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ACLAND, SIR RICHARD M.P.,  UNSER KAMPF - Our Struggle.
Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1940, 1st edn., paperback original, 160pp, #S54, Penguin orange and white livery, a Penguin Special, a political statement about Britain's future and an expansion and adaptation of an earlier pamphlet 'What Now?', rubbed at extrems., light diag. creasing lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges browned, good,
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 27738
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 - BIERMAN, JOHN AND SMITH, COLIN,  FIRE IN THE NIGHT - Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion.
Macmillan, London, 2000, 1st edn., [x], 434pp, half tone frontis portrait, 16pp half tone photo ills., in text maps, [i] acknowledgments, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of the brilliant maverick covering his early life and his time in Palestine, Ethiopia and Burma, very slightly cockedk, edges sl. tanned, light fox mark to prelims., dustwrapper: price clipped, a little rubbed at extrems., several nicks to edges (one repaired), very good in a very good dustwrapper,
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 39304
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BRADDON, RUSSELL,  CHESHIRE V.C. - A Story of War and Peace.
Arrow, London, 1966, 1st in imprint, paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., pictorial wrappers, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire was one of the major innovative flying brains of Bomber Command, serving with 102 squadron and in command of 76 and 617 squadrons, he introduced low level target marking by Mosquito and later Mustang, was an observer in the Nagasaki bomb mission and after the war, was the founder of the Cheshire Homes, a little rubbed at extrems., sl. wrinkling to spine, edges a little browned, very good,
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 27038
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 - BRADDON, RUSSELL,  CHESHIRE V.C. - A Study of War and Peace.
Corgi, London, 1957, 1st in imprint, paperback, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., pictorial montage upper wrapper, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire was one of the major innovative flying brains of Bomber Command, serving with 102 squadron and in command of 76 and 617 squadrons, he introduced low level target marking by Mosquito and later Mustang, was an observer in the Nagasaki bomb mission and after the war, was the founder of the Cheshire Homes, a little rubbed at extrems., vertical crease in spine, edges tanned, very good,
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 36161
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BRADDON, RUSSELL,  CHESHIRE VC - A Story of War and Peace.
Arrow Books, London, 1972, 2nd imp., paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire was one of the major innovative flying brains of Bomber Command, serving with 102 squadron and in command of 76 and 617 squadrons, he introduced low level target marking by Mosquito and later Mustang, was an observer in the Nagasaki bomb mission and after the war, was the founder of the Cheshire Homes, sl. slant to lightly creased spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges lightly tanned, very good,
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 30830
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 - BRADLEY, OMAR N.,  A SOLDIER'S STORY OF THE ALLIED CAMPAIGNS FROM TUNIS TO THE ELBE.
Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1951, 1st edn., xx, 618pp, half tone photo frontis, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured maps at endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, an acount of his experiences in Tunisa, where he served under General Patton and succeeded him as commander, leading it as part of Patton's 7th Army in Sicily before being recalled to take command of the US 1st Army at D-Day. Succeeded by General Hodges he took command of the 12th Army Group, which included Patton's 3rd Army and at one time commanded four field armies as he led the US forces in 1944-45 across Europe to the Elbe, faintly rubbed at tips, edges a little tanned and lightly foxed, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extres. with sl. loss at cnrs., several tears, repaired to reverse, light foxing, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,
GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 | JP¥ 2668] Book number: 39535
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 - BRISSAUD, ANDRE (TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY IAN COLVIN),  CANARIS - The Biography of Admiral Canaris, Chief of German Military Intelligence in the Second World War.
Military Book Society, London, ND, club edn., xvii, 347pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a biography Admiral Canaris, head of German Military Intelligence (the Abwehr) during WW2 based on research amongst official documents and men who knew and worked with him, an enigmatic man with Germany's interests at heart but also alienated from Hitler's war aims, light tanning and some foxing to edges, upper cnr. front free endpaper thinned, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,
GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 | JP¥ 2371] Book number: 36321
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BROWNE, COURTNEY,  TOJO - The Last Banzai.
