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No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot IUn World War 1 Author: Arthur Gould Lee   Publisher: The Adventurers Club, London     Edition: Second Edition, 1969 Condition: Good. Wear to cover, edges and corners, foxing of pages, other wise clean with tight binding Binding: Hardcover   Pages: 234. Various black & white photographs         Additional Information From the young airmen who took their frail flying machines high above the tenches of World War 1 and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces – among them Ball, Bishop, McCudden, Collishaw, Mannock – whose legendary feats have echoed down down the   last century. But behind the elite there were, in the Royal Flying Corps, many hundreds of other airmen who flew their hazardous daily sorties nin outdated bplanes without achieving fame. “ No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot in World War 1”  is the story of one of these unknown flyers. Please note that we refer the right to close our auctions at any time Please refer to all images for condition, as this form an integral part of the description Payment to be processed within 2 days of auction closing Item will be posted on the first Saturday following receipt of payment. We are not responsible for damages to or loss of items once posted The item is second hand and sold as such with no warranty or guarantee implied, expressed or given. Regretfully, no buyers from outside the borders of South Africa

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  The Marshall Cavendish illustrated Encyclopaedia of World War II – Complete Set of 25 Volumes Author: Eddy Bauer | James Lawton Collins | Peter Young Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation Binding: Hardcover   Volumes: 25 – Complete set Condition – Very Good. Rubber stamp of previous owner, other wise a clean set with tight binding    Language: English   An objective, chronological, and comprehensive history of the Second World War.   Volume 1: Hitlers War: 1936 – 1939 Volume 2: The Fall of the West: 1940 Volume 3: The Axis Turns South: 1940 Volume 4: Yugoslavia | Greece | Crete: 1941 Volume 5: Barbarossa | Pearl Harbour: 1941 Volume 6: Atlantic Ordeal: 1941 – 1942 Volume 7: Crisis in the Dessert: 1942 Volume 8: Japan At High Tide: 1942 Volume 9: The Grand Alliance | End In Africa: 1942 – 1943 Volume 10: The Invasion of Italy | Guadal Canal: 1943 Volume 11: Anzio | Cassino | Rome: 1943 – 1944 Volume 12: D-Day & After: 1944 to: To The Siegfried Line – 1944 Volume 13: The Russian Steamroller: 1944 Volume 14: Breakout from Normandy: 1944 Volume 15: To The Siegfried Line: L 1944 Volume 16: Hitlers Last Gamble: 1944 – 1945 Volume 17: Across the Rhine: 19544 Volume 18: Victory in Europe: 1945 Volume 19: Central Pacific: The first Battles: 1944 Volume 20: Return to The Philippines: 1945 Volume 21: Okinawa: The Last Ordeal: 1943 – 1945 Volume 22: Hiroshima | japan Surrenders: 1945 Volume 23: The American War Machine: 1945 Volume 24: The Fighting Men: 1945 Volume 25: Chronology |} Index | Heraldry of war   Please note that we refer the right to close our auctions at any time Please refer to all images for condition, as this form an integral part of the description Payment to be processed within 2 days of auction closing Item will be posted on the first Saturday following receipt of payment. We are not responsible for damages to or loss of items once posted The item is second hand and sold as such with no warranty or guarantee implied, expressed or given. International bidders to kindly request details of shipping costs

South Africans at War Series Volume 10. South Africa and South Africans during the Second World War 1992. Hard cover with dust cover, 430 pages. Good condition. Tightly bound and neat. The dust cover has some edgewear.  Under 1kg. Arranged chronologically, this book is a collection of interviews with men and women of all persuasions, from Italian and South African prisoners of war to a soldier who lost both legs in the desert; from a young bride to a member of the Ossewabrandwag. 

  South Africans at War Series Volume 10. South Africa and South Africans during the Second World War 1992. Hard cover with dust cover, 430 pages. Good condition. Tightly bound and neat. The dust cover has some slight edgewear at  the top.  Under 1kg. Arranged chronologically, this book is a collection of interviews with men and women of all persuasions, from Italian and South African prisoners of war to a soldier who lost both legs in the desert; from a young bride to a member of the Ossewabrandwag. 

