Guttridge, Roger, Hamilton, Keith and Hoskins, John,

D-DAY - 50th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings.

Southern Newspapers, Southampton, 1993, anniversary edn., paperback, 160pp, coloured and half tone photo ills., facsimiles, maps, diagrams and ads. throughout, coloured pictorial wrappers, 11.5 x 8.5" approx., the official guide to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day with a number of different accounts of the events of the Normandy landings, with a programme of events and exhibitions being held to mark the anniversary and an Order of Battle of those units, both land and naval forces, involved in the landings, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 40545

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 normandy army sword juno gold omaha utah

Hagen, Louis,

ARNHEM LIFT.

Futura, London, 1977, paperback, 128pp, maps in text, decoarted wrappers, a personal account of the 1st Airborne Division's fight for Arnhem bridge in September 1944, as seen and recorded over nine days by a young glider pilot who was one of the lucky ones to escape over the Rhine, edges tanned, spine a little sunned, near fine,

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Book number: 41736

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: ww2 army airborne paras arnhem

Harrison, D. I.,

THESE MEN ARE DANGEROUS.

Corgi, London, 1958, 1st in imprint, paperback, 255pp, [i] ads.], coloured pictorial upper wrappert, bored with being left behind by the war in Egypt, Lt. Harrison, Cheshire Regiment volunteers for the SAS, with accounts of action in the invasions of Sicily and Italy, parachute training at Ringway (Manchester), then after D-Day behind German lines in central France with the Maquis and latterly in Holland and Germany, slight slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, ink name inside upper wrapper, good,

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Book number: 44564

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: ww2 war sas parachute paras sicily italy normandy maquis france germany

Havas, Laslo (trans. from Hungarian by Kathleen Szasz, additonal material trans. Jean Ure),

HITLER'S PLOT TO KILL THE BIG THREE.

Corgi Books, London, 1971, 1st in imprint, paperback, and first thus, 274pp, decorated paper wrappers, account of the foiled assassination attempt on Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at their summit meeting in Teheran, 1943, revised with additional material for this edition, vertical cresaing to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., diag. crease lower cnr. lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41740

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: ww2 teheran churchil stalin roosevelt cicero

Howarth, David,

DAWN OF D-DAY.

The Companion Book Club, London, 1960, club edn., 256pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 maps in text, maps at endpapers, dark blue cloth with red title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge col'd, patterned and lettered dustwrapper, an account of the experiences of those involved in the early stages on the first days of the greatest sea and air invasion in history, the landing in Normandy 1944, by the author of Shetland Bus, rubbed to head of spine with sl. fraying of cloth, edges very sl. foxed, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. with loss and short tears to spine ends and corners, spine sunned, good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32805

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 normandy invasion

Jackson, Robert,

DUNKIRK.

Playboy Press, New York, 1980, paperback, 250pp, [vi ads.], 8 maps in text, a detailed account of the confusion and incompetence which lost the battle for France and the defence and holding action which permitted Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the majority of the BEF from Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, spine a little rolled and creased, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41753

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 army navy raf boulogne calais bef dunkirk dynamo france belgium

Jackson, Robert,

DUNKIRK.

Mayflower Books, London, 1979, paperback, 237pp, 8 maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), a detailed account of the confusion and incompetence which lost the battle for France and the defence and holding action which permitted Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the majority of the BEF from Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, contains eight maps (one in duplicate and one omitted), lightly rubbed at tips, faint crease in spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41754

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 army navy raf boulogne calais bef dunkirk dynamo france belgium

Ladd, James,

COMMANDOS AND RANGERS OF WORLD WAR II.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1989, 1st in inprint, trade paperback, 398pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps, line drawings and diagrams in text, [i] ads., photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the Commandos, the highly trained British troops first formed in 1940 as a raiding and assault force and of the Rangers, the US equivalent formed in 1942, the first of whom were trained at the Achnacarry Commando School in Scotland, of the development of their units, their equipment and techniques, and of their exploits in all theatres during WW2, sl. sunned at spine, light bump lower cnr., very good,

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Book number: 40075

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 commandos rangers vf45

Ladd, James D.,

SBS - THE INVISIBLE RAIDERS - The History of the Special Boat Squadron from World War Two to the present.

Book Club Associates, London, 1983, club edn., 283pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams in text, coloured endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the Special Boat Squadron, from their formation from volunteers of 6 Commando through numerous operations during WW2, their post-WW2 role as a unit of the Royal Marines and involvement in Korea, police actions and their operations in the Falklands in 1982, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, ink name front free endpaper, dustwrapper: unpriced but with prace added in ink, a little sunned, nick upper edge upper panel, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40958

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 sbs royal marines korea falklands malvinas

Ladd, James D.,

SBS - THE INVISIBLE RAIDERS.

Fontana, London, 1984, paperback, 381pp, iii ads., 8pp half tone ills., in text maps and drawings, decorated wrappers, the history of the Special Boat Squadron from WW2 to the present, rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41768

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: sbs royal marines ww2

Leasor, James,

GREEN BEACH.

Heinemann, London, 1975, 1st edn., 250pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., plans/maps in text, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of one of the objectives of the Dieppe raid in 1942, the examination of the German radar at Pourville, codenamed 'Green Beach', by an RAF flight sergeant chosen for his expertise in radar, and accompanied by a special team with the task of ensuring that he did not survive if captured, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, old deleted rpice front free endpaper, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems., chip to laminate lower panel, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39332

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 raf army commandoes radar france pourville jubilee

Leasor, James,

GREEN BEACH.

Corgi, London, 1976, reissued edn., paperback, 288pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper, an account of one of the objectives of the Dieppe raid in 1942, the examination of the German radar at Pourville, codenamed 'Green Beach', by an RAF flight sergeant chosen for his expertise in radar, and accompanied by a special team with the task of ensuring that he did not survive if captured, good,

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Book number: 42675

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

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Leasor, James,

GREEN BEACH.

Corgi, London, 1976, reissued edn., paperback, 288pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, pictorial upper wrapper, an account of one of the objectives of the Dieppe raid in 1942, the examination of the German radar at Pourville, codenamed 'Green Beach', by an RAF flight sergeant chosen for his expertise in radar, and accompanied by a special team with the task of ensuring that he did not survive if captured, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45651

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 raf army commandoes dieppe radar france pourville jubilee

Lord, Walter,

THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK.

Allen Lane, London, 1983, 1st edn. UK, xii, 323pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawing and 6 maps in text, maps at endpapers, light blue paper covered boards backed with black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, a fresh account of the greatest evacuation of WW2 described by Churchill as 'a miracle of deliverance', drawn from British archives, from new material found in France and Germany and from the recollections of some 500 of those who were involved including members of the Expeditionary Force, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and civilians, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges a littl dusty and tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 39213

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 army navy raf boulogne calais bef dunkirk dynamo france belgium

Lord, Walter,

THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK.

Allen Lane, London, 1983, 1st edn. UK, xii, 323pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawing and 6 maps in text, maps at endpapers, light blue paper covered boards backed with black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial dustwrapper, a fresh account of the greatest evacuation of WW2 described by Churchill as 'a miracle of deliverance', drawn from British archives, from new material found in France and Germany and from the recollections of some 500 of those who were involved including members of the Expeditionary Force, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and civilians, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40961

Catalogue: WW2 - Combined/Special Operations

Keywords: war ww2 army navy raf boulogne calais bef dunkirk dynamo france belgium