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CELTIC WARRIORS 400BC - 1600AD
Written by Tim Newark. Illustrated by Angus McBride.
Stock no. 1818411
Published by Blandford Press. 1st 1986. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The heroic story of two thousand years of Celtic warfare from four centuries before Christ to the 16th Century. Colour illlustrations. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0713716908.

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MYSTERY SHIPS (TRAPPING THE "U" BOAT)
Written by Alfred Noyes.
Stock no. 1818383
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1916. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth boards, black titles. 181 pages. Cloth spine split along front edges and also to lower half of title to spine. Boards a little marked and stained. Front joint split at bottom but still tight. A few marks to contents.

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TIN-POTS AND PIRATE SHIPS: CANADIAN NAVAL FORCES AND GERMAN SEA RAIDERS 1880-1918
Written by Michael L. Hadley; Roger Sarty.
Stock no. 1818370
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The authors shed new light on Canadian and German history - and on Canada's naval defences in particular - by exploring the naval operations and politics of both nations between 1880 and 1918. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvi and 391 pages including index. ISBN: 0773507787. Boards lightly bowed. A few minor foxspots mainly to prelims and text block. Grey pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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WHO KILLED SURCOUF?
Written by George Young.
Stock no. 1818289
Published by George Young. 3rd 1987. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Third Edition. The untold story of the occupation of the Islands of St. Pierre and Miguelon by Free French forces under General de Gaulle at the instigation of Winston Churchill, in defiance of the wishes of Canada and the USA. This was followed by the mysterious loss of the giant French Cruiser/Submarine Surcouf... Blue cardwraps. B/w photos. 103 pages. ISBN: 0920454062. SIGNED by the author with dedication to verso of front endpaper. Matching card dustwrapper slightly faded at spine.

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THE SUBMARINE PERIL: THE ADMIRALTY POLICY IN 1917
Written by Viscount Jellicoe.
Stock no. 1818281
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1934. Very good condition.

Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. Boards a little scuffed and worn. Bookplate to front pastedown. Text block browned. Foxing to contents.

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BETRAYAL AT VENLO
Written by Leo Kessler.
Stock no. 1818272
Published by Leo Cooper. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The secret story of appeasement and treachery 1939-1945. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850522005.

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HIMMLER'S SS LOYAL TO THE DEATH'S HEAD
Written by Robin Lumsden.
Stock no. 1318402
Published by The History Press. 1st thus 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

The origins, development and organisation of both the Waffen-SS and the Allgemeine-SS. Pictorial cardwraps. 293 pages. B/w photos and some colour plates. ISBN: 9780752450261. Minimal rubbing to corners. Textblock is slightly grubby.

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WALKING WITH THE DAMNED
Written by Ted Schwarz.
Stock no. 1318391
Published by Paragon House. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The shocking murder of the man who freed 30,000 prisoners from the Nazis. Black spine with gilt title, green boards. 326 pages. ISBN: 1557783152. Name and date in pencil to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is price-cut.

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VOICES FROM THE PENINSULA
Written by Ian Fletcher.
Stock no. 1818252
Published by Greenhill Books. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington's Army 1808-1814. Edited by Ian Fletcher drawing on rare letters, diaries and memoirs. Black boards, silver title to spine. B/w & colour illustrations. ISBN: 1853674591. A few minor grubby marks to endpapers and text block. Plates clean but slightly crinkled. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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THE WAR DEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH 1939-45 CEMETERIES AT PORT SAID, SUEZ, GAZA AND ASWAN
No author listed.
Stock no. 1318344
Published by Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

The register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war and are buried in cemeteries in Egypt. Large format. Grey card wraps. Spiral bound. 52 pages. The book is a little bowed (it does not sit flat on the surface) and there is a tiny black mark to top edge of rear cover (also affecting a few page of the textblock) but is otherwise in excellent condition.

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HUNGARIAN EAGLES: A MAGYAR KIRALYI HONVED LEGIERO 1920-1945
Written by Gyula Sarhidai; Gyorgy Punka; Viktor Kozlik.
Stock no. 1817913
Published by Hikoki Publications. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Hungarian Air Forces. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations. 62 pages. ISBN: 095198991X. Slight creasing to card covers. Contents clean.

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WAR INVENTIONS AND HOW THEY WERE INVENTED
Written by Charles R. Gibson.
Stock no. 1317852
Published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd.. 1917. Almost very good condition.

Science For Children series. An interestingly written description of the many appliances and weapons used in war, and how they work, told in simple language. Green pictorial cloth. B/w plates, diagrams and text illustrations. 255 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Slight light speckling to cloth. Name and date in green ink to front pastedown, some other writing blotted out with blue ink. Foxing to contents. One page has ragged edges where it has been torn open after the binding process.

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