FUNCKEN, LILIANE & FRED.

L'UNIFORME ET LES ARMES DES SOLDATS DU PREMIER EMPIRE. BOOK 2.

Belgium. Casterman, 1969, Hardback. "De la Garde Imperiale aux Troupes Alliees, Suedoises, Autrichiennes et Russes." 157 pages. Over 70 pages of military uniforms illustrated in full colour, of the Imperial Guard, the German troops, and the Swedish, Austrian & Russian troops. 25cm. x 20.75cm. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Cover is very good but back top corner and ends of spine are slightly worn, 1969

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Book number: 9100

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: uniforms army French soldiers troops militiary

GELB, NORMAN

DESPERATE VENTURE. The Story of Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of North Africa.

New York, USA. William Morrow & Company, 1992., About the invasion of North Africa in November 1942. 366 pages, including endnotes & bibliography. 28 b./w. photographs & 2 maps. 24cm. x 16cm. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w., priced $25.00. ISBN 0688098835. 1992

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Book number: 7660

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Winston Churchill Eisenhower General Omar Bradley General Patton President Roosevelt General Marshall

GERAGHTY, TONY.

Who Dares Wins. The Story of the Special Air Service 1950-1980.

London. Arms & Armour Press, 1981, Reprint, first published 1980. 249 pages including list of S.A.S. casualties, bibliography & index. 28 photoes & 11 maps. 24cm. x 16cm. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. D./w. has 4cm. tear back top corner & 1.25cm. tear edge of top spine, edges & corners slightly bumped, ISBN 085368457X. 1981

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Book number: 4942

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: S.A.S. Special Air Service aviation Aden Oman Yemen Entebbe

GIDDINGS, ROBERT.

IMPERIAL ECHOES. Eye-Witness Accounts of Victoria's Little Wars.

London. Leo Cooper, 1996., Eyewitness accounts from campaigns & minor wars, such as Maratha, Gurkha, Burmese, Ashanti, Opium, Afghan, Maori, Sikh, Kaffir, Persian, Abyssinian, Zulu, Boer, Egyptian, Sudanese and Matabele. 260 pages including select bibliography & index. 32 b./w. photographs & old prints on 16 pages. Near fine but previous owner put 2 labels on front f.e.p., presumably to cover something ! Near fine d./w. but top edge slightly bumped, priced £18.95. 24cm. x 16cm. ISBN 085052394X. 1996

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Book number: 5586

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: wars

GLOVER, MICHAEL.

RORKE'S DRIFT.

Ware, Herts. Wordsmith Editions, 1998., Paperback. Reprint, first published 1997. 146 pages including principal sources & index. 16 b./w. illustrations on 12 pages, and a double page map. Near fine, in near fine stiff card cover. ISBN 1853266736 1998

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Book number: 6011

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Zululand Natal Isandhlwana Helpmakaar Bromhead Rorke's Drift

GOLDHAGEN, DANIEL JONAH

HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.

London. Little, Brown & Company, 1996., Reprint, first published 1996. 622 pages including chapter notes. 28 b. & w. photographs and 8 maps. 9½" x 6¼". Near fine. D./w. is near fine, not price clipped (£22.95) but top edge slightly bumped. ISBN 0316879428. 1996

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Book number: 3595

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Nazis S.S. Hitler Germany The Holocaust Second World War

GORDON, MAJ. L.L.

BRITISH BATTLES AND MEDALS.

London. Gale & Polden, 1946-50., Ex Reference Library. No title page, no date of publication, but the preface mentions "the recent war", and a medal is dated 1945. 294 pages. Colour frontispiece. 32 pages of b./w. photographs of medals, with mainly 4 images to a page. Sadly, the photographs opposite page 200 are missing, which is the "Medal Ribbon Chart". No d./w., illustrated on front with silver medal and green & brown ribbon. Reference labels & marks, small piece of top of spine missing, corners bumped, o./w. very good. 9.75" x 6.25". 1950

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Book number: 2317

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: medals battles ribbons decorations awards warfare

GOULD, ROBERT W.

CAMPAIGN MEDALS OF THE BRITISH ARMY 1815-1972. With 1982/83 Price Guide.

