27 May, 2015 16:09

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Category: Just Added
The Plague by Albert Camus
Folio Society, 1987
Hardback in Slip Case. Laid on Plate to Red boards with Gilt out of Black titling to Spine
Illustrated by: Linda Kitson
Translated by: Stuart Gilbert
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Category: Social History
The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
London: The Folio Society, 2006
Hardback in Slip Case. Orange boards with Dark Orange titling to Spine
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Category: Poetry
The Sonnets of Michelangelo by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Folio Society, 1970
Hardback in Slip Case. White Spine Strip over Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Translated by: Elizabeth Jennings
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Category: History Rome
The Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
London: The Folio Society, 1995
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Illustrated by: Raymond Hawthorn
Translated by: Robert Graves
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Category: Fiction Author: T
Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray
London: The Folio Society, 1996
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Illustrated by: Roland Pym
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Category: Biography
My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1946
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Green boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Translated by: C. T. [Charles Thomas] Campion
6th impression. [First Edition: 1933] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Portrait to the frontispiece;
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Category: Military Air Force
The British Fighter Since 1912: Fifty Years of Design and Development by Peter Lewis
London: Putnam, 1965
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Category: Travel British Isles
English Journey: Being a Rambling But Truthful Account of What One Man Saw and Heard and Felt and Thought During a Journey Through England During the Autumn of the Year 1933 by J. B. [John Boynton] Priestley
London: The Folio Society, 1997
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Category: Geography
The Making of the English Landscape by W. G. Hoskins
London: The Folio Society, 2005
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Category: Just Added
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed
London: The Folio Society, 2006
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Category: History Scotland
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
London: The Folio Society, 2003
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From the cover: In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands.
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Category: Fiction Author: K
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
London: The Folio Society, 1995
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Illustrated by: Auguste Leroux
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Category: History Italy
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
London: The Folio Society, 2004
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Translated by: S. G. C. Middlemore
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Category: Transport Nautical
Great Passenger Ships of the World: Volume 3 1924-35 by Arnold Kludas
Patrick Stephens, 1976
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Translated by: Charles Hodges
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Category: Military Air Force
German Luftwaffe in World War II by Chris Mcnab
London: Amber Books, 2009
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Category: Military History
Uniforms of the American Revolution by John Mollo
Poole: Blandford Press, 1975
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by: Malcolm McGregor
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From the cover: The American Revolution exhibited a varied array of army and navy uniforms. This work presents them, from brass-buttoned British generals to threadbare colonial infantrymen at Valley Forge. Also included are flags, headdresses and weapons of the American, British, French and German armies.
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Category: Sport Motor Racing
Racing Cars and Record Breakers 1898-1921 by T. R. [Timothy Robin] Nicholson
London: Blandford Press, 1971
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Illustrated by: John W. Wood
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Category: Military Army
Armies of 1812 Volume 1: The French Army, Including Foreign Regiments in French Service and the Confederation of the Rhine by Otto von Pivka
Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1977
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Category: Military Army
Armies of 1812: The Grande Armee and the Armies of Austria, Prussia, Russia and Turkey by Digby Smith
Staplehurst: Spellmount Limited, 2002
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From the cover: A highly illustrated in-depth analysis of all the armies involved in the epic tragedy of Napoleon Bonapartes Russian campaign including many primary historical sources never before translated into English and detailed orders of battle of the contestants.
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Category: Language
The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997
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Category: Transport Nautical
South Atlantic Seaway: An Illustrated History of the Passenger Lines and Liners from Europe to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina by N. R. P. [Noel Reginald Pixell] Bonsor
St. Brelade: Brookside Publications, 1983
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Category: Military Air Force
Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia, 1939-1945 by Michael J. F. [John Frederick] Bowyer
Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens, 1990
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Number 1 in the series. 2nd (revised) edition, 1st printing, [First Published: 1979] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps; Illustrated endpapers and blanks; Plans;
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Category: Military Air Force
Southern England: Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex by Ken Delve
Marlborough: The Crowood Press, 2005
Paperback
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Category: Exploration Arctic
The Polar Rosses: John and James Clark Ross and Their Explorations by Ernest S. [Stanley] Dodge
London: Faber & Faber, 1973
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Category: Military History
Borodino and the War of 1812 by Christopher Duffy
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1972
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Category: Transport Nautical
Atlantic Liners, 1925-70 by Frederick Emmons
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972
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Category: Transport Nautical
Pacific Liners, 1927-72 by Frederick Emmons
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973
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14 May, 2015 13:09

Latest additions to the bookshelves of the leading book shop in Peasedown St. John!

