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THE QUIET FIELDS.

By: 'BB'. Illustrated by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Michael Joseph, London, 1981, first edtion.:

Seller ID: 18637

206 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0718120396 Charming b&w illustrations. "There is a growing need for the 'quiet fields' in this noisy, restless world. Mercifully, they can still be found by the country-lover and naturalist . This book tells of a year spent deep in the countryside, beginning when the year is young, when trees and hedges are bare to the winter winds, and on through the spring, summer and autumn, to winter once again. Whatever the season of t h e y e a r t h ere is always something to see in the countryside, even when the 'quiet fields' are ...
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OUTWITTING THE GESTAPO.

By: Aubrac, Lucie. Translated by Konrad Bieber with the assistance of Betsy Wing. Introduction by Margaret Collins Weitz.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993, book club edition.:

Seller ID: 23803

235 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "Lucie Aubrac was a young woman of Catholic and peasant background, teaching history in a Lyon's girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. Lucie and Raymond, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the resistance movement that formed in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. 'We had the incredible good fortune', writes Lucie Aubrac, 'to live as ourselves - we did not have to adopt false identities or go into hiding - until the spring of 19...
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FOUR YEARS ON THE GREAT LAKES, 1813-1816. THE JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT DAVID WINGFIELD, ROYAL NAVY.

By: Bamford, Don and Carroll, Paul. Foreword by Barry Gough. (Lieutenant David Wingfield).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage: 2009

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24477

ISBN: 1554883938

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

277 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, drawings, reproductions, maps, colour plates. "David Wingfield joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of fourteen. His service took him to the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. Captured, he was a POW in the United States for nine months. Following his release, Wingfield had some intriguing adventures on the Upper Great Lakes before returning to England. Once home, he used his handwritten notes, kept during his time in North America, as the basis for an account of his experiences there. This, the only account of the War of 1812 as seen through the eye...
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FIGHTER PILOT. A SELF-PORTRAIT BY GEORGE BARCLAY.

By: Barclay, George. (Edited by Humphrey Wynn.)

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: London, Kimber: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25933

ISBN: 071830294X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

224 pp, lg. 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 071830294X B&w photos. "This is the outstanding story of a Royal Air Force Volunteer Reservist who flew in the Battle of Britian and kept an exciting day-to-day diary of his experiences. Later, shot down over Northern France, he evaded capture and made his way home through Spain and Gibraltar with the help of the French Resistance Workers and the Allied escape organization. Again he wrote a vivid account of his exploits, but was unable to complete it because after a few months in the UK on fighter operations he was sent o...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS IN WORLD WAR I.

By: Barker, Ralph.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Robinson: 2002

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 25365

ISBN: 1841194700

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

507 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). B&w photographs. "(T)he compelling story of the vital role played by the pioneer pilots and observers of the Royal Flying Corps who served their apprenticeships in the unforgiving skies of World War I. The RFC took part in all the major battles from Mons to the Somme, from Bloody April 1917, when the airmen suffered enormous casualties, through Third Ypres and Passchendaele, up to the chaotic retreat from Ludendorff's offensive and on to the threshold of victory. Drawing from letters and diaries of the men who took part, Ralph Barker successfully recreate...
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HMS SHEFFIELD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF 'OLD SHINY'.

By: Bassett, Ronald.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25501

ISBN: 0853689113

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

224 pp, large 8vo (9 15/16" H). B&w maps and photographs. "The first HMS Sheffield was launched in 1936 to serve her flag bravely for thirty years. During World War Two, the cruiser became one of the most illustrious warships of all time, achieving twelve honours. In 1940, she fought in the action off Cape Spartivento; in the following year she shared in the audacious bombardment of Genoa, exchanged salvoes with Bismarck and sank one of that battleship's supply tankers, Friedrich Breme. In the Arctic a mine blew a 22-foot hole in her stern, but in an Icelandic fjord her crew fashioned...
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A TREASURE SHIP OF OLD QUEBEC.

By: Bennett, Ethel Hume.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1936

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 29464

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

266 pp, 8 1/2" H. Blue cloth with black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers, b&w illustrations. Most of the front panel of the dust jacket has been laid in the front of the book, but the rest is missing. Signed on title page: "Ethel Hume Bennett, / Christmas 1936 / Toronto." "Good story of a group of young people who succeed in solving the mystery of the disappearance of a model ship, a seal, a miniature and a deed -- all keys to the future happiness of one of the group. Perhaps luck is with them to a surprising degree, but, none the less, the following down of clues i...
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THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1980

Edition: Limited First Edition, Specially Bound.

