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Willson Beckles - In the Ypres Salient ; The Story of a Fortnight's Canadian Fighting June 2-16, 1916

Nd. 1916? A good copy in paper wraps with pictorial onlay to front cover. No ownership inscription. 79 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Ink additions/corrections to the text have been made at pages 29-31. This is the story of the Canadian forces at the third Battle of Ypres.
Published : Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co, London, First Edition
£14.00

Wilson Sir Robert - Campaigns in Poland in the Years 1806 and 1807

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is a little faded on the spine. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.xxix,276. The first part of the book comprises "brief remarks on the character and composition of the Russian army", while the second and larger part is a sketch of the campaigns of 1806 and 1807 between the French and Russian armies in Poland. This is a facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1810.
Published : Worley Publications 2000,
£8.00

Wood Stephen - The Auld Alliance: Scotland and France, the Military Connection

Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in publisher's black cloth with title in gilt on spine. No inscriptions. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. 192 pages. Very good illustrated dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is protected in a removable cover. "This book illustrates and interprets in a unique way, the military part of Europe's oldest alliance."
Published : Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 1989, First Edition
£8.00

Young Derek - Forgotten Scottish Voices from the Great War

Softback. A fine copy. 255 pages. 56 illustrations. Gives a vivid picture of what it was like to be a Scottish soldier in the First World War with numerous extracts from personal letters and diaries.
Published : Temous Publishing 2005, First Edition
£8.00

Young James D. - With the 52nd (Lowland) Division in Three Continents

A good plus copy in paper-covered boards with green cloth spine lettered in black. Some browning to board edges and wear to board tips. Neat ownership inscription but generally very good internally. Pp.vii,112. Illustrated. The author was an officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served in Gallipoli, the Middle East and on the Western Front. The book, which is quite scarce, first appeared as Articles in the Edinburgh Medical Journal.
Published : W. Green & Son, Edinburgh 1920, First Edition
£48.00

Young, Michael - We Sustain: The Royal Logistic Corps 1993-1995

4to. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to John MacDonald "on the occasion of HRH the Princess Royal opening the RLC Museum 13.6.95." There is a second gift inscription to the same person on the same (title) page but the signature is illegible. Major-General MacDonald is mentioned in the book. 192 pages including a list of subscribers. Numerous black and white photographs. Epilogue by HRH The Princess Royal. Described as "perhaps the first and only book to chart major military change in peacetime, as it happened."
Published : Baron Birch 1995, First Edition
£20.00

Yule C.S.M. Andrew - From Tweed to Kwai and Back

Softback. A good copy. Front cover and a few pages a little creased. 140 pages. Illustrations. Maps. The author was a Company Sergeant Major with the Royal Scots. This is his story as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War.
Published : Royal British Legion Scotland Kelso Branch 1989, First Edition
£7.00

Yule C.S.M. Andrew - From Tweed to Kwai and Back

Softback. A very good copy. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 140 pages. Illustrations. Maps. The author was a Company Sergeant Major with the Royal Scots. This is his story as a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War.
Published : Royal British Legion Scotland, Kelso Branch 1989, First Edition
£12.00

Ziemke Earl F. - Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East

Nd. c. 1982? A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Pp.xii,549. 42 maps. More than 70 photographs. An authoritative account of the war in the east.
Published : Center of Military History United States Army, Washington,D.C.,
£15.00