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EXPLOSIVES, PROPELLANTS AND PYROTECHNICS (BRASSEY'S WORLD MILITARY TECHNOLOGY)
Written by A. Bailey; S.G. Murray.
Stock no. 1827785
Published by Brassey's. 2000. Very good condition.

Written for those who wish to improve their knowledge of military weapons and equipment. This book introduces the reader to the science of technology associated with the three main classes of explosive, detonating high explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1857532554. Reprint. Boards lightly rubbed at corners, lightly scuffed. Small stain to text block which merges onto the margins of a few pages. Else a clean copy.

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HUMAN NATURE AND THE CAUSES OF WAR
Written by John David Orme.
Stock no. 1827784
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. Circa 2018. Nearly fine condition.

This book examines the effects of six types of regime on foreign policy, monarchy, republic and sultanistic, charismatic and military and totalitarian dictatorship.Light brown pictorial boards. ISBN: 9783319771663. Lower corners lightly rubbed. Still in original shrinkwrap which is starting to split on spine.

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NOT FORGETTING THE 9TH: THE WAR DIARY OF SGT. CYRIL GRIMES 1944-1945
Written by Cyril Grimes; Sylvia Fox.
Stock no. 1827783
Published by Timebox Press. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition.

With the 9th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment, to India, Burma and Malaya. Cyril Grimes was conscripted into the newly formed 9th Battalion in the Summer of 1940 when he was in his mid 20's. Cyril's first sight of action was in the Arakan in 1944 and for the whole of this and the following year, he made a daily entry in secret diaries. This is the story of Cyril's war and a tale of friendship and discovery. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps and photos. Colour map to inside rear cover. ISBN: 9780955021916. A lovely copy.

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THE VITAL GUIDE TO FIGHTING AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II
Written by Karen Leverington.
Stock no. 1327486
Published by Airlife Publishing Ltd. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

Specifications, Profiles and Summaries of the Major Combat Aircraft of WWII. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos, colour illustrations. ISBN: 1853105864. Spine is slightly faded. Contents fine.

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WARSHIPS OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY 1869-1945
Written by Hansgeorg Jentschura; Dieter Jung; Peter Mickel.
Stock no. 1327484
Published by Arms & Armour Press. 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Square format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. B/w photos. 284 pages. ISBN: 1854095250. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly marked (marks also to wrapper spine on verso). Contents fine. Wrapper edge rubbed.

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BATTLE OF THE BULGE THROUGH THE LENS
Written by Philip Michael Vorwald.
Stock no. 1327483
Published by Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd.. 2nd 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. Retracing the fields of battle in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany which were once bitterly contested killing grounds in the struggle to halt Hitler's final gambit in the West. The b/w wartime photographs have been matched up with present-day b/w comparisons. Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. 296 pages including index. ISBN: 1870067231. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased with a couple of small tears at corners.

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30 CORPS IN GERMANY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827761
Almost very good condition.

Who we are; where we are; why we're here and what happens next. Oblong format. Cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. Colour map to rear. Undated, approx 1945. Covers grubby and marked, corners lightly rubbed. Page browning throught and some foxing, otherwise contents clean.

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THE HOSPITAL IN THE OATFIELD: THE ART OF NURSING IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Written by Natasha McEnroe; Tig Thomas.
Stock no. 1327479
Published by Florence Nightingale Museum. 1st 2014. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name displayed in the Florence Nightingale Museum in 2014 as part of the First World War centenary. Blue boards, silver title to spine. 106 pages. B/w photos and colour pictures. ISBN: 9781907222238. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is creased at edges with a couple of tears repaired on verso.

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ISLANDERS DEPORTED PART 1
Written by Roger E. Harris.
Stock no. 1327476
Published by Channel Islands Specialists Society. 1st 1980. Very good condition.

The complete history of those British subjects who were deported from the Channel Islands during the German Occupations of 1940-1945 and imprisoned in Europe. Cardwraps. 226 pages. Adverts to rear. ISBN: 0902633635. Some slight rubbing to corners. Foxing to textblock.

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GROWING UP ON THE CURRAGH
Written by Patricia O'Sullivan.
Stock no. 1327472
Published by Original Writing Ltd. 1st 2011. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Memories of childhood in the Curragh Military Camp (Ireland) before and during the Second World War. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9781908024244. Spine and corners bumped, small dent to top edge of rear cover. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and rubbed.

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ACROSS THE THRESHOLD OF BATTLE
Written by Harold James.
Stock no. 1327467
Published by The Book Guild Ltd.. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Behind Japanese lines with Wingate's Chindits Burma 1943. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 250 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0863327982. SIGNED by the author by means of a dedication to half title-page. Spine and corners bumped. Heavy foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge creased.

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AIR SEA RESCUE DURING THE SIEGE OF MALTA
Written by Bill Jackson.
Stock no. 1327463
Published by Matador. 1st 2010. Very good condition.

An eyewitness account of life with HSL107 1941-1943. Cardwraps. 375 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781848764729. Slight rubbing to corners. Grubby fingerprint mark to edge of prelims.

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