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Published 1991 ; first edition : Hardback book

Size 240mm x 160mm : 239 pages with 32 pages of black and white photographs

The book is in excellent condition with a very good dust jacket  (not price clipped)

Price £10.00

Diamond Flight

Published 1988 : First edition

Size 250mm x 190mm 116 pages with numerous

colour and black & white photographs

The book is a hardback,  in excellent condition,

with an excellent dust jacket (not price clipped) in a protective

sleeve

The text on the left is a scan of the inside cover – given

that the book was published in 1988, the last sentence

is optimistic – British Midland no longer exists,

having been taken over by the rival Lufthansa in 2009

(although retaining the BMI branding ) and then sold

to British Airways in 2012 when it was absorbed into

the BA fleet

Price £10

Published 1971 Military Book Society :

235mm x 160mm :  276 pages + 16 pages of photographs

The book is a hardback in very good condition,  with a very good dust jacket in a protective sleeve

Price  £9.00

Bomber Boys

Published 2007 : Harper Press : First Edition

Author : Patrick Bishop

Hardback, 240mm x 160mm : 429 pages plus 16 pages

of photographs and endpaper maps

The book is in excellent condition.  The dust jacket has a slight crease on the spine, but it otherwise in very good condition

Price £9.00

The Last Torpedo Flyers

Published  2013 : Simon & Schuster : First Edition

Author Aurthur Aldridge with Mark Ryan

Hardback 222mm x 143mm : 336 pages plus 8 pages of photographs

The book is in excellent condition with an equally good dust jacket

Price £8.50

Crash Pilot

Published 1956 : 210mm x 145mm 276 pages

The book is in excellent condition with a very good dust jacket in a protective sleeve.

A rare and unusual book

 Price  £8.50

The First to Fly : 

 First edition, published 1970

Size 220mm x 145mm : 316 pages with numerous photographs.

The book is a hardback, in excellent condition, with an excellent dust jacket (not price clipped) in a protective sleeve

Price  £9.00

The Outlaw Ocean

First edition, published 2019

Size 240mm x 160mm : 542 pages with numberous black and white photographs + 8 page of colour photos

The book is a hardback,  in very good condition. The dust jacket (not price clipped)  is also in very good condition, with a little shelf rubbing on the top and bottom edges

Price £12.00

Scottish Loch & Canal Steamers

Published 2004 :  First Edition  : Paperback

Size 235mm x 165mm :  160 Pages with numerous photographs, maps, and illustrations

The book is in very good condition  :   Price  £6.00

When I Heard the Bell  - The loss of the Iolaire

Published 2009 : 292 pages, including charts of the passage from Scottish Mainland and the approaches to Stornoway

The book is a hardback, in excellent condition and with and excellent dust jacket

Price  £10

Beware Raiders

First Edition, published 2001

240mm x 160mm :  216 pages + 4 pages of black and white photographs

The book is a hardback,  in very good condition and with a dust jacket (not price clipped ) also in very good condition

Price £8.00

Donitz and the Wolf Packs

Published 1999

240mm x 160mm :  240 pages + 4 pages of black & white photos

The book is a hardback, in very good condition, with some slight tanning to the page edges

The dust jacket is also in very good condition and is not price clipped

Price  £8.00

DEAD RECKONING

Published 2005 : First Edition

The book is a hardback, in excellent condition with an equally good dust jacket (not price clipped)

Size 240mm x 165mm

252 Pages + 16 pages of photographs and endcover maps

Price £9.00

“Billy Ruffian”  - The Bellerophon – the biography of a ship of the line 1782 – 1936

Published 2004 :  Paperback : 198mm x 130mm    355 pages plus 8 pages of photographs

The book is in very good condition :  Price £5.50

Frozen in Time – the fate of the Franklin expedition

Published 1987 :  Hardback :  240mm x 165mm : 180 pages plus 12 pages of colour photographs.

