Messimer, Dwight R.,

VERSCHOLLEN - World War I [1] U-Boat Losses.

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, ND (copyright 2002), [xii], 341pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, [ii] notes, black cloth lettered in tan at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, details of the 203 German U-boats lost in WW1 compiled from German sources, with dates, locations, reasons for loss and, where available, first hand naratives from survivors, and for those lost without trace (Verschollen) the author puts forward available explanations and an analysis of their accuracy, dustwrapper: unrpiced, lightly rubbed at tips, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38794

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Middlebrook, Martin,

THE KAISER'S BATTLE - 21 March 1918 : The First Day of the German Spring Offensive.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1988, reprint, trade paperback, 431pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 7 maps, 2 diagrams and 3 cartoons in text, photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the start of the last great battle of WW1 which commenced on 21st March, 1918 when three German armies struck the British Third and Fifth Armies on the Western Front, a series of attacks planned to break the deadlock and knock the British Army out of the war, with a description of the peparations, the stages during the first day including the fight for the battlefield and the fall of the redoubts, and an analysis of the first day's fighting; the Appendices include: Order of Battle of German infantry, Order of Battle of British infantry and cavalry, Order of Battle of the Royal Flying Corps, Timetable for the German bombardment, Senior Officer casualtuies, etc., faint vertical creasing to sl. sunned spine, a little rubbed at extrems., diag. creasing lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 34694

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Middlebrook, Martin,

THE KAISER'S BATTLE - 21 March 1918 : The First Day of the German Spring Offensive.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1988, reprint, trade paperback, 431pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 7 maps, 2 diagrams and 3 cartoons in text, photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the start of the last great battle of WW1 which commenced on 21st March, 1918 when three German armies struck the British Third and Fifth Armies on the Western Front, a series of attacks planned to break the deadlock and knock the British Army out of the war, with a description of the peparations, the stages during the first day including the fight for the battlefield and the fall of the redoubts, and an analysis of the first day's fighting; the Appendices include: Order of Battle of German infantry, Order of Battle of British infantry and cavalry, Order of Battle of the Royal Flying Corps, Timetable for the German bombardment, Senior Officer casualtuies, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing at spine and cnrs., edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 40332

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Moorehead, Alan,

GALLIPOLI.

New English Library, London, 1968, Mentor edn., paperback, 351pp, 8pp photo ills., maps in text, wraparound pictorial wrappers, the taking of Gallipoli was pivotal to the plan to open up the Black Sea and so be able to supply Russia against the Germans. In his account Alan Moorehead provides studies of the principal characters and commanders, describes the drama of the Gallipoli campaign and the succession of blunders, hesitations and missed opportunites, ennobled only by the cheerful heroism of the British and Anzac troops, sl. slant and several creases to spine, spine sunned, lightly creased and rubbed at extrems., good plus,

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Book number: 24435

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Morris, A,

FIRST OF THE MANY - The Story of Independent Force, RAF.

Arrow, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, by July 1917 the British government was under extreme political pressure to counter the German bombing of London with seeming impunity. The Prime Minister appointed the South African General Jan Christian Smuts to head a committee on 'Air Organisation and Home Defence Against Air Raids' meanhwile Major General Trenchard, the commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France argued that the only way to counter the German bombing was to attack them in their homeland. Smuts committee eventually recommended Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service be combined into the Royasl Air Force. Meanwhile Trenchard was organising airfield bases in France from which the first Allied strategic bombing campaign by The Independent Force was commenced, to appease public opinion at home, a little rubbed at extrems., slight roll to spine, several faint creases to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45517

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Nettleinghame, F. T. (compiled by),

MORE TOMMY'S TUNES.

Erskine Macdonald, London, 1918 1st edn., paperback, 98pp, beige paper covered card wrappers, sewn binding, there seem to be a lot of 'print on demand' copies of this title but this is an original 1918 copy, a further volume after the 1917 piblication of Tommy's Tunes, recording the songs that Tommy the British soldier sings (not those that some think he aught to sing) mostly being being parodies set to well known tunes which include popular songs, hymns and nursery rhymes, some accompanied by their music, many attributed to the contributor, with a glossary of some of the slang, rubbed at extrems., with sl. loss at head of spine and light creasing, fore-edge upper wrapper a little ragged, light foxing to endpapers, occasional creases and folds in text, good,

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Book number: 44115

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Neuburg, Victor,

A GUIDE TO THE WESTERN FRONT - A Companion for Travellers,.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1988 1st edn., trade paperback, 242pp, maps, half tone photo ills., line drawings, cartoons and diagrams in text, pictorial upper wrapper, an easy to follow guide explaining how travellers can relive history by visiting the Western Front, covering the cemeteries, battlefields and memorials with suggested itineraries, historical background, detailed routes for the motorist and an outline of events at each place, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44128

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Patch, Harry with Van Emden, Richard,

THE LAST FIGHTING TOMMY - The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches.

