YELLS, BELLS & SMELLS: THE STORY OF THE DEVONS, HAMPSHIRES AND DORSETS IN THE SIEGE OF MALTA 1940-43
Written by Christopher Jary; et al.
Stock no. 1831608
Published by Semper Fidelis Publications. 1st 2017. Slightly better than very good condition.

In the Second World War three battalions from three distinguished regiments from Wessex were brigaded together to defend Malta during one of the most vicious and protracted sieges in the history of warfare. The story of those regiments, who became so strongly identified with the island they they adopted her name in their title: 231 Malta Brigade. Yellow cardwraps. B/w photos. xiii and 200 pages including index. ISBN: 9780992903350. A few minor scuffs to covers, contents clean.

WINGS OVER GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by John Rennison.
Stock no. 1831602
Published by Piccadilly Publishing. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An account of the air war over Gloucestershire during the second world war. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 188 pages. ISBN: 0951404709. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed else a very nice copy.

THE UNKNOWNS OF WORLD WAR II AND KOREA
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831580
Published by Department Of Defense United States Of America. 1st 1959. Almost very good condition.

After World War Ⅱ, some 8,526 remains were physically unidentifiable and had been buried without any knowledge of the victims' true identities. Likewise following the Korean War there were 846 “Unknowns.” Of this number two were selected for interment at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 1958. Grey pictorial cardwraps. Stapled binding. B/w photos. vii and 71 pages. Grey covers are lightly browned and have a few marks, 1" thin area of surface paper loss to top front spine edge. Lower corner of covers and contents lightly creased. Contents are clean.

STEEPLE MORDEN STRAFERS 1943-45
Written by Ken Wells.
Stock no. 1331341
Published by East Anglia Books. 2nd 1996. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. A remarkable story of courage and dedicaton, with many individual combat reports, the stories of escape and evasion also show the courage of Resistance fighters who helped downed airmen. A fascinating social documentary on the impact of war on a handful of tiny rural viallages, their inhabitants and of a lifestyle which has now almost vanished. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. Fold out site plan of Steeple Morden at rear. ISBN: 1869987020. Minimal bumping to spine else a fine copy. Wrapper is sunned to spine and front spine edge.

FORGED IN WAR: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Warren F.. Kimball.
Stock no. 1831455
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This is a detailed study of the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and its role in shaping the course of World War II. It shows how they were both realists and idealists, consistent and inconsistent, calculating and impulsive. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 422 pages including index. ISBN: 000215482X. Boards clean. Personal inscription in ink to front pastedown and '554-8' written small to top of free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top corner and a little scuffed.

DRESDEN: TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 1945
Written by Frederick Taylor.
Stock no. 1831411
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been dropped on the unprotected city... This book is a serious reappraisal of an event that lives in the popular memory with Guernica and Hiroshima as a by-word for the horror of twentieth-century air warfare. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and maps and 518 pages including index. ISBN: 0747570787. Boards clean, text block grubby. Occasional foxspot to contents. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to spine.

ALEX: THE LIFE OF FIELD MARSHAL EARL ALEXANDER OF TUNIS
Written by Nigel Nicolson.
Stock no. 1831342
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was Montgomery's Commander-in-Chief at Alamein and conquered Italy from Sicily to the Alps. Cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xiii and 346 pages including index. ISBN: 0297765159. Third impression in the same year as the first. Boards very slightly mottled else clean. Foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few minor foxspots to contents else clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine, light rubbing to corners, rear panel lightly scuffed.

DUXFORD TO KARACHI: AN RAF ARMOURER'S WAR
Written by Fred Roberts.
Stock no. 1831122
Published by Victory Books. 1st 2006. Almost very good condition.

The author, an RAF armourer, who served on a famous Spitfire squadron at Duxford throughout the Battle of Britain in 1940, and later in India. This memoir is a window on the wartime years, seen through the eyes of an ordinary young man who found himself in extraordinary circumstances and did his 'bit'. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w photos. 202 pages. ISBN: 0955043182. Slight lean to spine, covers lightly worn at corners. Previous price-label to rear cover. Front joint starting to pull away (glue drying out). Contents clean.

LANCASTER: THE FORGING OF A VERY BRITISH LEGEND
Written by John Nichol.
Stock no. 1831050
Published by Simon & Schuster Uk Ltd. 1st 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book tells the story of the Lancaster bomber used by bomber command in WW2. Brought into service late 1941, it superseded the Manchester bomber which had not lived up to expectations. The Lancaster bomber went on to be the dominant aircraft used by bomber command. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. xiii and 448 pages. ISBN: 9781471180460. SIGNED by the author to front endpaper (no dedication). Boards clean. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and worn at corners, light visible circular mark where a label was.

REPUBLIC P-47 THUNDERBOLT: THE OPERATIONAL RECORD
Written by Jerry C. Scutts.
Stock no. 1831002
Published by Airlife. 1st 1998. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of the single seater second world war fighter plane. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 167 pages including index. ISBN: 1853108219. Light bump to lower front board corner. Couple of minor small brown marks to front endpaper. Brown mark to top vertical edge of rear endpaper. Text block browned and has a few small marks. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

THE DOUBLE-CROSS SYSTEM IN THE WAR OF 1939 TO 1945
Written by J.C. Masterman; M.R.D. Foot.
Stock no. 1330857
Published by Folio Society. 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduced by M.R.D. Foot. German agents serving the Allied cause. Dark blue spine, gilt title. B/w pictorial front cover. B/w photos. Small crease to pictorial onlay to front cover (beside spine), else a fine copy. Contained in original publishers slipcase which is slightly scuffed.

THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by A.J.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1830951
Published by Folio Society. Fine condition.

1919-1939. Re-issued as a single volume. Black cloth, gilt titles, red & gilt line pattern to front. Red endpapers are maps of Europe and Germany between the Wars. B/w photos. Still in original shrinkwrap! Unread!