Trevor Royle John Peel (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Some fading. Cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's stamp on ffep. Photographs / plates.305 pages clean and tight. Memories of National Service experiences unite some two million individuals who, between 1945 and 1963, were forced to abandon their civilian existences and spend up to two years serving as soldiers, sailors and airmen in the colours of their monarch. Too young to vote, but old enough to kill and be killed, these legions of fresh-faced eighteen-year-olds were conscripted in the wake of the Second World War to oversee the dismantling of an empire and to garrison West Germany in the lowered temperatures of the Cold War. They served at home and some of them served abroad in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Many saw action, in Korea and Malaya, but whatever their experiences they all remember vividly the bull and the drill, the gaiters and the webbing, the rasp of harsh leather on their ankles at the end of the day's route march. Trevor Royle records the experiences in common to this unique cross-section of British society, evoking the good times and the bad. He has interviewed scores of ex-National Servicemen from all over the country and welded their impressions, their emotions and their anecdotes into a fascinating social history that will be of interest to all but especially the generation who were supposed to be having the best years of their lives. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 272pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (74/4).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 272pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (52/5).…

Condition: Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original coral cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, coral lining papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (xvi), 272 pp with archive monochrome photographs on coated art paper. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, attached inside the front board in a plastic wallet, being an Audio CD of evocative first-hand accounts. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…