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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 Royal Artillery Commemoration Book 1939-1945. 1st Ed., xl+790pp., large 4to, many excellent photos., drawings & paintings (some col.) throughout, fldg. maps. VG in dw. Bell & Sons, for the RA Benevolent Fund. 1950  #68253
[HLMainPic] Substantial volume containing a wealth of detail on artillery of all forms in all theatres of war, regimental history, personal memoirs, accounts of operations, acts of gallantry &c., extravagantly illustrated. Much of interest + Roll of Hon. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, cloth & some of edges dampstained, all leaves open, internally all clean with commemorative inscrip. for Lt. A. F. Griffiths. See illustrations on our website.   £50
The Story of the 79th Armoured Division Oct. 1942-June 1945. 1st Ed., 314pp., 126 plates & one fldg., num. fldg. maps. VG in dw. Hamburg: BAOR. 1945  #68580
[HLMainPic] Restricted. Hobart's "funnies" (DD tanks, Crabs, Crocodiles, Kangeroos, Arks, Buffaloes &c.), Normandy to Germany. Orig. red cloth, gilt, col. onlay to front of divisional sign, little wear, VG in sl. chipped but VG & attractive dw. See illustration on our website.   £65
ARIS (G.) The Fifth British Division 1939-1945, Being an Account of the Journey & Battles of a Reserve Div. in Europe, Africa & Asia. 1st Ed., xi+266pp., col. frontis, plates, maps. VG in dw. Printed for the Div. 1959  #68578
[HLMainPic] A much travelled formation: BEF 1940, Norway, Madagascar, Paiforce, Sicily, Italy & the advance through the Low Countries to Germany. Orig. cloth, gilt, little smoky o/w VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £45
BARCLAY (Brig. C.N., CBE, DSO) The History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division in the Second World War. 1st Ed., xvii+233pp., 26 photos., 17 maps. Clowes. 1956  #68574
[HLMainPic] Normandy to the Rhineland 1944-45. Order of Battle &c. Orig. red cloth, gilt, sp. tanned, somewhat smoky, VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £30
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
BIRDWOOD (Lt.-Col. Lord) The Worcestershire Regiment 1922-1950. 1st Ed., xv+302pp., 12 plates, 8 maps. VG in chipped dw. Aldershot: G&P. 1952  #67681
[HLMainPic] Battalions served in Eritrea, Western Desert, Burma & NW Europe 1944-45. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.   £20
BLAKE (George) Mountain & Flood: The History of the 52nd (Lowland) Division 1939-1946. 1st Ed., xx+265pp., 50 photos. + 4 fldg. panoramas, 19 maps. Glasgow: Jackson. 1950  #68573
[HLMainPic] NW Europe 1944-45, from the Scheldt to the capture of Bremen. Detailed & well-illus. Order of Battle, complete roll of honours & awards earned by members of the division. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, sp. tanned, somewhat smoky, VG thus together with loosely inserted attractive, coloured & fldg. illustrated map of the division's progress though Europe in 1944-45. See illustration on our website.   £50

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