The life and military career to June 1941, of Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC. Wavell was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in 1915, losing an eye. Following his recovery, he was assigned as a liaison-officer to the Russian Army in 1916, and in 1918, he was transferred to Sir Edmund Allenby's staff in Palestine. In August 1939 he was named as the head of Middle East Command and was in that post when World War II began.

1964, Collins, , ,< J-01>,572pp, photos, maps, glossary, bibliography, index, good in worn dw, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 29795-02..............................£8.00

The life and military career to June 1941, of Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC. Wavell was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in 1915, losing an eye. Following his recovery, he was assigned as a liaison-officer to the Russian Army in 1916, and in 1918, he was transferred to Sir Edmund Allenby's staff in Palestine. In August 1939 he was named as the head of Middle East Command and was in that post when World War II began.

1966, Reprint Society, , ,< J-01>,574pp, photos, maps, glossary, bibliography, index, vg in worn dw, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 29795-03..............................£8.00

No dw. Orange boards have fade marks. Some numbers written on rear endpaper. The story of David Stirling - the man who started the SAS in 1941. In the fifteen months between the formation of the regiment, and Stirling’s capture, he and his men destroyed hundreds of planes and trucks, dozens of supply dumps, and countless roads and railways behind enemy lines in North Africa. Stirling was captured by the Germans in January 1943. He escaped on four occasions, before being sent to Colditz Castle, where he remained for the rest of the war. Virginia Cowles, an American, was a noted WWII war correspondent.

1958, Companion Book Club, , ,< J-01>,303pp, 15 ills, 7 maps, appendix, , ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 11214-03..............................£4.00

The author was a foreign correspondent - he witnessed the Austrian Anschluss, he was in Prague during the Munich Crisis and saw Hitler drive through the Sudetenland territories. he reported the phoney war from France, Belgium and Holland and also the Russo-Finnish Winter War, he was on the last passenger ship from France after the Fall in 1940

1988, Coronet, , 0340509228,< J-01>,287pp illustrations, map, Good in card covers, , CARD
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 17837-01..............................£3.00

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name displayed at the National Portrait Gallery from March to September 2015, with a foreword by William Hague. The author explores Wellington's military and political careers, he examines his personal relationships, his status in Victorian society and the Battle of Waterloo, a central point to his story.

2015, National Portrait Gallery, , 9781855144996,< J-01>,128pp, numerous illustrations, Fine in card covers, , CARD
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 37128-01..............................£8.00

Aidan Crawley's excellent biography of General Charles de Gaulle. It charts his wartime leadership of the Free French forces, his recall to power in 1958 in the midst of the civil war in Algeria, and his leadership of the European Economic Community. Simultaneously admired for his grandeur, courage and tenacity, and detested for his arrogance, conceit, and wilful blindness, he could not be ignored.

1969, Book Club Edition, , ,< J-01>,510pp, 22 ills, Notes & references, Bibliographical Notes, index, g in plastic sleeved, worn d/w, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 21332-02..............................£8.00

Basil Liddell Hart was a military writer, creative artist, journalist, propagandist, controversialist, archivist and adviser. A war poet in prose, his writing engaged and enraged three generations. This is the first biography of this remarkable man. Signed by the author. very good in slightly creased d/w.

1998, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, , 0297816217,< J-01>,369pp, 8 drawings, 16 b/w photos, , ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 31924-02..............................£18.00

Basil Liddell Hart was a military writer, creative artist, journalist, propagandist, controversialist, archivist and adviser. A war poet in prose, his writing engaged and enraged three generations. This is the first biography of this remarkable man.

1998, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, , 0297816217,< J-01>,369pp, 8 drawings, 16 b/w photos, Very good in green boards. No dustjacket. , ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 31924-01..............................£8.00

The author's experiences in the US Army Air Service, USAAF and USAF. He was trained to fly in WWI and the book recounts his inter-war years as stunt-flying barnstormer, and his WWII service.

1984, Vantage Press, 1st edition, 0533057566,< J-01>,xii + 220pp, 50 photos., near fine in rubbed dw, ,
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 3661-01..............................£14.00

Not the usual style of autobiography, this is not a biography of Marshal. A collection of newspaper articles, letters, reports and oral evidence compiled by Colonel Bill Davis, recounting his time in the US Marine Corps. His inspiration and mentor, was Brigadier Army General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (S.L.A.Marshall) and others who knew him. Davis's account looks at his time in the USMC in the early 1960s, and contains much on the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

1987, Marine Books, , ,< J-01>,A4 format, 171pp, numerous facsimlies and illustrations, Good in red card covers., , CARD
Subject...Political & Biographies - General
Web No. 17824-01..............................£40.00