Listed below is my current stock in this subject, sorted in alphabetical order, by author. Please note that it is difficult to categorize some titles, which overlap different subjects; in these cases, the easiest procedure would be use the search box, which covers my entire stock. However, if searching for a particular title on this page only, the simplest method is to use "Control-F" to bring up the "Find" dialogue on screen. I have described the books as accurately as possible but will of course accept returns if a particular item is inadvertently not as described.

17908

The War History of the Sixth Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (T.F.)

5½” x 9”. [x] + 248pp, map, 42 black and white photographs. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, particularly spine where there is extensive colour loss, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good. Excellent, detailed & well-illustrated. 46th Div., Western Front 1915-18 inc. Hohenzollern Redoubt, Gommecourt &c. Roll of Hon., awards.

15240

Report of the British Committee on the Alleged German Outrages : Presented to both Houses of Parliament

5¼" x 8¼". 429pp. Original paper covers, covers detached, pages browned and dog-eared, a reading copy

17210

The Dardanelles : Their Story and Their Significance in the Great War

5" x 7¾". 168pp, illustrations, map. Blue cloth, no d/j, corners rubbed, otherwise Very Good.

14084

Nie wieder Krieg! No more War! Plus jamais de Guerre! Nunca jamas Guerra! Nooit meer Oorlog! Aldrig mere Krig!

6” x 9”. 59pp, profusely illustrated. Original worn printed paper wrappers. Text and captions in six European languages. The photographs were collected by Ernst Friedrich, director of the Anti-War Museum of Berlin. Numerous black & white horrendous photographic illustrations of frightful mutilations left by the war. 63 pages, slim 8vo, black & white wrappers with an illustration by Kathe Kollwitz. 45 black-and-white photographs, text and captions in six European languages. These photographs were collected by Ernst Friedrich, director of the Anti-War Museum of Berlin. He first published them in his book Krieg dem Kriege! War Against War! (1924). The International Federation of Trade Unions reproduced the photographs here with a preface that states, 'Each one of these photographs describes, better than any studied eloquence could do, the agony which the War brought upon millions of workers and their wives and children. Look upon these frightful mutilations, these human wrecks left stranded by the war, to drag out the rest of their miserable lives as best they can. And as you look, remember that all of you - especially you young workers - are threatened by the same fate: you too will have these horrors to face - these, or even worse - next time your country 'needs' you.'

10619

The Daily Mail War Atlas with 32 pages of fully coloured maps and large-scale folding map of the Western Front

8¾" x 11¼". 32 maps & large folding map. Decorative red cloth, no d/j, inner hinge cracked, covers marked and rubbed, a few maps with ink markings, else G.

14747

Handbook on Japanese Military Forces

7½” x 10½”. 403pp, profusely illustrated. Original black cloth gilt in d/j, the covers are rubbed, otherwise in Near Fine condition.

15393

Yanks and Aussies in Battle : Official Photographs of Pacific War From Pearl Harbor to Timor

8½” x 10¾”. 32pp + covers (there is printed text on the front and rear inside covers). Original stapled printed paper wrappers. The covers are discoloured, soiled and dog-eared. The corners are creased and dog-eared. The edges are chipped, creased and torn with some loss of the paper covering at the front fore-edge. There are no other internal markings and the text is clean throughout; however, the paper has tanned with age. The corners are a little dog-eared.

12884

Royal Army Medical Corps Training 1935

4½" x 7". 438pp, diagrams. Maroon cloth covered card, inner hinges weak, slightly shaken, otherwise Very Good

17807

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War : "The Robin Hoods" : The 1/7th, 2/7th & 3/7th Battns. Sherwood Foresters 1914-1918

5” x 7½”. 471pp, maps, illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers worn and heavily rubbed with marked colour variation, inner hinges cracked, previous owner's name inscribed, tanned pages, end-papers discoloured, just about Very Good. All three Bns. served on the Western Front, including all main operations 1915-1918, also Easter Rising in Dublin 1916. Roll of Hon., awards. 

17711

The Tale of a Casualty Clearing Station

4¾” x 7½”. 306pp, Publisher’s advertisements. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine very dull, head of spine bumped, bottom corner of front cover replaced otherwise Very Good. Rare.

14626

The Lucy Ring : the astonishing story of one of the most successful spy rings of all time

5½" x 8¾". 224pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in chipped, torn d/j with some slight loss, front cover bowed, covers rubbed otherwise Good Plus

17518

My Life in the Machine Gun Corps

4¾” x 7¼”. 80pp. Green cloth blocked, no d/j, ex-Library.

11626

Hitler's Greatest Defeat : The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944

6¼" x 9½". 192pp, illustrations. Laminated boards in a rubbed d/j with two small sealed tears, otherwise Near Fine/Very Good.

16773

Arthur Innes Adam 1894-1916: A Record Founded on His Letters

5” x 7¾”. [viii] + 253pp, 6 plates. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, small mark on front boards, head and tail of spine bumped, "Withdrawn" stamp on front free end-paper (Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth), untrimmed, otherwise Very Good. Educated Winchester & Balliol, Captain 1/1st Cambridgeshires (TF): letters from France June 1915-Sept. 1916 when he was lost in action during a raid on German trenches near the Ancre. Arthur Innes Adam, son of Adela Marion Adam, M.A., of Cambridge, and the late James Adam, Litt.D., was born in 1894, educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, commissioned (after some delay due to his poor eyesight) in the Cambridgeshire Regiment (T.F.) in 1914, became a Captain in the 1/1st Battalion and was killed in action aged twenty-two on 16th September 1916 when he was reported lost (apparently wounded and captured) during a raid on German trenches near the Ancre. Subsequently his remains were located and he is buried in Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension. ? Contains interesting and quite detailed letters from France June 1915-September 1916, together with reports of his wounding and capture. He was apparently “peculiarly devoid of nerves” and seems to have taken a practical and at times light-hearted approach to the proceedings. Soon after arriving he wrote “I have a great scheme to annoy the Deutsches in contemplation, i.e., to tie a large alarm clock to the wire in front of their trenches sometime by night, set it to 6 a.m. or some such time. That might persuade them to put their heads over the top…” Later he wrote of want of munitions: “I think the most urgent need in this land is bombs; hosts of them, of all shapes and sizes, and among them rifle grenades which will carry 500 yards like the German, instead of only 250…” Some months later, after his Company had suffered fourteen casualties during a tour in the trenches, his enthusiasm was somewhat diluted: “I felt a quite new hatred of war and all its ways, and also an even stronger desire than aforetime to get out of company commanding.”

17563

Behind the Scenes at the Front

5¾” x 9”. [viii] + 240pp, frontispiece. Tan cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good.

17513

Nothing of Importance : A Record of Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion - October 1915 to June, 1916

5½” x 8½”. [xxx] + 324pp, portrait frontis, maps. Rebound ex-Library in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Good.

15895

L. of C. (Lines of Communication) : Being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps

5¾" x 9". [xii] + 288pp. Green cloth, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, shaken, end-papers foxed, some damage to front free end-paper, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Good.

16916

Toward the Flame : A War Diary

4½” x 7”. 288pp. Rebound ex-Library, no d/j, usual markings to end-papers, text clean otherwise Good.

17419

Toward the Flame : A War Diary

6” x 8¾”. [xiii] + 282pp. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine gutter split, water staining, otherwise Good.

14175

Burma: The Longest War 1941-1945 

6” x 9¼”. [xix] + 686pp, maps, illustrations. Softback, Near Fine

17537

The Lighter Side of the War : Experiences of a Civilian in Uniform

5¾” x 9”. 290pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, diagram. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and bowed, end-papers discoloured, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good. Bookplate of Alice Augusta Calvert.

15643

The Problem of the Army

4¾” x 7½”. [viii] + 319pp. This volume is ex-Library and has been rebound by the Library in black cloth, gilt-blocked on the spine and with some additional Library markings at the tail of the spine. The rebound covers are rubbed and the spine ends and corners are slightly bumped. The front free end-paper has been renewed and the rear free end-paper is partially glued to the rear pastedown, which has a  number of Library markings. There is a previous owner's name inscribed on the front end-paper (together with a note that he purchased the book in 1928). This end-paper torn along the top inner edge downwards for an inch and is also heavily foxed and is stained around the edges, as it the Title Page.

15320

Mons, Anzac and Kut

5¾" x 9". 251pp, map. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, untrimmed, edges heavily foxed otherwise Very Good.

16281

Mons, Anzac and Kut

5¾" x 9". 251pp, map. ex-Library Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, untrimmed, edges heavily foxed otherwise Very Good.

16350

War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery

4¾” x 7½”. [xii] + 142pp. Original grey cloth gilt. The covers are dull, marked and rubbed with some old staining and variation in colour (and, on the top edge of the rear boards, a small patch of colour loss, with small patch on the front spine gutter). The spine is very dull, so that it is hard to read the title. There are some indentations along the edges of the boards. The spine ends and corners are bumped. There is a previous owner's name inscribed in black ballpoint on the front free end-paper, together with the number "92" in green ink. There are no other internal markings and the text is clean throughout. The edge of the text block is lightly foxed, and the foxing occasionally extends into some pages.

18071

Handbook for Company Officers

5¼” x 7”. 184pp, sketch maps, diagrams, short Publisher’s catalogue. Original thick cloth-covered card covers blocked in black on front cover (no spine titling), no d/j, edges rubbed, covers dull, previous owner's name inscribed on front free end-paper ("B. Stephenson 1916") otherwise Very Good. A very clean example. Includes studies of actions at Waterloo. the 1870 campaign and the Russo-Japanese war of 1905.

17281

9th Royal Scots (T.F.) B Company on Active Service : From a Private's Diary February-May 1915 

4¼” x 6½”. 94pp. Green cloth blocked in gilt on front boards but no spine markings, no d/j, end-papers browned, slight spine lean, otherwise Very Good. The Author's experiences during the second Battle of Ypres [Sanctuary Wood and Dickiebusch]. Active service in the Ypres Salient, billeted at Voormezeele & Vlamertinghe, in action at Sanctuary Wood, in support of the Canadians at St. Julien during '2nd Ypres,' then Sanctuary Wood.

17082

From Dug-Out & Billet : An Officer's Letters to his Mother

5” x 7¾”. 192pp, Publisher’s catalogue. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull, spine faded and very dull, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, edges dusty, untrimmed and foxed otherwise Very Good.

18098

Uncensored Letters from the Dardanelles written to his English wife by a French Medical Officer of Le Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient

5" x 7½". 282pp, ills. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine faded and dull, rear bottom corner damaged, extensive foxing, otherwise Good.

17397

History of the 1st and 2nd Battalions The North Staffordshire Regiment (the Prince of Wales), 1914-1923

7½” x 10”. (xiv) + 120pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt with leather backstrip, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, gilt blocking dull, corners bumped and frayed, otherwise Very Good.

17209

The 54th Infantry Brigade 1914-1918 : Some Records of Battle and Laughter in France

4¾” x 7¼”. [xi] + 207pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine faded, some patchy discolouration, frontispiece detached otherwise Very Good.  Scarce. The subtitle sets the tone of this history of one of the most remarkable brigades that fought on the Western Front. The 18th (Eastern) Division became an elite formation, one of Kitchener's Second New Army divisions, which had the advantage of being commanded by Ivor Maxse, foremost among commanders for his training and leadership qualities. He commanded it for two and a quarter years and his successor, R.P Lee, another good commander, lead it for the rest of the war. Only two GOCs in four years of war.The 54th Brigade was to win eight VCs, the highest number for a non-regular army brigade, eight out of the eleven awarded to the division. The history is made up of the stories and recollections of all ranks, and the style is very informal. The compiler or editor has chosen to remain anonymous, but the result is something like a regimental history, with a good sprinkling of personalities identified in the narrative. Much is made of the Spirit of the Brigade, a morale booster undoubtedly helped by the fact the battalions stayed together from the time they arrived in France in July 1915 till the reorganization of the BEF in February 1918 when brigades were reduced to three battalions. The 54th Brigade certainly saw a great deal of action and there are plenty of lively descriptions. The Brigade commander tells of his visit to an emplacement known as Panama House during a lively 'strafe'. The company sergeant-major emerged, grabbed the brigadier and threw him inside saying: "We don't want no dead Brigadiers round our pillbox." The brigade commanders and staff and the unit commanders are listed in the appendix and the eight VC citations are given.

17426

The 54th Infantry Brigade 1914-1918 : Some Records of Battle and Laughter in France

4¾” x 7¼”. [xi] + 207pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine faded, some patchy discolouration, frontispiece detached otherwise Very Good.  Scarce. The subtitle sets the tone of this history of one of the most remarkable brigades that fought on the Western Front. The 18th (Eastern) Division became an elite formation, one of Kitchener's Second New Army divisions, which had the advantage of being commanded by Ivor Maxse, foremost among commanders for his training and leadership qualities. He commanded it for two and a quarter years and his successor, R.P Lee, another good commander, lead it for the rest of the war. Only two GOCs in four years of war.The 54th Brigade was to win eight VCs, the highest number for a non-regular army brigade, eight out of the eleven awarded to the division. The history is made up of the stories and recollections of all ranks, and the style is very informal. The compiler or editor has chosen to remain anonymous, but the result is something like a regimental history, with a good sprinkling of personalities identified in the narrative. Much is made of the Spirit of the Brigade, a morale booster undoubtedly helped by the fact the battalions stayed together from the time they arrived in France in July 1915 till the reorganization of the BEF in February 1918 when brigades were reduced to three battalions. The 54th Brigade certainly saw a great deal of action and there are plenty of lively descriptions. The Brigade commander tells of his visit to an emplacement known as Panama House during a lively 'strafe'. The company sergeant-major emerged, grabbed the brigadier and threw him inside saying: "We don't want no dead Brigadiers round our pillbox." The brigade commanders and staff and the unit commanders are listed in the appendix and the eight VC citations are given.

17954

From Serajevo to the Rhine : Generals of the Great War

5¾" x 9". 287pp, frontis, b&w plates. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull, end-papers replaced, edges & end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Good Plus. From the Introduction: "This book aims at giving to the average lay reader a succinct account of the parts played by the various leaders on all fronts during the Great War. Strict impartiality and accuracy in detail were the writer's objectives during the course of his meticulous sifting of the various authorities on which the work is based . . . the 'motif' has been a study of the reaction of the character and temperament of the various generals upon the morale of their troops and upon the trend of the mighty issues whose destiny they guide. It is the writer's firm conviction that the personality of a commander is as important a factor in modern warfare as it was in the days generals with gleaming swords charged on high-mettled steeds at the head of their troops against the serried ranks of the enemy . . . " From the Translator's Preface: "To British readers the visualisation in this book of the war achievements of the Allied and enemy generals by a German, who aims at a strictly impartial survey of the wide field he covers, but whose perspective, for all that, is occasionally blurred by the mirage of patriotic partialties, will be illuminative. While making allowance for involuntary 'suppressio veri', overstatement and rather fulsome hero-worship, we profit by 'seeing oursells as ithers see us'. Incidentally, the author, who prefers to remain anonymous, is a well-known authority on the history of the Great War . . . "

11940

Forgotten Voices of the Great War

6¼" x 9½". 326pp, illustrations. Pictorial boards, no d/j, corners bumped otherwise Very Good+

17510

Ashmead-Bartlett's Despatches from the Dardanelles

5" x 7¼". 164pp, folding map, advertisements. Original pictorial card cover, no d/j, spine creased, inner hinges cracked, soiling to last few pages, otherwise Good.

17972

Ashmead-Bartlett's Despatches from the Dardanelles

4½” x 7”. 164pp, folding map. Rebound ex-Reference Library (Manchester Central), internally clean.

17336

Some of My Experiences in the Great War

4¾” x 7½”. 187pp. Tan cloth, no d/j, front free end-paper excised, covers marked and rubbed, otherwise Good Plus. First World War memoirs of veteran war correspondent who visited Serbia & Flanders in 1914-15, was at Gallipoli & afterwards in France, on the Verdun front, in 1916, &c.

16777

From the Somme to the Rhine

5" x 7½". 206pp, maps. Red cloth, no d/j, spine faded, covers rubbed and soiled with numerous stains and loss of colour, edges & end-papers lightly foxed, previous owner's name inscribed. An internally clean copy of a scarce title in a soiled and unattractive binding.

15492

First From The Front

4¾" x 7½". 167pp, portrait frontis. Original cloth, no d/j, front free end-paper excised, front inner hinge cracked, pages browned and brittle, covers marked and rubbed, otherwise Good

17178

Military Operations : Gallipoli Volume II (Text only) : May 1915 to the Evacuation

5½” x 8¾”. [xv] + 517 pp, illustrations. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, missing Title-Page, reading copy.

16648

A Nomad Under Arms : The Chronicle of an Artilleryman from 1914 to the Armistice

5½” x 8¾”. 368pp, frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j but front panel of the original dust-jacket glued to the front end-paper, covers rubbed and faded, spine faded and snagged, otherwise Very Good A young regular, the author was posted, in November 1914, to a 4.7" howitzer battery near Kemmel Hill; remained with them in this area until posted as a Captain to a New Army 60-pdr. battery on the Somme front in Jan. 1916. Wounded by a shell in Feb. 1917 he was then at home until July, returning to the front in time for Passchendaele & commanded a battery through most of 1918.

17051

The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918

5½” x 8¾”. [xxv] + 742pp, folding frontispiece, 2 plates, 56 maps & plans (some folding). Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with some variation in colour, ex-RUSI Library with shelf number in white ink on spine and small square patch from removal of label, RUSI pocket and lending schedule on front end-papers, and also Mons Officer Cadet School, internally clean and bright.

17352

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1919

5½” x 8¾”. [xxviii] + 629pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Original blue cloth blocked in silver, no d/j, head of spine slightly snagged and tail slightly frayed, edges lightly foxed, pages 470-474 detached otherwise Very Good. "Well above the average of regimental histories in interest. He has dome his best to procure information from officers who served with the regiment to supplement the generally scant and laconic accounts of the war diaries." (Falls).

17978

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1919

5½” x 8¾”. [xxviii] + 629pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Original blue cloth blocked in silver, no d/j, ex-Library (Exter College, Oxford), edges foxed, otherwise Very Good. "Well above the average of regimental histories in interest. He has dome his best to procure information from officers who served with the regiment to supplement the generally scant and laconic accounts of the war diaries." (Falls).

17521

The Seventh Division 1914 - 1918

6" x 9". 529pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, spine dull, covers marked and rubbed, Divisional motif from front cover, edges foxed and stained otherwise Good

17696

The Seventh Division 1914 - 1918

6" x 9". 529pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, spine dull, covers marked and rubbed, Divisional motif on front cover retouched, edges foxed otherwise Very Good

14874

An Army at Dawn : The War in North Africa 1942-1943

6¼" x 9½". [xv] + 681pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth in d/j, As New

16846

History of the 17th (Northern) Division

5½” x 9”. [xv] + 482pp, 35 maps (including one folding). Red cloth gilt with Divisional flash on front boards, no d/j, spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped, edges foxed, previous owner's name inscribed on Half-Title which has had the top and bottom third removed, note on front free end-paper, otherwise Very Good. 

12405

The British Army of To-Day [The People's Books]

4¼” x 6½”. 92pp, diagrams, publisher’s advertisements. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, edges dusty otherwise Very Good Plus

17369

My Adventures as a Spy

4¾” x 7½”. 131pp, "Illustrated by the Author's Own Sketches". Blue cloth with paper spine label, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, spine damaged, tanned pages, Fair.

17750

The War in Abyssinia

7¼” x 10”. [xv] + 208pp, illustrations. Original tan cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed and stained, particularly the front boards where there is widespread staining (which appears to be water splashes). The spine is dull. The spine ends and corners are heavily bumped. This volume is ex-Library (Royal United Service Institution) and there is a R.U.S.I bookplate on the front pastedown, showing that the book was purchased on 30th October 1937. There are remnants of  a removed label on the front free end-paper. Apart from this, there is a hand-written note on the map pocket at the end to check the maps on receipt and before returning (all maps are present). The text is clean throughout; however the paper has tanned with age. The page corners are slightly bumped. The edge of the text block is dust-stained.

17339

The March of the Seventy-Thousand

5¾" x 9". 287pp, frontis, illustrations, folding map. Blind-stamped green cloth gilt, no d/j, edges dusty otherwise Very Good. Rare.

17206

A Diary Without Dates

4½” x 7”. 127pp. Original brown cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good.

17907

Mission to Tashkent

5½" x 8". 312pp, frontis, illustrations, map. Red cloth gilt in a scuffed and chipped d/j, gift inscription on front end-paper otherwise Very Good. "This book is produced in complete conformity with the  authorized economy standards"

18132

Bullets and Billets

4¾” x 7½”.  304pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Decorative red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, spine gutters split, edges foxed, otherwise Good.

17045

Animal War Heroes

5½” x 8¾”. [xxi] + 130pp + Publisher’s advertisement. Original brown cloth blocked in black in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good.

17623

Animal War Heroes

5½” x 8¾”. [xxi] + 130pp + Publisher’s advertisement. Original brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good.

17970

Smith-Dorrien

5¼" x 8¾". 345pp, frontis. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly mottled, spine dull, otherwise Very Good

16792

Besieged in Kut and After

5" x 7½". [viii] + 344pp, frontis, illustrations, front end-paper map and maps within text. Decorative red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

10778

Redcoats

5¾" x 8½". 156pp, ills. Blue cloth gilt in chipped, torn d/j, Very Good+/G

14778

Blood-Red Desert Sand : The British Invasions of Egypt and The Sudan 1882-1898

7½" x 9¾". 190pp, profusely illustrated. Large format Softback, As New

18056

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 : volume III: The A. I. F. in France, 1916

5¼” x 8¼”. [xlii] + 1,036pp, maps, illustrations. Paperback, covers rubbed, head of spine bumped, otherwise Very Good.

18057

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 : volume IV: The A. I. F. in France, 1917

5¼” x 8¼”. [xxxii] + 1,030pp, illustrations, maps. Pictorial card covers, covers rubbed, some shelfwear otherwise Very Good

18058

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 : volume V : The A. I. F. in France, during the main German Offensive, 1918

5¼" x 8¼". [xxxiv] + 825pp, illustrations, maps. Softback, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good 

11347

Men and Power 1917 - 1918

5½" x 8½". 448pp, frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-library with shelf number in white ink at base of spine, and usual library markings. Internally clean.

17372

History of the Great War : Based on Official Documents By Direction of The Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence : Order of Battle of Divisions : Part 3 B. : New Army Divisions (30-41); & 63rd (R.N.) Division

7” x 10¼”. [x] + 155pp. This volume is ex-Library and has been rebound by the Library in grey cloth blocked in gilt on the spine. There is a large area of old blue staining on the front cover, and the covers have significant furrows/undulations possibly through contact with damp or water? The spine ends and corners are bumped.

17333

As From Kemmel Hill : An Adjutant in France and Flanders 1917 & 1918

5½" x 8¾". 176pp, illustrations, maps. Original red cloth gilt in a badly torn and discoloured d/j, otherwise Very Good.

17020

Nine Days : Adventures of a Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Third Army during the German Offensive of March 21-29, 1918

5” x 7½”. [xvi] + 115pp, frontis, illustrations, folding map. Decorative blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, previous owner's name inscribed, one map chipped along the edge otherwise Very Good. Rare. Appealing & detailed account of the activities of 90th Bde. RGA during this hectic period. Roll of Officers & WOs

17170

We Did Not Fight : 1914 - 18 Experiences of War Resisters

4¾” x 7½". 392pp. Rebound ex-Library, reading copy.

14296

Destined to Live: Memoirs of a Doctor With the Russian Partisans

6½” x 9¾”. [xxii] + 232pp, illustrations. Softback, covers rubbed, some insect damage on corner of pages 187-232, not affecting text, otherwise Very Good

17686

The Story of a Red Cross Unit in Serbia

5½” x 8¾”. [xvi] + 293pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Grey cloth blocked in black with Serbian Red Cross Decoration on the front cover, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull, edges heavily foxed as are some pages, otherwise Very Good. A history of the “Anglo-Serbian” or “Royal Free Hospital” Unit 1914-16, compiled on its return by members of the hospital, with a list of members of the unit.

