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4th Battalion Royal Tank Corps Standing Orders 1930.
128pp. (inc. blank interleaves). No publication details but "This edition... issued by Lt.-Col. M.C. Festing... Catterick Camp, Yorks. February, 1930."
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Customary regimental regulations &c., but quite a scarce inter-war amoured regiment version, including regs. re tanks & other vehicles. Orig. blue morocco, gilt ttle to front, marbled endpapers & gilt edges. Nice copy. See illustration on our website.
£45
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BAKER-CARR (Brig.-Gen. C.D., CMG, DSO)
From Chauffeur to Brigadier.
1st Ed., 323pp., portrait frontis., 30 photos. Benn.
1930
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Comm. RB 1898, 2nd Bn. in Sudan & Boer War. This memoir concerns WW1 when he founded the Machine Gun school at Camiers, later joined the Heavy Branch MGC & commanded 1st Tank Brigade. Orig. green cloth titled in black, sp. little sunned & worn, generally very sound, about VG, scarce. See illustration on our website.
£85
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BUCHAN (John)
These For Remembrance: Memoirs of Six Friends Killed in the Great War.
Reprint, [xli]+83pp., 6 portraits. VG in dw. Buchan & Enright.
1987
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Memoirs & portraits of six of Buchan's circle killed in the war, originally published privately in 1919. Includes Raymond Asquith, Grenadier Guards, KiA 1916 & Basil Blackwood of the same regt., KiA 1917.
£10
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COOPER (Bryan)
Tank Battles of World War I.
1st Ed., 95pp., 97 photos., 7 maps. VG in dw. Allan.
1974
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Useful precis inc. eye-witness accounts. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£15
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FLETCHER (David)
Landships: British Tanks in the First World War.
1st Ed., laminated card wraps., [iv]+60pp., photos. & diagrams throughout. HMSO.
1984
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Invaluable introduction to the subject, only published in this pbk. form. VG. See illustration on our website.
£15
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FOOT (Stephen, DSO, MA, late Bt. Major, RE)
Three Lives - And Now. An Autobiography.
2nd (& revised Ed., [vii]+294pp. VG in dw. Heinemann.
1937
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Comm. RE SR 1910: 10th Fd Coy. Nov. 1914, 2nd Ypres &c., later adjt. 21st Div. RE on the Somme where he was impressed by tanks & trans. to Tank Corps Central Workshops, later Brigade Major, 2nd Bde. Tank Corps at Cambrai &c. then GSO II under Fuller at the War Office ("I had known Fuller in France, & he selected me to be his GSO2 & personal assistant... I became editor, contributor, proof-reader & distributor of 'Weekly Tank Notes'."). Valuable account of work in the Tank Corps in France. Orig. black cloth, best edition (revised), VG in dw &scarce thus. See illustration on our website.
£75
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JONES (Major Ralph E.), RAREY (Capt. George H.) & ICKS (Lt. Robert J.)
The Fighting Tanks since 1916.
New Ed., xvi+325pp., num. photos. & drawings. VG in dw. Old Greenwich, CT: WE Inc.
1969
#53254
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Well-illustrated & comprehensive American survey of all aspects of tank development that includes reports on British, French, German & American combat use in the Great War. Useful bibliography. First published in 1933. Orig. yellow cloth, VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£35
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LIDDELL HART (Capt. B.H.)
The Tanks: The History of the Royal Tank Regiment & its predecessors, Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps, Tank Corps & Royal Tank Corps 1914-1945.
1st Ed., 2 Vols., xix+462pp. & xiv+555pp., 101 photos., 5 maps. VG in chipped dws. Cassell.
1959
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Excellent & detailed standard history. Vol. I covers WW1 & the inter-war years of development; Vol. II covers WW2. Orig. black cloth, silver gilt, VG in chipped dws. See illustration on our website.
£65
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MITCHELL (Lt. Frank, MC)
Tank Warfare: The Story of the Tanks in the Great War.
3rd Imp., viii+312pp., 16 illus. Nelson.
1933
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Useful & informative account including Glossary of Tank Terms &c. Author served with 1st Tank Bn. & won the MC for fighting the first tank v. tank 'duel' at Villers Bretonneux in April 1918. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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MURRAY WILSON (G.) Ed.
Fighting Tanks: An Account of the Tank Corps in Action 1914-1919.
1st Ed., 250pp., 24 illus. Seeley.
1929
#53079
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Collaborative account including contributions by J.F.C. Fuller, Cdr. Locker-Lampson, Hotblack, Elliott & many other officers & NCOs of the regiment, edited by the former Senior Chaplain to the Royal Tank Corps. Orig. black dec. cloth, rather rubbed & worn but sound & complete.
£30
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