Warner, Philip,

ARMY LIFE IN THE '90s.

Country Life, London, ND (copyright 1975), 144pp, decorative half title, photo pictorial double title, sepia photo ills. throughout, large format (12 x 9 inches approx.), russet cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a pictorial account of army life at home and overseas in the final days of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was at its height, with contemporary articles about Army life, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36033

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history army

Welch, James (with Paul Stekler),

KILLING CUSTER - The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.

W. W. Norton, New York, 1994, 1st edn. US, 320pp, map and half tone ills. in text, maps at endpapers, black paper covered boards backed at spine with maroon cloth lettered in silver, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the fate of the Sioux and Cheyenne who, after their pyrrhic victory at the Little Big Horn, were systematically stripped of their treaty rights, hounded from their ancestral homes and herded into reservations, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39392

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: american military history custer bighorn indian sioux cheyenne

Wilson, Lieutenant General Sir James,

UNUSUAL UNDERTAKINGS: A Military Memoir.

Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2002, 1st edn., x, 278pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a description of his early life and a selection of six episodes from his military career related in detail, including WW2 in Tunisia and Italy, partition in India and Pakistan and peacekeeping operations in Cyprus, tiny bump tail of spine, faint mark fore-edge, dustwrapper: tiny rub tail of spine, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40463

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: autobiography memoir military army war ww2 tunisia italy rifle brigade india pakistan partition cyprus

Wise, Terence,

ARTILLERY EQUIPMENTS OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS.

Osprey, London, 1985, reprint, paperback, 40pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, No. 96 in the Men-at-Arms series, descriptions of the different artillery pieces in use by each of the armies of Austria, Britain, France, Russia and Prussia during the Napoleonoc era with further details of calibre, weight and type of ammunition, limbers and teams, performance and range, etc, with coloured plates of gunners performing different manoeuvres with their guns, lightly rubbed at extrems., tanned at edges, very good,

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Book number: 42325

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history napoleon wellington artillery howitzer limber

Woodham-Smith, Cecil,

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1820-1910.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1955, revised and slightly abridged edn., paperback, 445pp, in text line drawing, [ii] ads., Penguin orange and white livery, biography of the pioneer of professional nursing, roll and slant to spine, well rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, wrappers a little creased and soiled, nick upper edge upper wrapper, etc., good reading copy,

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Book number: 36130

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: biography crimea scutari medicine nurse british history

Woodham-Smith, Cecil,

THE REASON WHY.

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1960, reprint, paperback, 287pp, [1] blank, 128pp, decorated orange and white wrappers, an account of the charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, with details of the events and peronalities involved, tiny nick tail of upper hinge, spine and edges tanned, old sello stains inside wrappers and first and last leaves, ink name half title, very good,

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Book number: 32985

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: crimea balaclava cardigan lucan raglan heavy brigade

Woodham-Smith, Cecil,

THE REASON WHY.

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1973, reprint, paperback, 287pp, maps in text, [i] ad., pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, with details of the events and peronalities involved, lightly rubbed at tips, slight slant to sunned spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40580

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: crimea balaclava cardigan lucan raglan heavy brigade

Woollcombe, Robert,

ALL THE BLUE BONNETS - The History of The King's Own Sccottish Borderers.

Arms and Armour, London, ND (copyright 1980), 208pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 10 maps in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, onw e of the oldest Scottish regiments. Orogonally the 25th Foot they were raised in Edinburgh in 1689 for the defence of the city during the 'Glorious Revolution' that brought William of Orange to these shores. The bulk of the book, however, is devoted to the Regiment's history over the past 140 years especially it's hard fought 'Guy Fawkes' battle during the Korean war, edges a little tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little sunned at spine and edges, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45550

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history war ww1 ww2 army scottis borderers blue bonnets korea guy fawkes

Woolrych, Austin,

BATTLES OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR.

Pan Books, London, 1966, 1st in imprint, paperback, 208pp, 16pp half tone ills, maps in text, wraparound pictorial wrappers by James Leech, in the 'British Battles' series, an account of the three major battles of Marston Moor, Naseby and Preston, 1644-48, during the English Civil War, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, 4 pages of ills. duplicated (from the ill. list they are complete in 12 pages), very good,

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Book number: 40581

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: history british military civil war marston moor naseby preston