Middle east force (12 risultati)

Condizione: Good. - Quarto, tan cloth titled in brown with a vignette of an Australian soldier in brown on the front cover. The covers are bumped, soiled & lightly spotted with some staining to the rear cover. Half-title, title, [x], 128 & [1] pages. 12 color plates, including a frontispiece, from paintings by Ivor Hele & Harold B. Herbert, & black-and-white photographic illustrations, cartoons & drawings. There is a gift inscription on the half-title. There is a paper-clip mark with a tiny piece out, some light staining & a crease to the title page. There is also a paper-clip mark to the dedication page & very light marks to the front endpaper & half-title. The top edges of the color plates are lightly stained & slightly rippled, probably from humidity. Good. First edition.The editors note that almost all the contents of the book are the work of men on active service with the Australian Imperial Force. Authorship is indicated by the writer's army number and initials.…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original donkey brown cloth covers, dark brown title lettering to the spine and to the upper panel, end paper maps. Small folio 11'' x 9''. Contains 129 printed pages of text with 12 coloured illustrations either carried out by Ivor Hele or Harold B. Herbert, black and white photographs, and black and white illustrations, and maps, all illustrations were produced by serving members of The Armed Forces. Small marks to the covers. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips and related tears to the spine ends and bottom corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTRALIA (Terra Australis).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Several loose unnumbered sheets (maps, notes, tables etc) variously dated 1947-48, bound inside RANAD tan covers 23x30cm. Fair with annotations. The RANAD (Route Airfields and Navigation Aid Documents) Route Briefs succeeded the Air Route Books issued by No. 216 Group of the Transport Command during WW2. The were made up of loose sheets (maps, airfield profiles, notes etc) as and when required, to help pilots execute specifically defined flights. Sometimes marked confidential, they were to be returned to the Briefing Officer on completion of the flight (in wartime, they were to be destroyed in the event of a forced landing in enemy or neutral territory). This particular example includes: Contents (1pp); Frequency changeover times (1pp); Legend (index map 2pp), abbreviations and terms (1pp); Area C Charts for Sections C1, 2 and 4 (1pp each); Section C typed notes and details for C4 (2, 3pp), C2 (2, 2pp), C1 (2, 8pp); Airfield sheets 2pp each for Egypt (Abu Sueir, Kabrit, Fayid, Shallufa, Kasfareet), Libya / Cyrenaica / Tripolitania (El Adem, Benina, Castel Benito), Malta (Luqa) with Area C Air Approaches to Malta), Greece (Hassani-Athens), Cyprus (Nicosia); Conversion tables (2pp), Hints and Tips for what to do after a Forced Landing 'in the Blue'" (2pp); Use of Combined Panel Code for Distress Signals after Forced Landing in Isolated Territory (1pp); Supplementary - Airfields and ELGs (Emergency Landing Grounds - Egypt (2pp with plans); Supplementary - Airfields and ELGs Egypt - Cyrenaica (2pp with plans); Emergency Airfields in Algeria - Tunisia - Tripolitania (2pp with plans); Marine Lights Mediterranean (4pp + folding map); Tracks and Distances Mediterranean Area (folding map).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Several loose unnumbered sheets variously dated in 1945, bound inside HQ 216 Group Navigation Branch ms titled tan covers 23x30cm. These include 24 Airfield Profiles, maps, notes, tables and other relevant information. Covers good, contents generally very good. These were issued by 216 Group, part of the Transport Command, headquartered at Cairo West during 1942-45. It compiled Air Route Books from loose sheets (maps, airfield profiles, notes etc) as and when required, to help pilots execute specifically defined flights. Marked confidential, they were to be returned to the Briefing Officer on completion of the flight, or otherwise destroyed in the event of a forced landing in enemy or neutral territory. AIRFIELD PROFILES: in alphabetical order with colour maps, b/w aerial views, general information and radio aids, 2pp each unless stated otherwise: Ahmedabad, Arkonam, Aurangabad, Bellary, Chittagong, Chor, Chakulia, Cuttack, Cox's Bazar, Chela, Digri, Dum Dum, Gujrat, Jungshahi, Kargi Road, Minneriya (Ceylon), Nagpur, Peshawar, Palam, Poona, Salawas, Santa Cruz Bombay (6pp), St Thomas Mount Madras (6pp), and Yelahanka. / OTHER SHEETS: Tracks and Distances for Karachi - Poona and Poona Madras (2pp); Emergency Landing Grounds Maripur - Poona (2pp); Alternative and Diversionary Airfields Calcutta (India) Area (folding sheet); Alternative and Diversionary Airfields Madras (India) Area (1pp); Alternative and Diversionary Airfields Karachi Area (folding sheet); Supplementary Airfields and ELGs Mauripur-Ahmedabad-Bairagarh-Nagpur, Ahmedabad-Santa Cruz (2pp, with Daman red stamped "Neutral"); SW Monsoon maps (2pp); Most Important Localities in which Certain Infectious Diseases Occur (b/w folding map); folding sheet with 2 charts showing Daylight and Darkness in Northern and Southern Hemispheres; Standard OGH procedure chart (1pp); Conversion tables (2pp). …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Several loose unbound sheets 20x28cm, two of which folding @40x28cm, variously dated 1944-45. Near fine. These were issued by 216 Group, part of the Transport Command, headquartered at Cairo West during 1942-45. It compiled Air Route Books from loose sheets (maps, airfield profiles, notes etc) as and when required, to help pilots execute specifically defined flights. Marked confidential, they were to be returned to the Briefing Officer on completion of the flight, or otherwise destroyed in the event of a forced landing in enemy or neutral territory. This set contains unused sheets that have not been hole-punched or bound. They include: (1) "Middle East - India Routes" June 1944, folding @40x28cm, showing two routes departing from Cairo West and meeting at Jiwani for the final leg to Mauripur. The southern route went via Sudan, Eritrea, Aden, South Arabia, and Oman. The eastern route went via Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, and Sharjah. // (2) "Routes: Cairo to India" 1 Nov 1944, folding @40x28cm - a later edition of the above // (3)-(8) Airfield Profiles with colour maps, b/w aerial views, general information, radio aids, description, facilities and weather for 5 airfields along the Eastern route, and 1 along the southern route including: Lydda, Palestine, 4pp; LGH3, Iraq, 6pp; Habbaniya, Iraq, 4pp; Shaibah, Iraq, 8pp; Jask, Iran, 2pp; Masira Island, South Arabia, 2pp. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Card covers. Original issue of the Official Secret RAF Mediterranean Review, no 4 covering period July to September 1943. 1st Edition published January 1944. 148pp., includes much on the Sicilian campaign, effort from Malta, Operations in Aegean, Attack on Ploesti, etc. etc. Photographs many aerial, plans, tables maps. A couple of points of wear to cover, else very nice condition in blue card covers. Rare.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Three cards sent from Holly to Cfn. W.R. Holcombe, 542 W/Shop Coy REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers). Conditions good, a little dusted. (1) Paiforce Xmas postcard 13x10cm with oasis scene to the front and warmly affectionate ms message to the back, undated. (2) and (3) MEF 1945 Xmas cards 15x10cm reproduced and printed by 512 Field Survey Coy, RE. One has emblems bordering the Xmas message to the front (Palestine, BTE, PAIC, Cyreaica, Tripolitania, Sudan, Dodecanese, Aden, N. Levant), the other a map of the Middle East and North Africa with these emblems located on the map. The ms message inside each is exactly the same ("just a little Xmas Souvenir as it is the last which we will spend apart my Darling"), perhaps sending twice to increase the chances of it reaching its destination. …

