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.
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David Jones – In Parenthesis – First UK Edition 1937
£2,750.00A first edition, first printing of ‘In Parenthesis’, published by Faber and Faber in 1937. A very good (or better) book without inscriptions, board a touch tanned with some light…
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Charles W. Lindberg – Original Photo of the Flag Raise at Iwo Jima – SIGNED without dedication
£285.00An original photograph in black and white showing American soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima – SIGNED without dedication in black pen by Charles W. Lindberg – in near…
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Cecil Beaton – Theatre Of War – First Edition 2012
£75.00A first edition, first printing of Theatre of War by Cecil Beaton, published by Jonathan Cape, Random House in association with Imperial War Museums, London in 2012. A very fine…
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Paul Brickhill – The Great Escape – First UK Edition 1951 – SIGNED by Brickhill to his Aunt
£975.00A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1951. A very good book without inscriptions – SIGNED by the Author to the front endpaper, ‘To Auntie Frances/with my love/Paul’….
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David Miller – U-Boats – First Edition 1999 – with SIGNED photo of Erich Topp
£185.00A first edition, first printing of ‘U-Boats’ published by Pegasus in 1999. A near fine book in like unclipped wrapper. Accompanied by a SIGNED photo of U-Boat supremo, Erich Topp.
Erich…
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Neville Chamberlain – Original SIGNED and TYPED Downing Street Headed Paper – Weeks after the Munich Agreement 1938
£1,250.00A folded, typed reply on Downing Street headed notepaper, dated 24th October 1938 and reads:
‘Dear Sir, Please accept my very warm thanks for your kind message. During these difficult and…
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Mao Tse-Tung – Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung – First Edition 1966
£300.00First Edition 1966 – Peking. Binding tight. In very good. Titles stamped with star on the front cover.
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Cecil Beaton – War Photographs 1939-45 – First Edition 1981
£75.00A first edition, first printing of ‘War Photographs’ published by Imperial War Museum and Jane’s in 1981. A fine book in like clipped wrapper.
The book captures the early years of…
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Stanley Baldwin – This Torch of Freedom – First Edition – 1935 – SIGNED by Baldwin
£300.00A first edition, first printing of ‘This Torch of Freedom’ published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1935. A very good book with the House of Commons mounted signature to the…
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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
£875.00A first edition, first printing published by Knopf in 2005. A near fine book without inscriptions (small sticker to the front endpaper) in a near fine wrapper with a couple…
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Andrew Hodges – Alan Turing: The Enigma [Basis for ‘The Imitation Game’] – First Edition 1983
£385.00A first edition, first printing published by Burnett Books in 1983. A near fine book in a near fine unclipped wrapper – a touch rubbed to the corners and pushed…
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Dith Pran – Children Of Cambodia’s Killing Fields – SIGNED by Dith Pran
£975.00A first edition, second printing published by Yale University Press. A very good book with spotting to the endpapers – no inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with spotting…
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Winston S. Churchill – A History of the English-Speaking Peoples – Volumes 1-4 – First UK Editions 1956-58
£485.00First editions, first printings of ‘A History of the English-Speaking Peoples’. Published by Cassell in London, 1956-1958. [English History]. With occasional in-text maps and plans present – some bookplates. In…
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Lothar-Gunther Buchheim – U-Boat [Das Boot] – First Edition 1974
£95.00A first edition, first printing of ‘U-Boat’ published by Collins. A very good book (or better) without inscriptions. Some spotting to the page edges. In a very good clipped wrapper.
Originally…
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Ian Kershaw – Hitler – SIGNED First Edition 2000
£250.00A first edition, first printing of Hitler, 1936-1945 Nemesis, by Ian Kershaw, published by Allan Lane in 2000. A near fine book signed by the author in blue ink to…
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Barbara W. Tuchman – August 1914 – First Edition 1962
£95.00A first edition, first printing of ‘August 1914’, published by Constable in 1962. A near fine book in very good clipped wrapper with wear to the spine tips and corners…
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