Search Results: MILITARIA non-fiction from Fortuna Books

London: Hutcheson, Bowman & Johnson, 1935 (500 gram rate) cloth, minimal signs of age, clean copy, 256pp + 4pp adverts, British Intelligence during the Great War. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Hutcheson, Bowman & Johnson, 1938 (500 gram rate) cloth, minimal signs of age, clean copy, 256pp + 4pp adverts, British Intelligence during the Great War, dust jacket has loss to bottom edges, undated 20th thousandth, ink inscription to fep dated 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Left Book Club, 1938 red papered boards with black titling, clean copy but hows some sge toning to closed edges, the physical, social and political threats of mass airborne bombing, and how it may be guarded against, with examples from the Spanish Civil war, intended to forewarn the British of the threat from the Luftwaffe, 296pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1965 unclipped DW rubbed and slightly faded, fep clipped to top corner, first edition cloth, 159pp an account of the First World War Gallipoli campaign by a member of the 1st Canterbury Battalion who was there through most of it. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Melbourne: Heinemann, 1952 piece trimmed from fep but does not affect the map, endpapers slightly browned, clean copy but lacks the dust jacket, 239pp + plates. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: MacDonald, 1958 (2,000 gram rate) red cloth, gilt spine, lacks DW, light soiling to cloth, lightly bumped corners, 336pp illustrated throughout with b&w photos, glossy paper stock, alphabetical rundown of the military aviation strength of each nation of the world including an overview of their history with emphasis on Second World War participation and achievement. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1965 (500 gram rate) DW price clipped with minor edge splits at joints, name to head of title page ( first page), 69pp + folding chart, plates througout, how to read and interpret aerial reconnaissance photographs. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Arms and Armour, 1990 price clipped dust jacket, tidy copy, 160pp, B&W photos throughout, a chronological history and analysis of the military strategy and hard ware of the Vietnamese War. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Auckland: Oswald Sealy, 1944 (500 grams) cloth sunned to sine and boards with uneven colour to upper board, light soiling or foxing to endpapers, xvi 151pp + plates, the German air borne invasion of Crete witnessed by the author, includes an account by a German paratrooper taken from Life magazine. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1942 (500 gram rate) buff paper wrappers titled in black, handling soiled and with rubber name stamp to top corner, 234pp, supercedes the 1940 edition, diagrams etc in the text, sewn collations. New edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Leicester: Harborough , 1945 limp cloth boards worn and titling dulled, creased vertically to both covers, endpapers browned, fep has inscriptions including one from F/O Angus Moorcroft Millar, RNZAF NZ428249, Air Bomber, a member of RNZAF 75 Squadron inscribed while stationed in Mepal, the binding is pulling away from the text block, still holds on the tapes, and the pages are attached by the mull and sewing, lx 73pp includes double page fold out schematic diagrams of the airframes etc, well illutsrated with b&w photos, lx pages are period industry adverts, book is a good tidy reading copy but the binding needs strengthening, After the 17/09/1944 attack against Boulogne, Moorcroft Millar was injured when Lancaster Mk.III PB430 AA-P crashed during a forced landing at Hawkinge. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Leicester: Harborough , 1945 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Wellington: Reed, 1944 (500 gram rate) excellent copy but lacks dust jacket, 164pp + plates, true account of the exploits of Flying Officer Lyver D.F.C. up to 1944, bombers over Europe. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Illinois: Airlift Operations School, 1982 13 issues all VG copies, 1982- fall, 1985- summer, 1986 - winter, 1987 - fall, winter, summer, 1988 - spring, summer, 1989 - winter, fall, 1990- summer, spring, 1991 - summer. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Magazine.

London: Putnam, 1931 bevelled edge boards with gilt coat of arms of Belgian King, some chipping to cloth at spine tail, foxed closed edges, xviii 341pp + plates and folding maps, one page has small tear to top margin (only) and a little soiling, history of the Belgian effort in the first World War with particular reference to the role of the King of the Belgians, may require extra postage as larger sized book. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cassell, 1962 DW price clipped, with some silverfish damage to head of spine and parts of upper fore edge fold, as well as lower fore edge fold and a little scattered nibbling to surface of the portrait of Alexander on the lower panel, book is VG apart from foxed clkosed edges and some reasonably heavy foxing to the prelims, title etc and the rear index pages, 210pp + plates and maps, memoirs of the C I C North Africa during the Second World War, includes ANZACS in North Africa and Italy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Batsford, 1971 contains bibliography, index, and 31 illustrations. Includes chapters on "Test Of Command"; "Approach To High Command"; "Defeat In Flanders"; "Triumph Of Generalship"; and "Alexander As A Commander". dust jacket is edge worn, unclipped, book VG with ink inscription to fep 344pp + plates maps etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Harrap, 1941 5th impression, red cloth, price clipped DW a few tidy short edge tears with tape repair to the reverse, head of spine light chipping, 312pp + plates, lightly foxed closed edges, includes his South African / Boer War service. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Auckland: Reed, 2000 tidy used copy, 144pp with colour and b&w photos, the history behind the Hurricane fighters, and the personal history of one example found in Russia and restored to flying condition.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Harrap, 1951 (500 gram rate) lacks fep, minor tape stains to paste down, otherwise tidy copy, 188pp +plates, British air crew shot down over Sicily and the subsequent internment in Italy, and his repatriation after feigning mental illness. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.