Greacen, Lavinia,

CHINK - A Biography.

Macmillan, London, 1989, 1st edn., xxi, 392pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., map in text, maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Robert Ballagh, a well research biography of Major-General Eric (Chink) Dorman-Smith, an original thinker who, as a result, was loathed by some of his more traditional contemporaries. His admirer's point out the originality of his plan of attack used by General Richard O'Connor at Sidi Barrani to defeat the Italian army and his use of Ultra decrypts that enabled Auchinleck to stop Rommell during the first Battle of Alamein, although failing to please his mediocre seniors who later took their revenge. The author shows how at Anzio his Divisional General, 'a man of plodding mediocrity who had been the victim of Chink's wit at the Staff College', worked behind his back to get him sacked. She also covers his friendship with Ernest Hemmingway, his disillusionment with the British establishment, his return the the family estate in Ireland and his assumption of an Irish name O'Gowan, and his involvement with the IRA as a military advisor, edges tanned, dujstwrapper: lightly rubbed at tail of spine, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45368

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 army rommel alamein dorman o'gowan

Hart, B. H. Liddell,

HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Pan Books, London, ND, reprint, trade paperback, 825pp, numerous in text maps, vi ads., coloured lettered wrappers, the author was one of the major military original thinkers, his published ideas between the two World Wars being required reading for leaders on both sides of the conflict, he spoke with many of the Allied commanders during WW2, noting their views and intentions and after the war he interviewed many of the German commanders, then prisoners of war, and has thus been able to produce a history which covers how the commanders viewed their situations at the time, an advantage which not many historians have been previleged to possess, lightly rubbed at tips, slight roll and creasing to slightly sunned spine, a few scratches and creases, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41591

Catalogue: WW2 - General

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Hart, B. H. Liddell,

HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Pan Books, London, ND (c1980), 10th imp., trade paperback, 825pp, vi ads., numerous maps, decorated wrappers, the author was one of the major military original thinkers, his published ideas between the two World Wars being required reading for leaders on both sides of the conflict, he spoke with many of the Allied commanders during WW2, noting their views and intentions and after the war he interviewed many of the German commanders, then prisoners of war, and has thus been able to produce a history which covers how the commanders viewed their situations at the time, an advantage which not many historians have been previleged to possess, lightly rubbed at extrems., heavy sunning to spine and into wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41739

Catalogue: WW2 - General

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Hogan, George,

MALTA - The Triumphant Years 1940-43.

Robert Hale, London, 1978, 1st edn., 208pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., map in text, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, an account of the experiences of the island of Malta during WW2 when she stood alone against the might of the Luftwaffe, and provided a base for the support of the forces in the western desert against Rommel, based on personal observation, contemporary accounts, press reports and official histories, ex public library, slightly cocked, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, usual stamps, lacks front free endpaper, some light marks and cnrs. turned, no dustwrapper, good reading copy,

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Book number: 41228

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 mediterranean malta

Holmes, Richard,

BATTLEFIELDS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

BBC, London, 2001. 1st edn., 224pp, half tone photo pictorial title, maps, coloured and half tone photo ills. in text, tv tie-in, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, using eye-witness accounts to throw light on the horror, confusion and enormity of four specific battle of WW2: El Alamein, Monte Cassino, Operation Market Garden and the RAF's bombing offensive againt Geermany, attempting to bring understanding of the sacrifices mnade by British personnel and of the price paid by so many for our freedom, dustwrapper: a little sun darkened along top edge, fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41099

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 battlefields

Holt, Tonie and Valmai,

I'LL BE SEEING YOU - World War II Through Its Picture Postcards.

Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne, ND (Copyright 1987), 192pp, half tone pictorial montage frontis, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, oversize (12 x 9.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, a selection of over 800 postcards produced between 1919 and 1946, in the style and humour of different nations, making political statements, satirical comments, the sentiments of those separated by war, etc., heavy, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38510

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 postcards

Horrabin, J. F.,

AN ATLAS-HISTORY OF THE SECOND GREAT WAR - Vol. l. Sept. 1939 to Jan 1940.

