Arthur, Max,

FORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR.

Ebury Press, London, 2002, 1st edn., x, 326pp, half tone photo ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, in 1972 the Allied the surviving veterans of the First World War were interviewed as part of a project by the Imperial War Museum to create a sound archive of their first hand experiences. This history of the First World War is the result of hundreds of hours spent in that sound archive and is in the words of the men and woemn who experienced it first hand, edges tanned, dustwrapper: faint creasing at extrems., near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41070

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 memorirs recollections recordings imperial war museum

Arthur, Max,

LAST POST.

Cassell Military Paperbacks, London, ND (circa 2006), reprint, trade paperback, 272pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, compiled from interviews conducted in 2004 with the last British survivors of WW1, the experinces of those 21 still surviving veterans, the youngest being 105, lightly rubbed at tips, faint bump at head of spine, light vertical creasing to spine, very good,

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Book number: 38741

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 navy army veterans western front

Various authors,

FIFTY AMAZING STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR.

Odhams Press, London, 1936, 1st edn., 767pp, [i] blank, decorative endpapers, frontis and 16 full page line ills. by various artists, grained red cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind at spine, decorated in blind upper board, upper edge coloured, a collection of accounts of all aspects of WW1 and from all fronts, from the army, navy and flying corps, including writers such as Philip Gibbs, Compton Mackenzie, Bruce Bairnsfather, E. Keble Chatterton and R. H. Mottram but also many lesser known writers relating stories which are just as significant, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40216

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 army royal navy flying corps anthology

Barnett, Correlli,

THE SWORDBEARERS - Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War.

Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1963, 1st edn., 386pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 42 in text maps, maps at endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in silver and lined in red at spine, upper edge coloured, laminated lettered dustwrapper, a study of four of the major military commanders of World War One and the effect of their characters on the handling of their commands, of Colonel-General Hellmuth von Moltke who implemented the German Schlieffen Plan at the beginning of the war, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, General Philippe Pétain who modernised the French Army and saved it fromn collapse; and General Erich Ludendorff , the last German supreme commander who led Germany to final defeat, very slightly cocked, light bump upper tip upper board, lightly rubbed at extrems., sl. tanning to fore and lower edges, dustwrapper: rubbed with sl. loss at extrems., several nicks to edges, some shrinkage to laminate at upper hinge, lightly soiled, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39302

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 studies supreme command western front

Bartlett, Squadron Leader C. P. O. (edited by Chaz Bowyer),

BOMBER PILOT 1916-1918.

Ian Allan, London, 1974, 1st edn., 180pp, 40pp sepia photo ills., green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, a record of a pilot's life during the pioneer days of aerial warfare, based on the diary of Sq. Ldr. C. P. O. Bartlett, who served with the RNAS flying light bombers along the Belgian coast and later in France with the RAF during the Ludendorff offensive, portraying the grim reality of war but also the abstract wonder of flying, sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned with some foxing, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., sunned at spine, short repaired tear at head of upper hinge, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38995

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 air force service bomber rnas belgium france raf ludendorff

Bennett, Geoffrey,

THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot - UK, 1972, 2nd imp., 208pp, 29 half tone illustrations, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, monotone photo-pictorial upper panel to dustwrapper, an analysis of the events leading to the battle, the battle and a summary of the results, with five detailed plans of the action, ex public library, usual stamps, front free endpaper removed, plastic protected dustwrapper: sello'ed to paste-downs, reading copy only,

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Book number: 11535

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 navy battle jutland maps plans history

Bickers, Richard Townshend,

VON RICHTHOFEN - The Legend Evaluated.

Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1996, 1st edn., [iv], 172pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author, an ex-WW2 RAF Operations Controller with Fighter and Coastal Commands re-evaluates the legend of Von Richthofen as a fighter ace with other aces of both world wars, bringing the technical and tactical differences between WW1 and WW2 into the assessment, faintly bumped at upper tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 34735

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Keywords: war ww1 air aviation

Bilton, David,

THE TRENCH - THE FULL STORY OF THE 1ST HULL PALS - A History of the 10th (1st Hull) Battalion, East Yorkshire 1914-1918.

Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2002, 1st edn., paperback original, 224pp, half tone ills., line drawings and maps in text, BBC 2 tv tie-in, large format (9 x 6.5 inches approx.), pictorial wrappers, where the TV programme re-enacted some of the experiences of the men of the 10th Btn. East Yorks (the Hull Pals) this account relates what really happened to them, recording the formation of the battalion on 1st September 1914, their training and first deployment to Egypt arriving Port Said 21st December 1915, their subsequent transfer to France arriving Marseilles March 7th 1916 and by the 28th the trenches of Auchonvillers on the Western Front, where they were to stay in various locations, in the trenches or in reserve, for the rest of the war, based on the Battalion War Diary, army records, personal letters and diaries, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 43030

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 1st hull pals 10th battlion east yorkshire regiment

Bishop, Alan and Bostridge, Mark (eds.),

LETTERS FROM A LOST GENERATION.

Abacus, London, 2004 5th imp., trade paperback, xix, 427pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map, plan and two photo ills. in text, pictorial upper wrapper, a collection of letters written during WW1 between Vera Brittain (well known for her published diary Chronicle of Youth) and four young men, her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward, and two close friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, all of whom were killed in that war, lightly bumped upper tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 44116

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 letters brittain leighton richardson thurlow

Bishop, Lt. Col. William A. VC, DSO, MC,,

WINGED WARFARE.

Bailey Brothers and Swinfen, Folkestone, 1975, 1st edn., 281pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., in text half tone ills. and line drawings, dichromatic maroon/blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, account of the legendary Canadian air ace with the Royal Flying Corps in WW1, cerdited with 72 victories and winner of the VC, lightly rubbed at extreems., bumps to lower edges, light browning to endpapers, sl. ripple to some leaves, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little rubbed at extrems., good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35885

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 air royal flying corps canada

Blaxland, Gregory,

AMIENS: 1918.

Star, London, 1981, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiv, 274pp, maps in text, pictorail upper wrapper, 1918 began with the British feeling defeated and demoralised having lost a quarter of a million men in the previous 6 months but Amiens was to be the fulcrum of the Allied line during the year in which the tide turned, when the advances made following the German's Spring offensive led swiftly to the Armistice, slight roll to spine, rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned and a little soiled, good,

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Book number: 44547

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 army amiens spring offemsive armistice

Blond, Georges (trans. by H. Eaton Hart),

THE MARNE.

Prion, London, 2002, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 256pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text maps, photo pictorial wrappers, in August 1914 over one million German troops invaded Northern France through Belgium in a modified version of the Schlieffen plan and threatened to overrun Paris, the French armies falling back from the initial battle on the frontier. The German armies exposed, however, their right flank and a counter-attack pushed them back in what became known as the Battle of the Marne, lightly rubbed at tips, faint crease upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40036

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Keywords: war ww1 france paris marne vf45 western front

Bonney, George,

THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND 1916.

Sutton, Thrupp, Stroud, 2006, revised edn., paperback, xii, 244pp, half tone photo ills., diagrams and cartoons in text, large format (11.5 x 8 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, an account of the engagement between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland in 1916, with details of the prior modernisation of the British Navy, the strengths and weaknesses of the commanders, and the shortcomings in equipment, training, command and control leading to the severe mauling of the British Fleet, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 38970

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Bradshaw, Stanley Orton,

FLYING MEMORIES.

John Hamilton, London, ND [1934], unpaginated [106pp], [vi] ads., large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in black at spine and upper board, and introduction and a collection of 48 half tone drawings mainly of aircraft with two of airships and one of an aircraft carrier, depicting scenes and events between 1914 and the early 1930's, each illustration with an adjacent page of explanatory text, lightly bumped at tips, slight marks to cloth, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 40864

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 air raf rfc rnas aviation

Brittain, Vera (edited by Alan Bishop with Terry Smart),

CHRONICLE OF YOUTH - War Diary 1913-1917.

Victor Gollancz, London, 1981, 1st edn., 382pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author's 'Testament of Youth', a best seller since first published in 1933, an account of the years 1900-1925 was based on her diaries. This book contains her diaries of the years 1913-17 published for the first time, a moving account of the daily thoughts from the jingoistic girl, urging her family and friends to enlist to her realisation of the horror of war, abandonment of a place at Oxford to train as a nurse, and the loss of her fiancée and brother, very faintly bumped at upper and lower edges, dustwrapper: unpriced, very lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 34737

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Keywords: autobiography vera brittain war ww1writer campaigner pacifist