BENNETT, JACK

Gallipoli

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. ISBN: 0207146004. DJ and boards show light shelf wear head and tail of spine. Pages are tanned as is common with books of this era. ; A tight solid book. Black cloth covered boards. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, wraparound jacket art by George Lambert ; Australian Classics Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages; This novel sees the horrific battle that was Gallipoli from the viewpoint of two young naive Australian men from Bindana Station in Western Australia. Archy Hamilton and Frank Dunne, two promising Australian runners, decide to join the British Light Horse after the outbreak of World War I. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 21161

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: 0207146004 Fiction gallipoli Fiction::Historical

BIGGINS, JOHN

The Two

New York: St Martins Press, 1996. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312147511. Light shelfwear, a couple of short tears on DJ.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Otto Prohaska #3; 8.30 X 5.60 X 1.40 inches; 367 pages; Otto Prohaska, a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian navy during World War I, is temporarily assigned to the Flying Service as an officer observer. Working under an incompetent commanding officer who is afraid to fly, Prohaska risks his life to increase his squadron's "miles flown" statistics and deliver a general's love letters to his wife. Written in the form of a memoir, the novel offers wry, cutting observations about an aspect of the war seldom seen. Biggins, who lives in England, has written A Sailor of Austria and The Emperor's Coloured Coat, the first two books in a series featuring Prohaska. In the third book, he re-creates the Austro-Hungarian Empire in detail. Not an action-packed war novel, this is instead a thoughtful look at foibles and fatalities in Austria during the Great War.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 18622

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Keywords: 0312147511 Fiction::Historical

O'BRIAN, PATRICK

Richard Temple

London: Harpercollins, 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0007214987. Illustrated by Brian Sanders jacket art. Only slight wear, remainder mark bottom page edges; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright solid, book. This is the 1st British edition. ; 1.1 x 8.43 x 5.59 Inches; 250 pages; This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers.Captive in a brutal German prison towards the end of World War II, Richard Temple has been stripped of everything that once defined him: pride, courage, his very identity have all been surrendered in a desperate bid to protect his secrets from the Nazis.But with the real Richard Temple suppressed to the point of near-extinction, a sudden respite in his torture allows him a moment of rare release, when he can lower his guard and remember who he is. Huddled in his cell, too badly beaten to move, the action of the novel takes place in the Richard’s mind as he retraces a convoluted course from an unhappy childhood, through a vague and uncertain adolescence to a complex, compromised adulthood, shot through with artistic sensibility and the myriad impulses that make a man.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 11631

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Keywords: 0007214987 Literature & Fiction WWII POW O'Brian, Patrick British Fiction Fiction::Historical

CLARK, DAVID B.

The Ridge

Burnstown ON: General Store Publishing House, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0919431704. Signed by Author; Card covers show very light shelf wear, spine sunfaded.; A bright, solid book. Inscribed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages; This is a realistic novel based on the experiences of the Canadian soldiers after Normandy, during the conflict at Verrieres Ridge.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 20939

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Keywords: 0919431704 normandy verrieres ridge WWII FICTION Fiction::Historical

CLEARY, JON

A Very Private War

London: Collins, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002220547. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; This is a fictionalized representation of the activities of the Coastwatchers who were active during World War II, keeping an eye on the Japanese movements and feeding the information to the Allied forces in the Pacific theater.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 16180

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: 0002220547 coastwatchers Pacific theater Solomon Islands WWII

FINDLEY, TIMOTHY

The Wars

Don Mills, ON: Irwin Publishing, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. ISBN: 0773723641. Only light wear to price clipped DJ. Remainder mark on top of page edges. ; A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages; A reprint of the 1977 edition. "The year is 1915. Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists as an officer. He is not yet twenty as we follow him from his cloistered home in Toronto across the Atlantic to Ypres and the horrors of the battlefield. He finds himself in a nightmare world of trench warfare, of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performs a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.The Wars is about the war that would end all wars; it is, therefore, the story of all wars. And at its centre is the compassionate portrait of a young man whose smouldering inner conflict bursts into flame as he is swept into the most traumatic war in history. The Wars is an elemental novel with a magnificent feel for its period. It is a dazzling and powerful achievement.When The Wars was first published in 1977, it was greeted with rave reviews and widely praised for its power and intensity. The winner of a Governor General's Award, it immediately entered into the hearts and minds of Canadians of all ages and interests. The Wars is one of our true literary classics, and with this new edition Penguin pays homage to its greatness and to the late Timothy Findley.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 16721

Catalogue: Fiction::Military::Canadian

Keywords: 0773723641 Canada Fiction War World 1914 1918 Canada Ypres belgium Alberta WWI Fiction::Canadian

GANPAT (MARTIN LOUIS GOMPERTZ)

Roads of Peace

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. Second Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; Blue cloth boards have some soiling, wear to bottom edges and corners, corners bumped. PON on blank page facing half title. Stamp of the library of Canadian Knights of Columbus War Service. A sticker has been pulled from the front pastedown with resulting damage to the map end paper. The author has fictionalized an account of his own experiences of as a soldier, born in India, who served in northern India on the border with Afghanistan.. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 3225

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: FICTION afghanistan India FICTION

GIBBS, PHILIP

Through the Storm

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1945. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards have some shelf wear.; A tight solid book, titles in yellow front and spine. Hinges intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages; "Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs (1 May 1877 – 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War." He also served as a war correspondent during WWII. Because of this experience his wartime novels are particularly realistic.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 18566

