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The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy

By: Agawa, Hiroyuki / Translated By John Bester

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Kodansha International Ltd: 1979

Seller ID: 031955

ISBN: 0870113550

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

397pp, index, chronology, 8pp plates. Blue cloth boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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U-188: A German Submariner's Account of the War at Sea 1941 - 1945

By: As Told to Klaus Willmann By Anton Staller / Translated By Geoffrey Brooks

Price: £8.99

Publisher: London, Frontline Books: 2015

Seller ID: 031614

ISBN: 1848327609

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

x + 196pp, 16pp plates. Black boards, a new copy in dustwrapper. RRP £19.99.
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The Battle and the Breeze: The Naval Reminiscences of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Ashmore

By: Ashmore, Sir Edward / Grove, Eric (Editor)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 020086

ISBN: 0750912529

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 282pp, index, 32pp illustrations. Blue boards, light wear only, a VG copy in a Good+ (edge chipping with small loss, to be supplied in a removable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Detail of life as an Officer and then in higher command in the post-war Royal Navy.
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The WRNS in Camera: The Work of the Women's Royal Naval Service in the Second World War

By: Bailey, Chris Howard / Thomas, Lesley

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 2002

Seller ID: 031767

ISBN: 0750913703

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 107pp, index, statistics, black and white photographs. Black boards, light wear, a VG copy in (closed edge tear) dustwrapper.
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A Sea Affair: An Autobiography

By: Baillie, Captain D.G.O.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1957

Seller ID: 017357

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

290pp, index, 15pp plates. Blue boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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War of the U-Boats: British Merchantmen Under Fire

By: Bernard Edwards

Price: £8.99

Publisher: Barnsley, Pen & Sword Maritime: 2006

Seller ID: 031613

ISBN: 1844155013

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

xiii + 210pp, index, bibliography, 13 plates. Black boards, a new copy in dustwrapper. This is a revised and extended edition of a book first published in 1989 under the title 'The Fighting Tramps'. RRP £19.99.
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Battlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack

By: Bowman, Martin W

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Pen & Sword Aviation: 2014

Seller ID: 031937

ISBN: 1783831979

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

206pp, index, footnotes, 32pp plates. Black boards, new copy, RRP 25.00. Includes much on Coastal Command and convoy protection.
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Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon

By: Branfill-Cook, Roger

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing: 2014

Seller ID: 031992

ISBN: 1848322151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

256pp, index, appendix, bibliography, black and white photographs, drawings. Blue boards, new copy in dustwrapper. RRP 35.
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Airframe Extra No.4 - December 2015: The Battle of Taranto: Judgement Day

By: Branly, Patrick / Foreword By Mark Peacock / Models By Steve Evans and Libor Jekl

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Bedford, Valiant Wings Publishing: 2015

Seller ID: 031104

ISBN: 0993090877

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

66pp, maps, photographs, some colour, colour camouflage and markings schemes. Softback, a VG copy. Contents cover the history of the raid, with 17 profiles and 5 models. Excellent reference for the aircraft modeller.
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The Seafire: The Spitfire That Went to Sea

By: Brown, David

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Greenhill Books: 1989

Seller ID: 031432

ISBN: 1853670391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

208pp, index, notes, 150 illustrations, 5 appendices. Green boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. New edition, with the addition of new introductory material and photographs.
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Nelson to Vanguard: Warship Design and Development 1923 - 1945

By: Brown, David K

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Naval Institute Press: 2012

Seller ID: 030695

ISBN: 159114602X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

224pp, index, glossary, 20 appendices, illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings. Softback, a VG copy.. The author focuses on the principal pre-war developments such as the first purpose-built aircraft carriers and the growing perception of the threat of air attack to warships.
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From Engine Room to Admiralty

By: Brown, Tommy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Hampshire, Navigator Books: 1995

Seller ID: 022021

ISBN: 0902830570

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

vii + 308pp, illustrations. Card covers, a few reading creases, creases to corner tips of a few pages, overall a VG copy.
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The Royal Navy at Portland 1900 - 2000

By: Carter, Geoffrey

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cornwall, Maritime Books: 2001

Seller ID: 032111

ISBN: 0907771807

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, index, captioned black and white photographs throughout. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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German Naval Vessels of World War Two (2)

By: Compiled By US Naval Intelligence, Introduction By AD Baker III

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Greenhill Books: 1993

Seller ID: 031630

ISBN: 1853671665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176pp, more than 1200 illustrations depict the warships of the German Navy during WW2 in this formerly Restricted document. Black boards, small bookshop label to front endpaper, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Superb book for modellers.
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Farnborough and the Fleet Air Arm: A History of the Naval Aircraft Department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, Hampshire

