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Notes on Military Railway Engineering. Published under the Authority of the Quartermaster General. Part I- (Survey) 1940.
vi+126pp., 28 sketches, maps & diagrams (some fldg.). War Office.
1940
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Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Text Book of Ballistics & Gunnery. Part I.
313pp., 4to, several photos. plates, num. diagrams & tables. HMSO.
1927
#66895
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For Official Use Only. Much about aiming, trajectories, fuzes, firing procedures, range table &c., Orig. red cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.
£65
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How to Use a Rifle or Pistol. Practical Advice on Shooting with the Service Rifle, Miniature Rifles & Pistols.
Written & illustrated by the Staff of "The Regiment." 3rd Ed., enlarged, 89pp., diagrams. Temple Press. nd (c.1915).
#67611
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Commercially produced pocketbook. Inc. shooting, mapreading, signalling &c. Orig. dec. wraps., VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Two Years After, or Twelve Months of Armageddon: Some Reminiscences of A Temporary Regimental Sawbones 1915-1916.
1st Ed., [v]+105pp. Printed for Private Circulation Only.
1918
#67840
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Interesting & exceptionally rare privately printed memoirs of "N.D.M." [i.e. N.D. Mackay], serving at a General Hospital in France then attached as MO to the London Scottish (1st Bn. 14th London Regt.) in Oct. 1915. Immediate recollections of service & episodes in France 1915-16 in two main sections: "A Winter in the Loos Salient" & "The Lighter Side of War," the latter in three parts, "At Home & at the Base, B.E.F.," "In & Out of the Trenches" & "In & Out of the Trenches (concluded)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & sp., VG with ink author's initiald to ffep & neat pencil notes of errata in his hand to rear ep. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, sp. dull o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£245
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Section Sixty-One: Selections from Letters of Henry S. Kingman, Member S.S.A.U. 61, Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps, May to October, 1917.
1st Ed., 103pp. Minneapolis: Privately Printed.
1917
#67863
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Letters from the French Front at Verdun &c., evidently arranged by his father in his absence overseas (the last page of this book records his transfer to an Italian Ambulance) & inscribed by the former at Christmas 1917. Orig. blue paper covd. boards with paper lettering label to front & blue cloth backstrip. VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Somewhere in France: Personal Letters of Reginald Noel Sullivan, S.S.U. 65 of the American Ambulance Field Service.
1st Ed., [ii]+53pp., frontis. Printed for Private Circulation.
1917
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Letters from training & active service in France Aug.-Nov. 1917. Sullivan was an ambulance driver: "I assure you no one knows how badly he drives until he tries to carry a wounded man 'doucement' and in as short a time as possible over these rough roads..." Orig. card wraps. with paper label to front. Scarce. See illustration on our website.
£35
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Military Engineering (Vol. IV) Demolitions & Mining. 1934.
279pp. followed by 86 plates (photos. & diagrams). HMSO.
1934
#67938
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Including theory of explosives, descriptions of types used, methods of firing, preparation & calculation of charges, demolitions in the field, undergound construction, military mining (offensive, defensive, &c.), mine gas & rescue work, &c., supplemented by many interesting diagrams & photos. Various amendment slips tipped-in. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Handbook of the German Army. 1928.
Compiled by the General Staff. ix+390pp., 17 photos., plates of rank badges &c., 2 fldg. maps in end-pocket. War Office.
1928
#69265
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For Official Use Only & just 875 copies printed. Contains comprehensive details of Germany's renewing military capabilities, organisation of the various arms of the service (infantry, artillery, & so forth), &c. Orig. grey limp cloth, abrasion & wear to edges, o/w generally VG with loosely inserted 42pp. Amendmets No. 1 booklet issued in 1930. See illustrations on our website.
£125
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Signal Training Volume IV. 1927. Construction & Maintenance of Lines.
Orig. buff printed paper covd. boards with cloth backstrip, [ii]+vii+171pp., 4 fldg. plates/diagrams at end, num. figs. in text. HMSO.
1927
#52960
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Construction of air lines, cable lines (buried & otherwise), &c. VG ex-IWM. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Rifle Drill Illustrated.
Orig. printed wraps., a series of diagrams within. Aldershot: G&P. nd (c.1940)
#66705
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Excellent drawings of rifle drill: The salute; ground arms; fix bayonets, &c. VG. See illustrations on our website.
£15
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