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THIS IS CANADAIR. A PICTORIAL VISIT THROUGH ONE OF CANADA'S GREAT AIRCRAFT PLANTS.

By: N/A

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Canadair:

Seller ID: 28470

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated (20 pp, including covers), 11" H. No date, but circa 1955. B&w photographs. Section headings: This is Canadair; The Royal Canadian Air Force; F-86 Sabre Jet; T-33 Silver Star Trainer; CL-28 Maritime Reconnaissance; Canadair Transports; Engineering; At a Glance; Production; Pre-Flight and Delivery; Spare Parts; Canadair Officers and Senior Executives; Engineering Department; Manufacturing Department; Sales Department. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small soft crease at top corner of rear cover, minor soiling on rear cover, minor edg...
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AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE J 1 & C. RATE TRAINING MANUAL. NAVTRA 10343-C.

By: N/A

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Naval Training Command: 1972

Seller ID: 28908

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

193 pp, 10 1/4" H. 1972 Edition. B&w drawings/diagrams, photographs. Chapter headings: Aviation Machinist's Mate J rating; Aviation supply; Work Center supervision and administration; Jetcal analyzer; Fuel system maintenance; Turbojet powerplant troubleshooting; Turbojet powerplant removal and installation; Turbojet powerplant hot section repair; Turboshaft-powered helicopter maintenance; Turboprop powerplants/propellers; Index. Interior - small soft bump to bottom corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - small soft creases at bottom corner o...
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CL-41 JET TRAINER. MILITARY AIRCRAFT SALES DIVISION, PUBLICATION NO. 116, OCTOBER 1959.

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Canadair: 1959

Seller ID: 28469

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated (approx. 20 pp.), oblong (8 1/2" H x 11" D). B&w and colour illustrations (photographs, drawings, diagrams, graphs). "The Canadair CL-41 is the first Jet Trainer to employ the new generation of small, high performance jet engines (Pratt and Whitney JT12), and fully meets the requirements of a modern pilot training aircraft. The side by side seating arrangement and the full duplicate flight instrumentation permit an ideal combination of visual and vocal instruction, the most effective procedure in all fields of training.With a performance that combines excellent low s...
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AVIATION ORDNANCEMAN 3 & 2. NAVAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMAND RATE TRAINING MANUAL. NAVEDTRA 10345-D

By: N/A

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, Naval Education and Training Support Command: 1976

Seller ID: 28905

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

728 pp, 10 1/4" H. 1976 Edition. Profusely illustrated with b&w drawings/diagrams, photographs. Chapter headings: Aviation Ordnanceman rating; Elementary physics; Publication; Corrosion control, lubrication, and preservation; Handtools and aircraft hardware; Small arms; Explosives and ammunition; Ammunition stowage, handling, and shipping; Ammunition handling equipment; Pyrotechnics; Aircraft rockets and JATO; Aircraft bombs and accessories; Bomb fuzes; Air-launched guided missiles and weapons; Underwater and nuclear weapons; 20-mm aircraft guns and accessories; 20-mm belting and loading...
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AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE 3 & 2. RATE TRAINING MANUAL AND NONRESIDENT CAREER COURSE. NAVEDTRA 10323.

By: N/A

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, Naval Education and Training Support Command: 1978

Seller ID: 28907

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

426 pp + iii pp + 113 pp (Assignments), 10 1/4" H. 1978 Revised Edition. Profusely illustrated with b&w drawings/diagrams (some fold-out), photographs. Chapter headings: Aviation Machinist's Mate Rating; Publications; Tools and Hardware; Aircraft Engines; Aircraft Engine Fuel Systems; Aircraft Engine Lubricating Systems; Hydraulic, Electric, and Starting Systems; Aicraft Engine Inspections and Repair; Turbroprop Powerplants and Propellers; Turboshaft Powerplants and Helicopters; Turbofan Powerplants; Ground Handling Equipment and Procedures; Line Operations and Maintenance; Aircraft Engi...
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GUARDIA REAL DE S.M. JUAN CARLOS I. CARPETA PRIMERA: CONTIENE LAS LAMINAS NUMEROS 101 A 108.

By: N/A

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Bilbao, Imprenta Industrial S.A.: 1982

Seller ID: 30302

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

Folder (carpeta), 9 1/8" H x 12" W, containing one sheet of text (*Spanish only*), 8 plates (laminas), 11 3/8" H x 8 3/4" W, numbered 101 to 108, with multiple colour uniform studies, plus one additional small sheet with two uniform studies. Titles of plates: 101 - Ejercito Espanol, 1981 - Guardia real. Grupo Tactico. 102 - ditto - Guardia Real. Unidad de musica. 103 - ditto - Guardia real. Grupo Tactico. 104 - ditto - Guardia Real. Grupo de Seguridad Inmediata. 105 - ditto - Guardia Real. Escuadron de lanceros. 106 - ditto - Guardia Real. Escuadron de lanceros. 107 - di...
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MODERN AFRICAN WARS (2): ANGOLA AND MOCAMBIQUE 1961-74. OSPREY MEN-AT-ARMS SERIES 202.

