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4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, maps and diagrams in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
ria9781903269367_inpMultiple-component retail product. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Attachment Aware School Series: Boxed set of 5 pocket guides unknown
60 pages. Features include: The Shoot at the Venlo Bridges; Full Circle - VFA-81 "The Sunliners," - full Mediterranean Cruise; T-Birds Roost at 14 Wing; Hell Hole in Paradise - Bill Lockwood; A Bomber Pilot's Diary - F/L Lyle James; The Making of a Fighter Pilot; Wings on the Internet?; Famine Flight - Ethiopia; Friendship in a Beastly War - Rudolph Hengst, POW; Billy Bishop was an Army Officer in WWI; Light wear. Address label on back cover. Nice copy. Book
60 pages. Features: CBC Recreates Avro Arrow Dream; A Peaceful Aerodrome in WWII; On Wings of Fire - The Pathfinder Force (PFF) of 8 Group Bomber Command; New Lease on Life - Updated T-33; Fingal 1943 - a Christmas Tale; The Key Man on D-Day - Jack Ladly; Pierre le Canadien - The Airman who Died for France; Backyard Clunk - CF-101 flight simulator; Canadian Top Guns - Tyndall AFB. Covers depict a wonderful painting of an Avro Arrow swooping over Niagara Falls. Moderate wear. Address label upon back cover. Solid copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter faintly rubbed at lower backstrip. Deighton's stirring novel of Bomber Command. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2023x-1662886748Mill City Press Inc 2023. Hardcover. New. 350 pages. 6.00x1.06x9.00 inches. Mill City Press, Inc hardcover
8vo., First Edition with illustrations; original wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Fred Whitfield served as rear gunner with IX Squadron Lancasters based at Bardney in Lincolnshire. His record of over 30 'ops' includes raids on the Tirpitz and the Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Extremely scarce due to limited print run
2016__1903269369Worth Publishing 2016. Paperback. New. 576 pages. 7.20x4.60x2.10 inches. Worth Publishing paperback
8vo., with many hundreds of photographs throughout, and photographic endpapers; cloth, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Another of ATB's well-researched 'then and now' series, matching contemporary photographs with their present-day equivalents.
1991129469Perth: John Burridge 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. Perth John Burridge 1991 facsimile edition/ 1916 1917 and 1919. Large octavo 37; 54; and 200 pages with numerous illustrations. Synthetic cloth; top edge slightly marked; an excellent copy. The three original parts are here bound as one in this facsimile reprint limited to a mere 200 copies. Our catalogue notes for the first edition are not out of place here: 'These three volumes reproduce the brigade's typescript journals with important additional material especially photographic illustrations not included in the original typescripts. The first volume is a photolithographic reprint of the four typescript journals published at sea in June and July 1916 while en route to England on SS "Argyllshire" with the 9th Field Artillery Brigade and 9th Field Ambulance. The second and third volumes similarly reproduce the brigade's original journals the final one with additional material as noted above as well as more than 50 illustrations from personal snapshots of the brigade's operations on the Western Front. <p>See Trigellis-Smith 307 to 309 giving '1980/90' as the date in 307 and not noting that the facsimile edition contains all three volumes in one. John Burridge hardcover
72 pages. Features: Two-page color-photo ad for the Ford Series 10 tractor, "The World Tractor"; The Tuskegee Airmen Keep on Flying - the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bomber Group were the only all-black flying units organized by the US Air Force in WWII; Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court; Reagan's War on Drugs - major article with photos, including George Bush Sr. leaning on bales of marijuana; Tax Bill politics in D.C.; A New Look at Child Labor; Jimmy Hoffa Legally Dead; Killenworth Mansion on Long Island - Soviet nest spying on local defense industries?; Bedford, IN - limestone capital of the world - Merle Edington and his Great Pyramid replica; Reagan's middle east peacemaker Philip Habib; Volkswagen Scirocco ad; Yassir Arafat - skilled in P.R.; Indira Gadhi's New Beginning; Vintage ad for Mattel Electronics' Intellivision "Starstrike" (Star Strike) video game; Peace shattered in Zimbabwe; Report from Tajikistan and the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Color photo of tennis player Hu Na; Elvis Costello - No More Mr. Bad Guy; The University of San Francisco drops its basketball program - The High Price of Cheating; William P. Tavoulareas