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A German Deserter's War Experience.
1st UK Ed., translated by J. Koettgen. 254pp. Grant Richards.
1917
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The author, it is stated, 'escaped from Germany after fourteen months of fighting in France... [a] vivid description of the life of a common German soldier in the present war' - Preface. Orig. black cloth, minor wear, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Order of Battle of the German Army.
Issued Under the Authority of the Director of Military Intelligence. Orig. buff printed wraps., 148pp., fldg. map (of German, showing Corps & Div. HQs). War Office. June
1942
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Not to be Published. This Document Must Not Fall into Enemy Hands. Detailed order of battle (plus various explanatory notes) inc. sections on Motos Cycle Batalions, Waffen SS, Infantry Motorised & Light Divisions, Cavalry, Artillery &c. Nice clean example & rare survival. 1000 copies printed of this edition, April 1943. See illustration on our website.
£145
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Schaubild No. 3 fur den Morter mit 21 cm Grenaten 96
Fldg. chart, 1:25,000, 40x30cm approx. Nur fur den dienstgebrauch [Only for service use]. c.1917
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Being a diagram of the fall of shot &c. of the 21 cm grenade mortar, for use in conjunction with range tables. With usage note in printed in margin. Scarce. See illustration on our website.
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Schaubilde fur die s. 12 cm-Kanone mit 12 cm Grenaten 88 a/A (angenabert gultig auch fur 12 cm Schrapnels 80/92). Mit Dectblatt 1. [Chart for the s. 12 cm cannon with 12 cm Grenades 88 a / A (also valid for 12 cm shrapnel 80/92). With Dectblatt 1.]
Fldg. card. Berlin. 1917.
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Folding card with range table printed on rear & two paste-in instructions within. Scarce. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Schaubilder fur dem Morter mit 21 cm Grenaten 14.
Fldg. card, 4pp. Berlin. February 1918.
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Brief notes + range table for this Granatenwerfer (grenade throwing) trench mortar. Scarce. See illustration on our website.
£45
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The German Forces in the Field.
6th Revision, April, 1918. Compiled by the General Staff, War Office. Facsimile Reprint, iv+270pp. General Staff, April
1918
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Full Order of Battle of German divisions &c. Orig. brown printed canvas covd. boards, rather serviceworn & stained, neat tape rerpair to front inner joint, tp worn with loss (but not affecting text), sound & rare. See illustrations on our website.
£145
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BINDING (Rudolf)
A Fatalist at War.
Trans. by Ian F.D. Morrow. 3rd Imp., 246pp. VG in dw. A&U.
1929
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German novelist & infantry officer, with a Jungdeutschland division in 1914 & later divisional staff. Considered by Falls as being "among the most vivid of German documents relating to the War." Orig. yellow cloth, near fine in like dw. See illustration on our website.
£125
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BINDING (Rudolf)
A Fatalist at War.
Trans. by Ian F.D. Morrow. 3rd Imp., 246pp. VG in dw. A&U.
1929
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German novelist & infantry officer, with a Jungdeutschland division in 1914 & later divisional staff. Considered by Falls as being "among the most vivid of German documents relating to the War." A very interesting copy in that the Translator's Note preceding the Preface states that: "Owing to ill-health the Translator was compelled to accept the collaboration of two friends - Captain Raymond Johnes and C.D.R. Lumby, Esq., - in the work of preparing this translation. While a great part of the work has been theirs, any errors either of interpretation or of style must be ascribed to the Translator. The Translator desires to express publicly his warm sense of the obligation he is under to these two gentlemen for their friendly and invaluable assistance, without which the translation could not have been completed. I.F.D.M." Beneath this printed announcement there is a ms. note by Johnes: "The entire work [i.e., this translation rather than "a great part of the work"], for which we were never paid by Morrow. My part was pp. 1-119. Raymond Johnes." Johnes was an authority on Japanese Art and as an interesting aside, my former business partner, Brian Turner, knew him in the 1970s. Johnes (who served in the Suffolk Regiment) claimed to Brian that he was the only British officer to carry a Japanese short-sword on the Somme, and indeed that he had lost it there. One wonders whether it has ever been recovered, or whether is still lies out there somewhere in the soil of France! Orig. yellow cloth, near fine in like dw. See illustrations on our website.
£350
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BINDING (Rudolf)
A Fatalist at War.
Trans. by Ian F.D. Morrow. 3rd Imp., 246pp. A&U.
1929
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German novelist & infantry officer, with a Jungdeutschland division in 1914 & later divisional staff. Considered by Falls as being "among the most vivid of German documents relating to the War." Orig. yellow cloth, little dusty, VG. See illustrations on our website.
£35
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CAROSSA (Hans)
A Roumanian Diary.
1st USA Ed., [iv]+173pp. VG in sl. marked dw. NY: Knopf.
1930
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German medical officer's personal account of three months on the Eastern Front (after service in France) Oct.-Dec. 1916. "The writer... was a battalion medical officer. He is today a celebrated novelist, & at the time when he kept this journal was certainly a master of beautiful prose... the descriptions of scenery, of the people of Transylvania, of scenes at an advanced dressing-station during a battle, of the writer's own thoughts & dreams are masterly." - Falls. Orig. red cloth with black cloth spinestrip, VG in sl. marked dw. See illustration on our website.
£65
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