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Halifax at War/ Wellington at War

By: Rapier, Brian J./ Bowyer, Chaz

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Enderby, Leicester, Promotional Reprint Co. Ltd.: 1994

Seller ID: 012487

ISBN: 1-85648-173-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Large, heavy book will need extra postage. The Halifax first flew 25 Oct.,1939, being five tons overweight. The rudders were sketchy at low speeds, leading to extensive costly repairs. The Vickers Wellington, nicknamed "Wimpy," played a major role from 1939 until halfway through 1942, in any of several important tasks. 256 pp.
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Tecumseh; A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People

By: Raymond, Ethel T.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1915

Seller ID: 010143

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Blue leather on flexible boards. No. 17 in the Chronicles of Canada Series. Top edges gilt. One of the sadly-unsung heroes of Canadian history, a Shawnee active in Ohio who continued to fight for the British even while some of the British were running away ! 159 pp.
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Escape From Colditz

By: Reid, P.R.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1953

Seller ID: 012468

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth on boards. DJ worn head and tail of spine. Two books in one volume; The Colditz Story and Men of Colditz. Twenty-two miles SE of Leipzig, Colditz Castle stands high on a cliff, behind a moat, decorated with barbed wire. It became the home of the "bad boys" who had escaped from other prisons. The author was one of them. 622 pp. total in the two books. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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British Strategy; Military & Economic (A Historical Review and Its Contemporary Lessons)

By: Richmond, Admiral Sir Herbert

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, University Press: 1941

Seller ID: 009379

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Current Problems Series. Deals with Britain's wars from Elizabeth's time to World War I. 157 pp. Small, thin book can be mailed by Letter Post (Between cardboard). 157 pp.
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The Wooden World; An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy

By: Rodger, N.A.M.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 1987

Seller ID: 011993

ISBN: 0-00-216548-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A hefty and impressive account of the early Navy. DJ price-clipped. Heavy book will need extra postage. 445 pp. with index.
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Military Uniforms; Uniformes Militaires

By: Ross, David

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, New Brunswick Museum: 1980

Seller ID: 012496

ISBN: 0-919326-06-4

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

The author was Director of the New Brunswick Museum at date of publication. Uniforms shown are from the museum's collection. 87 pp.
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Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Canadian Militia; Militia Department 1907

By: Ross, David and Chartrand, Rene

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, S.E. Dawson, King's Printer: 1907

Seller ID: 010298

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Photo cover trade paperback. Every piece of outfit for man and horse, from the Wolseley helmet in white to a horseshoe case. 124 pp.
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Saint John Fortifications 1630-1956

By: Sarty, Roger/ Knight, Doug

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Goose Lane Editions: 2003

Seller ID: 013420

ISBN: 978-0-86492-373

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

The story of structures built to defend what is now Saint John, from building Fort La Tour in 1632 to the disbanding of the militia coast artillery unit in 1956. 117 pp.
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Ballads of American Bravery (Silver Series of English and American Classics)

By: Scollard, Clinton (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Silver, Burdett and Company: 1900

Seller ID: 003543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original greyish-tan cloth with green decoration and lettering on boards. All the traditional poems with bravery as a theme, plus some less well-known. Biographical notes and commentary. 230 pp.
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U.S. Army Register, Vol. III; Retired Lists

By: Secretary of the Army

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Department of the Army: 1969

Seller ID: 006542

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original official trade paperback. Previous owner's name and brief notes. Explanatory Notes, Retirements Codes, Section 1- United States Army Retired List, Section 2 - Army of the United States Retired List, Section 3 - Temporary Disability Retired List, Section 4 - Emergency Officers Retired List, Section 5 - Losses to the Retired Lists. 398 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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The Rally of the Empire

By: Singh, Pocock, Cooper, & Wallace (Contrib.)

