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ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS

By: Burkinshaw, Philip L.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Davis Brothers: 1991

Seller ID: 66486

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Paperback; these are disbound copies, lacking boards but with tape binding, sold as a good clean reference copy only. Text is complete, but lacks some illustrations. A reference copy only. ; The author's reminiscences; wartime anecdotes; the author served with 12 Yorkshire Battalion, the 6th Airborne Division on D-Day, and Operation Varsity, but this account mostly deals with his post-war service and time in Africa and the West Indies. Illustrated. ; 240 pages
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THE FACE OF VICTORY

By: Cheshire, Leonard.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Quality Book Club: 1961

Seller ID: 65154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; foxing to pages, otherwise good in marked, creased, torn and part-missing dustjacket. ; Leonard Cheshire's own account of his post-war life and work, and the setting up of the Cheshire Homes. ; 179 pages
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SHAN HACKETT : THE PURSUIT OF EXACTITUDE

By: Fullick, Roy.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pen & Sword: 2003

Seller ID: 66521

ISBN: 0850529751

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

New hardback copies at a reduced price. ; Biography of General Sir John Hackett. Pre-war, wartime and post-war service. Hackett raised the 4th Parachute Brigade which he commanded at Arnhem. Illustrated. ; 231 pages
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FAREWELL RAJ : WITNESS TO END OF EMPIRE

By: Hearne, Tony.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Tommies Guides: 2009

Seller ID: 65559

ISBN: 0955569869

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Paperback; very good in lightly scratched card covers. ; The author's experiences during the last days of British rule in India, and the tragedy he witnessed as Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs attempted to get across the newly created borders of India and Pakistan. Illustrated. ; 160 pages
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INTELLIGENCE CHIEF EXTRAORDINARY : THE LIFE OF THE NINTH DUKE OF PORTLAND

By: Howarth, Patrick.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Bodley Head: 1986

Seller ID: 65067

ISBN: 0370305728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; pages foxed and hevily yellowed (low quality paper) otherwise good in yellowed and creased dustjacket. ; William Cavendish-Bentinck, ninth Duke of Portland, Chairman of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee from 1939 to 1945. Illustrated. ; 256 pages
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MANNERHEIM : MARSHAL OF FINLAND

By: Jagerskiold, Stig.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: C. Hurst & Company, London: 1986

Seller ID: 67160

ISBN: 1850650098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Hardback; very good in faded and yellowed dustjacket. ; Biography of the Finnish soldier and statesman. Military service in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; The First World War; The War of Independence, 1918; The Winter War, 1939-40; and the Continuation War, 1941-44. Illustrations & maps. ; 210 pages
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CHURCHILL'S NAVIGATOR : AIR COMMODORE JOHN MITCHELL LVO, DFC, AFC

By: Mitchell, J. & Feast, S.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Grub Street: 2010

Seller ID: 64325

ISBN: 1906502749

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in scuffed dustjacket. ; The experieces of John Mitchell, who for two years served as navigator on Winston Churchill's personal aircraft during the Second World War. Illustrated. ; 216 pages
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OVER MY SHOULDER : THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ERNEST D. SWINTON

By: Swinton, Ernest D.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: George Ronald, Oxford: 1951

Seller ID: 65560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Hardback; light foxing to edge of pages otherwise good in discoloured and chipped dustjacket. ; Autobiography of the originator of the Tank, and author of Duffer's Drift (under the pseudonym of Ole Luk-Oie). His life from childhood in India, his experience of the Boer War, as a diplomat during the First World War, and as an Oxford don. Illustrated. ; 282 pages
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THE DILLINGER DAYS

By: Toland, John.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1995

Seller ID: 65500

ISBN: 0306806266

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

New paperback copies. Reprint. ; John Dillinger - his brief but significant career; and the outlaw era of Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker, and Machine Gun Kelly. Illustrated. First published 1963.; 372 pages
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BLOWING OUR BRIDGES

By: Younger, A. E. Major-General.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pen & Sword: 2004

Seller ID: 66631

ISBN: 1844150518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; Major-General Tony Younger. The memories of a young engineering officer in the british army. He served at Dunkirk, on D-Day, and in Korea. The majority of the book focuses on his experiences in Korea. Illustrated. ; 227 pages
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