Brown, Malcolm,

THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF 1918 YEAR OF VICTORY.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1998, 1st edn., xxxiv, 392pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, [vi] blank, blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of World War One during 1918, a year of dramatic swings in fortunes on the Western Front with longer casualty lists than other years, when British troops were at one stage in serious danger of having to consider evacuation but only weeks later German troops were in full retreat, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Brown, Malcolm,

THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF 1918 YEAR OF VICTORY.

Pan, London, 1999, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxxiv, 392pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Grand Strategy series, an account of World War One during 1918, a year of dramatic swings in fortunes on the Western Front with longer casualty lists than other years, when British troops were at one stage in serious danger of having to consider evacuation but only weeks later German troops were in full retreat, lighty rubbed at tips, light creasing to spine and wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40303

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Brown, Malcolm,

THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF 1918 YEAR OF VICTORY.

Pan, London, 1999, reprint, trade paperback, xxxiv, 392pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Grand Strategy series, an account of World War One during 1918, a year of dramatic swings in fortunes on the Western Front with longer casualty lists than other years, when British troops were at one stage in serious danger of having to consider evacuation but only weeks later German troops were in full retreat, lighty rubbed at tips, light creasing to lower cnr. of wrappers, very good plus,

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Book number: 40304

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Brown, Malcolm,

THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF THE WESTERN FRONT.

BCA, London, 1993, club edn., xiv, 274pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, 8pp coloured ills., half tone ills. map, line drawings and diagrams in text, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in silver at spine, wraparound photo pictorial dustwrapper, during WW1 the Western Front was the central stage of the conflict and is covered in this history using exclusively material recorded at the time and held in the archives of the Imperial War Museum, from the early clashes of August 1914 through the long ordeal of trench warfare to the Armistice of November 1918, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, upper edge tanned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41411

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Carew, Tim,

THE VANISHED ARMY.

Corgi, London, 1971, 1st in imprint, paperback, 253pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers, the story of the British Expeditionary Force of 1914, the outdated, outnumbered and unprepared regular army trained to the old standards that had to learn modern warfare the hard way, discovering that cavalry units were no longer viable, that sappers were as important as infantry and that artillery was more important than the Household Brigade, they neverthless proverd their worth and held the front until Kitchener's New Army was available, revelling in the Haiser's description of them as a 'contemptible little army', light vertical crease in sunned spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44218

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Carlyon, L. A.,

GALLIPOLI.

Doubleday, London, 2002, 1st edn. UK, [viii], 600pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 which brings that epic tragedy to life as well as relating the fear, courage and humour of the soldiers who fought there, describing their experiences whether Australian, British, New Zealand, French or Turkish it also examines those who led them, the generals and politicians, some brilliant, some ruthless, some hopelessly incompetent, the military strategies and political manouevering; and the squalor, endurance and individual heroism of the front line, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly creased at edges, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43031

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'Casualty' [Arnold Gyde],

'CONTEMPTIBLE'.

Willaim Heinemann, London, 1916, 2nd imp., vi, 226pp, deep crimson cloth lettered and ruled in black at spine, lettered and bordered in black upper board, publisher's device in black lower board, the author's experiences on the Western Front, from the retreat from Mons to across the Aisne before being wounded and repatriated, inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper, signed by author on title, lightly rubbed at tips, some flecks of colour loss to cloth, edges tanned, tanning to free endpapers, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40649

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Chauncey, A.,

WOMEN OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE.

W.R.A.F. Old Comrades' Association, ND, 1st edn., xviii, 107pp, half tone frontis portrait, 6pp half tone photo ills., coloured decorative endpapers, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), dark blue cloth with white title label on upper board decorated and lettered in black, when the Royal Air Force was founded on April 1st 1918 there were already a considerable number of women from Women's Royal Naval Service and Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps attached to flying units employed in support roles in offices and in maintenance trades. On 1st April they had the option of being re-posted within WRNS or QMAAC or of becoming members of the new Womens Royal Air Force. A total of 31,670 women are said to have served in the WRAF in capacities ranging from mechanics, drivers, caterers, cleks and tailors, releasing many men for combatant roles. They existed until 1920 and were disbanded on April 1st that year - this is their story. The introduction by H. C. I. Gwynne-Vaughan (sometime Commandant, WRAF) appears to be signed by her in ink (page viii) and the subsequent short introduction by the author also appears to bear her original faded ink signature (page xiii), loosely inserted is a folded handwritten note to Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, in French, signed by Alice Chauncey but this may have no connection with the author of this book, spine re-backed in dark blue cloth, original cloth rubbed through to boards at tips, edges tanned and dusty, small chips and stains to fore- and lower edges of frontis port., old insect damage to fore-edge margin of pages 65-92, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 44832

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Clayton, Anthony,

PATHS OF GLORY - The French Army 1914-1918.

Cassell, London, 2005 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xvi, 270pp, 14 in text maps, pictorial upper wrapper, the French soldiers of WW1 were not as well equipped as the German or British, they were wos=rse fed and started the war trained in out-of-date tactics and wearing unsuitable uniforms. The author examines how the French army adjusted to the realities of war on the Western Front, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 44118

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Cooksley, Peter G.,

VCs OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR - THE AIR VCs.

Wrens Park, 1999, 1st in imprint, xii, 204pp, half tone ills. and facsimiles in text, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, an account of the nineteen VC's won by the British and Commonwealth members of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service during WW1, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38971

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Corns, Cathryn and Hughes-Wilson, John,

BLINDFOLD AND ALONE - British Military Executions In The Great War.

Cassell, London, 2002, paperback, 543pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps and 12 facsimiles in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial upper wrapper by Nick Castle, a collection of case histories of men executed in the First World War when, between 1914 and 1920 the British Army executed 346 of its soldiers for a variety of offences including 266 for desertion but only 18 for cowardice, lightly rubbed at tips, light vertical crease in spine, small ownership label inside upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 38746

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Corns, Cathryn and Hughes-Wilson, John,

BLINDFOLD AND ALONE - British Military Executions in the Great War.

Cassell, London, 2005, paperback, 543pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps and 12 facsimiles in text, large format (8.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), pictorial wrappers, a collection of case histories of men executed in the First World War when, between 1914 and 1920 the British Army executed 346 of its soldiers for a variety of offences including 266 for desertion but only 18 for cowardice, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 38972

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van Emden, Richard,

BOY SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR - Their Own Stories For The First Time.

Headline, London, 2006, trade paperback, [viii], 340pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., [i] ad.,photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the boys, some as young as thirteen, who were caught up in the overwhelming tide of patriotism and enlisted for active service, many of whom served in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, slight roll and slant to lightly creased spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 40345

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Van Emden, Richard,

TOMMY'S ARK - Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War.

Bloomsbury, London, 2011 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 336pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, seeking comfort and entertainment in their isolation many soldiers found both in the animal kingdom, from the lion that was allowed to patrol the front-line trenches to the monkey that guided a lost officer back to his battalion, the author has assembled a series of extraordinary stories about this little known aspect of the war, slight roll and creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 44131

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Van Emden, Richard,

THE TRENCH - Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916.

Bantam, London, 2002, 1st edn., xiv, 302pp, 16pp coloured and half tone photo ills., facsimiles, line drawings and maps in text, photo pictorial montage endpapers, BBC 2 tv tie-in, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a recreation of the experiences of 10th Batallion East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Pals) on the Western Front in 1916, published to accompany the BBC television series of the same name, in which volunteers were recuited from Hull, trained at Catterick and taken to a carefully reconstructed trench in France to follow and experience the wartime routines and privations, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly creased at upper edge, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41091

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