Seller ID: 30458

ISBN: 0771012357

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

363 pp, 9 3/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, maps/battle plans. Blue (faux?) leather spine with gilt lettering & decoration, gray boards with blue decoration on front board. "This first edition copy - is one of a limited number (unspecified) which have been specially bound and slipcased" from the copyright page. " To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed the best way to bloody John Bull's nose. It would, as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted, be 'a mere matter of marching'. How could a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet,...
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THE BICKERSTETH DIARIES 1914-1918.

By: Bickersteth, John, editor. Introduction by John Terraine. Foreword by Donald Coggan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1996

Seller ID: 23146

ISBN: 0850525462

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

332 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). B&w illustrations. "The Bickersteth War Diary was begun in August 1914 by Ella Monier-Williams Bickersteth, at the urgings of her son Burgon, with the idea of sharing the news of happenings in Europe with another son who was in Australia at the time. She was to continue it for four and a half years and then resumed her task during the Second World War. The resulting volumes, full of newspaper clippings and letters have been edited by her grandson to present a personal look at the life of a family that provided soldiers and chaplains to the British Arm...
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THE BICKERSTETH DIARIES 1914-1918.

By: Bickersteth, John, editor. Introduction by John Terraine. Foreword by Donald Coggan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1996

Seller ID: 29091

ISBN: 0850525462

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

PRIVATE WORDS: LETTERS AND DIARIES FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Blythe, Ronald, ed.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Viking: 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23312

ISBN: 0670832049

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

310 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "The Second World War was, among other things, a great 'reading and writing' war. There was a passion for books of all kinds, and also a remarkable outpouring of personal writing in the form of letters and diaries. The latter were actually forbidden in the services because they might fall into enemy hands, but this did not prevent them from being kept in startling quantities. The young especially, whether on the Home Front or fighting abroad, became extraordinary self-examiners and communicators, finding all kinds of outlets for what was happening to the...
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SPIRIT OF PLACE: LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

By: Bolger, Francis W.P.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 28196

ISBN: 0195403894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

86 pp, 10 1/4" H. Colour photographs. "Lucy Maud Montgomery, the world-famous author of 'Anne of Green Gables', had a deep and passionate affection for the pastoral serenity and tranquil beauty of her native Island. (This) is a pictorial study of the Prince Edward Island that Lucy Maud knew and loved. Passages from her autobiography and from her voluminous personal correspondence supply the text prepared by Francis W.P. Bolger, and the photographs have been taken specially to illustrate the landscape she described. Word and picture together portray the Island that was always Lucy ...
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COMBAT REPORT: THE STORY OF A FIGHTER PILOT.

By: Bolitho, Hector.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28618

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

138 pp, 8 5/8" H. Blue cloth with white lettering on spine. Colour frontispiece (from a portrait by Eric Kennington), b&w photographs. A biography of John Leith, 43 Squadron, R.A.F., combining personal reminiscences of the author and diary/letter excerpts. Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light fading to color at top/bottom of spine and at top of rear hinge area, a few tiny foxing marks on bottom of text block, very small bump at top corner of pages 93 to 106, a few pages with a small soft crease at top corner
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ONE MAN'S WAR: A SOLDIER'S DIARY.

By: Brown, James Ambrose.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cape Town, South Africa, Howard Timmins: 1980

Seller ID: 16555

ISBN: 0869781790

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

185 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). B&w photographs. "Apart from its importance as an historical narrative the story told in these pages by a 22-year-old soldier has the unique quality of experience freshly captured - the truth of a soldier's life in the critical battles fought in North Africa in 1941-42. It is a personal view of war with its boredom, its moments of terror, of tenderness and humour and its final realisation that war is not a glorious game. It is written from the limited viewpoint of a young N.C.O. with his self-doubt, his fantasies and his moments of despair. It chronicles ...
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THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF THE SOMME.