17638

History of the 6th Cavalry Brigade 1914-1919

6½” x 9”.  [xii] + 124pp, maps, illustrations. Original boards with label titles to front and spine in fair but solid condition. Spine label very worn with some loss. Head and tail of spine show wear and are bumped. Front title label soiled and marked. Scuffing to boards in general. Edge wear with several indentations to the edges. Internally very good. Light foxing to endpapers, and occasional light foxing throughout. Maps are not affected. Internal webbing visible between pastedown and front free end-paper and, to much lesser extent, between pages 66-67 and 98-99. Coloured endpapers show browning. All pages and fold-out maps present and intact. The maps are excellent, except for:  Map 1 right edge turned up, Maps 3, 4 & 6 show small amount of faint creasing, Map 6 also has ruffled edges and some marks, and Map 7 has a flat crease across top right corner. (Note that the title page states 1914-1919 whereas the cover shows 1914-1918.)

16993

The 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (2nd Birmingham Battalion) in the Great War

4¾” x 7½”. [xii] + 151pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, the boards have warped, previous owner's name inscribed, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good

16787

A Fatalist at War

5½" x 8¾". 246pp. Yellow cloth in a scuffed and chipped d/j, edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good. Scarce in this edition. German novelist and infantry officer, with a Jungdeutschland division in 1914 and later divisional staff. Considered by Falls as being "among the most vivid of German documents relating to the War."

17848

A Fatalist at War

5½" x 8¾". 246pp. Yellow cloth blocked in black, no d/j, edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good. Scarce in this edition. German novelist and infantry officer, with a Jungdeutschland division in 1914 and later divisional staff. Considered by Falls as being "among the most vivid of German documents relating to the War."

17903

On The Road to Kut : A Soldier's Story of the Mesopotamian Campaign

5½" x 8¾". [viii] + 304pp, frontis map, illustrations. Original blind-ruled red cloth blocked in black on the spine, no d/j, covers stained and heavily rubbed with extensive loss of original colour (the staining is heaviest on the rear cover while on the front cover there is a noticeably mottled appearance to the bottom half of the boards), spine faded and very dull, inner hinges badly cracked exposing the mull, withdrawn from Imperial War Museum usual markings to end-papers, previous owner's name inscribed in ballpoint on front free end-paper, text generally clean but 45 of the 56 illustrations are missing, edges dusty and lightly foxed, Good. Informative account by a Regular Officer of the Indian Army Supply & Transport Corps with the original 1914 expeditionary force (6th Indian Div.).

18123

On The Road to Kut : A Soldier's Story of the Mesopotamian Campaign

5½" x 8¾". 304pp, b&w plates, frontis map. Red cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed, front inner hinge strengthened with tape, previous owner's name inscribed, a good copy in a poor binding.

17966

Red Dust : An Australian Trooper in Palestine

4¾” x 7¾”. 303pp, frontispiece, illustrations, folding map. Rebound ex-Library, reading copy only.

17872

The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953

6” x 9”.\r\nRobert Silvers

15115

Fatal Decisions : Errors and Blunders in World War II

6" x 9½". [viii] + 242pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in d/j, As New

14787

Bibliothèques et musées de la guerre

6¼” x 9½”. 26pp. Original stapled paper wrappers, now somewhat dog-eared and chipped at the edge and with a one-inch vertical tear from the top of the spine downwards. There are no internal markings and the text is clean throughout but the paper has tanned noticeably with age.

17669

With Our Army in Palestine

5" x 7¾". [xi] + 288pp, illustrations. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine slightly faded and canted, offsetting to end-papers, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good. "This book is an attempt to give those interested some idea of the work and play and, occasionally, the sufferings of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, from the time of its inception to the Armistice." - from the Foreword. In his foreword the author thanks Capt B. T. Hinchley, late of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps, and L. Allard Stonard and R. Arrowsmith, both late of the "A" Battery, Honourable Artillery Company.Contents: Mersa Matruh and the Senussi; "Somewhere East of Suez."; On 'Untin'- and some other matters; Kantara and the Railway; The Wire Road; "The Long, Long, Trail"; On the Fringe of the Holy Land; The First Battle of Gaza; The Retreat; The Second Attempt; Tel El Jemmi and the Camels; Cave Dwellers and Scorpions; In the Wadi; The Attack on Beerheba; Gaza at Last; The Road to Jerusalem; Ou l'on s'amuse; In the Jordan Valley; The Valley of Chaos; In Full Cry; Over the ladder of Tyre; Deserted Villages in Lebanon. 

15180

Undertones of War

5¼” x 8½”. 255pp. Original flecked cloth in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very Good Plus

17805

The Great War Heroes of Bridlington

5¾” x 8¼”. 364pp, profusely illustrated. Softback, Very Good.

17650

The Eighth Division in War, 1914-1918

6” x 10”. [xv] + 360pp, frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Black cloth gilt with Divisional Patch on front boards, no d/j, covers heavily rubbed, lower edge of front boards snagged, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed with small splits in cloth, edges lightly foxed and dust-stained otherwise Very Good.

17288

The Deliverance of the Captives : Douaumont-Vaux October 21-November 3, 1916 with Two Maps 

4¾” x 7½”. [xvi] + 17-301pp, maps. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull, edges & end-papers foxed, previous owner's name stamped otherwise Very Good.

17046

The Aussie Crusaders

4¾” x 7½”. [x] + 270pp, colour frontis. Blind-stamped red cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, edges lightly foxed, old Prize Label on front pastedown otherwise Very Good

16896

Alarms and Excursions : Reminiscences of a Soldier

5½" x 8¾". 361pp, frontis. Red cloth, no d/j, ex-library though a few inoffensive stamps only, otherwise Very Good. Bridges was a Major in 1914 when he famously averted the surrender of the 2nd Dublins and 1st Warwicks at St Quentin; subsequently, Military Mission to the Belgian Field Army, 1914-15; then GOC 19th (Western) Division 1915-17. From the Thomas Hope Floyd Bequest.

17035

To Verdun From The Somme : An Anglo American Glimpse of the Great Advance

5” x 7¾”. [xviii] + 142pp, frontispiece. Original blind-stamped green cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull, previous owner's name inscribed, untrimmed, edges foxed otherwise Very Good.

15635

To Verdun From The Somme : An Anglo American Glimpse of the Great Advance

5” x 7¾”. [xviii] + 142pp, frontispiece. This volume is ex-Library. Original blind-stamped green cloth in damaged condition, but with all the damage confined to the spine: the top inch of the spine cloth is missed altogether, with the head-band now loose. There is a further tear in the backstrip one third of the way up from the tail. There is a bookplate and Library label on the front pastedown and front free end-paper, together with a "Withdrawn" stamp. There are further markings on the Title-Page and Copyright Page and, scattered throughout at regular intervals, an impressed circular Library stamp. The paper has tanned noticeably with age. The edge of the text block is not uniformly trimmed.

16559

Poems of the War and After

5” x 7½”. 94pp. Original cloth with chipped paper spine label, no d/j, covers rubbed, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.

17600

The Five Years : A Conspectus of the Great War Designed Primarily for Study by the Successors of Those Who Took Part in it and Secondarily to Refresh the Memory of the Participants Themselves

6¼" x 9½". 320pp, maps. Red cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good

14086

The Bolsheviks in Russian Society : The Revolution and the Civil Wars

6¼" x 9½". 333pp. Black boards in d/j, As New. In this book distinguished scholars from East and West draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this period Russian society was at war with itself and with the Bolsheviks. Authors discuss such previously neglected subjects as government policies toward women and toward religious institutions, the protests of workers and peasants, and the anti-Bolshevik movements and parties. Describing not one civil war but several social, political, and military confrontations going on simultaneously, they portray a Russia in turmoil and on outcome that was by no means inevitable.

16894

Episodes of the Great War

5½" x 8". [xiii] + 402pp, frontis, maps as end-papers, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j with some minor loss, covers rubbed and faded, otherwise Very Good

17943

Three Years of War in East Africa

5½” x 9”. [xxi] + 247pp, frontis, illustrations, maps, publisher’s advertisements. Original pictorial cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine darkened, head and tail of spine frayed, end-papers browned, inner hinges cracked, edges & end-papers lightly foxed, the map of the "Lindi Area" called for at page 172 has been excised, otherwise Good. The Great War in East Africa was much more than a 'sideshow’ - it was a classic guerilla campaign that has entered military legend. The author of this account was an officer of the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a British unit in the predominantly Indian and South African Allied Army that attempted, with huge losses and only limited success, to hunt down the elusive Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the brilliant and resourceful commander in German East Africa. Lettow’s small force of white officers and native African 'Askaris’ ranged across a vast region, twice the size of Germany itself, to keep one jump ahead of their allied pursuers. Initially outnumbered, the allies harried their quarry, but never finally defeated him. The Armistice found Lettow still in the field, barely able to credit the news that his beloved Fatherland had crumbled. Buchanan’s book shows why one of his soldiers griped: 'Ah, I wish to hell I was in France! There one lives like a gentleman and dies like a man; here one lives like a pig and dies like a dog’. The Allies found themselves battling a hostile climate, terrain, and above all disease - especially the dreaded malaria - which took a greater toll of lives than the fierce enemy resistance. A nature lover, Buchanan makes many observations of African flora and fauna, as well as his unsparing account of the tough military campaign. Rare in this edition.

17951

War History of the Seventh Northumberland Fusiliers : Dedicated to the Memory of All Ranks of the Battalion Who Laid Down Their Lives in the Great War

6¼” x 9¾”. [viii] + 155pp, 31 illustrations, folding map. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with some fading and noticeable variation in colour, small white stain on front cover, two snagged patches on spine, spine ends and corners bumped, otherwise Very Good.

16588

Q. 6. A and Other Places : Recollections of 1916, 1917, 1918

5” x 7½”. [x] + 239pp, with drawings by the Author of battle settings on 4 plates, and with other maps in the text. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, particularly the spine, end-papers browned, otherwise Very Good. Author's presentation copy.

15869

Sirdar and Khalifa or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan 1898

5¾” x 9”. [xiv] + 305pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, repaired split in rear gutter, bookplate removed from front pastedown, otherwise Very Good

17594

Essex Units in the War 1914-1919 : 1st Battalion The Essex Regiment : Vol. I [Title Page: The Essex Regiment 1st Battalion (44th)

5½” x 8¾”. [xiv] + 161pp, frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, rear cover slightly marked, spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers discoloured otherwise Very Good. Detailed accounts of the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment in the Great War where they saw action at Gallipoli as part of the 29th Division. Then later on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras, Flanders and the final stages in late 1918.

17877

Essex Units in the War 1914-1919 : Essex Territorial Infantry Brigade, (4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Battalions). Also 8th (Cyclists) Battalion The Essex Regiment

5½” x 8¾”. [xxvii] + 409pp, colour frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped, front free end-paper creased otherwise Very Good.

15575

The Burden of Guilt : How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914

6” x 9¼”. 330pp, map, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As 

15972

A Galloper at Ypres : And Some Subsequent Adventures

5¾” x 9”. 276pp, colour frontispiece by Lady Butler, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, slight spine lean otherwise Very Good.

17415

A Galloper at Ypres : And Some Subsequent Adventures

5¾” x 9”. 276pp, colour frontispiece by Lady Butler, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers stained, frontispiece detached, spine lean otherwise Very Good.

17224

Our Girls : Their Work for the War [with 15 illustrations from Photographs by the Ministry of Munitions]

4¼" x 7". 127pp, b&w plates. Red cloth, no d/j, spine faded, covers and corners rubbed, otherwise Very Good. Scarce.

17062

Experiences of a Dug-Out, 1914-1918

5¾" x 9". [xvii] + 339pp, frontis. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head & tail of spines frayed, edges and end-papers foxed, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Good

14844

Private Spud Tamson

5” x 7½”. 292pp. Original blue cloth blocked in black.

17885

The Balkan War Drama

5¼" x 8". [xii] + 206pp, frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers a little rubbed, some toning to pages opposite plates, otherwise near Fine. Campbell was The Times' correspondent.

17558

Verdun to the Vosges : Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

5¾" x 9". [xix] + 316pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Grey cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed

16592

Poems by Ivar Campbell with memoir by Guy Ridley

4¾” x 7”. 99pp, portrait frontis. Rebound ex-Library, internally clean.

12457

Wipers

4¼” x 7”. 220pp, map, illustrations. Paperback, covers rubbed, page edges browned otherwise Good

14547

Gallipoli

6¼" x 9½". 600pp, illustrations, maps. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New

17526

Among the Ruins

5” x 7½”. 346pp. Brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed otherwise Very Good. Uncommon early World War One report by a Spanish correspondent: "his volume will be read with interest by all who care to know what the traces were like which the German hordes who invaded France left behind them, and how their infamies inspired our allies to almost superhuman efforts." (Publishers note).

17642

Among the Ruins

5” x 7½”. 346pp. Brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed otherwise Very Good. Uncommon early World War One report by a Spanish correspondent: "his volume will be read with interest by all who care to know what the traces were like which the German hordes who invaded France left behind them, and how their infamies inspired our allies to almost superhuman efforts." (Publishers note).

16988

A Generation Missing

4¾” x 7½”. [xiii] + 223pp. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

17680

A Generation Missing

4¾” x 7½”. [xiii] + 223pp. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

14808

The National Army Museum Book of the Boer War

6" x 9½". 301pp, illustrations. Black cloth in d/j, As New

17844

Hellas and the Balkan Wars

5½" x 9". [xv] + 368pp, portrait frontis, 74 illustrations, maps. Blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, no d/j, Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, rear cover badly stained with some colour loss, edges foxed, end-papers browned, otherwise Good Plus. One of the rarest Balkan War titles.

16571

With the Black Watch : The Story of the Marne

4¾” x 7½”. [vii] + 248pp. Blue cloth blocked in yellow, no d/j, covers rubbed, slight spine lean otherwise Very Good. The Author was a first-class reservist mobilized in 1914 with the 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Active service from Mons to the Marne as a battalion runner & scout until wounded in Jan. 1915, followed by a short description of hospital life until discharged on 5th August 1915, “No longer physically fit for war service.”

17408

Steady Drummer

5½" x 8¾". 281pp, ills, maps. Original red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine discoloured and frayed, internally clean, otherwise Very Good.

17896

13 Days : The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison

4¾” x 7½”. [xv] + 224pp, frontis, illustrations by the Author. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and mottled, spine faded, front free end-paper excised otherwise Good Plus. Rare.

11892

Mission and Betrayal 1940-1945

6¼" x 9½". 221pp, ills. Red cloth gilt in d/j, Near Fine

17488

The 2/1st London Field Ambulance : An Outline of the 4½ Years Service of a Unit of the 56th Division Home & Abroad during the Great War, 1914-1919

6½” x ¼½¾”. 104pp, portrait frontispiece, 8 photographs, 2 folding maps [one missing]. Original cloth gilt, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, heavily foxed otherwise Good.

11599

The Great War [Volume I only]

6¾" x 9¾". 512pp, index, profusely illustrated. Newnes produced a heavily illustrated magazine format version of Churchill's "World Crisis" in 1933, which was subsequently bound into a three volume set of which this is the first, covering the period 1905 to 1915. The blue cloth covers are very rubbed, while both inner hinges are cracked, leaving the boards loose. The contents, other than dusty edges, are clean and bright.

17095

The World Crisis, 1911-1914; The World Crisis, 1915; The World Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part I; The World Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part II

6” x 9¼”. The World Crisis, 1911-1914 : 536 pages; The World Crisis, 1915 : 563 pages; The World Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part I : 292 pages; The World Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part II : [ix] + 293-589 pages [the pagination continues on from Part I, and starts, with this Volume at page 293, ending at page 589]. Original blue cloth gilt. The covers are scuffed and rubbed, with some old staining,; there is also significant variation in colour throughout. The spines are generally quite bright though there are splash marks on the first volume and a strain at the head of the second volume. The spine ends and corners on each are heavily bumped and slightly frayed and there are a number of indentations along the edges of the boards. There is a previous owner's name inscribed in pencil on the front free end-paper of the first volume only; there are no markings in the other three volumes. The end-papers of all volumes are very browned and discoloured. The  text is clean throughout on slightly tanned paper. There is, however, some occasionally heavy foxing, mainly affecting the first and last few pages (with the first volume being the worst affected).

16860

Mud and Khaki : The Memories of an Incomplete Soldier

5½” x 8¾”. 224pp, frontispiece, illustrations. This volume is ex-Boot's Library; poor condition.

17246

The Donkeys

5½” x 8½”. 216pp, illustrations. Black cloth blocked in white and red in a torn, scuffed and chipped price-clipped d/j, previous owner's name inscribed (from Royal Australian Regiment), edges dusty, slight spine lean otherwise about Very Good.

17743

On the Road From Mons : With An Army Service Corps Train : By its Commander

4¾” x 7¾”. [xi] + 164pp, folding map, diagrams, facsimile telegram. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, end-papers and edges lightly foxed, lower edge untrimmed, folding map torn at stub otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.

18151

THE CETNIKS : A Survey of Cetnik Activity in Yugoslavia, April 1941 - July 1944 [CONFIDENTIAL. PB/274. G-2 (PB), A.F.H.Q. SEPTEMBER, 1944.]

5¾” x 8”. 95pp. Original printed paper covers which are soiled, discoloured and heavily rubbed, particularly around the edges and on the spine. The front paper cover is scuffed and quite heavily soiled and stained in the top left-hand section; there is a previous owner's name inscribed in ink on the top left ["Capt. P. D. Harrisson, R.E." (Royal Engineers)]. The rear cover is stained adjacent to the spine and also soiled; additionally, there is a diagonal crease across the bottom corner. The plain, untitled, spine is creased and chipped. The corners are creased and dog-eared.

18101

Imperial Defence 1588-1914

4” x 6¾”. [vii] + 102pp.

17988

The Unknown Courier with a Note on the Situation Confronting the Axis in the Mediterranean in the Spring of 1943 By Field-Marshal Kesselring

5½” x 8¾”. 208pp, portrait frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Original cloth in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j otherwise Very Good.

15109

Chief of Intelligence

5½" x 8½". 223pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull otherwise Very Good

16704

Through Hell to Victory : From Passchendaele to Mons with the 2nd Devons in 1918

5" x 7½". 272pp. Green cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, end-papers discoloured, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good. This book deals exclusively with the 2nd Devons (23rd Brigade, 8th Division) during the last year of the war. It describes what the battalion did in the early days of 1918, touches briefly on their movements in January, deals fully with the March retreat in the face of the German offensive, follows them in the fighting to save Amiens and goes on to describe at length the battalion's heroic stand at the Bois des Buttes, under the shadow of the Chemin des Dames, on the 27th May and following days. For this action the battalion was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm. This account comes not from official records but from the information of those who took part, and it took the author more than a year to assemble all the details. The casualties in the action at the Bois des Buttes, as given in the regimental history, amounted to twenty three officers and 528 men killed or missing.

16943

Through Hell to Victory : From Passchendaele to Mons with the 2nd Devons in 1918

5" x 7½". 272pp. Green cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, end-papers discoloured, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good. This book deals exclusively with the 2nd Devons (23rd Brigade, 8th Division) during the last year of the war. It describes what the battalion did in the early days of 1918, touches briefly on their movements in January, deals fully with the March retreat in the face of the German offensive, follows them in the fighting to save Amiens and goes on to describe at length the battalion's heroic stand at the Bois des Buttes, under the shadow of the Chemin des Dames, on the 27th May and following days. For this action the battalion was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm. This account comes not from official records but from the information of those who took part, and it took the author more than a year to assemble all the details. The casualties in the action at the Bois des Buttes, as given in the regimental history, amounted to twenty three officers and 528 men killed or missing.

17453

The Irish Brigade and its Campaigns : With some account of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches of the Principal Officers

4¾” x 7¼”. 302pp. Original printed paper wrappers, corners are creased and dog-eared, ex-Library, otherwise Good.

17292

The Story of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division 1916-1919

4¾” x 7½”. 184pp, maps, illustrations. Printed card with green cloth backstrip, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, corners frayed, spine creased, edges foxed, otherwise Good. 

17440

The Story of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division 1916-1919  [The cover of the cheaper card edition includes the dates "1916-1919"]

5” x 7½”. 184pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine slightly frayed, corners bumped, detached bookplate, letter to Editor by Rev. Coop dated 2nd January 1919 tipped in to front free end-paper, edges dusty and foxed (sometimes heavily)  otherwise Very Good. Unit history of the 55th English division in France during WW1,comprising the 1st,2nd 3rd & 4th West Lancs. Brigade RFA, 1/1,2/1 & 2/2 West Lancs. Engineers, 1/5,1/6,1/7,1/8 & 1/9 Kings [Liverpool Regt], 1/4 & 1/5 KORLR, 1/4 & 1/5 Loyal North Lancs. Regt. 2/5 Lancashire Fusiliers, 1/5 South Lancashire Regt. & supporting arms. Describes the actions of the Division in the Cambrai & Givenchy sectors among others, lists awards & honours with the citations for the 11 VC winners, casualty lists etc. The 55th was a pre-war territorial division, recruited in an area extending northwards from the Mersey to the Lune. The divisional and two of the brigade headquarters were located in Liverpool, the third brigade in Lancaster. The divisional sign was the red rose of Lancaster and the infantry battalions came from the King's Own (R Lancaster), the King's (Liverpool), the Loyal N Lancs and the S Lancs. The artillery, engineers, signals, transport and medical units were all designated West Lancashire, the Mounted troops were the Lancashire Hussars (Yeomanry). Between November 1914 and March 1915 eight battalions left the division for France to provide reinforcements for the BEF. In April a complete brigade, the North Lancashire, was transferred to the 51st Highland Division and having been redesignated 3rd Highland Brigade went to France with that division in May, whether they were in kilts or not is not made clear. In January 1916 the division was reformed in France, with the original battalions returning, and numbered 55th. Subsequently it fought on the Somme at Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette and Morval. It took part in Third Ypres and was at Cambrai for the tank attack and the German counter-attack. In April 1918 the 55th was engaged in the fighting on the Lys during the German offensive, doing exceptionally well in their stubborn defence of Givenchy where their memorial stands today bearing the inscription "They Win or die who wear the Rose of Lancashire." By the end of the month they had suffered 3,871 casualties and been awarded three VCs. The division earned a high reputation, it won the highest number of VCs (12) among the non-regular divisions including the only double VC to be awarded during the war, Capt Noel Chavasse RAMC, the MO of the 1/10th King's (Liverpool) - the Liverpool Scottish. Appendices give the citations for these VC awards, full casualty details, totals of honours and awards and reproduce the first and last operation orders issued by the division (9 February 1916 and 10 November 1918). In all the division had 35,701 casualties of which 6,520 were dead.

17836

The Red Cross in Serbia 1915 - 1919 : A Personal Diary of Experiences

5½” x 8¾”. [xiii] + 186pp, illustrations, frontispiece map. Green cloth gilt, no d/j [as issued], covers rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped otherwise Very Good.

15744

The Paris Front : An Unpublished Diary 1914-1918

5¾" x 8¾". 394pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, spine and top of covers very faded, otherwise Very Good

17502

Peninsula of Death

5½” x 8¾”. [vii] + 248pp, frontis, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and marked, spine slightly canted, edges heavily foxed otherwise Very Good

16635

The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War [The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment]

7¼” x 10”. [xiii] + 358pp., 4to, illustrations, maps (many folding). Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine slightly faded, corners bumped, otherwise Very Good. Very clean internally. Excellent history, mainly Western Front, also Palestine, Mespot. &c. Roll of Hon., awards. 

16854

The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War [The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment]

7¼” x 10”. [xiii] + 358pp., 4to, illustrations, maps (many folding). Re-backed red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, corners bumped, otherwise Very Good. Very clean internally. Excellent history, mainly Western Front, also Palestine, Mespot. &c. Roll of Hon., awards. 

16855

The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War

7¼” x 10”. [ix] + 371pp., 4to, illustrations, maps (many folding). Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, corners bumped, otherwise Very Good. Very clean internally. 

16314

General Smuts' Campaign in East Africa

5½” x 8¾”. [xxiii] + 280pp, portrait frontis, four maps. Red cloth blocked in black on the front and gilt on the spine, blind ruled, no d/j, spine faded, head and tail of spine frayed, otherwise Very Good. The career of Jan Smuts is one of the most remarkable military and political stories of the 20th century. A gifted guerilla commander against the British in the Boer War; by 1914 Smuts was happy to stand with the British as head of a large army fighting to conquer German East Africa (today's Tanzania). Sadly the campaign was not one of his finest hours. Both the text of this book, and Smuts' own somewhat defensive introduction, gives a good idea of why the resourceful German commander, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was able to run rings round the superior allied forces trying to trap him. Lettow and his staff, and their small army of trained native Africans, the 'Askaris', knew the lie of the land and were able to live off it. The allied frustration, as they repeatedly tracked and attacked him, only to find Lettow melting away to fight another day, is palpable. Evcentually, the allies, at enormous cost, succeeded in conquering the territory and forcing Lettow into neighbouring areas, but the 1918 Armistice found him still at liberty and with his force intact. By then Smuts had long departed. It is pleasant to record that Smuts ended his career as a valued member of Churchill's War Cabinet and South African Prime Minister, and that in the hungry months for Germany that followed the Second World War he was able to supply his old opponent, Lettow, with food parcels.

