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8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first published account of the Devons & Dorsets on the Somme. Four battalions of the Devons and three battalions of the Dorsets fought in virtually all phases of the battle (there were no fewer than five battalions in action on the first day). Includes much valuable vernacular material.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada September, 1943. This issue discusses two actions which were part of the attack on Tunis: Tanks in Support - Battle for Point 174; Infantry Action - Attack and Counter-Attack; Naval Quiz. Includes 3 maps. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
170 pages. Index. Footnotes. Nominal Roll, Irnzir, 8 May 1964. Black and white reproductions of photos. "This valuable monograph is above all a tribute to the traditional qualities of the Kiwi soldier at all levels - responsible, resourceful, compassionate and professionally competent. New Zealanders can be proud of what is recorded here, as well as grateful for the way it is presented." - Foreword. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
(ca. 47 x 32 cm). 4 S. Original-Zeitung, mittig gefaltet, mit Deckeltitel. (= Göttinger Zeitung: Beilage Kriegshilfsdienst, Weihnachten 1915). Zeitung etwas gebräunt und gerändert, altersentsprechend gut erhalten. Die historische Beilage zur "Göttinger Zeitung" vom Weihnachtsfest 1915 verzeichnet zunächst auf etwa 2,5 Seiten die Spenden aus der Bevölkerung für den Vaterländischen Kriegshilfsdienst. Hier ist dicht geschrieben und genau verzeichnet, wer mit welcher Summe und aus welchem Beruf heraus gespendet hat - aufgeteilt nach den jeweiligen Zahlstellen in Göttingen (Stadtkämmerei, Weinhandlung Bremer, Zigarrenhandlung Krausbauer etc.). Infolge werden kurz die bisherigen Spenden zur "Nationalstiftung für die Hinterbliebenen der im Kriege Gefallenen" aufgelistet (Datum 24.12.1915). Auf der vierten Seite ist ein längerer Text des Kriegshilfsdienstes selbst zu lesen - über aktuelle Vorgänge und Erreichtes sowie zu kommenden Aufgaben, denn der Krieg währte ab Dezember 1915 ja noch weitere zweieinhalb Jahre. Sehr interessant ist eine fast halbseitige Danksagung des Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 82 (die sogenannten "82er") an den Magistrat der Stadt Göttingen für die zum Weihnachtsfest 1915 übersandten Gaben. Hier heißt es: "Göttingen hat uns durch seine Liebesgabentätigkeit neuen Mut und neue Kraft zu neuen Taten gegeben", zuvor bereits ist zu lesen: "Die Stadt Göttingen wolle versichert sein, daß durch die herrlichen Gaben dem Regiment große Freude wiederfahren ist und jeder 82er von dem Gedanken durchdrungen ist, so wie Göttingen hat wohl kaum eine andere Stadt für ihren Truppenteil gesorgt". Seltene Archivalie aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg! - - - ACHTUNG! Dieses Buch kann wegen seines Gewichts oder seiner Größe nur als PAKET verschickt werden. Innerhalb Deutschlands 5,80 Euro. (Portokosten ins Ausland bitte erfragen.) / ATTENTION! Due to its weight or size this book can only be sent as a PARCEL. Within Germany 5,80 Euro (For shipment abroad please ask.)