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: London, Newnes: 1914

Seller ID: 005614

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original red cloth on boards showing a mounted rider with lance. Cover faded. First 10 pp. have been re-attached out of line. Two-inch break at head of joints front and back. Marvelous portraits of soldiers from Indian, Canadian, Australian, South African, and Scottish regiments rallied to join the fight in 1914. Camels, horses, and humans were the motive power except for one photo of a review by the Queen in a motor car. Four well-illustrated articles, each about 30 pp. in length. George Newnes was well-known as publisher of Strand and Wide World Magazines. No writing or marking. Conditi...
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From the Victorian Era to the Space Age

By: Slader, Lt.-Col. E.M.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., New Brunswick Historical Society: 1973

Seller ID: 009312

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Very Good

Original beige softcover, stapled. Saint John native records his life in the city and in the military during two world wars. 212 pp. plus Index. Finger soil to cover and minor damage base of spine. No writing except date inside front cover.
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Thucydides Volume III, Books V and VI (History of the Peloponnesian War)

By: Smith, Charles Forster (Translator)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge/London, Harvard University Press/ William Heinemann Ltd.: 1966

Seller ID: 013326

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original olive cloth on boards with bright gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket. Part of the Loeb Classical Library. Text in Greek and English. 375 pp. plus 7 pages of ads.
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Sea Power in the Nuclear Age

By: Sokol, Anthony E.

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Public Affairs Press: 1961

Seller ID: 000551

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth on boards, no DJ. Modest corner bumping and wear; inscription. 268 pp.
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The North and the South; At Antietam and Gettysburg

By: Spear, William E.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, MAss., Self-published: 1908

Seller ID: 009106

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. Very good, except title lettering rubbed away. No marks. The most incomprehensible volume I have encountered to date. Greater and more determined minds than mine might find worth in reading it. I found that it was summarized by, and its more complete reading could have been sacrificed for, its last paragraph. 171 pp.
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For Want of a Horse; Being a Journal of the Campaigns Against the Americans in 1776 and 1777 Conducted from Canada, By an Officer Who Served with Lt. Gen. Burgoyne

By: Stanley, Lt. Col. George F. G. (Ed.)

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Sackville, N.B., The Tribune Press Limited: 1961

Seller ID: 003163

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. Inscribed to Dr. James Graham and signed by the editor on front endpaper when Stanley was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick in 1985. Laid in are: presentation letter from the Office of the Lieutenant-Governor with envelope (the postage stamp has been removed), and Dr. Graham's full-page typed letter of acknowledgement with various personal comments related to Lt.-Gov. Stanley. The editor concludes that Burgoyne lost his campaign because of a breakdown in the civilian transport system, rather than his plan or execution of battle. Foldout map. 194 pp. wit...
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3 Troop

By: Sullivan, Captain (ret.) C. Malcolm

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Self-published: 1998

Seller ID: 012091

ISBN: 0-9683384-0-2

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Original new trade paperback. A fighting unit of a Canadian (Ontario) Tank Squadron in Italy and Holland. In storage since publication. Clean and odorless. 195 pp. plus three detailed appendices. Signed by the author.
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Holiday Sailor

By: Tackline

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hollis and Carter: 1945

Seller ID: 000393

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine only. DJ has three small missing portions at bottom and taped repairs inside(See scan). Still very good, with P.O.N. the only book fault. "What kind of life are the men in the Navy leading? For just a brief space it lifts the curtain upon life on the lower deck as seen by a raw recruit, and against the dramatic background of the war 'Tackline' shows the human scene which unfolds itself from day to day." - DJ. 203 pp.
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The Soldiers of the Valley

By: The KV Memory Project

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, NB, Kwik Kopy Printing: 2015

Seller ID: 013236

ISBN: 0994765908

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original large format softcover with white lettering and photos of war memorabilia on the cover. This book was a 3-year project of students at Kennebecasis Valley High School in Quispamsis, NB to document the lives of all the fallen soldiers from the Valley in both World Wars. This would make a lovely gift for someone whose family member is included. 183 pp.
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US Navy Carrier Aircraft Colors; Units, Colours,Markings, and Operations During World War 2

By: Thomas, Geoff

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Surrey, England, Air Research Publications: 1989

Seller ID: 011194

ISBN: 1-871187-03-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. 1940-45 period. Users of this book can use it to decipher symbols used by various units, to identify units, aircraft carriers, and even the actual battle being fought. A history of the air war at sea and details of Task Forces in the Pacific. No writing or damage. 96 pp.
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