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THE ROYAL MILITARY CALENDAR, OR ARMY SERVICE AND COMMISSION BOOK. 5 VOLUME SET. FACSIMILE OF THE 1820 THIRD EDITION.

By: N/A

Price: $600.00 USD

Publisher: Privately Printed in an edition of 100 sets of which this is No.3.:

Seller ID: 4845

400 pp, 424 pp, 416 pp, 496 pp, 508 pp, 8vo, hard covers with simulated leather spines (gilt lettering and bands) and biege cloth boards. "CONTAINING THE SERVICES AND PROGRESS OF PROMOTION OF THE GENERALS, LIEUTENANT-GENERALS, MAJOR-GENERALS, COLONELS, LIEU TENANT-COLONELS, AND MAJORS OF THE ARMY, ACCORDING TO SENIORITY: WITH DETAILS OF THE PRINCIPAL MILITARY EVENTS OF THE LAST CENTURY." (The Duke of Wellington accounts for almost half of the first volume.) "This Edition embraces the actual services of above two thousand Officers, and the progress of promotion of 2,872." Index to the set g...
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YESTERDAY'S TOWN: WELLINGTON. A DIARY OF A WEST COUNTRY TOWN IN THE 19th CENTURY.

By: Allen, Gillian.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Buckingham, Barracuda: 1987

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 27184

ISBN: 0860232921

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

124 pp, small 4to (10 7/16" H). Number 368 of a limited edition. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "(I)t is the detail of the 19th century record which attracts us most; the people who lived in specific houses like the Millers, Langleys and Merediths; the controversy about the three posts outside the White Hart Inn; the shops that changed from bank to fishmonger, from watchmaker to cobbler, from Bell Inn to basketmaker; the man who dug a canal in his garden to employ poor people; the ten-year-old who died when her pinny caught fire; the horse that took nine men to t...
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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

Edition: First Edition

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 with in...
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THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1912

Edition: Second Impression.

Seller ID: 29476

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

274 pp, + publisher's advertising, 7 3/4" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 16 b&w plates (collated). The creator of Sherlock Holmes discusses his favourite authors and books. "Come through the magic door with me, and sit here on the green settee, where you can see the old oak case with its untidy lines of volumes. Smoking is not forbidden. Would you care to hear me talk of them? Well, I ask nothing better, for there is no volume there which is not a dear personal friend, and what can a man talk of more pleasantly than that? The other books are over yonder, but these are my ow...
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ROYAL PANOPLY: BRIEF LIVES OF THE ENGLISH MONARCHS.

By: Erickson, Carolly.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006.: 2006

Seller ID: 27401

ISBN: 0312316437

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

351 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Colour and b&w plates. "(This book) replaces the stereotypic images with true multifaceted portraits, bringing each of England's rulers to fully fleshed life. Here is the puny Charles I, nervous, tense, and socially awkward; the frail, slight Richard II, melancholic and sad; the homosexual James I with his handsome favorites; the stuttering William II and the stammering George VI. Here also is the choleric, violent William I (William the Conqueror), bred among the chaos of constant warfare in his native Normandy, ceaselessly embattled once he became King of E...
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"OUR YOUNG SOLDIER": LIEUTENANT FRANCIS SIMCOE, 6 JUNE 1791 - 6 APRIL 1812.

By: Fryer, Mary Beacock.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1996.: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24589

ISBN: 1550022709

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

189 pp, 8vo (9" H). B&w reproductions, maps. "Francis Simcoe was the eldest son of John Graves Simcoe and Elizabeth Gwillim. Letters written by his mother, sisters, and himself reveal his childhood at Eton. At sixteen, he was an ensign in the 27th Inniskilling Regiment. From the beginning of his military career, he kept journals and wrote many letters preserved by the family. His service began in Ireland and ended under Wellington - he died leading a storming party in the Trinidad breach of Badajoz, Spain, a thoroughly bloody, costly battle in the Peninsular war. The army lost a talented...
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"OUR YOUNG SOLDIER": LIEUTENANT FRANCIS SIMCOE, 6 JUNE 1791 - 6 APRIL 1812.