Corgi Books, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, paperback, 286pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, a biography of the Japanese General and during WW2 Prime Minister of Japan, arrested in 1945 and hanged for war crimes 1948 it has been suggested that he was the scapegoat for the Japanese Emporer Hirohito, the 'last Banzai', sl. roll with single light vertical crease in spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges browned, inside of wrappers and first and last pp foxed, very good,
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 27590
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BULLOCK, ALAN,  HITLER - A Study in Tyranny.
Pelican / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1967, paperback, complete revision from the Odhams 1st hb edn., 848pp, 2 maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper by Frederick Price, a biography of the complete life of Hitler and a balanced and authoratitive history of the Third Reich, sl. roll with numerous vertical crease to spine, well rubbed with sl. loss at extrems., edges grubby, ink name inside upper wrapperm ownership label half title, reading copy only,
GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 5 | JP¥ 445] Book number: 27592
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BULLOCK, ALAN,  HITLER - A Study in Tyranny.
Pelican / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1968, 5th imp., paperback, complete revision from the Odhams 1st hb edn., 848pp, 2 maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper shows a detail from a portrait of Hitler by R. Jacobs, a biography of the complete life of Hitler and a balanced and authoratitive history of the Third Reich, numerous light creases to spine, rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, edges sl. tanned, good,
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 30506
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BULLOCK, ALAN,  HITLER - A Study in Tyranny.
Pelican Penguin Books, Harmondsworth - Mddx., 1969, paperback, complete revision from the Odhams 1st hb edn., 848pp, 2 maps in text, a biography of the complete life of Hitler and a balanced and authoratitive history of the Third Reich, v. sl. spine roll, numerous vertical creases in spine, rubbed at extrems., short tear first blank, edges browned, good plus,
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 24212
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BULLOCK, ALAN,  HITLER - A Study in Tyranny.
Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1986, paperback, complete revision from the Odhams 1st hb edn., 848pp, 2 maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper shows a detail from a portrait of Hitler by R. Jacobs, a biography of the complete life of Hitler and a balanced and authoratitive history of the Third Reich, slight vertical creasing and roll to spine and small area surface loss at tail, lightly rubbed at extrems. with faint creasing to upper wrapper, very good,
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 27045
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 - BULLOCK, ALAN,  HITLER - A Study in Tyranny.
Pelican / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1993), reprint, paperback, complete revision from the Odhams 1st hardback edn., 848pp, 2 double page maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper shows a detail from a portrait of Hitler by R. Jacobs, a biography of the complete life of Hitler and a balanced and authoratitive history of the Third Reich, sl. slant to faintly creased spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges a little tanned, misfold and slight mistrimming to lower edge of three leaves, very good,
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 36952
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BULLOCK, ALAN,  HITLER - A Study in Tyranny.
Pelican Penguin Books, Harmondsworth - Mddx., 1962, 1st thus, paperback, complete revision from the Odhams 1st hb edn., 848pp, 2 maps in text, a biography of the complete life of Hitler and a balanced and authoratitive history of the Third Reich, v. sl. spine roll, a little rubbed at tips, edges browned, very good plus,
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.66 | JP¥ 1037] Book number: 24211
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CASSELS, ALAN,  FASCIST ITALY.
Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1980, reprint, trade paperback, 136pp, pictorial wrappers, an account of pre-Fascist Italy through the rise and and growth of Fascism, a history of the Fascist Party and the demise with the death of Mussolini in April, 1945, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good,
GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 | JP¥ 519] Book number: 26837
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CHALFONT, ALUN,  MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN.
Magnum / Methuen, London, 1977, 1st in imprint, paperback, 416pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper, biography of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a little rubbed at cnrs., several light vertical creases at spine, edges browned, very good,
GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 5 | JP¥ 445] Book number: 27597
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COLLIER, RICHARD,  DUCE! - The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini.
Fontana, London, 1972, 1st in imprint, paperback, 414pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [ii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover-art (unattrib.), biography of Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy, faint creasing to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges browned, top cnr. half title clipped, very good,
GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 | JP¥ 519] Book number: 27601
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 - COX, GEOFFREY,  COUNTDOWN TO WAR - A Personal Memoir of Europe 1938-1940.