London. Arms & Armour Press, 1982., Second edition with new 7 page price guide supplement, & corrections, in front. "An Illustrated Reference Guide for Collectors." 72 pages with 8 pages of advertisments at back. 70 medals & ribbons illustrated full size & described, plus 101 b./w. photographs. Near fine in near fine d./w. 8.75" x 5.75". ISBN 0853685150. 1982

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Book number: 2622

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: medals campaign medals Waterloo Sikh Wars Indian Mutiny Burma Wars Zula Wars Boer War Crimea War military history

GRBASIC, Z. AND VUKSIC, V.

THE HISTORY OF CAVALRY.

New York. Facts On File, 1989., Hardback. "..the major battles & wars in which cavalry played a vital role are in chronological order. Including War of the League of Augsburg. War of Spanish Succession, American War of Independence, Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, Crimean War, World War 1, & Russian Civil War. 280 pages. Beautifully illustrated with paintings in colour, and drawings, old b./w. photographs & prints. 31cmm. x 24.5cm. Large & heavy. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w. priced $40.00. 1989

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Book number: 9098

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: armour cavalry regiments war army soldiers battles

HARCLERODE, PETER.

PARAH! Fifty Years Of The Parachute Regiment.

London. Orion, 1996., Paperback. First published 1992 by Arms & Armour Press. Contents are fine. Stiff card cover, priced £7.99 on back, is in fine condition. 415 pages 38 b./w. photographs. 17 maps. 20cm x 13cm. ISBN 9781407227177. 1996

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Book number: 8647

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: Parachute regiment R.A.F. parachutists

HARRIS, JOHN

THE INDIAN MUTINY.

Ware. Wordswoth Editions, 2001., Reprint. Softback. First published 1973 by Hart-Davis MacGibbon Ltd. 208 pages. About 80 b./w. illustrations, photographs & maps. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine card cover, but front top corner is slightly creased. 24.5cm. x 19cm. ISBN 1840222328. 2001

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Book number: 7452

Catalogue: Military & Warfare

Keywords: India Indian Mutiny Colin Campbell Henry Lawrence Lucknow Benares Delhi Jhansi Tantia Topi

HASTINGS, MAX.

DAS REICH. Resistance & the March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France June 1944.

London. Book Club Assoc, 1981., First published 1981 by Michael Joseph. 264 pages including notes, bibliography, references, glossary & index. 14 b./w. photographs, plus maps, and end papers illustrated with maps. 9.5" x 6.25" Near fine but top & bottom of spine slightly bumped. D./w. near fine but top edge slightly bumped. 1981

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Book number: 4949

Catalogue: Military

Keywords: SS Panzer 2nd W./W. Nazis Hitler Reich Resistance

HASWELL, JOCK.

THE BRITISH ARMY. A Concise History.

London. Thames and Hudson, 1975., 192 pages. 176 b. & w. illustrations. 9½" x 7". Near fine except faint signs of damp on inside of front cover & on the bottom of front endpaper. Small signs of damp on bottom back e./p. & back flap. D./w. is near fine on the outside, but inside on top & bottom edges there are signs of damp or water stain. ISBN 0500011281. 1975

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Book number: 1659

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: British army soldiers Grenadiers Campaigns Armed Forces military Feb27 box 81

HIERONYMUSSEN, PAUL.

ORDERS, MEDALS & DECORATIONS OF BRITAIN & EUROPE IN COLOUR.

London. Blandford Press,1967., Ex Lib. with remains of old label stuck on f.e.p. D./w. has a 4" tear, sellotaped on the inside and is slightly damaged on bottom of spine where number label was removed. D./w. is inside protective sleeve. Where it was sellotaped on to the cover the tape has marked the endpapers & cover. All the photographs are very good but the first (Iceland) is slightly marked in 4 places where the surface of the paper is damaged, maybe where something small was stuck in. First published 1966 in Denmark. Translated by Christine Crowley. 256 pages including index & bibliography. 80 full page colour photographs by Aage Struwing showing 450 items, plus many line drawings of other orders, medals & decorations by Svend Anderson. 7.25" x 4.75". 1967

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Book number: 1811

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: medals orders chivalry decorations awards

HOGG, IAN V.

BRITISH & AMERICAN ARTILLERY OF WORLD WAR 2.

London. Arms and Armour Press, 1978., Encyclopedia of the guns used by the Allied armies of the West during the Second World War. 256 pages. Over 350 b./w. photographs.10" x 7½". Near fine, no name or inscription. Near fine d./w. except price clipped with publishers's own price label of £15.00 stuck on flap. ISBN 0853682429. 1978

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Book number: 1998

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: W./W. 2 artillery guns army Howitzer anti-aircraft gun anti-tank gun