By: Cooper, Geoffrey

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Surrey, Midland Publishing: 2008

Seller ID: 031911

ISBN: 185780306X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

295pp, 17 appendices, bibliography, drawings, photographs. Grey boards, a VG copy in (small label remains to front) dustwrapper. Detailed story of the development to launch and land aircraft on board ship at sea.
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MTB 102. 1936 - 1986. Part I: Reminiscences of MTB 102 By Commander CWS Dreyer; Part II: Vosper Torpedo Boat - MTB 102 - A Profile

By: Dreyer, Commander CWS

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Norwich, 102 Trust: 1986

Seller ID: 021670

Binding: Spiral Bound

Condition: Very Good

73pp single-sided pages, drawings, chronology. Spiral-bound softback, general light wear, a VG copy, Includes a '102 Trust' newsletter, a double-sided facts sheet and a 7"x5" print.
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U-Boats Beyond Biscay: Donitz Looks to New Horizons

By: Edwards, Bernard

Price: £8.99

Publisher: Barnsley, Pen & Sword Maritime: 2017

Seller ID: 031612

ISBN: 1473896053

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

ix + 204pp, index, bibliography, 8pp plates. Blue boards, a new copy in dustwrapper. RRP £19.99.
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The Watery Maze: The Story of Combined Operations

By: Fergusson, Bernard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Collins: 1961

Seller ID: 032222

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

445pp index, endpaper maps, index, 3 appendices including bibliography, maps, black and white photographs. Blue cloth boards, foxing to top edge of pages otherwise general light ageing, a VG copy in a Good+ (edge chipping mainly to spine head, small loss) dustwrapper.
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Fast Fighting Boats 1870 - 1945: Their Design, Construction and Use

By: Fock, Harald

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Hampshire, Nautical Publishing Company: 1978

Seller ID: 030633

ISBN: 0245528636

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

304pp, 212 photographs, 167 drawings, bibliography, tables, Green cloth boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. This book covers the design, construction and use of small fast fighting craft of all navies, capable of greater than 18 knots. Includes British Motor Gun Boats. Useful reference for the ship modeller.
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Sinking the Beast: The RAF 1944 Lancaster Raids Against Tirpitz

By: Forsgren, Jan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Fonthill Media: 2014

Seller ID: 031098

ISBN: 1781553181

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

191pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, 6 appendices, plates. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Covers all RAF raids against the Tirpitz.
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Knights of the Reich: The Twenty-Seven Most Highly Decorated Soldiers of the Wehrmacht in World War II

By: Fraschka, Gunther / Translated from the German By David Johnston

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Schiffer Military / Aviation History: 1994

Seller ID: 031648

ISBN: 0887405800

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352pp, 64pp plates. Brown boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Includes Adolf Galland, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Erwin Rommel, Wolfgang Luth, Walter Nowotny, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Helmut Lent, Erich Hartmann, Wolfgang Schnaufer.
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Dartmouth History Research Group Paper 12: A Wrens-Eye View of Wartime Dartmouth

By: Freeman, Ray (Compiler)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Dartmouth, Dartmouth History Research Group: 1994

Seller ID: 031972

ISBN: 1899011013

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

32pp, illustrations. Large format softback, previous owner's label to bottom of front cover, reading wear, overall a near VG copy. Flat signed by compiler to verso of front cover.
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Luftwaffe Colours. Sea Eagles Volume One (1): Luftwaffe Anti-Shipping Units 1939 - 41

By: Goss, Chris

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Surrey, Classic (Imprint of Ian Allan Publishing): 2005

Seller ID: 031265

ISBN: 1903223555

Condition: Very Good

96pp, mainly black and white photographs, colour profiles. Large format softback, a VG copy. Excellent reference for the aircraft modeller.
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Sea-Flyers

By: Grey, CG

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1942

Seller ID: 030642

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256pp, black and white photographs. Grey cloth boards, general browning to contents, light wear, a VG copy in a Good (internally reinforced, small corner/edge losses, spine faded, browning to edges, to be supplied in a removable protective sleeve) dustwrapper.
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A Very Rude Awakening: The Night the Japanese Midget Subs Came to Sydney Harbour

By: Grose, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Australia, Allen & Unwin: 2007

Seller ID: 020660

ISBN: 1741752191

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 320pp, index, bibliography, 12pp illustrations, maps. Softback, light reading wear, slight ageing to contents, a VG copy.
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Image for Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. 121: The Keyes Papers: Volume II 1919 - 1938. Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes

Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. 121: The Keyes Papers: Volume II 1919 - 1938. Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes

By: Halpern, Paul G. (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Published By George Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society: 1980

