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RANKS AND MEDAL RIBBONS OF THE FIGHTING SERVICES.

Daily Mirror, London, ND (circa 1940), paperback, 31pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, stapled lettered paper wrappers, a handbook of the rank markings and decorations and medals worn by members of the armed forces of Great Britain, with details of equivalent ranks, naval trade badges, army staff patches, army and raf nco badges, decorations and campaign medals, women's service ranks, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., wrappers lightly creased and soiled, slight rusting to staples, good,

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Book number: 42581

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 navy army raf medal ribbons ranks

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WORLD WAR II - NAZI'S STRIKE.

Bookmart / TAJ Books, Leicester / Cobham, 2005, 1st edn., 108pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills. in text, [iv] chronology, laminated coloured photo pictorial boards, a pictorial account of German re-armament and expansion, the pacts with Italy and Japan, the occupation of the Rhineland, annexation of Austria and occupation of parts of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland), the blooding of the Luftwaffe in the Condor Legion in Spain, a Who's Who of the political and military leaders of Nazi Garmany, with a DVD of a US War Department public information movie, which supplements the book, on Germany's historical passion for conquest and the build-up of military power, DVD viewed, no dustwrapper, near fine

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Book number: 39626

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany nazism czechoslovakia austria luftwaffe condor spain

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WORLD WAR II - DIVIDE AND CONQUER.

Bookmart / TAJ Books, Leicester / Cobham, 2005, 1st edn., 108pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, coloured and half tone ills. in text, [iv] chronology, laminated coloured photo pictorial boards, a pictorial account of the conquering of Poland, the invasion of the Low countries and the Dunkirk evacuation, the battle for France and the occupation of Paris, Italy's three day offensive against France, with a DVD of a US War Department public information movie, supplementing the book, on Germany's invasion of Denmark and Norway, the Norwegian campaign, the invasion of the Low Countries and France, etc., DVD viewed, no dustwrapper, near fine

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Book number: 39627

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany nazism poland denmark norway france dunkirk

Anon.,

THE WAR IN PICTURES - Second Year.

Odhams Press, London, ND, 1st edn., 320pp, half tone ills. and maps throughout, coloured pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated in blind at spine and upper board, volume two only of a six volume pictorial history of WW2, from approximately August 1940 to September 1941, with unattributed chronological text commentary to numerous half tone photo illustrations from all theatres, cocked, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, no dustwrapper, good,

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Book number: 39528

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Anon.,

THE WAR IN PICTURES - First Year.

Odhams Press, London, ND, 1st edn., 320pp, half tone ills. and maps throughout, coloured pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), simulated morrocco cloth in blue, lettered in gilt at spine, decorated in blind at spine and upper board, volume one only of a six volume pictorial history of WW2, from September 1939 (with background of German rearmament and the growth of the Nazi Party from 1933) to August 1940, with unattributed chronological text commentary to numerous half tone photo illustrations from all theatres, spine cocked, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges dusty, tanned and faintly foxed, no dustwrapper, good,

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Book number: 42492

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Arnold-Foster, Mark,

THE WORLD AT WAR.

Collins, London, 1974, 8th imp., 340pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 26 maps in text, grey cloth with black title panel at spine lettered in gilt, decorated lettered dustwrapper, TV tie-in with the Thames Televsion series of the same name, an account of the Second World War, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, ink inscr. front free endpaper, paper tanned throughout, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., sl. loss top edges of flap folds, repaired to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32711

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 tv tie-in history general

Arnothy, Christine (trans. by Antonia White),

I AM FIFTEEN AND I DO NOT WANT TO DIE.

Collins, London, 1956, 1st edn., 128pp, dichromatic blue/grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, the autobiography of a young girl at the Russian siege of German occupied Budapest in early 1945, and of how by living in cellars and only by venturing out when the noise of battle recedes she eventually escapes over the frontier into Austria, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed with loss at spine ends and cnrs., flaking at folds, repaired to reverse, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40860

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 hungary budapest russia germany autobiography

Arthur, Max in association with The Imperial War Museum,

FORGOTTEN VOICES of the Second World War.

Ebury Press, London, 2004, 1st edn., x, 486pp, many in text half tone photo ills., half tone photo pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, compiled from the sound archive of the Imperial War Museum, the personal stories of ordinary men and women from around the world in extraordinary circumstances, providing a vivid narrative of the Second World War, tanning and uneven foxing to edges, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43543

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Attard, Joseph,

THE BATTLE OF MALTA.

