Cotterell, Anthony,

R.A.M.C..

Hutchinson, London, ND (c1943), 1st edn., 116pp, 24pp half tone photo ills, line drawings at eps., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, a contemporary account of the work of the Royal Army Medical Corps detailing experiences mainly from France and North Africa, with accounts of the structure and levels of aid provided by the Corps, cloth unevenly sunned in places, edges sl. browned and foxed, ink name fpd., foxing to eps. and prelims., no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 13279

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 royal army medical corps ramc france north africa western desert

Cotterell, Captain Anthony et al.,

WAR : issue 26 : September 5th, 1942 : [News Facts for Fighting Men].

Army Bureau of Current Affairs, London, 1942, paperback, 16pp (incl. wrappers), map of India 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printed in red, a fortnightly bulletin of war news issued to every officer for the information of his men, marked as 'Not to be Published', issue number twenty-six, featuring The Indian Army (an account of the structure of the Indian Army and the theatres in which they have been deployed), An American Unit (a description of a US Infantry Unit and how they live and train together), lightly rubbed at tips, light soiling and pencil name upper wrapper, slight rusting to staples, very good,

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Book number: 40258

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 news bulletin army current affairs india indian army structure us usa american infantry unit training

Craig, Norman,

THE BROKEN PLUME - A Platoon Commander's Story, 1940-45.

Imperial War Museum, London, ND (copyright 1982), 1st edn., 191pp, half tone frontis portrait, maps, half tone and sepia ills. in text, coloured endpapers, brown cloth lettered in silver at spine and upper board, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, selected by the Imperial War Museum in their series of personal reminiscences of WW2, the author was conscripted in 1940 and served for a year in the ranks before being commissioned, serving with the Welch Regiemnt in the UK, the Royal Sussex in the Western Desert, Iraq and Persia, and the East Surreys in Italy, seeing action at El Alamein and in Northern Italy where he was wounded two weeks before the end of the war, he records the fighting but also the routine of soldiering which occupied the greater part of his time in the army, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: slight crease and wrinkle in laminate, a little sunned at spine, light creasing front flap, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40877

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army western desert egypt libya iraq persia italy

Craig, Norman,

THE BROKEN PLUME - A Platoon Commander's Story, 1940-45.

Imperial War Museum, London, ND (copyright 1982), 1st edn., 191pp, half tone frontis portrait, maps, half tone and sepia ills. in text, coloured endpapers, brown cloth lettered in silver at spine and upper board, wraparound half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, selected by the Imperial War Museum in their series of personal reminiscences of WW2, the author was conscripted in 1940 and served for a year in the ranks before being commissioned, serving with the Welch Regiment in the UK, the Royal Sussex in the Western Desert, Iraq and Persia, and the East Surreys in Italy, seeing action at El Alamein and in Northern Italy where he was wounded two weeks before the end of the war, he records the fighting but also the routine of soldiering which occupied the greater part of his time in the army, lightly rubbed at tips, edges stanned, dustwrapper: slight wrinkling to laminate, a little sunned at spine, ownership label front flap, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40952

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army western desert egypt libya iraq persia italy

Crocker, Stuart,

FOREIGN SHORES - A True Story.

Matador, Leicester, ND (copyright 2010), trade paperback, [vi], 361pp, photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the experiences of a young German, brought up in Germany during the unstable economic times that brought the Nazis to power he joined the Hitler Youth and in 1943 at the age of seventeen was called up to the armed forces, underwent training as a member of the parachute regiment and was posted to northern France, was wounded during the Allied invasion and received medical treatment on Guernsey before being taken prisoner and shipped to England as a POW when the island was liberated. After working in England for a while he visited his parents and family in Germany but was disappointed with his reception and returned to live in England, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41571

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 german army parachute regiment

Crookenden, Napier,

BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1944.

Ian Allan, London, 1980, 1st edn., 160pp, half tone photo ills. and maps / diagrams in text, maps at endpapers, oversize (11.5 x 8.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of Adolf Hitler's intuitive plan for counter-offensive to split the Allied armies, presented to his staff in September 1944 and put into effect on 16th December, the breakout through the Ardennes towards Antwerp that very nearly succeeded, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: spine sunned, a little rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41291

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

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

Davies, W. J. K.,

GERMAN ARMY HANDBOOK 1939-45.

Military Book Society, London ND (copyright 1973), , 176pp, 4pp col'd ills., frontis and numerous in text half tones, line drawings and diagrams., red cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an overall picture of the German army during WW2 with basic information on all aspects of an army's activities, covering the history, organisation, fighting units, basic tactics, equipment, uniforms and personal arms for different units, tactical signs and signals, appendices covering important dates, the Afrika Korps and the Waffen SS, with bibliography giving lines for more detailed study, lightly bumped at lower cnrs., edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32751

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 german army tank armour weapon uniform

Davies, Barry BEM,

SAS - The Illustrated History.

