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8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip.
24 pages. Features: Cover illustration of the charge of the six hundred Midland Yeomanry in Palestine; The Voice of a Prophet - article by C.M.; Photo of Sir Stanley Maude and Captain Musgrave on horseback in Bagdad; The Fight for Jerusalem - Nearing the End of Turkey's Four Hundred Year's Rule - one-page article by Lovat Fraser; Two photos of the troops which triumphed over the Turks at RamadieLarge photo of many British veterans of Flanders happy to be assembled for leave; Photo of Canadian hospital in France X-raying bullet in French soldier's arm; Photo of German POW receiving medical care; Three photos on one page show Canadians loading a 15-inch gun; Photo of Queen Marie of Rumania with her daughters inspecting Rumanian troops; Six photos from the Macedonian front; The Footprints of the Hun - in the devastated region re-won by British Arms for France (article); Photo of Lieut.-Colonel H. A. Gray Cheape and illustrations of the brilliant charge he led to capture enemy guns in Palestine; Illustrations of British soldiers drawing water from wells at Beersheba where Abraham drank; How the Spy Sinks His Identity - training the memory for a dangerous employ - article by Tighe Hopkins; Photos of the King on tour at several locations; Illustration of a German "Leuchtschirm" or light umbrella; Photo of Princes Wan and Piak of the Siamese Royal Family, who have enlisted in the Swiss Army; Growth & Grit of the U.S. Army - the way a peaceful nation is responding to the Great Call (article); Sketches of great soldiers leading in camp and council - General Sir Henry S. Rawlinson, General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby, General Sir W.R. Birdwood, and Lt.-General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson; Illustrations of innovative Allied air machines - an Italian Caproni triplane, a French 'Spad', and Caproni bomb-carrying biplanes; Photos of eighteen brave men and women placed on the Roll of Honour; The Royal Munster Fusiliers - one-page article with photo of officers. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
8vo., Second Impression, with photographs in the text and large folding map; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and tables in the text; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Harris's official report published for the first time, with a German perspective by Horst Boog.
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; elegantly bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with propeller motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris (1892-1984) was Commander in Chief Bomber Command from 1942 (when he replaced Richard Peirse) to 1945. Based on his experiences in London during the Blitz, Harris developed a belief in intensive incendiary bombing as a means not merely of destroying cities but of undermining civilian morale. His new concept of 'area bombing' was put into practice with the first 'thousand-bomber' raid on Cologne in May 1942. Like most large-scale innovations this was a major gamble, but its undoubted success (colossal damage inflicted for the loss of forty aircraft) paved the way for Britain's bombing strategy for the rest of the war. Eventually this policy (which remains controversial to this day) brought him into direct conflict with both Portal and Churchill, but Harris pursued it doggedly until the surrender. Arguably the greatest RAF commander of WWII, Harris was an outstanding and inspiring leader, achieving almost iconic status among staff and crews alike. After the war he refused a peerage but accepted a baronetcy in 1953. Enser, p.65.
