World Wars I And II from Washburn Books
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The Jungle is Neutral
by F Spencer Chapman
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Published
- 1950
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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London: The Reprint Society by arrangement with Chatto & Windus Ltd, 1950 Book. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Account of his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya in World War II by Freddie Spencer Chapman. Foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell. 378pp illustrated with black and white photographs, portrait… Read more about this item Item Price
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Siegfried Sassoon - The Making of a War Poet - A Biography (1886-1918)
by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition.
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780715628225
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- 1
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London: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1998 Book. Very Good. Black Cloth Boards. Presumed First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vivid and frank biography which draws on a vast amount of private and unpublished material, poems, diaries, letters and photographs. 600pp with index, illustrated with 53 black and white photographs. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight creasing and… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Fiery Glow in the Darkness - Woodbine Willie, Padre and Poet
by Michael Grundy
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1997
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781872962511
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- 1
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€17.69
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Worcester: Osborne Heritage, 1997 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 7.25" Tall x 6.5" wide. Tribute to Geoffrey Ankerell Studdert Kennedy, the diminutive but legendary World War I chaplain and poet. 96pp illustrated with black and white photographs. This copy presented to Dr Ingrid Roscoe, the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, on the occasion of her opening the Woodbine… Read more about this item Item Price
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Survival - Holocaust Survivors Tell their Story
by Wendy Whitworth (Editor)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition.
- Published
- 2003
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780954300111
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- 1
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Retford, Nottinghamshire: Quill Press in association with The Aegis Institute, 2003 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Presumed First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unique collection of testimonials by 40 Holocaust survivors, covering the whole range of experiences. Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert. 427pp with index, illustrated with black and white photographs. Minor shelfwear with minimal marking to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets - Poems in Transit
by Alun Lewis
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- Published
- 1946
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- Hardcover
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1946 Book. Very Good. Pale Blue Cloth Boards. 2nd Impression. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second collection of verse, published posthumously following his death in Burma, by the Welsh World War II poet Alun Lewis (1915-1944) with a foreword by Robert Graves. 75pp, illustrated with black and white portrait to frontis. Black… Read more about this item Item Price
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Disenchantment
by C E Montague
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1939
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- Hardcover
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1939 Book. Very Good. Red Cloth Boards. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Phoenix Library edition. Book of essays on the effects of the First World War by the English journalist and novelist Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928), first published in 1922. 228pp. Gilt lettering and design to spine. Minor bumping to spine and corners,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Etre Sans Destin
by Imre Kertesz
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
- Published
- 1998
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9782264033819
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€11.80
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Actes Sud, 1998 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Semi-autobiographical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz (1929-2016), first published in 1975 in Hungarian with the title Sorstalasag (Fatelessness), about a Hungarian boy who survives internment in two concentration camps. Text in French, translated from the Hungarian by Natalia and Charles Zaremba.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Were There
by Sinclair McKay
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781845135393
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London: Aurum Press Ltd, 2010 Book. Near Fine. Red Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first history of Bletchley Park from the perspective of the men and women who worked there during World War II. 336pp with index, illustrated with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Gilt lettering to spine. Boards very slightly… Read more about this item Item Price
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Les Francais Parlent Aux Francais 1940-1941
by Jacques Pessis (Editor), Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac (Preface)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9782258083264
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Omnibus by arrangement with the BBC, 2010 Book. Very Good. Card Covers With French Folds. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First volume of the texts of radio broadcasts from London to the French population during the German Occupation, delivered in French. 1137pp. Occasional light margin lining in pencil, otherwise very good copy.. Item Price
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Anne Frank
by Josephine Poole
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- New Edition
- Published
- 2007
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780099409762
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€5.31
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London: Red Fox, 2007 Book. Illus. by Angela Barrett. Very Good. Soft cover. New Edition. 9.5" Tall x 10.25" Wide. The story of Anne Frank retold for children as a picture-book biography. 28 pages, illustrated throughout with colour drawings. Minor creasing to corners, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions.. Item Price
