Jukes, Geoffrey,

THE DEFENCE OF MOSCOW.

Macdonald, London, 1970, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone photo and line ills. and maps in text, pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book No. 13, also exists with the title variation 'Defense', account of the German invasion of Russia and the winter campaign to Moscow, lightly rubbed at tips, spine sunned, light diag. crease upper cnr. upper wrapper and small area label residue over price, very good,

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Keywords: war ww2 history defence defense moscow russia

Jukes, Geoffrey,

KURSK : The clash of armour.

Macdonald, London, 1969 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, maps, numerous half tone and line ills. in text, photo pictorial wrappers in Purnell's series 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book No. 7', an account of the German offensive on the Russian front in the summer of 1943 in which they aimed to reduce the salient around Kursk and straighten the line of the front (Operation Citadel), and of the Russian counter offensives to reduce the salient by gaining ground on either side, an armoured confrontation and said to be the greatest tank battle of WW2, rubbed at extrems. esp. tail of spine, light creasing lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44923

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Keywords: war ww2 eastern front army kursk kharkov eastern front 1943 tank panther tiger T-34

Keegan, John,

BARBAROSSA - Invasion of Russia 1941.

Macdonald, London, 1971, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Campaign Book 11', the German invasion of Russia by three army groups on a massive front in June, 1941, and their progress by December, 1941, a little rubbed at extrems., sl. sunning to fore-edge upper wrapper. faint creasing to wrappers, pages lightly tanned, very good,

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Keegan, John,

BARBAROSSA - Invasion of Russia 1941.

Macdonald, London, 1971 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Campaign Book No. 11', the German invasion of Russia by three army groups on a massive front in June, 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), and their progress by December, 1941, lightly rubbed at extrems., some wrinkling to spine, pages tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43777

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Keegan, John (ed.),

CHURCHILL'S GENERALS.

Abacus London, 2001, reprint, trade paperback, xiii, 368pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [i] ad., photo upper wrapper, military historian John Keegan has gathered some other well versed military biographers to describe the careers of twenty British Generals serving during WW2 when Winston Churchill, notorious for firing any military commanders that he perceived to have failed, was prime minister, faint creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 44482

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Keegan, John,

SIX ARMIES IN NORMANDY - From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris June 6th-August 25th, 1944.

Pimlico, London, 1992, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xviii, 365pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., 8 in text maps, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the campaign from the invasion of Normandy to the Liberation of Paris but also an examination of the men, the commanders and their armies and how their backgrounds influenced their decisions, faint vertical creasing to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 35301

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Keegan, John,

SIX ARMIES IN NORMANDY - From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983, reprint, trade paperback, xx, 365pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 9 maps in text, [iii] ads., col'd lettered upper wrapper, an account of the campaign from the invasion of Normandy to the Liberation of Paris but also an examination of the men, the commanders and their armies and how their backgrounds influenced their decisions, lightly rubbed at extrems., very sl. diag creasing at cnrs. upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 41766

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Keegan, John,

WAFFEN SS : THE ASPHALT SOLDIERS.

Ballantine, New York, 1978, 3rd imprint US, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone and line ills. and facsimile in text, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Ballantine's 'Illustrated History of World War II' series, a history of the SS, the military wing of the Schutzstaffel which grew from a Nazi elite personal bodyguard for Hitler to thirty-three combat divisions, faint creasing to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, very good,

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Book number: 43642

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Keywords: war ww2 army germany waffen ss ballantine

Kenneally, John Patrick,

KENNEALLY VC.

Kenwood, Huddersfield, 1991, 1st edn., paperback, [iv], 204pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., London Gazette extract in facsimile in text, errata slip loosely inserted, large format (11.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, the memoirs of a deserter from the Royal Artillery, the alleged illegitimate son of a Manchester Jew, who took a false name and joined the Irish Guards, serving in North Africa and winning the Victoria Cross for his actions in the defence against counter-attack of The Bou in April 1943, a strategic vantage point necessary for the taking of Tunis. He was wounded after a further action a few days later and again when he was involved in the assault on Anzio in January 1944. Repatriated he was invested with his medal by the king, involved in recruit training and posted to Germany as part of the occupying force in 1945, joined the 1st (Guards) Parachute Battalion and served in Palestine until the final British withdrawal in 1948 before finally buying himself out of the army, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 39958

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army royal artillery irish guards north africa tunisia bou anzio vc investiture germany parachute battalion palestine kibbutz british mandate vf44

Kershaw, Alex,

THE BEDFORD BOYS - One Small Town's D-Day Sacrifice.

