Militaire

The First Special Service Force (aka The Devil's Brigade): A War History of the North Americans, 1942-1944

xv, 376 pages. Color map endpapers. Generously illustrated with black and white photos. Includes eleven maps, a fifty-five page roster of former members and their hometowns, and a twelve-page list of members who lost their lives in service. Documents the history of this elite American-Canadian WWII commando unit which was famously dramatized in the 1968 motion picture "The Devil's Brigade". Somewhat above-average wear to navy blue boards. Beige evidence of moisture exposure to bottom edge of entire textblock. Binding intact. Minimal markings. A sound copy of this important history. Enser p.440, Cooke (2) p.156, Dornbusch 505. Book

The First Respectable Spy. The Life and Times of Colquhoun Grant, Wellington's Head of Intelligence. [Second Impression]. J H OWEN'S COPY

8vo., Second Impression , with portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, 7 illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers, top lightly dust-soiled; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published six months after the first edition. With remnants of dustwrapper loosely inserted. This copy was formerly in the library of the eminent naval historian J.H. Owen with his initials on front free endpaper. VERY SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION.

The First and Second Battalions The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in the Great War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates, 8 folding maps, and 4 folding maps in pocket at end; original cloth with regimental badge on upper cover, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.73; Sutcliffe, p.278; White, p.101.

The Fighting Wessex Wyverns. From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division.

8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Well-illustrated resume of this renowned West Country formation, including its role in XXX Corps in Market Garden. The first edition in cloth is now scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.

The Fighting Fourth. No. 4 Commando at War 1940-1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The Anglo-French 4 Commando was one of the longest serving units of British special forces. This excellent history covers, among other actions, Lofoten, Dieppe, D-Day and Flushing

The Fifth British Division 1939-1945. Being an Account of the Journey and Battles of a Reserve Division in Europe, Africa and Asia. Edited by Lieut.-Colonel C.S. Durtnell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece, 214 monochrome plates on 80, 14 illustrations by Cooper Bell in the text, 20 maps (9 folding) by Fraser and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, divisional emblem blocked in black and white on upper board, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at extremities. Fifth Division almost certainly holds the record as the most travelled British formation of WWII. Starting from its pre-war Northern Command base at Catterick it served in Norway, Belgium, France, Northern Ireland, Madagascar, India, Persia, Sicily, Italy and Palestine. The division finished the war in Germany where it become a key component of BAOR.

The Fifth Army. EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps (a number folding),neat contemporary inscription to veteran on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in red and lettered in gilt, uncut, an exceptionally bright, crisp, clean copy. Enser,p.58.

The Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers in South Africa 1899-1902. A Facsimile Reprint drawn from 'The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers from their Foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the Present Day. FINE COPY

4to., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 3 maps (2 folding); green cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. The hardback edition is very scarce.

The Family Altar - Brief Daily Devotions Based on Selected Scripture Texts - Military Presentation Copy

Presented to Sidney Murray "In remembrance of your safe return after services overseas in World War II" by St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Seebach's Still, Ontario, on 19 January 1946, by Pastor Albert F. Pollex. Laid in is a handsome two-colour certificate to Mr. Murray from the Army and Navy Commission of the Lutheran Church. Church blindstamp upon front free endpaper. Book is otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A very special copy. Book

THE FALLEN BRAVE: A Biographical Memorial of The American Officers Who Have Given Their Lives for the Preservation of The Union.

224 p. + Engraved half title and seven full page steel engraved portraits. LACKS the section on Elsworth and his portrait. Offsetting from engravings. Age stained. 4to. Original full brown buckram binding, lettered in gold. Extremities worn with small loss. Hardbound. Though this copy lacks section on Elsworth, still a remarkable work, and quite scarce. SHELF W26 3L 3 556A37~Sideman, Belle Becker; Friedman, Lillian (Editors).

THE FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND RELATED ESSAYS

Slight dust-soiling to textblock. DJ is somewhat worn with small tears to corners and spine ends. Dustjacket spine is sunned. ; Author's inscription to ffep: "Presented by the author" ; 560 pages; Unified by an interest in the factors behind the conversion of the Roman Republic into a monarchy, this collection of essays by noted ancient historian P. A. Brunt includes revised or rewritten studies of the Italian allies, the Equites, the courts, the army, and amicitia, and new discussions of libertas, clientship, and factions.

THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE The Military Explanation

Dustjacket has some chipping to head of spine with a couple of small tears. DJ is price-clipped. Book has minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep in pencil. ; Looks at the military collapse as the explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire. Looks at key personalities from Julian the Apostate and Alaric the Visigoth to the battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome. ; 192 pages

THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE The Military Explanation

Dustjacket has some light chipping and minor shelfwear. ; Looks at the military collapse as the explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire. Looks at key personalities from Julian the Apostate and Alaric the Visigoth to the battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome. ; 192 pages

The Eye in the Air. History of Air Observation and Reconnaissance for the Army 1785-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

The Escape Room.

THE EQUESTRIAN OFFICERS OF THE ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMY Volume Two

Very lightly bumped top corners else Fine. ; Mavors Roman Army Research, Vol. IX [9]; Vol. 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 354 pages; This second volume of collected papers by the eminent Belgian historian traces the core of the equestrian class, the holders of the tres militiae. 17 studies - in English, French, and German - continue to complement the earlier ones.

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR ARMIES.

25x18. 40p. Col. Men at Arms. Fotogr. Ilstr. M. Roffe.

The encyclopedia of infantri weapons of World War II.

Greenwich (U.S.A.), 1987, 30,5 x 22 cm., tela original con sobrecubiertas, 192 págs. profusamente ilustradas.

THE EMPEROR AND THE ROMAN ARMY, 31 BC-AD 235

Bumping to corners. Small bump to top corner of textblock with creasing to a few pages. DJ has creasing along edges with a couple of tiny chips. ; The Roman world in the Imperial period was ruled by a succession of autocrats for whom the army remained the single most important source of political power. But how could one man win the loyalty and affection of an army which numbered up to to half a million? Although financial benefits and legal privileges had the most direct impact on the soldiers, every emperor sought some kind of additional bond through a personal association and identification with them. ; 468 pages; Special edition for Sandpiper Books. Reprint of 1984 Edition.

THE EMPEROR AND THE ROMAN ARMY, 31 BC-AD 235

Former owner's bookplate on ffep. ; The Roman world in the Imperial period was ruled by a succession of autocrats for whom the army remained the single most important source of political power. But how could one man win the loyalty and affection of an army which numbered up to to half a million? Although financial benefits and legal privileges had the most direct impact on the soldiers, every emperor sought some kind of additional bond through a personal association and identification with them. ; 468 pages; Special edition for Sandpiper Books. Reprint of 1984 Edition.

THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS

Top corners are bumped. Ffep has been pasted down to front inner board. White sticker applied to inner page to conceal markings. ; Presents a description of the early Islamic conquest movement, from its beginnings under the Prophet Muhammad (ca. A. D. 570-632) through the conquest of the Fertile Crescent. It attempts to do two things: first, to provide a new interpretation of the origins and nature of the Islamic conquest movement, and second, to establish as definitively as the sources will allow the course of two chapters in the early conquests, those of Syria and Iraq. ; Princeton Studies on the Near East; 489 pages

The Early Battles of Eighth Army. 'Crusader' to the Alamein Line 1941-1942. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

The Eagle of the Ninth. Introduced by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. NEAR FINE COPY

8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 11 plates and full-page map in the text; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in gilt, white and black, green endpapers, a near fine copy. The publisher's slip-case is not present with this copy.

The Eagle of the Ninth [with] The Silver Branch [with] The Lantern Bearers. [The Roman Britain trilogy complete.]. Introduced by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Julia Eccleshare and Penelope Livley respectively. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. THE ROMAN BRITAIN TRILOGY COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASES

3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces, plates and maps in the text; pictorial cloth (green/grey/brown respectively), upper boards and backstrips blocked in gilt and colours, green endpapers, all near fine copies in publisher's board slip-cases. The set comprises: The Eagle of the Ninth (sixth impression 2011); The Silver Branch (second impression 2009); The Lantern Bearers (first impression 2011). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.