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DECISION OVER SCHWEINFURT: THE U.S. 8th AIR FORCE BATTLE FOR DAYLIGHT BOMBING.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: David McKay, New York, 1977, book club edition.:

Seller ID: 24015

341 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, map. "(D)escribes moment by moment (the) August 17, 1943 raid as well as the second Schweinfurt mission, October 14, 1943 - the two most savage battles in the history of air warfare. It also describes day by day the lives and deaths of the men on both sides who faced each other not only in these but in other epic battles. Yet (this) is more than the story of the two famous Schweinfurt missions: it is also the story of the development of the U.S. 8th Air Force in England, and the most crucial combat tests of the Ameri...
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75TH ANNIVERSARY NAVAL SERVICE OF CANADA: A PICTORIAL HISTORY.

By: Cranston, Bobby.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia, 75th Anniversary Publishing Company: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28197

ISBN: 0969217803

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Unpaginated, oblong 8vo (8 1/2" H x 10 1/4" D). 162 b&w photographs, with captions. A pictorial history of Canada's Navy from 1910 to 1985, showing ships and the men who sailed on them - some short introductory and biographical notes. Dust jacket has light edge wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds.
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NELSON'S FAVOURITE: HMS AGAMEMNON AT WAR 1781-1809.

By: Deane, Anthony.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: London, Caxton: 2003

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29816

ISBN: 184067430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, drawings, maps. "This compelling narrative recounts the 28-year career of HMS Agamemnon, a 64-gun ship of the line which became one of the most famous vessels of the Royal Navy, commanded between 1793 and 1796 by Nelson, who always referred to her as his favourite ship. For three of the most critical decades of British naval history, Agamemnon was at the centre of events, fighting at the Battle of the Saintes, Copenhagen and, of course, Trafalgar. Later she served in the West Indies, participat...
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NELSON'S FAVOURITE: HMS AGAMEMNON AT WAR 1781-1809.

By: Deane, Anthony.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Caxton: 2003

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 30592

ISBN: 184067430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

NELSON: BREAKING THE LINE.

By: Donachie, David.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Orion: 2002

Seller ID: 10017

ISBN: 0752846817

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

400 pp, 9 1/8" H. B&w maps. "It is 1799 and after Nelson's victory in the Nile he is feted at home as our greatest of heroes. Further victories against the French raise his popularity with the public at large to a fever pitch. However, at court, Nelson's ego and his love for the sultry Emma Hamilton, seen as little more than a whore by the courtiers surrounding George III, dog his progress. Yet with the war against France reaching its crucial stages, his country needs him more than ever. Perhaps with one more great victory he will be finally accepted at the heart of society. Fro...
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WITH THE RED FLEET: THE WAR MEMOIRS OF THE LATE ADMIRAL ARSENI G. GOLOVKO.

By: Golovko, Arseni G., Admiral. Translated by Peter Bloomfield. Edited with introduction by Sir Aubrey Mansergh.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Putnam: 1965

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 17438

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

248 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H) - dark blue boards with silver lettering on spine. B&w photographs, maps. Contents: Editor's Preface; Reflections Over my Diary; The Long-awaited Surprise, June 1941; A Calculated Risk, June 1941 ; Mistakes Notwithstanding, July-August 1941; A Shot for Victory, September-December 1941; On the External Route, September 1941-June 1942; The Story of PQ 17, July 1942; A Rebuff to the Scheer, August-September 1942; The Fight off Kanin Nos, September 1942; The Tragedy of the Sokrushitelny, October-December 1942; Submarine Exploits, December 1942-September 1943; Summoned to...
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THE KILLING TIME: THE U-BOAT WAR 1914-18.

By: Gray, Edwyn A.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1972, book club edition.:

Seller ID: 24058

241 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates. "The explosion which followed Kapitanleutnant Schweiger's curt order to fire on the afternoon of 7 May 1915 far exceeded even his most fervid imaginings. For the torpedo which streaked away from U 20 in response to his command sent to the bottom of the sea the liner Lusitania and with her 1,195 innocent men, women and children, many of them citizens of neutral America and the howl of indignation which followed this cold-blooded atrocity resounded throughout the world. (The author) looks at the German side of the picture an...
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SHADOW OF THE ROCK. THE FOURTH PAUL DEXTER STORY.

