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Image for NAPOLEON'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. A FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, TOGETHER WITH ITS CODICILS, APPENDED INVENTORIES, LETTERS AND INSTRUCTIONS, PRESERVED IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL ARCHIVES.

NAPOLEON'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. A FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, TOGETHER WITH ITS CODICILS, APPENDED INVENTORIES, LETTERS AND INSTRUCTIONS, PRESERVED IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL ARCHIVES.

By: (Bonaparte, Napoleon). Commentaries by Jean-Pierre Babelon and Suzanne D'Huart. Translated from the French and introduced by Alex de Jonge.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Paddington: 1977

Seller ID: 24110

ISBN: 0448221861

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

106 pp, + 6 pages of b&w illustrations, 11" H. " 'France, armee, tete d'armee, Josephine - .' These were the strangely moving, strangely revealing last words spoken by Napoleon Bonaparte as he lay dying on the isle of St. Helena in 1821. Ever since, they have contributed to the popular heroic image of the man who commanded the loyalty of millions, conquered almost the whole of Europe and lost the woman he loved. But his will, reprinted here in facsimile and translated into English for the first time, throws fascinating new light on one of the most enigmatic and extraordinary figures ...
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PRAGUE WINTER: A PERSONAL STORY OF REMEMBRANCE AND WAR, 1937-1948.

By: Albright, Madeleine. With Bill Woodward.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2012

Seller ID: 29612

ISBN: 0062030310

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

467 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(T)akes readers from the Bohemian capital's thousand-year-old castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the desolate prison ghetto of Terezin to the highest councils of European and American government. Albright reflects on her discovery of her family's Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homeland's tangled history, and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their generation. Often relying on eyewitness descrip-tions, she tells the story of how millions of ordinary citizens were ripped from familiar surroundin...
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THE ANGELIC AVENGERS.

By: Andrezel, Pierre. (pseud of Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen).

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: London, Putnam: 1946

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 23566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

303 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Pierre Andrezel, whose name appears on this novel, is described as a young Frenchman, born in Rouen 1915, and educated at Oxford where he wrote stories for English magazines. His original publication of 'The Angelic Avengers' in Copenhagen in 1944 may be explained by the state of France at that time, and the less oppressive conditions of the Danes, whom the British Prime Minister dubbed 'the Gangster's Canary Birds'. The use of this phrase in the book can hardly fail to be an allusion, and may have a certain significance, although it would be an error to regard th...
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WORLD AIRCRAFT: COMMERCIAL, 1935-1960.

By: Angelucci, Enzo and Matricardi, Paolo.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Rand McNally: 1979

Seller ID: 16187

ISBN: 528882066

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

317 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with drawings, profiles, insignia, reproductions of posters. Contents: United States; Great Britain; USSR; France; Italy; Germany; Sweden; Japan; Holland; Canada; Poland; Czechoslovakia; Romania; Spain; Argentina; Australia; Switzerland; People's Republic of China; Major Commercial Aircraft; Civil Aviation Registration Letters - 1960; Insignia of the Major Airlines in 1960; Principal Airports of the World - 1960; Engines. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - book lightly cocked, very l...
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THE MONS STAR: THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, 5th AUG.-22nd NOV. 1914.

By: Ascoli, David.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Harrap: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17051

ISBN: 0245537856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

250 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "The first campaign medal of the Great War - the 1914 Star - was struck in 1917. In October 1919, by command of the King, a bar bearing the dates '5th Aug.-22nd Nov. 1914' was awarded to all holders of the medal who had been under fire - i.e., 'within range of enemy mobile artillery' - in France and Flanders between the qualifying dates. Fewer than 230,000 bars were awarded. The recipients - and only they - were and are the Old Contemptibles. Their very special medal has come to be known, by hallowed tradition, as the '...
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THE SOUTH WALES BORDERERS 24th FOOT 1689-1937.

By: Atkinson, C.T.

Price: $365.00 USD

Publisher: Regimental History Committee, n.p., 1937 (printed by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge).:

Seller ID: 20645

601 pp + 4 fold-out maps at rear, small 4to (10" H), hard cover (dark green cloth with gold lettering/decoration on spine/front board) - no dust jacket. Map on front endpapers, tissue-covered frontispiece, b&w and colour plates (including colour un iform studies by Simkin), b&w illustrations, maps throughout text + 4 fold-out maps at rear - collated. Contents: Foreword; Preface; List of Colonels; The Raising of the Regiment - Ireland; Service at Sea - Camaret Bay and Catalonia; Marl b o r o u g h ' s Wars - The Earlier Campaigns and Blenheim; Marlborough's Wars - Ramillies: Oudenarde: ...
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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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NICHOLAS HILLIARD.

By: Auerbach, Erna.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Boston Book & Art Shop: 1964

Seller ID: 207

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352 pp, small 4to (10" H). Over 200 reproductions of Hilliard's work, mainly in b&w. "This is the first full-length monograph to be written on the life and work of Nicholas Hilliard who lived from 1547 to 1619. The first English-born painter to gain the status of an artist recognised by the English court, he was painter, limner, engraver and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later to James I, and is kown to have also painted portraits in oil, but it is difficult to attribute particular oil portraits to his hand. Hilliard's importance is not limited by his performance as a miniatur...
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JUST RAOUL: THE PRIVATE WAR AGAINST THE NAZIS OF RAOUL LAPORTERIE, WHO SAVED OVER 1,600 LIVES IN FRANCE.

