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Catalogue No. 179 “Cologne”
March 2022
This catalogue contains a wide range of good quality new stock and I hope that you will find something to interest you within it.
We are a leading dealers in rare and second hand books on British military history from around 1800 to 1945. The Great War, 1914-1918, has always been our speciality and we hold extensive stocks of regimental and divisional histories, official histories, standard works, memoirs, Rolls of Honour, Army Lists and so forth. For more information see www.turnerdonovan.com. |
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With the 48th Division in Italy.
 Author was AA&QMG of the Div. 1917-19. "These reminiscences are personal, but as their writer was senior administrative officer on the staff of the 48th Division in Italy, they give a clear idea of its task. There is a good account of trench warfare conditions on the lofty Asiago plateau, & of the final offensive, during which the 48th was the only British division left in the mountains." - Falls. Orig. black cloth, gilt to sp., divisional patch to front, VG in sl. chipped but neatly repaired dw & rare. See illustration on our website. 1923 £165
A Brigade of the Old Army 1914.
 Brigade commander's history of 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Div. (1st Warwicks; 2nd Seaforths; 1st RIF & 2nd Dublins) from August-November 1914 inc. Le Cateau, the Retreat, the Aisne & the Race for the Sea. "These early records are invaluable, & contain an atmosphere that no subsequent historical research can replace" - Falls. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG & rare in chipped but very neatly repaired dw. See illustration on our website. 1920 £245
Ace of the Black Cross.
 Memoirs of German fighter ace. Includes table of victories. Very nice copy in equally nice & very attractive pictorial dw. Rare. See illustrations on our website. £265
East Africa by Motor Lorry: Recollections of an Ex-Motor Transport Driver.
 Atmospheric account of MT in East Africa. In his Preface the author states: "My object in writing these reminiscences is to place on record a true account of work undertaken in a strange & savage country by inexperienced city men, called out from the comfort of their own homes & from the blessings of civilized surroundings, by the exigencies of war, to a new and little-dreamt-of exploratory campaign the like of which, inasmuch as the motor car played such a unique part, will probably never happen again - at least not as we knew it." He later adds: "To catch Von Lettow in Portuguese East Africa was about as hopeless as trying to catch the devil in hell..." Orig. black cloth, gilt title to sp. & dec. to front board, near fine copy in chipped but neatly repaired & rare pictorial dw. Together with loosely inserted 6pp. folding pamphlet of press reviews (all favourable, & including some interesting points) for the book. See illustrations on our website. 1928 £325
Haunting Years: The Commentaries of a War Territorial.
 A fine personal memoir of service with 1/4th (later 4/5th) Black Watch 1914-18; Pte., NCO, Orderly Room Clerk & CQMS. Commissioned in 1918. Outstanding narrative of Festubert, Loos, Somme, Ypres &c. by noted provincial journalist & editor (of the Yorkshire Evening Post &c.) knighted in 1954. Orig. red cloth, titled in black, VG & rare in the sl. chipped & neatly renovated & very attractive dw. See illustration on our website. 1930 £165
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Night Raiders of the Air: Being the Experiences of a Night Flying Pilot, who raided Hunland on many dark nights during the War.
 Service with NZ infantry bn. in Egypt & Salonika - & being torpedoed in a troopship - convinced the author to transfer to the RFC, trained at Flying School at Denham, became a pilot in Home Defence Sqdrn. then returned to the Western Front with 100 Squadron (long-range night bombers). Orig. blue cloth, titled in black, VG in little chipped but very nice & attractive pictorial dw. Rare in dw. See illustrations on our website. 1934 £225
History & Memoir of the 33rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps & the 19th, 98th, 100th & 248th M.G. Companies, written & illustrated by Members of the Battalion.
 Superb, substantial history very well-illustrated with many of Hutchison's privately taken photos. on the Western Front & numerous of his paintings & drawings. Includes batales of the Somme, Arras, Ypres, Messines, Meteren 1918 &c. Various rolls of officers, awards &c. No. 1452 of 1600 copies printed for private distribution, VG indeed, very nice copy & scarce. See illustrations on our website. 1919 £225
The Distant Drum: The Personal History of a Guardsman in the Great War.
 Privately printed memoirs of enlistment in June 1917, posting to the Household Battalion ("an independent & somewhat anomalous body of dismounted cavalry") at Windsor then to the Household Battalion Service Bn. in France in October; the latter formed part of the 4th Div. & spent the next three months in & out of the line on the Arras front. In Feb. 1918 the H.B. was disbanded (with the reorganisation of infantry brigades that took place at that time) & Noakes was posted to 3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards, with which he remained throughout the year. Orig. red cloth, near fine in VG dec. dw (this just sl. chipped) & scarce. See illustration on our website. £160
Flying Minnows.
 Vivian Voss joined the RFC in Canada in 1917, trained as a pilot & arrived in France 1918, served with 48 & later 88 Sqdrns. His narrative includes an interesting account of the German March offensive from the perspective of the air, & much more of interest. Orig. black cloth, gilt, VG in dw with attractive Leonard Bridgman illustration. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed, chipped & worn at edges, but neatly renovated, VG thus & rare in jacket. See illustrations on our website. £165
Good-Bye to the Battlefields: To-Day & Yesterday on the Western Front.
 Description of the battlefields, relics & memorials during the inter-war period, with many interesting 1920s photos. of towns & villages, cemeteries & memorials, battlefield areas &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, near fine in like dw with just a little tanning to sp., remarkable unchipped example. Scarce book & exceptionally rare with the attractive jacket in this state. See illustrations on our website. 1930 £250
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