18096

General Smuts' Campaign in East Africa

5½” x 8¾”. [xxiii] + 280pp, portrait frontis, four maps. This volume is ex-Library and has been rebound by the Library in red buckram with a leather spine. As is all too common, the leather spine is badly scuffed, which can be seen in the image above. There are also areas of colour loss on the side panels. The cloth sections are scuffed and rubbed, with surface scratching to both front and rear, but far more pronounced on the rear cover. The spine ends and corners are heavily bumped, and also frayed.

17582

The Men I Killed

5¼" x 8". 288pp. Original cloth, no d/j, faded patch at head of spine, spine slightly cocked, edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good

17869

Impressions and Recollections

5½” x 8¾”. 330pp, portrait frontispiece, 29 plates. Second issue binding, paper-covered boards blocked yellow, no d/j, covers heavily rubbed, frayed at edges, otherwise Very Good.

17273

Shilling A Day Soldier

5” x 8¼”. [viii] + 128pp, 7 photos., map. Original blue boards blocked in silver, no d/j, head and tail of spine bumped, otherwise Near Fine. Crutchley's scarce First World War memoirs: served with 1/4th Northants as a machine gunner and landed with the Battalion at Suvla Bay on 15th August 1915. Includes a short but interesting account of this period until invalided with dysentery: returned to England and transferred to MGC in January 1916. Served with 135th Coy. MGC in Mesopotamia & Palestine 1917-18, including various battles and operations which are interestingly described.

17777

A History of the Great War

5½” x 9”. [xiv] + 655pp, frontis, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, covers rubbed, edges & end-papers foxed otherwise Very Good

17939

A Brigadier in France, 1917-1918

5” x 7¾”. 272pp, portrait frontis. Brown cloth blocked in blue, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine darkened and soiled, occasional foxing otherwise Very Good. Hanway Robert Cumming was commissioned into the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) in 1889 and saw active service during the South African War. He was in a staff appointment in India in August 1914 and did not arrive in France till June 1915 where he again held staff appointments until August 1916 when he took command of 2nd DLI. In November 1916 he was appointed to command of the 91st Brigade, 7th Division, a post he held till May 1917 when, during the Battle of Bullecourt he was summarily dismissed by the divisional commander (Shoubridge) and went home on leave, under protest as he describes in the book (less than a month later he was awarded the DSO in the 1917 Birthday Honours!). From August 1917 to the following February he commanded the MG Corps Training Centre at Grantham and then, in March 1918 he went back to France to command the 110th Brigade, 21st Division where he stayed to the end of the war. After the war, while commanding the Kerry Brigade in Ireland he was murdered, on 6th March 1921.This book is concerned with his two periods as a brigade commander, and as battlefield reminiscences of officers at that level are not all that common, it is a record of special interest. The greater part of the book deals with his command of the 110th Brigade which he took over less than a week before the German Spring offensive, which is dealt with in detail, as is the May offensive in Champagne in which 21st Division was one of the five British divisions fighting under French command, and then the final allied counter-offensive. In all this is an interesting picture of the life of a brigade commander on the Western front. He tells his story in the third person, referring to himself throughout as the Brigadier.

17230

Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) 

6” x 9¼”.[xvi] + 192pp, illustrations. Original green boards (leatherette?) blocked in gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, corners bumped, otherwise Very Good.

17651

From the St. Lawrence to the Yser With the 1st Canadian Brigade

5” x 7¾”. [xi] + 167pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Original blue cloth blocked in dark blue, no d/j, covers rubbed and soiled, spine very faded, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, otherwise Very Good.

14982

In The World War

6¼" x 9½". 352pp, 4 plates. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, a reading copy. From the Thomas Hope Floyd Bequest.

17770

History of the 60th Division (2/2nd London Division)

6¼” x 10”. 255pp, colour frontispiece and two plates, maps. Original black cloth gilt with Divisional motif on front cover, no d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine snagged with small splits in cloth, corners frayed, end-papers foxed and discoloured, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good. At the end of August 1914 the Territorial Force (TF) was authorized to raise reserve or 2nd-line units and from these came the 2nd-line Divisions, fourteen of them, one for each 1st-line or original pre-war TF divisions. The 60th came into existence in September as the 2/2nd London Division, receiving its number in August 1915 when all the 2nd-line divisions were numbered. It embarked for France in June 1916 and went into the line in the Vimy sector where it endured four months of crater and trench fighting. The division was withdrawn from the BEF in November and sent to Macedonia , assembling at Salonika on Christmas Day 1916. For the next five months it was engaged in fighting the Bulgars, participating in the British attacks near Lake Doiran in April and May. Their stay in Macedonia lasted only six months, for in June 1917 the division was moved again - to Palestine where it saw out the war. The division made a good name for itself in this campaign, at Third Gaza, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Jericho and especially in carrying out two raids across the Jordan, which are described in detail.Two appendices list command and staff, one when the division left for France and the other when it arrived in Palestine. Three VCs were awarded (one of which does not get a mention), all in Palestine, but there is no list of honours and awards nor roll of honour. The author, an ASC officer, commanded the division Train till returning home in June 1917 before the division arrived in Palestine. The maps could be better, in fact one of them depicting the battle for Jerusalem (p 152) shows a 71st Division as part of the force; the 71st Division was a home service only division, and in the text on p133 reference is made to the 179th Division which should be 179th Brigade.

17302

History of the 60th Division (2/2nd London Division)

6¼” x 10”. 255pp, colour frontispiece and two plates, maps. Original black cloth gilt with Divisional motif on front cover, no d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine snagged with small splits in cloth, corners frayed, end-papers foxed and discoloured, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good. At the end of August 1914 the Territorial Force (TF) was authorized to raise reserve or 2nd-line units and from these came the 2nd-line Divisions, fourteen of them, one for each 1st-line or original pre-war TF divisions. The 60th came into existence in September as the 2/2nd London Division, receiving its number in August 1915 when all the 2nd-line divisions were numbered. It embarked for France in June 1916 and went into the line in the Vimy sector where it endured four months of crater and trench fighting. The division was withdrawn from the BEF in November and sent to Macedonia , assembling at Salonika on Christmas Day 1916. For the next five months it was engaged in fighting the Bulgars, participating in the British attacks near Lake Doiran in April and May. Their stay in Macedonia lasted only six months, for in June 1917 the division was moved again - to Palestine where it saw out the war. The division made a good name for itself in this campaign, at Third Gaza, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Jericho and especially in carrying out two raids across the Jordan, which are described in detail.Two appendices list command and staff, one when the division left for France and the other when it arrived in Palestine. Three VCs were awarded (one of which does not get a mention), all in Palestine, but there is no list of honours and awards nor roll of honour. The author, an ASC officer, commanded the division Train till returning home in June 1917 before the division arrived in Palestine. The maps could be better, in fact one of them depicting the battle for Jerusalem (p 152) shows a 71st Division as part of the force; the 71st Division was a home service only division, and in the text on p133 reference is made to the 179th Division which should be 179th Brigade.

12287

1918 : War and Peace

6¼" x 9½". [xvi] + 616pp, illustrations, maps. Black cloth in d/j, As New

18127

With British Guns in Italy : A Tribute to Italian Achievement

5" x 7¾". [xiv] + 267pp, illustrations, maps, publisher's catalogue. Blind-stamped red cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges foxed, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Good. 

14954

Kitty Harris : The Spy with Seventeen Names

6¼" x 9½". [viii] + 260pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in d/j, As New. Kitty Harris was born in London to an emigre Jewish family, and became a key figure in Soviet espionage networds across the globe, running agents in London, Berlin, Shanghai, Mexico and Los Alamos. She was Donald Maclean's controller and lover and the bigamous wife of Earl Browder, General Secretary of the American Communist Party. She also played a role in the penetration of the Manhatten Project and helped organise an illegal spy-ring in Mexico City. Thought to have disappeared without a trace her story and its sad end is now told by a senior Russian intelligence officer with access to her astonishing archive.

16944

British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914 - 1918 : From the Outbreak of War with Turkey to the Armistice : Volume II. The Tide of Victory

5½" x 8¾". [xv] + 237pp, [xv] + 240pp, 30 maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, edges & end-papers lightly foxed, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good\r\nVol. I almost entirely devoted to the Gallipoli campaign (with useful sketch maps), Vol. II covers Mesopotamia, Salonika, Egypt & Palestine campaigns. The best edition, much enlarged from the original single volume published in 1917.

16945

British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918

5½" x 8¾". 215pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head and tail of spine nicked, small tear in spine, front cover has one thin stain from top right to bottom, front inner hinge frayed and exposed, else Very Good. Scarce. Cyril Falls: "Little has been written about the majority of the campaigns here described, and although Mr Dane had comparatively little material to work upon, his account is not without value. He writes of South-West Africa, East Africa, Togoland, the Cameroons, and the Pacific, including the siege of Kiao-Chau."

17294

Extracts from the Diaries of a Tommy (1916-19) : Being the actual day to day diary kept by a soldier during the war under very difficult circumstances

4¾” x 7½”. 292pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine faded, frayed patch on rear spine gutter, slight spine lean, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. Exceptionally rare diary of an ordinary soldier covering Passchendaele in 1917, the final German push in 1918 and the Allied response."... on April 10th, 1916 at the age of thirty five ... I gave up my temporary appointment in Lloyds Bank, locked up my office in Newcastle, and left wife and two children at home, to enlist ... I wished to see for myself what war was like." The author was a sapper with the 1st Fd. Coy. Northumbrian RE, then an NCO with 419 Fd. Coy. (West Lancs.) RE & a Staff Sgt. at 2nd Corps HQ. Very scarce candid account of enlistment & life at Base Camps in England & France, active service 1917-18 & the Army of Occupation in Cologne. Some unusual experiences that don’t often find their way into the memoirs include (apparently celibate) education visits to the ‘Red Lamp.’ Some copies show the Publisher as Cecil Palmer on the spine but have a pasted sheet to the Title-Page giving G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd (Milford Lane, London, W.C.2) as the Publisher

16671

One Young Man : The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme and is now on his way back to his desk

4¾” x 7¼”. [xi] + 125pp. Red cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good. Inscribed on the front pastedown by the Reginald Davis.

17145

One Young Man : The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme and is now on his way back to his desk

5” x 8¼”. 156pp. Paperback, spine damaged otherwise Very Good

17927

With the Allies

5" x 7½". 240pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates, publisher's catalogue. Decorative red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good

17524

The History of the 35th Division in the Great War

5½” x 8¾”. [xii] + 346pp, maps, illustrations (12 portraits, 3 views, 14 maps, plans & panoramas). Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with patchy fading, spine darkened and slightly dull, spine ends and corners bumped, edges dusty and lightly foxed, some slight internal foxing, otherwise Very Good. A Bantam Division on the Western Front from January 1916: Somme, Arras, 3rd Ypres, German Offensive, Final Advance &c. One of the best written divisional histories and certainly one of the scarcest.

17275

The Army Quarterly October 1922 [Volume V, No. 1]

5½" x 8¾". [xxiv] + 224pp, maps, advertisements. Red card covers, spine creased and chipped otherwise Very Good.

17864

Back to Blighty : Battle Stories Recorded by Captain A. J. Dawson

4¾” x 7½”. [vii] + 231pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped, tanned pages, otherwise Very Good.

17102

Khaki Courage : Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson, Novelist and Soldier. With an Introduction by his Father, W. J. Dawson

5" x 7¾". 185pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, covers marked and rubbed, offsetting to end-papers, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good. Uplifting, patriotic & irrepressably optimistic propagandist work (although "quite disillusioned about the splendour of\r\nwar” having seen the Somme in 1916); Dawson served with the artillery in 1st & 4th Canadian Divisions & was wounded. He survived to make his living as a successful writer.

17899

A Cavalry Chaplain

5½” x 8¾”. 188pp. Original tan cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with small stain on front, spine ends and corners bumped, slight spine lean, Library label on front pastedown (Ex. Bibliotheca Congr. SS. Redempt. Domus ad S. Joseph, Dundalk), front free end-paper excised, Library stamp on discoloured Half-Title page, otherwise Very Good. Chaplain in Salonika 1916-18 with 7th Mtd. Bde. attached to Derby Yeo. & senior RC Padre to 1st Div. in France from May 1918.

17398

Macedonian Memories

5¼" x 8¾". 196pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, patchy and soiled, spine dull, edges & end-papers foxed, otherwise Good

16451

Douglas Haig 1861-1928

6” x 9½”. [xxii] + 441pp, maps, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, small stain on edge of text block otherwise Very Good.

17511

Reminiscences of Sport and War

5½” x 8¾”. 276pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, small white mark on top front corner, gift inscription on front end-paper dated 1939, otherwise Very Good. A bright copy. Autobiography of General Beauvoir de Lisle, a General in the British Army, first commissioned into Durham Light Infantry in 1883. "He commanded the 2nd Cavalry Brigade at Mons, and went on to command the 1st Cavalry Division and the 15th Corps. Excessively self-effacing." (Lengel). After the War he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Command: he held this post until 1923 and retired in 1926. He was known for his polo skills and spent much of the years 1929 to 1930 training polo teams for the Maharaja of Kashmir in India (ODNB).

17153

Medicine & Duty : A War Diary

4¾" x 7½". [xi] + 234pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine faded, spine slightly cocked, edges & end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

16260

A Kitchener Man's Bit : An Account of the Great War 1914-1918

6” x 8¼”. 280pp. Thin printed card covers with black backstrip, no d/j, Near Fine.

10299

Churchill's Secret War : Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey, 1942-44

6¼" x 9½". 208pp, ills. Brown cloth in d/j, Fine/as new. During the course of his research the author was offered access to the secret wartime files of diplomatic intercepts which Churchill valued very highly. They showed that Churchill's role in British foreign policy and war planning was far more significant that had hitherto been supposed. Although he was neither a commander-in-chief nor a head of state, he personally exerted considerable influence on British foreign policy to force Turkey into WW2 on the side of the Allies. This study helps us to understand Churchill's use of secret signals intelligence before and during WW2 and Britain's relations with Turkey, shedding new light on the role of the neutral countries (of which Turkey was one).

17542

A V. A. D. in France

5" x 7¾". 349pp, illustrations. Pictorial cloth, no d/j, inner hinges cracked, front free end-paper missing, otherwise Very Good.

16552

A Hostage in Germany

5” x 8”. [viii] + 145pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine very faded, end-papers and edges foxed, old Prize Label on front pastedown dated 1918, inner hinges tender, otherwise Very Good.

17249

By-Ways on Service : Notes from an Australian Journal

5” x 7½”. [x] + 281pp. Purple cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded and soiled, head and tail of spine frayed, otherwise Very Good. Reminiscences of World War I Australian soldier, includes: Up the Canal, Abbassieh, On leave in Cairo, Glimpses of ANZAC, Gallipoli, Back to Egypt, France, Picardy and the Somme. Dinning was a Captain in the Light Horse.

16149

Tinned Soldier : A Personal Record, 1919 to 1926

5¼” x 7¾”. 314pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, front spine gutter split at head, end-papers browned, otherwise Very Good. Classic account of the Tank Corps

17746

Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913 - 1919

6" x 9". 302pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine dull, slightly shaken, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Good. An unprepossessing copy of a very scarce title.

17793

A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison

5" x 7½". [ix] + 248pp, portrait frontis, publisher’s advertisements. Re-backed red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine soiled, marked and faded,  edges & end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. Contents: The Expeditionary Force in the Retreat; The Miracle of the Marne; The First Battle of Ypres; In German Hands; Crefeld; Minden; Sennelager Bei Paderborn; Guetersloh; Home.

16010

Under the Search-Light : A Record of a Great Scandal

5½” x 8¾”. [xix] + 463pp, frontispiece and three other illustrations. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, front cover bowed, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good.

15597

Embracing Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II

6¼" x 9½". 676pp, illustrations. White boards with blue cloth backstrip in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine

15598

War Without Mercy : Race and Power in the Pacific War

5½” x 8¾”. [xiv] + 399pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, page edges yellowed otherwise Near Fine

16848

Two Years on Trek : Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa

5½” x 8¾”. [vi] +323 + [xi] pages, maps. Original blue cloth gilt. The covers are faded and worn. The front cover is very badly faded with significant loss of original colour and marked variation in colour of what remains. The fading is not as severe on the rear cover, but there is also noticeable variation in colour here as well. The spine has faded completely, with total loss of original colour. The spine ends are chipped and torn with some minor loss of cloth. there is also a small hole on the front spine gutter, towards the head. The corners are bumped and frayed with further minor splitting to the cloth. Finally, the covers have bowed outwards at the top. There is a gift inscription dated 1907 on the heavily tanned Half-Title page. Otherwise, the text is clean throughout on slightly tanned paper (more noticeably browned in the margins). The inner hinges are partially cracked and there is some separation between the inner gatherings, the worst being at pages 96-97 where there is a very sizeable split. Many of the corners are turned inwards due to the external bumping. There is also a pronounced musty smell. Finally, the large folding map at the end, while intact, has a tear on the bottom margin (not affecting the map itself).

15684

Langemarck and "Cambrai" : A War Narrative 1914 - 1918

5¾" x 8¾". 132pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates. Black cloth, no d/j, spine dull, covers marked and rubbed, white lettering on backstrip rubbed away, previous owner's name inscribed, untrimmed page edges, otherwise Very Good. 

17732

How I Escaped from Germany

5” x 7¾”. [xiii] + 108pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and soiled with circular stain on rear cover, backstrip frayed along gutters, corners bumped otherwise Very Good. Rare. Duncan was a member of the 1/8 Battalion, King's Own Liverpool Regiment.

17914

The War The Infantry Knew 1914 - 1919 : A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium

5½" x 8¾". [li] + 613pp, illustrations, sketch maps. Red cloth blocked in silver in a rubbed, slightly discoloured, price-clipped d/j, page edges browned otherwise Very Good. Subtitled: "A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium with The Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on personal records, recollections and reflections, assembled, edited and partly written by One of their Medical Officers." Possibly the finest account of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front.

11830

The War The Infantry Knew 1914 - 1919 : A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium

5" x 7¾". 613pp, ills, maps. Paperback, unread. Subtitled: "A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium with The Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on personal records, recollections and reflections, assembled, edited and partly written by One of their Medical Officers."

17133

The Adventures of Dunsterforce

5½" x 9".  [xi] + 323pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, map as front end-papers, map within text and a folding map. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull and snagged, head and tail of spine and corners bumped, 

17121

Buller's Campaign : With the Natal Field Force of 1900

5¾” x 9”. [xx] + 336pp, portrait frontispiece, maps, illustrations (folding map at end). Original red cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed, with some old marks, a small snag on the front cover, and a noticeable line of fading across the top section. The spine has faded to a marked extent with significant loss of original colour. The front spine gutter is heavily rubbed; however, the rear spine gutter has a one-inch split near the tail, and another split from the head downwards (for almost an inch). The spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed, with further splits in the cloth, with the head of the spine being the worst affected with a number of obvious tears. There is also a small discoloured patch on the spine from the removal of a label. There is an abraded patch on the front pastedown from the removal of a label or bookplate and a similar, though smaller, patch on the front free end-paper. Combined with the discoloured patch on the spine, this would give every indication of being a Library book; however, there are no Library markings visible anywhere. The text is clean throughout on tanned paper with some foxing spots, while the illustrations have acquired a distinct yellowish tinge. The edge of the text block is dust-stained and lightly foxed and is also untrimmed, resulting in a ragged edge. The inner hinges are a little tender. There is a small  tear in the leading edge of the frontispiece.

17358

A Yarn of War : Palestine and France 1917-1918

5¼” x 7¾”. [xvi] + 251pp, 33 plates, 5 sketch maps. blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, no d/j, spine slightly stained, heavy bump on top edge of front boards, spine ends and corners heavily bumped, edge of the text block untrimmed otherwise Very Good. Inscribed by the Author (with initials) "To Will H. Lyford, with love from E. R. B., 30th Dec. 1919". Atmospheric personal account of service with 8th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 52nd (Lowland) Division including Battles of Gaza 1917 and campaign in the hills to capture of Jerusalem etc. Then to France in April 1918 and into the line on the Vimy Ridge, then in July the Battalion transferred ro the 34th Division and the Author was wounded by shrapnel during series of advances near Beugneux (near Soissons). Numerous photos and good coloured sketch maps of Gaza, advance to Jaffa, Vimy District etc. A well written personal account of service with 8th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in the 52nd (Lowland) Division. With good accounts of the Battles of Gaza 1917, and campaign in the hills to capture of Jerusalem. Boyd transferred to France in April 1918 and went into the line on the Vimy Ridge, then in July the bn. transferred to the 34th Div., Boyd was wounded by shrapnel during series of advances near Beugneux (near Soissons). 

17578

Military Operations : France and Belgium, 1914 : Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, The Marne and The Aisne, August-October 1914

5½" x 8¾". [xxix] + 545pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers stained and very faded, inner hinges are quite slack due to the volume's size and weight. There is an inscription on the front end-papers: "Officers' Mess Reference Library, Fulford Barracks, 14/12/35 H.G. 235". The end-papers are browned and discoloured and the paper has tanned with age, with some pages having grubby marks (including the Title-Page). Although the text is reasonably clean throughout, there are sections where there are a number of pencilled marks or annotations in the margins. The edge of the text block is very grubby and dust-stained and also foxed. Some corners are creased and there is a "Supplied for the Public Service" oval stamp on the reverse of the Title-Page.

17497

Military Operations : France and Belgium 1918 : Volume I : The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries

5½" x 8¾". [xxx] + 569pp, sketch maps. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Reference Library with usual markings otherwise Very Good.

17580

Military Operations : France and Belgium 1918 : Volume I : The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries

5½" x 8¾". [xxx] + 569pp, sketch maps. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Boots Library, The spine has faded. and frayed otherwise Good.

17980

Military Operations : France and Belgium 1918 : Volume I : The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries

5½" x 8¾". [xxx] + 569pp, sketch maps. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Reference Library with usual markings otherwise Very Good.

15846

Military Operations : France and Belgium 1918 : March-April: Continuation of the German Offensives

5½” x 8¾”. [xxviii] + 550pp, maps. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j. The covers are rubbed and there is a rectangular area of severe fading (with colour loss) on the rear cover. The spine is also badly faded and is also mottled. The spine ends and corners are bumped. This volume is ex-Library with a bookplate on the front end-paper and a number of stamps throughout the volume (including on the reverse of all the maps). Despite this, the text is clean throughout. The paper has tanned with age and the edge of the text block is lightly foxed.

17982

Military Operations : France and Belgium 1918 : March-April: Continuation of the German Offensives

5½” x 8¾”. [xxviii] + 550pp, maps. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, this is a reading copy only.

17958

The Second Twentieth : Being the History of the 2/20th Bn. London Regiment

4¾” x 7¼”. [xv] + 314pp, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, folding maps. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, spine ends and corners bumped, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good.

14421

Eye-Deep in Hell : The Western Front 1914 - 18

7" x 9¾". 215pp, profusely illustrated. Black cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good.

12313

The World War I Databook : The Essential Facts and Figures for all the Combatants

8½" x 11¼". [xix] + 323pp, maps. Black cloth gilt in d/j, Near Fine (though with a lingering smell of tobacco smoke)

18106

The 4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars in the Great War

7¼” x 10”. [xv] + 198pp, frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt with bevelled edges. The covers are marked, scuffed and rubbed with extensive old staining, other areas of darkening to the cloth, and significant variation in colour. There are are number of marks on the front cover and some shallow gouges, with darkening to all but the central area. The rear cover is heavily stained/darkened, covering about half the cloth. The spine has darkened with age and is also soiled. The spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed with splits in the cloth and there are indentations along the edges of the bevelled boards. There is widespread and extensive foxing throughout and the paper has tanned significantly with age. The folding maps are very discoloured. There is separation between the inner gatherings and some play in the inner hinges. The edge of the text block is grubby, dust-stained and heavily foxed, with the foxing extending into the margins.

16771

British Secret Service During the Great War

5½" x 9". 320pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head of spine snagged, covers rubbed, end-papers browned, previous owner's name stamped otherwise Very Good.

