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Rules & Regulations for the Formations, Field-Exercise. & Movements, of His Majesty's Forces.
xxiv+100+54pp. War Office, Printed, & Sold by J. Walter at Homer's Head, Charing Cross.
1792
#70336
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One of several printed versions of the drill formations & instructions for recruits, platoons, companies & battalions &c. Orig. plain marbled wraps., VG with armorial bookplate of one Sir Henry Wilson, with the motto neatly inked over.
£75
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Handbook of the Belgian Army. 1934.
Compiled by the General Staff. xxi+278pp., 7 photos., 3 platyes of rank badges &c., fldg. map in end-pocket. War Office.
1934
#69264
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For Official Use Only & just 750 copies printed. Contains comprehensive details of the nation's military capabilities, organisation of the various arms of the service (infantry, artillery, tank bns. & so forth), &c. Orig. grey limp cloth. VG & rare with bookplate of RA Inst., Woolwich. See illustration on our website.
£85
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Military Engineering (Vol. IV) Demolitions & Mining. 1934.
279pp. followed by 86 plates (photos. & diagrams). HMSO.
1934
#67938
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Including theory of explosives, descriptions of types used, methods of firing, preparation & calculation of charges, demolitions in the field, undergound construction, military mining (offensive, defensive, &c.), mine gas & rescue work, &c., supplemented by many interesting diagrams & photos. Various amendment slips tipped-in. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Notes on Military Railway Engineering. Published under the Authority of the Quartermaster General. Part II: Engineering 1940.
195pp., 97 sketches, maps & diagrams (many fldg.) War Office.
1940
#67940
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Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Notes on Military Railway Engineering. Published under the Authority of the Quartermaster General. Part I- (Survey) 1940.
vi+126pp., 28 sketches, maps & diagrams (some fldg.). War Office.
1940
#67941
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Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Field Service Regulations Part I. Operations. 1909. (Reprinted, With Amendments, 1914.) General Staff, War Office.
302pp., 12mo. HMSO.
1914
#69012
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Orig. red cloth, gilt. Somewhat serviceworn o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Field Service Regulations Vol. II. Operations. 1920. Provisional.
Orig. blue printed wraps., 326pp. HMSO.
1920
#69014
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The first post-war revision of doctrine. Somewhat serviceworn, VG. See illustration on our website.
£30
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Section Sixty-One: Selections from Letters of Henry S. Kingman, Member S.S.A.U. 61, Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps, May to October, 1917.
1st Ed., 103pp. Minneapolis: Privately Printed.
1917
#67863
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Letters from the French Front at Verdun &c., evidently arranged by his father in his absence overseas (the last page of this book records his transfer to an Italian Ambulance) & inscribed by the former at Christmas 1917. Orig. blue paper covd. boards with paper lettering label to front & blue cloth backstrip. VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Field Service Regulations. Volume I: Organization & Administration. 1930. Reprinted with Amendments (Nos. 1-11) 1939.
xxiv+425pp., 12mo. War Office.
1939
#69015
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Orig. red cloth, titled in black, little serviceworn, generally VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Two Years After, or Twelve Months of Armageddon: Some Reminiscences of A Temporary Regimental Sawbones 1915-1916.
1st Ed., [v]+105pp. Printed for Private Circulation Only.
1918
#67840
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Interesting & exceptionally rare privately printed memoirs of "N.D.M." [i.e. N.D. Mackay], serving at a General Hospital in France then attached as MO to the London Scottish (1st Bn. 14th London Regt.) in Oct. 1915. Immediate recollections of service & episodes in France 1915-16 in two main sections: "A Winter in the Loos Salient" & "The Lighter Side of War," the latter in three parts, "At Home & at the Base, B.E.F.," "In & Out of the Trenches" & "In & Out of the Trenches (concluded)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & sp., VG with ink author's initiald to ffep & neat pencil notes of errata in his hand to rear ep. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, sp. dull o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£245
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