Throughout his life Billy Bishop was something of an eccentric--a man of ebullient high spirits and feverish enthusiasms. As a boy in Owen Sound, Ontario, he was no prodigy for learning. His three years at the Royal Military College were disastrous--an epic of rules broken and discipline scorned. He often admitted that his special method of landing wrecked more planes than he shot down. Previous owner's name; scuff on DJ spine, light edgewear to DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages; 26868 View More...
Although only the oldest c. An now directly remember World War I in the popular memory the war is still associated with a very clear and dramatic set of images of mud, machine guns, trench warfare, tanks lumbering across shell-blasted wastelands, bipanes dogfightint over the Western Front, and dreadnoughts plowing through rough seas. Small closed tear bottom edge of front panel of DJ. Previous owner's cataloging label neatly taped to spine of DJ. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 304 pages; 24433 View More...
Ludendorff's Colossal Drive in the West, and Foch's First Victories March 21, 1918-September 20, 1918. Blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling still brilliant. Map endpapers. ; Vol. 5; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28666 View More...
Blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling still brilliant. Map endpapers, the Battleground in Belgium, France and Alsace Lorraine. ; Vol. 6; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 407 pages; 28667 View More...
Previous owner's label on spine. No creases, writing or dog-ears. One closed tear lower front corner. Light tanning to inside front cover. ; Cover Art; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 312 pages; 27665 View More...
Describes the years leading up to 1914, the Kaiser's burning resentment of Britain's unchallenged supremacy at sea, and the headlong race to war, accelerated by the construction of the "Dreadnought", the biggest, fastest, and most heavily gunned battleship in the world. A miscellany of words and numbers cover the rear free endpaper keeps this book from being like new. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 353 pages; 30585 View More...
First book dealing with this last, greatest, and most controversial battle of the dreadnoughts. Light foxing, DJ edgeworn, chipped, torn, in new mylar ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages; 28133 View More...
An original first edition, not a digitized reprint. With maps, charts, and 24 full page illustrations -- 33 illustrations total. Illustrated frontispiece of the Tsar. Small dampstain at lower corner of first few pages. Minor edgewear to navy cloth boards, gilt embossed titling and decoration. Spine slightly faded but front board is still brilliant. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 306 pages; 28134 View More...
April, 1918: A thousand men against Germany's deadliest U-boat base--the story of the war's most desperate raid. With 8 pages of photographs, 11 maps and diagrams. Previous owner's label on spine. Minor edgewear. No creases or wrting. ; Mass Market PB; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 192 pages; 27666 View More...
13 illustrations including the frontispiece of the ex-German battle cruiser 'Moltke' being towed under the Forth Bridge after being salvaged. Light foxing, spine sunned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages; 27018 View More...
Introduced by A. J. P. Taylor, edited by S. L. Mayer. 27 maps, 126 color and 266 black and white illustrations. Image is of the upper 3/4 of the book which is too large for my flatbed scanner. . ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 pages; 30081 View More...
The history of Australian and New Zealand soldiers - the Anzacs - beginning with the mounted bush men who rode against the Boers, through all the wars, including Vietnam, where draftees ride to patrol areas in armoured carriers and helicopters. The author has chosen battles and campaigns to illustrate the adaptability of the Anzacs - and has described their backgrounds, their character and their courage. Pages were published with beige paper rather than white. Endpapers, also tan, are slightly darker than the pages. Edgewear to DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages; 30422 View More...
