Military - Fiction from Capricorn Books

London: Hutchinson, 1988. 3 volume set, hard cover first editions in dust jackets, 8 7/8" H. 1. Spy Hook - 267 pp, 1988, ISBN 0091736420. "Bernard Samson plods through a snow blizzard in Washington DC, and he's not enjoying it. Old pals are not as friendly, colleagues not so confiding as they used to be. Or so it seems… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011. 390 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w map, plan. "270 AD. Rome has ruled Syria for over three centuries. But now the weakened empire faces a desperate threat: Queen Zenobia of Palmyra has turned her Roman-trained army against her former masters and the once invincible legions have been crushed. Arabia, Palestine and Egypt have fallen… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. 205 pp, 8 3/4" H, black boards with gilt lettering on spine, maroon top edge of textblock and endpapers. "In this (collection of short stories) about men at war, Len Deighton slyly traps the reader into an involvement far deeper than he bargains for. A series of literary jump-cuts between actions as far apart as the… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1929. 153 pp, 7 11/16" H, purple/red boards with gilt lettering/banding on spine, gilt decoration on front cover. 20 full page b&w drawings by E.H. Shepard, known for his Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. A humorous look at life in the British Army as everything from dogs, cats, lambs and cows to monkeys, parrots and an elephant undermine regulations and authority.… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1979. 370 pp, 8 3/4" H. A tale of "ruthless men and beautiful women locked in a struggle for power such as few men dream of; a novel of treachery and betrayal, of loyalty and courage, of hatred and love. The narrative sweeps remorselessly across oceans and continents to its stunning climax in the deserts of Galilee."… Read more about this item

London: Sundial, 1979. 688 pp, 8 1/2" H. 3 complete and unabridged novels by Wilbur Smith in one volume. Gold Mine - "Rod Ironsides is the Underground Manager of the Sonder Ditch Gold Mining Company and he is young, tough and ambitious in a dangerous, greed-infested world. Yet he is the unsuspecting pawn of Manfred Steyner, one of… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971. 348 pp, 8" H. "After the ICBM, the ABM, the laser, and chemical and biological warfare, the next challenge for agents of every nation and power bloc must be the Black Room. Fail in that, and what chance have you against the cunning sophistications of thought warfare, brainwashing and consciousness expansion used by the… Read more about this item

London: Latimer House, 1958. 254 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H). B&w frontispiece. "This edition (slightly abridged) first published in 1953" - from the copyright page. In the early 18th century, Rupert Holliday leaves England to fight with Marlborough at Blenheim, Ramilies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet. Minor browning to edges of text block. Dust jacket has… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 2010. 390 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w map. "As the ship docked in Bombay, Anthony Morgan and his company, fresh from England, were given their first orders: the execution of mutineers using artillery to blow them to pieces. This was the harsh reality of the mutiny that swept British India where massacres of men, women and… Read more about this item

Coronado, CA: O'Meara, 1994. 294 pp, 9 1/4" H. Red simulated leather binding with gilt lettering on spine. Boldly signed by author on front free endpaper. Double-page map. "Late April, 1942. Without introduction to the task, Lt. (j.g.) Tom Rhett volunteers for submarine duty aboard USS STRIKER as she steers for the Japanese infested waters of the Java… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Nister 256 pp + (8) pp publisher's advertising, 7 3/8" H. No date (c1900). Light green cloth with gilt & black lettering, black/red/ white/blue illustrations on spine/front board. Colour frontispiece, b&w illustrations. Jerry Baskerville appears to be an orphan, surviving in a brutal boarding school. But an encounter with a highwayman and experiences with… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1972. 246 pp, 8 3/4" H. Brown cloth spine with gilt and orange lettering, orange paper-covered boards, top edge orange. Orange endpapers. "France, 1918. A cold day in January. A normal day in the Great War - about two thousand men killed along the Western Front. Behind the lines, at an isolated airfield near… Read more about this item

New York: Zebra, 1993. 320 pp, 6 7/8" H. "The ravages of nuclear war have reduced America, the once-proud land of plenty, to a battle-seared landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste. A few tattered pockets of civilization struggle against the tyranny of the totalitarian army's crushing military occupation. Only one man dares to challenge the enemies of… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran, 1918. 217 pp, 7 5/8" H. Orange cloth with black lettering on spine, b&w illustration pasted on front board. Ten b&w plates including frontispiece (collated). The fictionalized account of a French poilu's experiences in the Aviation Corps in the First World War. Very light browning to free endpapers and tiny faint… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 1999. 319 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "Flash Harry is back! Now, in addition to the other famous adventures of Flash Harry contained in the Flashman Papers, come three new episodes in the career of this eminent if disreputable adventurer. The title piece touches on two of the most spectacular military actions of the century… Read more about this item

Halifax, West Yorkshire: Shelf Books, 2000. 164 pp, 8 1/8" H. "How would the history of the world have differed had Stalin perished at the hands of an assassin? Not at the hands of a German but of a patriotic Russian who, like General Andrei Vlasov and hundreds of thousands of others, loathed the Bolshevik regime and the Georgian… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 1994. 282 pp, 8 3/4" H. Number 17 in the Aubrey Maturin series of adventure in the great age of sail finds Jack Aubrey promoted to Commodore. "Command of a squadron calls for different skills from command of ship. It is the charatcter of the captains and the fighting and sailing qualities they can deliver… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 367 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). "(A) story of five months of hair-raising adventure on the Italian front in which young Otto Prohaska, the hero of 'A Sailor of Austria' and 'The Emperor's Coloured Coat', entrusts his life to the nascent, unreliable, and terrifying Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Flying Service. It is… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1984. 569 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). "(T)he powerful, quietly savage, funny and heart-piercing story of a group of young R.A.F. pilots, mere boys of 19 and 20, during the year from September 1939 (the beginning of the so-called Phony War, when fighting men were filled with chivalric fantasies of honor and… Read more about this item

New York: Greenberg, 1932. 349 pp, 7 7/8" H. Brown cloth with dark brown lettering/emblem on spine. "In writing the account of my life as a member of the French Foreign Legion, I am aided partly by memory and partly by the blurred and faded scraps of paper which I carried about with me in the Sahara and… Read more about this item