Category: Military Army
Russian Roulette: Afghanistan Through Russian Eyes by Gennady Bocharov
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Red titling to Spine
Translated by: Alyona Kojevnikov
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Category: Biography
These for Remembrance: Memoirs of Six Friends Killed in the Great War by John Buchan
London: Buchan & Enright, 1987
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Category: Health Yoga
Bikram Yoga: The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment by Bikram Choudhury
New York: William Morrow, 2007
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Category: Music Rock
The Book of Rock by Philip Dodd
Pavilion, 2001
Hardback with Dust Jacket over White boards with Silver titling to Spine & Upper Board
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Category: Business History (Individual Firms)
The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty-four Roaring Years by John Douglas Eames
Octopus, 1975
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2nd (revised) edition, 1st printing, [First Published: 1975] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Facsimiles; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
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Category: Music
I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era 1965-1969 by James Henke with Parke Puterbaugh
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997
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Category: Business History (Individual Firms)
The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell with Vernon Harbin
London: Octopus Books, 1983
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Category: Crafts, Hobbies & Pastimes Pottery
Contemporary Porcelain: Materials, Techniques and Expressions by Peter Lane
London: A & C Black, 1995
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Silver titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; This study looks at the development of porcelain in the past 20 years. It gives particular consideration to the technical achievements, the working methods and aesthetic concerns of ceramicists who work in this medium and its close relative, bone china.
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Category: Military History
History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 Volume II by W. F. P. [William Francis Patrick] Napier
London: Constable, 1992
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Category: Journalism
Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs by Edited by John Pilger
Jonathan Cape, 2004
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Silver titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs; Over the past few decades, investigative journalism has come to mean the kind of brave reporting that exposes injustice, wrongdoing and, above all, the abuse of power. At a time when journalism is under attack perhaps as never before, this celebration of the very best of investigative journalism, and some of the greatest practitioners of the craft, could not be more timely.
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Category: Music
West Coast Story by Rob Burt & Patsy North
London: Phoebus Publishing Company, 1977
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Category: Anthology
The Essential Colin Wilson by Colin Wilson
London: Harrap, 1985
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Category: Transport Rail
The Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles by David Wragg
Barnsley: Wharncliffe Books, 2009
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Category: Transport Air
Aviation – Bridge Around the World by John J. O’Keefe
New York: Exxon International Company, 1978
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Category: Food & Drink Home Brewing
Home Brewing Without Failures by H. E. [Harold Edwin] Bravery
London: Max Parrish, 1966
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2nd impression. [First Edition: 1965]
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Category: Military Naval
H.M. U-Boat by John D. Drummond
London: W. H. Allen, 1958
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Category: Short Stories
Short Stories by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
London: The Folio Society, 1990
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Illustrated by: Jonathan Hitchen
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Category: Fiction Author: C
Lord Jim: A Tale by Jim Conrad
London: The Folio Society, 1996
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Illustrated by: Francis Mosley
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Category: Fiction Author: C
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
London: The Folio Society, 1999
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Illustrated by: Francis Mosley
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Category: Art
Lives of the Artists: A Selection Translated by George Bull by Giorgio Vasari
London: The Folio Society, 1993
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2nd printing.
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Category: Military History
War Maps: Great Land, Sea and Air Battles of World War II by Simon Goodenough
London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1982
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Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps; From the introduction: This atlas of the main military and naval events of the Second World War has been divided into sections representing the general theatres of the war. Each theatre is followed to its conclusion through the text, which explains and amplifies briefly the details given in the maps. The various theatres did not, of course, exist in isolation, though to the majority of combatants at ground and sea levels it must have appeared that they did. Events in one theatre of war naturally affected events and decisions in other theatres. These events must be assessed in parallel if the many pressures that influenced their course and outcome are to be appreciated fully.
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Category: Military Naval
The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific by Robert D. Ballard
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993
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Illustrated by: Michael McCoy & Ken Marshchall
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Maps;

From the cover: IRON BOTTOM SOUND IT GETS ITS NAME FROM ALL the ships that sank there. From August to November of 1942 the tropical waters off the small island of Guadalcanal were the scene of some of the fiercest sea battles of World War II. Fifty years later, Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the Titanic and the Bismarck, took his exploration team to Guadalcanal. Their goal was not one ship but an entire naval battlefield. On board were some of the men who had served on those ships that now lay beneath Iron Bottom Sound. The memories of these survivors help tell a powerful, poignant story of men and ships and war.