and his libel suit against the Washington Post; Beware of Child Molesters - one of 10 youngsters is sexually abused each year; Japan's High-Tech Challenge - the Asian powerhouse launches an all-out push into computers, robots and other 'knowledge intensive' industries; How Computers Change Lives; Building a Superbrain; Japan's New Risk Takers; Here Come the Robots; From Tennessee to Tokyo - Americans prepare for Nissan's new truck plant in Smyrna, TN; Electronic Gadgets of the Future; Controversial use of animals in scientific research; The Disappearing Drive-In Movie Theater; Lloyd DeGrane and a flock of pink flamingos; Passing of: Harold R. Foster, Harold T. Sakata, Dan Seymour, Tatyana Grosman, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Jucille Parker Markey; Olympus camera ad with inset photo of model (Cheryl Tiegs?); Filming of "That Championship Season" in Scranton, PA; Back cover Barclay cigarette ad features photo of James Bond-style man in white tux; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Pages 645-662 and 667-672, lacking pages 663-666. Features: Cover illustrations of how enemy movements are watched in the desert; One page of illustrations explain anti-tank mines - "A Deadly Defensive Weapon in Mechanised Warfare"; Two-page illustration of 1,000 bombers, "A Panorama showing the bomber force which has smashed Rhineland and Western Germany"; Air photo of destroyed Gennevilliers Power Station in Paris; Photo of bomb damage in Canterbury; Air photo of bomb damage to B.F. Goodrich rubber tyre works in Paris; Three pages of very informative photos of key stages of production of the "Halifax" bomber; The Campaign in Russia and Libya - article with maps of Shanghai district, Kharkov area, and Tobruk area; Large photo-portrait of Air Marshal A.T. (Bomber) Harris, Commander-In-Chief, Bomber Command; The Aftermath of Battle - Scenes of Desolation in the Desert When the Fighting Has Ended - Four interesting photos over two pages; Centrefold illustration of the Eighth Army Salvaging an immobilised tank with a tank transporter; Six photos of salvaging tanks and enemy guns behind the front in Libya; Four photos of U.S. fighter-bombers - Curtiss "Kittyhawks" in the desert battle; Photos of ten personalities of the week include Mr. Arthur Merton, Mr. George W. Kettle, actor John Barrymore, Mexican President Avila Camacho, and Sir Archibald Sinclair; Two photos of scorched earth at Burma's Yenangyaung's oil fields; Photo of General MacArthur in Australian Parliament; Photo of midget Japanese submarine captured at Pearl Harbour; Nice colour back cover B.S.A. ad features illustration of tanks on parade with Big Ben in background. This copy was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Aside from the four missing pages, a quality copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Cover photo of Justin Trudeau entitled "When I Run" looks forward to the day when Canadians would elect his curly locks and famous last name to lead their national government; Related article discusses the question of when, not if, Justin will run for political office; Iraq - longing for piece as UN inspectors search for WMD; Tellier, who turned around CN, takes on troubled Bombardier; Sikh Gang Wars in B.C.; Advertisers use internet "adver-games" to reach kids; Metis war vet William Woodward fights Ottawa for compensation; More single young women are having babies on their own; No author can match the influence of J.R. Tolkien; Winnipeg Director Guy Maddin is celebrated - just not in Canada; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Please note: Address label clipped from front cover, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 85 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: German Guns in Action on the Western Front; The King Decorates First Air Heroes of the War; Britain's Larder, by J.R. Clynes, M.P.; Illustration of British fighter plane attacking a German Reconnaissance bomber on November 2nd; The French Army Behind the Lines and at the Front; Britain's War Aims - a statement by Lord Halifax; Siegfried Line Under Water; Happenings on the Home Front; The Dutch Army Take Up Defense Positions; The Evacuation Scheme - a general review by Walter Elliot, Minister of Health; On the Western Front with the B.E.F.; Photo of 'Throwing a Destructive Depth Charge'; Poland's Army for the Western Front; German Warship Taking a Torpedo Aboard; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 80 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: French warship sinks two u-boats; How Britain sweeps the seas for mines; Victims of Germany's unrestricted warfare at sea - the Sliedrecht, the Spaarndam, and the Pilsudski; Wellington bomber demonstrating low-flying attack; The Training of the French Soldier - article with photos; R.A.F. plane flies home with half a wing; These