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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 - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, small paper loss at bo ttom of spine, two very small corner creases, very light rubbing, very light browning to edges of text block, very faint creases on spine. Very Good-
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Ford, Brian. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. GERMAN SECRET WEAPONS: BLUEPRINT FOR MARS.
Ballantine, New York, 1976, 5th printing.
160 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover. ISBN 0345249895250 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 fur therance of secret work, and the German secret weapon programme pressed steadily ahead with incredible and in some cases devastating results." Interior - small erased area on half-title page causing some light color loss, book is cracked at title p age, two very small stains on pages 154/155, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - book is lightly cocked, has light edge wear on spine, light crease on spine, soft crease, two light parallel rub lines and a few tiny s cuffs on rear cover. Very Good-
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Macksey, K.J., Major. (Kenneth). Introduction by Barrie Pitt. PANZER DIVISION: THE MAILED FIST. BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. WEAPONS BOOK NO. 2.
Ballantine, New York, 1968, first edition.
160 pp, 8 1/8" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps/battle plans, drawings. "Confident in the knowledge that they had beaten the German Army to a standstill in 1918, the armies of Western Europe once more came to grips w ith their old enemy in May 1940 - and within a few days lay prostrate before a numerically inferior but technically superior and revolutionary weapon - the Panzer Division." Contents: Secret birth; Poland: The early trial; France: The designs ar e s ealed; Diversions: The southward urge; Russia: The strain of disillusionment; The desert: Armour in control; Stalingrad: Death of an elite; The new elite; The rot sets in; Shoring up the west wall; The last reserve; The war of the Panzers; Bibl io g ra phy. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, minor rubbing. Very Good
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Green, William. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. ROCKET FIGHTER.
Ballantine, New York, 1977, 2nd printing.
160 pp, 8 3/16" H, soft cover. ISBN 0345258932250 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 evolutio n. Its debut was awaited by the Allies with trepidation and greeted with alarm. It was the rocket fighter - the most spectacular warplane of World War II." Interior - very light browning on inside of covers, otherwise clean and tight with no oth er ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, one small soft corner crease, light browning to edges of text block. Very 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 s p e 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/wrinklin g 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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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 wi t h i n 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 a ct iv e 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 its elf - 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 - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, very light browning to ed ges of text block, minor rubbing. 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 n o o t h er ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear. Very Good
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