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Features: The Struggle before Cambrai - a Contest of Giants - Profit and Loss - A Critial Issue - French Local Combats - Italy Against Heavy Odds. Photo of a French listening post - overhearing talk in German trenches; Great photos from the Cambrai battlefield; Two-page photo of the retreat of the Italian Third Army; French Troops in Italy; Romances of the Regiment - the 28th North Gloucestershires; The Canal du Nord; Clearing a blown bridge on the Canal du Nord; A German Prisoner detention camp in France; Photo of Vauban's Ditch at Verdun; French wire-netting trench barricade; A wrecked Gotha; The new Sultan of Egypt's state entry into Cairo; The Final Rout of the Germans in East Africa; Four photos on the Palestine Front during General Allenby's advance; Early morning Gotha raid on London, Dec. 6; Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
Pages 645-676. Features: One-page map of the Low Countries' (Holland and Belgium) Traditional Defence - Strategic Inundations (Flooding); Photos of flooding which confronted the Nazis in Holland; Photos and brief write-ups of Mr. Churchill and his War Cabinet - an all-part Ministry; Holland as the R.A.F. Sees It - Air photos of key points Central Rotterdam, Dordrecht Island and the Moerdyk Bridges; "Ten Times as Strong as in 1914" - Belgian army and defense fortification photos; Sketch of German air attack on railway in Belgium; Four sketches beneath the caption "1914 Repeated - With a Difference - The B.E.F. Advance into Belgium - While the Pitiful Refugees Depart; Three cross-section illustrations of 'a new instrument of total war' - British and German troop carriers - the Junkers JU 52, the Ju 89-90, and the Bristol 'Bombay'; Seven illustrations beneath caption "Invasion by Parachute-Armies - Nazis improve on a Soviet device; Two pages of illustrations of how the Nazis invade by parachute on a large scale; Centrefold map entitled "The Low Countries - A Map Showing Aerodromes and Inundation Areas"; The War with the Nazis - The Crisis Has Come (article); Three photos of R.A.F. bombing Nazi troop planes at Katwijk and Waalhaven; Six photos illustrate how Britain guards against fifth column and parachuteist surprises - road blocks, check points and alien detention; Photos of European royals fleeing Nazi aggression - Dutch Princess Juliana and her children, Prince Bernhard, and Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxemburg; Two photos of the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police training their precise motorcycle formation driving in England; Six photos of homes wrecked by Nazi bombs in Belgium, Holland and France; Several photos show German bombs missing their ship targets in the North Sea; Dramatic photos of 500lb Nazi bombs exploding near British aircraft carrier off Norway; Photos of the bombing of Namsos and Aandalsnes; Two photos of the H.M.S. Bittern on fire; Six excellent photos of Allied troops returning from fighting in Norway, including the "Blue Devils" and General Carton De Wiart, V.C.. Please note: Brown discolouration of unknown origin to bottom 1.5" of all pages. All text legible. Average wear and a small nibble from foot of spine. A sound copy of this dramatic wartime issue. Book
Signed and briefly inscribed by author upon title page. 578 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Black and white photographic plates. Photo endpapers. "Mosley emerges from this intensely readable book as a man with an extraordinary range of interests. His political and intellectual activity has impinged on almost every formative issue of the modern world - socialism, fascism, imperialism, antisemitism and, in the post-war period, Europeanism. More than a study of a man, a penetrating analysis of the malaise of the between the wars period" - dust jacket. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. [Stimely p.55] Book
176 pages. Index. Glossary. Bibliography. Dozens of archival black and white photos. "The author has interviewed hundreds of the early settlers and their descendants and presents an exciting collection of photographs, many from family albums... Author was one of 22,000 exiled from the Pacific Coast, spent two years in detention centres of the British Columbia Interior." - from dust jacket. Text is divided into the following sections: Early History, Settlements and Pioneers; Evacuation; Resettlement. Clean with light wear. Underlining on several pages. A quality copy of this important work. Book
Paris, Mazarine 1981. In-8 broché de 244 pages; Bon état
in 8°, 230 pp., illustrations h.t. n/b, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-8]
Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of wear at lower corners only. Dark blue cloth covers with embossed gilt print at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 319 pages in oblong format. Chapters include: Beginning in law and order, Causatives in (same), Marshals -- their jails and detention, codes, courts and governments, Agencies develop, Training to professionalism, Death in the line of duty, Progressions in looks, equipment, mobility, communications, etc. Heavily illustrated with photos, some highlights include the contents displayed of two WA St. patrol cars, one in 1960 and one in 1988; air surviellance over the years, crashes, bridge being swept away by log debris, motorcycle cop stunts, Still and pot raids, drug busts and killings, Green River murders, Kenneth Bianchi, Lists of marshals and chiefs from all over Wa state, directors of the Secret Service, State Patrol, etc. Inscribed on the title page by author to noted N.W. historian Paul Dorpat with letter from same to same. First edition #939 of a run of 2000.
in-16, 318 pages, broche, couverture illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire. [DD-1] La mort plutôt que le bagne de Cayenne !
Clear, bright and tight. Used
Paris - Amsterdam, Bouchard-Huzard - J.H. et G. Van Heteren, 1843, in-8, brossura editoriale verde con cornici tipografiche, pp. VIII, 131, [5]. Unica e non comune traduzione francese dell'opera più importante del giurista olandese W.H. Suringan che qui difende un sistema penitenziario individuale, esaminando vari paesi europei e ed extra-europei. Una gora, non pesante, di umidità coinvolge la parte superiore di tutto il volume, per il resto in buone condizioni: intonso.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; ivory boards, upper board blocked in blind, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