The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal re-creates the whole story of the campaign that changed the course of the Pacific war. For all the fame of its air and land battles, Guadalcanal is also a compelling story of sailors and warships. In fact, more Americans died in Guadalcanal waters than on land. The terror and confusion of night naval action is conveyed here in gripping chapters that describe first the bitter American defeat in the Battle of Savo Island and then the struggle to eventual victory in the climactic Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. We then descend in Ballards submarine to view scenes of American, Australian, and Japanese ships lying together on the ocean floor, their guns still eerily pointing at each other.

With over 300 illustrations, this book has all the pictorial richness that helped make bestsellers of Robert Ballards two previous books, The Discovery of the Titanic and The Discovery of the Bismarck. Haunting pictures of the wrecks are paired with photographs of the ships in their prime; a spectacular full-page foldout reveals the USS Quincy and the Canberra, painted in accurate detail by maritime artist Ken Marschall. Full-colour maps and diagrams plus a host of paintings and present-day photographs help to both re-create this extraordinary chapter in the history of the Pacific war and convey the excitement of modern underwater exploration.
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Category: Military Army
Only the Enemy in Front (every Other Beggar Behind…): The Recce Corps At War, 1940-1946 by Richard Doherty
London: Book Club Associates, 1994
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Category: Fiction Author: C
Hot Wireless Sets, Aspirin Tablets, The Sandpaper Sides Of Used Matchboxes, And Something That Might Have Been Castor Oil by D. G. [David Guy] Compton
London: Michael Joseph, 1971
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First British Edition. [First Published: U. S. A. , as Chronocules].
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Category: Childrens
Fun for the Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1963
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Illustrated by: Burgess Sharrocks
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Category: Childrens
Mr. Plod and Little Noddy by Enid Blyton
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1961
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Category: Biography
Madam Kitty: A True Story by Peter Norden
London: Abelard-Schuman, 1973
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Translated by: J. Maxwell Brownjohn
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6 May, 2015 16:40

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Category: Military History
The Emperor’s Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan’s Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith
Bantam Press, 2000
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From the cover: The extraordinary wartime exploits of the British codebreakers based at Bletchley Park continue to fascinate and amaze. In his bestselling Station X Michael Smith brought us the astonishing true story of the breaking of the Enigma Cipher. In The Emperors Codes he continues the story as he examines how Japans codes were broken, and the consequences for the Second World War.

The Emperors Codes moves across the world from Bletchley Park to Pearl Harbor; from Singapore to Colombo; and from Mombasa to Melbourne, describing not just how the Japanese codes and ciphers were broken but how the lives of the codebreakers, both professional and personal, were affected. It tells the stories of John Tiltman, the eccentric British soldier turned codebreaker who made many of the early breaks into Japanese diplomatic and military codes; Eric Nave, the Australian sailor recruited to work for the British who pioneered breakthroughs in Japanese naval codes; and of Oshima Hiroshi, the hard-drinking Japanese ambassador to Berlin, whose candid reports to Tokyo of his conversations with Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis were a major source of intelligence in the war against Germany. Many of these revelations have been made possible only through using recently declassified British files, through privileged access to Australian secret official histories, and interviews with an unprecedented number of British, American and Australian codebreakers.

