Oliver, David,

MIG DYNASTY.

Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1990, 1st edn. UK, paperback original, unpaginated [144pp], coloured photo pictorial half title and double title, coloured photo ills. throughout, photo pictorial wrappers, simultaneous issue with hardback edn., lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 35969

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: aviation air force mig

Peacock, Lindsay T.,

U.S. NAVY COMBAT AIRCRAFT IN THE 1970'S.

Arms and Armour Press, London, 1982, 1st edn., paperback original, 68pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, coloured and half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, No. 4 in the Warbirds Illustrated series, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 35975

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: aviation navy aircraft

Perrett, Bryan,

WEAPONS OF THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT.

Blandford Press, Poole, 1982, 1st edn., 152pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., map and 2 diagrams in text, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the naval vessels, the rotary and foxed wing aircraft and the land weapons in use during the Falklands conflict with details of their deployment, the successes and shortcomings, and the lessons learned, a few faint fox marks to upper edge, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38671

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: war falklands malvinas britain argentina

Polmar, Norman,

WORLD COMBAT AIRCRAFT DIRECTORY.

Macdonald and Jane's, London, 1975, 1st edn., 373pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills., large format (about 10 x 8 inches), blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, col'd photo pictorial dustwrapper, the Order of Battle describes the strength, organisation and disposition of every air force, the Aircraft Data describes the role and development of contemporary combat aircraft with detailed specifications, with appendices of Aircraft Designations and Aircraft Carriers, lightly rubbed at tips and boards a little sunned at upper and lower edges, edges tanned, small bookseller label front pastedown, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems. with sl. loss at tips, internally repaired, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32037

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: aircraft air force combat plane fighter bomber order battle raf usaf

Poole, Oliver,

BLACK KNIGHTS : On the Bloody Road to Baghdad.

HarperCollins, London, 2003, 1st edn., xxii, 280pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., 3 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, a first hand account by a British journalist from the Daily Telegraph, who from his normal post of West Coast USA correspondent, was embedded with 1st Battalion, 15th US Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and relates sharing the daily dangers and experiences of the young soldiers in frontline combat, siezing Tallil airfield before confronting the Rupublican Guard on the outskirts of Baghdad, faint marks to boards, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38796

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: military war irag us army saddam hussein baghdad

Richardson, Nick,

NO ESCAPE ZONE.

Little, Brown and Co., London, 2000, 1st edn., xiv, 235pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map and facsimiles, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the experiences of Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot Nick Richardson, in April 1994 shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the beseiged Bosnian Muslin town of Gorazde, picked up by Muslim forces he rapidly learned that nothing was what it seemed in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, as his rescuers appeared to be turning against him he decided his only course was to breakout from the beseiged town, edges tanned, small ownership label front pastedown, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38798

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: military balkans bosnia gorazde sea harrier navy ark royal sas

Rosignoli, Guido,

ARMY BADGES AND INSIGNIA SINCE 1945 - Great Britain, Poland, U.S.A., Italy, German Federal and Democratic Republics, U.S.S.R., Belgium.

Blandford Press, London, 1986, reprint, 218pp incl. 93 plates mostly in colour, some in half tone and line, beige cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, in the Blandford Colour series, described as 'a companion volume to Army Badges of World War Two' covering the armies of Great Britain, Poland, the USA, Italy, the German Federal and Democratic Republics, the USSR amd Belgium, with over 2000 badges and insignia, edges tanned, dustwrapper: faintly foxed to reverse, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43546

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: army insignia badges military

Rottman, Gordon L.,

US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES 1952-84.

Osprey, London, 1985, 1st edn., paperback, 64pp, coloured plates by Ron Volstad and numerous in text half tone photo ills., large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips,. sl. flaking to laminate at spine, very good,

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Book number: 35987

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: military us army

Royle, Trevor,

THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES - The National Service Experience 1945-63.

John Murray, London, 1997, 1st in imprint, paperback, xv, 288pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial montage wrappers, an account of the experiences of National Service in Britain between 1945 to 1963, when service with the armed forces meant learning a trade and seeing the world at a time when air travel was the preserve of the rich, eventually abolished because of public disapproval but looked back on with nostalgia by most of those directly involved, lightly rubbed at tips, faintly creased at cnrs. of lower wrapper, very good plus,

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Book number: 38769

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: military navy raf army conscription national service

Skennerton, Ian,

.303 VICKERS MEDIUM MACHINE GUN.

Ian Skennerton, Labardor, Australia ND Copyright 1997, 1st edn., paperback, 48pp,half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, large format (10.5 x 8" approx.), No.8 in the Small Arms Identification Series, decorative upper wrapper, a reference work on the variuos marques of the Vickers .303 machine gun with parts lists, manufacturer's IDs, etc., wrappers a little sunned, near fine,

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Book number: 44829

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: military army vickers machine gun

Stewart, Chuck,

RAMSTEIN - Headquarters of the USAFE.

Osprey, London, 1988, 1st edn., paperback original, 128pp, coloured photo ills. throughout, large format (9 x 8 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, No. 3 in the Superbase series, the European HQ base of USAF on the German/French border, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 35995

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: aviation usafe air force aafce europe germany

Strong, Colin and Hart-Davis, Duff,

FIGHTER PILOT.

Queen Anne Press / BBC, London, 1981, 167pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., half tone photo ills. and diagrams in text, tv tie-in, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine about 10 x 7 inches, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, based on the BBC television documentary series of the same name and following and ever-diminishing band of Officer Cadet Student Pilots through the selection and training process to qualify for fast jets, made at a time when the RAF fast-jets included the Lightning, Phantom, Jaguar, Buccaneer and Harrier with the Tornado just coming into service, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper: unpriced, a little rubbed at exterms. with repaired nicks upper edge, a little sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41455

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: raf jet fighter pilot tornado harrier jaguar buccaneer phantom lightning

Tamir, Major-General Avraham (ed. by Joan Comay, translated by Carol Dezent),

A SOLDIER IN SEARCH OF PEACE - An Inside Look at Israel's Strategy.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, ND [1988], 1st edn., x, 259pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 3 maps, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated dustwrapper, translated from the original Hebrew an account by a career soldier of his thirty-five years in the Israeli army, as an infantry commander and on the General Staff in charge of military and strategic planning, he was a key figure in the post Yom Kippur peace negiotiations, he deals with the controversial war in Lebanon and explains why prolonging it was a blunder, and examines in depth elements of Isral's security, the shifting borders and the US 'special relationship', lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40456

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: military army israel yom kippur war egypt lebanon usa

Taylor, Michael J. H.,

WORLD FIGHTERS 1945-1985.

Arms and Armour Press, London, 1984, 1st edn., paperback original, 72pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, coloured and half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, No. 28 in the Warbirds Illustrated series, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 36004

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: aviation military air force

Timerman, Jacobo,

THE LONGEST WAR.

Picador / Pan, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 160pp, photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of Israel's controversial invasion of Lebanon in 1982, a brave attempt to show Israelis how others see them and the discovery that some Jews have a capacity for cruelty he believed impossible, lightly rubbed at tips, slight ripple to binding at spine, name half title, pages tanned, very good,

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Book number: 39376

Catalogue: Military and Naval post WW2

Keywords: military israel war lebanon beaufort castle giora harnik