By: Fryer, Mary Beacock.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn Press: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29318

ISBN: 1550022709

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

KOREA 1950-1953: PRISONERS OF WAR, THE BRITISH ARMY.

By: Gaston, Peter, compiled by.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, London Stamp Exchange: 1976

Seller ID: 27051

ISBN: 0948130903

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

28 pp, 8 1/4" H. "This list contains the names of British Army personnel who were reported 'Missing' and, in most cases, their eventual classification. Names of those definitely identified as KIA (i.e. who never became POWs) have in general been withdrawn although there are one or two exceptions in an endeavour to correct the many lists in circulation made from newspaper reports of the period and subject to gross inaccuracy. " Names are listed alphabetically under regiments. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one or two small soft creases on rear cover...
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THE WELLINGTON MUSEUM, APSLEY HOUSE. A GUIDE.

By: Gibbs-Smith, C.H. and Percival, H.V.T. Foreword by Sir Leigh Ashton.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952, second (revised) edition.:

Seller ID: 19480

51 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w plates, floor plans. A description of the 'Iron Duke's' London house and many of its paintings and other artifacts. Includes a short biography. Interior - minor browning to pages, otherwise cle an and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light wear on spine, minor wrinkles on covers. Very Good
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A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA FROM 1837 TO 1852. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES.

By: Greville, Charles C.F. Edited by Henry Reeve.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton: 1885

Seller ID: 19078

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

576 pp, 598 pp, 8vo (8" H), olive green cloth with gold lettering and banding on spines, gold crest on front boards. These two volumes form the second part of 'The Greville Memoirs' which began with the reigns of George IV and William IV, but are complete in themselves, being numbered Vol. I and Vol. II. "(T)he present publication embraces a period of fourteen years, extending from the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in 1837 to the coup d'etat of Napoleon III in 1851. The occurrences which took place after the close of 1851, the subsequent establishment of the Imperial power in Fran...
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THE FALL OF NAPOLEON: THE FINAL BETRAYAL.

By: Hamilton-williams, David.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Brockhampton: 1999

Seller ID: 29123

ISBN: 1860199852

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

352 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w plates, maps/battle plans. "This important study of the cause and effects of Napoleon's removal from power tracks the significant events in his illustrious career through to his downfall and, while doing so, charts the clandestine diplomatic intrigues linking Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia in the quest for the Emperor's demise. Using substantial new research, (the author) questions many of the established views in Napoleonic literature to date. By disclosing hitherto secret terrorist organizations, uncovering the attempts to assassinate Napoleon, highlighting un...
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THE ARMIES OF WELLINGTON.

By: Haythornthwaite, Philip J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1994

Seller ID: 23456

ISBN: 1854091751

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

318 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "(T)he most comprehensive account ever published of the effect of this one man on the British Army during the Napoleonic era. This profusely illustrated study by Philip Haythornthwaite sets out to demonstrate Wellington's flexibility by showing the changes he employed in the various theatres in which he was active. As such, it is not another biography of this most celebrated soldier, but rather an assessment of how he altered the structure and equipment of his troops for each of his campaigns. Every aspect of his armies is explored - from the o...
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THE DESTRUCTION OF LORD RAGLAN: A TRAGEDY OF THE CRIMEAN WAR 1854-55.

By: Hibbert, Christopher.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Harmondsworth, Viking: 1984

Seller ID: 27465

ISBN: 0670800007

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

337 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w maps, photographs. "In March 1954 an army of 30,000 men sailed from Portsmouth to the Crimea to defend the crumbling Turkish empire against invasion by Russia. Led by Lord Raglan, a veteran of Waterloo but, after forty years, out of touch with the realities of warfare, they embarked for an unknown country to defend a cause few understood or even cared about. Nevertheless enthusiasm and confidence were high among the men of what 'The Times' described as 'the finest army that has ever left these shores'. The euphoria was short-lived and the campaign quickly degen...
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MONS. BATTLEGROUND EUROPE SERIES - 1914.

