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Beyond This Disregard.

WORLD WAR IIBiblio.com

Collection of aerial leaflets dropped on Britain by Germany in the Second World War.

19401867851940. Three leaflets dropped by German planes over Britain in 1940 - two comprising Hitler's speeches to the Reichstag appealing for Britain to make peace and an anti-Churchill "wanted" poster mock-up. The "wanted" poster uses one of the most famous images of Churchill holding a Tommy gun and smoking a cigar. The verso of the leaflet claims "This gangster who you see in his element in the picture incites you by his example to participate in a form of warfare in which women children and ordinary civilians shall take leading parts. This absolutely criminal form of warfare which is forbidden by the Hague Convention will be punished according to military law. Save at least your families from the horrors of war!". "Goebbels had thousands of the leaflets dropped over Britain. He ceased the program within two weeks when he realized the image was only boosting Churchill's popularity among Britons" Manchester & Reid p. 190. That summer the Germans targeted more than one hundred towns and cities with leaflet raids hoping to force Britain to make peace and depose Churchill. Later that year they switched to bombing effectively ending their peace efforts. Only a tiny proportion of copies survives: many landed in streams or trees while police and air-raid wardens retrieved others for wastepaper drives. The leaflets are stored in an envelope with a note that the owner J. Cahill was then serving with the Ministry of Home Security; one is stamped "Intelligence Branch" and another has a later note "German leaflet dropped during the Battle of Britain". Three leaflets varying sizes. Slight toning and minor peripheral chips Last Appeal with contemporary appeal to save paper attached. In very good condition. William Manchester & Paul Reid The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Defender of the Realm 1940-1965 2012. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni750,00 £GB≈ 856,35 €

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Daily wartime diary of Captain Leonard Hammersley Bell naval assistant to Rear-Admiral Sir Tom Phillips Vice Chief of the Naval Staff.

1941144403London: 2 September 1939 - 26 July 1941. Had he been a great man Winston would have accepted the blame himself A thorough and honest narrative by an Admiralty insider well-placed to document the onset of total war and the attitudes - in his view sometimes misguided - that shaped the navy's decision-making. In October 1939 Bell b. 1892 transferred from the Plans Division to Phillips's staff. The diary opens a month earlier one day before the declaration of war and during its two-year span Bell writes with a candour only possible in private. In the war's early months he handled "stupid questions from our ambassadors" 11 October 1939 and viewed British defensive preparations for a German invasion as "nonsense" 29 October 1939. By 1940 amid air-raid warnings there was far too much to do each day Bell like Phillips working late and more and more "dining at his desk". Pervading the account is a scepticism common to mid-ranking officers towards high-level decision makers "Admiralty suggested an attack now and then at the last moment and God knows why called off the operation" 8 April 1940. Not even Churchill is immune especially when the prime minister tries to blame the Royal Navy for decisions he took himself: "Had he been a great man Winston would have accepted the blame himself - since it lies on him squarely" 8 October 1940. In October 1941 Bell became Captain of the Fleet Eastern Fleet serving under Phillips onboard HMS Prince of Wales. After the disastrous sinking of the ship and Phillips's death Bell remained with the Eastern Fleet until the end of hostilities assuming the post of Director of Service Conditions at the Admiralty in peacetime. A note on the front endpaper of the final volume records that Bell left these volumes in London when he joined Prince of Wales. A further volume kept at sea went down with the ship. 6 vols quarto. Each vol. 240 pp. filled in neat manuscript or with tipped-in manuscript sheets rear pastedown of first vol. with affixed duplicated-typescript letter from Bell to Rear-Admiral H. C. Allen summarizing Bell's naval career. Original light brown cloth marbled edges. Slight rubbing to spines ends generally internally clean and fresh; a well-preserved diary. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni3 750,00 £GB≈ 4 281,75 €

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Desert Rats Days with the 8th Army": Photograph album chronicling service with the Middle East Interpretation Unit 285 Air Reconnaissance Wing. Compiled by W. A. Fuller.

