Shaw, Jesse,

SPECIAL FORCE - A CHINDIT'S STORY.

Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1986, 1st edn., [viii], 272pp, half tone frontis portrait, [vi] postscript and ads., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a 1917 enlistment in the Middlesex Regiment meant he was too late to see action before discharge and with high unemployment at home he joined the Welsh Guards but didn't take to 'peacetime' soldiering, in and out of trouble and eventually discharged, then fraudulently served seven years with the Royal Sussex attaining the rank of senior corporal, was called from the reserve in 1939 and was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force serving in Nigeria and then with the 3rd West African (Chindit) Brigade in Burma, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwraper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39345

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww1 ww2 army wingate welsh guards royal sussex royal west africa frontier force nigeria regiment burma chindit

Shaw, Henry I., Jr.,

TARAWA : A LEGEND IS BORN.

Macdonald, London, 1969, 1st edn. UK, large format (trade) paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone and line ills. and maps, pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book No. 8, the battle for Tarawa Atoll, after an amphibious landing in the first of the Gilbert Islands to be liberated from the Japanese, November 1943, a little rubbed at extrems., impressed mark across top of upper wrapper, some light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43848

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

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Shaw, Henry I., Jr.,

TARAWA : A LEGEND IS BORN.

Macdonald, London, 1969, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, numerous half tone photo and line ills. and maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book No. 8, the battle for Tarawa Atoll, after an amphibious landing in the first of the Gilbert Islands to be liberated from the Japanese, November 1943, lightly rubbed at tips, small area surface loss upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43849

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

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Shaw, Henry I., Jr.,

TARAWA : A LEGEND IS BORN.

Macdonald, London, 1969, 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, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Battle Book No. 8, the battle for Tarawa Atoll, after an amphibious landing in the first of the Gilbert Islands to be liberated from the Japanese, November 1943, rubbed at extrems. with a few flakes from spine, good plus,

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Book number: 44944

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 history USA japan gilberts betio

Siefring, Thomas A.,

UNITED STATES MARINES.

Bison Books / Hamlyn, London, ND (copyright 1979), 192pp, col'd photo pictorial frontis., numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., drawings maps and tables in text, green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd eps., photo pictorial dustwrapper, oversize (12 x 8.5 inches), an illustrated history of the United States Marine Corps from their origin in 1775 to post-Vietnam, the major coverage being of the Pacific theatre of WW2, lightly rubbed at tips, upper edge faintly foxed, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 29273

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww1 ww2 montezuma american revolution pacific guadalcanal iwo jima philippines okinawa

Sledge, E. B.,

WITH THE OLD BREED - At Pelelui and Okinawa.

Ballantine/Presidio Press, New York, paperback, xxvii, 353pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, the acclaimed account of experiences of a US Marine in the Pacific campaign of WW2, a little rubbed at extrems., vertical creasing to spine, edges lightly tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 45523

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 army pacific pelelui okinawa

Smith, Peter C.,

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY.

New English Library, London, 1976, paperback, 189pp, [iii] ads., map and 2 battle plans in text, appendices of task forces, pictorial wrapprs, an account of the decisive battle for control of the Pacific, the battle for the atoll of Midway, between the two fleets of carriers of the US Navy and the Japenese Imperial navy, in June, 1942, a little rubbed at extrems., creasing to wrappers, edges browned and a little soiled, lacks half of folded ill. inside upper wrapper, good reading copy,

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Book number: 41892

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: ww2 pacific midway navy atoll

Smith, Peter C.,

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY.

New English Library, London, 1976, 1st in imprint, paperback, 189pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., double page col'd ill. inside upper wrapper, map and 3 battle plans in text, appendices of task forces, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover-art, coloured front endpapers (unattrib.), an account of the decisive battle for control of the Pacific, the battle for the atoll of Midway, between the two fleets of carriers of the US Navy and the Japenese Imperial navy, in June, 1942, sl. slant to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges well browned, sl. ripple edges some leaves, very good,

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Book number: 42032

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: ww2 pacific midway navy atoll

Smith, Peter C.,

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY.

