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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734 - 1995: A Biographical Dictionary

By: Heathcote, TA / With a Foreword By Admiral Sir Michael Boyce

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Leo Cooper: 2002

Seller ID: 032415

ISBN: 0850528356

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 338pp, index, bibliography, catalogue of the ships, seniority list of the admirals of the fleet, 18 plates. Blue boards, light ageing, a VG copy in 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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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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The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition

By: Neillands, Robin

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Aurum Press: 2005

Seller ID: 032419

ISBN: 1845131169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 292pp, index, bibliography, notes, 16pp plates, maps. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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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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Blohm and Voss: Ships and Machinery for the World

By: Prager, Hans Georg / Translated By Frederick A Bishop

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Brassey's: 1977

Seller ID: 030636

ISBN: 0904609146

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

271pp, endpaper drawings, bibliography, complete list of all new builds 1877 - 1977. drawings, photographs, some colour. Blue boards, bumping to upper front corners, light ageing, a VG copy in a near VG (edge creasing/rubs) dustwrapper. Famous German shipyard, responsible for the Bismarck, Scharnhorst, numerous U-Boats and even a range of aircraft.
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Image for The Hand-me-down Ships: The True Account of the World War II Exploits of Ten Ex-American Coast Guard Cutters and the Officers and Men of the Royal Navy Who Served in Them.

The Hand-me-down Ships: The True Account of the World War II Exploits of Ten Ex-American Coast Guard Cutters and the Officers and Men of the Royal Navy Who Served in Them.

By: Reed, Ken

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Lincolnshire, Ken Reed: 1993

Seller ID: 017997

ISBN: 0952238705

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 181pp, index, 32pp plates, drawing. Blue boards, small marks to front endpaper otherwise light ageing only, a VG tight copy in a Good (chipped with small loss, supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Signed by author on title page.
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Image for Dog Boats at War: A History of the Operations of the Royal Navy D Class Fairmile Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) and Motor Gunboats (MGBs) 1939 - 1945

Dog Boats at War: A History of the Operations of the Royal Navy D Class Fairmile Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) and Motor Gunboats (MGBs) 1939 - 1945

By: Reynolds, Leonard C / Foreword By Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1998

Seller ID: 032113

ISBN: 0750918179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 289pp, indexes, 3 appendices including bibliography, notes, maps, drawings, black and white photographs. Blue boards, slight twist to spine, previous owner's details to front pastedown, light ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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None But the Brave: The Story of 'Shetlands' Larsen CGM, DSO, DSC, DSM and Bar

By: Saelen, Frithjof / Translated By Kate Austin Lund

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Souvenir Press: 1955

Seller ID: 030293

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

232pp, 12 illustrations, map. Blue boards, light edge wear, general ageing, a VG copy in a Good+ (edge rubs, small corner loss, not price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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I-400: Japan's Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine. Objective: Panama Canal

By: Sakaida, Henry / Nila, Gary / Koji, Takaki

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Manchester, Crecy Publishing: 2010

Seller ID: 030835

ISBN: 0955426812

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

112pp, index, bibliography, 8 appendices, black and white photographs, drawings, colour artwork. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Excellent reference for the modeller and historian alike.
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Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys: The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty's Secret Anti-Submarine Reports

By: Showell, Jak P Mallmann

Price: £8.99

Publisher: London, Frontline Books: 2013

Seller ID: 031616

ISBN: 1848327013

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

xvi + 208pp, index, bibliography, 32 plates. Black boards, a new copy in dustwrapper. RRP £19.99.
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Admiralty Ships Badges: Original Patterns 1919 - 1994. Volume One (I, 1): Abdiel - Lysander; Volume Two (2, II): Mackay - Zulu. 2 Volume Set

By: Stopford, TP

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Kent, Stone Frigate: 1996

Seller ID: 021548

ISBN: 0952934604

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2 volume set. Vol 1: vi + 238pp + xiiipp index and glossary. Bibliography. Vol 2: vi + 248pp + xpp index and bibliography. Both volumes fully illustrated in colour. Gilt on burgundy boards, both volumes VG copies in near VG (slight spine fading, rubs/edge nicks to spine heads and one corner) dustwrappers. Both volumes flat-signed by the author on front endpaper. Heavy books, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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