Bloomsbury, London, ND, reprint, xiv inc. maps, 258pp, 16pp, coloured, sepai and half tone photo ills., [ii] notes, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the life of the longest surviving veteran of the First World War, who served as a machine-gunner with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in the trenches of the Western Front, seeing action at Passchendaele (third battle of Ypres), wounded by shrapnel on his way out of the line, repatriation and convalescance, eventual demob. and return to his peacetime work as a plumber, serving with the Auxiliary Fire Service in WW2 before later becoming a celebrity as the last survivor of the trenches, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41416

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Pitt, Barrie,

1918 THE LAST ACT.

Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2003 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xv inc, 2 double page maps, 318pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., trence diagrmas and 13 maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper, an examination of the savage battles that raged along the Western Front in 1918 from the German onslaught of 21st March through the struggles in Champagne and the Second battle of the Marne to the turning point in August and final victory, raintly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, near fine,

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Book number: 44129

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Powell, Anne (selected and edited by),

THE FIERCE LIGHT - The Battle of the Somme July- November 1916.

Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, Stroud, 2006, 1st in imprint, paperback, xxv, 310pp inc. 6pp maps, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, a selection of prose and poetry relating the experiences of 38 British, Australian and New Zealand writers who fought during the Battle of the Somme, the horrendous nearly five month battle on the Western Front when Allied losses averaged nearly 3,000 per day, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 38987

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Prior, Robin and Wilson, Trevor,

COMMAND ON THE WESTERN FRONT - The military career of Sir Henry Rawlinson 1914-18.

Blackwell, Oxford, 1992, 1st edn. UK, viii, 421pp, maps in text, large format (9 x 6" approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine. coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of the command of the battlefield itself, where the war is won or lost, rather than of the overall command where perspective can be lost. Rawlinson was a middle ranking commander mostly of the 4th Army, who was involved in many of the most important battles and also kept a diary in which he recorded the day to day events as well as his views on tactics and the use of technical developments, dustwrapper: unpriced, faint rub at head of spine, fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44821

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Prior, Robin and Wilson, Trevor,

PASSCHENDAELE - The Untold Story.

Yale University Press, ND (copyright 1996), paperback, frontis map, xvi, 237pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, co-written by a lecturer in history at the Australian Defence Force Academy and Professor of History at the University of Adelaide, Prior and Wilson examine the strategy, weaponry, technology, intelligenece and experience on the ground providing the fullest account of the Passchendaele campaign yet published, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 44983

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Compiled Regimentally,

SHORT HISTORY OF THE LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.

Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1916, 1st edn., [x], 48pp, half tone photo frontis, 18pp half tone photo ills. and line drawings, folding map, coloured endpapers, small format about 7.5 x 5 inches, dark green cloth lettered in black at spine, decorated in black upper board, border in blind upper and lower boards, a brief history of the London Rifle Brigade, the activities of the 1st Battalion from August 1914, arriving Flanders as part of the 11th Infantry Brigade November, heavy casualties in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, a further fierce engagement at La Brique, withdrawal to GHQ, in the line at Poperinghe in November, moved South in February and at Gommecourt for offensive 1st July; brief details of 2nd and 3rd Battalions; appendices cover decorations, mid's, officer casualties by rank/name/date, etc., slightly cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned and foxed, light foxing to prelims. and pages adjacent to ills., pencil name front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 38131

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Reynolds, Quentin,

THEY FOUGHT FOR THE SKY.

Pan Books, London, 1960, 1st in imprint, paperback, 285pp, 16pp photo ills., pictorial wrappers, the story of the First World War in the air, where, during the fiercer periods, the average life of a pilot was three weeks, slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., cnrs. inclined to curl, edges well tanned, etc., reading copy only,

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Book number: 44681

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Rogerson, Sidney (foreword by Commander Jeremy Rogerson, intro. by Malcolm Brown),

TWELVE DAYS ON THE SOMME - A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916.

Greenhill Books, London, 2006, 1st edn., UK, xxxii, 172pp, frontis in line, [ads.], light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound sepia photo pictorial dustwrapper, this account was first published by Arthur Barker in 1933 as 'Twelve Days' and records the experiences of a young subaltern who was at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge reading modern history when war broke out. He was also a member of the University Officers Training Corps and on 14th August 1914 was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment. He did not sail for France until 20th July 1916 as one of several hundred re-inforcements for the Regiment's 2nd Battalion after they had lost three quarters of their strength in the July offensive. The battalion was withdrawn to rest and retrain and his account records twelve days after their return to the trenches in November 1916, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43041

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