By: Brown, Malcolm.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Pan: 1997

Seller ID: 24078

ISBN: 0330352202

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good-

380 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w plates, maps. "This book offers a remarkably fresh perspective on the bitterly fought 1916 campaign; it also describes the later battles of the Somme in the Great War's final year, 1918. Using hitherto unpublished evidence from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, it tells its powerful and dramatic story through the letters and diaries of those who were there. (The author) has woven the many and varied accounts of well over a hundred participants - mainly British, but with not few Germans - into a rich tapestry of experience, so that the book reads less like ...
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THE DIARY OF COLOUR-SERJEANT GEORGE CALLADINE, 19TH FOOT, 1793-1837.

By: Calladine, George. Edited by Major M.L. Ferrar.

Price: $275.00 USD

Publisher: London, Eden Fisher: 1922

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 16884

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

210 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H) - dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine. "George Calladine was born in 1793 and lived to be 83 years old. His wife predeceased him by thirty years and of his 13 children, only one outlived him. In 1810, he enlisted in the Derbyshire Militia and embarked on a military life that saw him posted to Ceylon and Ireland. His diary gives details of a soldier's life, the military and the social aspects, promotions, postings, family incidents, travels, observations of unfamiliar customs and wildlife, marches and engagements." Previous owners small stamp on fro...
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IT MADE YOU THINK OF HOME. THE HAUNTING JOURNAL OF DEWARD BARNES, CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE: 1916-1919.

By: Cane, Bruce. (Deward Barnes)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25374

ISBN: 1550025120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

318 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "This is (the story of Deward Barnes, a Canadian soldier of WWI), in his words, written as the events of the Great War were unfolding. Illustrated with Deward's sketches and contemporary photos, (it) takes us into the mind of this ordinary Canadian soldier, trapped in a world in which he had to pay a terrible price in order to survive. In 1917, Deward was assigned to the firing squad that was to take the life of Private Harold Lodge, who had been convicted of desertion by a court martial. Lodge was one of 23 Canadians executed during the war by their own ...
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THE INNISKILLING DIARIES 1899-1903. 1st BATTALION, 27th ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

By: Cassidy, Martin. Foreword by Brigadier W.J. Hiles.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, Leo Cooper: 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22525

ISBN: 0850528240

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

252 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w plates, maps. "One hundred years ago, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, along with many other British regiments, were fighting a desperate campaign many thousands of miles from their native land. The Second Boer War tested the resolve and resources of what was then the mightiest Empire in the world. A succession of reverses raised the real spectre of defeat at the hands of the Boers; an unthinkable humiliation. The depth of public interest and concern felt at the time is reflected in continual fascination in this conflict. Thus Martin Cassidy's caref...
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Image for THE BOY ON A HORSE: A LECTURE GIVEN AT THE OSBORNE COLLECTION IN LILLIAN H. SMITH BRANCH 16 APRIL 1998. THE FRIENDS OF THE OSBORNE AND LILLIAN H. SMITH COLLECTIONS OCCASIONAL PAPERS. NUMBER ONE.

THE BOY ON A HORSE: A LECTURE GIVEN AT THE OSBORNE COLLECTION IN LILLIAN H. SMITH BRANCH 16 APRIL 1998. THE FRIENDS OF THE OSBORNE AND LILLIAN H. SMITH COLLECTIONS OCCASIONAL PAPERS. NUMBER ONE.

By: Chambers, Douglas.

Price: $19.95 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections: 1998

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 16485

ISBN: 092060143X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

30 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w frontispiece. Limited to an edition of 500 copies. The text of a lecture given by Douglas Chambers "on the travel diary of Francis Godolphin, the 'Boy on a Horse', who was the grandson of John Evelyn. It is the first travel journal in English written by a child, and we are privileged to enjoy it with as rich and knowledgeable an authority as Douglas Chambers". Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean.
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WELLINGTON WINGS: AN RAF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER IN THE WESTERN DESERT.

By: Chappell, F.R. Foreword by Air Commodore C.J. Mount.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Somerton, Somerset, Crecy: 1992

Seller ID: 29375

ISBN: 0947554270

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

282 pp, lg 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps. "The author was a squadron and wing intelligence officer and kept long and detailed diaries of the day to day life in the Desert Group, and on these the book is largely based. The result is a vivid and realistic picture of the Desert atmosphere; he communicates the tenseness during the nights when the Wellingtons were away on missions, the crashes, the accidents, the debriefings, and the dreaded sandstorms. He recaptures the excitement of the perilous operations, some of which he flew on himself, as well as the lighter moments during ...
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