By: Bacque, James. (Raoul Laporterie.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Rocklin, CA, Prima: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19098

ISBN: 1559581425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w illustrations. "In German-occupied France in 1940, only a few people refused to give up the great ideals of their country - liberty, equality, and fraternity. One of these was Raoul Laporterie. Starting right after the fall of France, he supplied false documents, money, transport, and shelter to more than 1,600 people. Those rescued were chiefly Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux, but also included a covey of nuns, some French soldiers evading prison camps, and Allied flyers fleeing captivity. He was assisted by his wife, Laure, and his daughter, Ire...
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THE WESTERN FRONT 1914-1918.

By: Banting, D.R. and Embleton, G.A.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Almark: 1974

Seller ID: 23825

ISBN: 85524173X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

80 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps/battle plans, reproductions, colour uniform studies, reproductions. An overview of the countries and leaders involved, the weapons, tactics and uniforms, and the aftermath of "the war to end all wars". Interior - light cigarette odour, slight browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two tiny corner creases, minor edge wear, crease and small scratch on rear cover, light browning to top and fore-edge of text block.
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JONGLEUR SONGS OF OLD QUEBEC.

By: Barbeau, Marius. Intrepreted into English by Sir Harold Boulton and Sir Ernest MacMillan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16538

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

202 pp, lg 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w drawings, music notation. Bilingual lyrics (French/English), remainder of text English only. "Marius Barbeau has collected here forty-two jongleur and voyageur songs which he recorded between 1916 and 1925 from folksingers along the St. Lawrence River. These are still sung, mostly in the Province of Quebec, but are also well known to emigrant French-Canadians throughout New England, northern Michigan and Louisiana. In addition to the melodies and complete French texts of the songs, Dr. Barbeau has included singable interpretations (not literal transl...
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JONGLEUR SONGS OF OLD QUEBEC.

By: Barbeau, Marius. Intrepreted into English by Sir Harold Boulton and Sir Ernest MacMillan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

THE TRIAL OF THE TEMPLARS.

By: Barber, Malcolm.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, reprint.:

Seller ID: 20800

312 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), soft cover. ISBN 0521457270 "On 18 March 1314, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Templars, was burned at the stake. For almost two centuries the knights of the Order of the Temple had flourished during the Crusades in Palestine and Syria, and in the West, notably in France. But in 1307, the Templars in France were arrested by King Philip IV's officials in the name of the Inquisition, their property seized and the men charged with serious heresies, including the denial of Christ, homosexuality, and idol worship. Confessions, extracted under torture, were ...
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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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BABAYAGA.

By: Barlow, Toby.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2013

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27932

ISBN: 0374107874

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

383 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Paris, 1959" The City of Light is the center of the universe. Expats flock to exercise their loftiest ambitions and most libertine fantasies, and maybe dabble in a bit of Cold War spycraft along the way. Refugees from the East - a few babayagas among them - arrive to start their lives anew. The world's greatest city is as cosmopolitan and alive as it's ever been. Will is just another young American seeking his fortune in Paris - except that the ad agency that employs him is a front for the CIA. He's been in the city a few years now and is beginning t...
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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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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30663

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration & silver crown and capital 'E' on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian...
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SMOKE TRAILS IN THE SKY.

By: Bartley, Tony.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Wilmslow, Crecy: 1997

Edition: New Edition

Seller ID: 25369

ISBN: 0947554637

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

208 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, frontispiece portrait. "(Tony Bartley) joined the RAF at the outbreak of war and flew Spitfires with 92 Squadron from RAF Hornchurch, first in the Battle of France, then covering the Dunkirk evacuation. Later in 1940 the Squadron moved to RAF Biggin Hill which bore the brunt of attacks from German fighters and bombers. At the height of the Battle of Britain he flew daily over London alongside several 92 Squadron pilots who went on to fame such as Robert Stanford Tuck, Brian Kingcome and Don Kingaby. Bartley went on to test-fly Spitfires,...
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ALL THE FINE YOUNG EAGLES: IN THE COCKPIT WITH CANADA'S SECOND WORLD WAR FIGHTER PILOTS.

By: Bashow, David L. Forewords by Lt.-Gen. A.M. DeQuetteville and Air Vice-Marshal J.E. Johnson.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24719

ISBN: 0773729763

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

384 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "From the Battle of France to the Normandy invasion, from the defence of Malta to victory in the Pacific, (young Canadian) airmen fought with great courage in all theatres of the war. Signing up in every province and territory, and serving with both the RAF and the RCAF, they flew many daring missions in their Spitfires and Hurricanes, Kittyhawks, Mustangs, Typhoons, and Mosquitos. (The author) tells the stories of Canada's fighter heroes, using their own wartime correspondence and later memoirs to capture the gripping atmosphere in the co...
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Keyword: France