17503

When Armageddon Came : Studies in Peace and War

4¾" x 7½". 368pp, portrait frontis. Brown cloth, no d/j, spine rubbed, white title lettering on spine rubbed off, spine damaged, bookplate of National Peace Council otherwise Very Good

18125

The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919

6” x 9”. [xviii] + 435pp + 11 folding maps at end. 24 illustrations including 20 tissue-guarded colour illustrations. Blue cloth gilt with gilt thistle on front boards, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, otherwise Very Good.

17084

The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919

6” x 9”. [xviii] + 435pp + 11 folding maps at end. 24 illustrations including 20 tissue-guarded colour illustrations. Blue cloth gilt with gilt thistle on front boards, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, two maps carelessly folded and creased and torn at edge as a result, otherwise Very Good.

17875

War is War

5" x 7½". 288pp. Black cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges dusty, spine slightly canted otherwise Very Good

17447

The First Birmingham Battalion in the Great War 1914-1919 : Being a History of the 14th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment

4¾” x 7½”. [xvi] + 210pp, small portrait frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Original purple cloth with yellow diagonal stripe on front cover, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded in parts, spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped and slightly frayed, end-papers foxed, edges dusty and lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

18029

The Big Fight

4½” x 7”. 272pp. Rebound ex-Library.

17496

Military Operations : France and Belgium, 1917 : Volume I : The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Arras

5½" x 8¾". [xxxix] + 586pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine darkened with age, no d/j, ex-Reference with shelf number on backstrip, impressed Library stamps throughout otherwise Very Good. Due to a limited print run and lack of interest following the outbreak of the Second World War, this is the scarcest of the Great War volumes.

17979

Military Operations : France and Belgium, 1917 : Volume I : The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Arras

5½" x 8¾". [xxxix] + 586pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded and damaged, covers stained, ex-Library with shelf number on backstrip, and Library stamps throughout otherwise Good. 

18175

History of the Great War : Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from June 1917 to the End of the War Vol. II Part II

5½” x 8¾”. Volume II, Part 2: pagination continues from the separate Part 1 : pages 395 to 748. Original Red cloth gilt, no d/j The covers are rubbed and there are areas of patchy fading and colour loss. The spine is severely faded. The spine ends and corners are bumped. There is a previous owner's name inscribed on the front free end-paper. The paper has tanned with age and the edge of the text block is lightly foxed. There is some play in the inner hinges.

15447

The Second World War : A Short History

5½” x 8½”. [xiii] + 304pp, maps. Original red cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed. The spine has faded noticeably. The spine ends and corners are bumped. There is a marked forward spine lean. There are no internal markings and the text is clean throughout. The paper has tanned slightly with age.

12186

Death of an Army [The First Battle of Ypres, 1914, in which the British Regular Army was destroyed]

5½" x 8¾". [xi] + 195pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth gilt in a chipped, scuffed and rubbed d/j, ex-Library with usual stamps, front free end-paper excised, spine slightly canted, a reading copy

17827

The 51st (Highland) Division : War Sketches

8¾” x 12¼”. 30pp text, 63 plates with separate captions. Original cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, with old staining, end-papers browned and discoloured, scattered foxing, untrimmed, edges dusty and lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good. This is the scarce larger Edition with gilt blocking on the covers. The book traces the part played by the 51st Division at Festubert, High Wood and Beaumont Hamel, Roclincourt (Arras and Vimy Ridge), Passchendael, Cambrai &c. 

17265

Under The German Heel : Revelations of Life in Belgium Under the German Occupation 1914-1918

5¼" x 8¼". [ix] +  228pp. Grey cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, end-papers discoloured, otherwise Very Good.

16036

GOG : The Story of an Officer and a Gentleman

5” x 7½”. [viii] + 12-341pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, slight spine lean, end-papers and edges foxed otherwise Very Good. Scarce.

18133

The History of the 7th Battalion Green Howards, a Narrative Extract from "The Green Howards' Gazette"

7¼” x 9¾”. 56pp. Original green cloth blocked in gilt on the front cover but with no spine titling. The covers are rubbed, dull and have bowed outwards significantly. There s also fading, particularly around the edges. The spine has faded severely. The spine ends and corners are bumped and slightly frayed and there are some indentations along the edges of the boards. This volume has been signed by Lieut.-Col. Ronald Fife on the front pastedown. The end-papers are very browned and discoloured and there is a large previous owner's bookplate on the front free end-paper. There is some insect damage: a wormhole starts at the front pastedown and carries on throughout the volume, becoming progressively smaller, until it eventually is about the size of a pin-head. This can be seen in the images below, in the margin near the top corner. The paper has tanned noticeably with age.

17130

With the 8th Scottish Rifles 1914-1919

5½” x 8½”. [xv] + 240pp, maps, illustrations. Green cloth blocked in black and gilt, no d/j, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

12325

The Siege at Peking

4¾" x 7¾". 229pp, illustrations. Original cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good

14508

The Illusion of Victory : America in World War I

6¼” x 9½”. [xi] + 543pp, illustrations, map. Cream boards in d/j, As New

15624

The Great War 1914-1918 : A Brief Sketch

5" x 7½". [xiii] + 199pp, maps. Teal cloth, no d/j, head and tail of spine bumped, tanning to pages otherwise Good. The author was formerly a fellow of All Souls' and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford and acknowledges assistance from J. Fortescue and C. T. Atkinson, both well known World War I writers.

12146

The History of the Great War [vols. I to V and VII to X]

7¼" x 10½". Approximately 184 pages per volume, each with coloured frontis, illustrations, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spines dull, covers rubbed, faded and soiled otherwise Good. These nine volumes cover the war from its start until the middle of 1917. A heavy set, with commensurate postage. A digital photograph is available on request.

16318

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

5” x 7½”. [xiii] + 234pp, folding map missing, Publisher’s Advertisements. Blind-stamped tan cloth blocked in black, no d/j, a few pages carelessly opened otherwise Very Good. The battalion which Best-Dunkley commanded has, since his death, achieved great things and acquired great fame under the still more brilliant leadership of his successor, Colonel Brighten; but we must never forget that it was Best-Dunkley who led it on the glorious day of Ypres and that it was the tradition which he inspired which has been one of the strongest elements of esprit de corps in the 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers. All who served under Best-Dunkley remember the fact with a certain amount of pride, however unfavourably his personality may have impressed itself upon them at the time—for "All times are good when old!". Rare.

16591

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

5” x 7½”. [xiii] + 234pp, folding map. Publisher’s Advertisements. Blind-stamped tan cloth blocked in black, no d/j, a few pages carelessly opened otherwise Very Good. The battalion which Best-Dunkley commanded has, since his death, achieved great things and acquired great fame under the still more brilliant leadership of his successor, Colonel Brighten; but we must never forget that it was Best-Dunkley who led it on the glorious day of Ypres and that it was the tradition which he inspired which has been one of the strongest elements of esprit de corps in the 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers. All who served under Best-Dunkley remember the fact with a certain amount of pride, however unfavourably his personality may have impressed itself upon them at the time—for "All times are good when old!". Rare.

16732

Three Lives — And Now

5¼” x 8”. (vii) + 294pp. Original black cloth gilt. The front and rear covers are rubbed and slightly marked and there is a small gouge on the front cover. The spine has faded severely with total loss of original colour, though the gilt blocking remains fairly bright. The spine ends and corners are bumped and slightly frayed. There is a forward spine lean. There is a gift inscription in ink on the front end-paper dated "20.6.39" and another previous owner's name inscribed in ballpoint on the front pastedown. The end-papers are browned and discoloured. The text is clean throughout on slightly tanned paper; however, the edge of the text block is very heavily foxed, with the foxing extending into the margins.

18114

The Afghan Wars : 1839-42 and 1878-80

5¼” x 8¼”. 337pp, portrait frontis, illustrations and plans, Publisher’s Advertisement. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, head and tail of spine bumped, otherwise Very Good. Formerly owned by Major Ernest Gambier-Parry (1853 – 1936)

17026

In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons 1914 - 1918

5½" x 8¾". 314pp, frontis, b&w plates. Blind-stamped green cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed and snagged, split in rear gutter, otherwise Good. Missionary in Damascus arrested by the Turks & imprisoned for four years as a suspected spy; or, as he would have it, a political prisoner.

17490

What of the Dardanelles? An Analysis

4¾” x 7½". 91pp. Green cloth blocked in white in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, end-papers discoloured, inner hinges cracked, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good

17766

Russia, The Balkans and The Dardanelles

5½" x 8¾". 285pp, b&w plates. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped otherwise Very Good.

17947

Russia, The Balkans and The Dardanelles

5½" x 8¾". 285pp, b&w plates. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped otherwise Very Good.

13702

World War I : A Visual Encyclopedia

9" x 12¼". 448pp, profusely illustrated. Laminated boards in a rubbed d/j, corners bumped, small tear in rear d/j flap otherwise Very Good

18171

The History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry, 1898-1922 : The Great Cavalry Campaign in Palestine

5½” x 9”. [xvi] + 336pp, 15 plates, 7 maps (which should include one folding map; however, this is missing). Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and scuffed, with fading around edges, spine very faded and with a mottled appearance, spine ends and corners bumped, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good; internally clean. Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, including Romani, Gaza, Jerusalem and on to Aleppo. Roll of honour, etc. The large folding map of Palestine is rarely present.

17820

The Battles of the Ridges : Arras - Messines, March - June, 1917

4¾” x 7”. 112pp, frontispiece (of Haig), maps (two folding at end), illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers (orange blocked in black), no d/j, covers rubbed and scuffed, corners creased and dog-eared, split in front spine gutter at tail, edges dusty and lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

14853

For You the War is Over : American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

6” x 9¼”. 200p, illustrations. An ex-Library reading copy

18018

With Lancashire Lads and Field Guns in France 1915 - 1918

5½” x 8¾”. 287pp, maps. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine frayed (with a two-inch tear in the rear gutter), offsetting to end-papers, otherwise Very Good.

17238

Many Fronts

4¾” x 7½”. 315pp. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, head and tail of spine bumped and frayed, corners bumped, spine dull, edge of text block and a few pages stained, tanned pages, otherwise Very Good.

17157

A Young Borderer : A Memoir of Alexander Dobree Young-Herries (Captain, The King's Own Scottish Borderers)

5½" x 8¾". [x] + 236pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with some loss of colour to edge of boards, edges grubby, edge of last few pages chipped otherwise Very Good. Alick Herries attended Eton and Cambridge and then fought at the Aisne, La Bassee and the Ypres Salient, then the Somme in 1916, Arras, and the Somme again in 1918 where he was killed. Rare personal memoir. An intensely personal memoir of the life of a man, commissioned by his father & written by his parish minister.

15104

Surrender on Demand

5½" x 8". [xiv] + 272pp, illustrations. Softback, As New

13486

War and Western Civilization 1832-1932 : A Study of War As a Political Instrument and the Expression of Mass Democracy

5½” x 8¾”. 287pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges very lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. A bright copy.

15048

One Hell of a Gamble : Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958 - 1964

6" x 9½". [xi] + 420pp, map, illustrations. Black boards quarter-bound in cloth, in d/j, Fine

14885

Doing Battle : The Making of a Skeptic

6¼" x 9½". 310pp, illustrations. Black boards in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine

17797

The Last Lap

4¾” x 7¾”. 141pp. Original blue cloth ruled and blocked in pale blue, no d/j, head of spine bumped, no front free end-paper, paper severely tanned, particularly in margins, otherwise Very Good.

18033

Albert King of the Belgians in the Great War : His Military Activities and Experiences Set Down With His Approval

6” x 9¾”. [xviii] + 341pp, maps, illustrations. Original black cloth gilt with bevelled edges. The covers are scuffed and rubbed with patchy discolouration and fading around the edges, particularly along the top edges. The spine has faded noticeably and there are a few small marks. The spine ends and corners are bumped (quite heavily) and also frayed, with small splits in the cloth. There is also a small frayed patch on the front fore-edge just above the bottom corner. There are some indentations along the edges of the boards. There is widespread and heavy foxing throughout and the paper has tanned noticeably with age. Although usually confined to the margins, the foxing does occasionally extend into the text and on some pages is particularly heavy and unsightly. There is toning and heavy foxing to those pages adjacent to the photographic plates. The edge of the text block is grubby, dust-stained and heavily foxed.

15031

The Odd Couple : Blamey and MacArthur at War

5¾" x 9". [xiv] + 271pp, illustrations. Softback, covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good

17528

Trial By Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 (Contributions in Military Studies, Number 227) 

6” x 9½”. [xvii] + 259pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in silver, no d/j [as issued], As New. While existing accounts of this period have elevated the exploits of the British soldiers on the battlefield to almost legendary status, the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in the dramatic opening campaign of World War I remain poorly understood. Based on official unit war diaries, as well as personal papers and memoirs of numerous officers, this study sheds significant new light on the retreat from Mons in August 1914; the advance to the River Aisne in September; and the climactic First Battle of Ypres in October and November. In addition, Gardner provides important insights into the ideas and values of British officers in the initial stages of the war. Beyond explaining the conduct of the 1914 campaign, Gardner analyses the initial stages of the "learning curve" experienced by British officers as they grappled with an unaccustomed type of warfare, including the unprecedented scale and intensity of the conflict as well as the advent of trench warfare. He also demonstrates the impact of rivalries amongst senior officers on the operations of the army. As a whole, the study aims to add depth to our understanding of command in European armies during World War I.

16521

Kenneth Gordon Garnett, M.C., R.F.A. : 30 July 1892 - 22 August 1917

5" x 7½". 71pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly discoloured, otherwise Very Good. Presentation copy from Kenneth's sisters.

16747

A Record of D245 Battery 1914-1919

5½” x 8¾”. (viii) + 182pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, map torn, otherwise Good. A clean copy. 11th West Riding Howitzer Battery, from Ilkley. Western Front from April 1915 and for most of the year the battery position was between Boesinghe & Brielen near the Yser canal; Somme 1916 (around Authuille Wood), Passchendaele 1917 &c. Nominal roll, casualties & awards rolls.

11463

War Memoirs [volume I only]

5¾" x 9". 529pp, frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt with facsimile signature on front cover, end-papers lightly foxed, head and tail of spine frayed otherwise Very Good

11768

War Memoirs [6 vols]

5¾" x 9". 3,531pp, paginated over six volumes, portrait frontis, b&w plates. Blue cloth with gilt facsimile signature, no d/js, heads and tails of spines and corners bumped, covers marked and rubbed with some discolouration to cloth, otherwise a very good, internally clean set. Lloyd George's contentious and self-serving memoirs or, "How I Won the War".

17839

Record of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in the Great War 1914-1918

5½” x 8¾”. [viii] + 76pp., colour frontis., 3 plates, map. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed but still bright, head and tail of spine bumped, otherwise Very Good; internally clean and bright. France and Flanders from August 1914: Mons & the Retreat, Aisne, Ypres 1914-15 etc. Notes of officers' services, casualties.

18097

Record of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in the Great War 1914-1918

5½” x 8¾”. [viii] + 76pp., colour frontis., 3 plates, map. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and water stained, staining to most pages, a reading copy only.

18105

The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914-1918

5¾” x 9”. [xii] + 246pp, frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt with Divisional flash on front boards, no d/j, front inner hinge cracked, front free end-paper missing otherwise Very Good. Maj A F Allen, Machine Gun Corps, 1918 

17186

Inglorious Soldier : an Autobiography

5¾” x 9¼”. [xiv] + 335pp, portrait frontispiece. Original tan cloth gilt, no d/j, spine ends and corners bumped, edges foxed, missing four illustrations, otherwise Very Good.

17529

Roll on, Next War! : The Common Man's Guide to Army Life

4¾” x 7½”. 186pp, illustrations (drawings). Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers faded with some loss of colour, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

15148

From the Somme to the Armistice : The Memoirs of Captain Stormont Gibbs, MC

6" x 9½". 206pp, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good. Stormont Gibbs was commissioned into the 4th Suffolk in 1915 and first saw action at the height of the battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916; against the odds he survived and was to take part in Arras in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres and the retreat in 1918. By this time he was a battle-hardened veteran. His recollections are edited and set in their historical context by Richard Devonald-Lewis, one of his former pupils during his later career as a schoolmaster.

17873

Open Warfare : The Way to Victory

5" x 7¾". [viii] + 552pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, tanning to pages, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good. Mr. PHILIP GIBBS has gathered together, under the title. Open Warfare, the Way to Victory (HEINEMANN), his despatches written from the Western front during the last year of the War. What strikes one most on seeing them again in book form is the obscurity in which they veil the events they record. They so shine, as it were, with a luminous mist that they seem to reveal everything, yet in sober truth very often it is only in the light of later knowledge that they reveal anything at all. Congratulations, therefore, to Mr. GIBBS, the perfect war correspondent! I defy anyone from these papers alone (apart from the plentiful and excellent maps) to form anything like an adequate conception of the disaster that swept down upon the British Armies in the Spring of 1918. And yet in a sense it is all there, gorgeously camouflaged under the control—I daresay the wise and necessary control—of the censorship. The author, watching the very moulding of history with every advantage of proximity, has written down, if not much bare statement, yet an amazing sequence of heroic detail, associated with such stirring names as Arras or Givenchy or Cambrai. Curiously enough, though each chapter is intensely vivid, they become, through much instancing of the same unconquerable spirit, something monotonous, though never wearisome, in bulk. One trusts that a future generation will realise that the value of a book of this order consists in its first-hand record of such incidents of valour; it would be pitiful to have it hastily assumed, because so much is slurred or omitted to deceive the enemy, that England was so feeble-hearted as to require her evil news predigested before consumption in this manner. It should be added that the writer gives us a good sound introduction that goes a long way to fill the yawning gaps. [PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. Vol. 156. June 11, 1919.]

18108

From Bapaume to Passchendaele 1917

5" x 7¾". [vii] + 384pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, one folding map chipped otherwise Very Good

15634

Adventures of War with Cross & Crescent

5" x 7¾". 241pp, frontis, b&w plates, publisher's catalogue. Red cloth, no d/j, edges lightly foxed, end-papers browned, otherwise Very Good

11109

World War I in Photographs

8½" x 11¼". 192pp, ills. Blue cloth gilt in chipped d/j with one repaired tear, else Very Good/G

17241

The Romance of the Last Crusade : With Allenby to Jerusalem

5" x 7½". 235pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.

13766

Winston S. Churchill : Volume III : 1914 - 1916

6¼" x 9¼". [xxxvii] + 988pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, shelf number in white ink on spine, labels removed from end-papers, musty, otherwise Very Good

18163

Gallipoli Diary

5¼” x 8¼”. 328pp, illustrations. Rebound ex-Reference Library, no d/j, minimal Library markings, tanned pages otherwise Very Good.

18064

My German Prisons : Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War

4¾” x 7½". 316pp, diags. Blue cloth, no d/j, slightly cocked, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good. Served with Loyal North Lancs. & was captured Dec. 1914 in an attack near La Bassee. Experiences in several camps & successful escape jumping from a train. He reached home in April 1917.

17387

The Story of the 29th Division : A Record of Gallant Deeds

5¾” x 9”. [xv] + 276pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Tan cloth blocked in black with Divisonal Symbol (red triangle) on front boards, no d/j. This volume is ex-Library. Original brown cloth blocked in black with red Divisional flash. The covers are marked and rubbed with some old staining and lifting of the cloth. There is a large over-painted black band on the spine and a crude letter "M" in white ink. The spine ends and corners are heavily bumped with some fraying to the cloth. This volume is ex-Library (Reference Library, Boys’ Wing, R.A.F. Cranwell) and there is a stamp to this effect on the front pastedown (together with other markings) and stamps are also scattered throughout the volume including the Title-Page, text and some of the maps. The front inner hinge is cracked at the Title-Page. Other than for the Library stamps, the text is very clean throughout. The edge of the text block is untrimmed and has a ragged edge.

14496

The Goebbels Diaries 1939-41

6¼” x 9½”. [xv] + 490pp, map, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in d/j, Near Fine

14863

A Clash of Empires : Turkey Between Russian Bolshevism and British Imperialism 1918 - 1923

5½" x 8¾". 268pp. Blue cloth, no d/j [as issued], Fine

14275

Armies in Europe

5½” x 8¾”. [x] + 286pp. Green cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.

16144

Down "Plug Street" Way and Other Tales

4½” x 7¼”. 190pp. Original paper-covered boards, no d/j, reading copy.

10690

The German Wars, 1914 - 1945

6½" x 9½". 561pp. Original cloth in chipped, torn d/j, pages damp-stained, pencil annotations, a good reading copy

16818

Memoirs of a Camp-Follower

4½” x 7”. 247pp. Original decorative covers, no d/j, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

16882

The Fifth Army

6½" x 9½". 355pp, frontis, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head and tail of spine nicked and frayed, covers marked and rubbed, otherwise Very Good

17821

Soldiering On : Being the Memoirs of Gen. Sir Hubert Gough

5½" x 8¾". 260pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, maps as end-papers. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, page edges browned, some damage to top edge of text block otherwise Very Good.

17956

War is Like That

4¾” x 7½”. 239pp. Original orange cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with staining to front and rear boards and irregular fading, spine faded with significant loss of colour, boards slightly bowed, previous owner's name inscribed and address in pencil on front free end-paper, otherwise Very Good. Rare.

17329

The Territorial in the Next War

5¼” x 8”. [x] + 182pp. Original red cloth blocked in black in a scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very Good.

16900

An Infant in Arms : War Letters of a Company Officer 1914-1918

5½" x 8¾". 305pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers worn and rubbed, front inner hinge exposed at title page, shaken, backstrip soiled, edges dusty, little better than a good reading copy. A classic memoir of service with 1/4th Bn. Ox. & Bucks. Light Infantry in France and Italy. A classic Great War memoir of a public school boy who joined up in 1914 and served throughout the war with the Ox and Bucks L.I., emerging in 1918 as a Captain and company commander on the Italian front. Based on letters to the author's mother, this book describes the Somme and Passchendaele, but Greenwell looks back on the war as the happiest years of his life.

17816

An Infant in Arms : War Letters of a Company Officer, 1914-1918

5½" x 8¾". 305pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly marked, one-inch split in front spine gutter from head, top inch of spine faded, head and tail of spine bumped and frayed, corners bumped, gift inscription on front end-paper and previous owner's name inscribed, edges dusty and foxed, otherwise Very Good. A classic memoir of service with 1/4th Bn. Ox. & Bucks. Light Infantry in France and Italy. A classic Great War memoir of a public school boy who joined up in 1914 and served throughout the war with the Ox and Bucks L.I., emerging in 1918 as a Captain and company commander on the Italian front. Based on letters to the author's mother, this book describes the Somme and Passchendaele, but Greenwell looks back on the war as the happiest years of his life.

16643

The 2nd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the Great War (1914-1919)

7¼” x 10”. [xxxiv] + 464pp, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth boards with gilt cover vignette, backed with red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good. Malta - Ypres - Gallipoli - Southern Egypt - Somme - Arras - Cambrai - Amiens. In his preface the author, who took three years over this history, makes the point that material that should have been preserved in the regimental archives had disappeared, and that personal diaries, letters and memoranda had been very hard to come by, making his task not an easy one. One result is that there is no list of honours and awards but rather a summary, nor could he get reliable casualty figures for some of the battles. Nevertheless, despite the handicaps, he acknowledges plenty of help and advice and he has produced a very commendable piece of work which certainly ranks with other histories and is a good deal better than some. It was his intention to present a connected or continuous story so he has not adopted the pattern of separate parts for each battalion. He follows the chronology of the war with each battalion being brought into the story at the appropriate time. Each chapter covers a specific period/battle and a specific battalion, as is made clear in the list of contents. The 1/2nd was with the 1st London Brigade, 1st London Division when war broke out, and a month later the brigade was sent to Malta to replace the regular battalions. In February 1915 they in turn were replaced by their second line battalions (2/2nd had been formed in September 1914) and left for France where the 1/2nd was posted to 17th Brigade 6th Division at Armentieres and for the rest of the war it remained on the Western Front. In October 1915 the brigade was transferred to the 24th Division and in February 1916 it was moved again - to the re-formed 56th (previously1st London) Division, part of 169th Brigade, and there it stayed to the end. After Malta the 2/2nd was sent to Gallipoli where it arrived on 13 October and was attached to the 2nd Naval Brigade. In January 1916 it went to France where it was disbanded and the 3/2nd (formed in December 1914), which was in the UK at the time with 173rd Brigade, 58th Division, was renamed 2/2nd. The division landed in France in January 1917 and the battalion fought its first major action at Bullecourt in May; it, too, remained with the brigade throughout the fighting to the end of the war. Finally there was a fourth line battalion, 4/2nd, which was formed in May 1915 but did not serve overseas; its function was to supply drafts for the two overseas battalions. The Roll of Honour lists 1,345 dead and the summary of awards shows 65 British decorations to officers and 246 to other ranks, excluding MiD.

