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421. |
SWANN, MAJOR-GENERAL J.C.
THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 1795 - 1926.
COMPILED WITH THE KIND ASSISTANCE OF MANY OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE CORPS CONCERNED. Published for the Buckinghamshire
Territorial Army Association by Hazell, Watson &
Viney,1930.
171 pp. with 4 folding maps and 6 plates. Orig. cloth,
gilt.
Record of the Royal Bucks Hussars in Gallipoli, Egypt
and Palestine; of the 23nd South Midland Mounted Brigade
Field Ambulance again in Gallipoli and Egypt; of the Ist
Bucks Battalion on the Somme in 1916 and in Italy in 1917
& 1918.
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£ 65.00 |
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422. |
SWINTON, MAJ. GEN SIR
ERNEST. TWENTY YEARS AFTER. THE BATTLEFIELDS OF 1914 -
1918.THEN AND NOW. George Newnes, 1936 - 38.
3 vols. 4to. (64 parts bound). Orig. pictorial and
decorated cloth, gilt.
A fine set of one of the best periodical publications
to come out of the war - a marvellous photographic record
highlighting the contrast of the battlefields of the
Western Front from the war years to twenty years on. |
£120.00 |
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423. |
(SYKES, CLAUD W.)
"VIGILANT". GERMAN WAR BIRDS. John Hamilton, 1933.
Third printing.
264 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth.
A good copy of this account of the German air force and
its pilots.
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£ 45.00 |
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424. |
TAPPERT, ANNETTE
(EDITED). DESPATCHES FROM THE HEART. AN ANTHOLOGY OF
LETTERS FROM THE FRONT DURING THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLD
WARS. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
4to. 128 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth in
D/W. |
£ 15.00 |
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425. |
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PERSONAL MEMOIR
425. TAYLOR, JAMES WOOD COLIN. A LIFE WELL LIVED. A
MEMOIR OF JAMES TAYLOR,LIEUTENANT 3RD BATTALION SHERWOOD
FORESTERS. BORN MAY 22ND, 1887. FELL IN ACTION AT HOOGE,
FLANDERS, AUGUST 9TH, 1915. S.W. Partridge, N.D. (1917).
158 pp. with frontis portrait. Orig. cloth, gilt.
Personal memoir of a Lieutenant in the Sherwood
Foresters. James Taylor's very personal letters to his
family from the front line display his intense religous
feelings. After a short period on the Ypres Salient he was
wounded in the head and finally killed when a shell
destroyed his trench.
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£ 65.00 |
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426. |
TERRAINE, JOHN. THE GREAT
WAR. 1914 - 1918. A PICTORIAL HISTORY. Hutchinson, 1965
4to. 400 pp. with photo illus. throughout. Orig. cloth
in D/W. A fine copy of the first edition.
The best modern pictorial history.
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£ 45.00 |
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427. |
TERRAINE, JOHN. (EDITOR).
GENERAL JACK'S DIARY 1914 - 1918. Eyre & Spottiswoode,
1964.
319 pp. with maps and photo illus. Orig. cloth in
D/W.
Unique diary of the whole war beginning with Captain
Jack's posting to France with the First Cameronians in
August 1914 and ending with him in command of the 28th
Infantry Brigade.
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£ 25.00 |
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428. |
THE LUSITANIA
A RARE GLASS PLATE DEPICTING THE RMS LUSITANIA. Circa
1915.
A glass decorative plate with a circumference of 7.5
ins. with a lattice work border and a coloured vignette
showing the liner in full steam.
The Lusitania was sunk by a German U boat on May 7th
1915 with the loss of 1,119 lives - many children and
included some 114 Americans.
The reaction in the US was shock and animosity towards
the Germans - the event was to bring the US into the 1914-
18 War within two years of the sinking.
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£200.00 |
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429. |
THOMAS, ALAN. A LIFE
APART. Victor Gollancz, 1968.
160 pp. Orig. cloth in D/W.
Well written account of service with the 6th Royal West
Kent's compiled from the author's letters. Covers the
spring offensive at Arras in 1917. He was wounded in
November 1918, but recovered to take part in the final
advance of 1918.
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£ 35.00 |
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430. |
THOMAS, W. BEACH. WITH
THE BRITISH ON THE SOMME. Methuen, Second edition. 1917.
285 pp. Orig. cloth, gilt.
Very good contemporary account by Sir William Beach
Thomas - a war journalist - detailing each seperate part
of the battle. "No writer describing the war while it
was in progress had the right to be an honester
man..." Cyril Falls. "War Books".
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£ 45.00 |
