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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Illus. , map, jacket now in a clear protector; 226 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good/very good, used, vi-xiii, 208pp. Interior clean, no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight rubbing to dj, no chips or tears, dj is not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Illus. , several in color, map, jacket now in a clear protector; 196 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Volume itself has black cloth covers with sharp gilt lettering on the spine. 196 pages, with an index of persons and an index of Military and Naval Units. Book is clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. The work contains despatches from all the key battles, sieges and amphibious operations of the period and the actual words of the commanding officers from more than two centuries ago. A quite nice copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 2 corresponding small bumps to covers about halfway down fore-edge. ; Illus. , jacket now in a clear protector; 174 pages.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 182 pages. Despatches from the front. Commanding Officers' reports from the Field and at Sea. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. xviii, 182pp, index, bw ills, map. Black cloth in jacket. As new. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles. The war on the Western Front can be thought of as being in three phases: first, a war of movement as Germany attacked France and the Allies sought to halt it; second, the lengthy and terribly costly siege warfare as the entrenched lines proved impossible to crack (late 1914 to mid-1918); and finally a return to mobile warfare as the Allies applied lessons and technologies forged in the previous years. As with previous wars, British Commanders-in-Chief of a theatre of war or campaign were obliged to report their activities and achievements to the War Office in the form of a despatch and those written from the Western Front provide a fascinating, detailed and compelling overview of this part of the First World War. This volume concludes with Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's fascinating despatch, originally published in 1919, on the execution of the fighting on the Western Front. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa. Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty statistics of the US Tenth Army and the US Marines, as well as the unrelenting defiance of the Japanese defenders so often detailed in the many books on the battle, the vital part played by the Allied navies in transporting, landing and supporting the ground offensive is all too often overlooked. The naval forces involved included the US Task Force 58 and the British Pacific Fleet composed of ships from the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy which together with those of the Royal Navy constituted the most powerful fleet Britain had ever put together. The total firepower of the Allied force was staggering, consisting of 18 battleships, 27 cruisers, 177 destroyers/destroyer escorts, 11 fleet carriers, 6 light carriers and 22 escort carriers and various support and troop transport ships. Pitted against this formidable array was the Japanese Combined Fleet, with just one super battleship, one light cruiser and eight destroyers. But the Japanese had one other fearful weapon - the kamikaze. The resultant battle saw the Japanese fleet wiped out, but the Allies lost twenty-four support vessels and a further 386 ships were damaged - many at the hands of the kamikaze pilots. After the fighting the Admiralty called for a summary of the battle to be written for internal Royal Navy consumption. It is that secret report, which it was never intended would be seen by the general public, that is published here for the first time. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norway's Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitler's Third Reich. From mounting attacks against enemy-held coastlines with small teams of less than a dozen men, through to huge expeditions involving thousands of troops and other personnel, the headquarters of Combined Operations oversaw a wide variety of amphibious operations, all undertaken with the sole aim of tying down the Führer's forces. The raids, both big and small, were mounted as frequently as possible against anywhere boats could reach, keeping the Axis forces constantly on guard. The effects of the early Combined Operations far outweighed the resources committed to the raids, with an extra 30,000 German troops being sent to garrison Norway following the Commando raids, the largest of which included only around 500 men. The Combined Operations organization grew as the war progressed, and it was instrumental in the planning and training of troops and the provision of landing craft for the amphibious assaults which saw the capture of French North Africa, Operation Torch, and the invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky. Its culminating glory came in the summer of 1944, when the largest amphibious operation in history saw a quarter of a million men shipped across the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and its aftermath. Combined Operations is an official history that explores the full story of how the body was set up, its structure, and how it put together the hugely complex tri-service operations. Also detailed is how its headquarters staff operated, and how the planning section functioned - in 1942, for example, the planners envisaged one raid every month, which culminated in the disastrous Dieppe raid in August of that year. The Combined Operations organization was also instrumental in the development and provision of specialist landing craft and ships, and of the clearing of beach obstacles and mines - all of which is explored in detail. As might be expected, a large proportion of the book is dedicated to the various and fascinating projects in preparation for Operation Overlord which saw the culmination of everything that had been learned, in the successes and failures, throughout four years of amphibious warfare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norway's Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitler's Third Reich. From mounting attacks against enemy-held coastlines with small teams of less than a dozen men, through to huge expeditions involving thousands of troops and other personnel, the headquarters of Combined Operations oversaw a wide variety of amphibious operations, all undertaken with the sole aim of tying down the Führer's forces. The raids, both big and small, were mounted as frequently as possible against anywhere boats could reach, keeping the Axis forces constantly on guard. The effects of the early Combined Operations far outweighed the resources committed to the raids, with an extra 30,000 German troops being sent to garrison Norway following the Commando raids, the largest of which included only around 500 men. The Combined Operations organization grew as the war progressed, and it was instrumental in the planning and training of troops and the provision of landing craft for the amphibious assaults which saw the capture of French North Africa, Operation Torch, and the invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky. Its culminating glory came in the summer of 1944, when the largest amphibious operation in history saw a quarter of a million men shipped across the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and its aftermath. Combined Operations is an official history that explores the full story of how the body was set up, its structure, and how it put together the hugely complex tri-service operations. Also detailed is how its headquarters staff operated, and how the planning section functioned - in 1942, for example, the planners envisaged one raid every month, which culminated in the disastrous Dieppe raid in August of that year. The Combined Operations organization was also instrumental in the development and provision of specialist landing craft and ships, and of the clearing of beach obstacles and mines - all of which is explored in detail. As might be expected, a large proportion of the book is dedicated to the various and fascinating projects in preparation for Operation Overlord which saw the culmination of everything that had been learned, in the successes and failures, throughout four years of amphibious warfare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Excellent fine condition book throughout, no inscriptions, contains a section of black and white photos, not price-clipped.

Hard Cover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. An official account of the measures undertaken to defend the UK from the threat of the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket. Extensive appendices list all the known incidents. 328 pages + xv prelims. 8 pages of b/w photographs. Black boards in jacket. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 24 Cm x 16 Cm.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is the first time full collection of Despatches reports have been published. It Gives a unique insight into what happened from those in command. It is the first title of a new series covering entire history of British Army.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dispatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the dispatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; the report on the air operations during the campaigns in Malaya and Netherland East Indies between December 1941 and March 1942; and the important dispatch by Percival detailing the fall of Malaya and Fortress Singapore.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. This hardback book of " Liberating Europe D-Day to Victory in Europe 1944 - 1945" has boards and binding which are square and tight. the textblock is clean and bright and illustrated, the dustjacket is also clean and bright. Book price includes Tracked 48 postage in UK only.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 208pp, some maps. Fine. Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma between 15 December 1941 and 20 May 1942 by General Wavell; Operations in Eastern Theatre, based on India, March 1942 to 31 December 1942 by Field-Marshall Wavell; Operations in the Indo-Burma Theatre 21 June to 15 November 1942 by Field-Marshall Auchinleck; and Operations in the India Command 1 January to 20 June 1943 by Field-Marshall Wavell. This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history.…

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xii + 248pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's labels to rear).

Condizione: Very Good.

Pen and Sword, Military, South Yorkshire. 2015. First edition. Hardback with DW. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Wrapper very slightly worn. A nice clean and fresh copy.