Civil Defence. Your Food in War-Time. Public Information Leaflet No. 4. NEAR FINE COPY

Lord Privy Seal's Office,, 1939. 4pp leaflet measuring approx. 8.25 x 5.25 ins (21 x 13 cms); printed wrappers, edges lightly tanned else a very good,clean copy. A SPLENDID COPY OF A SCARCE AND EVOCATIVE REMINDER OF THE HOME FRONT IN WWII.

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Book number: 36265

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Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, home front, civil defence, rationing, ration books

Civil Defence. Evacuation. Why and How?. Public Information Leaflet No. 3. NEAR FINE COPY

Lord Privy Seal's Office,, 1939. 4pp leaflet measuring approx. 8.25 x 5.25 ins (21 x 13 cms); printed wrappers, edges lightly tanned else a very good,clean copy. A SPLENDID COPY OF A SCARCE AND EVOCATIVE REMINDER OF THE HOME FRONT IN WWII.

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Book number: 36266

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If Hitler uses Blister Gas. Soap and Water will help to beat him. NEAR FINE COPY

Ministry of Health and Department of Health for Scotland,, 1942]. Double-sided leaflet measuring approx. 8.25 x 5.25 ins (21 x 13 cms); very lightly browning at edges else a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean copy. 'People who are splashed by a blister gas bomb and do not take off any splashed clothing and have treatment AT ONCE may develop bad burns'. What you need for Treatment; What you should do; Some Questions and Answers. A SPLENDID COPY OF A SCARCE AND EVOCATIVE REMINDER OF THE HOME FRONT IN WWII.

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Book number: 36262

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Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, home front, ministry of health, blister gas,

ABBOTT P.E.

British Gallantry Awards.

Guinness Superlatives with B.A. Seaby,, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustraions (a number full-page) in the textl; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The standard reference

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Book number: 1303

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ABBOTT P.E.

British Gallantry Awards. NEAR FINE COPY

Nimrod Dix,, [1981]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text, INTERLEAVED WITH BLANKS; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 36175

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Keywords: military, awards, medals, decorations, british gallantry awards

ABBOTT P.E.

Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1855-1909. (being a list, with other details, of all those who were awarded the Medal before the outbreak of the First World War). Second [and Best] Edition. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE BEST EDITION

Hayward, Polstead,, 1987. 8vo., Second Edition, with plates; maroon buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Updated version of the original edition of 1975.

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Book number: 42117

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ABBOTT P. E.

Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1855-1909. (Being a List, with other Details, of all those who received the Medal before the Outbreak of the First World War). NEAR FINE COPY

Hayward,, 1975. Folio, neat signature on front free endpaper; red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, blue buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. With relevant listing and image mounted on front paste-down and free endpaper.

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Book number: 47694

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Keywords: military, awards and decorations, to 1914, dcm, distinguished conduct medal, abbott

ACCOCE Pierre

The Lucy Ring. Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith from the French. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

W H Allen,, 1967. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, free endpapers mildly browned else a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.395.

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Book number: 36810

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ACCOCE Pierre

The Lucy Ring. Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith from the French. [Second UK Impression.] IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

W H Allen,, 1967. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, free endpapers mildly browned else a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The French edition was published in 1966. Enser, p.395.

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Book number: 36811

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ACUTT D.G.F

Brigade in Action. The History of the Origin and Development of St. John Ambulance Brigade in Weymouth and of its Co-operation with THE Civil Defence Services during the War, 1939-1945. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Privately Printed], Sherren & Son, Weymouth,, [1945]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, covers unevenly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter wanting most of backstrip. With relevant cutting mounted on front free endpaper verso. Probably the most detailed account of any St. John detachment in action, this scarce work is an outstanding contribution to the literature of Dorset in WWII. The author provides extensive and detailed accounts of personnel, organisation, structure, training, actions, rescues and so, together with an unusually high complement of scarce photographs, the majority published here for the first time. SCARCE; we can find no record of the main work (or its scarcer index; not present here) in any standard bibliography. Not recorded by Enser

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Book number: 48212

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Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, home front, dorsetshire, dorset, weymouth, ambulance, st. johns ambulance, air raids, acutt

ADAIR Major General Sir Allan

A Guards' General. The Memoirs of Major General Sir Allan Adair. Foreword by the Earl of Stockton. Edited by Oliver Lindsay. [Maps drawn by Patrick Leeson]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hamish Hamilton,, [1986]. 8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 8 and 7 maps in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Brian Knight. Adair's own account, including command of Guards Armoured Division after D-Day and its controversial role in MARKET GARDEN. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 48985

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ADAMS James Truslow

America Faces the War. No. 2. An American looks at the British Empire.

Oxford University Press,, 1941. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Second in a series of booklets by distinguished Americans on problems raised by the war. A rare survival.

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Book number: 13761

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Keywords: military, ww2, home front, james truslow adams, james truslow adams, military, wwii, home front, america, faces, the, war

ADAMS Jack

Famous Regiments. The South Wales Borderers. (The 24th Regiment of Foot). [Edited by Lt.-General Brian Horrocks]. SIGNED BY HORROCKS

Hamish Hamilton,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY HORROCKS ON TITLE. One of the most sought-after titles in Hamilton's notable Famous Regiments series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.154.

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Book number: 25963

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ADAMS Thomas K

US Special Operations Forces in Action. The Challenge of Unconventional Warfare. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Frank Cass,, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, fore-edge very lightly spotted; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 38522

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Keywords: military, post-1945, us special forces, seals, thomas adams

ADAN Abraham

On the Banks of the Suez. An Israeli General's Personal Account of the Yom Kippur War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Arms & Armour Press,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper charts; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at lower edge. Already scarce in this condition.

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Book number: 22019

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