Condizione: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Years of speculation about Warburton's fate came to an end in 2002, when his remains were found with his aircraft, buried about 2 yards deep in a field near the Bavarian village of Egling an der Paar, 34 miles west of Munich. According to witnesses, the aircraft fell there on 12 April 1944, around 11:45. One of the propellers had bullet holes in it, which suggests that Warburton had been shot down. Contains 222 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in in near Fine condition dust wrapper with light rubbing across the spine ends, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To Harry Kirk - who was also there (see next page) With best regards Tony Spooner | November 1987'. A unique signed copy to Harry Kirk, reference is being made to the RAF's defence of the strategically important defence of the Maltese Islands. There is a typed correction laid in by Kirk as follows 'I asked Warby if he ever saw a camel train' Tony altered it to read that I asked Warby 'What was a camel train' | pp 66 has another paper laid-in 'This should read that I asked Warby if he ever saw any camel trains on his trips along the African coast' Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MALTA (Maltese History).…

First Edition, First Issue of the text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of General Allenby, signed in the plate, and a profusion of colour maps, 56 in all. 4to, publisher's original tan wrappers, lettered in black on the upper cover and on the burnt-orange linen spine. [iv], 112 pp. A very well preserved copy, handsome with some light wear to the wrappers, a light bit of foxing to the end-leaves as usual, the text-block clean throughout, all maps in fine order. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, THE TRUE CAIRO PRINTING FOR THE PALESTINE NEWS. A core text for understanding the modern Middle East and the fall of Ottoman dominion over the land. This primary document gives a largely day-by-day progression of the events between July 1917 and October 1918 that led up to the Arab revolt against the Ottoman rule in Arabia, the defeat of the Ottoman Turks and ultimately, the fall of Damascus. This important work is one of the very best documents for understanding the conflict and the subsequent agreements settling the affairs of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan and greater Arabia at the end of the First World War. Included are two pieces by T.E. Lawrence, the famous "Lawrence of Arabia" and arguably, the most important of all the individuals involved with leading the revolt (see Seven Pillars of Wisdom). The two articles compiled from Lawrence's own writing concern the 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and the 'Story of the Arab Movement' that accompany plates 49-50 and 51-53 (concerning the Arab Revolt and the fall of Damascus), as well as various military reports and numerous maps marking the daily positions of the troops as the final showdown grew nearer. This document was created so that "members of the Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they have played a part" [preface]. This is one of the earliest accounts of that campaign, its details being still "fresh in the memory." A fascinating and comprehensive record. Much of what is covered in the text is important in the establishment of the modern Middle East, including Israeli statehood and the various events leading up to it: the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate.…