235 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Bibliography. Index. Black and white illustrations. "The skill, bravery, and perseverance of the Canadian soldier in the dying months of the war leap off these pages. Mr. Fowler has performed a valuable service in confirming once again the proud military tradition enjoyed by Canada." - from Foreward. Clean, bright, tight and square with very light wear. Quality copy. Book
470 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Author interviewed 150 men who fought alongside him on the Dutch polders. Their revelations are frank and disturbing... This important true story of nineteen- and twenty-year-old soldiers, many of whom died misereably on the sodden polders of Zeeland, deserves to be read again and again." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Book
Features: Dark Deed at San Miguel - Jim Beckwith stumbled onto a scene of carnage; Santa Fe Gambling Lady - Dona Maria Gertrudis Barcelo, aka La Tules; "We'll Never Forgive Old Harney" - song of the maltreated 2nd Infantry at Fort Pierre - General William S. Harney; The Red Front Feed Barn - wagon freighters of Southeastern Colorado - Elkhart, Kansas and the barn on the O.K. Osteen farm; Expendable Harrisburg, Arizona (5 miles SE of present day Salome, Arizona); Stray Leaves - the first foreign imported Thoroughbred horse ever to be shipped to Addington, Indian Territory - St. Swithen; Sins of the Father - John A. and Johann Augustus Sutter - Sutter's Fort; Tragedy on Salmon Falls Creek - Contact, Nevada; The Old Cartwright Ranch - Jackson Manford and one of Arizona's most successful spreads; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
40 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1980. Features: The Royal Scots Greys; The Japanese Army of 1904-1905, Part 2; The Seventh New York National Guard 1861; The Uniiform of the 21st (Empress of India's ) Lancers; Zulu War 1879, Infantry Officers; Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing on front cover. A sound reference copy. Book
40 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1975. Contents: Peninsular Papers, part 3; The Sea Cavalier, part 2; The Field Service Uniform of the Imperial German Army, 1914-1915; Colonel Percy H.S. Barrow CB, CMB. - the 19th Hussars in the Sudan; The Dress of the French Infantry, Part 1; British Campaign Medals - the Naval General Service Medal, 1793-1840; Iron Laughter in Andalus, Part 1; Interesting Guns - Hand Guns of the German Army; French Cuirassiers, Part 6; The Bersaglieri; British General Officer c. 1743; The War Game, Part 18. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Judge Clement Haynsworth; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird; Photo of 9th Infantry Division leaving Vietnam; SALT; The anguish of Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick; Killer Camille - the greatest storm - article with photos; A tighter (Soviet) vise on Czechoslovakia; The Burning of the Al Aqsa mosque - article with photo; Two flags over Ulster; Biafra situation worsens - article with color photos; India - Indira Gandhi v. the Syndicate; Woodstock and the message from history's biggest happening - article with color photos; Why Louis Blaiberg died (after heart transplant); Who owns the (Miami) beaches?; Sherman Skolnick's Guerilla war against the Illinois justice system - article with photos; Article and photos in memory of architect Mies van der Rohe, creator of the glass and steel high-rise; Evangelist Billy James Hargis in Jerusalem; Merv Griffin; The Smothers Brothers; Interesting article on the rock music scene with photo of Blind Faith seated around large tree; The influence of the LP record; Controlling inflation; The Hilton Hotel family - Conrad and son Barron; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Great color cover photo of Marine Sergeant Franz E. Silas, Jr. of Jacksonville, Florida; Which Service to Choose?; At Home with Career Soldier Sergeant Vinson N. Rose, of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Recipe for Napoleon's Battlefield Stew; Two-page of information about educational opportunities through the military; "The First Day My Father is Home" - fiction; Fantastic color retro ad on back cover for "Dolls of the World". Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; original pictorial wrappers, crease in rear wrapper else a very goos, clean copy. This important work, to which Sassoon was a primary contributor, was first published privately in 1938 (see Keynes B16). A public edition was issued in 1987, which was followed, in turn, by this paperback version. Sassoon's main contribution A Subaltern's Service in Camp and Action (12 March to 1 April 1917) stands as Chapter XII where it is here retitled A Chapter in a Subaltern's Life (March 12th to April 16th 1917). The account was written early in 1926 and except for his diaries of 1918, was the first prose Sassoon wrote about the war. It was afterwards expanded in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) as pp. 190-237 (see Keynes A33). Not recorded by Enser.
