Graham, Dominick,

CASSINO.

Pan/Ballantine, London, 1972, 1st edn. UK, London, 1972 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps in text, in the Pan / Ballantine series 'History of World War II', the Germans used the town of Cassino to bar the Allied route from Sicily to Rome, making effective use as a fortress of the hill monastry of Montecassino, lightly rubbed at extrems., near fine,

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Graham, Dominick,

CASSINO.

Pan/Ballantine, London, 1972 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps in text, coloured photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan / Ballantine series 'History of World War II', the Germans used the town of Cassino to bar the Allied route from Sicily to Rome, making effective use as a fortress of the hill monastry of Montecassino, a little rubbed at exterms., label residue lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44917

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Grau, Lester and Gress, Michael,

THE PARTISAN'S COMPANION - The Red Army's Do-it-yourself Nazi-bashing Guerilla Warfare Manual.

Casemate, Newbury, 2011, paperback, xviii, 234pp, line drawings and diagrams in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured decorated wrappers, described as the third, final and best edition of 'The Partisan's Companion', produced by the Red Army to train partisans to fight the Nazi invader but its usefulness has outlived WW2 as it has been later used to train Third World guerillas in their wars of national liberation, it covers fundamental partisan field craft, anti-partisan tactics, explosives and demolition, combat weapons, reconnaisance, camouflage, etc., fine,

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Book number: 41586

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Griffin, H. J.,

AN EIGHTH ARMY ODYSSEY.

Pentland Press, Bishop Auckland, 1997, 1st edn., x, 214pp, maps and half tone photo ills. in text, loosely inserted erratum slip, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Geoff Hobbs, the author's recollections of his service with the 73rd medium Regiment Royal Artillery in Egypt (where they converted to an Anti-Tank Regiment), across North Afica to Sicily and Italy, from July 1941 until August 1945, describing atmosperic accounts of engagements with the enemy and general army life as well as the social conditions found in North Africa and Southern Europe, faint foxing upper edge, dustwrapper: faint foxing to reverse, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45369

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Grove, Eric,

WORLD WAR II TANKS.

British Home Stores / Orbis, London, 1983, reprint, viii, 143pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, coloured and half tone ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, oversize (11.5 x 9 inches approx.), coloured photo pictorial laminated boards, a good introduction to the tanks and self-proplelled guns of the combatant nations of WW2, Germany, Poland, Japan, Great Britain, France, Canada, Soviet Union and United States, with a description of their development, construction, armaments and their role in combat including their most important modified forms, with technical specifications and many contemporary photographs, some in colour, lightkly bumped at extrems., edges a little tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 43568

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Gunter, Georg (trans. C. F. Colton),

LAST LAURELS - The German defence of Upper Silesia January-May 1945.

Helion, Solihull, 2002, 1st edn. UK, expanded edn., x, 309pp, maps and half tone photo ills. in text, [i] ads., large format (12 x 9 inches approx.), pictorial boards, originally published in German in 1974 as: 'Letzter Lorbeer, Vorgeschichte und Geschichte der Kampfe in Oberschlesien, von Januar bis Mai 1945', this expanded English edition has a greatly increased number of photographs illustrating the account of the Red Aermy's series of offensives to capture Germany's key industrial region of Upper Silesia, from the massive offensive on 12 january through to the final German defensive actiobns around Ratibore five months later, with appendices of the German and Soviet Orders of Battle, German unit insignia, glossary and buibliography, heavy, faintly rubbed at tips, light creasing lower corners of preliminary pages, no dustwrapper, near fine,

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Book number: 41107

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Habe, Hans,

A THOUSAND SHALL FALL.

Panther, London, 1964, reprint, paperback, 319pp, wrap-around pictorial wrappers, in May 1940 the author, a Hungarian, was serving in the 21st Foreign Volunteers Regiment of the French Army. He relates the collapse of the French Army and being taken prisoner by the invading Germans and interned in a barrack work camp near Nancy. He escaped and after further close encounters with the invaders managed to cross into the unoccupied zone of France, a true account using fictional names only where the real ones may endanger them, well rubbed at extrems., sello repair at spine, numerous light creases, soiling to wrappers, edges tanned, ink date half title, etc., reading copy only,

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Book number: 44678

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Hamilton, Nigel,

MONTY - Volume 1: The Making of a General 1887-1942.

Sceptre, London, 1989, reprint, trade paperback, xviii, 828pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [ii] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, the first of a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, winner of the Whitbread Award in 1981 for the best biography of the year, the definitive life of the British soldier, covering on the way his Irish antecedants, his childhood and time at Sandhurst, experiences in WW1 on the Western Front, the inter-war years, with the BEF in France and Dunkirk, arrival in the Western Desert and the preparations for battle, the defensive Battle at Alam Halfa, when Rommel tried to encircle him, and the battle at El Alamein when he forced Rommel into retreat, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical creasing at spine and upper hinge, very good,

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Book number: 41143

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Hamilton, Nigel,

MONTY - Volume 3: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976.