Where previous books on the subject have emphasized the role played by the Americans, The Emperors Codes is the first full account of the critical role played by British and Australian codebreakers. Using the memories of those at the forefront of this battle, Michael Smith reveals a gripping and previously untold story from the Second World War.
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Category: Sport Cycling
Bicycling Medicine: Cycling Nutrition, Physiology, and Injury Prevention and Treatment for Riders of All Levels by Arnie Baker
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999
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Category: Sport Athletics
Nutrition for Serious Athletes by Dan Bernardot
Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2000
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Category: Military History
The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation and World War II by Howard Blum
London: Simons & Schuster, 2001
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Category: Sport Surfing
The Wave: in Pursuit of the Oceans’ Greatest Furies by Susan Casey
London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2010
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Category: Animal Poultry
Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens: Care, Feeding, Facilities by Gail Damerow
Pownal: Storey Books, 2000
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Category: Biography
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990
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Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs; This classic account of the marriage between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is regarded as one of the most revealing and endearing portraits of literary life at the time of the Bloomsbury circle.
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Category: Health Womens
Strength Training for Women by Joan Pagano
London: Dorling Kindersley, 2005
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First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;
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Category: Music Jazz
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra by George T. Simon
London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1974
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Brown boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
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Category: Transport Nautical
The Story of Sail by G. S. [Geoffrey Swinford] Laird Clowes
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936
Hardback. Bevelled Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by: Cecil G. Trew
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Plates [53];
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Category: Biography
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne by A. J. B. F. Bourgogne
Jonathan Cape, 1930
Hardback. Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
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Category: Military Naval
Combat Carriers: USN Air and Sea Operations from 1941 by Martin Bowman
Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2010
Paperback
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Category: History U.S.A.
A Klondike Centennial Scrapbook: Movies, Music, Guides, Photographs, Artifacts, and Personalities of the Great Klondike Gold Rush by Stan Cohen with Candy Waugaman’s Collection
Missoula: Pictorial Histories Company, 1997
Paperback
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Category: Antiques & Collecting Furniture
Macdonald Guide to Buying Antique Furniture by Rachael Feild
London: MacDonald Orbis, 1986
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Grey boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Diagrams;
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Category: Military History
World War I in Photographs by Adrian. Gilbert
London: Black Cat, 1988
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Edited by: John Terraine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;
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Category: Military History
The Midway Campaign: December 7, 1941-June 6, 1942 Revised & Expanded Edition by Jack Greene
Conshohocken: Combined Books, Inc, 1996
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black Spine Strip with Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
2nd printing. [First Published: 1995, thus. 1988 New York: Gallery Books.] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Diagrams; Maps; Tables;
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Category: Home & Garden Interior Design
Salvage Style in Your Home: Inspirational Ideas and Over 30 Projects for Using Rescued and Recycled Materials in the Home by Moira & Nicholas Hankinson
London: Kyle Cathie, 2000
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Red boards with White titling to Spine & Upper Board
Edited by: Helen Woodhall
Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: Whimsical waisted cupboards, colourful baskets and bowls, gutsy armchairs and fantasy picture frames have all been created from reclaimed materials; something that has already had one life but has been rescued, recycled and recreated into something new and original. This book looks at salvage, ransacks the reclamation yards and gets insights from architects, designers, and enthusiasts on the practical use of recycled materials.
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Category: Social History U.S.A.
Cowboys: A Vanishing World by Jon Nicholson
London: Macmillan, 2001
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; The American cowboy is a dying breed. Well depicted in films and a confirmed part of popular culture, the cowbow is having to adapt his lifestyle to cope with the inevitable technological advances of the new millennium. This book provides a record of the cowboy as he moves into the 21st century
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Category: Military Naval
United States Destroyer Operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe
Naval Institute Press, 1953
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Grey boards with Blue & Black titling to Spine
Illustrated by: Fred Freeman
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Category: Poetry Anthologies
Anthem for Doomed Youth: Twelve Soldier Poets of the First World War by Jon Stallworthy
Constable, 2013
Paperback
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles;

From the cover: Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work.
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Category: Animal Snakes
The Last Snake Man by Austin J. Stevens
Hereford: Noir Publishing, 2007
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Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;
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Category: Military History
The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Adrian Stewart
London: Robert Hale, 1979
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Red boards with Silver titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;
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Category: Military Naval
The Royal Navy At Malta: A Collection of Old Photographs Taken by the Ellis Family At Malta Volume 2:- 1907 – 1939 by Ben Warlow
Liskeard: Maritime Books, 1990
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Category: Military Army
Tanks and Other A.F.V.s of the Blitzkrieg Era, 1939 to 1941 by B. T. [Brian Terence] White
London: Blandford Press, 1972
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by: John Wood
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Category: Military Naval
Victoria’s Navy: The Heyday of Steam by Colin White
Emsworth: Kenneth Mason, 1983
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Category: Business History (Individual Firms)
The Story of Vauxhall 1857-1946 by L. C. Darbyshire
Luton: Vauxhall Motors Ltd., 1946
Hardback. Green boards with Silver titling to Upper Board
Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs;
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Category: Military History
The World War One Source Book by Philip J. [John] Haythornthwaite
London: Arms & Armour Press, 1993
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Red boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps; Tables; Plans;

From the cover: Provides the facts, figures and guidance about World War I required by students of all levels. The book features each nation involved, all battles and campaigns, the weaponry and the commanders, and is arranged in an easy-access, highly-illustrated format.
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25 April, 2015 14:06

Latest additions to the bookshelves of the leading book shop in Peasedown St. John!

