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A.F.V. Recognition. Part 1: British & Allied Turreted A.F.Vs. Orig. buff printed wraps., 271pp., numerous photos. & sketches. War Office. Jan. 1943  #63916
[HLMainPic] Details & illustrations of many AFVs. This copy with various amendments/additions pasted in, somewhat serviceworn, sound. Ownership inscrip. of M.H.H. Bayley, Recce Corps. See illustrations on our website.   £25
The History of The 107 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (King's Own) June 1940-February 1946. 1st Ed., 93pp. Lengerich, Westfalia: Printed by Bischof & Klein. nd (c.1946)  #64130
[HLMainPic] 1940 war-raised unit based initially on officers & drafs from King's Own holding battalions, titled 10th (S) Bn. but changed in Jan. 1942 to 151st Reg. Royal Armoured Corps & began to train with tanks; retitled as 107 Regt. early in 1944, embarked for Normany 30th June 1944 & fought in break-out battles, Falaise, advance to the Rhine, &c. Roll of casualties, KiA or DoW, PoWs, roll of awards (with citations) & a number of interesting appendices on various actions. Some time spent with 15th & 51st Scottish Divisions. Orig. dec. paper covd. boards with cloth backstrip, VG & rare with loosely inserted typed slip "With the Compliments of Lt Colonel C.H. Taite and all officers and other ranks of the 107 Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, (King's Own)." See illustration on our website.   £220
BRERETON (J.M.) A History of the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards & Their Predecessors 1685-1980. 1st Ed., xiii+494pp., 4to, col. frontis., 94 plates (some col.), 12 maps & diagrams. VG in dw. Catterick: The Regt. 1982  #61526
[HLMainPic] Campaigns include Peninsular, Kaffir War, Crimea, Egypt 1882, Boer War, WW1 Western Front & WW2 BEF 1940 & North-West Europe 1944-45 from Normandy to Bremen, post-war Radfan & Cyprus. Rolls of Hon. 1914-18 & 1939-45, roll of awards post-1946. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt, VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £25
BRERETON (J.M.) A History of the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards & Their Predecessors 1685-1980. 1st Ed., xiii+494pp., 4to, col. frontis., 94 plates (some col.), 12 maps & diagrams. Catterick: The Regt. 1982  #66654
[HLMainPic] Campaigns include Peninsular, Kaffir War, Crimea, Egypt 1882, Boer War, WW1 Western Front & WW2 BEF 1940 & North-West Europe 1944-45 from Normandy to Bremen, post-war Radfan & Cyprus. Rolls of Hon. 1914-18 & 1939-45, roll of awards post-1946. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £20
CARVER (Brig. R.M.P.) The History of 4th Armoured Brigade. 1st Ed., orig. printed card wraps., 46pp. Gluckstadt: J.J. Augustin. 1945  #63457
[HLMainPic] Independent armoured brigade in North Africa, Italy & NW Europe 1944-45. Roll of Bde. commanders, order of battle. Orig. dec. wraps., little chipped & worn, about VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
CRAWFORD (Driver Robert John, RASC) I Was An Eighth Army Soldier. As narrated to Major John Dalgleish, RASC. 4th Imp., 86pp., 8 photos., fldg. map. Gollancz. 1944  #66724
[HLMainPic] Personal experiences with 1st Armd. Div., six months in the Western Desert until wounded in June 1942. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £15
EVANS (Maj.-Gen. R., CB, MC) The Story of the Fifth Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. 1st Ed., xiv+445pp., col. frontis., 15 plates, ep maps. Aldershot: G&P. 1951  #64741
[HLMainPic] Largely WW2 inc. France & Belgium 1940 & Normandy July 1944 to Hamburg 1945 in Cromwell tanks. Roll of Hon., rolls of officers. Orig. green cloth, silver gilt, near fine with printed slip (with ms. name) loosely inserted recording that this copy was presented in memory of Lance-Corporal W.J. Turner (note from CWGC records: 1423106 L/Cpl. William John Turner died of wounds near St Gregoire, France, 26th Aug. 1944, aged 20, & is buried in St Desir Brit. Cem., Normandy.) See illustration on our website.   £65
FLETCHER (David) War Cars: British Armoured Cars in the First World War. 1st Ed., [v]+97pp., 4to, 195 photos. HMSO. 1987  #66164
[HLMainPic] Very useful & well-illustrated introduction. Orig. laminated wraps. (only published in this form). VG. See illustration on our website.   £15
FULLER (Maj.-Gen. J.F.C., CBE, DSO) Memoirs of an Unconventional Soldier. 2nd Imp., xii+494pp., portrait frontis., 8 plates, 17 diagrams, 5 fldg. maps. Nicholson & Watson. 1936  #62109
[HLMainPic] The great 'tankophile' who was Chief General Staff Officer of the Tank Corps 1916-16 & a constant & vocal advocate of the mechanised arm. This important work largely devoted to 1914-18, tanks & the operations in which they were used. Orig. red cloth, titled in black (second issue binding), somewhat rubbed & worn but inscribed by another great tank pioneer: "E.D. Swinton 2 Sept. 1942" (& signature of [Col.] Denis Wood, Singapore, 1952 beneath). Scarce. See illustrations on our website.   £165
MARTEL ((Lt.-Gen. Sir Gifford LeQ., KCB, KBE, DSO, MC) In the Wake of the Tank: The First Fifteen Years of Mechanisation in the British Army. 1st Ed., xii+259pp., 26 plates, fldg. chart of tank specs. & capabilities. VG in dw. Sifton Praed. 1931  #65508
[HLMainPic] Brigade Major of Heavy Branch MGC & at Tank Corps HQ in France in 1917-18 as a GSO II. Contains much on experimental work in the 1920s. Excellent study written with an engineer's eye for mechanical detail. Orig. brown cloth, blocked black (as always), VG in dw with photo. of a Vickers Tank, Mk. II, to front (dw. neatly renovated & VG thus). Rare in dw. See illustrations on our website.   £165

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