men control the war at sea - photo of the Board of Admiralty in session in Whitehall; Britain's mine-killing patrol at work; R.A.F. shoot down seven mazi planes in a day; Excellent centerfold illustrations explain "How Nazi Planes and U-Boats Lay Magnetic Mines in Shipping Channels; Somewhere in France with our Allies; British troops at home in training; Britain's War and Peace Aims - speech of Neville Chamberlain with photos; Clothing the British Army; "Deutschland" sinks and armed merchant cruiser, the Rawalpindi; Navy capture two German merchant ships - the Konsul Hendrik Fisser and the Borkum; The Brtish Army in France - review by Leslie Hore-Belisha; British Fighters raid Nazi seaplane base at Borkum; Making Lorries for the British Army; A Commentary on the War; Keeping a watch on the home front skies; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 77 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: In defence of the coasts of Britain - coastal defence batteries; On the high seas with the French Navy; Letters and parcels for the fighting forces; To combat the German submarine menace - depth charge testing; At the front with the French Army; Entertainments National Service Association, by Sir Seymour Hicks; H.M.S. Renown hunting the Deutschland; Russia invaded Finland on 30th November; The B.E.F. on the Western Front; 1914-18 Men join up again; French Curtiss fighter brings Nazi Heinkel bomber down in flames; British troops training with heavy guns; Centerfold illustration by Frank H. Mason of enemy warships bombed by the R.A.F. in daring raid on Heligoland; Warfare by Submarine and Mine; British women motor drivers for France; News from the home front; British submarine chaser hunting u-boats; Great photos of flying boats of the coastal command air patrol; The Red Cross lamp in war, by Sir John Kennedy; Photo of Army Council in session; Making small arms for the British Army - Bren guns; Testing huge balloons for the barrage; His Majesty the King of France; A Commentary on the War; Activity on the Siegfried Line; South African Air Force catch a Nazi Raider - the German liner Watussi is scuttled; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 68 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Ad for Mein Kampf, part 2, inside front cover; French Premier Daladier and Admiral Darlan aboard U-boat hunters; 5 photos of French women working in aircraft factories; four photos of Polish sailors fighting with the British Navy; Three photos of night on the British front in France - with gas masks in use; End of another German submarine, the U.39; How the colonial empire of France comes to the aid of France - illustrated article; Newfoundland answers call to arms; With the Finnish army at the front; full-page photo portrait of General Vuillemin, Supreme Commander of the French Air Force; Illustrated centerfold displays the range of Allied and German aerial gun-power; two photos of a downed ME 109; large photo of a downed Dornier 17 afire in a French field; Australian airmen join R.A.F. Coastal Command - working with the Short Sunderland flying boat; Article - U.S. and the War - President Roosevelt issues a warning to Americans; Photo of American bomber over the New York World's Fair; Photo of massive French railway artillery; Training men as stokers for the Royal Navy; New Zealand troops in training at home; A commentary on the war this week; Training men from the ranks as officers; Ad for "I Was Hitler's Maid" inside back cover; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. 66 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: French President Lebrun visits British troops at the front; With the British troops at the front; Photo of the Antelope which sunk two U-boats in a day; In the home front news; Illustrated article by Sir Kingsley Wood entitled "The Road to Victory"; Training soldiers to control railways; Further German secrets revealed by the R.A.F. - excellent overhead photos of the seaport of Brunsbuttel and the seaplane base on the island of Sylt; Finland stands firm against the red invaders - 8 photos; Full-page photo portrait of Sir Thomas Blamey; Centerfold illustration of the last moments of a Heinkel bomber followed by a British fighter; French army activity at the front; Pictorial news from the German front; Illustrated article by Sir Henry McMahan entitled The Y.M.C.A. and the War; Photos of Anzacs of 1940 arriving in the Middle East; Full-page photo of Mr. Anthony Eden addressing New Zealand troops aboard the leading transport ship at Suez; Training Officers and men at a naval torpedo school; Commentary on the war this week; Flight Lieutenant Robert Voase Jeff is decorated by General Vuillemin of the French Air Force; Protecting army convoys in France from the air; Summary of the chief daily events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. 