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On Their Shoulders - British Generalship in the Lean Years 1939-1942 - C,N, Barclay   Hardcover With a Dust Jacket I send by Ord inary mail and supply a tracking number.   Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies. Please quote Username or order number when making a payment  

  1998 British 2 pounds Technology 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'   Multiple errors *  The dots on inner ring are off centre on both sides of the coin  *Rim inscription 'standing on the shoulders of giants' is up side down

On Their Shoulders - British Generalship in the Lean Years 1939-1942 - C,N, Barclay   Hardcover With a Dust Jacket I send by Ord inary mail and supply a tracking number.   Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies.    

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2005 British 2 pounds - "Technology - "Standing on the shoulders of Giants"  

2013 British 2 pounds - "Technology - "Standing on the shoulders of Giants"  

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  1998 2 pounds Great Britian-Multiple Errors Technology coin"STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS " SANGS AU58 Error 1 Note missing dots around inner Example of perfect coin Errors 2 & 3 partail ring is missing around inner circle and possible doubleling and/or die breaks Example of perfect coin

The forces of the 3rd Reich surge into France. The Panzer Division's speed takes the Allies by surprise, and French forces are soon defeated, while the British Expeditionary force is blocked off in the Dunkirk Pocket, from which they barely escape. In the face of a victorious Reich, the fate of the world will rest for a few months on the shoulders of a handful of men: the RAF pilots. Slight surface scratching on cover and small blue sticker on first page. Rest of book in very good condition! Postage and packaging R30.  Please allow 3 to 5 days for delivery and a tracking no will be issued within 48 hours of purchase.

1983 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 208 pages in good condition. R46 postage in SA. Three bookshop stamps in book. -Spearheading the British assault waves in every Allied invasion landing during the Second World War were parties of khaki-clad naval officers and ratings, whose principal tasks were to secure the beachhead in the teeth of enemy defensive fire and direct and control the arrival of successive waves of landing craft bringing ashore the main body of the fighting troops and their equipment. Above the famous Combined Operations badge on the shoulders of their battledress they wore a special flash which bore the words 'RN Commando', a distinction for which they were fully qualified.Not only were they required to control the invasion beaches and, until the landings were assured, remain on them for days on end with little rest or food and under enemy bombing and shelling, their only protection a slit trench, they were also expected to undertake a variety of roles unrelated to that for which they had been specially trained. Their work was considered by Force Commanders to be 'the most important and dangerous in any landing'.--------------------------------------Royal Navy Commandos took part in combined operations in Madagascar, at Dieppe, in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, northern Italy and the Adriatic, the steaming, disease-ridden chaungs on the Arakan coast of Burma, and finally in Normandy itself and beyond up to the time of the collapse of the Third Reich.Few know even that Royal Naval Commandos existed, so that this is their previously untold story.

1983 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 208 pages in good condition. R50 postage in SA. Three bookshop stamps in book. -Spearheading the British assault waves in every Allied invasion landing during the Second World War were parties of khaki-clad naval officers and ratings, whose principal tasks were to secure the beachhead in the teeth of enemy defensive fire and direct and control the arrival of successive waves of landing craft bringing ashore the main body of the fighting troops and their equipment. Above the famous Combined Operations badge on the shoulders of their battledress they wore a special flash which bore the words 'RN Commando', a distinction for which they were fully qualified.Not only were they required to control the invasion beaches and, until the landings were assured, remain on them for days on end with little rest or food and under enemy bombing and shelling, their only protection a slit trench, they were also expected to undertake a variety of roles unrelated to that for which they had been specially trained. Their work was considered by Force Commanders to be 'the most important and dangerous in any landing'.--------------------------------------Royal Navy Commandos took part in combined operations in Madagascar, at Dieppe, in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, northern Italy and the Adriatic, the steaming, disease-ridden chaungs on the Arakan coast of Burma, and finally in Normandy itself and beyond up to the time of the collapse of the Third Reich.Few know even that Royal Naval Commandos existed, so that this is their previously untold story.