19421763761942-43. The Allied triumph in the Western Desert An artfully composed collection centring on preparations for the Second Battle of El Alemein and its aftermath. The photographs document captured and destroyed Axis tanks and artillery the advance eastwards to Tunis and visits by Churchill and senior military figures. 285 Air Reconnaissance Wing was formed in July 1942 to oversee all reconnaissance in the Western Desert. The album opens in September-October 1942 when the Middle East Interpretation unit was operating near RAF Landing Ground 89 an important strip for bombing operations. Images from the battle - abandoned tanks and two eery night-time shots of firing artillery - are followed by evidence of his involvement in mid-November in the recapture of the strategic port of Tobruk which had been surrendered to Rommel in June. Photographs show the advance of British trucks and traces of recent hostilities an abandoned German tank and a destroyed bridge as well as the subsequent Allied push towards Benghazi. Between January and March 1943 he was based out of RAF Castel-Benito photographing the celebratory entrance into Tripoli. Press and snapshot photographs record Churchill's inspection tour at Berg-el-Arab in September 1942 accompanied by air vice-marshals Tedder and Coningham. Others document Coningham's visit to LG 89 on 20 October his address to troops his Fieseler Storch captured from the Germans and a seized Stuka dive bomber. Churchill Montgomery and General Freyberg thank the 8th Army at Castel-Benito in February 1943 General Giraud's visits Monastir in May and Freyberg takes the surrenders of generals Giovanni Messe and Kurt Freiherr von Liebenstein in the same month. Further subjects are a funeral for pilots conducted at LG 89 in August 1942 burial grounds for Axis soldiers "war paint" on American Kitty Hawk fighters and the trailer at Monastir where soldiers developed photographs. Landscape quarto album. With 327 gelatin silver photographs mostly snapshot- to postcard-size c. 50 x 80 mm to 90 x 130 mm a few smaller or larger all mounted on brown card leaves fully captioned in calligraphic hand in white ink or later roller ball pen decoration in colour. Brown card covers tied through holes with light brown cord front cover with manuscript title in yellow and white inks manuscript 8th Army and RAF badges gold highlights. Covers a little worn one photograph now loosely inserted photographs generally bright occasional mirroring: very good indeed. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni5 000,00 £GB≈ 5 709,00 €

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Flight Engineer's Notes for "Lancaster" Aircraft: Avro Type '683' Mk. I & III;

1943183794Manchester: A. V. Roe & Co. Limited May 1943. Owned by two active pilots Presumed first editions number 911 of an unknown distribution. They were issued to Sergeant Desmond Howard Hughes 1923-1943 of 115 Squadron RAFVR on 26 July 1943 and have his signature and annotations. Just four months later he was lost with his Lancaster Mk II DS782 KO-K while on a raid the largest so far sent to Berlin. Following Hughes's death these copies passed to Flying Officer Alfred Paul Mellows 1922-1997 of 169 Squadron RAFVR with his signature to both front wrappers. Mellows flew over 50 operations during the war while piloting a Mosquito and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 20 March 1945. According to the citation shared with Flight Lieutenant Leonard Drew "these officers have completed a large number of sorties in the capacity of navigator and pilot of aircraft respectively. They have also shot down 2 enemy aircraft. The second of these was destroyed one night in Feb. 1945. On this occasion the attack was pressed home from such close range that when the enemy aircraft exploded in the air their own aircraft was damaged. Nevertheless Flight Lieutenant Mellows flew it back to base. Both he and his fellow crew have always displayed the greatest keenness for operations" London Gazette p. 1595. He was part of the crew that won a rowing silver in the 1948 Olympic Games. We have traced just four copies of the main volume at the Australian War Memorial the Ingenium Library the British Library and the National Aerospace Library. We have traced no copies of the supplementary volume. 2 works octavo. Half-tone photographic plate with captioned overlay 19 folding diagrams and tables diagrams and tables in text; Notes interleaved with blanks as issued. Original purple paper wrappers wire-stitched as issued Notes glued into wrappers wrappers lettered in blue front wrappers stamped with Avro logo in blue. Light abrasions to wrappers creased and nicked at edges a little toning and foxing to contents small stub tears to some folding diagrams Supplementary Figure 7 tipped in: a very good set. "Supplement to the London Gazette 23 March 1945" The London Gazette. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 500,00 £GB≈ 1 712,70 €

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