 VICTORY IN EUROPE.....D-DAY TO V-E DAY: FIRST TIME IN FULL COLOUR VICTORY IN EUROPE IS THE FIRST AND ONLY ALL-COLOUR PORTRAYAL OF THE MOMENTOUS EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN EUROPE BETWEEN D-DAY IN 1944 AND V-E DAY IN 1945. A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF MILITARY PUBLISHING, THESE UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM RECENTLY DISCOVERED FILM MADE DURING THE LAST YEAR OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR BY THE AWARD-WINNING HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR, GEORGE STEVENS. EARLY IN 1944 STEVENS WAS ASKED BY GENERAL EISENHOWER TO ORGANIZE A FILM UNIT WHITCH WOULD TRAVEL WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES DURING THE LANDINGS IN FRANCE AND FOLLOW THEIR CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE. IN ADDITION TO THE UNIT'S OFFICIAL COVERAGE OF THE WAR, STEVENS RECORDED THESE HISTORIC EVENTS HIMSELF ON COLOUR FILM, WHICH WAS THEN SENT TO CALIFORNIA WHERE IT REMAINED FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS. VICTORY IN EUROPE IS INTRODUCED BY GEORGE STEVENS, Jr. WHO EXPLAINS HOW HIS FATHER MADE THE FILM AND TELLS THE STORY OF ITS REDISCOVERY. ACCOMPANIED BY AN AUTHORITATIVE COMMENTARY BY BRITAIN'S LEADING WAR HISTORIAN MAX HASTINGS, AND NINE INFORMATIVE MAPS, THESE PICTURES TELL THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE; FROM D-DAY AND THE GREATEST NAVAL INVASION IN HISTORY TO THE LIBERATION OF PARIS, FROM THE ARDENNES AND THE BATTLE OF A MILLION TOOPS TO THE HORROR OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF THE NAZI REGIME. AFTER SIX YEARS, VICTORY WAS FINALLY WON IN EUROPE. THIS VIVID DOCUMENTARY COMMEMORATES TO THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF V-E DAY.   MAX HASTINGS,  PICTURES BY  GEORGE STEVENS,  INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE STEVENS, Jr.......TEXT, PICTURES, INTRODUCTION AND CARTOGRAPY COPYRIGHT 1985. JACKET ILLUSTRATIONS FRONT - THE LIBERATION OF PARIS, AUGUST 1944, BACK - ABOVE GENERAL DE GAULLE AND GENERAL BRADLEY, PARIS 1944, CENTRE - SOVIET CECTOR, BERLIN 1945, BELOW RIGHT - YOUNG CONCENTRATION CAMP INMATES, DACHAU 1945, BELOW LEFT - M4 SHERMAN TANK, NORMANDY 1944. HARD COVER BOOK, DUST JACKET HAS SOME  MINOR WEAR AND TEAR AND IS COVER WITH TAPE ON THE INSIDE COVER. BOOK HAVE WONDERFULL PICTURE'S IN BLACK & WHITE AND IN COLOUR WITH SOME FEW MAPS', BOOK HAVE 192 PAGES AND STILL IN FARE CONDITION. POSTAGE R55-00  

This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) , The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during the Second World War. Among the fascinated crowd gathering outside the hotel, stands Henry Lee, and, as the owner unfurls a distinctive parasol, he is flooded by memories of his childhood. He wonders if by some miracle, in amongst the boxes of dusty treasures, lies a link to the Okabe family, and the girl he lost his young heart to, so many years ago. WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE, THIS CAPTIVATING DEBUT IS A STORY OF THE SACRIFICES ONE BOY MAKES FOR LOVE AND FOR HIS COUNTRY.