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, top lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris (1892-1984) was Commander in Chief Bomber Command from 1942 (when he replaced Richard Peirse) to 1945. Based on his experiences in London during the Blitz, Harris developed a belief in intensive incendiary bombing as a means not merely of destroying cities but of undermining civilian morale. His new concept of 'area bombing' was put into practice with the first 'thousand-bomber' raid on Cologne in May 1942. Like most large-scale innovations this was a major gamble, but its undoubted success (colossal damage inflicted for the loss of forty aircraft) paved the way for Britain's bombing strategy for the rest of the war. Eventually this policy (which remains controversial to this day) brought him into direct conflict with both Portal and Churchill, but Harris pursued it doggedly until the surrender. Arguably the greatest RAF commander of WWII, Harris was an outstanding and inspiring leader, achieving almost iconic status among staff and crews alike. After the war he refused a peerage but accepted a baronetcy in 1953. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.65.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, and very numerous photographs, illustrations and maps throughout, and endpaper maps; pictorial boards, black cloth back lettered in yellow and white, a fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
Describes the day-to-day experiences of a RAF pilot during the Second World War. 165 pages. Blue cloth covers. Wear to extremities of covers
108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Very nice color ad for Ford Trucks features Mr. Brice Woody, Manager of the Gillespie Ranch of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; National Dairy Products Corp. ad features young boy posing like The Massive Massimo, whose illustration appears on the wall behind him; Texaco ad for their Havoline motor oil features colour illustration of bowler; Photo of 6'-9" basketball player Harry Boykoff; Nice color ad for red Dodge convertible; Interesting stylized color art ad for the state of Idaho/Container Corp. of America; Boeing ad features photo of their B-50 and C-97; Joseph Curran states the case against Communism in the National Maritime Union (NMU); Photo of the Zarief quadruplets of Brooklyn, NY with their mother; Obituary of Henry Ford; After the Lilienthal Debate; Good Year color ad features the massive XB-36 bomber and is massive tires; Lejon Brandy color ad; Japan - signals of economic storm - with horrible photo of homeless mother and child asleep; Photo of Marines departing China by train - with air escort to guard railway; Korea - America's most immediately serious problem in the Far East; Egypt - good-bye to the British; Belgium - paradox in peace; Message from Stalin to Bevin; Nice color Lucky Strike ad features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Nice color-photo portrait of Golfer Craig Wood in Lord Calvert Whiskey ad; Photo of British Royal family standing beside 7'-3" Cornelius Mostert of the Transvaal; General de Gaulle is divided into two parts; CCF (NDP and Premier Thomas (Tommy) Douglas race to success in Saskatchewan (with photo); Photo of bomb damage in Havana; Brief obituaries of Franz Seldte, The Marquess of Salisbury and Bessie Beatty; Nice two-color one-page ad for International Harvester crawlers in oil field; Rare and fantastic one-page photo ad for The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD) featuring a FWD towing trailer with power shovel up seven percent grade; Photo of Mount Hekla volcano in Iceland; Dr. Otto Robert Frisch; America Fore Insurance ad features six graphic photos of damage against which they protect; Captain Bill Beecher of the County Fair radio program; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Lawsuit over Superman - Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel and Harry Donenfeld/Detective Comics, Inc.; Baltimore cartoonist Quincy (Moco) Yardley, whose little beret-topped kibitzer brings a breakfast-table laugh to newspaper readers; Coal and the emergence of John L. Lewis; Leon Mandel of Mandel Bros. Department store offers workers a library and many other nice amenities; Our Fiscal Irresponsibility - article by economist Henry Hazlitt; Photos of major league baseball managers and their comments on their teams; The Color Question in Baseball - Satchel Paige and Josh Gibsons; Promotional one-page ad for Greater New Orleans; Nice color one-page ad for New York Central; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Knott Hotels ad features Sandusky, Ohio; Nice color Kinsey Gin ad features three Martini recipes; Impressive color-photo ad for Norfolk and Western Railway shows huge flaming rail wheel being fiited via heat expansion; Seagram's Gin color ad features photos of original early American flasks from the collection of George S. McKearin; Outlaw American Communism; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Spine tapled. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author flew in Blenheims, Venturas and Mosquitoes. Enser, p.65; Falconer, p.57.
272 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "At times comical, at others tragic, Howard Hewer's stirring story will leave a lasting imprint on the memory of its readers." - from dust jacket. Light wear. Faint erasure atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. A quality copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.189.
8vo., with photographs and maps in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1995.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH T.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR. In this copy a number of the illustrations have been replced by printed coloured stickers mounted as appropriate. A few sheets of unused stickers are loosely inserted. SCARCE.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs, drawings and tables in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
80 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Features: The Dutch Town of Putte Commemorates the Essex Scottish Regiment; Remembering the Westlake Brothers; The Construction of Memory at the Abbaye d'Ardenne; The Overseas Chevron Controversy and Canadian Identity in the Great War; The Canadian War Museum and Bomber Command - My Perspective; "A" Company Attack on Troteval Farm by the Fusiliers Mont-Royal on 24 July 1944; The Battle of Hong Kong - 70 Years Later; The Success of the Light Armoured Vehicle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. 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