Category: Transport Air
The Air Racers: Aviation’s Golden Era 1909-1936 by Terry Gwynn-Jones
London: Guild Publishing, 1983
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Category: Social History
WORLD WAR II in Cartoons by Mark Bryant
London: Bounty Books, 2009
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Matching Pictorial boards with titling to
A Later Printing.
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Category: Military Naval
Flush Decks & Four Pipes by John D. Alden
Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1989
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Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Diagrams; Tables;
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Category: Military Naval
Submarines of World War Two by Erminio Bagnasco
London: Arms & Armour Press, 1977
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Chronological Tables; Tables; Plans;
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Category: Military Naval
Return to Midway by Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold
London: Cassell, 1999
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Grey boards with Gilt titling to Spine & Upper Board
Illustrated by: David Doubilet, Mark Thiessen, Keith Morehead & Glen Marullo (Photos.)
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Colour Drawings; Maps; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
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Category: Military Naval
The Battle of Jutland by Geoffrey Bennett
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
3rd impression. [First Edition: 1972] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Plates; Maps; Tables;
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Category: Biography
Dardanelles: A Midshipman’s Diary, 1915-16 by H. M. Denham
London: John Murray, 1981
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Brown boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Maps;
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Category: Military Naval
American Cruisers of World War II: A Pictorial Encyclopedia by Steve Ewing
Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1997
Paperback
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Maps;
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Category: Military Army
Atlas of Military Strategy: The Art, Theory and Practice of War, 1618-1878 by David G. Chandler
London, Melbourne: Arms & Armour Press, 1980
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Brown boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by: Hazel R. Watson and Richard A. Watson (Cartography)
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Chronological Tables; Maps; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
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Category: Antiques & Collecting
Confessions of a Collector: Or How to Be a Part-Time Treasure Hunter by Hunter Davies
London: Quercus, 2009
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Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
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Category: Art
Painting of the Baroque by Andreas Prater & Hermann Bauer
Köln, Lisboa, London, New York, Paris, Tokyo: Taschen, 1997
Paperback
Edited by: Ingo F. Walther
This short but thorough introduction to the painting of the Baroque era in Europe includes the main works of such artists as Breugel, Caravaggio, van Dyck, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, and Vermeer. Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; Black & White Plates;
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Category: Comics
The Celts by Hugo Pratt
London: The Harvill Press, 1996
Paperback
Translated by: Ian Monk
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Drawings;
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Category: Military Naval
Chronology of the War At Sea 1939-1945 Volume 2: 1943-1945 by J. Rohwer & G. Hümmelchen
London: Ian Allan, 1974
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Silver titling to Spine
Translated by: Derek Masters
Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs;
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Category: Transport Nautical
The Liberty Ships: The History of the ‘Emergency’ Type Cargo Ships Constructed in the United States During World War Two by L. A. Sawyer & W. H. Mitchell
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Tables; Plans;
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Category: Military Naval
The Arctic Convoys by B. B. Schofield
London: MacDonald & Jane’s, 1977
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Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps; Tables; Maps to the endpapers and blanks;
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Category: Military Naval
Action Imminent: Three Studies of the Naval War in the Mediterranean Theatre During 1940 by Peter C. [Charles] Smith
London: William Kimber & Co., Ltd, 1980
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Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;
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Category: Biography
Bogart by A. M. Sperber & Eric Lax
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1997
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Black boards with Silver titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs;
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Category: Military Naval
Escort Carriers and Aviation Support Ships of the US Navy by Stefan Terzibaschitsch
Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press, 1981
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Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Plans;
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Category: Transport Rail
The Train by Jonathan Glancey
London: Carlton Books, 2004
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Category: Military History
Where the Eagle Landed: The Mystery of the German Invasion of Britain,1940 by Peter Haining
London: Robson Books, 2004
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Category: Transport Rail
LSWR West Country Lines: Then and Now by Mac Hawkins
Grange, 1999
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Category: Photograhy
Seeing Through Photographs by Michael Hiley
London: Gordon Fraser, 1983
Paperback
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles;
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Category: Military History
Disaster At the Dardanelles, 1915 by Edwin P. [Palmer] Hoyt
London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1976
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Green boards with Gilt titling to Spine
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Category: Military Naval
United States Navy Destroyers of World War II by John C. Reilly Jr
Poole: Blandford Press, 1983
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Blue boards with Gilt titling to Spine
Edited by: Frank D. Johnson
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;
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Category: Military Naval
Victoria’s Navy: The End of the Sailing Navy by Colin White
Kenneth Mason, 1981
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Category: Military Naval
Baltic Assignment: British Submariners in Russia, 1914-19 by Michael Wilson
London: Leo Cooper in association with Secker and Warburg, 1985
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Category: Military Naval
Invincible Class by John A. Roberts
London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1972
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Blue boards with Silver titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Plans;
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25 April, 2015 14:01

