Groom, Winston,

A STORM IN FLANDERS - The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918 : Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front.

Cassell, London, 2003, 1st edn. UK, xii, 276pp, 27pp half tone photo ills., 3pp maps, maps at endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the battles around the town of Ypres in Belgium during WW1, where Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler both fought, the town in the way of the German 'Schlieffen Plan' to outflank the British and French armies, where relentless German attacks were repelled at great cost as witnessed by the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres to nearly 55,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers, just some of those whose bodies were never found (a further 35,000 are recorded at the Tyne Cot memorial), very faint bump upper tip upper board, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38783

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Keywords: war ww1 flanders ypres western front

Hanson, Neil,

FIRST BLITZ - The Secret German Plan to Raze London to the Ground in 1918.

Doubleday, London, 2008, 1st edn., [xii], 436pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., in text half tone photo ills. as chapterheads, maps at coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwwrapper, an accouint of the German bombing campaign against London during World War One, at first in Zeppelins until by 1916 improvements of Britain's defensive fighter capacity resulted in too many losses, but by 1917 the Luftwaffe's England Squadron had the Gotha bomber and by 1918 the Elektron incendiary, with which they came close to obliterating London, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40368

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Keywords: war ww1 air blitz london germany zeppelin gotha bomber elektron incendiary

Hart, B. H. Liddell,

FOCH : THE MAN OF ORLEANS - Volumes l and ll.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1937, l. 1st in imprint, ll. 2nd imp., paperback, l. pp.1-272, 10 in text maps, ll. pp. 273-536, 6 in text maps, [vii] ads., #114 & #115, Penguin blue and white livery, biography of one of the major French military thinkers and commanders of the late 19th and early 20th century, both vols: sl. slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., light overall soiling to wrappers, edges dusty, tanned and foxed, no dustwraper, good plus,

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Book number: 38438

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: biography war ww1

Hart, Peter,

THE SOMME.

Cassell, London, ND (circa 2008), reprint, paperback, 602pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., large format (8.5 x 5 inches approx.), photo pictorial upper wrapper, as the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum the author had acccess to many previously unpublished oral records, diaries, letters and memoirs relating the appalling attrition of the Battle of the Somme when, after the first days loss to the British Army of over 19,000 men on 1st July 1916, hundreds of thousands of men died over the following four and a half months for the gain of just a few miles, lightly rubbed at tips, cnrs. sl. inclined to curl, faint vertical creasing in spine, very good,

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Book number: 40369

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Keywords: war ww1 army somme haig western front oral history western front

Hoehling, A. A.,

THE GREAT WAR AT SEA - A History of Naval Action 1914-1918.

Corgi, London, 1967, 1st in imprint, paperback, 315pp, numerous half tone and line ills. in text, [v] ads., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, the story of naval warfare during WW1 covers from the minor skirmishes to Jutland, the mine barrages and submarines, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, ink name inside upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 45183

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 navy jutland submarine warfare cyclops scapa flow

Hoehling, A. A. and Mary,

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LUSITANIA.

Pan Books, London, 1959, 1st in imprint, paperback, 188pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., [iv] ads., #G234, pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the loss of the British Cunard line 'Lusitania' in May 1915, an unarmed passenger liner torpedoed without warning by a German submarine, with the loss of 1198 lives, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint creasing, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44413

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Keywords: war ww1 maritime liner german torpedo

Holloway, S. M.,

FROM TRENCH AND TURRET - Royal Marines Letters and Diaries 1914-1918.

Royal Marines Museum, Portsmouth, ND (circa 1990), paperback, [ii], ii, 103pp, half tone photo ills., facsimiles, maps and diagrams in text, erratum slip, eight leaf manuscript facsimile of operational notes tipped onto inside lower wrapper, half tone photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, a collection of diaries, letters and other ephemera written by members of the Royal Marines about their day to day experiences at sea or on land during World War One, both about the daily life on active service and from the specific actions at The Dardenelles, Jutland, Gallipoli, the Somme and Zeebrugge, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing to cnrs., small ownership label inside upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 38757

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Keywords: western front somme jutland dardanelles gallipoli zeebrugge royal marines ww1

Holt, Tonie and Valmai (compiled and edited by),

THE BEST OF FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE BY CAPT. BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER.

