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Ford, Brian J. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. ALLIED SECRET WEAPONS: THE WAR OF SCIENCE. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 19.
Ballantine, New York, 1971, first printing.
160 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings, maps. "Mountbatten's Combined Operations Unit was described by critics as 'the only lunatic asylum run by the inmates'. The flow of ideas from backroom inventors was one of the Allies most valuable reserves, from Barnes Wallis's bouncing bombs to the noise-making decoys used to combat torpedoes." Interior - previous owner's ink stamp and embossed stamp on contents page, otherwise clean and tight with no oth er ownership marks. Exterior - book slightly cocked, previous owner's ink stamp on bottom of text block, very light browning on spine and edges of text block, very light edge wear and rubbing, faint creases on spine. Very Good
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Ford, Brian. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. GERMAN SECRET WEAPONS: BLUEPRINT FOR MARS. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 5.
Ballantine, New York, 1971, 3rd printing.
160 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings. "At Peenemunde the conditions and pay were excellent, morale was high, and the results were widely acclaimed. The set-up was ideal for the furtherance of secret w ork, and the German secret weapon programme pressed steadily ahead with incredible and in some cases devastating results." Interior - previous owner's ink stamp and embossed stamp on contents page, light finger mark stains on page 112, otherwise cl ean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - book slightly cocked, previous owner's ink stamp on bottom of text block, very light browning on spine and edges of text block, very light edge wear, light creases on spine. Very Good-
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Vader, John. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. PACIFIC HAWK. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 14.
Ballantine, New York, 1970, first printing.
160 pp, 8 3/16" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, drawings, profiles. "Operations took them to arctic cold, torrid desert heat, torrential tropical rains and steaming swamps. Often enough they toiled into the air with a thousand pound bomb and four forty pounders. Their pilots recklessly hurled them against Zeros, Me 109s, Fw 190s, and with unexampled courage, overcame. Seldom has an aircraft had a more varied career." Interior - previous owner's ink stamp on contents page and on last page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear. Very Good+
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Green, William. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. ROCKET FIGHTER. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 20.
Ballantine, New York, 1971, first printing.
160 pp, 8 3/16" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, technical drawings, profiles. "Its life spanned barely a decade yet it contributed one of the most startling chapters to the annals of airplane evolution. Its debut was aw aited by the Allies with trepidation and greeted with alarm. It was the rocket fighter - the most spectacular warplane of World War II." Interior - previous owner's ink stamp and embossed stamp on icontents page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light to moderate edge wear, small soft corner creases, and soft wrinkles on covers, light browning to edges of text block, ink stamp on bottom of text block. Good+
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Pitt, Barrie. SPECIAL BOAT SQUADRON: THE STORY OF THE SBS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Century, London, 1983, first edition.
212 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0712601082 B&w photographs, maps. "The Special Boat Squadrons were formed in 1941 to carry out amphibious raids and landings in France and North Africa. During World War II they served with distinction against the Germans in the Aegean, the Adriatic and in Italy. They raided the Aegean Islands - one of these raids provided the basis for Alistair MacLean's 'The Guns of Navarone' - harried the retreating Germans through Greece and spe a rheaded the Commando attack across Lake Comacchio...." Cigarette odor, very light browning to top of textblock, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very light edge wear, tiny scuff on front board. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling at t op/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light browning along top edge, very light rubbing, tiny dint on front panel. Very Good/Very Good-
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Barker, A.J. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. SUICIDE WEAPON. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE VIOLENT CENTURY. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 22.
Ballantine, New York, 1971, first printing.
160 pp, 8 3/16" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings. " 'If we are resolute and are prepared to sacrifice twenty million Japanese lives in a Kamikaze effort victory will be ours!' For what followed from this harrowi ng conviction history has no parallel." Contents: Prologue; Suicide and bushido; Banzai: 10,000 years for the Emperor; The human torpedoes; Divine Wind; Kamikaze in the Philippines; More death from the skies; Samurai under the sea; Suicidal clim a x ; Cataclysmic finale; The balance sheet; Bibliography. Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, light rubbing and soiling - mainly on r ea r cover. Very Good
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Pitt, Barrie and Pitt, Frances. Foreword by Martin Blumenson. THE CHRONOLOGICAL ATLAS OF WORLD WAR II.
Lester & Orpen Dennys, (Toronto, 1989), Ist edition.
179 pp, folio, hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color maps, battle plans. "...provides a month-by-month cartographic chronicle of the first genuinely global conflict in the history of warfare...From September 1939 to August 19 45, a sequence of double-page spreads offers an at-a-glance world view of each month of the war. These global map projections chart the emergence and development of the theatres of war. A lucid range of graphic devices indicates movement within e a ch area of the conflict, the territories controlled and contested by combatant powers, and the nature and incidence of military actions on land, at sea, and in the air. Larger-scale insert maps superimposed on each world map focus on active th e at re s of war, specific operations and individual actions in that month...map and essay features focus on crucial events of the war such as Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Japanese intentions and attitudes before Pearl Harbor - and the attack itself - El A lam ein and D-Day..." A few tiny dints to bottom of boards. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wrinkling, light wear at top of spine, light rubbing. VG+/VG
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Hogg, Ian V. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. THE GUNS: 1939-45. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 11.
Ballantine, New York, 1970, first printing.
160 pp, 8 3/16" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings. "The Panorama of Second World War artillery. Ranging from the monster 60cm 'Karl' gun to the 'soft-drink bottle filled with a deadly brew of benzine, latex and phosphorus' - here is the multitude of weapons and their lethal projectiles, both used and proposed, conventional and bizarre." Interior - previous owner's ink stamp and embossed stamp on contents page, otherwise clean and tight with no other owner ship marks. Exterior - book lightly cocked, previous owner's ink stamp on bottom of text block, light browning on spine and edges of text block, light edge wear, light creases on spine, a few tiny scuffs. Very Good-
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Wykes, Alan. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. BATTLE BOOK NO. 5.
Ballantine, New York, 1968, first printing.
160 pp, 8 1/8" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps/battle plans, drawings. "On Christmas day 1941 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet instituted a medal for the courageous defence of Leningrad. And on that same day thr ee thousand seven hundred Leningraders died of starvation. Yet the city was to suffer not just through that winter, but for nine hundred days." Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no o t h er ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear. Very Good
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Keegan, John. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. WAFFEN SS: THE ASPHALT SOLDIERS. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 16.
Ballantine, New York, 1970, first printing.
160 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings, uniform studies. " 'The SS man's basic attitude must be that of a fighter for fightin's sake; he must be unquestioningly obedient and become emotionally hard; he must have contempt for all 'racial inferiors' and for those who do not belong to order; he must feel the strongest bonds of comradeship with those who do belong, particularly his fellow soldiers and he must think nothing impossible'." Interior - previous owner's small stamp and enbossed stamp on contents page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - previous owner's stamp mark on bottom of text block, light edge wear, wrinkling at front edge of front cover, creases and light browning on spine, tiny corner creases. Very Good-
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