By: Hackforth-Jones, Gilbert.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1973

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27915

ISBN: 0340173971

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

224 pp, 8" H. "The announcement of Paul Dexter's promotion to Commander in Her Majesty's Royal Navy reached him on the first day of January 1934 after the dreariest Christmas he'd every experienced. The trouble was that after they'd given him the appointment the Navy didn't seem to be able to find anything for him to do. Eventually they sent him on a course, and it was then that he saved the life of a Rear-Admiral when their plane crashed into the sea. If he'd left him to drown life might subsequently have been easier; as it was, when he was fully recovered, young Dexter found hims...
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THE KEYES PAPERS: SELECTIONS FROM THE PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET BARON KEYES OF ZEEBRUGGE. VOLUME II. 1919-1938.

By: Halpern, Paul, G., editor. (Admiral Keyes.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin / Navy Records Society, London, 1980, first edition.:

Seller ID: 18734

468 pp, 8vo (9" H), hard cover in dust jacket. VOLUME II ONLY. ISBN 0049421654 B&w frontispiece, 2 maps. "Admiral Keyes's correspondence with leading naval personalities sheds light on a variety of naval, military and diplomatic problems during the inter-war period. These include the struggle over control of the Fleet Air Arm, the Jutland Controversy, the Invergordon Mutiny and its aftermath, and both the Washington Naval Conference and the Lausanne Conference. There are interesting lett ers to Keyes from friends describing the situation in the Baltic, 1919-20, and China in the 1...
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HITLER'S GENERALS.

By: Hart, W.E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Plainview, New York, Books for Libraries Press: 1976

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 17952

ISBN: 0518101657

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

222 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H) - dark blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. "The author served as an officer in the Reichswehr under the German Republic, and had the advantage of undergoing several General Staff courses. That service having become impossible to him under Hitler, he lived in Germany for a time in active opposition to the government before finding his way as a volunteer, after the war began, into the ranks of the British Army, from which he was invalided out. Here he reviews the careers of Hitler's generals in the light of their environment and their mental training, port...
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TO RULE THE WAVES: HOW THE BRITISH NAVY SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD. (Inscribed)

By: Herman, Arthur.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25957

ISBN: 0060534249

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

648 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). Inscribed by author on half-title page: To ....., thanks for your service and very best wishes, Arthur Herman. Maps. "This is the story of how the British Navy came to dominate and shape modern history. It is the story of an institution built around a tradition of heroism, in which courage in battle and bravery in death were a byword, from Nelson's death at Trafalgar to Commander Robert Scott's death in the icy wastes of Antarctica. It is also the story of a military force very different from any other, with a cast of individual personalities and int...
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GENERALSHIP AND THE ART OF THE ADMIRAL: PERSPECTIVES OF CANADIAN SENIOR MILITARY LEADERSHIP.

By: Horn, Bernd and Harris, Stephen J., eds. (J.L. Granatstein, Maurice Baril, Romeo Dallaire, Terry Copp, Desmond Morton, Lewis MacKenzie, David Bercuson, Joel Sokolsky, Hal Klepak, Bill McAndrew, W. Don Mcnamara, Ken C. Hague, Ernest B. Beno, et al._

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: St Catharines, Ontario, Vanwell: 2001

Seller ID: 22713

ISBN: 155125056X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

560 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). "This collection of (31) essays by Canadian Forces officers, as well as prominent Canadian authors and scholars, expresses the unique Canadian experience and outlook in regard to the changing nature of leadership in the armed forces. Specifically, the book examines generalship from a number of perspectives such as the historical experience, the nature of higher command, recent operations, civilian-military relations, including the interface with the media, and the functional roles and responsiblities of generalship."
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GENERALSHIP AND THE ART OF THE ADMIRAL: PERSPECTIVES OF CANADIAN SENIOR MILITARY LEADERSHIP.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: St Catharines, Ontario, Vanwell: 2001

Seller ID: 22131

ISBN: 1551250608

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

560 pp, 8vo (9" H). "This collection of (31) essays by Canadian Forces officers, as well as prominent Canadian authors and scholars, expresses the unique Canadian experience and outlook in regard to the changing nature of leadership in the armed forces. Specifically, the book examines generalship from a number of perspectives such as the historical experience, the nature of higher command, recent operations, civilian-military relations, including the interface with the media, and the functional roles and responsiblities of generalship." Interior - clean and tight with no previous...
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ADMIRALS IN COLLISION.

