Books

From a Large Collection of Classic Titles

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In No Particular Order

Hard Backs

Leaders/ Generals

Wellington, Pillar Of State by Elizabeth Langford. 1972 £10.   De Gaulle by Aidan Crawley, 1969, £7.50.   Mountbatten, by Philip Ziegler, 1985, £10.   Storm Command by General Sir Peter De La Billiere, 1992, £7.50.   Nathaniel Woodward, by Sir John Otter, 1925, £12.50.   The Forgotton Victor, by John Baynes (General Sir Richard O’connor. KT GCB DSO MC) 1989. £7.50.   Frederick the Great, by Nancy Mitford, 1970, £5.00   Saint Simon at Versailles, Lucy Norton, 1980,  £5.00.     Nelson’s Heroic Life, by MM Sarmento Rodriguez, 1962, £5.00.   Marlborough, by Morris Ashley, 1947, £10.00.   Beatty, by Geoffrey Rawson, 1936, £7.50.   Seven Pillars of Wisdom Vol I & II, by TE Lawrence, 1939, £25.00.   JH Thomas – A Life for Unity, by Gregory Blacksland (signed copy), 1964, £10.00.   Monty, by Nigel Hamilton, 1986, £10.00.   Twentieth Century Warriors, by Field Marshall Lord Carver, 1987, £10.00.   King Without a Crown, by Daphne Bennett, 1977, £5.00.   Mountbatten – Hero of Our Time, by Richard Hough, 1980, £5.00.   Louis XIV, by Vincent Cronin, 1964, £5.00.   The Auk – Victor at Allamein, 1977, £5.00.   The Ghost of Napolean, by Liddel Hart, £5.00.   The Mind of Adolf Hitler, by Walter C Langer, 1973, £7.50.   The Memoirs of Montgomery of Allemein, 1958, £10.00.    Man of Valour – The Viscount Gourt, by JR Colville, 1972, £5.00.   The Chief – Field Marshall Lord Wavell, by Ronald Lewin, 1980, £10.00.   Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes, 1959, £10.00.  

Campaigns/ Conflicts

Pictorial History of Land Battles, Enigma, 1977, £5.00.   The Peoples History of the Second World War, sept 1939 – dec 1940, by Harold Wheeler, £5.00.   Liddell Hart’s History of the Second World War, 1973, £10.00.   The Turn of the Tide, by Arthur Bryant, £7.50.   IN TEN VOLUMES; Photographic History of the Civil War, by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1957, £110.   IN SEVEN VOLUMES; Pictorial History of the Second World War, by Walter Hutchinson, £120.00.   The Ides of May – The Defeat of France, by John Williams, 1968, £5.00.   Frontiers and Wars, by Winston S Churchill, 1962, £15.00.   The Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas, 1961, £10.00.   English Saga, by Arthur Bryant, 1952, £5.00.   A Bridge Too Far, Cornelius Ryan, 1974, £10.00.   1941, by Richard Collier, 1981, £10.00.   The Battle of the Atlantic, by Andrew Williams, 2002, £15.00.   Sea Power, by Lord Hill-Norton, 1982, £10.00.   My First War, by Basil Bartlett, 1940, £7.50.    Men at Arms, by Evelyn War, £10.00.   Doctor at Stalingrad, by Hans Dibold, 1958, £10.00.   German Airforce, by Asher Lee, 1946, £7.50.   I Find Treason, by Richard Rollins, 1941, £10.00.   The Sword Bearers, by Correlli Barnett, 1963, £10.00.   I Flew for the Fuhrer, by Heinz Knoke, 1953, £15.00.   1940, by Lawrence Thompson, 1966, £7.50.   Eclipse, by Alan Moorhead, 1946, £5.00.   The Peoples War – Britain 1939-45, by Angus Calder, 1969, £7.50.   The End in Africa, by Alan Moorhead, 1943, £5.00.    Objective … Egypt, by Gregory Blaxland (signed copy), 1966, £10.00.  North From Malaya, by William O Douglas, 1953, £5.00.   

Naval Interest

Naval Fragments, £5.00.   Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen, EJ Payne, ?1893, £20.00.   Bless Our Ship, by Capt Eric Bush, 1958, £10.00.   Men of Action, by Commander Kenneth Edwards, 1943, £7.50.   Arc Royal, by William Jameson, 1957, £7.50.   Adventures Ashore and Afloat, by Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, 1939, £10.00.   The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, by Garrett Mattingly, 1960, £7.50.   Evolution of Sea Power, by Charles W Domville-Fife, 1939, £7.50.   Pursuit – The Sinking of the Bismark, by Ludovic Kennedy, 1974, £10.00.   The Wake of the Raiders, by AD Divine, 1940, £5.00.  

