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THE LIEUTENANT AND OTHERS

By: "Sapper" (H.C. McNeile)

Price: $24.70

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1916

Seller ID: 013655

Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)

Condition: Very Good

vi, + 175pp. Book clean and square. Spine lightly creased. Text-printed, khaki-coloured original cloth boards undamaged. No dustjacket. Textblock mildly flecked, else very good. First published in 1915, this early reprint edition was published in 1916. In his preface, "Sapper" (H.C. McNeile, b.1888-d.1937) states that the stories herein are 'mere impressions' of the grim drama being played out in and around "the salient of Ypres . . . " Heart-rending and anguishing, contents include: Prelims. Preface. 12 stories, beginning with 'The Lieutenant' and closing with 'The Aftermath'....
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SIX PADDOCKS OF MICE

By: Fitzgerald, William

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Queensland, Australia, William Fitzgerald (Author): 1990

Seller ID: 010224

ISBN: 0731688295

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

383pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn only. "The story of Joffre Kelso - the boy, the youth and the man . . . In 1938, and for all the wrong reasons, he takes the giant step of engaging in the Navy as a Boy Entry . . . The story reaches a finale in June, 1942, during a failed attempt to succour Malta." Book weight approx. 430g. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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THE SECRET BATTLE (Centenary Edition)

By: Herbert, A.P.

Price: $17.10

Publisher: London, Methuen London: 1989

Seller ID: 013718

ISBN: 0413618706

Condition: Very Good +

viii, + 216pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Plain green boards slightly bumped on lower foredge corner, else unmarked. Textblock uniformly tanned, else unmarked. Illustrated (Chris Riddell), loose-plastic protected dustjacket minimally edgeworn and colour-faded (no text loss) on spine. First published in 1919, and reissued in 1924 with an Introduction by Winston S. Churchill. This Methuen Centenary Edition carries that same introduction. 'The Secret Battle' is a story of a young army officer, full of curiosity and enthusiasm for the war effort, yet plag...
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AND THEN WE HEARD THE THUNDER

By: Killens, John Oliver

Price: $26.60

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1964

Seller ID: 008459

Binding: Hardcover and Dustjacket

Condition: Very Good

485pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Plain brown boards undamaged. Text-block top edge tinted in a complimentary colour, leaves clean and unmarked, save for a minor bump on upper foredge. Art-illustrated (Leigh Taylor), loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edgeworn, with nips and a short jagged tear on lower rear panel. A powerful novel by Afro-American author John Oliver Killens (b. 1916, Macon, Georgia). " . . . tells the story of an American negro company in the Second World War, from its basic training in Georgia to the hellish war in the Pa...
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Category: Military Fiction

THE LIEUTENANT AND OTHERS

SIX PADDOCKS OF MICE

THE SECRET BATTLE (Centenary Edition)

AND THEN WE HEARD THE THUNDER