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MI9 - A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
by Helen Fry
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- Published
- 2020
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780300233209
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- 1
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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020 Book. Near Fine. Black Cloth Boards. 2nd Impression. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. History of the organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces behind enemy lines in WWII, drawing on newly declassified files. 327pp with index, illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Endpapers illustrated with colour… Read more about this item Item Price
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Apres
by Erich Maria Remarque
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
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- Paperback
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Gallimard Book. Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated edition of the novel first published as The Road Back or The Way Back in 1931, possibly as a sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front. Text in French. 432pp. Slight creasing to spine and corners, minor marking to edges and former owner's marks to endpapers,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ecrits des condamnes a mort sous l'occupation nazie (1939-1945)
by Michel Borwicz
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Published
- 1996
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9782070329595
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Gallimard, 1996 Book. Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Text in French. 444pp. Some creasing to spine and former owner's stamps to endpapers, otherwise good copy.. Item Price
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Le Feu - Journal d'une escouade - Roman
by Henri Barbusse
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First Thus
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9782253047414
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Flammarion, 1965 Book. Good. Soft cover. Presumed First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Under Fire: The Story of a Squad. Novel by the French writer, poet, journalist and political activist Henri Barbusse (1873-1916), first published in 1916, one of the first novels to be published about World War I. Text in French. 411pp. Slight edgewear, some creasing… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Diary of the Great Warr
by Sam'l Pepys Jun'r, sometime of Magdalene College in Cambridge and of His Majesty's Navy Office, Esquire, MA
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Published
- 1917
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- Hardcover
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London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1917 Book. Illus. by M Watson-Williams. Good. Quarter Bound in Brown Cloth. 5th Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Diary of daily life during the First World War, with entries from July 1914 to December 1915, written in the style of the diarist Samuel Pepys. 316pp, illustrated with 16 black and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Art From the First World War
by Roger Tolson et al
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Published
- 2014
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781904897897
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- 1
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London: Imperial War Museum, 2014 Book. Near Fine. Card Covers With French Folds. First Thus. 8.5" Tall x 7" Wide. Selection of some of the most compelling art from the First World War from the collection of the Imperial War Museum. 64pp illustrated throughout with colour reproductions accompanied by details of each work. Minimal surface wear, otherwise near fine copy… Read more about this item Item Price
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Village of Secrets - Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
by Caroline Moorehead
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2014
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780701186418
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London: Chatto & Windus, 2014 Book. Near Fine. Green Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Story of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and other villages of the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon, whose inhabitants worked together during the Second World War to save several thousand people from the concentration camps. Based on first-hand testimonies and unseen archives. 374pp with index, illustrated… Read more about this item Item Price
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SBS - The Inside Story of the Special Boat Service
by John Parker
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1997
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780747219767
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- 1
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€7.08
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London: Headline Book Publishing, 1997 Book. Very Good. Black Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Comprehensive history of the little known SBS, the maritime equivalent of the SAS, from its foundation in 1941 to its activities in the Gulf War and the Falklands. 311pp with index, illustrated with 32 pages of black and white photographs.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Spitfire Kids - The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter
by Alasdair Cross with David Key
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Published
- 2021
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781472281968
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- 1
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London: Headline Publishing Group, 2021 Book. Illus. by James Gardner. Near Fine. Red Cloth Boards. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Story of the young people who designed, built and flew the iconic Spitfire, based on the BBC World Service podcast 'Spitfire: the People's Story', using contemporary diaries and memoirs. 358pp with index, illustrated with… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Detail of History
by Arek Hersh
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 2006
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780953628056
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Newark, Nottinghamshire: Quill Press Ltd, 2006 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Story of a young Polish boy whose family was killed by the Nazis. 158pp illustrated with black and white photographs and a map. Minimal shelfwear, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions.. Item Price
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