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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF WALES (24th/41st FOOT). UPDATED REPRINT.

By: N/A

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Regimental Committee, 1986, updated reprint.:

Seller ID: 15816

91 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), soft cover (stapled in wraps). Contents: Badges, Distinctions and Battle Honours; Victoria Cross Roll; List of Colonels; Notable Sporting Achievements; Table of Chief Events; The Origins of the Regiment; Battle Honours of the Regiment; The War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1713; The Seven Years War, 1756-1763; The American War of Independence, 1775-1782; The Napoleonic Wars - Service at Sea, 1797; Egypt, 1801; The Cape of Good Hope, 1806; The Peninsular War, 1808 - 1814; Service in the East, 1805-1825; The American War, 1812-1814; The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 - The Fir...
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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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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: Lill...
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BATTLE HONOURS OF THE BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH ARMIES.

By: Baker, Anthony.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: Ian Allan, (Shepperton, 1986), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 14819

398 pp, 4to (11 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w photos, reproductions, maps. "...brings together in one comprehensive volume the story of the achievements of the British and Commonwealth armies over 300 years of service. It tells of and lists the battles fought, whether they were honoured or - equally important - whether they were not and are now largely forgotten, and which regiments were involved...sets out to ensure that...the Honours granted in the past, from 'Tangier' in 1662 to 'Falkland Islands' in 1982, and the regiments that won them are not forgotten. In pr...
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THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. (THE XIVth REGIMENT OF FOOT). FAMOUS REGIMENT SERIES.

By: Barker, A.J.. Introduction by Lieut.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1974

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22575

ISBN: 0850521505

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

80 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions. Music for Regimental March (Ca Ira). Contents: Early days; Ca Ira!; Service in the West Indies; Corunna; Waterloo, 1815; India, 1807-1825; The Crimea; The Maori Campaign; Mainly South Africa; The Auxiliary Forces; The First World War; The Second World War; The Final Years; Appendices: The Regimental March; The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own); Synopsis of Service. Very light cigarette odour, very light browning to edges of text block and in page margins, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light bro...
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THE UNIFORMS & HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH REGIMENTS: BRITAIN - CANADA - AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND - SOUTH AFRICA. 1625 TO THE PRESENT DAY.

By: Barnes, R. Money, Major. In collaboration with C. Kennedy Allen & Lieut. Thomas B. Beatty, Jnr. Foreword by Gen Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Seeley Service: 1969

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 23433

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

351 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H) - red cloth with black title block/gold lettering on spine. Colour plates and b&w drawings. Contents: Introduction; 1625-89. The Lowland Regiments. Killiecrankie. Dunkeld; 1690-1745. Marlborough's Battles. The Union. The '15 and the '45. The Black Watch. Fontenoy; 1755-83. North America. Highland Regiments. Canadian Militia. Minden. American Independence; 1778-99. Highland Regiments. Fencibles. Yeomanry. India. Napoleonic Wars; 1800-14. American War; 1815. Waterloo; 1815-56. Small Wars. India. S. Africa. Canadian Militia. The Crimea; 1857-81. Indian Mutiny. ...
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THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY. FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Bidwell, Shelford. Introduction by Lieut.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1973

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22571

ISBN: 0850521386

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

115 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. Music for Regimental Slow March, Trot Past, Gallop Past. "Many people's visual image of the Royal Horse Artillery is probably confined to the dazzling equestrian performances of the King's Troop which annually entrance schoolboys of all ages at the Royal Tournament. How many people pause to wonder why, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, there should be a King's Troop? How many stop to consider why indeed there should have been a separate formation of mounted artillery in the British Army at all? Brigadier Bidwell answers these a...
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THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS (THE 2nd DRAGOONS). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Blacklock, Michael. Introduction by Lieut.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22577

ISBN: 0850520886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

126 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions. Music for Regimental Quick March (The Garb of Old Gaul), Bugle Charge, and Regimental Quick March for Pipes & Drums (Highland Laddie). "At Waterlo o they charged the French shouting 'Scotland for ever!' and Sergeant Ewart captured the Eagle of the 45th French Regiment. As Napoleon exclaimed, 'Qu'ils sont terribles, ces chevaux gris', and he spoke from the heart: he was referring to the Royal Scots Greys. As it was at Waterloo, so it was at Balaclava where the Greys, as part of the Heavy Brigade, went through the Russians like a knife th...
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THE OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY (THE 43rd/52nd REGIMENT OF FOOT). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Booth, Philip. Introduction by Lt. General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $37.50 USD

Publisher: Leo Cooper, London, 1971, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21688

158 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0850520290 B&w photographs, reproductions, music to Regimental March. Errata sheet tipped in on half-title page. "Since their formation in the mid-eighteenth century the 43rd and 52nd Regim ents of Foot have had a variety of changes in title, achieving in 1908 the name by which they will always be remembered, that of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, although the old cherished numbers, by which the regiments w e r e k n o w n before the Cardwell Reforms, have always b een unofficially used by the regular battalions....
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THE 10th ROYAL HUSSARS (PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Brander, Michael. Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Leo Cooper, London, 1969, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21689

137 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Brigadier Humphrey Gore, who raised the 10th Dragoons in 1715, and General Sir David Dawney, Colonel in 1969, each had a son in the regiment, as also did many of t he Colonels between them, including King Edward VII, for such close family relationships at all levels were a feature in the Tenth, with the same names appearing generation after generation. Hence in a very intimate way the regiment has al w a y s b e e n 'Proud of Their Man'. The Tenth has also always been notable for the Cavalry Spirit, that ...
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FIGHTING WITH THE GUARDS.