Thomas Nelson, London, 1941, reprint, 107pp, maps and diagrams throughout, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, lightly rubbed at extrems., cloth a little marked, paper tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 39021

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 atlas history

Horrabin, J. F.,

AN ATLAS-HISTORY OF THE SECOND GREAT WAR - Vol. ll. January to July 1940.

Thomas Nelson, London, 1941, reprint, 115pp, maps and diagrams throughout, map at front endpapers, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, lightly rubbed at extrems., paper tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 39022

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 atlas history

Hubert, Maria and Andrew (compiled by),

A WARTIME CHRISTMAS.

Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1999, reprint, paperback, x, 146pp, half tone photo ills., cartoons and facsimiles in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, a collection of accounts about how Christmas was celebrated during the Second World War including the experiences of evacuees, on the home front in the cities and in the countryside, of service personnel at sea and on the overseas fronts both allied and enemy, with examples of the fare available and with typical recipes, illustrated with contemporary phorographs, advertisements and Christmas cards, lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing to spine, very good plus,

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Book number: 41048

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 christmas

Hubert, Maria and Andrew (compiled by),

A WARTIME CHRISTMAS.

Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1999, reprint, paperback, x, 146pp, half tone photo ills., cartoons and facsimiles in text, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, a collection of accounts about how Christmas was celebrated during the Second World War including the experiences of evacuees, on the home front in the cities and in the countryside, of service personnel at sea and on the overseas fronts both allied and enemy, with examples of the fare available and with typical recipes, illustrated with contemporary phorographs, advertisements and Christmas cards, faintly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41049

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 christmas

Irving, David,

THE WAR BETWEEN THE GENERALS.

Allen Lane, London, 1981, 1st edn., [x], 446pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, tan cloth lettered in brown at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39329

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 eisenhower montgomery patton bradley harris leigh-mallory spaatz vandenberg

de Jaeger, Charles,

THE LINZ FILE - Hitler's Plunder of Europe's Art.

Webb and Bower, Exeter, 1981, 1st edn., 192pp incl. 32pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the vast collection of looted art objects that were accumulated by the Nazi's as a result of Hitler's project for a great gallery in his home town of Linz in Austria, much of which was eventually recovered but includes an Appendix of items that are still unaccounted for, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: sl. sunned at spine, light creasing at folds, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32752

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 loot art linz

Jones, James,

WWll.

Ballantine Books, New York, 1976, 1st edn. US, paperback original, (iii insignia), 272pp, (iii insignia), 2 3fold col'd plates, numerous col'd and half tone ills., cartoons and maps in text, large oversize (12 x 9 inches) in pictorial wrappers, a collection of some of the finest mainly US combat art produced in WW2 with a narrative of the circumstances of the action, from most theatres of the war post-Pearl Harbor, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good,

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Book number: 41758

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 army navy air force

Jordan, David,

THE FALL OF HITLER'S THIRD REICH - Germany's Defeat in Europe 1943-45.

Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2004, 1st edn., 192pp, coloured maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, coloured endpapers, oversize (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), pictorial laminated boards lettered in yellow and white at spine and upper board, matching dustwrapper, decorative head and tail bands, the battles and campaigns of the war's final years that led to the destruction of the German war machine illustrated with 70 colour and half tone photographs and 50 full colour maps, from the war in the Western Desert, Italy, Russia, the Balkans, the war at sea, the air war, the liberation of France and northwest Europe to the advances by Russia and the final fall of Germany, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41304

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 hitler third reich germany

Kaminska, Ruth Turkov,

MINK COATS AND BARBED WIRE.

Collins and Harvill Press, London, 1979, 1st edn., 255pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., ochre cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, a young actress and her Trumpet playing finaceé, Polish Jews in Warsaw 1939, run away from the invading Germans to Russia to spend WW2 entertaining Russian troops and earning enough to buy a mink coat, faint bump at tail of spine, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32816

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 poland jew russia stalin warsaw