Prebble, John,

CULLODEN.

Penguin Books, London, ND, 24th imp., trade paperback, 360pp, [vi] ads., 2 maps in line in text, col'd pictorial wrappers, a reconstruction of the battle and of the months or repression and brutality that followed it, from the common man's viewpoint using sources of contemporary memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental orders, lightly rubbed at tips, sl.bump at head of spine, very good plus,

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Book number: 26425

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: culloden cumberland bonnie price charlie highlands scotland

Preston, Paul,

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-39.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1990, paperback, viii inc. map, 184pp, half tone photo ills. and map in text, large format (9.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, a vivid reconstruction of the struggles of the Spanish Civil war between the broadly fascist Nationalists and the broadly socialist Republicans (each uncluding other factions), from which the dictator Franco emerged in this dress rehearsal for the forthcoming Second World War, slight slant to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, a little sunned, very good,

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Book number: 40336

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: spanish civil war franco nationalist republican

Rankin, Nicholas,

A GENIUS FOR DECEPTION - How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars (Churchill's Wizards).

Oxford University Press, New York, ND (circa 2011), 3rd imp., xiv, 466pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black paper covered boards backed with red paper lettered in black at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, the US edition of the UK title 'Churchill's Wizards' published by Faber & Faber, an account of the strategy and tactics of the deception of the enemy by the British during two world wars, tanned at edges, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42723

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: war ww1 ww2 deception

Reynolds, E. E.,

B.P. - The Story of His Life.

Oxford University Press, London, 1948, 5th imp., 122pp, col'd frontis port, 12pp half tone photo ills., in text line drawings and maps at endpapers by Baden-Powell, green cloth lettered in black at spine, decorative vignette in black upper board, the biography of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements, from his experiences in South Africa, in Inda and back to South Africa again, Mafeking, the founding of the Boy Scout movement, Brownsea Island, their use during WW1 and further expansion after the war until his death in Kenya in 1941, sl. sunned at spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, endpapers tanned, three line ink presentation inscr. verso title, tiny chip lower edge final blank, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 42973

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: biography army mafeking scouts scouting guides baden powell

Ripley, Tim,

BAYONET BATTLE - Bayonet Warfare in the 20th Century.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1999, 1st edn., [vi], 266pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the success of the use of the bayonet in hand-to-hand fighting in anumber of battles during the 20th century, from the suicidal but ecentually successful bayonet attacks on Russian defences at Port Arthur in the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War, the hoorors of WW1 including Gallipoli and the Somme, the close-combat in WW2 including Crete, the Waffen-SS in Normandy, Guadalcanal, Buna and Iwo Jima, Korea, Vietnam and the Falklands, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, light mark lower edge of reverse, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41088

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history war ww1 ww2 korea vietnam aden falklands

Robertson, Bruce,

THE ARMY AND AVIATION - A Pictorial History.

Robert Hale, London, 1981, 1st edn., 255pp, half tone photo frontis, half tone photo ills. throughout, diagram and line drawings in text, green cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a pictorial survey of the impact of air warfare on all aspects of army operations, with numerous photo illustrations in the text including some very early examples from the late 19th and early 20th centuries but mainly from WW1 to the present (1981), with lists of operational squadrons and types and specifications of aircraft, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40454

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history army aviation kite balloon airship

Rogers, Colonel H. C. B. OBE,

THE MOUNTED TROOPS OF THE BRITISH ARMY 1066-1945.

Seeley Service, London, 1967, new edn., 256pp, coloured frontis, 15 coloured and 16 half tone plates, 20 in text figures, red cloth with black title panel lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, pictorial dustwrapper, Volume lll in the Imperial Services Library series, an account of the horse soldier, mainly the cavalryman until the eighteenth century, dealing with his uniform, and equipment, weapons and horses and his life in peace and war, with some references to campaigns or battles only as background to the conditions fought under and the methods used, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned with a few light fox marks, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., faint foxing to flaps, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35652

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: war army anne hanover stuart napoleon victoria ww1 ww2 horse soldier cavalry hussar dragoon

Rudorff, Raymond,

WAR TO THE DEATH - The Sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809.

