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	FLEMING, HANNSS FRIEDRICH VON: Der Vollkommene Teutsche Soldat . Ill.: \|. , welcher Die gantze Kriegs=Wissenschaft, insonderheit was bey der Infanterie vorkommt, ordentlich und deutlich vorträgt, und In Sechs besonderen Theilen Die einem Soldaten nöthigen Vorbereitungs=Wissenschafften, Künste und Exercitia, die Chargen und Verrichtungen aller Kriegs=Bedienten, von dem Mousquetier an bis auf den General; Alle in dem Kriege vorfallende Actionen und Expeditionen, Feldzüge, Maersche und Schlachten; die Besorgung einer Festung und Guarnison bey Friedens=Zeiten und die Beschützung wieder feindliche Gewalt in Kriegs=Zeiten, auch deren Attaque und Eroberung sowol defensive als offensive lehret; Nebst einem Anhange Vom gelehrten Soldaten, Adel und Ritter=Staende, von Duellen, Turnier= und Ritter=Spielen, auch Ritter=Orden etc. mit besonderm Fleiß ausgearbeitet und Mit vielen hierzu dienenden Rissen und Kupffern erläutert. (BIBLIOTHECA RERUM MILITARIUM volume 1 ) Facsimile of the Leipzig 1726 edition. 4lvs.20,808pp. index, copper engr. Title page and 57 double-page copper engr. Introdudtion by W. Hummelberger. This elaborate systematic encyclopaedia dating from the first half of the 18th century deals with the entire military and social education of the young man who has chosen a military career. The experiences of the wars by Louis XIV and the Nordic wars are described/used. GBP 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 194.25 US$ 290.68 \| JP¥ 25680] Book number: 090073 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH, Atlas to Alison's History of Europe. Constructed and Arranged, Under the Direction of Sir Archibald Alison. With a Concise Vocabulary of Military and Marine Terms. . Constructed and arranged, under the Direction of Mr Alison . with a Concise Vocabulary of Military and Marine Terms. Edinb. & London, 1848; oblong 8vo; 16pp. with frontisp. folding map. and 95 steel-engraved maps; in new brown cloth binding with leather title labels on the spine. small libr. stamps on t.p. some marginal damp-stains, mostly in top right-hand corners. The maps illustrate the political and above all military and naval events, battles etc. of the period 1789 to 1815. Most have some original colouring, the naval maps, showing ships in battle order, being among the most attractive. some marginal staining.[WB 9]. GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 166.5 US$ 249.15 \| JP¥ 22011] Book number: 015552 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	OGDEN, JOHN Silken Dalliance Faringdon, Thorntons. 2009. Buckram with dust jacket. Bound.Hardback. Miles Player the narrator is a young Englishman growing up in the British army of the 1950s, which in many ways were closer to the 1930s than 1960s. After nearly two years fighting in the Korean War (narrated in On Fire the first of the trilogy A Military Education) Miles and his regiment The Prince Regent's Light Infantry, find themselves on the frontier of the Cold War in West Germany. Battle-worn and oblivious to the outside world the officers set out to pursue a life of pleasure, comfort and fun. Their lives become complicated by a new commanding officer who turns out to be a paranoic martinet, the arrival of a clever and louche young officer, and - for Miles - a girl he still loves who is now married to a brother officer. We watch their lives unfold, sometimes hilariously and sometimes tragically, in the closed society of a regiment undermined by amorality and the abuse of power. ¶ The Author. John Ogden was first a professional soldier who helped give away the British Empire and then an advertising man who helped build and sustain commercial empires. In 1952 he was commissioned into The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, with whom he served in various parts of the world until he resigned his commission in 1964. He then joined J. Walter Thompson in London, moving, in the 1980s, to Ogilvy & Mather. He now lives in Oxfordshire. / Andrew Roberts writes: 'Ogden's ear for the dialogue of all ranks of the British Army protecting West Germany in the 1950s is at perfect pitch. The psychological insight into the motivation of his characters is equally superb. Just as its predecessor On Fire examined the concepts of comradeship and courage, so Silken Dalliance inquires perceptively into the nature of leadership. The A Military Education trilogy is shaping up well to become one of the great Cold War novel sequences.' / Praise for On Fire 'I enjoyed On Fire enormously. It presents a wonderfully vivid picture of the experience of Korea.' Sir Max Hastings 'An excellent read and a haunting evocation of a long vanished era.' Professor Gary Sheffield 'It is years since I enjoyed a novel quite so much and I recommend it unreservedly to readers.' The Tablet, Novel of the Week / 'A compulsively readable story, the Forgotten War comes vividly alive.' Country Life 2009, 302 pages, hardback in dust jacket PUBLISHED ON 12 JUNE 2009 BY THORNTON'S. As New/As New. GBP 17.99 [Appr.: EURO 20 US$ 29.88 \| JP¥ 2640] Book number: F1207 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	USHERWOOD STEPHEN The Great Enterprise: A History of the Spanish Armada . The Folio Society, 1978, 192pp, Cloth with engraving on front cover, no slipcase, 31 colour illustrations. Contents: Introduction, War of Words: 1 the Scottish Pawn, 2 The Catholic Cause; Cold War: 3 Provocation and Prevarication, 4 Plans and Preparations; War: 5 Victory, 6 Defeat; Spoils of War: 7 Rejoicing, 8 Retribution; Envoi. GBP 4.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.22 \| JP¥ 726] Book number: M230 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.