Two 4to files of ca. 30 leaves each, including distress signal code tables, tips for forced landings, colour-printed route maps, radio beacon maps, emergency airfield maps (folded), and double-sided airfield leaves dedicated to single airfields along the designated route. Original printed wrappers. Perforated and handbound with cords. Two air route books for pilots of the Royal Air Force flying from Cairo to Karachi during World War II, "designed to help [them] to execute flights vital to our fronts in all theatres of war. The information which [they] contain is therefore also of use to the enemy, and must be safeguarded at all times" (p. 1). - The books are in fact useful guides to airports along the way, the plans depicting airfields in Egypt (Cairo West, Almaza, Payne, Heliopolis, Lydda and Luxor), as well as in Bahrein, Sharjah, Jiwani, Karachi, Wadi Halfa, Khartoum, Sheikh Othman, Khormaksar, Riyan and other places. For each airfield general information like coordinates, the length of the runways, the nature of ground signals, existing hangars, repair and fuel facilities, expectable weather conditions, distances to other places, radio aids, and local currency, as well as timetables of morning and evening twilight are given. The folding plans show emergency airfields in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, Iraq, Persia, and the Arabian Gulf area, as well as the routes between the Middle East and India. - Further, the booklets include instructions on what to do after a forced landing in unknown territory, advising to ration water and attract attention of rescue aircraft through a spread-out parachute or fires, including the order: "Don't drink the compass alcohol". - There is no standard collation for the books, as they were added to with monthly supplements. With the handwritten note "Compiled 21.2.45" as well as a signature to inner covers. The "from" and "to" fields on the title-pages (i.e., the front covers) are filled out by the same hand. - Covers show some small creases and edge tears; a few small ruststains, but on the whole well-preserved specimens from wartime Royal Air Force use. …

Unrecorded manual for military pilots of RAF Middle East, produced during the Italo-German North African campaign. We have traced no copies in OCLC or the National Archives. Established in 1917, RAF Middle East had responsibilities in Egypt, Sudan, Syria, and Transjordan, going under this name from 1922 to December 1941. Based in Cairo and at the Deversoir RAF base, its Air Publications Unit was in charge of the distribution of administrative forms and regulation manuals, as well as technical information, to the squadrons of the entire Middle East. In 1940-43, the Axis Powers led a campaign in North Africa, with action in Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, including two battles at El Alamein. This manual was produced for the use of "the aircrew" during a "major offensive" of the Bomber Command, "to gain some knowledge of the German Defence System" and its weaknesses. The chapters describe the German Warning System, which employed Freya and Würzburg radar; the operations of German night fighters; how to react after being intercepted; evasive manoeuvres (with two leaves of illustrative diagrams), such as the "corkscrew"; how to evade Flak (German air-strike guns), with mentions of "German flak shells captured in North Africa"; and pathfinder methods. Small quarto (190 x 150 mm). Diagrams to last two leaves. Typed and cyclostyled. Original wrappers, two brass fasteners. Contemporary inscription to front wrapper. Foxing to fore-edge and occasionally to margins of contents: a very good copy.…

Folio (210 x 340 mm). 4 pp. Typescript. Lively report of an eventful flight taken by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (1884-1940), Civil Commissioner of Mesopotamia, aboard one of two RAF aircraft leaving Baghdad on 25 February 1919 bound for Cairo. Bad weather conditions and repeated engine trouble resulted in several emergency landings and delayed the journey, which Wilson eventually had to complete by train. - The first day of the trip involved heavy wind and a failing petrol pump causing the pilots Boyd, Nuttall and Lapraik to land and fix the pump near Tadmur before carrying on to Damascus, where they remained for three days of heavy rain. Upon continuing the journey on 28 February, one of the engines failed and the planes were forced to land in "difficult country". As repair seemed hopeless, Boyd decided to fly Wilson on to Ramleh and then return for Nuttall and Lapraik: "The taking off proved a difficult undertaking as the machine was firmly bogged, and the engine fall out would not move it. The Arabs however rendered enthusiastic assistance. About 200 of them surrounded the machine, and in spite of the fact that most of them pulled in different directions [.] after an hour's work and much shouting, succeeded in moving it to a comparatively firm piece of ground, from which it was possible to take off [.]". - When the aircraft got hopelessely bogged again near Tulkarm, Wilson continued his journey by train. In the meantime, Nuttall and Lapraik, who "were hospitably entertained by the Arabs", succeeded in a makeshift repair of the first plane's engine and picked up Boyd. The return flight to Baghdad with two substitute aircraft proved much smoother, involving only minor repairs and no emergency landings off the runway. The 500 mile distance between Damascus and Baghdad was completed in a non-stop flight of 4 hours 10 minutes "which probably constitutes a World's Record". - Slightly dampstained near right margins; a little foxed and creased. Traces of a rusty paper pin. A rare survival.…