Latest additions to the bookshelves of the leading book shop in Peasedown St. John!

Category: Transport Air
The Air Racers: Aviation’s Golden Era 1909-1936 by Gwynn-Jones Terry
London: Guild Publishing, 1983
Hardback with Dust Jacket over Grey boards with Silver titling to Spine
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Diagrams; Maps;
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Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War by Gary E. Weir & Walter J. Boyne

Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War by Gary E. Weir & Walter J. Boyne lands on the shelves of my shop.

New York: Basic Books, 2003, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs;

From the cover: Of all the Secrets the Soviet Union kept, none were more closely guarded than those involving their submarines. Throughout the Cold War, Soviet submariners patrolled the worlds oceans, playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with their American counterparts in a silent struggle hundreds of feet below the surface. For the first time, Rising Tide tells the Soviet side of these secretive operations. Drawing on newly available archives, as well as interviews with a dozen former Soviet commanders access never before granted to Western researchers this gripping narrative shows that confrontations between nuclear-armed subs were far more dangerous than we ever thought.

With sixteen pages of never-before-seen photos, Rising Tide recounts successful Soviet operations, including top-secret exercises off the American coast, and espionage coups, such as the spy-ship that monitored American missile tests off the Florida coast and collected the debris in full view of the US Navy. All too common were the near-misses, heroic rescues, and deadly catastrophes that plagued Soviet submarines over the years, including the horrific nuclear accident on board the ill-fated K-19, later nicknamed the Hiroshima; the internal fire that sank the K-8 in 1970 with twenty-two sailors on board, and the dramatic escape of crewmembers from the Komsomolets in 1989, as narrated by a survivor.

Russian submariners fought two battles in the Cold War: one against their American opponents, and another against the cruel Soviet leadership that knowingly put their lives at risk and caused so many needless deaths. Rising Tide also provides dramatic first-hand evidence that the final decision to launch a nuclear weapon resided solely in the hands of Soviet sub commanders. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the tragic sinking of the Kursk in 2000, Rising Tide offers an extraordinary insiders history of the Soviet submarine service, and sheds new light on the darkest secrets of the Cold War.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine. [XIII] 354 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½” x 6¼”.

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Batten’s South Somerset Villages by John Batten

Batten’s South Somerset Villages by John Batten lands on the shelves of my shop.

Tiverton: Somerset Books, 1994, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Genealogical Tables; Chapter Headpieces;

From the cover: Battens South Somerset Villages was first published in 1894 as Historical and Topographical Collections relating to the Early History of Parts of South Somerset

It charts the history of ten South Somerset villages Barwick, Chilton Cantelo, Sutton Bingham, East Coker, Brympton, Houndstone, Preston Plucknett, Limington, West Coker and Hardington Mandeville from the Domesday Survey (1086). This fascinating facsimile edition (including rare early photographs) will make compelling reading for all those who live in, or appreciate from a distance, this beautiful part of Wessex. It examines in detail the families, lands, houses and churches around which have been constructed a thousand years of history, and which have left their legacy in present-day South Somerset.

Battens original text is complemented by a completely new introduction by Robin Ansell, outlining the authors local back-ground and historical writings.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 199 pages. Index. 9″ x 5¾”.

