Nicolson, Juliet.
The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
(Grove Press, 2009).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 302pp. Order No. NSBK-C15930
Keywords: 9780802119445, peace, grief, Great War, 1920s, social history
Price £11.99.
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Murray, Robert N.
Lest We Forget: The Experiences of World War II Westindian Ex-Service Personnel
(Nottingham Westindian Combined Ex-Servic, 1996).
Edited by Patrick L. Hylton. Paperback. Fine. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A15316
Keywords: 1870518527, world war II, Second World War
Price £6.00.
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Fisher, David.
The War Magician: How Jasper Maskelyne and his Magic Gang Altered the Course of World War II
(Coward McCann, New York, 1983).
Britain's most bizarre secret weapon of WWII - he made the Suez canal disappear. Became an assassination target of Hitler's regime during WWII. A very scarce title. Hardback. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise very good in chipped, slightly discoloured, slightly worn dustwrapper. First Edition in 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A4731
Keywords: 0698111400, magic, conjuring, maskelyne, illusions, music hall, theatre, David Devant, jasper, Neville, war, Hitler, illusion, conjurer, warfare, war, magic gang, magician, magicians, magical, illusionist, jasper maskelyne, illusionists, Second World War, great britain, great british, england, english, war magician, history, david fisher, egyptian hall, illusions, deceptions, deception, deceptionist, deceptionists, decept, deceptive, deceptor, world war, wartime, war magician, magic gang, history, magic history, conjurers, conjured, J.N Maskelyne, white magic, World War II, World War Two, Inter-war, Interwar, Inter war
Price £38.00.
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Ince, Martin.
Space Wars: A Graphic Guide
(Camden Press, 1986).
Illustration by David Hine. Paperback. Very good. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-A6537
Keywords: 0948491175, space, sun, moon, stars, missiles, shuttles, rockets, Star Wars, military, weapons, twentieth century, bombs, satellites, outer space
Price £4.50.
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Matthews, Kent and Benjamin, Dan.
US and UK Unemployment Between the Wars: A Doleful Story
(Institute of Economic Affairs, 1992).
Hobart Paperback 31. Paperback. Very good. xvi + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-A14142
Keywords: 0255363052, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, USA, America, United States, employment, unemployment, dole, poverty, inter-war, Depression, slump, economy, inter war
Price £9.00.
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Gilbey, Walter.
The Old English War-horse: Or the Great Horse as it Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of its Development into the Shire-horse. With Notes
(Vinton, 1888).
Two dates in the margins of the book have sadly been crossed out in ink. Text is otherwise not annotated, but there is some light foxing / soiling on some pages, not affecting legibility. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Boards darkened / thumbed, with fraying to spine edges. A little cracking internally at spine, else good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A14314
Keywords: B000875WPI, horses, shire-horses, shires, war-horses, equestrian, history, rural, Victorian, coins, illustrations, agriculture, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Clark, Samuel.
Social Origins of the Irish Land War:
(Princeton UP, 1979).
Hardback. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. x + 418pp. Order No. NSBK-A15213
Keywords: 9780691100685, agrarian, farming, land, land-owning, Irish, Ireland, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, tenants, agriculture, land war, peasants, peasantry, social change, demography, social history
Price £36.00.
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National Peace Council, .
Two Worlds in Focus: Studies in the Cold War
(National Peace Council, 1950).
Booklet. Booklet. Ex library, covers browned, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good. xi + 133pp. Order No. NSBK-A15883
Keywords: B002LP4TF4, peace, history, booklets, National Peace Council, stored with booklets,pacifism, cold war
Price £9.99.
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Weintraub, Stanley.
The Last Great Cause: the Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War
(W.H. Allen, 1968).
Hardback. Page edges and dustwrapper slightly soiled, otherwise very good, a sturdy copy. x + 340pp. Order No. NSBK-A15831
Keywords: 9780491001212, Spanish Civil War, Spain, Orwell, Auden, Hemingway, intellectuals
Price £15.50.
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Pattinson, Juliette.
Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
(Manchester UP, 2007).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly dented, slightly marked, otherwise very good dustwrapper. xv + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-D15079
Keywords: 9780719075698, SOE, Special Operations Executive, Second World War, World War II, gender, agents, women, spies, France, resistance, French
Price £34.95.
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