New English Library, London, 1978, 1st in imprint, paperback, 189pp, double page col'd ill. inside upper wrapper, 4pp half tone photo ills., map and 3 battle plans in text, appendices order of battle of task forces, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover-art continued on pictorial front endpaper, (unattrib.), an account of the decisive battle for control of the Pacific, the battle for the atoll of Midway, between the two fleets of carriers of the US Navy and the Japanese Imperial navy, in June, 1942, a turning point for the japanese campaign, light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45238

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: ww2 pacific midway navy atoll

Smith, Peter C.,

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY.

New English Library, London, 1976, 1st in imprint, paperback, 189pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., double page col'd ill. inside upper wrapper, map and 3 battle plans in text, appendices of task forces, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover-art, coloured front endpapers (unattrib.), an account of the decisive battle for control of the Pacific, the battle for the atoll of Midway, between the two fleets of carriers of the US Navy and the Japenese Imperial navy, in June, 1942, lightly rubbed at extrems., cnrs. inclined to curl, light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 45524

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 pacific midway navy atoll

Smith, Peter C.,

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY.

New English Library, London, 1976, 1st in imprint, paperback, 189pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., double page col'd ill. inside upper wrapper, map and 3 battle plans in text, appendices of task forces, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover-art, coloured front endpapers (unattrib.), an account of the decisive battle for control of the Pacific, the battle for the atoll of Midway, between the two fleets of carriers of the US Navy and the Japenese Imperial navy, in June, 1942, lightly rubbed at extrems., cnrs. inclined to curl, light creasing to wrappers, heavy bookshop stamp inside front wrapper, edges lightly tanned, good,

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Book number: 45525

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 pacific midway navy atoll

Spurr, Russell,

A GLORIOUS WAY TO DIE - The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945.

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1982, 1st edn. UK, x, 341pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., line drawings and 4 maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the biggest battleship in the world, the Japanese Navy's Yamoto, of over 70,000 tons with nine 18 inch guns it was made obsolete by the time of Pearl Harbor by the more effective carriers, and of the concept of Kamikaze attacks, the leadership, morale and spirit of the men who took part in them, one of the last being the Kamikaze mission of the Yamoto when called on to defend Okinawa against the US invasion without air cover and with only a few escorts, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint foxing upper edge, pages a little tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper

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Book number: 40936

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 japan kamikaze yamato

Sykes, Christopher,

ORDE WINGATE.

Collins, London, 1959, 2nd imp., 575pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 12 maps in text, magenta cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, a biography of the soldier, from childhood to his untimely death in a air accident in 1944, leader of the Chindits in Burma who in 1943 took the battle to the Japanese, described by Churchill as 'a man of genius who might well have become also a man of destiny', lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed with sl. loss at exterems., several small nicks and chips to edges, repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39575

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

Keywords: war ww2 far east malaya burma retreat rangoon chindit japanese

Thomas, Gordon and Morgan-Watts, Max,

RUIN FROM THE AIR - The Atomic Mission to Hiroshima.

Panther, London, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, 509pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps by Patrick Leeson, pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the planning of the bombing mission and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima on 6th August, 1940 based on '..interviews with leading surviving participants on both sides, diaries, official documents and a wealth of published and unpublished material..', light creasing to spine, a little rubbed at tips, tanning and sl. foxing to edges, very good plus,

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Book number: 41908

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

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Tierney, Jane,

TOBO - One Woman's Escape.

Futura, London, 1986, 1st in imprint, paperback, 156pp, map in text, pictorial wrappers, left behind after the evacuation of Singapore, the author, then 19 and newly married to a wounded and already evacuated RAF Squadron Leader, was captured by the Japanese and interned in Java, sl. slant to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., diag. crease upper wrapper, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 34409

Catalogue: WW2 - Far East and Pacific

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