William Kimber, London, 1988, 1st edn., 229pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., map in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative montage vdustwrapper by Pat Doyle, as a foreign correspondent for Fleet Street newspapers the author was ideally placed to record events being in Austria for the Anschluss, in Prague throughout the Munich crisis, saw Hitler drive through the Sudetenland, in Paris at the outbreak of war, reported on the phoney war from France, Belgium and Holland and the shooting war when Russia invaded Finland, in Brussels in May 1940 when the Germans attacked and escaped from Bordeaux after the fall of France, light bumps to upper and lower edges of lower bd., dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., a little sunned at spine, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 32748
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 - DAVIES, JOSEPH E.,  MISSION TO MOSCOW.
Victor Gollancz, London, 1944, 9th imp., 415pp, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, by the US Ambassador to USSR 1936-38, a record of confidential despatches to the State Dept., official and personal correspondence, diary and journal entries of his time in Moscow, with further letters and comment continued 1938-41 from Belgium and USA, a little rubbed at tips, spine sunned, edges sl. tanned, small bookplate front pastedown, three line inscr. front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, good plus,
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 39002
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 - DEAKIN, F. W.,  THE BRUTAL FRIENDSHIP - Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962, 2nd imp., xiv, 896pp, large format (9.5 x 6 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, an account of the Fascist regime in Italy after the military setbacks in North Africa, and of the stages leading to the dramatic downfall of Mussolini after the Fascist Grand Council in July, 1943, Mussolini's return to power as head of a puppet satellite Nazi republic in the north after his abduction by SS paratroopers in September, and of the final disintegration of Fascism, slightly shaken, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. bloom to cloth, edges sl. tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 39003
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 - DEAKIN, F. W.,  THE BRUTAL FRIENDSHIP: Mussolini Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism.
Pelican, Harmondsworth, 1966, revised edn., paperback, 575pp, [i] ad., photo pictorial upper wrapper, originally published as The Brutal Friendship in one volume, '.. this Pelican edition contains the the first part of that book, as far as the the coup d'etat by which Mussolini was unseated on 25 July 1943..', sl. roll and slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., creasing lower wrapper, edges tanned, good plus,
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 | JP¥ 667] Book number: 35737
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 - ESSAME, H.,  PATTON - THE COMMANDER.
B. T. Batsford, London, ND (copyright 1974), viii, 280pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., cartoon and 8 maps in text, lime green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, photo pictorial dustwrapper, biography of George S. Patton Jr., including his early life but mainly of his military career in WW2 in which he outshone his Allied contemporaries in imagination, technique and achievement in mobile operations and, the author argues, could have shortened the war on four occasions if his ability to seize and exploit opportunities had been supported, very faint bump upper tip upper board, single fox mark fore-edge, ink name front free endpaper, dustwrapper: price clipped and remains of label front flap, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. sunned at spine and fore-edges, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 33577
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 - FARNDALE, NIGEL,  HAW-HAW - The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce.
Macmillan, London, 2005, 1st edn., x, 374pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decotates head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, dark brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictirla dustwrapper, a biography of the complex and eccentric couple William and Margaret Joyce, he becoming the english wireless voice of propaganda from Berlin during WW2, fine in a fine dustwrapper,
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 38086
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 - FLOOD, CHARLES BRACELEN,  HITLER - The Path to Power.
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989, 1st edn. UK, xiv, 686pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrapper, heavy, an account of Hitler's early years beginning in 1919 with Germany in financial ruin until late 1923 after the Beer Hall Putsch, light bumps fore-edge upper board, edges sl. tanned, dustewrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 35906
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 - FRIEDLÄNDER, SAUL,  NAZI GERMANY AND THE JEWS Volume 1 The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939.
Phoenix, London, 1998, 1st in imprint, paperback, xii, 436pp, large format (8.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial wrappers, lightly rubbed at tips, ink name inside upper wrapper, marginal ink annotations and highlighting of text, very good reading copy,
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 38577
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