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: WWII Fiction::Historical

O'HAGAN, MICHAEL

To Steal an Air Force

Victoria, BC: Victoria Publishing Company, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0969869916. Signed by Author; Only slight wear to card covers ; A bright, solid book.; Maps; 7.8 X 5.1 X 1.0 inches; 256 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 19200

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: 0969869916 WWII 1944 ultra enigma hungary FICTION Militaria

HARRIS, JOHN

Harkaway's Sixth Column; a Novel of the Somaliland Campaigns

London: Hutchinson, 1983. 1st UK. Hardcover. ISBN: 0091509602. Light chipping of extremities; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; WWII Africa is the site of this action packed novel. An explosive action-packed war drama: four British soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in British Somaliland and when they decide to utilise a secret arms dump in the Bur Yi hills and fight a rearguard action, an unlikely alliance is sought between two local warring tribes. What follows is an amazing mission led by the brilliant, elusive Harkaway, whose heart is stolen by a missionary when she becomes mixed up in the unorthodox band of warriors.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 11931

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Keywords: 0091509602 Africa somaliland WWII British Fiction

JACK, DONALD

Me Too

London: Quartet Books, 1984. 1st UK. Hardcover. ISBN: 0704324458. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Bandy Papers #4 (UK); 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages; This book in the Bandy series (#4 in the UK edition but #5 in Cdn edition) followed the Canadian first by a year. "The first novel was Three Cheers for Me (1962), but it was later expanded into three books, the first three below, one of which was then republished in two parts" "After his post-war adventures in movies in New York (see Me Bandy, You Cissie, part 2 of It's Me Again in the UK ) our hero returns to his Ottawa Valley home in 1923. Through a series of misunderstandings Bandy becomes the official Liberal candidate in a by-election and to the horror of the Liberal Party leaders – especially Prime Minister Mackenzie King – he wins, takes his seat in the House of Commons, and proceeds to wreak havoc there. To finance his campaign he goes into business with Gallop’s local tycoon to smuggle booze into the Prohibition-hit United States, a profitable business until the unpleasantness with the U.S. authorities and all the shooting and wounding. But it does make him a House of Commons authority on corruption in the Canadian government, which leads to his lightning elevation to Mackenzie King’s Cabinet as Minister of Defence. Will this last? ". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21395

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Keywords: 0704324458 bandy papers bartholomew Bandy Parliament Fiction::Canadian FICTION

KESSLER, LEO

The Hess Assault

London: Century, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0712616802. DJ shows very light shelf wear, tanning of pages.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Wotan #5; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; A fictional account of what may have happened when Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland supposedly to arrange a peace between Britain and Nazi Germany.. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18011

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: 0712616802 Little Saxton Adolf Hitler Rudolf Hess Spandau Prison Nazi Germany Fiction::Historical

KNIGHT, ERIC

This Above All

Toronto, ON: Musson, 1941. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. DJ is missing top third of front panel, heavily chipped elswhere, worn, creased, tear top back panel. Previous owner's name on front free end paper ; A tight solid book. DJ stabilized in Mylar, fore & bottom edges untrimmed ; An inspirational novel set after Dunkirk during WWII. Very Good in Poor dust jacket .

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Book number: 12203

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Keywords: WWII dunkirk FICTION

LAAR, CLEMENS

Der Kommandeur

Kornett Verlag, 1954. Later Printing. Hardcover. Beige dust jacket shows light chipping head and tail of spine, pages browned. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt design on front and gilt titles on spine. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Text in German. Only date seen is 1952 but pencilled notation of a price and 54 on back pastedown. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages; The first edition appeared of this appeared under the title 'Der Funfte Reiter' or 'The Fifth Rider'. Laars describes in this book the events of a winter night on the eastern front. The icy Russian winter and the fierce defense battles on the Mius in the southern section of the eastern front form the outer framework of this martial romance.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 18290

Catalogue: Fiction::Military

Keywords: Russian Front Fiction::Historical

MALLINSON, ALLAN

A Regimental Affair

London: Bantam, 2001. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0593043758. Remainder marks to top and bottom page edges, corners a little bumped. Dealer's stamp on front pastedown, light yellowing of pages. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Map endpapers ; Matthew Hervey and the Light Dragoons #3; 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 326 pages; "A Close Run Thing and Honorable Company stirred readers and critics with the military adventures of young Captain Matthew Hervey at the Battle of Waterloo and amid the harsh terrain and treacherous intrigues of India. Now, in 1817, Hervey returns to an England whose hard-won peace is shaken by the distress and discord of its people. And even as he is caught up in the turbulent dawn of a new era, he must combat a deliberate attempt to orchestrate his own ruin. The honors he won in India fell short of Captain Matthew Hervey’s deepest desire–to return to his beloved 6th Light Dragoons. But now circumstances allow him to resume command of the unit–and to marry the beautiful Lady Henrietta Lindsay, whom he has loved since childhood. Meanwhile, however, his soldier’s heart is pierced by the sight of men in British scarlet crippled in the service of king and country, now forgotten and cast off, reduced to begging and petty crime. It is no wonder that rabble-rousers clamor for reform and that lawlessness is erupting everywhere, from the cities to the countryside.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 19779

Catalogue: Fiction::Military::Series

Keywords: 0593043758 dragoons Waterloo Fiction::Historical