Military / War from Goldring Books

Stroud, Gloucestershie: The History Press, 2017. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First illustrated edition. Oblong format of 118 pages. Fought over three torturous months in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele, was one of the most pitiless and iconic sets of battles of the First… Read more about this item

London: Robinson, 2020. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 302 pages. The son of a Hull butcher, Neville 'Timber' Wood volunteered in 1939, at the age of eighteen, to join the British Army's Tyne-Tees 50th Northumbrian Division. Timber was in many ways an entirely… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. A near Fine copy which has an inscription to front endpaper else unmarked. The author was an observer during exercises of a 'refresher course' among the high Alps by the Swiss Army. The Swiss Army is a militia, composed of 650,000 people who can be fully mobilised in less than 48 hours… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a decorative bookplate to front endpaper. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is VG+. 25 plates. Examines the mythology of war such as did tanks win the First World War, the American Civil War and the Second World War. A fascinating investigation examining the famous… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 2019. A near Fine unmarked copy. 574 pages. 30 illustrations. Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Kings,… Read more about this item

Jersey, Channel Islands: Seeker, 2015. An As New copy. 222 pages. Photographic illustrations throughout. During World War II the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be overrun by the Germans. The book shows that Islanders learned how to contend with Nazi regulations, how to survive and how to trust those Germans whose human side was often in… Read more about this item

Stroud, Gloucestershie: Chancellor Press, 2001. An As New copy in pictoial laminated boards with dustjacket which has a minor taped repair to lower front flap edge and which is not price clipped. 200 pages. Illustrated throughout. The Desert Rats, the 7th Armoured Division, wore its famouse insignia of the jerboa, the long-tailed rodent, with pride. It was… Read more about this item

London: Bounty, 2007. An As New copy in pictorial laminated boards with a dustjacket which has a close repaired tear and a stain (not visible to front) and is price clipped. 215 pages. 27 illustrations. Over 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives in World War II. On one raid alone, Nuremburg in March 1944, more airmen lost… Read more about this item

London: Simon and Schuster, 2004. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 396 pages. The eminent Second World War historian Dr. Stephen E. Ambrose book follows the momentous events of the war from D-Day, 6 June 1944, through to the final days when the Allied soldiers pushed the German troops out of… Read more about this item

London: Head of Zeus, 2015. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 356 pages. 34 illustrations. Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket. Stated First American Edition. xi + 331 pages. 18 photographs. The book explores the lives of nine British soldiers or 'Chelsea Pensioners', whose wartime experiences span the 20th century. A particularly British institution, the Royal Hospital Chelsea was opened in 1692 and,… Read more about this item

London: Pan Books, 2002. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. a large format volume of 288 pages. Lavishly illustrated throughout. The first of the distinguished series of books about the two world wars published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this flagship work opens a window on to the… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 2007. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 314 pages. 62 photographs. In the bleak, early days of the Second World War Britain stood alone against the terror of Hitler's all-conquering Third Reich. Our future and the future of the free world hung in the… Read more about this item

London: Aurum Press, 2010. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 336 pages. 26 photographs. At a rambling Victorian country house in the Buckingham countryside thousands of young men and women had spent the last war working arduously long hours minding deafening Bombe machines, decoding and translating intercepted messages, while some of… Read more about this item

London: Bantam, 2007. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 369 pages. Colour photographs. The job is the most dangerous in the world - to make safe the British sector in Iraq against some of the most hardened and technically advanced terrorists in the world. The… Read more about this item

Southsea, Hants.: Royal Marines Historical Society, 2013. A Fine unmarked copy. Special Publication No. 39. Fourth Revised edition. This fourth revised edition has been updated to include the most recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya and maritime counter piracy operations in the Indian Ocean. This history traces rthe development from soldiers who served at sea to the modern day… Read more about this item

London: Grub Street, 2004. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. 224 pages. 44 illustrations. Life is pretty dull for Ken Rees these days. At seventeen he craved danger and excitement; fast planes and cars, rugby, speed and women. Then war came and by the age of twenty-one he… Read more about this item

London: Preface, 2013. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. vii + 374 pages. 37 illustrations. The overlooked story of the part British railways and the extraordinary men and women who kept them running from 1939 to 1945. Churchill himself certainly did not underestimate their importance to the wartime… Read more about this item

London: Atlantic Books, 2006. A Fine copy which has an inscription to half title page ' To dear Jimmy One of the gallant men who flew the 'lovely lady' with all good wishes for your 86th and many more' - David 29 Sept. 2007. else unmarked. Dustjacket is also Fine and not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 260… Read more about this item

Brighton: Book Guild Publishing, 2006. An As New copy. 352 pages. Illustrated throughout. Alastair Cavendish Lindsay Mackie (1922-2018) was formerly an Air Commodore and H-bomber pilot, twice decorated in war and twice again in peace. He Left his RAF career early because he disagreed with British and NATO defence policy - in particular what he describes as 'Britain's idiotic… Read more about this item