Simon and Schuster, London, ND (circa 2004), reprint, xiv, 274pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the boy soldiers of Company A, 116th Infantry, 29th Division, many from the small town of Bedford in Virginia, who after intensive training in Britain were in the first wave to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day during the Normandy invasion, a narrative telling of military blunders, of incredible bravery that led to the survivors taking the beach and the impact on the rural community of Bedford, 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: 38787

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Keywords: war ww2 army overlord d-day normandy omaha bedford

Kurowski, Franz (trans. by David Johnston),

PANZER ACES ll - Battle Stories of German Tank Commanders of WWll.

Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, ND (circa 2004), paperback, [iv], 492pp, half tone photo frontis, half tone photo ills. in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, in the Stackpole Military History series, after the first volume a further account of the experiences of six more German tank officers, in North Africa, the Eastern front and the defence of Normandy, lightly rubbbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 38276

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Keywords: war ww2 german army panzer tank commanders armour armor afv

de Lee, Nigel,

VOICES FROM THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2004, 1st edn. UK, 288pp, half tone photo frontis, double page map, half tone photo ills. in text, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the biggest land battle faced by the US Army in WW2, Hitler's Ardennes offensive of 1944/5, told in the words of those involved, the personal experiences of the planners, soldiers, generals and civilians, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38139

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army belgium ardennes patton montgomery battle bulge bastogne vith ambleve malmedy

Lewin, Ronald,

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AFRIKA KORPS.

Corgi Books, London, 1979, 1st in imprint, paperback, 268pp, [iv] ads., 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the professionalism of the German fighting force in the North Africa Desert during 1940-43 and the fluctuating fortunes of the Afrika Korps and the Desert rats, sl. spine slant, some vertical creasing to spine and at upper hinge, diagonal creasing to lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41774

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Keywords: war ww2 army north africa egypt libya tobruk tunisia afrika korps desert rats 8th

Lewin, Ronald,

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AFRIKA KORPS.

Corgi Books, London, 1979, 1st in imprint, paperback, 268pp, [iv] ads., 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the professionalism of the German fighting force in the North Africa Desert during 1940-43 and the fluctuating fortunes of the Afrika Korps and the Desert rats, some surface loss where label removed across spine and upper wrapper, rubbed at extrems., lightly creased, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 41775

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Lewin, Ronald,

MAN OF ARMOUR - A study of Lieut.-General Vyvyan Pope and the development of armoured warfare.

Lee Cooper, London, 1976, 1st edn., 152pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the military career of Vyvyan Pope who joined the 1st Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment and served in Ireland, at the outbreak of WW1 his batallion was sent to the Western Front, he took part in the Christmas Truce of 1914 and won an MC at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915 and a DSO for his actions at Wulverghem during gas attacks, in March 1918 near Saint Quentin he received a bullet wound in his right elbow which developed gas gangrene and his right arm had to be amputated. By the time he was released from hospital the armistice had been declared. After a short spell with the 2nd batallion he transferred in 1920 to the Royal Tank Corps. He served in an armoured car company in Ireland and briefly commanded one in Egypt in 1922, attending the Staff College Camberley in 1924/5, after spells as brigade major of the Royal Tank Corps Centre at Bovington, on the General Staff and at the War Office he attended the Imperial Defence College in 1934. In 1935 he was posted to command the Royal Tank Corps in Egypt where he learned a lot about operating mechanised armour in the desert. At the outbreak of WW2 he became Chief of Staff II Corps which went to France with BEF. He returned to England December 1939 to command 3rd Armoured Brigade. In April 1940 he was appointed Inspector of Royal Armoured Corps and posted as advisor on AFVs to Lord Gort and shortly aafterwards was evacuated at Dunkirk. He returned to the War Office and was appointed Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles and initiated production of the Churchill tank. In August 1941 he was appointed GOC XXX Corps. In September he flew to Egypt and assembled a staff but en route to Cunningham's first conference his Hudson ran into trouble taking off from Heliopolis. The hudson crashed killing all on board. lightly tanned at edges, dustwrapper: lightlyu rubbed at tips, sl. sunning at spine,small label glue stain to sront flap, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45545

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Keywords: war ww2 army armour pope christmas truce MC DSO rtc royal tank corps xxx corps rac royal armoured corps staffordshire regiment