zealand Medical Service ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war

$47.50
1i24a/14

Perverts by Official Order: The Campaign Against Homosexuals by the United States Navy


MURPHY, LAWRENCE R

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 340pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harrington Park Press 1988

KEYWORDS: gay homosexuality sexual orientation military navy US gays Rhode Island Newport modern history trials law legal sodomy

$40.00
1i24a/17

Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France


MARTIN, BRIAN JOSEPH

Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow & white lettering to spine, xvii + 379pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: University Press of New England 2011

KEYWORDS: history France French sexuality military soldiers relations gay lgbtq men homosexuality

$40.00
1j38b/4

The Eclipse of the Sun: The Story of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Japan 1946-47


JEFFREYS, STAN

Octavo, illus light card covers, brown & white lettering to spine, 103pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl curling & creasing to cover edges, sl tanning & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Stan Jeffreys 2005

KEYWORDS: British commonwealth forces Japan Japanese occupation allied forces military history post-war

$52.50
1j38b/5

Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza


BUTT, GERALD

Octavo, white heavy boards, blue lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims + 200pp, VG+ (sl discolouration to board edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine & rear cover, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Rimal Publications 1995

KEYWORDS: Middle East history Gaza geopolitics civil unrest military

$45.00
1j38b/6

The Cretan Resistance 1941-1945


KOKONAS, N A & FERMOR, P LEIGH et al (Fore)

Sm octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 200pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, 2cm scuff to rear cover, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Nikos A Kokonas N/D (c.1990s?)

KEYWORDS: official British report Crete resistance military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Cretans

$45.00
1j38b/7

Red Winds from the North


DAVIES, NORMAN 'TAFF'

Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 148pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & covers, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Able Publishing 1999

KEYWORDS: military history Korea Royal Signals Korean War signallers autobiography autobiographies memoir Norman Davies personal accounts

$35.00
xxa3de213199

Let Nought Deter: A Perspective on Hospital Services in War and Peace


LAURENSON, GIL

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Compaid Graphics 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military medical healthcare history Gil Laurenson

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