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Unheralded Victory: Who Won the Vietnam War? by Mark W. Woodruff

Unheralded Victory: Who Won the Vietnam War? by Mark W. Woodruff lands on the shelves of my shop.

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;

From the cover: Unheralded Victory is a revisionist history of the Vietnam war based on personal experience and exhaustive study of what actually happened, as opposed to what was reported. Contrary to what might be expected, it charts the defeat of the Viet Cong. It investigates why the popular image of the war then, as now, is that propagated by Hanois propaganda machine, and why US propaganda was so clumsy. Many myths are debunked: drug use among US forces, fragging; American morale: the authors account squares with the recollections of actual veterans. He also exposes a number of eyewitnesses, some active in the veterans organizations who were never in Vietnam and whose false testimony has contributed to enduring myth of the crazed Vietnam veteran as portrayed in cinema and TV. An original military history, Unheralded Victory echoes some themes revisited in NATOs war on Serbia: how what gets reported can be more important than the events on the ground especially if the frontline is a very dangerous place for film crew.

Introduction by: James L. Jones

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Leans slightly. Pages very gently age-tanned.

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XIV] 338 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½” x 6¼”.

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Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe by David Stafford

Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe by David Stafford lands on the shelves of my shop.

Little, Brown, 2003, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;

From the cover: It was the day that changed the course of a war, and also a century. Meticulous in their planning, brilliant in their execution, the landings of 6 June 1944 constitute the largest seaborne assault ever attempted. As dawn rose, and the first of the 150,000 Allied troops reached the Normandy beaches, D-Day heralded the beginning of the end of the Second World War.

In this brilliantly readable account, acclaimed historian David Stafford describes the countdown to the Normandy landings from a multitude of angles, from the perspectives of Churchill and Eisenhower to those of the ordinary people whose courage and dedication made it all possible.

Written with the pace of a thriller, Ten Days to D-Day switches from country to country, from character to character: the English Wren working on coded signals; the French Resistance worker and his clandestine network; the Norwegian freedom fighter imprisoned in a Gestapo cell; the American paratrooper waiting for action; the Jew hiding in a Paris garret; the German soldier on the French coast who is convinced that invasion is a long way off; the Canadian rifleman due to land in the first assault wave. Stafford chronicles the actions of Churchill, Hitler, Rommel, Eisenhower and de Gaulle in these crucial days and shows the vital work of the deception agents who fed false information to the Nazi hierarchy.

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Researched from contemporary letters, diaries and official records, Ten Days to D-Day is history as it happened, a book that brings these tumultuous events brilliantly to life. It is a story of nations but, above all, it is an account of the lives of individual men and women on the brink of an epic moment in history.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Pages lightly age-tanned, more heavily so at the margins.

Navy Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XV] 366 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½” x 6¼”.

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Great Battle Fleets by Oliver Warner

Great Battle Fleets by Oliver Warner lands on the shelves of my shop.

London, New York, Sydney, Totonto: Hamlyn, 1973, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Plates; Black & White Plates; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: The era of the battle fleet is over. Never again will mighty surface fleets clash on the high seas. From the sixteenth century to the Second World War, when battle fleets faced each other, the fate of nations hung in the balance. The westward thrust of Islam was checked by the Spanish and Venetians at Lepanto in 1571; the United States owes her emergence as a nation in part to the action of the French fleet off Chesapeake Bay in 1781; in 1942 at Midway the fate of Japan was sealed in a titanic struggle between the two most powerful fleets ever to oppose each other.

In this book the distinguished naval historian Oliver Warner tells the stories of the Spanish, Elizabethan, Dutch and Swedish fleets, of the fleet of France and Nelsons fleet, of the Imperial Japanese fleet, the British Grand Fleet, the German High Seas Fleet and the United States fleet. He describes each at its zenith, detailing also its origins and later history. He tells of the commanders, the fighting men, the engagements and above all of the ships themselves: the Venetian galleasses, Nelsons ships of the line, the early ironclads and the revolutionary Dreadnoughts.

The wide range of illustrations in colour and black-and-white capture the drama and heroics of the battles and the majesty of the great ships and fleets at sea. Together, text and pictures combine to make this an important and highly attractive book, presenting as it does a broad view of the distribution of sea power over the last five hundred years.

Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper a little faded at the spine and somewhat dull overall. Text complete, clean and tight. Price Clipped.

240 pages. Index. Bibliography. 12″ x 9″.

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