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By: Mowat, Farley
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, Limited: 1955
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 012596
Condition: Very Good
Grey cloth on boards. No writing except notes on last free endpaper. Farley Mowat grew up with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, named for adjoining counties in Ontario. His father, Angus Mowat, had been a librarian in Trenton and Belleville and had served in both World Wars as well as the Regiment. It was September 2, 1939, when the word came down: "Lt.- Col. S. Young - KM2 -Mobilize."- P. 2. If this book appeals you will want to read And No Birds Sang (1980) as well as My Father's Son (1992), which explore Farley's military career with special emphasis upon his relationship w... View more info
By: Munro, Ross
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Edmonton, AB, Hurtig: 1972
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012302
ISBN: 0-88830-061-1
Condition: Very Good
A clean, sound reprint. No writing or damage. 477 pp. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Torch Press: 1923
Seller ID: 012611
Condition: Good to Very Good
Library stamps and card pocket (removed) , but clean and odour-free. 313 pp. Chaplain Murdoch was attached to the North Shore Regiment. Due to PTSD, or Shell Shock, he spent the last half of his life in solitude. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press: 2000
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 011886
ISBN: 1-55750-490-3
Condition: Near Fine
Purple paper boards backed in black cloth. Library of Naval Biography. No writing or damage. Protected by mylar wrap over DJ. Little-known, but played important parts in 1776 and 1812. 226 pp. with index and bibliography. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Company, Limited: 1917
Seller ID: 003506
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering on boards. Foggy spots on cover. Three leaves wrinkled, but easily readable. No writing. A Special Correspondent's report on America's preparation to enter the war. 196 pp. View more info
By: Owen, Major General J.I.H. (Ed.)
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Bonanza Books: 1978
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 005448
Condition: Very Good
Original dark grey paper boards backed in brown cloth. Infantry weapons and combat aids in current use by the regular and reserve forces of all nations.323 pp. with index. View more info
By: Owen, Walter
Price: $150.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Co.: 1931
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005360
Condition: Very Good
Original orange cloth on boards. Internet reviews of this book describe it as one of the most gruesome and frightening stories imaginable. Based on World War I, it reminds me of the worst features of stories like 1984 and On the Beach. Gift note, with no other writing and no damage. 100 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Charles Scribner's Sons: 1914
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008707
Condition: Good to Very Good
Original blue cloth on boards. The author was a war correspondent from 1895, starting in Greece and Turkey, to the present time, where he is engaged in reporting World War I. Book sound, but grubby. 517 pp. View more info
By: Parry, D.H.
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: London, Cassell and Company, Limited: 1895
Seller ID: 009672
Condition: Good Plus
Bright red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on boards. 412 Victoria Crosses were won between Crimean and Baltic campaigns of 1854 and Chitral in 1895. The author gives a fast-moving account of each successive battle. 368 pp. Corner tip wear. Hinges cracked and tender. Heavy book will need more than "default" postage. View more info
By: Peacock, Lindsay
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Salamander:
Seller ID: 000310
ISBN: 0 86101 430 8
Condition: Fair
Original grey paper over boards, with pictorial DJ. Due to its weight, text block has pulled away from spine some time ago. The ensuing repair left the text block flush with covers at bottom edge. 158 pp. View more info
By: Pimlott, John
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Royce Publications: 1984
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 011832
Condition: Very Good
Black cloth on boards. Photographs emphasize the inhumanity of war. Laid in are photos clipped from other WW II publications. 192 pp. with Bibliography. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York/London, Grosset and Dunlap/Phoebus: 1977
Seller ID: 012238
ISBN: 0-448-14458-1
Condition: Good Plus
Green cloth on boards. DJ price-clipped and edge-chipped. Begins with Spion Kop in the second Boer War and concludes with the battle of Yom Kippur. 379 pp. plus index. View more info
By: Preston, Antony
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Bison Books: 1989
Edition: First Published in 1989
Seller ID: 000190
Condition: Very Good
Original black hard cover appears to be cloth, DJ has 2" piece missing from top of spine. Naval ships from around the world. 126 pp. View more info
By: Pullen, John J.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1957
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 009538
Condition: Very Good
Blue cloth on boards. DJ heavily taped inside. Regimental history claimed one of the best. Laid in is news clipping reporting the death of John J. Pullen. 338 pp. View more info
By: Quick, Stanley L. With Reid, Chipp
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press: 2015
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 011894
ISBN: 978-1-61251-236
Condition: Near Fine
Blue paper boards. No writing or damage. War of 1812. 266 pp. with index. View more info
By: Ranelagh, John
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, BBC Books: 1992
Edition: First Published 1992
Seller ID: 004011
ISBN: 0563362502
Condition: Very Good
Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing and no damage. Personnel, history, primary targets, presidential relations, etc. Points up the attitude that "anything goes" in its clandestine operations. An eye-opener. 256 pp. View more info
By: Rapier, Brian J./ Bowyer, Chaz
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Enderby, Leicester, Promotional Reprint Co. Ltd.: 1994
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012487
ISBN: 1-85648-173-5
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1915
Seller ID: 010143
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. View more info
By: Reid, P.R.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1953
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Seller ID: 012468
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. View more info
By: Richmond, Admiral Sir Herbert
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press: 1941
Seller ID: 009379
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. View more info