Fireforce - Chris Cocks - 2001 - Paperback, second edition.   One man's war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry Fireforce is the compelling, brutal but true account of Chris Cocks' service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, during Zimbabwe's bitter civil war of the '70s—a war that came to be known almost innocuously as 'the bush war'. 'Fireforce', a tactic of total airborne envelopment, was developed and perfected by the RLI, together with the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian Air Force. Fireforce became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the overwhelming tide of the Communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas.The combat strain on a fighting soldier was almost unbelievable, for the Rhodesians, who were always desperately short of ground troops, were sometimes obliged to parachute the same men into action into as many as three enemy contacts a day. While estimates of enemy casualties vary, there seems little doubt that the RLI accounted for at least 12,000 ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas—but not without cost.Fireforce is not for the squeamish. Although it has been written with unforgettable pathos and humour, it tells of face-to-face combat in the bush and death at point-blank range. It is a book which does nothing to glorify or glamorize war, for as Chris Cocks found at such a young age, war is merely a catalogue of suffering, destruction and death. Fireforce has been described by critics as being to the Rhodesian War what All Quiet On The Western Front was to World War I and Dispatches was to Vietnam. Read it … it will be an experience you never forget.

2010 hardcover with dust jacket and 224 pages in splendid condition. R65 postage in SA. With his parting words "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain, named Russell Volckmann, refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese, killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur's HQ in Australia and directed Allied forces to key enemy positions. When General Yamashita finally surrendered, he made his initial overtures not to MacArthur, but to Volckmann. This book establishes how Volckmann's leadership was critical to the outcome of the war in the Philippines. His ability to synthesize the realities and potential of guerrilla warfare led to a campaign that rendered Yamashita's forces incapable of repelling the Allied invasion. Had it not been for Volckmann, the Americans would have gone in "blind" during their counter-invasion, reducing their efforts to a trial-and-error campaign that would undoubtedly have cost more lives, materiel, and potentially stalled the pace of the entire Pacific War. Second, this book establishes Volckmann as the progenitor of modern counterinsurgency doctrine and the true "Father" of Army Special Forces—a title that history has erroneously awarded to Colonel Aaron Bank of the ETO. In 1950, Volckmann wrote two Army field manuals: Operations Against Guerrilla Forces and Organization and Conduct of Guerrilla Warfare, though today few realize he was their author. Together, they became the Army's first handbooks outlining the precepts for both special warfare and counter-guerrilla operations. Taking his argument directly to the Army Chief of Staff, Volckmann outlined the concept for Army Special Forces. At a time when U.S. military doctrine was conventional in outlook, he marketed the ideas of guerrilla warfare as a critical force multiplier for any future conflict, ultimately securing the establishment of the Army's first special operations unit—the 10th Special Forces Group. Volckmann himself remains a shadowy figure in modern military history, his name absent from every major biography on MacArthur, and in much of the Special Forces literature. Yet as modest, even secretive, as Volckmann was during his career, it is difficult to imagine a man whose heroic initiative had more impact on World War II. This long-overdue book not only chronicles the dramatic military exploits of Russell Volckmann, but analyzes how his leadership paved the way for modern special-warfare doctrine.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Claire Randall is leading a double life.  She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In , Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord.... Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart.  For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. Features Summary Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in , Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence... Author Diana Gabaldon Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Release date Pages 850 ISBN ISBN

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days The final adventure in the Harry Potter film series, this much-anticipated motion picture event is the second of two full-length parts. In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here. 3-Disc Collector's Edition features: By the time the final film wrapped, the young stars of Harry Potter had spent nearly half their lives on set. In Growing Up, new and vintage interviews show how the actors have grown over the course of the series, while behind-the-scenes footage gives an exclusive look at their lives. Watch how their ideas of acting, fame, their characters and themselves have changed. Finally, say farewell to the series with Daniel Radcliffe as he delivers an emotionally charged speech to the cast and crew. Plus, learn how the more experienced actors took the younger ones under their wings and see the friendships that only years of collaboration could create. Additional features include: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2: Behind the Magic A Conversation with J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe (Extended Version) The Great Hall of Hogwarts Ron and Hermione’s Kiss That's a Wrap, Harry Potter Neville’s Battle Makeup The Gringotts Disguises Harry’s Death: The Courtyard Confrontation Focus Points When Harry Left Hogwarts The Goblins of Gringotts The Women of Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studio Tour London Pottermore Preview Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailers