Contains information on various aspects of the airborne course (compiled by Major Jack Tallerday), as well as a two-page list of the names and addresses of Class 49 members. Stiff card stapled wraps, unpaginated (24), illustrated w/photographs. Light general wear. View More...
French-language magazine with articles on the uniforms, insignia, and such used in World War 2. 74 pages, illustrated. Slight discolouration to top left corner of front cover, light general wear. View More...
French-language magazine with articles on the Panzer Division in Normandy, British military insignia, and much else from World War II. 70 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. View More...
French-language magazine with articles on gas masks used by the English in World War 2 ("Les masques a gaz anglais, 1939-1943"), the American cavalry from 1917-19, tanks, and much else. 50 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear. View More...
Course notes for Royal Canadian Navy engineering mechanics. Contains instructions on diesel principles, engine operation, engine parts, the fuel supply and injection systems, fuels and lubricants, cooling systems, and much more. Wraps in Acco binder, typescript, 50 pages, illustrated. Light surface scuffing, a bit of cover smudging. Uncommon. View More...
Course notes for Royal Canadian Navy marine engineering technicians, "checked and reprinted August 1969." In six sections: Introduction and Principles; Construction -- Stationary Parts; Construction -- Moving Parts; Engine Systems; Controls and Transmissions; and Operations and Trials. Wraps in Acco binder, typescript, 183 pages, illustrated. Cover scuffing, faint creasing to top left corner of front cover, pencil impressions to top right corner (erasure of previous owner's name), a bit of smudging to covers, occasional underling/notes/marginalia in pencil. Uncommon. View More...
A full-colour folding map showing European borders at the beginning of World War 1. Map is dissected (18 sections) mounted on gauze, and measures 23.5" high x 35.25" wide. Black cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover. Covers w/light scuffing to cloth, bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, half-inch separation to bottom right spine edge, light fraying. Map has moderate general wear, w/light soil to backing, previous owner's eight-line pencil notations to one segment of backing. View More...
Photograph of what appears, according to his tunic and collar badges, to be a young Canadian military man, as photographed by Lambert Weston Ltd. in Folkeston. Regrettably, the lad is not identified, nor is the image dated. The reverse bears a rubber-stamped imprint detailing three of the photographer''s addresses, as well as a hand-written (in pencil) notation: XVII / 2513-1, presumably an identifier of some meaning to the photographer or Lambert Weston, but of no use whatsoever to the likes of me. Measures 8" high x 6" wide. Curved (but easily flattened again), moderate wear to corners,... View More...
Contains articles on ATS uniforms in World War 2, U-boat insignia, Soviet BT-5 tanks, the Pacific Campaign, the cavalry in 1912-17, and more. 50 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. View More...
109 pages of detailed illustrated instructions for dismantling and assembling the rifles detailed in the title. Light cover soil, some surface wear, cover foxing, more to centre pages (stapled centre), moderate handling wear, foxed edges, light internal foxing. Not as common as some of the other Winchester take-down and assembly titles. View More...
From the king right down to the postal addresses of officers commanding brigades, regiments and other units, this contains just about all the names of individuals associated with the various branches of Canada's militia in 1916. Card wraps, Pp. (xx), 796, (clxvii) index. Corner chips, spine roll, considerable cover soil, same with edges, curled corner tips. Serviceable, but a long way from its original appearance. View More...
Tells of the World War 2 exploits of the DFC-recipient author and RCAF's 418 Squadron. Published in a first edition of 1,000 copies, 399 of which were numbered and signed by author and collaborator. This is copy #242. Dark grey cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 339 pages, illustrated. Somewhat cocked, mild wear to corners/spine ends, tanned top edge, in edgeworn dust jacket w/light chipping, scratches, 1" diagonal tear to top right corner of rear panel, 1/2" tear to top left corner of front panel, 1" tear to top left edge of front flap, general wear. Uncommon signed by both author and collaborator... View More...
Based on the popular feature from "Battle Picture Weekly." A platoon sergeant wounded during the D-Day assault is given a year to live, and is determined to spend it turning his platoon of raw recruits into battle-hardened soldiers. 128 pages, illustrated. Some edgewear, rubbing, small area to front cover where sticker removal took some gloss with it, small ink notation/scribble to top edge of front end paper, some tanning. View More...
The author would become an internationally recognised heart surgeon and cyberneticist, but when he wrote these diaries he was an inexperienced young surgeon serving in an obscure Russian mobile field hospital in World War II, and his chronicles of the desperate and grisly work he performed under cruel circumstances elevates the suffering and death from the realm of the statistical to that of the human. Translated and adapted by George St. George. Yellow boards, 261 pages. Spine cocked, worn corners/spine ends, edgewear, soiled edges, two tape stains to front end paper, two more to rear end pap... View More...
"The wartime adventures of an American liberty ship, her rough and tough crew of merchant seamen, her 'ninety-day-wonder' -- and her captain, Ransel, the strange and somber ex-naval officer." In their 'Sea Fiction Guide' Smith and Weller designate this title as one aimed at junior-senior high school readers, but with the dust jacket copy reading, "Here is a powerful story, a new novel of the sea, and of men -- hard, realistic, not for the squeamish, but alive with moments of virile humor. Lovemaking and drinking and carousing ashore in Noumea and Brisbane are as much a part of the story as the... View More...