Sceptre, London, 1987, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxviii, 996pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the final part of a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, the definitive life of the British soldier, from his promotion to Field-Marshal whilst in command of 21st Army Group, having relinquished overall command of all ground troops to the Supreme Commander Eisenhower, his northern thrust towards the Ruhr, the plan for siezing Arnhem, his re-orgainsation of the US forces split by the German penetration from the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine and the acceptance of the surrender of German forces in Holland, Denmark and North Germany on Luneberg Heath on 5th May, 1945. After a period in command of BAOR he became Chief of the Imperial General Staff which was not a success as he lacked the political skill required, afterwards serving as Chairman of Western Union's military command which later became NATO under Eisenhower, Montgomery holding the post of second-in-command Europe, lightly rubbed at extrems., slight roll to spine with many light vertical creases, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41589

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Hamilton, Nigel,

MONTY - Volume 3: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976.

Sceptre, London, 1987, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxviii, 996pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the final part of a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, the definitive life of the British soldier, from his promotion to Field-Marshal whilst in command of 21st Army Group, having relinquished overall command of all ground troops to the Supreme Commander Eisenhower, his northern thrust towards the Ruhr, the plan for siezing Arnhem, his re-orgainsation of the US forces split by the German penetration from the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine and the acceptance of the surrender of German forces in Holland, Denmark and North Germany on Luneberg Heath on 5th May, 1945. After a period in command of BAOR he became Chief of the Imperial General Staff which was not a success as he lacked the political skill required, afterwards serving as Chairman of Western Union's military command which later became NATO under Eisenhower, Montgomery holding the post of second-in-command Europe, well rubbed with some nicks at extrems., many light creases, slight roll to spine with many vertical creases, edges tanned, cnrs. truned, good reading copy,

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Book number: 41590

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Hamilton, Nigel,

MONTY - The Making of a General 1887-1942.

Coronet, London, 1984, 1st in imrpint, trade paperback, xviii, 828pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the first of what was to become a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, winner of the Whitbread Award in 1981 for the best biography of the year; the definitive life of the British soldier, covering on the way his Irish antecedants, his childhood and time at Sandhurst, experiences in WW1 on the Western Front, the inter-war years, with the BEF in France and Dunkirk, arrival in the Western Desert and the preparations for battle, the defensive Battle at Alam Halfa, when Rommel tried to encircle him, and the battle at El Alamein when he forced Rommel into retreat, vertically creased spine, rubbed at extrems., some creasing to wrappers, cnrs. inclined to curl, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 42562

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Hamilton, Nigel,

MONTY - Volume 3: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976.

Sceptre, London, 1987, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxviii, 996pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the final part of a three volume biography of Bernard Law Montgomery, the definitive life of the British soldier, from his promotion to Field-Marshal whilst in command of 21st Army Group, having relinquished overall command of all ground troops to the Supreme Commander Eisenhower, his northern thrust towards the Ruhr, the plan for siezing Arnhem, his re-orgainsation of the US forces split by the German penetration from the Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine and the acceptance of the surrender of German forces in Holland, Denmark and North Germany on Luneberg Heath on 5th May, 1945. After a period in command of BAOR he became Chief of the Imperial General Staff which was not a success as he lacked the political skill required, afterwards serving as Chairman of Western Union's military command which later became NATO under Eisenhower, Montgomery holding the post of second-in-command Europe, a little rubbed at extrems., slight roll and slant to spine, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 43474

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Harman, Nicholas,

DUNKIRK - THE PATRIOTIC MYTH.

Simon and Schuster, New York, ND (copyright 1980, New York, ND (copyright 1980), 1st edn., 271pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text maps, maps at endpapers, brown paper covered boards backed with black cloth at spine, lettered in metallic red at spine and upper board, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a further account of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France, the invasion of the Low Countries in May 1940, the collapse of the defence and the evacuation from Dunkirk, edges tanned, small ink stain to lower edge, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., small slit upper panel, a little sunned at spine, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38498

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Harpur, Brian,

THE IMPOSSIBLE VICTORY - A Personal Account of the Battle for the River Po.

William Kimber, London, 1980, 1st edn., 202pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., in text map, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, written by a junior officer involved in the long Italian campaign and in the Battle for the River Po, a complex assault by multi-national Allied forces from US, Britain, New Zealand, India, Poland, Gurkhas, etc., the climax being the first major surrender of German forces to the Western Allies, light rubbed and faintly bumped at tips, edges tanned, slight mis-fold to cnr. of final pastedown, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38785

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Harrison, Frank,

TOBRUK - The Great Siege Reassessed.

Brockhampton Press, London, 1999, 1st in imprint, 352pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 16 in text maps, laminated half tone photo pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, decorative head bands, a re-issue of the re-assessment of the longest siege in British military history, when in the Western Desert the Australian 9th Division held out for 5 months against Rommel's Afrika Korps, their relief by sea by the British 70th Division who continued to hold until their breakout to join up with the advancing British Eighth Army during Operation Crusader, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, tear, chip and creasing to lower panel, near fine in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39325

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