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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A clean, crisp, uncracked softcover in near fine condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Later Edition. 336pp. inc. index.clean with tight binding, no marks or tears, Illustrated with photographs in color & b/w. non - fiction account of the colonial warfare between the British and the Zulu Nation. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (Protective cover). First Edition Thus. Cover is in excellent condition. DJ is unclipped and in very good condition, save for minimal edge wear. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Hardcover with dustjacket, some mild rubbing to the jacket is the only flaw to this fine gift copy, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "another fine addition to the outstanding Napoleonic Library ; ; 198 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are bumped at spine tips and corners. Some light scratches on dust jacket surfaces. Short black mark and scratch on front fly leaf. 208 pages with index plus 32 illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (Protective cover). Cover is in excellent condition. DJ is unclipped and in very good condition. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Covers have minor wear and creasing. Corners lightly bumped. Binding tight. No writing. xviii + 366 pages including 5 appendixes. After the British and Indian forces withdrew from Burma, Colonel E. C. V. Foucar compiles a report based on eyewitness accounts of the First Burma Campaign during World War II. Black and white illustrations. Size: 6.25 x 9.25.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 170 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Fine dust jacket.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; (352 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, (some color), photographs. Subjects; Soldiers Great Briatin ; Biography. Peninsular War, 1807-1814 Campaigns ; Personal narratives, British.Crowe, Charles 1785-1855. Great Britain. Army. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Battalion, 1st History. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (Statement Of First Published). Includes Index. The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Jacket Has Light Rubbing, Else Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Very neat -- nearly as new. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. New condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; Author's Note; Chronology; Epilogue: School of Hard Knocks: Defeat in the Colonies 1879-1900; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary and Index. Illustrated with two sections of both black-and-white and color photographic plates and black-and-white frontispiece drawing. "In this compelling and original history Lt. Colonel Mike Snook sheds intriguing new light on military disaster during the high Victorian period. With the empire at its zenith this was an era that witnessed some of the British Army's greatest colonial successes. It was also a period of troubled transition as the army struggled to adapt to the changing nature and needs of modern warfare. Focusing on some of the most dramatic and celebrated campaigns of the age - from Isandlwana, Maiwand and Majuba Hill to Khartoum, Colenso, Spion Kop and Magersfontein - the author combines engaging battle narratives with a scrupulous examination of primary source material to bring these encounters to life and expose the true and sometimes embarrassing causes of defeat." - from the rear outer jacket. "The experience of colonial warfare brought vividly to life. New insights into the characters of some of Victoria's most notable military commanders. Tabulated orders of battle for all combatants. Between the Crimean War and the dawn of the 20th century, the British Army was alsmost continuously engaged, in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the 'savage wars of peace.' From Cairo to Cape Town, hard-pressed handfuls of British soldiers flogged across often impossible terrain, and overcame a raft of logistic difficulties, to bring a succession of resourceful enemies to battle. When at length the protagonists met at close quarters, there were often startling, unexpected and violent outcomes. In his new worl Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook deploys his professional expertise as a soldier, in concert with his life-long study of British military history, to bring the most dramatic clashes of the age of empire back to life. The names of these great battles - Isandlwana, Maiwand, Majuba Hill, Khartoum, Colenso, Spion Kop and Magersfontein still resonate down through the ages. In a wide-ranging and meticulously researched military history, the author focuses closely on defeat and disaster - the occasions when things went badly awry for the British. Overstretch, political meddling, military incompetence and petty jealousy all played their part. Above all else, however, these are dramatic and perceptive accounts of mere mortal men struggling to deal with the often overpowering dynamics and horrors of 19th -century warfare on the fringes of Empire." - from the inner front jacket flap.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; (352 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, (some color), photographs. Subjects; Soldiers Great Briatin ; Biography. Peninsular War, 1807-1814 Campaigns ; Personal narratives, British.Crowe, Charles 1785-1855. Great Britain. Army. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Battalion, 1st History. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Black covers in a red & pictorial dust jacket. 4to, 288 pages. Page notations written on the (blank) last free end paper.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.K. Edition. xiii, 237pp w appendices, notes, bibliography and index. Black cloth w fine gilt lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo: 24 x 16.5cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park: A Memoir of Hut Six and the Enigma Machine, Asa Briggs. Published by Frontline Books, England, 2011. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 202 pp. with 26 coloured and black and white plates, bibliographical references and index. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Contents are in fine, unread condition with a bit of dusting to outside edge. Unclipped dustjacket has a tiny split in spine and otherwise is fine. Secret Days is a meticulously researched account of life in Hut Six, written by a codebreaker who worked there for five years alongside Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. In addition to discussing the progress of the Allies codebreaking efforts and their impact on the war, Lord Briggs considers what the Germans knew about Bletchley and how they reacted to revelatory memoirs about the Enigma machine, which were not published until the 1970s. Asa Briggs (1921-2016) - "the most prolific historian of his generation and, by common assent, the man who put nineteenth-century British history ? on the academic map".

