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HOW GERMANY MAKES WAR
Edition: First edition in English
London: Hodder & Stoughton / Hugh Rees, 1914. Red cloth stamped in black. pp [2], xiv, 248. 1 cm tear at head of lightly sunned spine; crease across top edge of eary leaves; 1916 ink owner name and a later ink name at front; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. A condensed version of Vom heutigen Kriege (1912). General von Bernhardi was the epitome of Prussian militarism. He advocated a policy of ruthless aggression and complete disregard of treaties and regarded war as a "divine business". His kind caused millions of lost lives in the muddy hell of WWI, but the general himself died in bed at age 80.
Book ID: 43886More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
I WAS A SPY ! With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill
New York: McBride, 1933. 5th printing. Black cloth spine and photographic boards. pp 288. Book leaned, with a bit of wear to outer corners and edges of boards; endpapers browned; ink inscription at front; else a good copy. The story of Marthe Cnockaert McKenna, a Belgian nurse who worked as a spy for the British behind German lines during World War I.; Octavo
Book ID: 50587More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ILLUSION: 1915 (signed, limited ed.)
Edition: First UK printing
Book ID: 18518More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
Images of the First World War: a photographic anthology
Edition: First printing
UK: Balaguier Publications, 2003. Card covers. pp 238. Ink owner name, else fine.; Octavo 0954453204
Book ID: 48160More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918
Cambridge University Press, 2003. 4th printing. Card covers, maps, photos, index. pp 227. Ink owner name, very nearly fine otherwise. ; Octavo 0521567548
Book ID: 48039More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 . Second edition
Cambridge University Press, 2005. Second printing of the 2004 second edition. Card covers, maps, photos, index. pp 228. Ink owner name, else fine. ; Octavo 0521567548
Book ID: 48040More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
IN FLANDERS FIELDS: poetry of the First World War
London: Allen Lane / Penguin, 2004. Red boards with ribbon bookmark. pp 382. Biographical sketches, Index of titles and first lines. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket.; 16mo
Book ID: 48752More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
IN FLANDERS FIELDS: the story of John McCrae
Edition: First Edition
Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1985. pp 144. Photos, notes. General Publishing sticker on title page, ink owner name at front, else fine. The story of the Canadian doctor who penned perhaps the most famous verse of World War I. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44194More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae. Illustrated by Janet Wilson
Toronto: Stoddart, 1996. Second printing. Glossy pictorial boards. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. A book for children quoting the text of the poem and giving some historical background, with colour illustrations and reproductions of archival material throughout. 1996 CLA Honour Book. First published by Lester Publishing in 1995. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Oblong quarto 0773729917
Book ID: 48342More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
IN THE BATTLE SILENCES: poems written at the front
Toronto / London: Musson / Constable, 1917. Second printing (first was in 1916). 16mo. Light blue card covers with flaps. pp (34). Small owner name at top of front cover; covers lightly sunned; corner creases to some leaves; VG copy otherwise. Canon Scott, while not a combatant, was in the thick of the fighting and is credited with showing considerable bravery. He published much other poetry and was the father of the noted Canadian poet F.R. Scott. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 46868More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
INFANTRY TRAINING (4-company organization)
London: HMSO, 1914. 13.5 x 10.5 cm, tan cloth, spine gilt titled, rounded outer corners as issued. pp xviii, 265, [3] + 23 pp ads, including pastedowns, front and rear, on pinkish paper + 18 plates on text paper (one folding). Laid in is a small 6 panel folding booklet "Semaphore Simplified". Front cover just a little bowed with faint damp spots visible only at the right angle of light; else very nearly fine. An unusually nice copy of this standard British army manual for the onset of the Great War. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Book ID: 47713More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
IT MADE YOU THINK OF HOME: the haunting journal of Deward Barnes, Canadian Expeditionary Force: 1916-1919
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Dundurn, 2004. Blue boards. pp 318. Illustrated. Fine in fine jacket.; Octavo
Book ID: 51439More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
JANE'S FIGHTING AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I. Foreword by John W.R. Taylor
London: Studio / Random House Group, 2011. Folio, colour pictorial glossy boards. pp 329. Many photos, technical details. Facsimile reprint, with new Foreword, of the 1919 original. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has small creased tears, VG. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 44013More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
JOHN MONASH
Edition: First printing
Melbourne: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 1970. Black cloth, pp 76, illustrated. Front free endpaper has ink owner name and bookstore rubber stamp, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Monash was one of the most outstanding Allied commanders during WWI. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48117More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
JOURNEY TO THE TRENCHES. The Life of Isaac Rosenberg 1890-1918.
New York: Basic Books, 1975. Second printing. Tan boards. xvi, 224 pp plus illustrations. Black dot to bottom page edges, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Biography of this talented young British poet and painter, killed on the Western Front in 1918.; Octavo
Book ID: 51801More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
JULY 1914: the outbreak of the First World War. Selected documents
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Scribners, 1967. Black & red cloth. pp 400. Index, bibliography. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has nicks and short tear to front panel, red ball point pen price on front flap, VG otherwise. Translated from the 1965 German edition. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 44495More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
Jutland 1916: clash of the dreadnoughts
Botley, Oxford: Osprey, c2000. Later printing. Glossy card covers. pp 96. Illustrations, some in colour; index. Ink owner name, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.; Quarto.
Book ID: 48335More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
Kaiserschlacht 1918: The Final German Offensive (Campaign)
Edition: First printing
London: Osprey Publishing, 1991. Glossy card covers. pp 96. Photos. Some colour illustrations. Ink owner name, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be redu; Quarto 1855321572
Book ID: 48343More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
LAND AND POWER: British and Allied Policy on Germany's Frontiers 1916-19
Edition: First Canadian issue
London / Toronto: Kegan Paul / University of Toronto Press, 1963. Dark blue cloth. pp 402; index. Ink owner name, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has one small tear, else fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48097More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
LEADERSHIP IN BATTLE 1914-1918: commanders in action
Edition: First US issue
Newton Abbot / New York: David & Charles / Hippocrene Books, 1976. Black boards. pp 191, [5] + plates. Index. Ink ower name at front, else fne. Jacket has light spine sunning, else fine. 0715370278
Book ID: 44039More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50