Phin Publishing, Cheltenham, ND (copyright 1978), paperback, 160pp, half tone ills. throughout, large format (11.5 x 8 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, a selection of some of the best of Bruce Bairnsfather's weekly cartoon in 'The Bystander' during WW1, featuring the front line soldier 'Old Bill', rubbed at extrems., sunned at spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 38981

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 humour western front

Hoyt, Edwin P.,

THE LAST CRUISE OF THE EMDEN.

Mayflower, London, 1969, reprint, paperback, 250pp, [vi] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the exploits of the German cruiser Emden, part of Germany's Far East Squadron during WW1, sinking some 20 merchant ships as well as a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer until she met the Australian HMAS Sydney, and of her surviving crew who made their way by sea and land to the German ally Turkey, slight roll and slant to vertically creased spine, a little rubbed at extrems., creasing lower wrapper, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 45147

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Keywords: war ww1 navy emden

Imrie, Alex,

PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN ARMY AIR SERVICE 1914-1918.

Ian Allan, London, 1971, 1st edn., 176pp, numerous half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in silver at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the birth and development of the German Army Air Service, the first Luftwaffe until it was abolished under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, with 240 photo illustrations mainly from the 1914-18 period, ligjhtly rubbed at tips, a few fox marks upper edge, small area tippex top cnr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, price crossed through in ink, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39521

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 german army air service luftwaffe

James, Robert Rhodes,

GALLIPOLI.

Pimlico, London, 1999, 1st in imprint, paperback, xxii, 384pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, originally published in UK by B. T. Batsford this acclaimed study sheds an entirely new light on the failed Gallipoli campaign, one of the tragedies of British military history but also discounting many of the legends which still surround it, making use of the diaries and letters of the men who fought there and the photographs they took, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 43034

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 gallipoli turkey asquith kitchener hamilton churchill kemal

Jones, E. H.,

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR.

Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 254pp, [ii] ads., #364, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, slightly abridged from the original 1919 edition, the classic POW escape story of WW1, covering the exploits of a young Welsh Lieutennant E. H. Jones with his Austrlaian companion, Lieutenant C. W. Hill were prisoners of the Turks, survivors of the siege of Kut-el-Amara. With a long campaign of masquerade and intrigue at their camp at Yozgad they convinced the Turks that they were mad and after being moved to a hospital in Constantinople were passed for repatriation, impressed marks to all four edges where tthe book must have been the bottom of a bale, light crease upper hinge, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44606

Catalogue: WW1

Keywords: war ww1 pow kut-el-amara yozgad turkey

Jukes, Geoffrey,

CARPATHIAN DISASTER : DEATH OF AN ARMY.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1973, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone photo and line ills. and maps, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War l series, an account of the poorly equipped and led Russian army during WW1 culminating in the campaign in the Carpathians by General Alexei Brusilov in 1916, eventually unsuccessful but achieving far more on the Eastern Front than at any other stage of WW1, lightly rubbed at tips, edges faintly foxed, very good,

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Book number: 36966

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Keywords: war ww1 army russia

Jukes, Geoffrey,

CARPATHIAN DISASTER - death of an army.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1973 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, maps, numerous half tone and line ills. in text, photo pictorial wrappers, in 'The Pan / Ballantine Illustrated History of the First World War' series, Book No. 3, an account of the poorly equipped and led Russian army during WW1 culminating in the campaign in the Carpathians by General Alexei Brusilov in 1916, eventually unsuccessful but achieving far more on the Eastern Front than at any other stage of WW1, a little rubbed at extrems., light diagonal creasing to cnrs., a few vertical creases to spine, good,

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Book number: 43572

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Keywords: war ww1 eastern front pan ballantine russia carpathia brusilov

Keegan, John,

OPENING MOVES : August 1914.

Pan/Ballantine, London, 1973, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone photo and line ills. and maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan/Ballantine 'History of World War l' series, both France and Germany had planss for any war between their two countries. In 1914 when war came France and Germany raced to implement their perceived knock-ourt blows but the French was plan was a disastrous failure. The German war plan seemed a brilliant success to start with but due to a number of factors got bogged down into trench warfare, wrappers laminated, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 44925

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Keywords: war ww1 army schlieffen plan mons marne ardennes