Midway by Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya
“The Battle that doomed Japan in five fateful Minutes” Arrow Paperback vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.
£6.50
The Sea Shall Not Have Them John Harris
Arrow 1st f 1957 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.
£6.00
Gallipoli – Alan Moorhead
A Giant Arrow 1959 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.
£5.00
Beyond the Chindwin – Bernard Fergusson
Corgi – Near Fine .An account of Number Five Column of the Wingate Expedition into Burma, 1943. Over fifty years after its first publication, this account of a remarkable expedition still stands as a classic. For those who took part, the Wingate Expedition was a watershed in their lives. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.
£5.00
Reading this book – I would recommend it to anyone – had us spending a couple of days on our holiday looking for somewhere that sold Cretan Snails (you have to read the book to find out why).
Ill Met by Moonlight by W Stanley Moss
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943 W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both serving with Special Forces in the Middle East, decided on a plan to kidnap General Kreipe, Commander of the Sevastopol Division in Crete, and bring him back to Allied occupied Cairo. This is the story of their adventures, working with a fearsome band of partisans, as they daringly capture the General in an ambush and struggle to evade pursuing German troops in the mountainous Cretan landscape to reach their rendezvous for evacuation to safety. A fine 1st edition book in a vg unclipped dj printed by Harrap in 1950 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£15.00
The Navy Strikes – B Webster Smith
Published by Blackie & Sons in 1942 1st edn., 224pp, frontis and 7 half tone plates, reference to RN actions at Narvik, convoys, ‘Rawalpindi’, Coastal Forces, ‘Graf Spee’, ‘Altmark’, Dunkirk, Oran, etc. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£7.50
Wing Commander Paul Richey DFC – Fighter Pilot
1955 Arrow Paperback vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£5.00
Tail Gunner – Squadron Leader R C Rivaz DFC
An illustrated Arrow Edition Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£5.00
A Torch to the Enemy by Martin Caidin
The Shattering Story of US Air Power and the Fire Raids that Destroyed Japan – With 16 pages of photographs – A Ballantine War Book 1966 vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£5.00
Illustrious by Kenneth Poolman
“The War at sea and the story of one of the greatest ships.” NEL paperback edition. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£4.00
Halifax Crew – The Story of a Wartime Bomber Crew – Arthur C Smith
Stapled card covers, A4, 60pp, b&w photos. ; a very good copy. The story of a Halifax bomber crew, who flew a tour of operations over Western Europe from RAF Melbourne, Yorkshire, with 10 Squadron during the latter part of 1944. The narrative is related from the air bomber’s viewpoint and is based on his diaries kept through 1943, 1944 and 1945. Carlton Publications, UK, 1983. Through post to any UK address £9.00
£9.00
Gallipoli Memories – Compton Mackenzie
“An eyewitness account of the tragic blunder redeemed only by the heroism of the troops involved” 1965 Panther Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
£6.50
GENERAL MARK CLARK
GOERING
GENERAL SIR FREDERICK PILE
BRIGADIER GEORGE CLIFTON
PETER RAINIER
HEINZ WERNER SCHMIDT
GENERAL MARK CLARK One of the great World War II memoirs by a legendary American general in charge of operations in North Africa and Italy. General Mark W. Clark recounts his wartime exploits and tells the story of the battles in Tunisia and Italy with verve and attention to key detail. An unparalleled account by a great military leader. Mark Wayne Clark (May 1, 1896 – April 17, 1984) was a United States Army officer who saw service during World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. He was the youngest lieutenant general (three-star general) in the United States Army during World War II. During World War I, he was a company commander and served in France in 1918, as a 22-year old captain, where he was seriously wounded by shrapnel. After the war, the future U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General George Marshall, noticed Clark’s abilities. During World War II, he commanded the United States Fifth Army, and later the 15th Army Group, in the Italian campaign. He is known for leading the Fifth Army in its capture of Rome in June 1944. Clark has been heavily criticized for ignoring the orders of his superior officer, British General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, and allowing the German 10th Army to slip away, in his drive to take Rome, the capital of Italy, a strategically unimportant city. The German 10th Army then joined with the rest of the German army group at the Trasimene Line. In March 1945, Clark, at the age of 48, became the youngest American officer ever to be promoted to the full rank of four star general. General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, a close friend of Clark’s, considered him a brilliant staff officer and trainer of men. Clark was awarded many medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. Army’s second highest award. A legacy of the “Clark task force” that he led in 1953-1955, which reviewed and made recommendations on all federal intelligence activities, is the coined term Intelligence Community.
Stock
| Auther | Title | Publisher | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pile Frederick | Ack-Ack | Panther | £10.00 |
| Clark Mark | Calculated Risk | Panther | £10.00 |
| Butler & Young | Marshal Without Glory | Panther | £5.00 |
| Rainier Peter | Pipeline to Battle | Panther | £5.00 |
| Cliford George | The Happy Hunted | Panther | £10.00 |
| Schmidt Heinz Werner | With Rommel in the Desert | Panther | £3.50 |
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