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Winged Stallion. Fighting and Training with the First Airborne. [Second Edition; First Edition titled thus.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by PACKE Michael
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Blandford Press,, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Includes North Africa, Italy, Sicily, Arnhem. First published as 'First Airborne' by Secker & Warburg in 1948. Enser, p.19 (recording the original edition).
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34816
- Title
- Winged Stallion. Fighting and Training with the First Airborne. [Second Edition; First Edition titled thus.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- PACKE Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blandford Press,
- Date Published
- [1988]
- Keywords
- military, ww2, wwii, first airborne, first airborne division, africa, italy, sicily, arnhem, market garden, holland, airborne, parachute regiment, michael packe, military, wwii, arnhem, first, airborne
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- Dustwrapper
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