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	FLEMING, HANNSS FRIEDRICH VON: Der Vollkommene Teutsche Soldat . Ill.: \|. , welcher Die gantze Kriegs=Wissenschaft, insonderheit was bey der Infanterie vorkommt, ordentlich und deutlich vorträgt, und In Sechs besonderen Theilen Die einem Soldaten nöthigen Vorbereitungs=Wissenschafften, Künste und Exercitia, die Chargen und Verrichtungen aller Kriegs=Bedienten, von dem Mousquetier an bis auf den General; Alle in dem Kriege vorfallende Actionen und Expeditionen, Feldzüge, Maersche und Schlachten; die Besorgung einer Festung und Guarnison bey Friedens=Zeiten und die Beschützung wieder feindliche Gewalt in Kriegs=Zeiten, auch deren Attaque und Eroberung sowol defensive als offensive lehret; Nebst einem Anhange Vom gelehrten Soldaten, Adel und Ritter=Staende, von Duellen, Turnier= und Ritter=Spielen, auch Ritter=Orden etc. mit besonderm Fleiß ausgearbeitet und Mit vielen hierzu dienenden Rissen und Kupffern erläutert. (BIBLIOTHECA RERUM MILITARIUM volume 1 ) Facsimile of the Leipzig 1726 edition. 4lvs.20,808pp. index, copper engr. Title page and 57 double-page copper engr. Introdudtion by W. Hummelberger. This elaborate systematic encyclopaedia dating from the first half of the 18th century deals with the entire military and social education of the young man who has chosen a military career. The experiences of the wars by Louis XIV and the Nordic wars are described/used. GBP 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 194.25 US$ 290.68 \| JP¥ 25680] Book number: 090073 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH, Atlas to Alison's History of Europe. Constructed and Arranged, Under the Direction of Sir Archibald Alison. With a Concise Vocabulary of Military and Marine Terms. . Constructed and arranged, under the Direction of Mr Alison . with a Concise Vocabulary of Military and Marine Terms. Edinb. & London, 1848; oblong 8vo; 16pp. with frontisp. folding map. and 95 steel-engraved maps; in new brown cloth binding with leather title labels on the spine. small libr. stamps on t.p. some marginal damp-stains, mostly in top right-hand corners. The maps illustrate the political and above all military and naval events, battles etc. of the period 1789 to 1815. Most have some original colouring, the naval maps, showing ships in battle order, being among the most attractive. some marginal staining.[WB 9]. GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 166.5 US$ 249.15 \| JP¥ 22011] Book number: 015552 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	OGDEN, JOHN Silken Dalliance Faringdon, Thorntons. 2009. Buckram with dust jacket. Bound.Hardback. Miles Player the narrator is a young Englishman growing up in the British army of the 1950s, which in many ways were closer to the 1930s than 1960s. After nearly two years fighting in the Korean War (narrated in On Fire the first of the trilogy A Military Education) Miles and his regiment The Prince Regent's Light Infantry, find themselves on the frontier of the Cold War in West Germany. Battle-worn and oblivious to the outside world the officers set out to pursue a life of pleasure, comfort and fun. Their lives become complicated by a new commanding officer who turns out to be a paranoic martinet, the arrival of a clever and louche young officer, and - for Miles - a girl he still loves who is now married to a brother officer. We watch their lives unfold, sometimes hilariously and sometimes tragically, in the closed society of a regiment undermined by amorality and the abuse of power. ¶ The Author. John Ogden was first a professional soldier who helped give away the British Empire and then an advertising man who helped build and sustain commercial empires. In 1952 he was commissioned into The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, with whom he served in various parts of the world until he resigned his commission in 1964. He then joined J. Walter Thompson in London, moving, in the 1980s, to Ogilvy & Mather. He now lives in Oxfordshire. / Andrew Roberts writes: 'Ogden's ear for the dialogue of all ranks of the British Army protecting West Germany in the 1950s is at perfect pitch. The psychological insight into the motivation of his characters is equally superb. Just as its predecessor On Fire examined the concepts of comradeship and courage, so Silken Dalliance inquires perceptively into the nature of leadership. The A Military Education trilogy is shaping up well to become one of the great Cold War novel sequences.' / Praise for On Fire 'I enjoyed On Fire enormously. It presents a wonderfully vivid picture of the experience of Korea.' Sir Max Hastings 'An excellent read and a haunting evocation of a long vanished era.' Professor Gary Sheffield 'It is years since I enjoyed a novel quite so much and I recommend it unreservedly to readers.' The Tablet, Novel of the Week / 'A compulsively readable story, the Forgotten War comes vividly alive.' Country Life 2009, 302 pages, hardback in dust jacket PUBLISHED ON 12 JUNE 2009 BY THORNTON'S. As New/As New. GBP 17.99 [Appr.: EURO 20 US$ 29.88 \| JP¥ 2640] Book number: F1207 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	USHERWOOD STEPHEN The Great Enterprise: A History of the Spanish Armada . The Folio Society, 1978, 192pp, Cloth with engraving on front cover, no slipcase, 31 colour illustrations. Contents: Introduction, War of Words: 1 the Scottish Pawn, 2 The Catholic Cause; Cold War: 3 Provocation and Prevarication, 4 Plans and Preparations; War: 5 Victory, 6 Defeat; Spoils of War: 7 Rejoicing, 8 Retribution; Envoi. GBP 4.95 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.22 \| JP¥ 726] Book number: M230 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.