17136

The 2nd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the Great War (1914-1919)

7¼” x 10”. [xxxiv] + 464pp, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth boards with gilt cover vignette, backed with red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good. Malta - Ypres - Gallipoli - Southern Egypt - Somme - Arras - Cambrai - Amiens. In his preface the author, who took three years over this history, makes the point that material that should have been preserved in the regimental archives had disappeared, and that personal diaries, letters and memoranda had been very hard to come by, making his task not an easy one. One result is that there is no list of honours and awards but rather a summary, nor could he get reliable casualty figures for some of the battles. Nevertheless, despite the handicaps, he acknowledges plenty of help and advice and he has produced a very commendable piece of work which certainly ranks with other histories and is a good deal better than some. It was his intention to present a connected or continuous story so he has not adopted the pattern of separate parts for each battalion. He follows the chronology of the war with each battalion being brought into the story at the appropriate time. Each chapter covers a specific period/battle and a specific battalion, as is made clear in the list of contents. The 1/2nd was with the 1st London Brigade, 1st London Division when war broke out, and a month later the brigade was sent to Malta to replace the regular battalions. In February 1915 they in turn were replaced by their second line battalions (2/2nd had been formed in September 1914) and left for France where the 1/2nd was posted to 17th Brigade 6th Division at Armentieres and for the rest of the war it remained on the Western Front. In October 1915 the brigade was transferred to the 24th Division and in February 1916 it was moved again - to the re-formed 56th (previously1st London) Division, part of 169th Brigade, and there it stayed to the end. After Malta the 2/2nd was sent to Gallipoli where it arrived on 13 October and was attached to the 2nd Naval Brigade. In January 1916 it went to France where it was disbanded and the 3/2nd (formed in December 1914), which was in the UK at the time with 173rd Brigade, 58th Division, was renamed 2/2nd. The division landed in France in January 1917 and the battalion fought its first major action at Bullecourt in May; it, too, remained with the brigade throughout the fighting to the end of the war. Finally there was a fourth line battalion, 4/2nd, which was formed in May 1915 but did not serve overseas; its function was to supply drafts for the two overseas battalions. The Roll of Honour lists 1,345 dead and the summary of awards shows 65 British decorations to officers and 246 to other ranks, excluding MiD.

17684

With the French Eastern Army

4¼" x 7". 187pp, publisher’s catalogue. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, pages browned otherwise Very Good. One of the rarest of The Daily Telegraph War Books series.

11984

1943 : The Victory That Never Was

5½" x 8¾". 255pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good+

17412

The War History of the 4th Battalion The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) 1914-1919

5½” x 9”. [xii] + 532pp, 12 photographs, 21 maps. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, head of spine snagged, spine faded, some patchy loss of colour to boards, spine ends and corners bumped, previous owner's name label on front pastedown (R. H. S. Spaight, A. B. A.) otherwise Very Good. 1/4th Bn. briefly in Malta then Western Front from Neuve Chapelle to armistice inc. 2nd Ypres, 1/7/16 at Gommecourt, Arras, 3rd Ypres, Cambrai &c., 2/4th Bn. in France from Jan. 1917 inc. Bullecourt, 3rd Ypres, Final Advance &c. Detailed history with various rolls of officers &c., awards roll.

12039

A Prisoner in Germany

5" x 7¾". [ix] + 161pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good

17354

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 : volume VII: The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine 1914-1918

5½" x 8¾". [xl] + 844pp, illustrations, maps. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, tanning to pages otherwise Good.

18060

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 : volume VII: The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine 1914 - 1918

5¼" x 8¼". [xl] + 844pp, illustrations, maps. Softback, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good 

16023

Pass Guard at Ypres

5" x 7½". [vii] + 241pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good. Gurner served on the Western Front with the Rifle Brigade and Cyclist Corps, gaining the MC but being badly wounded. He never really recovered and committed suicide after a successful career at Marlborough, Whitgift, etc.

17843

The German Giants : The German R-Planes 1914-1918

8¾" x 11¼". [ix] + 310pp, profusely illustrated. Blue cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j otherwise Near Fine

17828

Cavalry Studies : Strategical and Tactical

5¼” x 8½”. [ix] + 333pp, folding map. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and discoloured, spine gutters split and partially re-glued, horizontal split near head of spine also re-glued, end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. The was Douglas Haig's own copy, passed to his son. Haig's initial appear on the front pastedown, while his son's name is pencilled on the front free end-paper together with his Regiment ("R. S. Greys").

17442

A Brigade of the Old Army 1914

5½” x 9”. [vii] + 149pp, map and folding map. Original red cloth gilt in poor condition. The covers are faded, heavily rubbed and badly damp-stained with extensive loss of original colour, particularly around the edges. There is also evidence of old staining in addition to two small frayed patches on the front cover. The spine has faded with total loss of colour and is snagged at the head of the spine with a large split in the cloth and some loss. There is also a split in the front spine gutter at the head. The tail of the spine is also frayed, though not to the same extent. The corners are bumped and frayed, with further splits to the cloth. This volume was formerly owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Banastre Crosse, D.S.O., 52nd Light Infantry, of Raven's Oak, Stapeley, Nantwich, Chester, whose calling card is tipped in to the front pastedown, under which Col. Crosse has noted: “I came to know the author of this book well during the 1914-18 War, esp. in 1918, when he was a Corps Comdr., VI Corps, I think. There is understandably a lot left out that might have been included in this book: it ought to be read in conjunction with another account by Arthur Osburn, R.A.M.C., who wrote “Unwilling Passenger” [initialled] RC” The text is reasonably clean throughout on slightly tanned paper, with some corners being creased. The edge of the text block is dust-stained and lightly foxed and is not evenly trimmed, resulting in a somewhat ragged edge and pages of varying sizes. The folding map at the end is present but has been completed detached from the stub and is loosely inserted. The front inner hinge is cracked.

14519

Tobruk 1941 : The Desert Siege

5¾” x 8¾”. 224pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine

17876

Who Goes There? Being an Account of the Secret Service Adventures of "Ex-Intelligence" during the Great War of 1914-1918

5½" x 8¾". 254pp. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, end-papers and edges foxed, severe spine lean otherwise Very Good

17868

The Siege of Liege : A Chapter in the History of the European War

4¾" x 7". [x] + 79pp, map, publisher’s advertisements. Grey card cover which is rubbed and discoloured, edges dusty, contents Very Good. Uncommon.

15769

Gallipoli Diary 1915 (shortened)

5" x 7½". [xii] + 420pp, illustrations, maps. Original cloth, no d/j,

11771

The Great War ... "I Was There!" : Undying Memories of 1914-1918 [Vol. I: August 4, 1914 to July 1, 1916; vol. II: July 4, 1916 to October 22, 1917]

8¼" x 11". 1,376pp paginated over 2 vols, profusely illustrated throughout. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded on vol. I, edges dusty, otherwise Very Good. Please note, as this is a very heavy set postage will be charged at actual cost.

11773

World War 1914 - 1918 : A Pictured History [2 volumes]

8¼" x 11". 1,560pp paginated over 2 vols, profusely illustrated throughout. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt, no d/j, some staining and colour loss on cover of vol. II, end-papers discoloured, spine faded on vol. I, edges dusty, otherwise Very Good. Please note, as this is a very heavy set postage will be charged at actual cost.

11774

World War 1914 - 1918 : A Pictured History [volume I only]

8¼" x 11". 792pp, profusely illustrated throughout. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine detached along front inner hinge, end-papers discoloured, a good reading copy. Please note, as this is a very heavy book postage will be charged at actual cost.

16078

Plumer of Messines

5½" x 8¾". [xviii] + 351pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges lightly foxed, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.

14070

Dunkirk : The Necessary Myth

6¼” x 9½”. 271pp, map, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a creased, rubbed and price-clipped d/j, otherwise Near Fine

15756

Covenant with Death

5” x 8”. 448pp. Green cloth blocked in black in a scuffed and chipped d/j, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good. "1916 is a date which darkens the pages of British history. On war memorials in villages and cities alike, it marks the date of death for a generation. This book tells the story of a voluntary city battalion from its inception to its destruction on July 1st, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Seen through the eyes of a ranker serving in the battalion the narrative moves with majestic sweep from the days of high patriotic fervour in England to the final holocaust in France".

17730

The History and War Records of The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regt) 1797-1928

6” x 9½”. [xv] + 335pp, frontis, maps, illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with a small puncture in rear spine gutter, spine faded, otherwise Very Good. This volume was formerly owned by 45806 Lance-Corporal William Victor Randall, of A Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry, whose Army Form Z. 18 (“Certificate of Employment During the War”) is loosely enclosed.

17389

Comrades in Captivity : A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps

5¼” x 8¼”. [xi] + 319pp, map frontispiece, sketch illustrations. Red cloth blocked and ruled in black, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, spine gutters frayed, tanned pages, Good.

17689

Battle-Line Narratives 1915-1918

4¾” x 7¼”. 255pp. Original brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, slight spine lean, edges & end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. Uncommon. Experiences with UPS Bn., 17th & 22nd Bns. Royal Fusiliers at Festubert, La Bassée, Somme, Cambrai &c.

17739

The Yarn of a Yeoman

5½” x 8¾”. 286pp, frontis, maps, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine slightly canted, edges lightly foxed, gift inscription on front end-paper otherwise Very Good. This is an account of World War I by a member of the Middlesex Yeomanry who began guarding the East Coast and then was sent to Egypt. After more training the Regiment was sent to Gallipoli. After months of unceasing warfare the remnants of the Regiment, less than fifty strong, embarked back to Egypt. Here they did frontier duty on the Canal and beyond, until they were despatched to Salonica. The author's descriptions of Gallipoli and Salonica vividly portray the Regiment's experiences of 'real war'. After much difficult campaigning in that theatre, the scene was changed to Sinai and the Palestine frontier. "No unit of our armies, probably, had a more varied experience; and nowhere is to be found a truer picture, than is given here, of war as the fighting man sees it."

15586

Their Name Liveth : The Book of the Scottish National War Memorial

5” x 7½”. [xiv] + 163pp, publisher’s advertisements. Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges foxed otherwise Very Good

12134

Myths and Legends of the First World War

6¼" x 9½". [xviii] + 202pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New

16499

History of the Guards Division in the Great War 1915-1918 [2 vols.]

6” x 9¼”. [xvii] + 322pp, [xi] +358pp, coloured frontispieces, maps. Decorative red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spines faded, head of spines snagged and frayed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very Good

17414

History of the Guards Division in the Great War 1915-1918 [2 vols.]

6” x 9¼”. [xvii] + 322pp, [xi] +358pp, coloured frontispieces, maps. Decorative red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spines faded, head of spines snagged and frayed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very Good

16365

Ivan Heald : Hero and Humorist

4¾” x 7¼”. 191pp, portrait frontis (pencil sketch). Dark green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, front cover bowed slightly, head and tail of spine bumped, offsetting to end-papers, edges dusty otherwise Very Good. The story of Heald who was assistant editor of the English Manchester Sunday Chronicle; served in the Royal Naval in France; and was killed with his pilot on December 4, 1916 while flying over the German lines aged 33. His newspaper reporting revealed his bravery, devotion to duty and humor even in his own misfortunes. Chapter headings include: London Adventures and Reflections; Experiences Afield; Sports and Pastimes; Music and Drama; Letters enroute for Gallipoli and from the East; Letters from France, etc.

11114

Journeys into the Past : Life on the Home Front

8½" x 11¼". 160pp, profusely illustrated. Laminated boards, no d/j [as issued], covers lightly marked and rubbed, else Very Good+

17849

Letters of Arthur George Heath, Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Lieutenant in the 6th Batt. Royal West Kent Regt., with a Memoir by Gilbert Murray

5" x 7¾". [viii] + 222pp, portrait frontis. Original green cloth blocked in green, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, ink-spots on backstrip, edges foxed, end-papers foxed, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Good. Memorial volume to an Oxford scholar and his friends who joined up as volunteers and paid the price on the Western Front. Heath's letters follow his soldier's progress from the day he volunteered to his death at La Bassee, October 1915, ending with his touching last letter home. Gilbert Murray provides a lengthy memoir in his Foreword. Some of Heath's poems, found on his corpse, are reprinted among several posthumous tributes.

16185

More Secrets of Potsdam : Startling Exposures of the Inner Life of the Courts of the Kaiser and Crown-Prince : Revealed for the first time by Count Ernst von Heltzendorff, Commander of the Black Eagle, late Personal Adjutant to the German Crown-Prince

4¼” x 6½”. 155pp, publisher’s advertisements. Original salmon cloth, no d/j, covers marked, rubbed and very faded, inner hinges cracked, tanning to pages, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Good.

15938

Mons, Anzac and Kut

5½" x 8¾". 270pp. Red cloth, no d/j, covers marked, scuffed and rubbed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good. 

17489

Mons, Anzac & Kut

5½" x 8¾". 270pp. Red cloth, no d/j, covers marked, scuffed and rubbed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good. 

15114

The Comfort Women : Sex Slaves of the Japanese Imperial Forces

5¾" x 8¾". [xxi] + 265pp, illustrations, map as end-papers. Blue cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine

17769

Verse and Prose in Peace and War

5” x 7¾”. 104pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth with paper labels to front cover and spine, no d/j, spine darkened, edges dusty and foxed, otherwise Very Good.

18055

With the Mad 17th to Italy

5½" x 8½". 160pp, folding colour frontis, illustrations, maps. Teal cloth blocked in black, no d/j, corners bumped, offsetting to end-papers, otherwise Very Good.

16242

The Winding Road Unfolds

4¾” x 7¼”. 349pp. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, inner hinges cracked, covers marked and rubbed, Good.

16547

The Winding Road Unfolds

4¼” x 7”. 223pp. Paperback, severely tanned pages otherwise Very Good

11965

To Lose a Battle : France 1940

5½" x 8¾". 556pp, illustrations, maps. Grey cloth gilt in a scuffed, chipped and rubbed d/j, spine creased, head and tail of spine bumped, covers rubbed, edges dusty, otherwise G+/G

17611

Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front

4¾” x 7½”. 260pp. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges dusty otherwise Very Good. Important and elusive memoirs of life on the Western Front, being atmospheric and acclaimed memories of YMCA work in and around the front line and back areas.

17853

A History the 10th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters 1914-1918

5¾” x 8¼”. (viii) + 164pp, illustrations. Paperback, covers rubbed, bottom corners creased, otherwise Very Good

17796

The Campaign in Thrace, 1912 : Six Lectures

5½" x 8¾".  [xi] + 163pp, 5 maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, crease in front cover, head of spine bumped, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good

17598

Britain and the War : a French Indictment

6¼" x 9½". [xi] + 243pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, edges dusty and lightly foxed, bookplate otherwise Very Good

17858

The Fifth Division in The Great War

5½” x 9”. [xvi] + 278pp., colour frontis., 17 illustrations, 18 maps (2 folding). Blind-stamped red cloth blocked in gilt on spine, no d/j, covers rubbed and mottled, particularly front boards, inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, otherwise Very Good. Regular division in France from Aug. 1914 & participated in all main battles on Western Front then in Italy 1918. Appendices include Order of Battle & composition of staff. 

17928

The Fifth Division in The Great War

5½” x 9”. [xvi] + 278pp., colour frontis., 17 illustrations, 18 maps (2 folding). Blind-stamped red cloth blocked in gilt on spine, no d/j, ex-Library, covers rubbed and mottled, particularly front boards, spine gutters split, inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, otherwise Very Good. Regular division in France from Aug. 1914 & participated in all main battles on Western Front then in Italy 1918. Appendices include Order of Battle & composition of staff. 

16850

The History of the Twentieth (Light) Division

5½” x 8¾”. [xii] + 319pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, folding map. Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, spine very faded and with small puncture in centre, spine ends and corners bumped, previous owner's name inscribed on Title Page, edges foxed otherwise Very Good. The last of Kitchener's Second New Army divisions the 20th was, apart from the 36th Ulster and 38th Welsh, also the last division to have a title. It was formed in September 1914 and , as its title suggests, it was composed of battalions of Rifle and Light Infantry regiments, its brigades were numbered 59th, 60th and 61st. In January 1915 one of the battalions, 11th DLI, became the divisional pioneer battalion and its place in 61st Brigade was taken by 12th King's (Liverpool), an army troops battalion attached to the division. The first GOC was Sir E.O.F Hamilton, a sixty year old who had retired in April 1914 and whose last appointment had been commanding troops in Jersey and Guernsey. He was replaced within a month and does not rate a mention in the book, his successor was a New Zealand officer R. H. Davies; in all the division was to have six GOCs. The division moved to France in July 1915 and in the two weeks prior to embarkation all three brigade commanders were replaced, probably on grounds of age - the youngest was 58. Its first major action was a subsidiary attack in support of the Loos offensive, an action that brought the first of its six VCs to Lieut G.A. Maling RAMC of 61st Field Ambulance. During the first half of 1916 the division was in the Ypres salient where it played a supporting role during the German attack on the Canadians at Mount Sorrel; at the end of July it moved down to the Somme where it remained till March 1917, taking part in several of the battles, particularly Guillemont where the divisional memorial can be seen. It then moved back north for the Third Ypres offensive in which it suffered 4,600 casualties, distinguishing itself in the capture of Langemark where another divisional memorial located. It was at Cambrai and during the German offensive of 1918 it fought a rearguard action, continuously in action for twelve days. That it was a good division is testified by the fact that the Earl of Cavan specifically asked for it as GOC the newly formed XIV Corps, and after the Somme he made a point of asking the Army commander and C in C for not to transfer the division 'if they can help it.' In his introduction to this history he says: 'The 20th Division never failed me, and never failed its neighbours during the time I had the honour to of commanding the XIVth Corps.' The total casualty list numbered 35,470.This history is a straightforward account, devoid of heroics or emotive descriptions. Operations are adequately described, including minor and individual actions, and changes in senior commanders and staff are noted. There are useful maps to support the narrative, a good index but no appendices giving such relevant reference material as honours and awards, casualty summaries and staff lists. A New Army division, formed in September 1914, it went to France in July 1915 and fought on the Western Front throughout the war, suffering 35,470 casualties and winning six VCs. Distinguished action at Guillemont 1916, Langemark 1917 and Cambrai 1918. Command and Staff lists. 

17362

The History of the Twentieth (Light) Division

5½” x 8¾”. [xii] + 319pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, folding map. Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped, previous owner's name inscribed, frontispiece missing, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. 

17617

With the Italians in Tripoli : The Authentic History of the Turco-Italian War

5½" x 9". [xxxiii] + 321pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates, maps. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with large area of colour loss on front and rear boards, head and tail of spine bumped, edges foxed, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Good.

17996

Archangel 1918-1919

5½” x 8¾”. 220pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Green cloth blocked in silver in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j with some minor loss, edges dusty otherwise Very Good.

17891

General Jack's Diary 1914 - 1918 : The Trench Diary of Brigadier-General J. L. Jack, DSO

5½" x 8¾". 320pp, illustrations. Orange cloth in a rubbed d/j, some browning to page edges otherwise Very Good/Very Good

12637

Preserved Military Vehicles

6” x 9¼”. Original green cloth gilt in Near Fine condition. The dust-jacket is scuffed and chipped, with a few small tears at the head of the spine.

17893

The Hawke Battalion : Some Personal Records of Four Years, 1914-1918

6" x 9¼". 240pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers scuffed, marked and rubbed, contents very good.

17201

The Royal Naval Division

5" x 7½". [xix] + 360pp. Original cloth, no d/j, spine quite dull, covers and backstrip marked and rubbed, end-papers foxed, internally sound, Good.

17589

Via Ypres : Story of The 39th Divisional Field Ambulances

5½” x 8¾”. (xiv) + 237pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, edges rubbed, some small indentations where book has been bound with twine, spine ends and corners bumped, otherwise Very Good. 

14736

The Great War Diaries of Brigadier General Alexander Johnston 1914-1917

6” x 9½”. [xi] + 244pp, maps, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New. Alexander Johnston went over to France in August 1914 as the signals officer for 7 Infantry Brigade. He went on to serve in that capacity with 3rd Division before becoming, in turn, Brigade Major, Commanding Officer 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment and finally Officer Commanding 126 Infantry Brigade. Throughout he proved himself to be a brave, resourceful and determined soldier. He was always close to the front line, yet his signals and staff duties gave him insights into the conduct of the war at higher levels. Therein lies the value of this diary. Many of the major engagements of the war are covered. He took part in Mons, Le Cateau and the subsequent retreat and advance to the Aisne. The diary provides valuable insights into the battle of La Bassee and the trench warfare of 1915. As a Brigade Major he was kept busy in 1916 with both holding the line (in the face of intensive enemy mining operations) and the Somme battle. By 1917 his work in command of 10th Cheshire Regiment showed positive results in the battalion's performance at Messines and gained him promotion to Brigadier General. Within days of taking command he was up at the front line where he was badly wounded. But for the wound Johnston may well have gained even higher command and wider acclaim for his services.

17148

Four-Fifty (450) Miles to Freedom

5" x 7½". (xi) + 295pp, illustrations, folding map. Pictorial blue cloth, no d/j, spine very dull, covers marked and rubbed, rear spine gutter split at head, gift inscription on front end-paper otherwise Good.

17041

At the Front

5” x 7¾”. [xiii] + 130pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, otherwise Very Good.

16972

The Quest for C : Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service

6¼" x 9½". 501pp, ills. Black cloth gilt in d/j, pages slightly yellowed, otherwise Very Good.

16893

Suvla Bay and After

4¾" x 7½". [xi] + 169pp. Originally issued in paper wraps, this copy has been subsequently bound in red cloth with a paper spine label; Very Good. 

16875

The Campaign in Gallipoli

6" x 9". 280pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates, 3 maps. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Imperial War Museum, The edges are foxed. otherwise Very Good.

14752

The First World War : An Illustrated History

9¼" x 11". 435pp, profusely illustrated, maps. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New

17601

The Campaign Round Liege

4¼" x 7". 188pp, maps. Decorative red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, tanned pages, edges foxed otherwise Good

17605

How the Nations Waged War

4¼" x 7". 190pp. Decorative red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed with some colour loss, spine faded, edges & end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very Good

15068

Hitler on the Doorstep : Operation "Sea Lion", the German Plan to Invade Britain, 1940

6” x 9½”. 287pp, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in d/j, Fine

17228

Lanarkshire Men at the Battle of Loos 1915

8¼” x 11½”. 128pp, illustrations. Original printed card covers (large format Paperback/ Softback). The covers are rubbed and the top corners slightly creased, otherwise in excellent condition. There is a shallow vertical crease down the centre of the plain black spine.

16779

The 25th Division in France and Flanders

4¾” x 7¼”. 429pp, portrait frontis (following title page). Original white stiff card covers blocked in black and red, no d/j, covers rubbed and soiled, otherwise Very Good

17003

Behind Both Lines : Personal Reminiscence of the European War

5" x 7½". 255pp, b&w plates. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers mottled and rubbed with some colour loss, ex-Library with stamps in blind and lending schedule on rear end-paper, otherwise Good Plus. Rare.

14763

A Diary of Darkness : The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi

6¼" x 9½". [xx] + 391pp. Grey boards in d/j, Near Fine

15332

The Dardanelles Campaign

5” x 7½”. 94pp, illustrations by F. D. Phillips. Green cloth gilt in a scuffed, chipped and soiled d/j, otherwise Very Good

15607

Soviet Staff Officer

5½” x 8¾”. [vi] + 298pp. Original red cloth blocked in black in a scuffed and chipped d/j, Very Good.

17195

Naval Guns in Flanders 1914-1915

6” x 9”. [viii] + 184pp, illustrations, maps. Professionally rebound in green cloth with gilt spine label, no d/j, untrimmed, with ragged edge, otherwise Very Good; internally very clean on slightly tanned paper. In October 1914 the author, a naval Gunnery Officer, was ordered to Belgium to command a unit of 6-inch naval guns on railway mountings, HM Armoured Train 'Jellicoe.' This unusual unit moved around Flanders giving invaluable artillery support during the First Battle of Ypres, winter operations before La Bassée, then at Neuve Chapelle & on the Yser front in the spring of 1915. A fine personal account containing much interesting detail, some scarce photos. & useful maps. Roll of personnel of HMAT 'Jellicoe.'

