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1914
- £35.00
- Based almost entirely on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and on new or little-known letters, diaries, official reports, and papers, the author weaves together an engrossing and moving picture of what it was like to fight in the British Army in 1914. With b/w…
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1939 – a novel
- £25.00
- Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a prolific writer of novels, poetry, childrens fiction, and translations from French. She and her third husband Baron Joseph von Franckenstein were victims of Macarthyism and HUAC, both being blacklisted from various outlets. The story of a French woman who loves an Austrian--but it is more…
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A Family Madness: a novel
- £25.00
- Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those unscathed by war, Delaney gropes to understand Kabbel's outlook…
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A Moment in Time
- £25.00
- In the summer of 1940, 19-year-old Elizabeth Cartwright lives a secluded and privileged life in a village in Kent. Her world is turned upside down with the arrival of a group of RAF officers who requisition her family home as a base. She immediately falls for Bill Ogilvie with an…
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A Rumour of War
- £85.00
- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
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Agent ZigZag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carr ---- 'This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures ... It would be impossible to recommend it too highly' Mail on Sunday ----- One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a…
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An Angel in Australia (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sydney, 1942 through the eyes of a naive young priest. This book looks into the hearts of people who fear the end of life as they know it, in the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget…
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Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (no. 58)
- £75.00
- American Edie Ross, who helped Biggles solve the heroin smuggling case (Biggles in the fight against the white death), appears in London. He is looking for the lost son of a millionaire and Biggles must help him É
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Biggles Flies Again
- £16.00
- Biggles flies again into adventure in the far places of the earth. Stranded among the tropical swamps of British Guiana when the company employing him as a pilot folds up, he takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he is flying and proceeds to earn his living by undertaking dangerous missions…
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Biggles Forms a Syndicate
- £50.00
- Biggles is visited by an old friend, Squadron Leader 'Dizzy' Digswell, who has an interesting tale to tell. After being forced to parachute out of his plane flying over the Aden Protectorate in Arabia, he thinks he has come across the ancient ruins of the city of Ophir. He found…
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Biggles of the Special Air Police
- £16.00
- First published in 1953, 'Biggles of the Special Air Police' is a collection of 14 short stories featuring Biggles and his colleagues. The stories fall into two sections - the first 7 are, as you might expect, simplistic mysteries featuring Biggles and his colleagues in their job as detectives with…
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Biggles Sweeps the Desert
- £14.00
- Hopelessness took him in its grip. He knew he was wandering in circles but he had ceased to care. All he wanted to do was drink. His skin began to smart. His feet were on fire... When Biggles arrives in the desert to set up a secret oasis base, he…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £20.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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1914
- £35.00
- Based almost entirely on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and on new or little-known letters, diaries, official reports, and papers, the author weaves together an engrossing and moving picture of what it was like to fight in the British Army in 1914. With b/w…
- Add to basket
-
1939 – a novel
- £25.00
- Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a prolific writer of novels, poetry, childrens fiction, and translations from French. She and her third husband Baron Joseph von Franckenstein were victims of Macarthyism and HUAC, both being blacklisted from various outlets. The story of a French woman who loves an Austrian--but it is more…
- Add to basket
-
A Family Madness: a novel
- £25.00
- Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those unscathed by war, Delaney gropes to understand Kabbel's outlook…
- Add to basket
-
A Moment in Time
- £25.00
- In the summer of 1940, 19-year-old Elizabeth Cartwright lives a secluded and privileged life in a village in Kent. Her world is turned upside down with the arrival of a group of RAF officers who requisition her family home as a base. She immediately falls for Bill Ogilvie with an…
- Add to basket
-
A Rumour of War
- £85.00
- In March 1965, Marine Lieutnant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A…
- Add to basket
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A Ship of Glass
- £25.00
- John Coates was born in 1912 into a Yorkshire engineering family. He went to Haileybury and then read English at Cambridge, where he spent most of his time acting and writing plays and became President of Footlights. This was his 5th novel.
- Add to basket
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Agent ZigZag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carr ---- 'This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures ... It would be impossible to recommend it too highly' Mail on Sunday ----- One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a…
- Add to basket
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An Angel in Australia (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Sydney, 1942 through the eyes of a naive young priest. This book looks into the hearts of people who fear the end of life as they know it, in the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (no. 58)
- £75.00
- American Edie Ross, who helped Biggles solve the heroin smuggling case (Biggles in the fight against the white death), appears in London. He is looking for the lost son of a millionaire and Biggles must help him É
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Flies Again
- £16.00
- Biggles flies again into adventure in the far places of the earth. Stranded among the tropical swamps of British Guiana when the company employing him as a pilot folds up, he takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he is flying and proceeds to earn his living by undertaking dangerous missions…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Forms a Syndicate
- £50.00
- Biggles is visited by an old friend, Squadron Leader 'Dizzy' Digswell, who has an interesting tale to tell. After being forced to parachute out of his plane flying over the Aden Protectorate in Arabia, he thinks he has come across the ancient ruins of the city of Ophir. He found…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles of the Special Air Police
- £16.00
- First published in 1953, 'Biggles of the Special Air Police' is a collection of 14 short stories featuring Biggles and his colleagues. The stories fall into two sections - the first 7 are, as you might expect, simplistic mysteries featuring Biggles and his colleagues in their job as detectives with…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Sweeps the Desert
- £14.00
- Hopelessness took him in its grip. He knew he was wandering in circles but he had ceased to care. All he wanted to do was drink. His skin began to smart. His feet were on fire... When Biggles arrives in the desert to set up a secret oasis base, he…
- Add to basket
-
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £10.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
- Add to basket
-
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
- £20.00
- This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking…
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