Anon.,

WAR : issue 5 : November 15th, 1941 : News Facts for Fighting Men.

Army Bureau of Current Affairs, London, 1941, paperback, 16pp (incl. wrappers), map of the Balkans in text, stapled paper wrappers about 8 x 5 inches printed in red, a fortnightly bulletin of war news issued to every officer for the information of his men, marked as 'Not to be Published', issue number five, featuring Break-away from Greece (the Greek campaign part 2), We Bag our First (an anti-aircraft gunner in London), Diary of a Parachutist (Russian naval parachutists behind Rumanian lines), Bombed at Sea (an account of an incident during East coast convoy protection), lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing, staples a little rusty, very good,

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Book number: 40240

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 news bulletin army current affairs italy balkans greece albania bulgaria russian navy parachutist rumania odessa navy east coast convoy rnps a/s

Anon.,

WAR : issue 8 : December 27th, 1941 : News Facts for Fighting Men.

Army Bureau of Current Affairs, London, 1941, paperback, 16pp (incl. wrappers), map of Libya in text, stapled paper wrappers about 8 x 5 inches printed in red, a fortnightly bulletin of war news issued to every officer for the information of his men, marked as 'Not to be Published', issue number eight, featuring Libya - The First Phase (the present campaign from 18th November 1941), The Army of the U.S.A. (organisation and training), Report of a Sea Rout (Royal Navy versus Italian Navy off Cape Spartivento, Sardina), lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing, very good plus,

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Book number: 40243

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 news bulletin army current affairs libya western desert north africa middle east usa spartavino royal navy

Anon.,

WAR : issue 10 : January 24th, 1942 : News Facts for Fighting Men.

Army Bureau of Current Affairs, London, 1942, paperback, 16pp (incl. wrappers), map of Libya in text, stapled paper wrappers about 8 x 5 inches printed in red, a fortnightly bulletin of war news issued to every officer for the information of his men, marked as 'Not to be Published', issue number ten, featuring Benghazi and Beyond (second report on the Libyan campaign), A German on Crete (attributed to a German Staff Officer), A Visit to Russia (a British Staff Officer's assessment of the Red Army), with a postscript on the Arctic Convoys, lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing, very good plus,

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Book number: 40244

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Arthur, Max,

MEN OF THE RED BERET - Airborne Forces 1940-1990.

Hutchinson, London, 1990, 1st edn., xviii, 430pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 22 in text maps, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the operations of British airborne forces especially the Parachute Regiment, from their founding in 1940 in the early days of WW2 through to 1990, including their first raids on the Tragino acquaduct in Italy and the radar installation at Bruneval in France through the many minor and major operations of Normandy, Arnhem and the Rhine Crossing, to post-WW2 action in Palestine, Suez, Malaya, Aden, etc. to those more recent in Northern Ireland and The Falklands, based on interviews with veterans and serving members, heavy buimp to upper cnr. upper board, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, ink signature and date front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed and creasec at extrems., good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39194

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: military history airborne forces parachute regiment war ww2 tragino bruneval north africa sicily italy sangshak normandy arnhem ardennes rhine crossing greece palestine malaya cyprus suez borneo falklands northern ireland

Asher, Michael,

THE REGIMENT - The Definitive Story of the SAS.

Penguin, London, 2018, reissued edn., trade paperback, xxvi inc maps, 588pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo montage upper wrapper, an in-depth study of SAS operations and personalities, the author is a former soldier in 2q3 SAS Regiment reconstructs in detail greatest actions of the SAS, the prototype of all modern special forces units worldwide, , lightly rubbed at tips, edges slightly tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 45785

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army sas special air service

Atkinson, Rick,

AN ARMY AT DAWN - The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.

Abacus, London, 2004, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, [xx], 681pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., Allied Chain of Command and 18 maps in text, pictorial montage wrappers, winner of the Pulitzer prize for history in 2003 this is an account of the climax of North African campaign starting with operation Torch, the amphibious invasion of Morocco and Algeria in November, 1942, with Eisenhower in overall command for the first time, and of the first test in combat of the new expanded US Army, lightly rubbed at tips, light vertical creasing and sl. roll to spine, very good,

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Book number: 38742

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army north africa morocco algeria tunisia eisenhower patton bradley montgomery rommel

Barker, A. J.,

DUNKIRK - The Great Escape.

Book Club Associates, London, 1977, club edn., 240pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, maps and half tone photo ills. in text, maps at endpapers, large format (9.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), orange cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated in blind upper board, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, using material from French, German and British sources the author has produced a complete and authoratative account of the retreat and encirclement of the British Expeditionary Force, of the preparations for Operation Dynamo and the subsequent evacuation from Dunkirk until the surrender of the reqarguard on June 4th, with many contemporary photographs, appendices of the composition of the BEF and a summary of the ships involved and the numbers evacuated, edges alittle tanned, ink inscr. recto front free endpaper and light foxing to half title, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., spine sl. sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43677

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army navy france bef dunkirk operation dynamo

Beale, Peter,

TANK TRACKS - 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment At War 1940-45.

Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1995, 1st edn., xiv, 238pp, numerous in text maps, diagrams and half tone photo ills., large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), black cloth letttered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the birth of the Regiment in 1916, brief details of actions near Amiens and the Battle for Moreuil (1918), but mainly of the rebirth in 1940, a lengthy period of training before Normandy a few days after D-Day with Churchill tanks, part of 31 Tank Brigade (later 34 Tank Brigade), action with 15th (Scottish Infantry) Div. in Operation Epsom, into Holland and assisting with enlarging the Arnhem salient, countering the Ardennes offensive, fighting through the Reichweld Forest and into Germany, very sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35531

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army tank regiment armour armor afv

Beevor, Anthony,

ARDENNES 1944 - HITLER'S LAST GAMBLE.

Penguin/Viking, London, 2015, 1st edn., xix, 451 pp. 24 pp. half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, a very readable account of the German Ardennes offensive in December 1944, when three field armies, spearheaded by the 6th panzer Army, broke out through the forests of the Ardennes in an effort to split the Allied advance and reach Antwerp. The author's account details the actions of individual units as well as the friction between the Allied commanders, particularly between Montgomery.and Eisenhower and Montgomery and Bradley. Montgomery eventually overstepped the amount of dissent that Eisenhower would permit and ended up banished to advance into Northern Germany, leaving the heart of Germany to Bradley and Patton. lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 45768

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army ardennes belgium malmady eisenhower montgomery bradley patton

Beevor, Antony,

D-DAY - The Battle For Normandy.

Penguin, London, 2010, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xv, 592pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., maps/diagrams in text, half tone pictorial upper wrapper, an account by the award winning historian of the Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day, 1944, involving by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was difficult to imagine. The individual encounters that followed included some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, lighrt foxing to half title, very good,

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Book number: 45456

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army d-day france normandy omaha gold juno sword utah bocages caen operation epsom goodwood cobra bluecoat mortain totalize hamme anvil falaise pocket

Beevor, Antony,

STALINGRAD.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND, reprint, paperback, xvii, 493pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, [i], large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, a chronological account of the events leading to the battle for Stalingrad and a detailed account of the epic battle itself, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and the Wolfson History Prize, a little rubbed at tips, light creasing to spine and wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 38462

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Keywords: war army ww2 russia germany stalingrad

Beevor, Antony,

STALINGRAD.

Penguin, London, 2007, trade paperback, xvii, 493pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, [i], half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, a chronological account of the events leading to the battle for Stalingrad and a detailed account of the epic battle itself, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and the Wolfson History Prize, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43154

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

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Beevor, Antony and Vinogradova, Luba (ed. and trans. by),

A WRITER AT WAR - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945.

Pimlico, London,ND (circa 2012), reprint, paperback, xxi, 378 pp. half tone photo frontis, half tone photo ills. in text, coloured map inside front cover, phto pictorial wrappers, the author was deemed unfit for military service against the germans when they invaded Russia in 1941 and he became a reporter for the Red Army Newspaper, Red Star, and witnessed many of the major events of that war, the desperate retreats of 1941, the defence of Moscow and the fighting in the Ukraine, the brutal street fighting of Stalingrad during 1942. He was present at the Battle of Kursk and as the Red Army advanced he reached Berdichev where hi worst fears for his family were confirmed. A Jew himself he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities which was used in evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical crease in spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45773

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army russia red army ukraine stalingrad kursk berdichev war crimes holocaust treblinka

Belfield, Eversley and Essame, H.,

THE BATTLE FOR NORMANDY.

Pan Books, London, 1983, trade paperback, 256pp, 8pp half tone photo ills, maps and diagrams in text, wraparound cover map with pictorial panel upper wrapper, in the Grand Strategy Series, this account '..traces the fortunes of the British, Canadian, American and German armies from 7th June 1944, D-Day + 1, to the end of the savage battle for the Falaise Gap on 22nd August which opened the way to Allied victory in Western Europe..', ligjhtly rubbed at tips, faint creasing to wrappers, cnrs. slightly inclined to curl, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40069

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: ww2 war army vf45

Belfield, Eversley and Essame, H.,

THE BATTLE FOR NORMANDY.

Pan Books, London, 1967, 1st in imprint, paperback, 256pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, #T34, wraparound pictorial cover-art by Leech, this account '..traces the fortunes of the British, Canadian, American and German armies from 7th June 1944, D-Day + 1, to the end of the savage battle for the Falaise Gap on 22nd August which opened the way to Allied victory in Western Europe..', slant, creasing and sunning to spine, small area surface loss upper wrapper where old price scratched out, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 41682

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: ww2 war army