11609

On the Western Front : Soldiers' Stories from France and Flanders 1914 - 1918

6¼" x 8¾". 277pp, ills. Laminated boards in a creased, scuffed d/j. Remnants of label on front of d/j, remainder mark on top edge of text block, otherwise Very Good/G.

10419

Mussolini and the British

6¼" x 9½". 356pp, ills. Green cloth in d/j, as new. Fine/fine. Besides throwing favourable light on the dictator himself, this account of Mussolini's relations with Britain shows that Italy was ready to become Britain's ally until Britain felt obliged to take a lead in economic sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. Mussolini despised Hitler and his anti-Semitism, yet felt surprised and antagonized by Britain's mobilization of the League of Nations over the Abyssinian affair. Thus, this book shows, Britain missed the opportunity to bring the Italians onto the Allied side, as it did again when Italy attempted to make a separate peace in 1943.

16830

Over the Top : A "P. B. I." in the H. A. C.

4¾” x 7¾”. [xiv] + 17-224pp. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, slight spine lean, edges & end-papers foxed, otherwise Very Good. The Reminiscences of a soldier of the 2nd Battalion Honourable Artillery Company (infantry. H. A. C.) , 22nd Brigade, 7th Division, who was in the Salient September/October 1917 and in November went to Italy, where he remained to the end of the war.

14325

The Rise and Fall of the Grand Alliance, 1941-1945

5½" x 8¾". [xvi] + 264pp. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New

11509

Seven Pillars of Wisdom : a triumph

7½" x 10". 672pp. Text only: re-bound in plain brown cloth with all plates removed. A reading copy only; however text is very clean.

11218

Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph

5½" x 8". 700pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a scuffed d/j, covers marked and rubbed, corners bumped, otherwise Very Good/

10792

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

5" x 7¾". 700pp, ills. Paperback, some shelfwear else Very Good

15644

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

7½" x 10". 672pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, maps. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, a few marks on cover, ink stain on a few pages otherwise Very Good.

10265

Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph

5¼" x 8". 700pp, ills. Blue cloth, stained and marked, otherwise Very Good

16887

Spies of the Kaiser : Plotting the Downfall of England

5” x 7¾”. [xv] + 347pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, top corner of rear boards missing, front free end-paper missing, edges and end-papers foxed, otherwise Very Good. Rare.

17316

Spies of the Kaiser : Plotting the Downfall of England

5½” x 8¾”. [xxxvi] + 219pp. Blue cloth blocked in silver, no d/j, covers rubbed otherwise Near Fine. With a long and important Introduction by Nicholas Hiley. "Extraordinary!" I declared. "But while you've wrested from Germany the secrets of some of our most important defences, you have, my dear Ray, temporarily lost the woman you love!" "My first duty, Jack, is to my King and my country," he declared, sitting on the edge of the table in the spies' photographic studio.' In these stirring terms John James Jacox and Ray Raymond, the heroes of William Le Queux's 1909 novel "Spies of the Kaiser", dedicate themselves to defeating the army of German agents at work in Britain. Le Queux was the first and most prolific of all British spy writers, but Spies of the Kaiser was not just another tale of scheming foreigners and plucky British heroes, for this paranoid tale of German secret agents plotting the invasion of Britain played a major part in the formation of MI5 Britain's counter-espionage organisation. In his introduction, intelligence historian Nicholas Hiley explains how Le Queux's powerful blend of fact and fiction inspired a whole generation of British secret service officers, and led MI5 in a nationwide hunt for a non-existent enemy.

18010

A Captive at Carlsruhe and Other German Prison Camps

4¾” x 7½”. [xii] + 15-219pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Original russet cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, slight spine lean, edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good.

16310

Nomads in Flanders : The Romance of an M. T. Column

5” x 7½”. 200pp. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, Ex-Library with sticker removed from front cover, head and tail of spine and corners frayed, inner hinges cracked, spine lean, numerous Library markings (including Lending Schedule on front pastedown). Rare, but in fair condition only. The Author recalls service with a Mechanized Transport unit: "Hitherto most books on the war have dealt almost exclusively with the life in the trenches; & that is well. But the most mongrel dog has his day; and the men of the Mechanical Transport who did their bit not unworthily in that strange, crowded world behind the Line are also deserving of remembrance in their degree. After reading some of the literature of the war with its oppression of sex & cesspools, this book may seem a deliberate avoidance of reality. But memory is a stubborn thing: those men whom I learnt to know better than I shall ever know men again, had a standard of morality & decency not always attained by their peace-time traducers... The adventures in this book have developed from small grains of fact." - from the Author's Introduction.

17309

With the M. T. in Mesopotamia

5½” x 9”. [xiv] + 253pp, frontis, illustrations, folding map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed otherwise Very Good. A bright copy. During the Great War one of the biggest problems attached to fighting in the harsh terrain of Mesopotamia was transport and communication. This book gives a good idea of the difficulties involved. It is an account of the ‘sinews of war’ so vital to maintaining a viable military machine. The author was an officer in Mechanical Transport in 1916-1918.

17050

Letters of an English Boy : Being The Letters of Richard Byrd Levett, King's Royal Rifle Corps who Died For England, at the age of Nineteen, in the Great War : March 10, 1917

4¾” x 7½”. 194pp, photo frontis of Milford Hall, 7 other plates including one of Levett in uniform; Levett armorial coat of arms FEP. Olive cloth gilt, corners decorated with enamelled bands in the colours of Eton College and the K.R.R.C. Levett was born 30 May 1897. He was the only son of Capt. William Swynnerton Byrd Levett and Maud Sophia Levett, of Milford Hall, Stafford and was educated at Eton, Oxford and Sandhurst and was, when his age permitted, Commissioned, 2nd Lieutenant. 1st Bn, Kings Royal Rifle Corps on July 1916. (Part of 90th Brigade, 2nd Division and with them, saw much fighting. Battle of Delville Wood, 15 Jul-3 Sep 1916 -Battle of the Ancre, 13-18 Nov 1916, including the capture of Beaumont Hamel. Actions of Miraumont 17-18 Feb 1917 - Capture of the Thilloys, 25 Feb-2 Mar 1917 - German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Mar-5 Apr 1917.)

15204

'T. E. Lawrence' : In Arabia and After

5½” x 8”. 491pp, maps, illustrations. Original green cloth blocked in silver, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, frontispiece missing, otherwise Good.

14481

The 1916 Battle of the Somme: A Reappraisal

5" x 7½". [xiii] + 192pp, maps, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in d/j, As New

15143

Beacons in the Night : With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia

6” x 9”. [xxiii] + 383pp, maps, illustrations. Softback, As New

16566

The London Scottish in the Great War

5½” x 8¾”. [xvi] + 425pp, eighteen full-page b&w illustrations, plus fold-out of the War Memorial located following the index, twenty-two folding maps printed on light, transparent stock. Blue cloth gilt with Regimental badge to front boards, no d/j, head and tail of spine bumped and frayed, white mark in centre of spine, rear cover stained, previous owner's name inscribed, edges foxed otherwise Very Good.

16680

A Trooper in the 'Tins' : Autobiography of a Lifeguardsman

5¼” x 8½”. 320pp, frontispiece, publishers' catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine crushed, frontispiece detached, otherwise Very Good.

17363

A Trooper in the 'Tins' : Autobiography of a Lifeguardsman

5½” x 8¾”. 320pp, frontispiece, publishers' catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped, gift inscription on front end-paper otherwise Very Good.

18007

The Blazing Trail of Flanders

5½” x 8¾”. 255pp, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, widespread foxing otherwise Very Good.

17516

Palestine Days and Nights : Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land

4¾” x 7½”. [x] + 140pp, Publisher’s catalogue. Original red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly marked, spine dull, spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers browned and discoloured otherwise Very Good.

16226

The Straits Impregnable

5" x 7½". [viii] + 293pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine dull and stained otherwise Very Good.

10569

The Miracle of Dunkirk

6¼" x 9½". 323pp, ills. Light blue boards in d/j, near Fine/Very Good+

17733

With The Guards' Brigade : From Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back

5¼” x 8¼”. [xii] + 277pp, portrait frontispiece, illustrations. Original pictorial red cloth blocked in black. The covers are faded, scuffed and heavily rubbed, and also very dull. There is patchy colour loss which is particularly evident on the rear cover, which now has a mottled appearance. The spine is also very dull, again with patchy colour loss. The spine ends and corners are bumped (heavily) and frayed, with splits to the cloth. There are some indentations along the edges of the boards and there is a forward spine lean.

17164

Unknown Warriors : Extracts from the Letters of K. E. Luard, R.R.C. : Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918

5” x 7½”. [xii] + 306pp, frontispiece, map. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, edges foxed otherwise Very Good. Rare. Chapter Headings : I. Winter Up The Line. Letters from Lillers, October 17th 1915 to April 25th 1916; II. Attacks On Vimy Ridge. Letters from Barlin, May 11th to July 3rd 1916; III. Vimy Ridge-continued July 11th to October 12th 1916; IV. Battle Of Arras. Letters from Warlencourt, March 3rd to June 3rd 1917; V. Third Battle Of Ypres. Letters from Brandhoek July 23rd to September 4th 1917; VI. The German Advance. Letters from Marchelepot, Abbeville and Nampres, February 6th to April 6th 1918; VII.The Allied Advance. Letters from Pernois, May 13th to August 10th 1918.

17522

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

5” x 7½”. [vii] + 300pp. Original cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed and slightly stained with a few splash marks. There spine is very dull (the lettering is almost impossible to read). The spine ends and corners are bumped and more heavily rubbed. There is a slight spine lean.

17815

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

5” x 7½”. [vii] + 300pp. Original grey cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, covers marked and rubbed, Library markings on Title-Page and reverse, otherwise Very Good.

18124

There's a Devil in the Drum

4¾” x 7½”.

15231

There's a Devil in the Drum

5” x 7½”. 393pp. Original laminated green boards. The covers are scuffed and rubbed. There are a number of indentations along the edges of the boards and, on the lower edge of the rear boards there is a pronounced area of crushing (which appears to be a binding fault). The spine ends and corners are bumped.

16067

Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 : The Outbreak of the Great War

6” x 9½”. [xvi] + 306pp, illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, As New. Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of the Great War to address in-depth the crucial events of 1914 as they played out on the Balkan Front. James Lyon demonstrates how blame for the war's outbreak can be placed squarely on Austria-Hungary's expansionist plans and internal political tensions, Serbian nationalism, South Slav aspirations, the unresolved Eastern Question, and a political assassination sponsored by renegade elements within Serbia's security services. In doing so, he portrays the background and events of the Sarajevo Assassination and the subsequent military campaigns and diplomacy on the Balkan Front during 1914. The book details the first battle of the First World War, the first Allied victory and the massive military humiliations Austria-Hungary suffered at the hands of tiny Serbia, while discussing the oversized strategic role Serbia played for the Allies during 1914. Lyon challenges existing historiography that contends the Habsburg Army was ill-prepared for war and shows that the Dual Monarchy was in fact superior in manpower and technology to the Serbian Army, thus laying blame on Austria-Hungary's military leadership rather than on its state of readiness. Based on archival sources from Belgrade, Sarajevo and Vienna and using never-before-seen material to discuss secret negotiations between Turkey and Belgrade to carve up Albania, Serbia's desertion epidemic, its near-surrender to Austria-Hungary in November 1914, and how Serbia became the first belligerent to openly proclaim its war aims, Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 enriches our understanding of the outbreak of the war and Serbia's role in modern Europe. It is of great importance to students and scholars of the history of the First World War as well as military, diplomatic and modern European history.

16467

More Adventures in Kilt and Khaki : Sketches of the Glasgow Highlanders and Others in France

4¾” x 7¼”. (ix) + 214pp. Original paper covered boards with brown cloth backstrip and corners, no d/j, covers worn and soiled with some paper covering missing from front boards, spine gutters frayed, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, end-papers discoloured, presentation inscription on front free end-paper signed Nan Lyon 1917, internally clean, just about Very Good.  Second volume of Author's experiences with the 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Bn. HLI, containining episodes & observations during service in France between June 1915 and Sept. 1916.

16968

In Kilt and Khaki : Glimpses of the Glasgow Highlanders in Training and on Foreign Service

4¾” x 7½”. (xi) + 195pp, portrait frontis. Original paper covered boards with brown cloth backstrip and corners, no d/j, covers worn and soiled with some paper covering missing from front boards, end-papers discoloured, damage to page 27, reading copy.

16654

Beware the German’s Peace ! 

4¾” x 7¾”. (x) + 171pp. Original red cloth blocked in black. The covers are rubbed and a little scuffed, with a few old marks but otherwise in quite reasonable condition for the book's age. The spine has faded severely, however, with almost total loss of original colour. The spine ends and corners are bumped. There are no internal markings and the text is clean throughout. However, in common with many books produced in the final year of the First World War, the paper has tanned noticeably with age, particularly in the margins. A few pages have small tears at the edge and there is some separation between the inner gatherings. The end-papers are browned and discoloured.

16494

The Amateur Army

5” x 7½”. 122pp, publisher’s advertisements. Green cloth blocked in red, no d/j, head of spine snagged, damage to top edge, tanned pages, otherwise Very Good.

17125

The Amateur Army

5” x 7½”. 122pp, portrait frontis, publisher’s advertisements. Tan cloth blocked in red, no d/j, slightly shaken, spine creased and dull and frayed at head, otherwise Very Good.

12311

A Foreign Field : A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War

5½" x 8¾". (xi) + 301pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in a scuffed d/j, otherwise Near Fine

17626

The Sixth Gordons in France and Flanders (with the 7th and 51st Divisions)

7½” x 10”. [xiv] + 241pp, 13 plates, 2 maps. Original white cloth, blocked in blue with Regimental device in gilt to front, no d/j, covers scuffed, marked and rubbed, forward spine lean, spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers browned, corners creased on first few pages, otherwise Very Good. Territorials in France from December 1914: many engagements including Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Somme, Arras, Final Advance.

17764

Greek Memories

5½" x 8½". 455pp, portrait frontis. Original red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

17344

Gallipoli Memories

4¾" x 7¾". [x] + 406pp. Black cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped, otherwise Very Good.

18126

From All The Fronts

5¼” x 7¾”. (vii) + 199pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Decorative cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded around edges, spine faded, end-papers foxed, previous owner's name inscribed, edges foxed otherwise Very Good

17534

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 : Volume X: The Australians at Rabaul

5" x 8¼". [xvi] + 412pp, illustrations, maps. Rebound ex-Library, no d/j, stamps throughout otherwise Very Good.

14920

Reconsidering Gallipoli

5¼” x 8½”. [x] + 262pp, illustrations, maps. Softback, As New

18174

Military Operations : Egypt & Palestine : From the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917

5½” x 8¾”. [xviii] + 445pp, maps, illustrations. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j. The covers are rubbed and there are areas of patchy fading and minor colour loss. The spine is very faded. The spine ends and corners are bumped. There is a previous owner's name inscribed on the front end-paper. The paper has tanned with age and the edge of the text block is lightly foxed. There is some play in the inner hinges.

17861

Behind the Scenes in Many Wars : Being the Military Reminiscences of Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn

5½" x 8¾".[ix] + 370pp, illustrations, maps, publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, light foxing to edges otherwise near Fine. The Author joined the Royal Artillery in 1880 and served in Burma, India (the Northwest Frontier, the Tirah Expedition), the Boer War, and World War One (Gallipoli, Mesopotamia).

18035

A Woman's Diary of the War

4¾” x 7¼”. 168pp. This volume is ex-Library (Dundee Free Libraries) and has been rebound in red cloth gilt, no d/j, shelf number blocked in gilt on spine, Library bookplate on front pastedown and stamp on front free end-paper,smaller Library stamp on Title-Page and a few in text, otherwise Very Good. Internally clean and showing little sign of having been borrowed; a date stamp on the Title-Page (23.Oct.15) indicates the date of accession.

16604

My War Experiences in Two Continents

5½" x 8¾". [xii] + 286pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges dusty, otherwise Very Good.

16883

Annals of an Active Life [Two Volumes]

6” x 9½”. 694pp (paginated over two volumes), frontispiece, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed, spines faded, \r\notherwise Very Good. Very clean internally. Bookplate of George Owen Sandys, Graythwaite Hall.

17134

The West Riding Territorials in the Great War

6¼” x 9½”. [xv] + 324pp portrait frontis, maps, illustrations, publisher’s advertisements. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, otherwise Very Good.

15396

The General and The Journalists : Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana

6" x 9¼". [xv] + 315pp, maps, illustrations. Black boards in d/j, As New

17804

A History of the 1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) : July 1st, 1916, to the End of the War

4¾” x 7½”. [xii] + 127pp, folding maps. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, spine darkened, covers rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers discoloured, otherwise Very Good. Including Honours and Awards, eight Folding Maps at Rear. This Regular Battalion fought on the Somme, Ypres, Arras, and took part in the Final Campaigns of October and November 1918. 

17664

Anzac : A Retrospect

5½” x 8¾”. 160pp, sketch maps. This volume is ex-Library. Original red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j. The covers are rubbed and there is some discolouration from the Library's dust-jacket protector while the spine ends and corners are bumped. The main defect, however, is noticeable bowing out of the covers. There are two abraded patches on the front free end-paper from the removal of a lending schedule and card pocket and two Library numbers on the reverse of the Title-Page (one stamped, one hand-written) but that appears to be the extent of the Library markings. The text is otherwise reasonably clean throughout, on tanned paper, though with some pages being stained. Quite a number of corners have been creased down. The edge of the text block is dust-stained (particularly the top edge) and lightly foxed.

14723

Life between Memory and Hope : The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany

6” x 9½”. [xii] + 335pp, illustrations. Original black cloth blocked in silver. The head of the spine is bumped, otherwise Near Fine.

16202

If We Return : Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army

5” x 7¾”. [vii] + 165pp, publisher’s advertisements. Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and darkened around edges, spine dull, corners bumped, previous owner's name inscribed, annotation on rear pastedown otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.

15028

Meetings in No Man's Land : Christmas 1914 and Fraternization in The Great War

6” x 9½”. [viii] + 264pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in silver in a rubbed d/j, Near Fine. The soldiers 'football match' and the unofficial ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a legend of the Great War, but fraternization between enemy troops was actually widespread. In winter 1914, after months of marching, soldiers on both fronts began to dig trenches, and the war became a battle of attrition in which young men faced each other across what was often only a few yards of the muddy, bombed landscape called No Man's Land. Trapped in this devastation the soldiers of both armies experienced a shared feeling of pointlessness that culminated in the unofficial armistice of Christmas 1914, when German and English soldiers laid down their weapons for a few hours of joyful peace and carol singing. Using original research from the best European historians and discovering a history forgotten or lost in censor reports, officer journals and official reports, these brief moments of humanity are explored on all fronts during the long years of conflict.

17773

A Short History of the Sixth [6th] Division : Aug. 1914 - March 1919

5¼” x 8½”. [viii] + 120pp, folding map. Red cloth blocked in black with white circular Divisional flash on front boards, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with diagonal crease on upper front cover, spine faded, slight spine lean, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, otherwise just about Very Good.

15167

American Pimpernel : The Story of Varian Fry : The Man Who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death List

6¼" x 9½". [xi] + 403pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine

17925

The Gambardier : Giving Some Account of the Heavy and Siege Artillery in France 1914-1918

4¾" x 7½". 224pp, illustrations, maps. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, ex-Boots Library with remnants of sticker on front boards, front inner hinge cracked and re-glued, spine slightly canted, otherwise Good. Detailed classic account based on personal experience with 90th Bde. RGA in France from Festubert 1915 through the Somme, Arras, Ypres & Messines to the final advance in 1918, containing much useful information on guns & gunners.

15778

A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916

5" x 7½". [ix] + 241pp. Black cloth blocked in red, no d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine frayed, gift inscription on front end-paper otherwise Very Good. A classic Western Front memoir by Plowman, who served with 10th (S) Bn. West Yorks and went on to found the Peace Movement.

16815

A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916

5" x 7½". [ix] + 241pp. Black cloth blocked in red in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good. 

14489

The White Rabbit

5½" x 8¾". [ix] + 262pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth, in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, covers rubbed and faded, spine dull, otherwise Good

15294

Captivity and Escape

5” x 7½”. [xiii] + 180pp, portrait frontis, sketches. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, some minor marks on rear boards, end-papers browned otherwise Very Good.

17493

The Old Front Line : or the Beginning of the Battle of the Somme

4¾” x 7½”. 128pp, illustrations, folding map, 64pp publisher’s catalogue. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, otherwise Very Good. The publisher’s catalogue has been printed on cheap paper which has browned severely. From the Toc. H Library, with a stamp on the front pastedown.

12301

Gallipoli

4½” x 7”. 183pp, maps, illustrations. Paperback, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good

17923

The 47th (London) Division 1914-1919 : By Some who Served with it in the Great War

5¾” x 9”. [xx] + 297pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, folding maps. Green cloth and half-leather, no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed, spine faded, rear inner hinge slack due to map pocket at rear, missing eight of ten folding maps otherwise Very Good.

14516

Why France Fell

5" x 7½". 174pp. Yellow cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine soiled, otherwise Very Good

15033

Bloody Buna : The Campaign that Halted the Japanese Invasion of Australia

5½” x 8¾”. [xiv] + 222pp, maps, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in d/j, Fine

17637

A Frenchman in Khaki

5½" x 8¾". (xv) + 353pp, frontis, illustrations, maps. Ochre cloth blocked in blue, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good

16831

Gallipoli Days and Nights

4¾" x 7¼". 150pp [note: pagination starts at page 9]. Original pictorial crad covers, spine crudely covered in tape, otherwise Good

17809

Reminiscent Sketches, 1914 to 1919 by Members of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service

4¾” x 7½”.  [vii] + 80pp, with two illustrations at the end of the volume: "A Hospital Ward—Past and Present". Original grey cloth with the Imperial Military Nursing Service crest blocked in red on the front cover, but no spine titling. The covers are rubbed, dull and slightly marked (there are some faint stains on the rear cover). There is a noticeable bruise on the top edge of the front cover, near the spine.  The spine has faded. The spine ends and corners are bumped and slightly frayed, with the front bottom corner being creased and heavily bumped. There is quite an attractive bookplate on the front pastedown: "Di Millicent Catherina Michell    Her Book". The end-papers are very browned and discoloured, with the bookplate having created a shadow on the front free end-paper. There is extensive toning and heavy foxing to the final few pages, adjacent to the two illustrations at the end. The text is otherwise clean throughout on noticeably tanned paper and with further scattered foxing. The edge of the text block is dust-stained and very heavily foxed, with the foxing extending into the margins (please see the images below).

17149

Terriers in the Trenches : The Post Office Rifles at War 1914-1918

5¾” x 8½”. [xii] + 170pp, frontispiece map, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a scuffed, rubbed price-clipped d/j, otherwise Near Fine.

18099

Terriers in the Trenches : The Post Office Rifles at War 1914-1918

5¾” x 8½”. [xii] + 170pp, frontispiece map, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a scuffed, rubbed price-clipped d/j, otherwise Very Good

17416

The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916

5½" x 9". 365pp, illustrations, maps. Original cloth in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good/Very Good

18111

The Durham Forces in the Field 1914-18 : Volume II : The Service Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry [NOTE: Volume I never appeared]

5½” x 8¾”. [xii] + 380pp, frontispiece, illustrations, 5 maps in end pocket. Original blind-stamped green cloth blocked in red on the spine, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed and quite dull, rear spine gutter split for entire length (due to map pocket), gift inscription on front pastedown (dated 1920) and bookplate, edges dusty otherwise Very Good.

17776

Battle for the Bundu : The First World War in East Africa

6¼" x 9½". [x] + 353pp, illustrations. Black cloth in chipped, discoloured d/j, otherwise Very Good

18072

The Paris Gun : The Bombardment of Paris by the German Long-Range Guns and the Great German Offensives of 1918

5½" x 8¾". 277pp, frontis, map, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, edges lightly foxed, previous owner's name inscribed Very Good

14144

Monty : My Part in His Victory (War Biography Vol. 3)

5½” x 8¾”. 128pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, covers rubbed, top edge dusty, otherwise Very Good

18032

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Chronicle, 1915-1916 : An Annual Record of the First and Second Battalions, formerly the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry, together with the War Records of the Other Battalions of the Regiment : Volume XXV From the 1st August 1915 to the 30th June 1916

5½” x 8½”. [viii] + 478pp, frontispiece map, illustrations, folding maps. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed around the edges but still bright, spine ends and corners bumped, otherwise Very Good.