Virgin, London, 1996, 1st edn., 224pp, coloured and half tone photo ills. throughout, oversize (11.5 x 9.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured decorated dustwrapper, a pictorial account of the work of the Special Air Sevice, from their birth in North Africa in the days of David Stirling and Paddy Mayne and the LRDG through the remainder of WW2 and the many other theatres incuding Malaya, Oman, Northern Ireland, The Falklands and The Gulf, with accounts of their selection, training, combat and survial techniques, their counter-terrorism and counter revolution role, with a Roll of Honour and an operational history, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38507

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war army ww2 falklands gulf irelance terrorism

Davis, Brian L.,

WAFFEN - SS.

Blandford, Poole, 1985, paperback, unpaginated [128pp], half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (9.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, in the Blandford War Photo-Files series, in the format of over 200 captioned photographs, a pictorial account of the elite combat force of the Third Reich, covering early history and training, campaigns in Poland, France, Greece, Eastern Front, Normandy and Falaise, Ardennes, Hungary, with sections on the non-German volunteer units and Knights Cross holders, lightly rubbed at tips, very good,

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Book number: 39500

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 german army waffen ss

Deighton, Len,

BLITZKRIEG - From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk.

Book Club Associates, London, 1979, club edn., 319pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., numerous in text drawings, daiagrams and maps in line and 2 colours, pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated and lettered dustwrapper, a history of Hitler and the Nazi party, together with an account of the development of weapons, strategy and the use of air supported tank formations that came to be called 'blitzkrieg', very sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32754

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army armour armor afv tank panzer blitzkrieg poland norway holland belgium france meuse dunkirk

Deighton, Len,

BLITZKRIEG - From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1979, 2nd imp., 319pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., numerous in text drawings, diagrams and maps in line and 2 colours, pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, decorative headband, decorated and lettered dustwrapper, a history of Hitler and the Nazi party, together with an account of the development of weapons, strategy and the use of air supported tank formations that came to be called 'blitzkrieg', lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, spine sunned, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32755

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army armour armor afv tank panzer blitzkrieg poland norway holland belgium france meuse dunkirk

Deighton, Len,

BLITZKRIEG - From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1979, 1st edn., 319pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., numerous in text drawings, diagrams and maps in line and 2 colours, pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, decorative headband, col'd decorative lettered dustwrapper, a history of Hitler and the Nazi party, together with an account of the development of weapons, strategy and the use of air supported tank formations that came to be called 'blitzkrieg', lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips,spine sunned, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32756

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army armour armor afv tank panzer blitzkrieg poland norway holland belgium france meuse dunkirk

Deighton, Len,

BLITZKRIEG - From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk.

Book Club Associates, London, 1979, club edn., 319pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., numerous in text drawings, daiagrams and maps in line and 2 colours, pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated and lettered dustwrapper, a history of Hitler and the Nazi party, together with an account of the development of weapons, strategy and the use of air supported tank formations that came to be called 'blitzkrieg', lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: spine sunned, unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36790

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army armour armor afv tank panzer blitzkrieg poland norway holland belgium france meuse dunkirk

Deighton, Len,

BLITZKRIEG - From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk.

Triad / Granada, London, 1981, 1st in imprint, paperback, 382pp, 32pp, half tone photo ills., numerous in text maps, diagrams and drawings, [i] ads., decorated upper wrapper (unattrib.), a history of Hitler and the Nazi party, together with an account of the development of weapons, strategy and the use of air supported tank formations that came to be called 'blitzkrieg', light vertical creasing to sunned, spine, a little rubbed at extrems., wrappers lightly creased, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 41957

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army armour armor afv tank panzer blitzkrieg poland norway holland belgium france meuse dunkirk

Delaforce, Patrick,

THE BLACK BULL.

Chancellor Press, London, 2000, 1st in imprint, [iv], 252pp, decorated title, half tone photo ills. and maps in text, photo pictorial montage laminated boards with matching dustwrapper, an historical narrative expanded with quoted personal experiences, and with many in text ills., of 11th Armoured Division, after nearly four years training in Yorkshire, the South Downs and East Anglia the advance party landed in Normandy on D+3 and the remainder, part of VIII Corps, was operational in time for Operations Epsom, Goodwood and Bluecoat, taking Antwerp, the right flank for Market Garden, back-up for the Ardennes and the liberation of Belsen, Lübeck and trhe Danish frontier, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41097

Catalogue: WW2 - Army

Keywords: war ww2 army 11th armoured armour armor afv