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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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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
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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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Blood, Tears and Folly, In the darkest hours of the Second World War
- £15.00
- This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction - still reverberate unheeded. Beginning with the political and industrial roots in the Great War of 1914-1918, Deighton…
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City of Gold
- £12.00
- January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has been sent to find them amongst the city's teeming streets and bazaars, before it is too late. But Cutler…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
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Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
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Double-Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
- £16.00
- From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat , comes a thrilling new true story of Second World War deception.D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation:…
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Dragon Seed
- £12.00
- Dragon Seed styled as Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China, immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Some characters seek protection in…
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it…
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Fighter, the true story of the Battle of Britain
- £15.00
- History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point…
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Fighting Mad: One Man’s Guerrilla War
- £30.00
- Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits…
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- £15.00
- December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming…
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Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
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Growling Over The Oceans: The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991
- £20.00
- The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members with archive…
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Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
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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
-
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
-
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Blood, Tears and Folly, In the darkest hours of the Second World War
- £15.00
- This study sets the drama of war on a world stage, and examines why, 50 years on, the lessons of World War II - when humanity was consumed by violence and destruction - still reverberate unheeded. Beginning with the political and industrial roots in the Great War of 1914-1918, Deighton…
- Add to basket
-
City of Gold
- £12.00
- January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has been sent to find them amongst the city's teeming streets and bazaars, before it is too late. But Cutler…
- Add to basket
-
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
- Add to basket
-
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail 'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MOST INFAMOUS PRISON IN HISTORY -- FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SAS: ROGUE HEROES AND THE SPY…
- Add to basket
-
Deutsch-Englische Begegnung – English-German Reconciliation Ottobeuren – Coventry
- £14.00
- Commemorative publication for the performance of Britten's War Requiem on Sept 6 1964, in Ottobeuren and Coventry, in German and English. Leicht unfrisch. Gedenkschrift fr die Auffhrung des "War Requiem" vom Benjamin Britten am 6. September 1964 in Ottobeuren! - Beiliegend das Programm des Konzertes.
- Add to basket
-
Double-Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
- £16.00
- From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat , comes a thrilling new true story of Second World War deception.D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation:…
- Add to basket
-
Dragon Seed
- £12.00
- Dragon Seed styled as Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China, immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Some characters seek protection in…
- Add to basket
-
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it…
- Add to basket
-
Fighter, the true story of the Battle of Britain
- £15.00
- History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point…
- Add to basket
-
Fighting Mad: One Man’s Guerrilla War
- £30.00
- Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits…
- Add to basket
-
Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- £15.00
- December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming…
- Add to basket
-
Goodbye to all that (Folio)
- £12.00
- The tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War were so great that Robert Graves left England permanently, vowing never to return. He recounts here his experiences in the war. The introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan is new to this edition, which follows that of the 1957 revised edition,…
- Add to basket
-
Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
- Add to basket
-
Growling Over The Oceans: The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991
- £20.00
- The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members with archive…
- Add to basket
-
Land at War, The Official Story Of British Farming, 1939 – 1944
- £45.00
- An account of British agriculture during the Second World War, written by renowned writer Laurie Lee, as part of his role as Publications Editor for the UK's Ministry of Information. This was his first published book. Many b/w photographs & diagrams.
- Add to basket