47 black and white quality photos and illustrations. Features: Photo of British tanks practising at home; Super full-page photo of a Dornier 17 burning in an English field, plus two related photos; Bomb damage on Scottish tenements; twin-engined German bomber downed on the east coast - crew of 4 captured; Illustrated article entitled "Till Freedom Is Secure" - text of a broadcast by Lord Halifax; Photo of ruins at the corner of Senaturska St. and Miodowa St. in Warsaw; Photos of Britain's home defenders and their ceaseless vigil; Map of British naval minefields and ground defence zones; Full-page photo portrait of Sir Alan Brooke; 4 photos of a Nazi pilot parachuting down near a vessel he had been trying to sink; H.M.A.S. Sydney sinks Italy's fastest cruiser, the Bartolomeo Colleoni - photos of each vessel plus centerfold illustration by S. Drigin which shows the Italian Vessel about to submerge; 4 aerial photos of bomb damage to German targets - the Dortmund-Ems Canal and the Eschwege aerodrome; Photo of 9" gun atop Gibraltar; Photo of the H.M.S. Ramillies; S. Drigin illustration of R.A.F. bombers performing a twillight raid over a south-west German industrial centre; Photos of Newfoundland men who have responded to Britain's call; Illustrated text of a broadcast by Sir Philip Joubert entitled "Wings Over Africa"; Nice full-page photo of a Fairey Swordfish flying over the H.M.S. Ark Royal; Full-page photo of Polish General Sikorski honouring the Podhale Mountain Brigade for their service at Narvik; A commentary on the war for this week; The Navy's North Sea watch; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. 62 black and white quality photos and illustrations. Features: Illustration of the Highlander of Aberdeen which pulled into harbour with the wreckage of a Heinkel lying across her poop; Operations in Africa - photos; Map of Khartoum and area; Aerial photo of smoke over Haifa oil storage facilities after Italian raid on July 24th; Illustrated text of speech by Sir Shenton Thomas entitled "The Colonies Go To It"; Singapore photos; photo of a platoon of a Malay regiment at drill; Photos of damage to Italian warship after being hit by a 15" shell; Photos of the ceaseless coast watch for Nazi invaders; Photos of Churchill inspecting N.E. coast defences; Centerfold illustration by S. Chapman depicts the H.M.S. Alcantara routing an enemy raider in first armed merchant cruiser engagement; Dr. Benes inspects a long line of Czeck bomber crews in England; Signing ceremony photo of Anglo-Polish military agreement; Birds of Battle - the men of the R.A.F.; Aerial photo of destruction of the wharves at Duisburg; Illustrated article on the Somaliland campaign; Photo of E-Boats; A commentary on the war for this week; Canada patrols the Atlantic - photos of Stranraer flying boats; H.M.S. Leaves port again - plus photo of the ship's officers behind a plaque which recognizes major British naval accomplishments; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Illustrated article entitled "The Home Guard", by Sir Thomas Moore; Battle in Africa - the spoils of war - photos of Italian prisoners; Photo of smoke-screen being employed on the Mediterranean; Churchill inspects the British Grenadiers; Scene inside a blockhouse; Great photos of a downed Junkers 88 on August 13th and a Dornier bomber the same day; Photos of captured German airmen; Photos of bomb damage in southeast England; Centerfold illustration by S. Drigin shows Britain's little motor torpedoe boats successfully engaging enemy vessels; Super full-page photo of a formation of 5 Blackburn Rocs which have been added to the Fleet Air Arm; Amazing photos of British ships narrowly missing Italian bombs in the Mediterranean; Desert warfare in Egypt; Illustrated text of speech by Anthony Eden entitled "Ware for a New World"; Super full-page photo of British naval pom-pom gunners in action; Their majesties in the Midlands; A commentary on the war for this week; Photos of British fleet battering Libyan coast; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Illustration by C. Gibberd of a Hurricane attacking a German bomber about to attack a British merchant ship; Bombing crews meet their intelligence officer upon their return from Germany; Blenheim attack on Havre; Photos from Libya; Illustrated text of a broadcast by Mackenzie King of Canada entitled "Two Great Brotherhoods"; Vincent Massey greets first Royal Canadian Air Force squadron to reach England; Photos of children saved from boats attacked by U-Boats; Incredible full-page aerial photo of the Philidelphia Navy Yard which is full of dozens of veteran warships; Map of navla and air bases leased to American by Britain; A Dornier bomber burns on the beach in the southeast; Photo of a German dive-bomber brought down almost intact in Southern England; Balloons ablaze in coast battle; Wrecked German planes