Resultados de búsqueda: MILITARIA non-fiction from Fortuna Books

Melbourne: Heinemann, 1969 dust jacket is price clipped and worn to edges and spine ends. a few edge tears, small hole where spine has been scuffed. 202pp + plates, book shows minor scattered foxing. A freelance journalist and photographer in Vietnam, she spent much time with Australian troops, as well as Australian and American medical teams. Also the Montagnard tribes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Longmans, 1954 second impression, lacks free end paper, top edge dusted red, slightly tired copy, DW unclipped, heavily sunned spine, light edge wear, Otto Skorzeny the elite SS commando who rescued Mussolini from an 'impenetrable' mountain prison and kidnapped the Hungarian leader Horthy from within his own fortress of Budapest Castle! Skorzeny had a brilliant mind for commando actions and this book looks at both the German and British Commando groups during the war as well as Skorzeny's post war activities. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cassell, 1958 black cloth minor rubbing to tips, very faint foxing to prelims and closed edges. DW unclipped, top 1 cm at head of spine missing, loses the THE in the title. 5 cm split down from the top of the lower DW joint, somer edge wear or small chips , top part of lower panel slightly sunned. xv 335pp +plates. Crimes against POWs and civilians alike in Japanese internment camps during second world war.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Leo Rawlings. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: MacMillan, 1984 excellent copy, minor wear to DW xiv, 346pp + plates, includes exhaustive appendices etc. the definitive work on the notorious Colditz POW camp during World War Two.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1928 joints rubbed, spine cloth darkened, small surface insect marks to lower board, inscriptions dated 1928 to fep, new edition fourth impression January 1928, xvi 183pp + plates, maps (including folding), the Dardanelles campaign focused on the botched Gallipoli landing where ANZAC troops proved themselves as some of the war's best. New edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Hodder, 1915 slightly soiled cloth, small bookseller stamp to fep, light ageing , rare account of the French forces in the first years of the war, one of The Daily Telegraph War Books, 187pp + 6pp adverts. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Hodder, 1916 cloth boards lightly faded and rubbed, spine sunned, gift inscription dated 1916 to fep, feps browned, some foxing throughout, errata slip to half title recognising original publication in The Saturday Westminster periodical, 242pp, recollections of a chaplain with the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet giving much information on the conditions of the common sailor of the time, author's name not given in book. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: MacMillan, 1916 colonial issue in The Dominions Edition, light blue cloth with dark blue titling and decoration, spine sunned and faded, slight foxing to cloth, light handling soiling, minor foxing to closed edges, the same as the UK standard first edition but has variant binding and The Dominions Edition to head of title page, v 222+4pp adverts. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Collins, 1957 first edition, price clipped dust jacket has minor wear and a few minor edge tears, 254pp, A New Zealand surgeon's wartime experiences with the Yugoslav Partisans, uncommonly tidy copy in similar dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1965 VG in unclipped DW with short edge tears to spine ends and top of lower panel, lower panel a little discoloured or foxed 192pp + plates, An early history of the Vietnam war.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1916 red cloth faded to top part of upper board, edges rubbed and worn, split to upper part of upper joint, spine faded, lower joint starting to split at head. boards lightly soiled, LACKS THE FOLDING MAP, , hinge opening before the title, xvi, 319 +1pp + plates and maps. Internally very tidy. Scarce work on the Serbian campaigns of the Great War.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Guild Publishing, 1989 edited by General Sir John Hackett, published by Sidgwick & Jackson 1989,this edition published by GUILD BOOKS pp256 Reviewer: Chris Bates "This is probably the only book to really challenge Warry's 'Warfare in the Classical World'. This book does differ in several ways , notably it covers a broader timescale including chapters on the beginnings of warfare and the Assyrians. The bulk of the book however concentrates on the Graeco-Roman period, the various chapters being the work of individual contributors (including one dedicated to Alexander the Great by Dr Albert Devine). This book is much more academically inclined than Warry's; most chapters list the primary sources utilised, whilst there is also a bibliography of secondary sources used. The text is supported by excellent illustrations, courtesy of Peter Connolly, which really bring home the reality of what a phalanx looked like and the depiction of the phalanx clash at second Coronea could… Leer más

London: Harrap, 1961 ex-library, lacks DW. boards rubbed to edges and joints, bumped corners, circulating library plate to paste down, stamps throughout, reasonably tidy copy barring the library markings. 228pp + plates, Good+. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library.

New York: St Martins, 1991 book bruised at head of spine otherwise VG with no faults, DW has some edgewear to spine ends and a little scuffing to rear panel, a 25mm tear along the lower flap fold not price-clipped.340pp+ b&w plates. leading Nazi scientists given refuge in America in exchange for technological expertise including "war criminals", in defiance of President Trumans decree. To keep them out of Soviet hands the Americans rushed them from German territory and gave them positions with US Defense researchers. Includes American experiments on servicemen to simulate chemical and psychological warfare ,conducted by former Nazis in manners reminiscent of their wartime research. scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Elek, 1956 unclipped dust jacket handling soiled with taped split at heel of upper joint, splits at corner folds, name to fep, spine leans slightly, tidy copy, xiv 338pp + plates, the nazi extermination program from its vague and unformulated beginnings, through to the mechanisation of the extermination along the eastern front. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Leo Cooper, 1985 unclipped DW slight spine fade, 201pp + plates in colour & b&w. map endpapers, Falklands War between UK and Argentina as seen by 3 Commando Brigade. Author was the commanding officer of the Brigade.. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: The Quality Book Club, 1955 first thus, unclipped dust jacket with light wear, the breakout of the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, small name at head of fep, 208pp + plate. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1974 Farm hand on New Zealand high country runs , North and South Island. Work on Makatoke railway viaduct, author put back his age by 15 years to enlist during WWII, Sent to Middle East and Crete, Greece with 19th battalion, purchased Banks Peninsula property, About 80 pp dealing with military life, 238pp, DW has rubbing, short tears some chipping. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1935 ex library rebound with typed title to spine, library plates to paste down and fep, a few tidy stamps, generally very tidy apart from the bland rebind. 208pp a soldier blinded in the Great War recounts his convalescence and resignation to blindness caused by wounds, reference to St Dunstans. Authors experiences abroad as a blind man. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.

Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1964 60pp + 2 fold out coloured maps and 20 pp photo section at rear. Communist North Vietnamese propaganda / rebuttal to the airborne aggression from the carriers 'Constellation' and 'Ticonderoga' August 1964 during which eight planes were downed. Includes accounts of provocations by US ships against the North Vietnamese leading up to the assault, (200 gram rate) . First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.