Spooner, Tony,

SUPREME GALLANTRY - Malta's Role in the Allied Victory 1939-1945.

John Murray, London, 1996, 1st edn., xxvi inc. 3 maps, 358pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, described as the first book to describe in full details the attacks made from Malta in the Second World War, the vital base in the Mediterranean for Allied Naval and Air Force attacks on the shipping supplying Rommel's north African forces, with appendices of 'Ultra' intercepts, enemy merchant ship losses, Libya supplies 1940-43, Tunisia campaign enemy ship losses, U-boat losses in Mediterranean, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned and pages tanned, mainly faint pencil underlining and marginal annotations with some in ink, list of references at final free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly creased at extrems., very good reference copy in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40993

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 mediterranean malta raf navy

Staffford, David,

ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL - Men of Secrets.

Abacus, London, 2000, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxix, 359pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an examination of the unique relationship between two leaders, President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States of Amertica and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, at the heart of which was an extraordinary and far reaching sharing of intelligence and a fascination they each had for clandestine operations, edges tanned, fine,

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Book number: 44538

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Stokes, Donald,

MEN BEHIND VICTORY.

Hutchinson, London, ND [1944], 1st edn., 168pp, frontis and 14pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in white at spine, based on and expanded from a series of radio plays broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1943, an account of some of the men behind the increase in effort that winning WW2 required, including, for instance: the arrangements made for building ships for Britain in the USA, the planning of the type, weight and construction of bombs for the RAF's campaign, the gathering of tiny scraps of information from many sources that can result in useful intelligence, the work of the merchant airmen, etc., a little rubbed and lightly bumped at extrems., spine sl. sunned, edges tanned with some foxing, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 36854

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 back room biographies thompson hunter huskinson kaltenbrunner air intelligence mitchell stuart smith ouvry henshaw lewis hoyt taylor nelson johnson merchant airmen

Strawson, John,

CHURCHILL AND HITLER - In Victory and Defeat.

Constable, London, 1997, 1st edn., xxxi, 540pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, maps at coloured endpapers, large format (9.5 x 6" approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tailbands, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, a portrrait of the two men who each tasted both victory and defeat but who were poles apart in character, Hitler for whom war was the natural state of things and Churchill for whom war was a romantic adventure but who strived for peace, dustwrapper: faintly rubbed at tips, fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44822

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 churchill hitler

Sutherland, Jon and Diane,

WORLD WAR II.

Flame Tree, London, 2010, paperback, 256pp, pictorail half title and title, map, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, pictorial wrappers with flaps, format about 8 x 7 inches, an illustrated reference source on the strategies, leaders, equipment and battles of WW2 arranged chronologically from 1949 to 1945, fine,

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Book number: 41456

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 causes campaigns personalities

Talbot, Godfrey,

TEN SECONDS FROM NOW - A Broadcaster's Story.

Hutchinson, London, 1973, 1st edn., 254pp, half tone frontis, 14pp half tone photo ills., coloured endpapers, light blue paper cloth with darker blue title panel lettered and bordered in silver at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, the autobiography of journalist Godfrey Talbot, who started his career with the Yorkshire Post and then the Manchester City News before joining the BBC in 1937 where he was to stay for over 30 years, becoming one of the best known voices on British radio as he reported from North Africa and Italy during WW2 and after a spell as BBC News chief reporter being accredited to Buckingham Palace covering royal events and tours, edges stanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., repaired nick to lower edge, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40497

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: autobiography broadcasting war ww2 royalty televison radio bbc

Taylor, James and Shaw, Warren,

THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF THE THIRD REICH.

Penguin, London, ND (circa 1999), reprint, trade paperback, [x], 341pp, pictorial upper wrapper, a background to the Nazism of Germany with a chronology of the years 1933-45, and an A-Z reference of the major Nazi figures and places in the Party, the State, the Resistance Movement, Politics, the Final Solution and the Nuremburg trails, with appendices on the major military campaigns, lightly rubbed at extrems., slight roll to spine, faint vertical creasing in spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41314

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany third reich dictionary reference

Taylor, Eric,

WOMEN WHO WENT TO WAR 1938-46.

Robert Hale, London, 1988, 1st edn., 254pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, '...by 1945 nearly half a million British women, drawn from all classes, were in the Forces. From '...vivid, first-hand accounts and dozens of interviews with eye-witnesses...' the author '... explores the heroism and commitment of women in WW2...', edges tanned, upper edge faintly foxed, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, sunned at spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35667

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 raf navy army nurses wrens ats waaf vad fany's

Taylor, Eric,

WOMEN WHO WENT TO WAR 1938-46.

