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$15.00
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The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery


KENNEDY, PAUL M.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: MacMillan 1985

KEYWORDS: british naval history navy seafaring warfare

$22.50
xx125pol205447

The Blue Berets: The Story of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces


HARBOTTLE, MICHAEL

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1971

KEYWORDS: blue berets military history peacekeeping united nations

$15.00
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Fascinatng Footnotes from History


MILTON, GILES

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: John Murray 2015

KEYWORDS: history interest humour anecdotes

$22.50
xx125pol205452

Jack Tar: the Story of the British Sailor


LAFFEN, JOHN

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1969

KEYWORDS: british sailors john laffen history literature

$15.00
xx125pol205454

A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier of the Highland Light Infantry 1806-1815


HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1976

KEYWORDS: history peninsular war highland light infantry

$17.50
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The Devil's Wind: The Story of the Naval Brigade at Lucknow, from the letters of Edmund Hope Verney and Other Papers concerning the Enterprise of the Ship's Company of the H.M.S. Shannon in the Campaign in India


VERNEY, MAJOR-GENERAL G L

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1956

KEYWORDS: naval history indian campaign edmund home verney hms shannon

$19.50
xx125pol205456

Jackboot: The Story of The German Soldier


LAFFIN, JOHN

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1966

KEYWORDS: history fictionalised memoir german military john laffin

$18.50
xx125pol205457

Warrior to Soldier 449-1660: A brief introduction to the history of English warfare


NORMAN, AVB & POTTINGER, DON

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicholson (Educational) 1966

KEYWORDS: britain british military history

$25.00
xx125pol205458

The Path of Glory: Being the Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, written by Himself


SHIPP, JOHN & STRANKS, CJ (edit)

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1969

KEYWORDS: history memoir english india john shipp

$15.00
xx125pol205459

Clubs to Cannon: Warfare and weapons before the introduction of Gunpowder


HOGG, Brigadier O F G

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co 1968

KEYWORDS: history military warfare weapons

$22.50
xx125pol205461

The Roman Conquest of Britain AD 43-57


WEBSTER, GRAHAM & DUDLEY, DONALD R

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: B T Batsford 1966

KEYWORDS: roman conquest britain brittania rome empire history

$35.00
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Wings of Destiny


MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY

Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: MacMillan & Co 1943

KEYWORDS: military history memoir biography air forces

$22.50
xx116pol205475

The Brave White Flag: A Novel About the Fall of Hong Kong


FORD, JAMES ALLEN

Octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1961

KEYWORDS: war history memoir biography hong kong seige

$19.50
xx116pol205492

A Book of the 'Bounty'


BLIGH, WILLIAM & OTHERS

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: JM Dent & Sons1938

KEYWORDS: hms bounty mutiny history navl britain

$22.50
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I Defy! The Story of Dennis Lankford MB, RNVR


LANKFORD, DENNIS & NOYES THOMAS, A

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1954

KEYWORDS: history korean war memoir dennis lankford

$14.00
xx123pol205554

The Flanders Road


SIMON, CLAUDE; HOWARD, RICHARD (transl); FLETCHER, JOHN (introd)

8vo softcover (VG), tp price clipped; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: John Calder 1986

KEYWORDS: Claude Simon France history Second World War 2 WW2 WW II WWII German occupation

$18.50
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The colonizer and the colonized


MEMMI, ALBERT; SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL (introd)

8vo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1967

KEYWORDS: Albert Memmi Jean Paul Sartre colonization master servant social history criticism

$9.50
xx123pol205566

To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History


WILSON, EDMUND

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987

KEYWORDS: Edmund Wilson history criticism 20th century

$9.00
xx123pol205567

Testaments Betrayed


KUNDERA, MILAN; ASHER, LINDA (transl)

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1996

KEYWORDS: Milan Kundera essays literature 20th century history

$1850.00
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Vincent van Gogh: The Sketchbooks: A Facsimile of the Artist's Sketchbooks in the Collection of the Van Gogh Museum


VELLEKOOP, MARIJE (Commentary) & SUIJVER, RENSKE (Commentary) & McKAY, DAVID (Trans)

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#60/1000), oblong quarto, this is a beautiful set of facsimile sketch collections of Vincent van Gogh formatted in 4x notebooks and an envelope with an accompanying commentary booklet in its own little pocket, all presented in a beautiful brown buckram clamshell case. The slipcase has gilt lettering to its spine & black lettering to a cream coloured title plate to its front with only some very minor bruising to the lower corner of it's rear/base, the title plate has some sl scuffing to its top edge but still very clean & tidy. There is also an A4 sized envelope which contains more facsimile sketches which has been tidily opened at its fore-edge, the contents of this lovely set are all immaculately presented with no visible signs of wear or tear

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society / Van Gogh Museum 2013

KEYWORDS: special limited numbered editions folio society art history appreciation Vincent van Gogh sketches collections facsimiles sketchbooks

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