William Kimber, London, 1980, 1st edn., 252pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account by a Maltese eye-witness of the WW2 Axis offensive against the Mediterranean island of Malta, the vital staging post of the Allies that had to be held against overwhelming odds, lightly rubbed at exterms., small bookseller label front pastedown, some underlining and marginal annotations in text, dustwrapper: a little rubbed and creased at extrems., very good reading copy in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40971

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 malta mediterranean navy air force raf

Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard,

SECRET GERMANY - Claus von Stauffenberg and the Mystical Crusade against Hitler.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1995, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiv, 337pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., pedigree and 2 maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, an account Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the leaders and the driving force behind the crusade of a group of officers to rescue the national soul of Germany from the barbaric Nazis, a little rubbed at extyrems., light creasing to wrappers, very good,

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Book number: 38743

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany stauffenberg

Beauman, Katharine Bentley,

GREEN SLEEVES - The Story of WVS/WRVS.

Seeley Service, London, 1977, 1st edn., [xii], 193pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, the history of the Women's Voluntary Service, and a tribute to the woman who founed it, Lady Stella, Marchioness of Reading, from the earliest days before WW2 when the WVS became involved with the evacuation of children, providing succour to the armed forces especially after Dunkirk, supporting the Civil Defence services and the bombed out civilians throughout the blitz and developing its peactime role after WW2 and later receiving Royal patronage, WRVS ink stamp front free endpaper with publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted, very slightly cocked, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges tanned, small ink stamp front free endpaper, dustwrapper: a little rubbed with sl. loss at tips, several edge nicks, repaired to reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40972

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 wvs wrvs women womens royal voluntary service dunkirk blitz evacuation civil defence

Bielenberg, Christabel,

THE PAST IS MYSELF.

Corgi Books, London, 1988, reprint, trade paperback, 287pp, [i] ads., pictorial wrappers, the autobiography of the English wife of a German lawyer, she took German nationality in 1934 on her marriage and experienced the Third Reich and WW2 in Germany and relates her experiences during that period, faint vertical crease in spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good,

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Book number: 41686

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany home front resistance domestic social history third reich nazi

Bielenberg, Christabel,

THE PAST IS MYSELF.

Corgi Books, London, 1988, reprint, trade paperback, 287pp, [i] ads., tv tie-in, photo pictorial upper wrapper shows Elizabeth Hurley in the BBC TV production, the autobiography of the English wife of a German lawyer, she took German nationality in 1934 on her marriage and experienced the Third Reich and WW2 in Germany and relates her experiences during that period, slant to spine, light vertical creasing at spine and upper hinge, edges tanned, ink name half title, very good,

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Book number: 41687

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany home front resistance domestic social history third reich nazi

Bishop, Chris,

THE RISE OF HITLER'S THIRD REICH - Germany's Victory in Europe 1939-42.

Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2004, 1st edn., 192pp, coloured and half tone ills., maps and diagrams in text, coloured endpapers, oversize (11 x 9.5 inches approx.), laminated pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, decorative head and tail bands, a compact history of the first three years of WW2 illustrated with contemporary half tone photographs and some excellent coloured campaign maps indicating the offensive and/or defensive movements, covering the invasion of Poland, the Finnish-Russia winter war, the Allied defensive plan in Europe, the invasion of Denmark and Norway, the invasion of the Low Countries and the breakthrough at Sedan, Dunkirk, the Fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the early RAF bombing of Europe, operations in the Mediterranean (incl. Taranto and Matapan), the developments in the Battle of the Atlantic, invasion of the Balkans, Greece and Crete, Syria and the campaign in North Africa, the invasion of Russia (Leningrad and Stalingrad), etc., fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41288

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany politics third reich

Blandford, Edmund L.,

FATAL DECISIONS - Errors and Blunders in World War II.

Airlife, Shrewsbury, ND (copyright 1999), 1st edn., viii, 242pp, half tone photo ills. in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of some of the decisions made by the men on the ground of both the Allied and Axis forces, probably in the heat of battle and without full knowledge of the situation, where the stress hs led to their disorientation, confusion or simply misreading the situation resulting in some of the lesser known errors of the Second World War, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, faint creasing at extrems., near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41072

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 errors mistakes