Purnell Book Services, London, ND, club edn., x, 278pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 4 maps in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, based on contemporary accounts, eye-witness descriptions and official military sources an account of the two sieges of Saragossa, the ancient capital of Aragon, during the Peninsular war when the people of the city resisted the regular French army of Napoleon, when they finally broke through only to find that virtually every building had become a fortress leading to 24 days of house to house street fighting and giving the expression 'guerilla warfare' to the english langauge, edges tanned, dustwrapper, lihtly rubbed at tips, short nicks to edges repaired to reverse, spine sunned, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42319

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history spain aragon saragossa france bonaparte jose palafox guerilla

Sandburg, Carl,

STORM OVER THE LAND - From Abraham Lincoln : The War Years 1861-1865.

Readers Union, London, 1944, club edn., 250pp, half tone frontis port, 11 maps in text, dark brown buckram lettered in light blue at spine, upper edge coloured, biography of Abraham Lincoln concentrating of the years of the Civil War, his relationship with his commenders and the development of the war, lightly rubbed at tips, sunning to spine and upper edges of boards, edges tanned and faintly foxed, good plus,

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Book number: 42977

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: biography abraham lincoln american history civil war

Saunders, Pete,

SPECIAL AIR SERVICE.

Outline, London, 1983, paperback, 32pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, ads. on inside of wrappers, stapled half tone photo wrappers, 10.5 x 7" approx., UN1 in the Uniform series, a brief account of the development of the Special Air Service since its birth in WW2, with photographs of personnel and equipment, and colour depictions of dress styles from 1945-83, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good,

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Book number: 40541

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history war ww1 ww2 lrdg sas malaya oman aden borneo indonesia northern ireland

Schick, I. T. (intro. Alun Chalfont),

BATTLEDRESS - The Uniforms of the World's Greatest Armies 1700 to the present.

Peerage, London, 1983, 1st in imprint, 256pp, coloured and half tone ills. in text, coloured pictorial endpapers, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), maroon cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated in black upper and lower boards, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the development of the uniforms of the great armies of the world from the Wars of European Succession to the present; from the irregular and sometimes not very practical garb of the armies of the eighteenth century to the highly sophisticated and well-camouflaged uniforms and machinery of today, with the essential types of uniforms methodically described and a history and psychology of uniform, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, a rubbed and tanned at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41125

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history army battledress uniforms

Seaton, Albert,

THE CRIMEAN WAR - A Russian Chronicle.

B. T. Batsford, London, 1977, 1st edn., 232pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 7 maps in text, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the Crimean war from the Russian viewpoint, based on letters, diaries, despatches, orders and eye-witness accounts, with an account of the diplomatic and political background, the training and equipment of the Russian armies, the battles and sieges of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Sevastopol and Chernaia Rechka as experiencesd by the Russian soldiers, courageous and willing but more suited to the parade ground than the battlefield, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, triangular chip to laminate (only) of lower panel, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40338

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history crimean war alma balaclava inkerman sevastopol chernaia rechka russian army

Selby, John,

THE THIN RED LINE of Balaclava.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1970, 1st edn., [xiv], 257pp, coloured frontis, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, pictorial maps at endpapers, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, wraparound coloured pictorial dustwrapper from the painting by Robert Gibb, an account of the Battle of Balaclava and of its setting in the Crimean War, covering not just the well known charge of the Light Brigade but also the action of the Heavy Brigade and of the 'Thin Red Line' of the Highland Brigade, the 93rd Highlanders, based exclusively on eye-witness reports from British, French and Russian sources, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed at extrems., short repaired nick upper edge, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38279

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: war crimea balaclava campbell 93rd highlanders

Seymour, William,

BATTLES IN BRITAIN and their political background - Volume 1 1066-1547.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1976, 1st edn., 232pp, numerous half tone photo ills., maps, battle plans and drawings in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of all major battles fought on British soil between 1066 and 1547, with for each an analysis of the historical background, narrative account of the battle, battle plans, a guide with road direction to all the battlefields and aerial photos of the battle area, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 33606

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: war military politics

Smith, E. D. [Brigadier 'Birdie', CBE, DSO],

VALOUR - A History of the Gurkhas.

Spellmount, Staplehurst, 1997, reprint, 178pp, half tone photo ills., line drawings and 12 maps in text, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), greencloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a large format pictorial history of the Gurkhas, from the original war war between Nepal and Britain 1814-15 and subsequent friendship, fighting alongside Britain in every major conflict since, with appendices of the names of regiments including those changed, details of the battle honours won, and of the Gurkha Welfare Trust, faint foxing upper egde, image of author tipped onto front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39152

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: military history gurkha army nepal