Collecting 

Debrett’s Book of Gamecards, Lord Ralph Percy, 1986, £15.00.   Bushido, The Way of the Warrior, by John Newman, 1989, £18.00.   Samurai – The Story of the Warrior Tradition, by Harry Cook, 1993, £15.00.   The Book of Guns & Gun Collecting, by North & Hogg, 1987, £5.00.  The Great Guns, by Peterson & Hogg, 1971, £5.00.   Armoured Firepower, by Peter Gudgin, 1997, £5.00.   The Book of the Gun, by Harold Peterson, 1966, £5.00.   Infantry Weapons of WW2, Ian.V.Hogg, 1977, £7.50.   The World of Guns, by Richard Akehurst, 1972, £10.00.   The Worlds Great Guns, by Frederick Wilkinson, 1977, £7.50.   Guns & Gunsmiths by Hogg & North, 1978, £7.50.   Firearms – The History of Guns, 1973, £7.50.   The Worlds Finest Sporting Guns, by Howard L Blackmore, 1983, £7.50.   Guns and Gun Collecting, by Hogg & Wilkinson, 1972, £5.00.   Illustrated History of Ammunition, by Ian V Hogg, 1985, £10.00.   Illustrated History of Guns and Small Arms, by Rosa & May, 1974, £5.00.   Encyclopedia of Pistols & Revolvers, by Major F Myatt, 1980, £7.50.   Illustrated History of Firearms, by Ian V Hogg, 1983, £5.00.  The Age of Firearms, by Robert Held, 1978, £5.00.   Military Small Arms of the Twentieth Century, by Hogg & Weeks, 1977, £10.00.   Firearms, by Howard Ricketts, 1964, £5.00.   Firearms, by Howard Ricketts, 1967, £5.00.  Antique Arms & Armour, by Frederick Wilkinson, 1972, £5.00.   The Lyle Official Arms & Armour Review 1978, £10.00.   The Lyle Official Arms & Armour Review 1979, £10.00.   Antique Weapons For Pleasure and Investment, by Richard Akehurst, 1969, £5.00.    Badges and Insignia of WW2, by Guido Rosignoli, 1980, £10.00.   Swords and Daggers, by Edward Wagner, 1975, £10.00.   Firearm Collecting For Amateurs, by James Henderson, 1966, £5.00.   Army Badges and Insignia since 1945, by Guido Rosignoli, 1973, £10.00.  Source Book of Small Arms, by Frederick Wilkinson, 1981, £5.00.  

Other Interests

Lords 1787-1945, by Sir Pelham Warner, (Signed Copy) £55.00   Tartaria De Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet, £5.00.   Pax Brittanica, by James Morris, 1968, £7.50.   The Highland Clearances, by John Prebble, 1971, £5.00.   Instructions to Young Sportsmen, by Lt Col Peter Hawker, 1986, £20.00.   Lafayette in London, by Alan Andrews, 1972, £5.00.   The Franco Prussian War, by Michael Howard, 1962, £7.50.   The Modern Shotgun Vol II – The Cartridge, by G Burrard, 1955, £10.00.   History of Europe, by Fisher, 1943, £5.00.   Forty One Years in India Vol I, by Roberts, 1897, £20.00.   Sickle or Swastika, by Mrs Cecil Chesterton, £5.00.   The Road to Power, by John Brown, 1937, £5.00.   Omdurman, by Philip Ziegler, 1973, £7.50.   African Trilogy, by Alan Moorhead, 1946, £5.00.   India and the Passing of the Empire, by George Dunbar, 1951, £5.00.   Behind Europe’s Curtain, by John Gunther, 1949, £5.00.   War and Peace, by Leo Talstoy, 1943, £10.00.   Crimean Blunder, by Peter Gibbs, 1960, £10.00.  The Years of Endurance, by Arthur Bryant, 1955, £5.00.      Japanese Colour Prints, by J Hillier, 1981, £15.00.   Shotgun Marksmanship, by Stanbury & Carlisle, 1988, £7.50.   The Modern Muzzle Loader, by Andrew Courtney (signed copy), 1997, £10.00.   A History of Marksmanship, by CC Trench, 1972, £7.50.  

Paper Backs

The Price of Glory – Verdun 1916, by Alsitair Horne, 1964, £5.00.  To Lose A Battle – France 1940, by Alistair Horne, 1982, £5.00.   The Mammoth Book of Battles – The Art and Science of Modern Warfare, by Jon E Lewis, 1995, £5.00.   Happy Odyssey, by Carton de Wiart, 1955, £5.00.   The Nuremburg Trial, by Tusa & Tusa, 1984, £7.50.   Monte Casino, by Matthew Parker, 2003, £5.00.   The Fall of Paris, by Alistair Horne, 1990, £5.00.   Military Anecdotes, Max Hastings, 1987, £5.00.   Battle of Wits, by Stephen Budiansky, 2001, £5.00.   Cromwell, by Antonia Fraser,1975, £5.00.   Winston Churchill as I Knew Him, by Violet Bonham Carter, 1965, £15.00.    To Win a War – 1918 The Year of Victory, by John Terrain, 1978, £5.00.    Firearms, by Howard L Blackmore, 1964, £5.00.   Collectors Guide to Deactivated Weapons, by Tony Jeeves, 1993, £5.00.   Muzzle Loading Today, by Andrew Courtney, 1981, £5.00.   UIT Pistol Shooting, by Laslo Antal, 1985, £5.00.

 

 

 

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