The book is in excellent condition with a very good (price clipped) dust jacket

Price  £9.00

The Lutine Treasure

Published 1970

Hardback,  220mm x 150mm

168 pages + 16 pages of photographs

The book is an ex library copy,  but in good condition with a good dust jacket in a protective sleeve

Price £8.50

The World Encompassed

Published 1977 : First Edition

Hardback 240mm x 160mm

240 pages,  with numerous maps, drawings and illustrations

The book is an ex-library copy, with the usual library rubber stamps on the flyleaf pages. Apart from that, it is in good condition, with a good dust jacket in a protective sleeve

Price  £6.50

The Bounty

Published 2003

Hardback  240mm x 160mm

490 pages + 20 pages of photographs

The book is an ex-library copy, with library rubber stamps on the flyleaf pages.  Apart from that it is in very good condition, with a very good dust jacket in a protective sleeve

Price £10.00

(this is a heavy book,  please remember the price includes postage to any UK address)

SBS in World War Two

Published 1983 : First Edition

Hardback : 225mm x 140mm

242 pages + 12 pages of photographs

The book is an ex-library copy, with the usual library rubber stamp marking on the flyleaf pages.  Apart from that, the book is in good condition with a good dust jacket in a protective sleeve

Price  £7.50

SOE  (Special Operations Executive) in the Far East

Published 1983 : First Edition

Hardback  225mm x 145mm

285 pages plus 16 pages of photographs

This is an ex library book, with the usual rubber stamp markings on the flyleaf pages, but is otherwise in good condition with a good dustjacket in a protective sleeve

This is a rare book with a premium price in the secondhand book trade

My price, including delivery to any UK address is £12.00

Salerno was the first large scale opposed landing on the continent of Europe in World War 2.

This book shows how the operation nearly foundered on the beaches. It reveals General Mark Clark in his first active command as a man who had much to learn, and also shows the calibre and competence of Eisenhower as Supreme Commander.

The battle of Salerno was in doubt for more than nine days, with the possibility that the German army under Kesselring would push the Allies back into the sea. It was only when more air and sea support was given that the armies could establish the beachhead and push on to Naples.

A little known part of the operation was a large scale mutiny by British troops who arrived on the beaches and then refused to go into action.  This was a complicated story involving regimental loyalties and misunderstood promises.

This is a detailed and well researched history, and the lessons learned from Salerno were applied to later invasions

The book is a hardback, ex library copy, with the usual library rubber stamps on the flyleaf pages. Otherwise it is in very good condition with a very good dust jacket in a protective sleeve.  Size 240mm x 160mm, 256 pages plus 8 pages of photographs and endpaper maps

Price :  £7.50

MI 9 -  Escape and Evasion :  Published 1979.   The book is a hardback,  in excellent condition, with a very good dust jacket

Size 220mm x 140mm  364 pages with maps and illustrations

Price £9.00

Farewell Campo 12

First Edition, published 1945

The book is in very good condition with a good dust jacket which has a little wear to the top and bottom of the spine. The dust jacket is not price clipped, and shows its original price of 10 shillings and 6 pence

Size 210mm x 140mm

184 pages with 1 photograph and endpaper map

A remarkable book.  As the dust jacket to the left shows, the author was a high ranking officer who was held in what (by the standard of WW2  prisoner of war camps) was a comfortable captivity.   Despite this, he planned and managed an escape, only to return to active service and be killed in Normandy in 1944.

The book was written during the period he was in England before returning to active service, and was published , in 1945, after his death

Price £7.50

You’ll die in Singapore

Hardback ; First Edition : Published 1954

Size 225mm x 150mm

189 pages  with 1 photograph and a fold out endpaper map

The book is in good, sound condition.  The page edges show signs of foxing (brown mottled spots) due to age

The dust jacket is in overall good condition, but has some shelf wear at the top and bottom

Overall, a good sound copy

Price  £8.00

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