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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Charles Edmonds – A Subaltern’s War – First Edition 1929
£185.00A first edition, first printing of ‘A Subaltern’s War’ published by Peter Davies in 1929. A good book with markings to the boards, wear to the edges and corners. Some…
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Field Marshal Montgomery – A History of Warfare – First Edition 1968
£95.00A first edition, first printing of A History of Warfare by Montgomery of Alamein, published by Collins in 1968. A near fine bound in crimson cloth covered boards with gilt…
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Field Marshal Montgomery – The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. – First Edition 1958
£95.00A first edition, first printing published by Collins in 1958. 574pp. No inscriptions. Foxing to the endpapers else a near fine bright copy in very good indeed bright dustwrapper with…
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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
£2,850.00Montgomery, Bernard Law, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery, Collins (1958). First Edition and dual signed by Montgomery of Alamein and Spike Milligan, the latter with a lengthy inscription and occasional…
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Lt-Col. J.H. William – Elephant Bill – First Edition 1950 – in the John Minton dust jacket
£45.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Elephant Bill’ published Rupert Hart-Davis in 1950. A very good book without inscriptions in a good unclipped John Minton designed dust wrapper which has…
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Henri Barbusse – Le Feu (Journal d’une Escouade) – First Edition 1916
£375.00A first edition, first printing of Le Feu by Henri Barbusse, published by Ernest Flammarion, Paris in 1916. A near fine copy with boards three quarter bound in marbled paper…
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John Maynard Keynes – How To Pay For The War – First Edition 1940 – in custom-made slip case
£350.00A first edition, first printing, published by Macmillan and Co. in 1940. This, the uncorrected version of Keynes’s attempt to “reconcile the demands of War and the claims of private…
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Ludwig Renn – WAR – First Edition 1929
£245.00A first edition, first printing of ‘WAR’ published by Martin Secker in 1929. A very good book with some spotting to the spine tips. In the very good unclipped wrapper…
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E. Keble Chatterton – The Auxiliary Patrol – First Edition 1923
£150.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Auxiliary Patrol’ published by Sidgwick and Jackson in 1923. A fine book without inscriptions in a good/very good dust wrapper with a large…
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Arthur Lambert – Over The Top – First Edition 1930
£1,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Over The Top’ published by John Long in 1930. A very good book with a neat name and date to the front endpaper with…
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Sidney Rogerson – The Last Of The Ebb – First Edition 1937
£675.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Last of the Ebb’ published by Arthur Barker in 1937. A very good book with some spotting to the spine tips. In the…
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Mary Booth – With the B.E.F. in France – First Edition 1916
£475.00A first edition, first printing of ‘With the B.E.F. in France’ published by The Salvation Army in 1916.
First edition. Octavo. pp. xi, 120, with 3 pages of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait…
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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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