Features: The Story of the Growth of the Admiralty War Staff (story and photos); The Queen of the Adriatic and the Holy City; Venice Preserved and Jerusalem Delivered; Intervals of play in the wearying work of war; Duty and Piety from Dieppe to the Piave; American Ardour at home, abroad and afloat; The Vision of a New Europe (story); Vain German Rain of Bombs and shine of armour; Labour that paves the way for further progress; Theft and 'Protectsie' in Russia - Some Evils of the Old Regime as I saw them, by Hamilton Fyfe; Side Shows in the Panorama of War; Kaiser Wilhelm Gloats over Italy at Gorizia; Where Allies are Aiding the Intrepid Italians; Destroyers and their doings (story); New signs in the sky of coming air activity; U Boat Outrage on a Helpless Hospital Ship; Scarred Heroes Reach the Sanctuary of Home; The Somerset Light Infantry (story). Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Illustration Features: M. Kerensky, Russian Minister of War; Why Germany's Colonies are Forfeit - better the untutored savage than the Kultured Hun (article); Making Firm Hold on Vimy's Famous Ridge; Gloating Pirates give proof of their guilt; From captive Ostend to Recaptured Messines; Small screens that guard great guns; The retreat on Paris - article by Hamilton Fyfe; First of America's fighters arrive on the Aisne; Brothers in arms from East and West in Bagdad; Bad Business Methods and High Prices - Britons who profit by U-boat Piracy (III) article; Varied work for women volunteers; The Rumanian Soldier as I know hime - article by Basil Clarke; From Kultur to Agriculture in Hainault Forest; With Albion's Oldest Ally on the Western Front; Courage and Courtesy in France; The 3rd South African Infantry - article with photo. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
Illustration Features: a couple of Spahis (Algerian Cavalry) on patrol; The epic story of Lieven and Lagnicourt - article on how the Australians broke the Prussian Guard; 'Tanks' at work on British and French fronts; Work and play behind the lines in the West; Vandal Passion and British Phlegm under fire; Conquerors of Courcy - Russians in Champagne; Forward with the Tricolour North of Soissons; What Italy's Navy is doing - article be Dr. James Murphy; Ships that keep watch and ward in the Adriatic; Ousting the Hun from the shelter of Oppy Wood; The Serbian as I know him - article by H. Charles Woods; One Trawler that tackled 4 U-boats at once; Courageous women nurses; Fokker and Albatros and some of their fallen flyers; Prussia's ruthless havoc in the Somme Valley; The Seventh (7th) Australian Infantry. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Front cover photo of the King and an Australian V.C. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Contents: The Daring Deeds of Captian Ball; The Honourable Artillery Company Crosses for the Fighting Fifth; Succouring the Wounded; A cross won in the bush; more posthumous awards; Gallant officers; Canadian Exploits; Machine Gun Acts; An Airman's Rescue; Presentation by the King; Colonial Heroes; Cruel Treatment of a V.C. POW; Death of Captain Chavasse, V.C. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Please note: it is recommended that the following two issues be read in conjuction with this: Part 118 - Victoria Crosses of the War (I); Part 148 - Victoria Crosses of the War (II). Magazine
4to., First and Sole Edition, with several illustrations (one full-page) in the text and a folding map, free endpapers lightly spotted; original boards, printed coloured label incorporating battalion, divisional and army crests mounted on upper board; cloth back, boards mildly scuffed and age-marked, backstrip lightly frayed at head and tail else a very good, clean copy of a scarce unit history. With the printed exclusion slip ('This book is for the Somerset Light Infantry, for the men of the Seventh Battalion and for their next-of-kin. It is not for public sale') bound in facing half-title. Includes ROH, commanders and commanding officers, officers and warrant officers, and decoration and awards (with extracts from citations). The battalion formed part of 214 Infantry Brigade in Thomas's renowned 43rd Wessex Division. As part of Horrocks' 30 Corps the division captured Mount Picon, the key to Normandy, forced the crossing of the Seine, took part in Operation GARDEN, were the first British troops to fight in Germany, and turned the tide in the Reichswald enabling the Allies to close with the Rhine. IN THIS CONDITION, A SCARCE SURVIVAL. Sutcliffe, p.96; White, p.66.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 9 plates in monochrome and 8maps in the text, small personal book-label on front paste-down; original faux-vellum, upper board with gilt grame border enclosing regimental badge blocked in gilt, gilt back, gil top, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the 'Country Life ' series of military histories. Sutcliffe, p.68; White, p.60.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 17 monochrome plates, 9 illustrations and 12 maps and plans (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding map on japon, endpapers faintly spotted; original red cloth, gilt backs, backstrip moderately sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the 'Country Life Series of Military Histories'. Includes coloured plate of uniform, monochrome plates of colours (1-4 Bns), medals, bibliography, ROH (first two years of WWI), and list of officers serving in August 1916. Sutcliffe, p.327; White, p.109.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 17 monochrome plates, 9 illustrations and 12 maps and plans (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding map on japon; handsomely bound in full burgundy 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, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the 'Country Life Series of Military Histories'. Includes coloured plate of uniform, monochrome plates of colours (1-4 Bns), medals, bibliography, ROH (first two years of WWI), and list of officers serving in August 1916. Sutcliffe, p.327; White, p.109.
pp. viii, 439 + Plus photographs. Top edge red. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, torn with small loss. WWII 3
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