Seller ID: 030251

ISBN: 0049421654

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 468pp + 6pp adverts at rear, frontispiece, 2 maps. Pale blue boards, light ageing, a VG copy in a near VG (colour fading to spine, a few slight edge rubs, internally reinforced in 2 places) dustwrapper.
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Marines at War: 20 True Heroic Tales of U.S. Marines in Combat, 1942-1983

By: Hammel, Eric

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Pacifica Press: 1999

Seller ID: 016025

ISBN: 0935553401

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New

xiv + 19pp maps + 236pp. A Fine copy, probably unread.
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Conscription Conflict: The Conflict of Ideas in the Struggle for and Against Military Conscription in Britain Between 1901 and 1939

By: Hayes, Denis / with an Introduction By The Right Hon. Clement Davies KC, MP

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Sheppard Press: 1949

Seller ID: 030178

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

408pp, index, bibliography, 12 plates. Green boards, general ageing to contents, owner's signature (Peter Stansky) to front endpaper, small corner loss to first 2 pages, overall a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped with loss) dustwrapper.
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Osprey Campaign No. 163: Leyte Gulf 1944: The World's Greatest Sea Battle

By: Ireland, Bernard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Oxford, Osprey Publishing: 2008

Seller ID: 032109

ISBN: 1841769789

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, index, further reading, appendix, illustrations, some colour. Softback, light wear, a VG copy.
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Hawker Tempest and Sea Fury (Weapons and Warfare)

By: Jackson, Robert

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Blandford Press: 1989

Seller ID: 031745

ISBN: 0713716843

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128pp, index, 2 appendices, black and white photographs throughout plus drawings and plans. Green boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in (slight sunning to spine) dustwrapper.
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X-Craft Versus Tirpitz: The Mystery of the Missing X5

By: Jacobsen, Alf R / Translated from the Norwegian By J Basil Cowlishaw

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 2006

Seller ID: 031629

ISBN: 075094112X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

287pp, index, bibliography, notes, 16pp plates. Black boards, corner creasing to 4 pages, light ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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United States PT-Boats of World War II (Two) in Action

By: Johnson, Frank D

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Poole, Blenheim Press Limited: 1980

Seller ID: 032112

ISBN: 071371025X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, index, appendix, over 200 black and white photographs, drawings. Blue boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in (slightly edge creased) dustwrapper. Useful reference for the modeller.
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Forgotten Warriors: Challenge at Guadalcanal

By: Jones, Arvil / Jones, Lulu

Price: £20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Turner Publishing Company: 1994

Seller ID: R14856

ISBN: 1563111489

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, index, notes, selected sources, illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, light wear only, VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. An unforgettable look into the Battle of Guadalcanal through a member of CUB-One, a Navy aircraft overhaul, repair and refuelling unit.
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U.S. Naval Fighters: Navy/Marine Corps 1922 to 1980s

By: Jones, Lloyd S

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, Aero Publishers Inc: 1977

Seller ID: 031449

ISBN: 0816892547

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352pp, black and white photographs, scale drawings. Blue boards, light corner bumps, light ageing, a VG copy in a Good+ (edge chipping, small loss to spine head, slight fading to spine) dustwrapper. Useful reference for the aircraft modeller.
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Images of War: Naval Aviation in the Second World War . Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

By: Kaplan, Philip

Price: £5.99

Publisher: Barnsley, Pen & Sword Aviation: 2013

Seller ID: 031711

ISBN: 1781593698

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

144pp, black and white photographs. Softback, a new copy. RRP £16.99.
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The American Flying Boat: An Illustrated History

By: Knott, Captain Richard C

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press Ltd: 1979

Seller ID: 031737

ISBN: 0851771653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 262pp, index, bibliography, maps, illustrations, black and white photographs. Brown boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in (slight chipping to spine head, slight sunning to spine) dustwrapper.
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Warships of the Kriegsmarine: German Light Cruisers of World War II. Emden; Konigsberg; Karlsruhe; Koln; Leipzig; Nurnberg

By: Koop, Gerhard / Schmolke, Klaus-Peter

Price: £9.99

Publisher: Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing: 2014

Seller ID: 031627

ISBN: 1848321945

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

223pp, index, drawings, black and white photographs. Softback, a new copy. RRP £16.99.
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Warships of the Kriegsmarine: Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class. Admiral Hipper; Blucher; Prinz Eugen; Seydlitz; Lutzow