By: Horsfall, Jack and Cave, Nigel.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, Leo Cooper: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13913

ISBN: 0850526779

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

192 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations - photographs, maps, reproductions. Contents: Elements of the German First Army at Mons; Elements of the BEF at Mons and in the Borinage; The Legend of the Angel of Mons; The Road to Mons; Sunday 23 August - The Morning; Mons - The afternoon of 23 August; Monday, 24 August - The Last Day; Tours. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.
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A GALLERY OF HEROES & HEROINES.

By: Johnston, Harry, Sir.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Wells Gardner, Darton: 1915

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27529

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

140 pp, 10 7/8" H. The text is printed on, and the colour portraits are affixed to, light grey stock. Contents: Francis Drake; Walter Raleigh; James Wolfe of Quebec; Captain James Cook; Nelson of the Nile; Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington; Elizabeth Fry; Havelock of Lakhnau; David Livingstone of Central Africa; Florence Nightingale; General Gordon; Robert Falcon Scott of the Antarctic. Very light browning on free endpapers, small gift inscription on front free endpaper, slight bump/light wear at corners of boards, light to moderate edge rubbing on boards, light wrinkling at top/b...
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WILD MARY: THE LIFE OF MARY WESLEY.

By: Marnham, Patrick. (Mary Wesley).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2006

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25435

ISBN: 0701179910

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

289 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w plates. "She was born Mary Farmar, related to the Duke of Wellington, and grew up a rebel who believed that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape. In the late 1930s, she began a fascination with Heinz Ziegler, a Czech university professor and wartime air gunner; his brother, Paul, later a Benedictine monk, also fell under her spell. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was, as she put it, 'roped into Intelligence', where she worked on breaking codes. MI5 and her rackety life during the Bl...
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FOLLOWING THE DRUM: WOMEN IN WELLINGTON'S WARS.

By: Page, F.C.G., Brigadier. Foreword by Elizabeth Longford.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23455

ISBN: 0233979603

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

150 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "Although the Duke of Wellington's Peninsular War and Waterloo campaigns (1808-15) have been well documented by the great military historians, biographers and diarists of the period, many general readers are unaware that it was the custom of each regiment to be accompanied by a number of wives when it left England to go to war. Now Brigadier Page has unearthed a wealth of fascinating detail about these dedicated women, who made a contribution to morale, and hence to victory, that has never before been fully acknowledged. In an elegant and livel...
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THE PENINSULAR WAR.

By: Parkinson, Roger.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, London, (1973).:

Seller ID: 10760

208 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w and color reproductions, maps. "It began in 1808 with Napoleon at the height of his power, and ended with his attempted suicide in 1814; he called it his 'Spanish ulcer'. It began w ith the young Sir Arthur Wellesley eighth in official line of command, and saw his rise to the title of Duke of Wellington and Britain's greatest general; in a series of savagely-fought battles - Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vitoria - Wellington's 'scum' avenged Corunna and swept Spain clean of France's finest troops..." Very light edge wea...
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WAR IN THE PENINSULA.

By: Read, Jan.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, (1977), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 11078

256 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates. "...It was, after all, a war for the independence of Spain and Portugal and had far-reaching repercussions outside the Peninsula: notably the liberation of South America from foreign domination. Drawing upon contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, Jan Read's book sets the conflict in its wider historical context and pays special attention to the activities of the guerillas, whose day-to-day attacks on the invader inflicted a terrib le toll on the French and did as much to achieve ultimate victory as the more spectacular victories of...
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THE ROAD TO BALAKLAVA: STUMBLING INTO WAR WITH RUSSIA.

By: Troubetzkoy, Alexis S.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Trafalgar Press: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29121

ISBN: 0969241904

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

215 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). B&w reproductions, photographs, maps. "(S)kilfully traces the causes of the Crimean War and sketches a vivid picture of an age which made possible 'the world's most curious and unnecesary struggle'. Troubetzkoy ingeniously weaves together the varied developments in diplomacy, trade, nationalistic expression and personality conflict in the decade which led to the hostilities. The armies of the belligerents are described (and the) reader is introduced to the principal personages of the drama - Napoleon III, Marshal St. Arnaud, Lord Raglan and the great Russian engineer...
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