By: Hough, Richard.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1959

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23281

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

174 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "On June 22nd, 1893, the British Mediterranean Fleet, the greatest naval fighting force and the most powerful weapon in the world, was on peacetime manoeuvres off Syria. The weather was fine, the sea calm, the eleven great ironclads were cruising in perfect formation at moderate speed. Then, at 3:31 p.m. the order was given from the flagship to bring the fleet, through a delicate and complex evolution, to its anchorage off Tripoli, barely three miles distant. The calamitous result of this signal was to strike horror throughout Europe and Am...
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FORMER NAVAL PERSON: CHURCHILL AND THE WARS AT SEA.

By: Hough, Richard. (Winston Churchill.)

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1987

Seller ID: 23261

ISBN: 0297790188

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

244 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). B&w photographs. "(C)oncerned with the whole of Churchill's stormy association with the navy, and latterly with his remarkable relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, which resulted in their momentous achievements during the Second World War. Richard Hough has had access to the immense riches of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park in New York State, exclusively to the papers of the late Arthur Marder, and numerous other sources, which, together with the fruits of many interviews over the years, provides new material on many aspects of Churchi...
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COLOURS ALOFT!

By: Kent, Alexander. (pseud. of Douglas Reeman.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16768

ISBN: 0091644003

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

286 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). The sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel. "With the exception of Nelson himself, the recently-knighted Bolitho is the youngest admiral on the Navy list, but his new status sits uneasily upon his shoulders along with his new command. For the most part the officers of his hastily-formed squadron lack experience, whereas their French counterparts are well-trained and confident. And Bolitho is a man plagued by worry about the coolness behind his recent parting with his beautiful wife Belinda. What lies ahead is the reality of war at close quarters - where Bolitho will b...
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WHAT'S LEFT OF NELSON.

By: Marriott, Leo.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Shepperton, Dial House: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 15417

ISBN: 0711023034

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

160 pp, 8vo (9" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. This volume details museums, collections, historical sites, etc. where items and locales related to Lord Nelson can be viewed. "This series (of books) concerns the lasting impression that several eminent figures have left upon society. History records their actions and words and their lives are illustrated in books, photo-graphs and paintings. But each person leaves behind more than writings, reputation or notoriety: the place where they were born; the houses they lived in; the clothes they wore; the str...
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WHAT'S LEFT OF NELSON.

By: Marriott, Leo.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Shepperton, Dial House: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29566

ISBN: 0711023034

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

25 CENTURIES OF SEA WARFARE

By: Mordal, Jacques

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Abbey Library, (London, 1970).:

Seller ID: 18285

419 pp., 8vo (8 5/8" H), blue boards, hard cover in dust jacket The author covers history of sea warfare from 480 B.C. to WWII. Many illustrations of ships, armaments, attack plans, etc. Tiny stain at top edge of front endpapers, a few tiny foxin g marks on top of textblock, tiny scuff on front board, heavy wear on bottom edge of boards and at top/bottom edges of spine, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has heavy edge wear/creasing, several tears with creases and tape on inside, moderate rubbing, a few tiny foxing marks on flaps. Good/Poor
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THE NAVAL MUTINY AT SPITHEAD 1797. THE PORTSMOUTH PAPERS. NO. 5. DECEMBER 1968.

By: Patterson, A. Temple.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Portsmouth City Council, Portsmouth, 1968.:

Seller ID: 20011

15 pp, 9 3/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w map, reproductions. "....a re-statement and assessment of an outstanding episode in the history of Portsmouth and of the British Navy." Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover and on first page, tiny crease at top/bottom corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very small crease at corners of covers, light rubbing on rear cover, minor edge wear. Very Good
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Keyword: Admirals