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover First Edition Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park: A Memoir of Hut Six and the Enigma Machine1848326157 The Bletchley Park memoir of Lord ASA Briggs will be one of the most important documents to be published in 2010. Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. He has never, however, written about his time at Bletchley Park.The publication, which will coincide with Lord Briggs 90th birthday, is a meticulously researched account of life in Hut Six, written by a codebreaker who worked there for five years alongside Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. In addition to discussing the progress of the Allies'code-breaking efforts and their impact on the war, Lord Briggs considers what the Germans knew about Bletchley and how they reacted to revelatory memoirs about the Enigma machine which were not published until the 1970s. Briggs himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War By Pen & Sword When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman s role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going to get his hands dirty and take direct personal control of the day to day running of military policy. This, though, meant that he alone would be responsible for the success or failure of Britain s war effort. It also meant that he would be faced with many monumental challenges and utterly crucial decisions upon which the fate of Britain and the free world rested. One of his first agonizing decisions was how to respond to the collapse of France, and the danger posed to Britain s survival should the powerful French fleet fall into German hands. When he ordered Admiral Sommerville to sink the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir, he knew that France might be turned against Britain, but that act demonstrated to the world that he was determined to wage war whatever the cost may be . With the limited resources available to the UK, Churchill had to decided where his country s priorities lay. Should he concentrate on the defense of the realm or take the war to the enemy and where should any offensive action be focused? Did Egypt and the war in North Africa take precedence over Singapore and the UK s empire in the East? How much support should be offered to the Soviet Union? How much of the direction of the war could he allow to be dictated by the United States? In this insightful investigation into Churchill s conduct during the Second World War, Allen Packwood, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, enables the reader to share the agonies and uncertainties faced by Churchill at each crucial stage of the war. How Churchill responded to each challenge is analyzed in great detail and the conclusions the author draws are as uncompromising as those made by Britain s wartime leader as he negotiated his country through its darkest days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good/ Near Fine.

Hardcover, Illus. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First British Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ NEW. NO markings of ANY kind. DJ not clipped (£25) ; 356 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Hardcover. Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty. This is an unrivalled account of ne man's service in the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler, a part of the Waffen-SS, principally on the Eastern Front. The author, an 18-year-old Belgian, was blackmailed into volnteering for the Waffen-SS in 1941 to save his mother from a concentration camp. After endurung a harsh training period with the division (considered by sime t be a worse experience than actual combat), Maeger was selected to serve as a front0lune druiver in Russia. As the war in Eruope drew to a close, Maeger was captured b Soviet troops near the Elbe on 1 May 1945. He subsequently volunteered to serve in a Soviet prusin camp infirmary. This gained him the admiration of a Russian female doctor and with her help he gained his early release the same year. Maeger's memoir provuides a vivid and personal story of survivial both in battle and later in captivity, and is a revealing insight into the mind-set of the Waffen-SS. Illustrated. 258 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Soft. Condition: Like New. PB Englilsh Edition. 91 pages. Illustrated. Rare photographs from wartime collections. Size: 7.50 x 9.75. German Aircraft of WWII.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Very neat -- very nearly as new. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Frontline Books of London in 2010. Hardcover. 1st edition. Book condition: Very Good. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good. Price Unclipped. See photograph. Dims: 240mm x 160mm x 27mm. 256 pages. The first Britons to reach Zululand were a handful of shipwrecked traders. They found themselves completely at the mercy of a nation whose name would become a byword for ferocity and courage. The castaways were fearful of their lives but, to their surprise, were well treated and prospered. At the time, the Indian Ocean shoreline of the Zulu kingdom extended for almost 400 miles, whilst its inland frontiers reached as far as the Drakensberg mountains. Fifty years later the kingdom had diminished by half, followed by a threat that it would shortly cease to exist. And so it was, in December 1878, as Cetshwayo ka Mpande, the Zulu king, contemplated the British ultimatum with which he knew it would be impossible to comply, he pondered on the past and with bitterness 'first came the traders, then came the missionaries and then came the red soldiers'. But British traders, missionaries and her red soldier army had been invidiously advancing into Zululand for decades, their every encounter and demand bringing the red soldiers closer to the Zulu army of 40,000 disciplined warriors - 'the bravest of a brave nation'. Zulu Conquered, with more than 90 vivid illustrations, describes the adventure, treachery and rampage that ensued between Zulu, Boer and Briton during the sixty years separating the arrival of the first white man to the destruction of the Zulu army, the death of King Cetshwayo and, finally, the devastation of Zululand.