and the damage they caused; centerfold illustration by N. Clarke shows a Sunderland and its very successful attack on enemy planes, supply ships and fuel dumps at Tromso, Norway; two excellent photos of German POWs in Canada; A British flying boat is rescued by a British destroyer; Guardians of our island fortresses; Great photo of the loading of a 9.2" gun; Photos of the King and Queen; Photo-Illustrated Article on The First Year at Sea - an official summary of activities issued by the Ministry of Information; Commentary on the war this week; Photos of the Arab legion in Transjordania; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Aerial photo of Fleet Air Arm hitting a German supply ship in harbour at Haugesund, Norway; Photo of Sgt. John Hannah, the war's youngest V.C. beside his D.F.C. pilot C.A.H. Connor; Illustration by S. Drigin of how Sgt. Hannah won the Victoria Cross; First American destroyer flotilla arrives; Article on the problems facing Hitler in the countries he has overrun; Photos of the King and Queen with their people; A convoy of troop ships reaches Egypty; Photos of Winston Churchill in Dockland; Royal Scots Fusiliers in training; Bren guns to combat air attack; wonderful centerfold illustration by S. Drigin shows Sunderland flying boat and a U-Boat it has just attacked; Photo of the contrails of 100 German planes which have just passed on their way to London; Photo of smashed Messerschmitt on truck passing Westminster - one of 133 raiders destroyed 27 September 1940; Photos of damage London; Londoners lining up to take shelter for the niight; Official statement on Air Attacks on Germany; full-page map of Germany catalogues British air attacks; Great photos of a twin-engined Whitley bomber which is used to attack Italy; Enemy sea bases bombed by the R.A.F.; A commentary on the war this week; Nice photo of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, the British Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, taken with the fleet at sea; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Progress of the War - statement in Parliament by Winston Churchill; British bomb damage to the aerodrome at Addis Adaba; Several photos of German planes downed in England; Scenes of damage in London; Photo of German prisoners; Full-page clear photo of the blasted Houses of Parliament with statue of King Richard the Lion Heart in foreground; Photo of Londoners sleeping in the underground; Excellent graphic of Gibraltar and area; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black depicts an Italian destroyer of the "Curtatone" class being sunk by H.M. Submarine Osiris; The Army awaits the call - photos; Photos of the navy maintaining its vigil; Canadian Navy on contraband control, with photo of the Prince Robert which captured the German motor cargo boat Weser off the Mexican coast; Dr. E.N. Van Kleffens writes on the "War-Effort of the Netherlands" - with photos of Dutch officials and military hardware; Illustration by N. Clarke depicts a Heinkel bomber which is dropping into the channel; Photo of Britain's new air chief, Sir Charles Portal; Photo of Goering and his Generals studying a map; Commentary on the war this week; Photos of Germans plotting air raids on Britain, plus photos of German aircraft on their way to their targets; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Photo of bomb manufacture in South Africa; Photo of a bomber flight being briefed; Excellent photo of a stack of 500lb bombs being moved by a worker; Photos of air night fighters; Article on the heroic work of the A.R.P. - a civil organisation that has won universial admiration; Photo of Besa guns in production and in a training session; Photo-survey of the desert conflict; Italy in the Air War - photo of bombing over Greece and an Italian flyer being rescued from the sea; Italy joins in London air raids - photo of Italian prisoner being marched in London plus damage to the Tower of London and St. Clement Danes; Super photo of one of 13 Italian planes downed during their first raid on Britain; Dramatic centerfold illustration of the last moments of the heroic H.M.S. Jervis Bay, Captained by E.S.F. Fegen, which gave its life protecting an Atlantic convoy of 38 ships; On duty with the Royal Navy - photos; Wonderful full-page photos of a British destroyer at full power, smoke billowing; S. Drigin illustration of an Italian transport trapped by Greek snipers; Photo of Goering addressing a crowd of airmen; Photo of German "Stukas of the Sea" - speedboats of the German Navy; Text of speech broadcast by Captain Cyril Falls entitled Totalitarion War; Photos of our allies in training; Photo of Hitler shaking hands with Marshal Petain; Photo of Vichy cabinet session in session; A commentary on the war this week; Four military photos from Gibraltar; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