A photo-facsimile edition of a title first published in 1941 by the Belfast Telegraph. The story, in pictures, of the terrible aftermath of the Luftwaffe's May, 1941 bombing of the Ulster capital. Introduction by Christopher D. McGimpsey. Unpaginated. Moderate general wear. View More...
In 1900, Sir Frederick M. Hodgson, governor of the Gold Coast, demanded to sit on the Golden Stool, sacred to the Ashanti people of the Akan interior (present-day Ghana). He hadn't a clue how serious his demand would seem to the Ashanti, who immediately prepared for and waged war rather than let the honour of their sacred object be thus demeaned. This is the story of the consequences, by two of the participants. This copy comes with a two-page printed insert from Hodgson to The Right Honourable J. Chamberlain, M.P., reporting details of the death of Captain P.H.A. Leggett, assistant inspector ... View More...
A novel set in WWI. Inscription reads, "To Gerry/with memories/Orvill E. Ault." Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 108 pages. Previous owner's gold foil stamp on front end paper, in dust jacket w/light chipping to top corners/top spine, sticker shadow to top right corner of front panel, some smudging to rear panel. View More...
Polish-language title dealing with Poland's war with Germany in 1939. White cloth w/black and red lettering to front cover/spine, 526 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, lightly sunned spine, edgewear. View More...
One woman's memories of the Holocaust, and the horrors perpetrated upon innocents by Nazi losers and their despicable supporters. 140 pages, illustrated. Light rubbing, a few impressions/scratches, light handling wear. A nice tight copy. View More...
When continuing needless brutality is committed in the name of his own department, an SS killer accustomed to mindlessly obeying orders discovers that even he has his limits. Translated from the German by Fred Taylor. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View More...
Military fiction. This is the first of four novels "commemorating the 40th Anniversaries of major battles in the Second World War." Burgundy cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 192 pages. Light edgewear, small remainder stamp to title page, in price-clipped dust jacket w/impressions, small sticker remains to top right corner of front panel. View More...
Tells the story of Padre Thomas Nangle and his experiences in World War 1. "A true champion of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, its soldiers and their exploits, Padre Nangle exemplified the dogged determination and spirit of those brave Fighting Newfoundlanders." 166 pages, illustrated. Gift inscription to previous owner, previous owner's stamp to front end paper, rubbing/impressions, light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View More...
From the back cover: "A first-hand account of the experiences of a young Canadian airwoman who served both in Canada and on overseas duty, this series of 150 letters brings home the day-to-day immediacy of life in uniform during the Second World War." 171 pages, illustrated. Light handling wear. View More...
Paperback original. The second book from the series inspired by the great ABC television show, Combat!, which starred Rick Jason as Lt. Gil Hanley, and Vic Morrow as Sgt. "Chip" Saunders. Jason committed suicide in 2000, 18 years after Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter blade while filming an episode of The Twilight Zone television show. Tragically killed with him were two child actors, My-ca Dinh Le (seven years old) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (six years old), Some edge/corner wear, impressions/thin scratches, rubbing, crosscrack, date to top of first end paper, previous owner's small nam... View More...
Paperback original. The first book in the series based on the popular television show, Combat!, which starred Rick Jason (who committed suicide in 2000) as Lt. Gil Hanley, and Vic Morrow (decapitated by a helicopter blade in 1982 while filming a segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie) as Sgt. Chip Saunders (also killed with Morrow were two child actors, My-ca Dinh Le, who was seven, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, who was six). This one sees "seven men on a suicidal patrol behind the enemy's front lines." 160 pages. Spine cocked/rolled, 1/4" separation at bottom right spine edge, light edgewear, scu... View More...
1st w/complete number sequence. The result of a two-year investigation by the author, this is the story of "the last soldier to be executed by the Canadian military -- likely wrongfully." This copy signed boldly (and, it must be said, illegibly), on title page, by Clark. Grey cloth w/silver spine lettering, 342 pages (including notes, bibliography, acknowledgements, index), illustrated. An unread copy. View More...
Two novels ("A high voltage novel of the Air Force during World War II," and "A vivid, rowdy picture of our war-time Navy") and two true stories, ("The True and Thrilling Story of 34 Days at Sea on a Rubber Raft," and "The true story of a fantastic escape from a German prison camp in World War II"). Although there are numerous little flaws to all of these, with careful handling, they will survive a few more readings, at least. Sorry, but no substitutions of titles. View More...
An 18-year-old from Beverly Hills, California, "determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security cadre," leaves America for Israel, where, "after fifteen months of grueling training designed to break down each individual man and to rebuild him as a warrior, [he] was offered the only post a non-Israeli can hold in the special forces." This is the story of how "In 1996 he joined a top-secret, highly controversial unit that dispatches operatives disguised as Arabs into the Palestinian-controlled West Bank to abduct terrorist leaders and bring them to Israel for interrogation and trial." Be... View More...
