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North-West Europe   22 Books
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Incidents with the Seventh Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry in France & Germany from June 1944 to June 1945. 1st Ed., 74pp. No imprint/date [Germany, c.1946].  #61045
[HLMainPic] Anonymous account (by "B" Coy. commander) which conveys well the confusion in Normandy & the bleak outlook. With the arrival of an effective CO the bn's. confidence returned but days later he was killed. A third CO was killed within a few more days then the author was wounded at Mont Pincon & evacuated to the UK. Rejoined in 1945 in time for the Rhine crossing & final operations. Contemp. red cloth, blind, no publication details but evidently manufactured in Germany c.1945-46. Stain to front o/w VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £125
Royal Engineers Battlefield Tour: The Seine to the Rhine. Volume I: An Account of the Operations Included in the Tour. Volume II: A Guide to the Conduct of the Tour. 1st Ed., 2 Vols., foolscap, xviii+217pp., 49 photos., 37 maps on 14 fldg. leaves; x+83pp., 31 maps. Chief Engineer British Army of the Rhine. Feb. 1947  #63949
[HLMainPic] RESTRICTED. "Prepared by HQ 8 AGRE... to enable present & future REs to study certain operations of particular engineer interest in the 1940 Flanders Campaign & in the 1944/45 Campaign in NW Europe..." Fabulous detail on RE aspects of ops. inc. Arnhem, battle of the Rhineland, Rhine Crossing &c. Numerous accounts by participating officers & NCOs. Excellent photos. & exceptional, detailed col. printed maps of operations. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & spines, some chipping, rubbing & wear to edges, generally VG with ownership inscrip. & later bookplate of Major J.S. Bartholomew, GM, in Vol. I.. Rare. See illustration on our website.   £250
The Polar Bear News: Weekly Publication of Forty-Ninth (West Riding) Infantry Division. Two issues: No. 3 (New Series), Neheim, Friday, November 2, 1945; No. 8 (New Series), Neheim, Friday, December 7, 1945, each 8pp. (but the second listed is incomplete), 35x25cm, several photos. & cartoons in each edition. Produced in the Germany. Contemp.  #63951
[HLMainPic] Weekly newsheets printed in Germany containing, inter al, items of divisional news, events, past operations & personalities, for example No. 3 includes a demonstration of V2 rockets at Duxhaven, news of the disbandment of 89 LAA Regt., the Campaign Story of the 2nd Essex: a substantial centre spread recounting the battalion's services in NW Europe 1944-45 with 50th & 49th Divs., inc. roll of awards. Issue no. 8 lacks internal pages. See illustration on our website.   £65
The War Diary of H Company 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade. 1st Ed., orig. printed paper covd. boards, 82pp., ep maps. No imprint, Schleswig, Sept. 1945  #65642
[HLMainPic] Appealing history from landing in Normandy June 1944 with 11th Armd. Div., Hill 112, Bocage &c., through Low Countries to Schleswig on the Baltic. Nominal roll with home addresses, Roll of Hon., awards. Nice clean copy, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £145
BARCLAY (Brig. C.N., CBE, DSO) The History of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in the Second World War. 1st Ed., xxii+241pp., 4to, 49 photos., 14 fldg. maps + 5 in text. Clowes, for the Regimental History Committe, RNF. 1952  #63988
[HLMainPic] BEF 1940 inc. Dunkirk evacuation, Middle East, Singapore, North-West Europe & Greece 1944-45. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG, nice copy. See illustration on our website.   £45
BRETT (Lt.-Col. G.A., DSO, OBE, MC) History of the South Wales Borderers & The Monmouthshire Regiment 1937-1952: Part III: The 2nd Bn. The Monmouthshire Regiment 1933-1952. 1st Ed., 126pp., 14 plates, 9 fldg. maps. Pontypool: Hughes & Son. 1953  #66898
[HLMainPic] North-West Europe 1944-45, (Normandy & through the Low Countries to the Ardennes, Reichswald &c.). Roll of Hon., awards, officers' roll. Orig. olive cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £60
ELLIOTT (W.A., MC) Esprit de Corps: A Scots Guards Officer on Active Service 1943-1945. 2nd Imp., 150pp., 3 photos., 2 maps. VG in dw. Wilby: Michael Russell. 1996  #65331
[HLMainPic] 2nd Bn. Scots Guards, Salerno, Garigliano 1943-44 & NW Europe 1945. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £15
ELLIS (Major L.F., CVO, CBE, DSO, MC) Welsh Guards at War. 1st Ed., xv+386pp., col. frontis., 56 photos., 3 maps. Aldershot: G&P. 1946  #62443
[HLMainPic] France 1940; Tunisia & Italy; N-W Europe 1944-45. Roll of Hon., awards &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG See illustration on our website.   £35
ESSAME (Maj.-Gen. H.) The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944-1945. 1st Ed., xi+292pp., 35 plates, 21 fldg. maps. VG in dw. Clowes. 1952  #63455
[HLMainPic] NW Europe 1944-45. Order of Battle, roll of staff officers, &c. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £35
EVANS (Maj.-Gen. R., CB, MC) The Story of the Fifth Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. 1st Ed., xiv+445pp., col. frontis., 15 plates, ep maps. Aldershot: G&P. 1951  #64741
[HLMainPic] Largely WW2 inc. France & Belgium 1940 & Normandy July 1944 to Hamburg 1945 in Cromwell tanks. Roll of Hon., rolls of officers. Orig. green cloth, silver gilt, near fine with printed slip (with ms. name) loosely inserted recording that this copy was presented in memory of Lance-Corporal W.J. Turner (note from CWGC records: 1423106 L/Cpl. William John Turner died of wounds near St Gregoire, France, 26th Aug. 1944, aged 20, & is buried in St Desir Brit. Cem., Normandy.) See illustration on our website.   £65

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