17048

The German Fury in Belgium : Experiences of a Netherland Journalist During Four Months With the German Army in Belgium

5” x 7½”. 247pp. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, tanning to pages otherwise Good.

17646

Invicta : With the First Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in the Great War

5½” x 9”. [xi] + 326pp, frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed (rear cover scuffed and stained), rear spine gutter split for entire length but re-glued, front spine gutter frayed at head and tail and in centre, spine darkened and discoloured, shelf number in white ink near tail, corners bumped, ex-Library with bookplate and card pocket on front pastedown and various Library markings on front free end-paper, previous owner's name inscribed on front free end-paper with details of his service in the Regiment, internally clean but in damaged covers.

17629

War Letters of General Monash

5” x 8”. [xx] + 299pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull, end-papers foxed and browned, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good.

17321

Normandy to the Baltic [“Published for private circulation in the British Army of the Rhine.”]

5½” x 8¾”. (xvii) + 279pp, maps. Original red cloth gilt with 21 Army Group insignia. The covers are dull, rubbed and faded, with the fading mainly confined to the periphery. The spine has faded significantly with total loss of original colour and is also very dull. The front and rear spine gutters have minor splits at the ends with the exception of the front spine gutter tail where there is a twi-0inch split which has been re-glued. The spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed with further splits to the cloth. The covers have also bowed slightly. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front free end-paper: “W. D. H. McCardie, Lt. Col.\r\n (stamped: Comdg 17th Bn The Parachute Reg) 20 June 1946 Presented personally at Haifa, Palestine, by Field Marshal Lord Montgomery”. Facing this has been added in pencil: “Lt Col W. Derek H. McCardie P.o.W. after Arnhem Sent to Palestine with Paras after WW2”. The text is clean throughout on tanned paper (the tanning is more noticeable in the margins). A few of the many maps have been carelessly re-folded and diagram B has become completely detached. There is some play in the inner hinges and the staples used in the binding have rusted

17588

Dusty Measure : A Record of Troubled Times

5½" x 8¾". 356pp, illustrations. Pale green cloth, no d/j, spine faded, rear inner hinge cracked, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good

16044

Historical Records of The Buffs East Kent Regiment [3rd Foot] Formerly Designated The Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1914-1919

5½” x 9”. [xx] + 554pp, colour frontis, one other plate in colour, maps, illustrations (including folding maps and maps as end-papers). Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, previous owner's name inscribed, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. During the Great War eight battalions of the regiment went on active service and another seven (including 1st Garrison Battalion) served at home. No less than 32,000 men passed through the ranks of the regiment of whom some 6,000 died; forty-eight battle honours were awarded and one VC. Appendices contain separate rolls of honour of officers and other ranks with names grouped alphabetically by ranks; all ranks list of honours and awards and foreign awards, and separate lists of Mention in Despatches. The 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions served on the Western Front, the 2nd Battalion in Macedonia with 28th Division following ten months in France and Belgium, the 1/4th in India and Aden, 1/5th in India and Mesopotamia and finally the 10th Battalion (formed in Egypt in Feb 1917 from two converted Kent yeomanry regiments) fought in Palestine and on the Western Front with 74th (Yeomanry) Division. Apart from one chapter describing the raising of wartime battalions and the initial disposition of the two TF battalions, and one on their affiliated regiment, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, the chapters of this history each cover well-defined periods of the war in the various theatres in which the parts played by all battalions involved are recorded. The groundwork or skeleton is based on battalion, brigade or divisional war diaries, fleshed out by personal narratives and diaries provided by men who had fought and survived. Where possible, the names of the officers who became casualties in any action are given in the text after the record of the battle, but only the number in the case of other ranks. Again, wherever possible the recipients of honours (all ranks) have been named in the account as news of their decorations reached their battalion.

18041

Historical Records of The Buffs East Kent Regiment [3rd Foot] Formerly Designated The Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1914-1919

5½” x 9”. [xx] + 554pp, colour frontis, one other plate in colour, maps, illustrations (including folding maps and maps as end-papers). Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, ex-Library, one plate missing, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. 

17775

With Allenby's Crusaders

5½” x 8¾”. 232pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine faded, head and tail of spine frayed, edges lightly foxed, gift inscription on front end-paper (dated 14.4.23), otherwise Very Good.

14458

Klaus Fuchs : The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb

6¼" x 9½". 216pp, illustrations. Grey cloth in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good

15168

Inside the Gestapo : A Young Woman's Secret War

5½" x 8¾". [x] + 189pp, illustrations. Black cloth in a scuffed and chipped d/j, page edges browned, otherwise Very Good

18091

My Horse Warrior

6” x 8¼”. 160pp, illustrations by A. J. Munnings. Decorative blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and soiled, some pages finger-marked in the margins otherwise Very Good.

15791

Ten Years Ago : Armistice & Other Memories, forming a pendant to "The Spanish Farm Trilogy"

5" x 7¾". [ix] + 180pp. Green cloth gilt in the rare pictorial dust wrapper designed by B. F. Shaw, covers rubbed and soiled, backstrip creased, edges lightly foxed, spine slightly canted otherwise Good Plus

17768

Three Personal Records of the War

5¾" x 9¼". 406pp, 2 maps. Black cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, covers bowed with heavy bumping, spine gutters frayed, otherwise Very Good

15867

The Secrets of a Kuttite : an authentic story of Kut, adventures in captivity and Stamboul intrigue

5¼" x 7¾". [xvi] + 392pp, frontis, illustrations, folding map. Green cloth, no d/j, spine dull, covers marked and rubbed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good

17096

The Secrets of a Kuttite : an authentic story of Kut, adventures in captivity and Stamboul intrigue

5¼" x 7¾". [xvi] + 392pp, frontis, illustrations, folding map. Green cloth, no d/j, spine dull, covers marked and rubbed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good

18013

Fields of Victory

4¾” x 7¾”. [xi] + 13-260pp + Hutchinson’s catalogue of New Books for Spring 1919. Original cloth blocked in black. The covers are heavily rubbed with some old areas of staining and distinct lines of fading. There is a diagonal scuff mark on the front cover, starting at the tail of the spine, a pronounced line of fading along the top edge and another line of fading adjacent to the spine. There are some old marks on the small stains on the rear cover and the same lines of fading. The spine is severely faded, to the extent that nothing remains of the original colour, and is also stained. There is a split at the head of the front spine gutter. The spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed with further splits in the cloth. There are a number of indentations along the edges of the boards, including one on the front fore-edge where there is a small tear in the cloth. The front inner hinge is cracked and the front free end-paper has been roughly removed so the volume now opens directly to the (foxed) Half-Title page on which there is a previous owner's name inscribed in ballpoint pen, dated 1981. There are also two short notes (in a different hand) on the rear end-paper. The paper has tanned with age, some pages have grubby marks and there is some scattered foxing. There is some separation between the inner gatherings. The edge of the text block is dust-stained and grubby (particularly the top edge) and lightly foxed. There is an erratum slip tipped in to page 239. The underside edge of the text block is not uniformly trimmed and is quite ragged. Mrs Ward's account is surprisingly scarce in the First Edition, but this example is quite well-used, noting a severely faded and discoloured spine and missing front free end-paper. No illustrations are listed in the Table of Contents, with the Title-Page referring to "Illustrations, Coloured Map and Folding Statistical Chart". There are two photographs (frontispiece and one facing page 90 which is partially detached), the Coloured Map is between pages 76 and 77, and the Folding Statistical Chart is at the end of the volume.

16740

All Clear : A Brief Record of the Work of the London Special Constabulary 1914-1919

5” x 7½”. 122pp, portrait frontispiece, two small folding maps. Original ochre cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly marked, head and tail of spine bumped, offsetting to end-papers otherwise Very Good.

17847

The History of the North-West Rebellion of 1885 : Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the War, of the Various Engagements with the Indians and Half-Breeds, of the Heroic Deeds Performed by Officers and Men, and of Touching Scenes in the Field, the Camp, and the Cabin; Including a History of the Indian Tribes of North-Western Canada, Their Numbers, Modes of Living, Habits, Customs, Religious Rites and Ceremonies, with Thrilling Narratives of Captures, Imprisonment, Massacres, and Hair-Breadth Escapes of White Settlers, Etc.

4¾” x 7½”. [viii] + 17-424pp, portrait frontispiece, illustrations. Original cloth half-bound in leather. The cloth sections are faded (particularly on the rear cover), dull and discoloured. There is also some staining on the rear cover and two small gouges. As is typical, the leather spine and corners are heavily rubbed, especially the edges and corners which are frayed in places. The leather at the head and tail of the spine is chipped, with small tears. The leather at the start of each spine gutter has split, with the worst being at the tail of the front spine gutter where there is a one-inch split which a previous owner has re-glued.  The inner hinges are badly cracked, with ragged tears in the pastedown end-papers. The yellow end-papers are also soiled, browned and discoloured and a pencilled note on the front free end-paper has been almost wholly erased (there is also a vertical crease running the full length of the front end-paper). There is scattered foxing throughout and the paper has tanned with age, while some pages are stained or have grubby marks. The Publisher’s blue edge stain has bled into the margins on some pages (including the Title-Page).

11663

The Great World War : A History [9 volumes]

7¼" x 10". Vol. I: 336pp, portrait frontis [detached but present], maps, ills. Vol. II: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. III: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. IV: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. V: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. VI: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. VII: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. VIII: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. IX: 344pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Maroon cloth, quarter-bound in dark blue leather gilt, no d/js, marbled edges. The leather spines are a little scuffed, and some of the earlier volumes have tiny paint splashes on the covers; otherwise, apart from the following two defects, a very good, tight set: Vol. III is missing a two-inch section of leather from the head of the spine; Vol. II is missing a small section of leather from the head of the spine. One of the best of the Great War histories. A heavy set with commensurate postage.

17418

A History of the 38th (Welsh) Division

5¾” x 8¾”. [xv] + 86pp. Original red leatherette blocked in gilt on the spine only. The covers are lightly rubbed and with a small indentation on the front leading edge and one on the rear spine gutter; otherwise in Near Fine condition.

17307

The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927

6” x 9¼”. 431pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, two maps (one as rear end-papers). Original printed paper-covered boards no d/j, covers rubbed and scuffed, front inner hinge cracked otherwise Very Good. On 1 January 1914, when this volume begins, the Suffolk Regiment consisted of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, and the 4th, 5th and 6th (Cyclist) Battalions of the Territorial Force. After the outbreak of war sixteen more battalions were raised and added, and in 1917 the Suffolk Yeomanry converted into the 15th Battalion, making a grand total of twenty-three. Battalions of the Regiment served in France and Flanders, Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine, and at home.This book tells their stories, based on war diaries, private diaries, letters and interviews. In all 6,650 died, two VCs were won and 73 Battle Honours awarded. The doings of the ten battalions which proceeded overseas are all woven together into the general story contained in these pages, those of the remaining thirteen battalions form the subject matter of separate chapters. Given the scope of this volume and space considerations there is no Roll of Honour and the list of Honours and Awards is a very limited one showing only some of the more important honours gained. Inevitably some battalions get fuller treatment than others but, as Cyril Falls comments, the main events are clearly described. More maps would have been welcome. As has already been implied the narrative appears in chronological order beginning in 1914 with the 1st Battalion moving from Egypt to Khartoum and the 2nd Battalion in the Curragh with 14th Brigade, 5th Division, one of the original BEF divisions. This battalion landed in France on 14th August and was in action at Mons and Le Cateau where it suffered heavy casualties amounting to 720 killed, wounded and missing with the CO among the dead. There is a chapter devoted to this battle with a special introduction by General Smith Dorrien commanding the British troops. The 1st Battalion arrived home in October 1914 and was allotted to the newly formed regular 28th Division which landed in France in January 1915, nine months later it left France for Macedonia where it stayed to the end of the war. As the story unfolds so the various battalions on active service are brought into the picture and the part they played in the battles is described. One chapter is given to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion at home and another to all the other battalions that did not go on active service.

16441

Women as Army Surgeons : Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street September 1914-October 1919

5½” x 8¾”. [xvi] + 264pp, folding frontispiece [showing the Staff of the Military Hospital, Endell August 1916], illustrations. Blue cloth blocked in black and gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good.

17317

Call to Arms : From Gallipoli to the Western Front

6” x 9½”. 191pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a scuffed d/j, top edge of the text-block is dusty otherwise Very Good

17957

Experiences of a Military Attache in the Balkans

6” x 10”. 293pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, map. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, backstrip slightly creased, a few pages lightly marked, one plated detached otherwise Very Good. There was a cheaper edition published [10589] with the folding map but no illustrations, which might explain why there are no illustrations listed in the Table of Contents for this volume. However, there are thirteen plates altogether (including the frontispiece), with the other twelve facing pages: 22; 32; 34; 61; 76; 84; 91; 113; 175; 198; 220; 264.

17994

Remembering Kut : "Lest We Forget"

5½" x 8¾". [ix] + 324pp, portrait frontis, map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine badly faded, spine gutter split, rear inner hinge cracked otherwise Very Good.

17267

History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1919. Volume I: The 43rd Light Infantry in Mesopotamia and North Russia

7¼” x 10”. [xxiv] + 461pp, portrait frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded, inner hinges starting, otherwise Very Good.

17992

The Dardanelles Campaign

5½" x 8½". [xx] + 429pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates, maps. Blind-stamped red cloth, no d/j, spine dull and soiled, otherwise Very Good. Readable & detailed narrative of operations + orders of battle, trench map of the peninsula &c. “His narrative was to be a plain, straightforward account of the operations... but Mr Nevinson is incapable of writing unattractive prose... As an eye-witness his testimony is also valuable.” - Falls.

12008

Spy

5" x 7½". 139pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine faded, pages browned, hinge weak, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Good

17866

The Soul of the Camp : A Derbyman’s O’dyssey

4½” x 7¼”. 112pp, one illustration within text. Badly damaged, reading copy.\r\n290. NEWTON (Walt.) The Soul of the Camp: A Derbyman’s O’dyssey. 1st Ed., 112pp., frontis. Arthur H. Stockwell. 1920.\r\nCritical, anti-authority memoirs of an unwilling conscript ensnared by the raising of the recruiting age to 50 & called up in April 1918. Describes a training camp in East Anglia with its uncivilised, brutalising, regime & (mostly) hated instructional staff (“In our camp, there were a surfeit of Captains & many Kings, their power we knew & felt, much of it was for evil... I understand it was considered unhealthy or unwise to send the lion tamers out with the Lions; nor does it surprise me in view of what I have both seen & heard in the camp, where I have come across men, normally of mild disposition, & in many instance men of high intellect, smarting under some hot indignity or deep humiliation received, at the whim or caprice of some striped or starred boor; absolutely thirsting for gore.”) 

18172

History of the East Lancashire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918

6¾” x 9¾”. [xvi] + 568pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, frontispiece detached otherwise Very Good. Covers all aspects from Le Cateau, Marne, Aisne, 1st Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Arras, Battle of the Somme, Ypres, German Offensive, Hindenburg Line etc.

16585

Englishman, Kamerad! : Right of the British Line

4¾" x 7¾". [xii] + 210pp, portrait frontis. Original cloth, no d/j, covers worn and soiled with some fraying to corners and head of spine, spine slightly canted, edges browned, otherwise Good. Scarce.

17430

Englishman, Kamerad! : Right of the British Line

4¾" x 7¾". [xii] + 210pp, portrait frontis. Original cloth, no d/j, covers worn and soiled with some fraying to corners and head of spine, spine slightly canted, edges browned, otherwise Good.

16924

Four Years Beneath the Crescent

5¾" x 8¾". [xviii] + 416pp, b&w plates, maps as end-papers. Pictorial cream cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with areas of darkening of the cream cloth, corners bumped, most of the pages facing each of the double-sided b&w plates have patches of discolouration due to the leaching of chemicals in the photographs, otherwise the text is clean; overall, G+ to Very Good. A digital photograph is available on request.

17237

Gallipoli : The Fading Vision

5¼" x 8". 390pp, maps. Black cloth in chipped, price-clipped d/j, otherwise near Fine/Very Good

10178

At The War

5½" x 8¾". 288pp, frontis. Red cloth, gilt lettering, spine badly faded, spotting throughout, Good

12978

At The War

5½" x 8½". [viii] + 288pp, portrait frontis. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine very faded with L-shaped tear at head, edge of text block grubby, otherwise Good Minus

17154

The Resistance versus Vichy : The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France

5½” x 9”. [xv] + 245pp. Original red cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, previous owner's name label otherwise Very Good.

17259

In Memory of the Fallen, 1914-1918 : Holytown and New Stevenston

8” x 11¾”. 67pp, illustrations. Original printed card covers which are lightly rubbed and slightly discoloured around the edges but otherwise in good condition. There is a gift inscription on the inside front cover from the Author, Joseph O’Raw. The text is clean throughout. There are two newspaper clippings loosely inserted, referring to the publication, both dated November 1998.

14881

The Scene of War : Greece, Italy, Interludes, The British in France, France at War, France in the Mediterranean, Egypt, Mesopotamia

5" x 7½". [xiii] + 424pp, Publisher’s catalogue. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine faded and very dull, covers rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good

17791

Reminiscences of Three Campaigns

5¼” x 8¼”. [viii] + 335pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Rebound ex-Library, no d/j, covers marked, usual Library treatments, otherwise Good. Surgeon in Egypt 1884 (Suakin, Tamai &c.), Boer War 1899-1900 & WW1 in charge of a hospital detachment for the British Naval Force on the Danube, 1915, then 15 months with a British Ambulance unit in Italy.

14078

The Outbreak of the War of 1914 - 1918 : a narrative based mainly on British Official Documents

8" x 13". 146pp. Front paper cover torn with some loss, rear cover missing, contents dog-eared, a reading copy only

17783

With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-1917

5" x 7½". 165pp, frontis, illustrations. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped, generally grubby otherwise Good

15787

Three Chevrons

5” x 7½”. [ix] + 241pp, Publisher’s advertisements. Brown cloth blocked in blue and red on the spine, no d/j, ex-Library with remnants of small label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, severe tanning to pages otherwise Very Good. Rare in this Edition. Letters of a regular officer, 2nd Sussex, Western Front 1914-16 & 1917 as Bde. MG Officer, commander of an MG Coy., an infantry bn. & on the staff. The 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year.

17036

Three Chevrons

5” x 7¾”. [ix] + 241pp, Publisher’s advertisements. Brown cloth blocked in blue and red on the front cover and spine, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped, severe tanning to pages, some pages badly opened, leaving a ragged edge, otherwise Very Good. Rare in this Edition. Letters of a regular officer, 2nd Sussex, Western Front 1914-16 & 1917 as Bde. MG Officer, commander of an MG Coy., an infantry bn. & on the staff. The 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year.

16436

An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

7¼” x 10¼”. 123pp, illustrations. Original green cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed and damp-stained: there is prominent loss of colour from the top corner of the front cover and down the leading edge and also on the rear cover though not quite to the same extent. There are also some old ink stains on the rear cover. The spine has darkened slightly with age and there are a few scratches. The spine ends and corners are bumped and the top front corner is frayed.

16695

Unwilling Passenger

5¼" x 8¼". 415pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, edges dusty otherwise Very Good.

17385

Unwilling Passenger

5¼" x 8¼". 415pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. 

12078

The Road to Verdun : France, Nationalism and the First World War

6¼" x 9½". [xiii] + 304pp, illustrations, maps. Brown cloth gilt in d/j, As New

14898

Occupation : The Ordeal of France 1940 - 1944

6¼" x 9½". [xviii] + 348pp, maps, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in silver, in d/j, As New.

17606

Escaping from Germany

4¾” x 7”. [xvii] + 387pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and marked, tanning to pages, some slackness in binding, musty, otherwise Good. "In writing the story of my three attempts to escape from Germany, and the experiences and impressions during the three years I was a prisoner of war there, I do so for several reasons, the chief being the requests of my family and intimate friends, that they shall be placed on record, and a feeling within myself that in so relating them an opportunity will be given, not only to my own countrymen and countrywomen, but to the folk of the other allied countries now linked together in the great fight for democracy and freedom, against tyranny and oppression, of studying for themselves the conditions under which we were compelled to live. They will thus learn our sufferings, both mental and physical, of our struggles against starvation, disease, vermin, and filth of all kinds, and in the study be able to compare the treatment meted out to Germans interned in the different countries of the Allied Powers, particularly our own, and that which we received from the hands of our captors during the time the fortunes of war had caused us to be interned in Germany. I do not pretend to be the possessor of any literary skill or talent; I have felt the lack of these powers during the time I have been engaged writing this work. Had I been fortunate enough to possess them, I should have been able to write more clearly and concisely concerning the happenings and events recorded in the following chapters. As it is, very often words have failed me to describe fully the horrors and feelings of those times. I have done my best, however, sincerely hoping that in the event of these memoirs of mine being published, they will be interesting as the actual experiences of a prisoner in German hands. I have confined myself, as far as it has been possible, to my own actual experiences, feelings, and impressions ; but where I have recorded the testimony of others I unhesitatingly say I have numberless witnesses among the men of the Allied armies interned, who were present and witnessed the sights, and endured with myself the hardships of which I write. Those men, I have not the slightest doubt, would come forward if necessary, when the war is over and they have once again been restored to freedom, to testify to the truthfulness of what I have set down, if my statements and assertions are challenged by the Hun. I sincerely hope that rigorous measures will be taken by the respective Allied Governments to bring to account those Germans who were in authority at the different Concentration Camps and working centres during the period of which I write ; and that, as the result of investigation, suitable punishment will be meted out to them for their inhuman conduct towards us, during the time we were helpless and powerless in their hands."

17183

War as a Temporary Occupation : First World War Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant

5¾” x 8¾”. 81pp, sketch map. Paperback, barcode label partially removed from rear cover, corners creased otherwise Very Good.

17895

The Boer War

6¾” x 10”. [xxii] + 659pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in a torn d/j, otherwise Very Good.

17271

The Gardeners of Salonika : The Macedonian Campaign of 1915 - 1918

6" x 9½". 286pp, illustrations, maps. Brown cloth gilt in a chipped, torn d/j, armorial bookplate, edges dusty, otherwise Very Good.

12037

Napoleon in Russia

6¼" x 9½". 318pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth in d/j, As New

10300

Victory 1918

6¼" x 9½". 368pp, ills. Blue cloth in d/j, Fine/as new.

18012

Day by Day with the Russian Army 1914 - 15

5¾" x 9". [xi] + 287pp, portrait frontispiece, maps, Publisher’s advertisement. Original yellow cloth blocked in black no d/j, covers darkened, marked and rubbed with pronounced variation in colour, spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers foxed and discoloured, edges foxed otherwise Very Good.

16550

The Intelligencers : The Story of British Military Intelligence up to 1914

6¼” x 9¾”. [xvi] + 238pp, illustrations. Green leatherette gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, ex-Library with marks on pastedown from removal of old tape, remnants of label and other markings on Half-Title page, slight spine lean, contents clean and Good overall.

17460

In Memoriam Harold Parry : Second Lieutenant, K.R.R.C. Born at Bloxwich-December 13th, 1896; fell in Flanders-May 6th, 1917

5¼” x 7¾”. [xiii] + 144pp., portrait frontis. Grey paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip, gilt to spine and front board, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped, edge of text block untrimmed, gift inscription on front end-paper otherwise Very Good. Parry was educated at Queen Mary's School, Walsall & Exeter College, Oxford. 17th (S) Bn. KRRC 1916-17, a memoir, atmospheric letters from France, a few of his poems & some letters of condolence. KiA in Flanders & buried in Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery. Contains some interesting observations such as: "Two hundred years will not suffice to efface the traces of this tragedy from the land. Things can never be as they were, and the greatest indictment that war can have, is the forlorn and shell-shattered land about here with its rude and pathetic crossesto mark the last resting-place of those who in the fullness of their youth - at the beginning of love and hope and ambition - were cut off from life."

10213

The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918

5¼" x 8½". 247pp, maps, ills. Softback, as new.

14812

The Reality of War : A Memoir of the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

6¼" x 9½". 384pp, maps. Red cloth gilt in d/j, As New

10246

At All Costs! Stories of Impossible Victories

6¼" x 9½". 223pp, ills. Black cloth in d/j, Fine/as new. An examination of famous victories, including Minden, Little Round Top, Arras, Nijmegen, etc.

17213

The Campaign of 1914 in France and Belgium

6” x 9”. [xxvii] + 447pp, maps, plans, illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers faded and stained, prize inscription, foxing towards end, otherwise Very Good.

17403

Verdun

5½" x 8¾". 254pp, maps, b&w plates. 

