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Second World War Second World War, Including regimental and divisional histories, personal accounts, general histories and works of reference   321 Books
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Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, 11th May 948. Published by Authority, Wednesday, 12 May 1948: Report of an Action Against an Italian Convoy on the Night of the 15th/16th April 1941. 1st Ed., 4pp. foolscap format. HMSO. 1948  #67734
[HLMainPic] Despatch of Adml. Sir Andrew Cunningham, C-in-C Mediterranean Station. VG ex-Foreign Office Lib., bound for the library in paper covd. boards with green cloth backstrip with typed title label to front. VG thus. See illustrations on our website.   £20
The Story of 46 Division 1939-1945. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 136pp., 4to, 47 photos., 19 maps (most fldg.). Graz: Univ. Book Press "Styria". 1946  #68326
[HLMainPic] Tunisia, Italy & Greece. Detailed contemp. history & rolls of commands & staff, awards. Order of Battle &c. Many good photos. & various coloured maps based on contemp. official sheets. VG & rarer original hardback edition, red cloth boards with black cloth backstrip, title & emblem to front. See illustration on our website.   £85
Before We Go Back: A Pictorial Record of Norway's Fight Against Nazism, both inside & outside the Country. Issued for the Royal Norwegian Govt. Information Office. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 64pp., photos. throughout, several maps. HMSO. 1944  #62365
[HLMainPic] The German occupation of Norway following the brief campaign in 1940. VG. See illustration on our website.   £12
The Royal Artillery Commemoration Book 1939-1945. 1st Ed., xl+790pp., large 4to, many excellent photos., drawings & paintings (some col.) throughout, fldg. maps. VG in dw. Bell & Sons, for the RA Benevolent Fund. 1950  #68253
[HLMainPic] Substantial volume containing a wealth of detail on artillery of all forms in all theatres of war, regimental history, personal memoirs, accounts of operations, acts of gallantry &c., extravagantly illustrated. Much of interest + Roll of Hon. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, cloth & some of edges dampstained, all leaves open, internally all clean with commemorative inscrip. for Lt. A. F. Griffiths. See illustrations on our website.   £50
Ack-Ack: With Gun & Searchlight Crews at Work & Play. Foreword by Gen. Sir Frederick Pile. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 46pp. (+ adverts). Printed for the A.A. Welfare Fund by Victoria House Printing Co. nd (c.1944)  #68052
[HLMainPic] Scarce record of the work of the AA Command inc. articles on Overcoming Teething Problems; Into Action Against the Flying Bomb; Efficient Work by the ATS in Mixed Batteries; Gun Sites at Sea [i.e., coastal forts] &c. Orig. dec. wraps., VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
Royal Air Force Pocket Book. 1937. Orig. brown wraparound canvas covers, titled in black. 320pp., various diagrams & sketches, several fldg., several col. Air Ministry. 1939  #70071
[HLMainPic] Air Publication 1081, 3rd Ed., June 1937. Reprinted February 1939 Incorporating A.L.1. The RAF officers' vade mecum. VG with ink ownership inscrip. of "P/O J.A. Price" (& a small deletion after). Note: presumed to be F/O Jack Alfred Price, No. 14572, RAFVR, who was shot down & killed in action while flying a Halifax bomber of 51 Squadron over the Netherlands on 22nd january 1944 & is buried in Oldebroek Cem.   £65
Arctic War: Norway's Role on the Northern Front. Issued for the Royal Norwegian Govt. Information Office. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 64pp., photos. throughout, several maps. HMSO. 1945  #62366
[HLMainPic] Work of Norwegians in exile in Iceland, Spitzbergen &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £12
Representative Enemy & Allied Aircraft: Comparative Performance & Characteristics. TAIC [Technical Air Intelligence Center] Manual No. 2. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., [iii]+47pp., silhouettes of aircraft throughout. Anacostia, DC: Issued by the Division of Naval Intelligence by Combined Personnel of United States & British Services for the Use of Allied Forces. Oct. 1944  #45136
CONFIDENTIAL (& next to this ink stamped RESTRICTED) contemp. intelligence report contains technical spec. of around 120 types of British, German, American & Japanese aircraft, i.e. presumably just about all then in service (from fighters such as the Spitfire to heaviest bombers like the Superfortress), with details such as Speed-Climb-Ceiling, Range, Take-Off, Engines, Dimensions, Armament, Protection (armour), Fuel, &c, plus front, side & top silhouettes of each aircraft. Staples somewhat rusted o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £50
D. (Luft) T. 5212. 3 m-Rettungsschlauchboot Dl 410203. Gerate-Handbuch (Stand August 1943) [Bound with:] Wehrmacht Kriegs-Kurbestimmungen (2B. Kr. K.B.). Item 1: 43pp., 42 photos. & diagrams. Berlin: The Reichminister der Luftfahrt und Oberbefehishaber der Luftwaffe. 21 September 1943. Item 2: 43pp. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Berlin, 24 Juli 1942.  #67590
[HLMainPic] The official manual for use of a survival dinghy, an inflatable rubber boat, provided a sail & other equipment, for airmen of the Luftwaffe shot down or otherwise ditched at sea, including numerous photos. & diagrams. Doubtless a rare survival, packed with interesting detail & bound with another official German manual: Wehrmacht Kriegs-kursbestimmungen, i.e, Wehrmacht War Course Regulations, 1942 Edition, this with contemp, ink stamp of a German unit. Two items bound together in later (c.1950s) red cloth with armorial bookplate of Mark Dineley: Note: Dineley was an enigmatic character who was very interested in military technicalities. When I bought this item from his family they told me that he had been an SOE agent. This may or may not be true but what is known is that he was born in 1901 in London; he established Bapty & Co. in 1919, which has since become one of Europe's most prominent armorers for film & television. He also established an importing company, Dineley & Dowding Ltd., which supplied arms to the British Army. Around 1932, Dineley designed a submachine gun & submitted it for testing by the Small Arms committee; the weapon was ultimately rejected. In his spare time Dineley was an art connoisseur who amassed a collection of Chinese, Tibetan & Nepalese Buddhist art. He died in 1975 in Wiltshire. See illustrations on our website.   £75
Third Supplement to The London Gazette of Friday, 20th February, 1948. Published by Authority, Thursday, 26 February 1948: Report on the Air Operations During the Campaigns in Malaya & Netherlands East Indies from 8th December, 1941, to 12th March, 1942. 1st Ed., 69pp., foolscap format. HMSO. 1948  #67745
[HLMainPic] Despatch of AVM Sir Pail Maltby re air operations at Malaya, Singapore & Hong Kong when overtaken by the Japanese, &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £25

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