‘Pegasus and Orne Bridges’, Very Rare and Hard to Source, Limited & Numbered Edition. Author and Veteran Signed.

Was £120 now £99

‘Pegasus and Orne Bridges’
Very Rare and Hard to Source
Limited & Numbered Edition 3/150
Author and Veteran Signed, via bookplates, with Certificate of Authentication.
First published in 2009 by Pen & Sword (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781848840416
The glider-borne operation to capture Pegasus Bridge has an established place in th...  read more

Code: 363

‘Without Tradition’: 2 Para 1941-45, Author Signed and Dedicated.

Was £40 now £35

Without Tradition: 2 Para 1941-45.
Robert Peatling
Self-published by Robert Peatling in 1994 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0952299202
Without Tradition is compelling and essential reading for anyone wishing to know what made parachute troops tick during WW2.
Contents:
1) Enthusiastic Early Days.
2) Into Action - the Brune...  read more

Code: 362

‘When Dragons Flew’. Super Rare & Hard to Source!! An Illustrated History of the 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment, 1939-1945. Second Revised Edition.

Was £120 now £99

When Dragons Flew.
An Illustrated History of the 1st Battalion
The Border Regiment, 1939-1945.
S Eastwood, C Gray & A. Green
First Published by Silver Link Publishing, 2009 (Hardcover)
This new edition is comprehensively illustrated with 388 b/w photographs, illustrations & maps, and 8 colour plates of photographs & maps.
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Code: 361

WW2, British, ‘Durex’, ULTRA-RARE, Prophylactic Condom.

Was £135 now £110

Essential for stopping the spread of ‘Venereal Disease’ (VD) throughout the ranks, Prophylactic; a medicine or course of action used to prevent disease, no tunic pocket or wash roll is complete without one.
For example, the rate of venereal VD encountered by the Eighth Army in Italy was more than twenty times that found in Britain. Dire warnings of the da...  read more

Code: 375

WW2 British, The Triumph and Gem Comic, Jan' 1940.

Was 10 now £8

A nice copy of the popular boys comic, The Triumph and Gem, dated Jan' 1940.

Usual browning and foxing to pages, a rare survivor!!

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Code: 400

WW2 British, The Triumph and Gem Comic, May 1940.

Was £10 now £8

A nice copy of the popular boys comic, The Triumph and Gem, dated May 1940.

Usual browning and foxing to pages, a rare survivor!!

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Code: 398

WW2 British, BEF Christmas Card 1939

Was £12 now £10

Lovely early war Christmas card.

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Code: 394

WW2 British, News Chronicle, Cricket Annual, 1939

Was £18 now £15

A are copy of the News Chronicle Cricket Album 1939 that would have graced to Christmas stocking of many a cricket mad young boy and even their fathers.

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Code: 393

WW2, Two London Evening News, Original Censored Photographs of the London Blitz, 1941. Charlie Chaplin Link.

Was £35 now £25

Two original, rare and censored London Evening News press photographs of London Blitz damage, one relating to the home of Charlie Chaplin. Dated towards the end of April 1940, just before the end of the major London Blitz, some interesting survivors and worthy of further research.  read more

Code: 387

WW2, Coventry Raid, Relic German Incendiary Bomb (B1 E) Tail Fin.

Was £85 now £70

A rare souvenir of the November 1940, Coventry Blitz that consists of a German Incendiary Bomb (B1E) Tail Fin.

The bomb consisted of a cylindrical body made of magnesium alloy and filled with thermite, an incendiary compound, to which was riveted a three-finned steel tail. These bombs did not explode, but on impact the needle in the igniter was driv...  read more

Code: 382