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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
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This Pattern had its origins in two requirements for lighter patterns of web equipment, one for temperate zones, the other tropical. The result appears to have been a convergence of…
Produced for direct allied operational value in the run up to D-day and beyond, this handbook covers the complex subject of the organisation of transportation by road, rail and waterways…
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The stated object for the distributing of this War Office manual was as "A guide and help to troops who have the determination and nerve to destroy tanks at close…
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An early war periodical manual from December 1940, for use in the field. The manual looks at every aspect of the "Blitzkrieg" German Army and gives details as known at…
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British Army small arms and ammunition handbook of 1929. Includes machine guns and grenades.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Published in the late nineteenth century, this book provides a detailed guide to the art of musketry, a critical component of early modern warfare. Written by the War Office, the…
This technical book provides instructions for fitting valise equipment used in military campaigns from 1874 to 1895. The book is a useful resource for researchers, historians, and collectors of military…
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The Tommy’s cookbook of everyday trench cuisine.
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Pre. WW2 Armourers instruction manual covering Rifles, Bayonets, Scabbards, Pistols, Hotchkiss, Lewis, and Vickers Machine Guns Ect., valuable information for the gunsmith, WW2 re-enactment buff, and anyone who maintains and…
Classified SECRET post-war publication compiled by the authority of the Army Council, the object of which was to preserve the experience gained in weapon development during WW2. This is a…
Covered in this corrected to January 1920 SECRET handbook are Bombs, Cartridges, Flares, Grenades, Rockets, Signals etc. With 73 clear technical line drawing plates, this is a very good official…
A highly illustrated War Office training manual for the raw native recruit, produced in 1954 for the West African Command (the WAC disbanded in 1956). Postwar plans to raise an…
An important official publication covering all aspects of subterranean warfare with much practical detail for the guidance of mining companies of the Great War.
Gas was a very effective way of attacking the enemy without direct contact and attacks were the thing soldiers in the trenches feared over anything. This manual originally published by…
This is a pictorial (there are photos, drawings and diagrams on every page) manual of basic battle training with rifles for infantrymen in 1944 in the latter sages of the…
First published in 1922 in a very limited edition, this mammoth work is the most comprehensive, single-volume record of the nation’s commitment in the first total war in British history…
Notes on the Turkish Army, with a Short Vocabulary of Turkish Words and Phrases. 1915
Published in a hurry after Britain and other UN members went to war with Communist North Korea in the wake of its invasion of South Korea in 1950, this booklet…
Published halfway between the new Polish Army’s surprise humbling of the vast but untrained Red Army in 1920 and its obliteration at the hands of Hitler’s Wehrmacht in 1939, this…
At the end of the Second World War, it quickly dawned on the West that the defeat of one totalitarian enemy - Hitler’s Germany - had left another, our late…
Volunteers have always been a feature of Britain’s armed forces - from the Saxon Housecarls to the Home Guard. The Victorian period saw a particular upsurge in Volunteers and Yeomanry…
With a small professional army fully stretched in defending the British Empire at its zenith in 1896, home defence fell on locally raised County Yeomanry and Militia units. This brief…
A fascinating instructional manual of sword exercises for the Cavalry, authorised by King George III for use throughout the Cavalry Corps. Published in December 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars…
This War Office pamphlet, issued in 1952 at the dawn of the Cold War, updates one issued ten years earlier at the star of the Second World War. Its purpose…
The Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps was set up in 1917 to augment and assist the hitherto exclusively male British Army, buckling under the strain of four years of war…
“‘MI 10”’, or “‘Military Intelligence, section 10, ”’ was a department of the British (Directorate of Military Intelligence), part of the (War Office). It was responsible for weapons and technical…
John Travers Cornwell - known to his admiring nation as ‘Boy Jack’ Cornwell, - was a hero, perhaps the most celebrated, of the entire Great War. Cornwell, a boy sailor…
First printed 1919 for private circulation this rare volume (in its first printing) was compiled from records kept by Messrs Cox & Co.‘s Enquiry Office, which opened in Sep 1914…
Published in 1915, this military manual has become a historical curio since the cavalry were about to vanish as a viable arm of war. The little official War Office book…
This is an essential handbook for anyone tasked with using the Nolan Range Finder Mark I for garrison artillery. The handbook provides detailed information on the operation and maintenance of…
This book contains the standing orders and instructions that governed the Royal Regiment of Artillery, one of the oldest regiments of the British Army, during the mid-19th century. It covers…
Discover the extensive collection of memoranda and orders issued by the War Office and Horse Guards from August 1856 to July 1864. This essential historical record provides insight into the…
Written by the War Office, this guide to the infantry sword exercise is a crucial resource for any aspiring or active military officer. Featuring detailed instructions and illustrations, this revised…
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