Grafton, London, 1989, 1st in imprint, paperback, 365pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [ii] ads., half tone photo pictorial wrappers, '..By 1945 nearly half a million British women, drawn from all classes, were in the Forces. From '..vivid, first-hand accounts and dozens of interviews with eye-witnesses..' the author '.. explores the heroism and commitment of women in WW2..', lightly rubbed at tips, spine sunned with red lettering bleached, faint vertical crease in spine, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 41039

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 raf navy army nurses wrens ats waaf vad fany's mass observation women home front

Taylor, Eric,

WOMEN WHO WENT TO WAR 1938-46.

Robert Hale, London, 1988, 1st edn., 254pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, (9.5 x 6.5" approx.), '...by 1945 nearly half a million British women, drawn from all classes, were in the Forces. From '...vivid, first-hand accounts and dozens of interviews with eye-witnesses...' the author '... explores the heroism and commitment of women in WW2...', edges tanned, faintly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45259

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 raf navy army nurses wrens ats waaf vad fany's

Thomas, Donald,

AN UNDERWORLD AT WAR - Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War.

John Murray, London, ND (copyright 2003), 4th impression, xvii, 429pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, decorative head and tailbands, (9.5 x 6" approx.), although WW2 produced numerous acts of heroism and self-sacrifice it also made many people rich and the country was ripped-off of millions of pounds by both personal and corporate greed. The profits of civilian wartime racketeering dwarfed pre-war criminality and extended from the civilian population through to the armed forces, endangering the health and sight of RAF personnel by serving industrial alcohol in West End clubs, the front line soldier as vehicles intended for the front arrived stripped of essental spares, etc., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustweapper,

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Book number: 45260

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 underworld spivs deserters racketeers

Thorne, Christopher,

THE ISSUE OF WAR - States, Societies and the Far Eastern Conflict 1941-1945.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1985, 1st edn., xx, 364pp, double page in text maps by Patrick Leeson, grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, bringing together material gathered over a number of years this is an examination of the impact of WW2 on the societies and cultures of those involved in the war, from America and Japan to Australia, New Zealand, India, Chins and South-East Asia, and also the British, French and Dutch interests in the area, complementing the author's earlier works, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. sunning to cloth, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 39012

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 far east australia usa europe

Tilling Group,,

THE WAR THAT WENT ON WHEELS.

Tilling Group, London, circa 1949, paperback, 62pp , [ii] blank, 2 maps and many photo ills. and line drawings in text, card wrappers lettered in black, format about 9.5 x 6 inches, undated but contains a photograph of the 1946 Victory Procession in London, and on good quality paper with coloured inks and so probably later rather than earlier, the war record of the Tilling Group of companies 1939-1945, a summary of the work of the group as a whole and of the staff, with a brief chapter on the specific work of each member company including Bath Tramways, Brighton Hove District Omnibus, Bristol Tramways and Carriage, Caledonian Omnibus, Crosville Motor Services, Cumberland Motor Services, Daimler Hire, Eastern Coach Works, Eastern Counties Omnibus, Eastern National Omnibus, Hants and Dorset Motor Services, Lincolnshire Road car, E. W. Rudd, Southern National Omnibus, SDouthern Vectis Omnibus, Thames Valley Traction, Thomas Tilling, United Automobile Services, United Counties Omnibus, Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Services, Western National Omnibus, West Yorkshire Road car, Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, lightly rubbed at tips, wrappers a little dusty, very good,

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Book number: 40531

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 tilling group

Townsend, Colin and Eileen,

WAR WIVES - A Second World War Anthology.

Grafton, London, 1989, 1st edn., xvi, 297pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, (9.5 x 6" approx.), testimony of the unsung heroines of the Second World War: the 'ordinary housewives of Britain and Germany, left to survive without their menfolk for sometimes over seven years. The story is told in their own words - dramatic, funny, tragic, poignant. Each letter or journal, seen here for the first time, gives a unique insight into the effects of war on everyday life and relationships. lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45261

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 home front women wives

Trevor-Roper, H. R. (ed.),

HITLER'S WAR DIRECTIVES 1939-1945.

Pan Books, London, 1983, paperback, 319pp, maps in text, [i] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, Germany's conduct of WW2 was very personal being based on a number of Directives issued by Hitler, restricting the strategic planning of the armed forces but here providing a record for historians with comments and explanations by Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, lightly rubbed at tips, faint crease lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 41912

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 hitler germany military strategy politics