17411

The Scots Guard in the Great War 1914-1918

5½” x 8¾”. [xiii] + 349pp, maps, Publisher’s Advertisements. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, spine dull, otherwise Very Good. The standard history of the Regiment in the Great War. 1st and 2nd Bns fought with Guards Division on the Western Front. With a chapter on the Reserve Battalion; includes casualties, strengths and drafts, honours and awards. The work was started by Ewart, but he was killed in Mexico in 1922. Petre then carried out most of the work but died in 1925. It was then finished and edited by Lowther.

14470

The Bitter Years : The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940 - May 1945

6¼" x 9¼". 403pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a tatty, torn d/j, edges dusty otherwise Very Good

18100

Recollections of a Prisoner of War

5½" x 8¼". [viii] + 312pp, sketch maps. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers stained and worn, edges foxed, extensive internal foxing otherwise Good.

15656

Stolen Journey

5¼" x 8". 412pp, portrait frontis, illustrations (including line drawings by Ronald Searle), maps as end-papers. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, edges foxed, otherwise Good

17379

With My Regiment : From The Aisne to La Bassee

4¾" x 7¾". [viii] + 231pp. Blue cloth blocked in black no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, backstrip soiled and dull, head and tail of spine bumped, edges dusty, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.

14068

Fighting General : The Public & Private Campaigns of General Sir Walter Walker

6” x 9¼”. 280pp, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a chipped and torn d/j, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.

17380

The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 - 1918 : Three Volumes

5¾” x 9”. Volume I: [xviii] + 378pp, Publisher’s Advertisement; Volume II: [vii] + 383pp; Volume III: [ix] + 352pp. Portrait frontispiece in photogravure in each volume (all original tissue guards present), 14 plates and 25 maps (9 folding). Original gey paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines (with leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt), no d/js, covers rubbed (particularly the leather spine labels), small indentations in the top edge of volumes I and III, gift inscription on front end-paper of each volume dated Xmas 1920, tissue guards have tanned page opposite, edges dusty otherwise Very Good.

17602

The History of the 2/6th Lancashire Fusiliers (which amalgamated successively with the 1/6th and the 12th Battalion of the same Regiment) : The Story of a 2nd Line Territorial Battalion, 1914-1919

5½” x 8¾”. [xv] + 232pp, 10 folding maps. Original blue cloth gilt with Divisional Flash on front cover, covers marked and rubbed but still quite bright, spine ends and corners bumped and slightly frayed, previous owner's name inscribed in ink on front free end-paper, Half-Title and final page of text browned and discoloured, occasional foxing otherwise Very Good. With 66th (West Lancs.) Division in France from February 1917 including Passchendale, March Retreat & Final Advance of 1918. Roll of Honour and Orders of Battle.

10232

Target Tokyo : The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring

6¼" x 9¼", 595pp, ills. Red boards in chipped d/j, Very Good+

16589

The Story of the Salonica Army

5" x 7½". [xiii] + 298pp, frontis, illustrations, map. Red cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine faded, edges foxed, otherwise Good Plus

17832

On the Path of Adventure : Illustrated with Jottings from the Author's Sketch Book and a Map

5½” x 8½”. [xvi] + 244pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped, spine discoloured, edges foxed, spine slightly canted, one plate detached otherwise Good Plus.

16638

Serbia's Part in the War : Volume I : The Rampart Against Pan-Germanism

5½" x 8¾". 250pp, portrait frontispiece, 4 maps [one folding]. Green cloth, no d/j, frontispiece missing, edges foxed, otherwise Good. Volume II, despite being referred to in an advertisement in the rear of this volume, never appeared.

17924

Breaking The Hindenburg Line : The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division

5½” x 8¼”. 200pp, two maps, seventeen illustrations. Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine darkened, small frayed patch on rear spine gutter near tail, previous owner's name inscribed on front free end-paper (dated 1919) otherwise Very Good.

16620

Command on the Western Front : The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson 1914-1918

6” x 9½”. [viii] + 421pp, sketch maps. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New.

16145

Four Days : An Account of a Journey in France made between August 28th and 31st, 1914

5" x 7½". [vi] + 305pp, publisher's advertisements, map. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, front free end-paper glued to pastedown, title page and edges foxed, otherwise Good. An unusual and uncommon account of the opening phase of the Great War.

17025

Four Days : An Account of a Journey in France made between August 28th and 31st, 1914

5" x 7½". [vi] + 305pp, publisher's advertisements, map. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed with some variation in colour, edges heavily foxed, otherwise Very Good.

12020

A Second Diary of the Great Warr [sic]

5¼" x 7½". 304pp, illustrations by John Kettlewell. Brown cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed, page edges browned, end-papers lightly foxed, otherwise Good.

15155

A Last Diary of the Great Warr [sic]

5¼" x 7½". 308pp, colour frontis, illustrations. Brown boards with cloth backstrip, spine rubbed and dull, covers marked and rubbed, otherwise Good.

17987

The Making of a Modern Army and its Operations in the Field : A Study Based on the Experience of Three Years on the French Front, 1914-1917

4¾” x 7½”. [xiv] + 163pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, publisher’s advertisements. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed

14384

The Devil's Disciples : The Lives and Times of Hitler's Inner Circle

6¼" x 9½". [viii] + 984pp, illustrations. Black cloth in d/j, As New. The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen successor. This deadly contest accounted for many of the regime's worst excesses, in which millions of people died, and which brought Western civilization to its knees. The Devil's Disciples is the first major book for a general readership to examine those lieutenants, not only as individuals but also as a group. It focuses on the three Nazi paladins closest to Hitler - Goring, Goebbels and Himmler - with their nearest rivals - Bormann, Speer and Ribbentrop in close attendance. Others who were removed in various ways - like Gregor Strasser, Ernst R-hm, Heydrich and Hess - play supporting roles. Perceptive and illuminating, The Devil's Disciples is above all a powerful chronological narrative, showing how the personalities of Hitler's inner circle developed and how their jealousies and constant intrigues affected the regime, the war, and Hitler himself. 

17692

The Adventures of Sidney Reilly : Britain's Master Spy : A Narrative Written by Himself, Edited and Completed by His Wife

5½” x 8¾”. [xv] + 288pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Original maroon cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, folding illustration carelessly folded and chipped along the edge, edge of text block grubby, otherwise Very Good.

11687

All Quiet on the Western Front

4¼" x 7". 191pp.  Paperback; blemish at base of spine where sticker has been removed, some yellowing to page edges, otherwise Very Good.

18083

Appointment in Crete : The Story of a British Agent

5” x 8”. 240pp. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Rugby School Library, otherwise Very Good.

17916

The First World War 1914 - 1918 [2 vols]

5¾" x 9". [xvii] + 621pp, [xiii] + 581pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers stained, cloth slightly bubbled near hinge, ex-Library otherwise Good 

16177

The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles a Court Repington, Military Correspondent of The Times 1903-1918

5½" x 8¾". [xvi] + 364pp, portrait frontis. Red cloth gilt in d/j with faded spine otherwise Near Fine

14471

The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance 1937 - 1941 : a study in competitive co-operation

6¼" x 9½". [xiii] + 397pp. Red boards no d/j, As New

11617

The First World War : Ephemera, Mementoes, Documents

8¼" x 10¼". Unpaginated, contains 31pp text and 245 illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a d/j with faded spine. The book appears to have been dropped in the bath: all text and illustrations are clear but the text block has rippled when dried. A reading copy only.

11291

The First World War : Ephemera, Mementoes, Documents

8¼" x 10¼". Unpaginated, contains 31pp text and 245 illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a d/j with one-inch repaired tear near the head of the spine, a few marks on end-papers, else Very Good/G-.

12601

The Return of the Dark Invader

5½" x 8¾". [xiii] + 266pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded and mottled, otherwise Very Good.

16927

The Diary of a French Private : War - Imprisonment 1914-1915

5¼" x 8". 315pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, corners bumped, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good. Riou fought with the French army against Germany around Lorraine, he was wounded at the Battle of Dieuze and captured, he spent the next 11 months as a Bavarian prisoner.

15193

Behind Bamboo : An Inside Story of Japanese Prison Camps

5½" x 8¾". [xiii] + 400pp, maps, illustrations. Yellow cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and soiled, title page missing, edges dusty, reading copy

16803

The Story of the "9th King's" in France

5½” x 8½”. 133pp. Original green cloth gilt. The front cover has, at some stage, been splashed with what appears to be white paint, leaving a large number of small stains. The rear cover is generally unaffected but is also slightly marked and with some variation in colour. The spine is dull and slightly stained. The spine ends and corners are heavily bumped. There is a gift inscription in ink on the front end-paper, dated August 1st, 1924.  There are no other internal markings and the text is clean throughout on tanned paper. The end-papers are lightly foxed, and there is some light scattered foxing in addition. The edge of the text block is dust-stained and foxed.

17507

From Private to Field-Marshal

5¾" x 8¾". [xix] + 396pp, portrait frontis, folding map, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, colour loss along edges, The edges are foxed, otherwise Very Good.

17624

Twelve Days

5½" x 8½". 172pp, 8 drawings by Stanley Cursiter. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with some loss of colour, otherwise Very Good.

16453

Glasgow Academy Roll of Honour : Former Members of the School Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918

6” x 10”. 163pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, previous owner's name inscribed, tanned pages otherwise Very Good.

18000

A Medico's Luck in the War : Being Reminiscences of R.A.M.C. Work with the 51st (Highland) Division

5½” x 8¾”. [xiv] + 264pp, frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded with significant colour loss, numeorus circular stains on front boards, ex-Library otherwise Very Good. Personal account of medical services work in the Western Front by officer commanding the 1/2nd Highland Field Ambulance and ADMS of 51st Highland Division.

17107

Battles & Bivouacs : A French Soldier's Note-Book

5" x 8". 256pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, front cover bowed out slightly, spine faded and dull, some loss of colour on edge of front boards otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.

14637

The Myth of Rescue : Why the Democracies could not have saved more Jews from the Nazis

6¼” x 9½”. [xiii] + 267pp, maps, tables. Black cloth blocked in silver in d/j, Fine

17394

Students Under Arms : Being the War Adventures of the Aberdeen University Company of the Gordon Highlanders

4¾” x 7½”. [xvi] + 220pp, sketch map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. An account of the only British University Infantry unit to serve in the B.E.F. in the Great War - U Company of the Gordon Highlanders. By September 1915, half had fallen on the battlefields of Flanders and the University Unit had ceased to be.

15723

Under the Red Crescent : Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum, 1877-1878

5¼” x 8¼”. [xix] + 435pp, portrait frontis, maps. Green cloth gilt, no d/j covers worn and soiled, bookplate removed from front pastedown, otherwise Very Good.

16858

Under the Red Crescent : Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum, 1877-1878

5¼” x 8¼”. [xix] + 435pp, portrait frontis, maps. Green cloth gilt, no d/j covers worn and soiled, Title-Page foxed, otherwise Very Good.

17679

A History of the 5th Batt. The Lincolnshire Regiment

5½” x 8¾” [viii] + 222pp, portrait frontis., 15 photographs. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull, spine faded and very dull, ex-Library with shelf number in white ink on spine, head and tail of spine bumped, Library bookplate on front pastedown and tipped in letter from Godfrey Lowe, who presented the book to the Library in June 1924, Library stamps scattered throughout, otherwise just about Very Good.

18104

The History of the 7th Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

4¾” x 7½”. 207pp, frontispiece and three plates. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head and tail of spine bumped, end-papers foxed, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good; a bright copy. Loos, Somme, Arras, 3rd Ypres &c. with 15th (Scottish) Div. Roll of awards, Officers' services.

14647

Shorty Bill [from "No Man's Land" and "The Human Touch"]

4½” x 7”. 319pp. Blind-stamped red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, page edges browned otherwise Very Good

18159

An Airman Remembers

5½" x 8¾". 320pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, head of spine snagged, corners bumped, edges foxed heavily, otherwise Very Good. German flier’s memoirs of the Eastern and Western Fronts. Schroder describes his war as an ordinary soldier in 1914, and as an infantry officer in 1915, then an airman in 1916-1917, and finally as an air intelligence officer during 1918.

16523

A Soldier's Diary

5½” x 8”. 194pp. Original cloth, no d/j, Very Good. There is a previous owner's name ("Aubrey St H. Aubrey") inscribed in ink on the front free end-paper, 21st December 1931.  The end-papers are very browned and discoloured.

16263

A Soldier's Diary

5½” x 8”. 194pp. Original cloth, no d/j, Very Good.

14529

Garbo : The Spy Who Saved D-Day

6¼" x 9½". 410pp, illustrations. Black cloth in d/j, As New. Note: the bulk of the book comprises actual files which are in typescript.

11705

For God's Sake Shoot Straight : The Story of the Court Martial and Execution of Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Leopold Arthur Dyett, Nelson Battalion, 63rd (RN) Division during the First World War

6¼" x 9½". 179pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in d/j, as new.

14995

Albert Speer : His Battle with Truth

6¼” x 9½”. [xvi] + 757pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in d/j, Fine

16508

German Propaganda in Military Decline 1943-1945

6" x 9¼". [x] + 341pp. Large format Softback, covers scuffed otherwise Very Good

17070

Historical Records of the 18th (Service) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers [1st Tyneside Pioneers]

6” x 9½”. [xv] + 211pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, re-backed, covers rubbed and dull, small snag on front leading edge, scattered foxing, edges lightly foxed, end-papers renewed, otherwise Very Good. This copy presented to Corporal H. E. Pearson.

16565

A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

5” x 7¾”. [xi] + 332pp + iv Postscript + Publisher’s catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, old "Day's Library" sticker on front cover, spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers browned, top corner of pages 277-300 creased otherwise Very Good. Rare in this Edition.

17945

The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign

5½” x 8¾”. [ix] + 306pp, portrait frontis, maps, illustrations, folding colour map. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed with marked variation in colour, spine faded, tanned pages otherwise Very Good. The East Africa Campaign and von Lettow-Vorbeck's successful guerilla actions which kept vastly numerically superior British forces occupied until after the Armistice in Europe

17813

Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service

6" x 9". [xii] + 522pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, maps. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine quite dull and with one small patch of frayed cloth (exposing card), head and tail of spine snagged (slight loss of cloth at head), previous owner's name inscribed, corners bumped, edges & end-papers foxed, otherwise Good.

11540

Leadership in Battle 1914-1918 : Commanders in Action

5½" x 8¾". 191pp. Black cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, a bump on outer edges of front and back boards also affecting d/j which is creased, otherwise Very Good/G

10889

Leadership in Battle 1914-1918 : Commanders in Action

5½" x 8¾". 191pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, Very Good

17250

Temporary Heroes

5” x 7¾”. 244pp, illustrations. Blind-stamped green cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, corners bumped, spine dull, tanned pages, otherwise Very Good. 

17867

The Road To Liege : The Path of Crime : August 1914

4½” x 7¼”. [xxii] + 296pp, folding map. Ex-Library rebound in blue cloth gilt, no d/j, shelf number blocked in gilt on spine, pocket, lending schedule and stamps on rear pastedown, a few stamps in blind in text, tanned and trimmed pages otherwise Good.

16513

World War One : The Global Revolution

6¾” x 10”. [xv] + 544pp, maps, illustrations. Original laminated printed boards, no d/j, Near Fine.

16496

A Surgeon in Belgium

5" x 7½". [xi] + 216pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with colour loss to front edge, previous owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.

17567

Liaison, 1914 : A Narrative of the Great Retreat

6" x 9½". [xxix] + 597pp, maps, portrait frontis, illustrations. Original cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, front free end-paper removed otherwise Very Good

11618

The First World War : A Photographic History

8¾" x 12¼". 307pp, profusely illustrated. Black cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, sporadic light spotting otherwise Very Good

16741

The War Memoirs of Earl Stanhope : General Staff Officer in France 1914-1918

6” x 9½”. [xvii] + 205pp, portrait frontis, maps. Review copy in card covers in a scuffed and rubbed d/j.

18023

The History of the 89th Brigade 1914-1918

4¾” x 7½”. 295pp. Original black leatherette blocked in gilt on the cover and spine. The covers are lightly rubbed and there are some minor indentations along the edges of the boards, but show little signs of wear otherwise and remain in good condition. The spine ends and corners are slightly bumped. This Limited Edition reprint does not include the illustrations which were present in the First Edition.

16469

My Diary in Serbia : April 1, 1915 - Nov. 1, 1915

4¾" x 7¼". 128pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth, no d/j, end-papers browned, ex-College Library, otherwise Very Good

17902

My Diary in Serbia : April 1, 1915 - Nov. 1, 1915

4¾" x 7¼". 128pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth, no d/j, end-papers browned, ex-College Library, otherwise Very Good

18154

With Kitchener to Khartum

5" x 7¾". [xvi] + 326pp, maps

17261

The Great War for Universal Peace

4¾” x 7½”. 400pp. Original cloth in worn condition, no d/j, significantly tanned pages, inner hinges cracked otherwise Good.

17326

A Prisoner in Turkey

5" x 7¾". 250pp, frontis, publisher's advertisements. Blind-stamped blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed, head and tail of spine and corners bumped, edges lightly foxed and dusty, inner hinges tender otherwise Very Good. One of the rarest titles in the "On Active Service Series".

17886

Safety Last

5½” x 8¾”. [viii] + 251pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers dull and rubbed, end-papers browned, Very Good. The Author served as Colonel Lawrence's staff officer in Arabia. In these memoirs he discusses his experiences in South Africa, Egypt, the Palestine Campaign in World War I, Palestine, Albania, Rumania, the Balkans (from 1940 to 1941), and Syria during World War II.

11971

The First World War : A New Illustrated History

7½" x 10". [xviii] + 350pp, illustrations. Black cloth in d/j, As New

11268

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War

7" x 9¾". 356pp, colour and b&w plates, maps. Blue boards gilt in d/j, as new.

14223

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War

7" x 9¾". 356pp, illustrations, maps. Blue boards gilt in d/j, As New

16432

Post D : Some Experiences of an Air Raid Warden

¼½¾” x ¼½¾”. Original blue cloth blocked in black in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very Good. This volume is ex-Library:  there is a bookplate on the front pastedown ("The John Crow Collection Library of the University of Kent at Canterbury") which is hidden by the dust-jacket flap and a "Withdrawn" stamp on the front free end-paper, plus a stamped number on the reverse of the Title-Page, but no other Library markings and the text is clean throughout. The War-time paper has tanned with age and The edge of the text block is dust-stained.

16311

The Diary of an English Resident in France During Twenty-two Weeks of War Time

5” x 7½”. 357pp, publisher’s advertisements. Red cloth blocked in black on the cover and gilt on the spine, no d/j, slight spine lean, covers rubbed, edges & end-papers foxed (Half Title and Title Pages heavily foxed), otherwise Very Good

15850

Two War Years in Constantinople : Sketches of German and Young Turkish Ethics and Politics

5" x 7½". 308pp. Grey cloth, no d/j, end-papers browned, edges & end-papers foxed, previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good

18173

Eyewitness : Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, including the Genesis of the Tank

6" x 9½". 321pp, frontis, maps. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, reading copy.

10283

The Origins of the Second World War

4¼" x 7". 357pp. Paperback, excellent, little sign of wear.

17819

Good-Bye to the Battlefields : To-day and Yesterday on the Western Front

6” x 9½”. 288pp, frontispiece, illustrations, rear end-paper map. Original blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped, edges foxed otherwise Very Good.

17289

A Life Well Lived : A Memoir of James Wood Colin Taylor : Lieutenant 3rd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, Born May 22 1887, Fell in Action at Hooge, Flanders, August 9th 1915

4¾” x 7½”. 158pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Dark green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped, otherwise Very Good.

16435

The Boy With the Guns

5” x 7½”. [xliv] + 197pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blind-stamped blue cloth blocked in black in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j missing half the spine panel, covers rubbed, spine faded, pages browned otherwise Very Good. Rare. Letters from Gallipoli, Serbia & France, arranged by his sister with a memoir by his grandfather. After Eton & Cambridge joined Royal Field Artillery in August 1914 & was killed in November 1917 with A/150 Army Brigade R.F.A. He was recommended for the M.C. but never received it & his grandfather lobbied in vain for the award after his death. George William Taylor was born in 1892, educated at Eton (“as far as his education was concerned his time at Eton was largely wasted. His talent was mathematical, his taste was for natural science, but he was forced through the usual dry classical study, which tended to dwarf rather than to develop his faculties… but he always acquitted himself with credit… He owed much, no doubt, to Eton in veneering and polish…”) and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was keen on rowing, beagling, fishing and, amongst other sports, otter-hunting. On one occasion he was “badly bitten in the wrist (and an otter’s bite is no joke)” – this particular otter had served out its own form of justice but was inevitably killed. Taylor was reading for the Bar when war came and on 15th August 1914 he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. He served at Gallipoli with the 67th Brigade R.F.A. then with the 10th (Irish) Division in Salonika for several months until invalided sick. Recuperating in London, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in July 1916. In April 1917 he was posted to France but was wounded on 5th June during artillery preparations for the Battle of Messines, returning again to England for hospital treatment. He sailed for France for the last time on 17th August 1917 and died of wounds (gas poisoning incurred on the night of 1st/2nd November) on 9th November whilst serving with “A” Battery, 150th Army Brigade R.F.A. He was twenty-five years old and is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery. Contains an account he wrote of his experiences in Serbia, his letters from France, extracts from letters from his Commanding Officer describing the manner of his passing and (in the introduction-cum-memoir by his grandfather) other extracts relating his good conduct at Messines etc. for which he had been recommended for the Military Cross (which he never received and for which his grandfather lobbied in vain after his death). An extract from his grandfather’s Introduction is quoted in the introduction to this bibliography.

17901

The Boy With the Guns

5” x 7½”. [xliv] + 197pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blind-stamped blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, tanned pages otherwise Very Good.

15966

The Diary of a Yeomanry M. O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy

5½" x 9". 284pp, frontis, illustrations, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and very rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed, shaken; a complete copy in a worn binding. The author, a Territorial medical officer in the RAMC, was attached to the Worcestershire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars) in 1914. The regiment was part of the 1st South Midland Brigade, 1st Mounted Division, but within a month of the outbreak of war a 2nd Mounted Division was formed and the 1st S Midland Brigade joined it. In April 1915 the division went to Egypt and in May the brigades were numbered as Mounted Brigades with 1st S Midland becoming 1st Mounted Brigade. In August 1915 the division was ordered to proceed, dismounted, to Gallipoli and Teichman went with his regiment and into action. The division suffered heavy losses at Scimitar Hill (21 Aug) and this attack is described in some detail. A week later, on Chocolate Hill, Suvla, he was wounded by shrapnel and evacuated home. In one entry he describes how a large packet of maps (in very short supply) delivered to brigade HQ turned out to be maps of Cromer, Sheringham and King's Lynn districts where they had been stationed in 1914. He rejoined his regiment at Mudros in early November from where they returned to Egypt to the Canal zone, but at christmas Teichman went down with enteric fever and was again evacuated to the UK. By May he was back at duty (his brigade had been renumbered 5th) and during operations in the Sinai Desert was again wounded, at the battle of Qatia (5 Aug 1916) which kept him out of action till the end of October. The diarist takes us through the rest of the Sinai campaign and, in March 1917, into Palestine, first with Murray (battles of Gaza) and then, from June 1917, with Allenby, fighting as part of the Australian Mounted Division. At Huj, on 8 November, he rode close behind his regiment as it took part in a charge against some 2,000 Turkish infantry who were protecting guns manned by Austrians and Germans; the infantry retreated and the guns were taken. The marvellous descriptions of living and fighting in the desert include an incident involving a ten foot black mamba and attempts to kill it using chloroform (corps HQ had asked for dead but undamaged snakes for antidotes to snakebites). He left the Middle East in June 1918 for leave in the UK after which he was posted to Italy where he joined 22nd Brigade (7th Division) in October for the last month of the war. Teichman ended the war with a DSO, MC, Croix de Guerre, Croci di Guerra and three mentions in despatches.

12161

The Smoke and the Fire : Myths and Anti-Myths of War 1861-1945

6¼” x 9½”. 240pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a scuffed and chipped d/j with a sealed tear at the base of the spine, old label removed from inside dust-jacket flap and front pastedown, crayon mark on rear pastedown otherwise Very Good

10251

Royal United Services Institute & Brassey's Defence Yearbook 1983

5¾" x 9¼". 399pp. Softback, fine/as new. Including Weapons Development and a comprehensive strategic review for the year.

12082

SS 1 : The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler

6¼" x 9½". [xii] + 276pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New