By: Briant, Keith.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Evans, London, (1958), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 11547

224 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w photographs, reproductions. "This is the story of the most famous fighting men in the world, the Brigade of Guards, and of their magnificent tradition of discipline and courage (from 1656) ...It includes stories of the V.C.'s won by the Guards during the last war and of the battles they fought; it tells of how recruits from all walks of life are infused with the spirit of a great past and how, after Dunkirk, Guardsmen were for the first time put into tanks and achieved some of their greatest triumphs...In a fascinating chapter the au...
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A HISTORY OF THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. VOLUME 1 AND VOLUME 2. (ONE & TWO)

By: Cantlie, Neil, Lieutenant General Sir.

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1974, first edition.:

Seller ID: 17522

519 pp + fold-out maps at rear, 448 pp + maps at rear (1 fold-out), large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard covers in dust jackets - 2 volume set. Volume One - ISBN 0443010668, Volume Two - ISBN 0443011222 B&w photographs, reproductions, maps (some fold-out), tables. Errata slips tipped in at page 5 (Volume 1) and pages 209 & 220 (Volume 2). "An account of the Army Medical Department, from the time of the institution of the Standing Army in 1660 to the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1898. " Contents: Volume 1 - The New Model Army; The Standing Army; The War of Spanish Succession; The War...
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THE ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT. (THE 9th REGIMENT OF FOOT). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Carew, Tim. Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23484

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

156 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, music (Rule Britannia). "In this short history of the Royal Norfolk Regiment Tim Carew describes the interesting story of one of the most famous regiments of the line. From 1685 to the sad day in 1959 when the Royal Norfolks were amalgamated with the Suffolk Regiment to found the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), theirs has been a record of uninterrupted service in nearly every campaign fought by the British Army since its early days. Indeed in the Second World War they won five V.C.s, more than any other Regiment. I...
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JENA 1806: NAPOLEON DESTROYS PRUSSIA. OSPREY MILITARY CAMPAIGN SERIES 20.

By: Chandler, David G.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Osprey: 1994

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 20097

ISBN: 1855322854

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

96 pp, 9 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs, reproductions, maps/battle plans, uniform studies. Contents: Descent to War - 1806; Plans and Preparations: Prussian War Plans - Napoleon's Operational Plan; 'The Battalion Square' in Action; The Opposing Commanders: The French Commanders in 1806 - Prussian Commanders in 1806; The Opposing Armies: The Grande Armee of 1806 - The Prussian and Saxon Armies of 1806; The Battle of Jena: The Battle Opens at Jena - The Struggle for Rodigen - The Blunders of Marshal Ney - Jena, The Coup de Grace; Auerstadt: The Growing Battle...
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THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

By: Chandler, David, general editor. Ian Beckett, associate editor.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.:

Seller ID: 10379

493 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, reproductions, color plates. "From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf campaign, the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, (this book) recounts the history of the British Army from its medieval antecedents to the present day. Drawing on the latest scholarship, this survey shows how British fighting forces have evolved over the last five centuries. The continuities revealed are sometimes surprising: narrow recruitment patterns, friction b...
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AN OUTLINE OF BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY, 1660-1939. THIRD EDITION.

By: Cole, D.H., Major and Priestley, E.C., Major.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Sifton Praed, London, 1939, 3rd edition.:

Seller ID: 16473

452 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover (red cloth with black lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. Errata slip tipped-in at page 433. B&w maps - several fold-out. Contents: The Birth of the British Regular Army; Early Days of the Regular Army; The First Round With France, 1689-1697; The War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1714; 1714-1755; The Seven Years War, 1756-1763; The Loss of the American Colonies, 1763-1793; The Gaining of the Indian Empire, 1763-1781; Britain's Fight Against Revolutionary France, 1784-1802; The War with the French Empire, 1803-1807; The Peninsular War, ...
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BRITISH REGULAR CAVALRY, 1644-1914.

By: Cooper, Leonard.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18474

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, 8vo (8 3/4"). Pictorial endpapers, b&w plates. "Mr. Cooper takes up his story with the formation of Cromwell's New Model Army, which marked a significant change in cavalry tactics, and closes it with a chapter devoted to the South African War and the years up to the beginning of the 1914 War. In addition, he has written an epilogue to cover the period of cavalry's gradual surrender to mechanisation. Between these points lie nearly three hundred years of history and countless battles which depended for their outcome on the ability and efficiency of the cavalry arm. (He) does not at...
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THE PENINSULAR JOURNAL, 1808-1817.

By: D'Urban, Benjamin, Major-General Sir. Edited, with introduction, by I.J. Rousseau.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: London, Greenhill: 1988

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 23451

ISBN: 0947898875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

355 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Maps. "Whether among the first three to charge the French guns at Medellin, leading his troopers into the enemy ranks at Salamanca, or evolving order out of the chaos that bedevilled the Portuguese Army in 1809, Sir Benjamin D'Urban was not only a brave and resolute soldier but also a painstaking and highly efficient Chief of Staff to Marshal Beresford. Finding, on arrival at Corunna in October 1808, that he had been appointed to that part of the Army left behind in Portugal, D'Urban set out to meet Sir John Moore in the hope of receiving fresh orders. This was the beg...
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CAP OF HONOUR: THE STORY OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT (THE 28th/61st FOOT) 1694-1950.

By: Daniell, David Scott. Material provided by Colonel R.M. Grazebrook. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap: 1951

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23065

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

344 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H) - black cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold badge on front board. B&w photographs, drawings, reproductions, maps. Light browning to pages, small stain in gutter of pages 254 to 271, browning and light staining to edges of text block, light to moderate edgewear on boards, light fading to spine colour, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor bump at corners.
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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, participating in t...
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Keyword: Napoleonic Wars