By: Koop, Gerhard / Schmolke, Klaus-Peter

Price: £9.99

Publisher: Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing: 2014

Seller ID: 031628

ISBN: 1848321953

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

208pp, index, bibliography, drawings, black and white photographs. Softback, a new copy. RRP £16.99.
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Warship Data International Authentic Plans Series: L/S/11 (1 sheet): Australian Minesweeping Sloop Bathurst Class H.M.A.S. Bendigo - 1941

By: Lambert, John (Drawings)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Middlesex, Albion Scott Limited: 1977

Seller ID: 030253

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

1 scale drawing loose in card covers. Light wear only, VG condition. Excellent reference for the ship modeller. Australian designed and built, the numerous Bathurst Class was a combined minesweeper and escort design. 56 were built plus 4 for the Royal Indian Navy. A number were loaned to the Royal Navy.
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Warship Data International Authentic Plans Series: L/S/08 (2 sheets): British Fast Anti-Submarine Frigate H.M.S. Terpsichore - 1953 (Type 15)

By: Lambert, John (Drawings)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Middlesex, Albion Scott Limited: 1977

Seller ID: 030584

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

2 scale drawings loose in card covers. Light wear only, VG condition. Excellent reference for the ship modeller. Originally completed in 1944 as a fleet destroyer of the 'T' Class, 'Terpsichore' underwent a less radical limited conversion (Type 15) to fast anti-submarine frigate, completed in 1953.
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Warship Data International Authentic Plans Series: L/S/11 (1 sheet): Australian Minesweeping Sloop Bathurst Class H.M.A.S. Bendigo - 1941

By: Lambert, John (Drawings)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Middlesex, Albion Scott Limited: 1977

Seller ID: 030585

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

'The Med': The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean 1939 - 45

By: Langmaid, Rowland

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Batchworth Press: 1948

Seller ID: 030250

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

130pp, index, endpaper maps, 57 plates. Blue boards, marks to rear board, general light foxing, a Good+ copy in like (edge rubbed/chipped, small losses, spine faded, price-clipped, marks to rear panel) dustwrapper. The author was the Official Admiralty Artist with the British Mediterranean Fleet during WW2.
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Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWII

By: Mair, Michael / Waldron, Joy

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, Berkley Publishing Group: 2014

Seller ID: 032108

ISBN: 0425272699

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvii + 363pp, index, bibliography, notes, 5 appendices, 16pp illustrations, map. Quarter-bound in black buckram over red boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Flying Marines: A Record of Royal Marine Aviators Who Flew Fixed Wing Aircraft in the Royal Naval Air Service and Fleet Air Arm

By: Marsh, AE

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Portsmouth, Royal Marines Museum: 1980

Seller ID: 031742

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

10 appendices, errata sheet, 37 illustrations. Large softback, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy.
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U-boat War Patrol: The Hidden Photographic Diary of U564

By: Paterson, Lawrence

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Chatham Publishing: 2006

Seller ID: 031617

ISBN: 1861762879

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

206pp, index, notes, bibliography, appendices, black and white photographs. Softback, a VG copy. The complete story of a single U-boat war patrol during the summer of 1942, U-564 under the command of 'Teddy' Suhren.
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Warshipbuilding on the Clyde: Naval Orders and the Prosperity of the Clyde Shipbuilding Industry, 1889 - 1939

By: Peebles, Hugh B

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Donald Publishers Ltd: 1987

Seller ID: 030218

ISBN: 0859761932

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

205pp, index, 5 appendices, bibliography, map. Black boards, bumping to lower front corners, minor marks, overall a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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German Maritime Aircraft (World War Photo Album No 18)

By: Philpott, Bryan

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Cambridge, Patrick Stephens Ltd: 1981

Seller ID: 031565

ISBN: 0850594456

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, appendices, map, black and white photographs. Black boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in a near VG (colour fading to spine and adjacent edges, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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Destiny of Life

By: Pim, Tom

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Able Publishing: 2001

Seller ID: 017015

ISBN: 1903607167

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

188pp, not illustrated. Softback, general light wear only, a VG clean tight copy. Memories of the Battle of the Atlantic and later, the Russian convoys.
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The Catafighters and Merchant Aircraft Carriers

By: Poolman, Kenneth

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, William Kimber: 1970

Seller ID: 031939

ISBN: 0718300521

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

128pp, index, illustrated. Black boards, slight browning mainly to page edges, a Good+ copy in a Good (tape marks to corners, slight edge chipping, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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Nimitz

By: Potter, Elmer B

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Naval Institute Press: 1976

Seller ID: 032043

ISBN: 0870214926

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxxiii + 510pp, index, notes, sources, black and white photographs, maps, endpaper maps. Quarter-bound in black buckram over grey boards, owner's signature to verso of front endpaper, general light ageing to contents, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Category: Naval History - 1918 - WW2

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