War and Warfare Archives

Our books on war and warfare record conflicts, strategy, and personal experience across centuries. From poetry to frontline accounts to fiction set in wartime, these books document courage, loss, and leadership. They capture the emotional truth of conflict.

War and Warfare

(LAWRENCE, T. E.) ROSS. A/C 352087: THE MINT, A DAY-BOOK OF THE R.A.F DEPOT BETWEEN AUGUST AND DECEMBER 1922 WITH LATER NOTES

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Admiral Lord Cochrane – Memoirs of a Fighting Captain – First Folio Society Edition 2005

Alan Clark – The Donkeys – First UK Edition 1961 – The basis for ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’

Albert Speer – The Slave State – First UK Edition [with] SIGNED 29 Line Letter

Andrew Geer – The Sea Chase – First Edition 1949

Andrew Hodges – Alan Turing: The Enigma [Basis for ‘The Imitation Game’] – First Edition 1983

Anne Frank – The Diary of Anne Frank – First Edition 1952 – in the original first issue dust wrapper

Arthur Lambert – Over The Top – First Edition 1930

Barbara W. Tuchman – August 1914 – First Edition 1962

Ben MacIntyre – Colditz, Prisoners of the Castle – SIGNED First Edition

Bernard Cornwell – The Complete Sharpe Collection – First UK Editions

Cecil Beaton – Theatre Of War – First Edition 2012

Cecil Beaton – War Photographs 1939-45 – First Edition 1981

Celticus (Aneurin Bevan MP) – Why Not Trust The Tories? – First Edition 1944

Charles Edmonds – A Subaltern’s War – First Edition 1929

Charles W. Lindberg – Original Photo of the Flag Raise at Iwo Jima – SIGNED without dedication

David Jones – In Parenthesis – First UK Edition 1937

David Miller – U-Boats – First Edition 1999 – with SIGNED photo of Erich Topp

Dith Pran – Children Of Cambodia’s Killing Fields – SIGNED by Dith Pran

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr – A Hell Of A War – First Edition 1993 – SIGNED, DATED and INSCRIBED

E. Keble Chatterton – The Auxiliary Patrol – First Edition 1923

Edith Sitwell [Wilfred Owen] – Wheels 1919 – Fourth Cycle – First appearance of Owen’s Poetry

Edith Sitwell [Wilfred Owen] – Wheels 1919 – Fourth Cycle – First Edition – First appearance of Owen’s Poetry

Field Marshal Montgomery – A History of Warfare – First Edition 1968

Field Marshal Montgomery – The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. – First Edition 1958

Field Marshal Montgomery – The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. – First Edition 1958 – SIGNED by the Author and Spike Milligan

Field Marshal Montgomery – The Path To Leadership – SIGNED First Edition 1961

Fred Urquhart – The Ferret Was Abraham’s Daughter – First UK Edition 1949

Frederic Mullally – Hitler Has Won – First Edition 1975

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H.M. Tomlinson – The Wind Is Rising – First Edition 1941

Heather Morris – The Tattooist Of Auschwitz – First Edition 2018

Henri Barbusse – Le Feu (Journal d’une Escouade) – First Edition 1916

Ian Kershaw – Hitler – SIGNED First Edition 2000

John Boyne – The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas – First Edition 2006

John F. Kennedy – The Strategy Of Peace – First US Edition 1960

John Harris – The Sea Shall Not Have Them – First Edition 1953 – with the rare wrap-around band

John Hersey – Hiroshima – First UK Edition 1966

John Maynard Keynes – How To Pay For The War – First Edition 1940 – in custom-made slip case

John McCrae – In Flanders Fields – First UK Edition 1919

Jonathan Freedland – The Escape Artist – SIGNED First Edition 2022

Judith Kerr – Out of the Hitler Time Trilogy – Pink Rabbit/Other Way/Small Person – First Editions

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin – American Prometheus – Basis for the movie ‘Oppenheimer’ – First Edition 2005 – With Photo of Bockscar, SIGNED by the co-pilot who dropped the bomb on Nagasaki

Karl Broger – Pillbox 17 – First UK Edition 1930

Len Deighton – Goodbye Mickey Mouse – First UK Edition 1982

Len Deighton – Goodbye Mickey Mouse – First UK Edition 1982

Lt-Col. J.H. William – Elephant Bill – First Edition 1950 – in the John Minton dust jacket

Ludwig Renn – WAR – First Edition 1929

Mao Tse-Tung – Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung – First Edition 1966

Markus Zusak – The Book Thief – First UK Edition 2007

Mary Booth – With the B.E.F. in France – First Edition 1916

Matej Minac – NICHOLAS WINTON – LOTTERIE DES LEBANS: EINE RETTUNGSAKTION VON KINDERN, DIE IN DER JUNGSTEN GESCHICHTE EINZIGARTIG IST, KOMMT ANS LICHT – Basis for ‘One Life’

Max Hastings – Operation Pedestal – SIGNED First Edition 2021

Montgomery of Alamein – A Humourous Letter From Monty to a Local Headmaster – with separate portrait – Framed

Neville Chamberlain – Original SIGNED and TYPED Downing Street Headed Paper – Weeks after the Munich Agreement 1938

Otto Strasser – The Gangsters Around Hitler – First Edition 1942

Pat Reid – The Colditz Story – First Edition 1952

Pat Reid – The Colditz Story [with] The Latter Days – First Edition Books

Pat Reid – The Colditz Story [with] The Latter Days – First Edition Double Set 1952 – both with rare film wrap-around bands

Paul Ableman – Dad’s Army – The Defence Of A Front Line English Village – Multi-Signed

Paul Brickhill – Reach For The Sky – First UK Edition 1954 – SIGNED by Paul Brickhill

Paul Brickhill – The Dam Busters – First UK Edition 1951

Paul Brickhill – The Great Escape – First UK Edition 1951 – SIGNED by Brickhill to his Aunt

Paul Gallico – The Snow Goose – First Edition 1941

Philip Jones Griffiths – Vietnam INC – First US Edition 1971

Philip Kerr – Berlin Noir: ‘A German Requiem’ – First Edition 1991

Philip Kerr – Berlin Noir: ‘Pale Criminal’ – First Edition 1990

Primo Levi – If This Is A Man – First Edition

Richard Attenborough – The Great Escape – Mounted Signature

Robert Graves – Good-Bye To All That – First UK Edition 1929 – the true first issue with the Sassoon poem present in exceptional dust wrapper

Robert Graves – Good-Bye To All That – SIGNED First UK Edition 1929

Robert Greenwood – Mr. Bunting At War – First UK Edition 1941 – SIGNED

Robert Westall – The Machine-Gunners – First Edition 1975

Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong – First UK Edition 1993 –

Sidney Rogerson – The Last Of The Ebb – First Edition 1937

Sidney Rogerson – Twelve Days – First UK Edition 1933

Six Signatures of Pearl Harbor Survivors on Photo

Stanley Baldwin – This Torch of Freedom – First Edition – 1935 – SIGNED by Baldwin