By: Abbott, Peter and Ribeiro Rodrigues, Manuel. Series Editor, Martin Windrow.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Osprey: 1988

Seller ID: 27046

ISBN: 0850458439

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

48 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings/diagrams, maps. 8 pages of colour uniform studies. Contents: Preface; Portugal's African Empire; The Liberation Movements; The Portuguese Forces; The Portuguese Forces in Action; The Plates. Interior - previous owner's small ink name stamp on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very small light bump to top corner of book.
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DEFENDERS OF PAKISTAN.

By: Amin, Mohamed; Quraishy, Masud; Willetts, Duncan; Tetley, Brian.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Midland Counties, (Leicester, 1988).:

Seller ID: 15424

200 pp, 4to (12 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. "Few nations in history came into the world so empty-handed as Pakistan. Born at the stroke of midnight on 14 August 1947, it's bounded in the east by India, in the north by China and the Soviet Union and in the west by Afghanistan and in the south-west by Iran. More recently a simmering war - perhaps the most astonishing one of all - goes on at heights of more than 20,000 feet, in the great H imalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges of northern Pakistan. On its North-West Frontier, the...
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CLASSIC RAF BATTLES FROM WORLD WAR ONE TO THE PRESENT.

By: Armitage, Michael, editor-in-chief. (Peter Kilduff, Peter Cooksley, Michael Burns, John Ray, Ray Sturtivant, John Maynard, Tony Mason, Michael Gething, Ron Dick, Ken Delve, Mike Spick, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1995

Seller ID: 9850

ISBN: 185409291X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

171 pp, oblong large 8vo (8 7/8" H x 11 1/4" D). B&w maps. "Forty superb full-colour paintings, accompanied by detailed background narratives, show the RAF in action, from the dogfights of the First World War to missions in the Gulf War. (Represents) work of some of the very finest aviation artists working today. Sir Michael Armitage has assembled a first-class team of RAF veterans, historians and aviation experts with the brief to write the background history of the action depicted in each painting - arranged chronologically within the decades of RAF service." Dust jacket ha...
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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: Armitage, Michael.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Brockhampton: 1996

Seller ID: 23783

ISBN: 1860198511

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

288 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. "Created in 1918 from the former Royal Flying Corps, the RAF forged its own traditions as it developed the tactics and weap- onry of aerial warfare. It ended the First World War with a strength of 300,000 personnel and 23,000 aircraft, but there was the immediate threat of stringent post-war defence budgets and an Army and Navy that demanded that air power be under their control. The Chief of Air Staff, Trenchard, needed a successful example of the potential of air power in order to guarantee future fund...
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DEFENSE FOR A NEW ERA: LESSONS OF THE PERSIAN GULF WAR.

By: Aspin, Les, Rep. & Dickinson, William, Rep. House Armed Services Committee, U.S. Congress.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, Brassey's (US): 1992

Seller ID: 15904

ISBN: 0028810287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

93 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "The House of Representatives' official report on Operation Desert Storm, (this book) discloses what went right, what went wrong, and what was learned for tomorrow's defense planning and budgets. It is the first such congressional postwar analysis ever published. With responsiblity to go far beyond the media reports, the House Armed Services Committee interviewed nearly a thousand participants while thoroughly scrutinizing the coalition victory over Iraq. The culmination of that wide-ranging analysis, this book provides unique insights into such crucial topics a...
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FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE: THE BATTLE OF THE HOOK, KOREA 1953.

By: Barker, A.J.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1974

Seller ID: 16856

ISBN: 0850521084

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

170 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, maps. "The Battle of the Hook was probably the last full-scale infantry battle, fought on traditional lines, that the world will ever see. It was also a classic set-piece example of a battalion in defence and was, in terms of steel, the biggest battle of the Korean War, and the most concentrated confrontation of artillery support and engineering effort since the First World War. In it the Black Watch and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment defeated and completely routed a fanatical Chinese army who attacked them over a period of some fifteen days...
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THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR.

By: Barnes, Jeremy.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Gallery, New York, (1988).:

Seller ID: 19607

206 pp, folio (approx. 14 1/2" H x 10 1/2" D), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illus in b&w and color. ISBN 0861244486 "...explores in graphic detail the course of this long and bitter conflict...presents a new and fascinating view of this m ost complex and i nteresting conflict. The story is traced from its beginnings to the debacles of the evacuation of Saigon and beyond and includes coverage of the related conflicts in Laos and Cambodia...features over 260 carefully chosen i l l u s t r a t ions in a dramatic extra-large format which captures the intensity of this cost...
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DEADLOCK IN KOREA: CANADIANS AT WAR, 1950-1953.

By: Barris, Ted. Introduction by Joe Schlesinger.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan: 1999

Seller ID: 24233

ISBN: 0771576757

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

326 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographss and maps. "In 1950, nearly 25,000 Canadians signed on for a UN-sponsored 'police action' to stop the Communist incursion into South Korea. They joined a multi-national expeditionary force that quickly found itself embroiled in a full-scale war. Members of the Canadian navy, airforce and infantry fought with distinction and endured months of bloody stalemate that ultimately stopped the Communists but failed to reunite the people of the Korean peninsula - with consequences that continue to haunt the world today. Ted Barris interviewed hundred...
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DEADLOCK IN KOREA: CANADIANS AT WAR, 1950-1953.

By: Barris, Ted. Introduction by Joe Schlesinger. Inscribed by author.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Canada: 1999

Seller ID: 29359

ISBN: 0771575912

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

326 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs and maps. Inscribed by the author on title page: "All the best - Ted Barris. March '99". "In 1950, nearly 25,000 Canadians signed on for a UN-sponsored 'police action' to stop the Communist incursion into South Korea. They joined a multi-national expeditionary force that quickly found itself embroiled in a full-scale war. Members of the Canadian navy, airforce and infantry fought with distinction and endured months of bloody stalemate that ultimately stopped the Communists but failed to reunite the people of the Korean peninsu...
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CRATER TO THE CREGGAN: A HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT 1964-1974.

By: Barthorp, Michael.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1976

Seller ID: 18888

ISBN: 085052229

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

160 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). Color frontispiece, b&w photographs, maps, 'family tree'. "In the early 1960s a new concept for the organisation of the Infantry was devised - the voluntary formation of Large Regiments. This is the story of the first: the Royal Anglian Regiment, with four regular battalions, formed from the seven county regiments of East Anglia and the East Midlands. These regiments, each with long and highly individual histories and traditions, made a decision to unite, a step which required goodwill, tolerance, trust and determination to made the union succeed. In some quarte...
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THE SPIRIT OF THE REGIMENT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE 48TH HIGHLANDERS FROM 1956 TO 1991.

By: Batten, Jack.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: Privately Printed: 1991

Seller ID: 23176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

172 pp, small 4to (10 1/4" H). Dark green cloth with silver lettering/insignia on front board. B&w photographs. "Kim Beattie's book 'Dileas' takes the history of the 48th to the year 1956. This present book, a more informal work than Beattie's monumental record, picks up the story in 1956 and carries it forward to 1991. However, for the benefit of readers not familiar with the 48th's founding and its early years, the first two chapters recount the pre-1956 history of the regiment in abbreviated form." Minor wear at bottom of spine.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE REGIMENT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE 48TH HIGHLANDERS FROM 1956 TO 1991.

By: Batten, Jack.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Privately Printed: 1991

Seller ID: 29463

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

STRATEGIC SURVEY 1991-1992.

By: Bearman, Sidney, ed.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Brassey's / International Institute for Strategic Studies, (London, 1992).:

Seller ID: 15452

248 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. Contents: The End of an Empire; Central Europe's Struggling States; Turmoil in the Balkans; European Integration: On the Horizon; The US Looks Inwards; North American Free Trade Area in Trouble; Latin America: Orthodoxy and Uncertainty; Cuba: Teetering on the Brink; Prospects for Arab-Israeli Peace; Iraq and the Gulf States; Iran Sheds its Radical Image; The Maghreb: The Rise of Radical Islam; China On the Move; Japan: Still Searching; The Two Koreas: Cooperation or Crisis?; Indochina: A Fragile Peace; Central Asia: Shaping New States; India and its Nei...
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TESTING EARLY JETS: COMPRESSIBILITY AND THE SUPERSONIC ERA.

By: Beaumont, Roland. Foreword by Sir Peter Masefield.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Shrewsbury, Airlife: 1990

Seller ID: 24416

ISBN: 1853101583

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

143 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w photographs. "Roland Beaumont is one of the most experienced and highly-rated test pilots of the post-war era. In this book he outlines the significance of developments in early jets. Beaumont is well placed to make such assessments. As chief test pilot, he made the first flights on fourteen new-type aircaft. He was test pilot on many of the first and second generation jet fighters and bombers, both British and American, as well as the first British supersonic aircraft. The core of the book is made up of the author's flight test reports on such aircra...
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Category: Military - Post WWII