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Henry Cadogan
£35.00

The Road to Armageddon, The Life and Letters of Lieutenant Henry Cadogan, RWF (1868 - 1914)

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Written and compiled by his Grandson, following the career of a typical infantry officer in the late-nineteenth century, through his letters home to his large family. Often stationed far from home across the Empire, Henry Cadogan rises to command the 1st Batallion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Ill prepared for modern warfare, they are posted to Belgium in 1914.
W. A. Waterton
£22.00

The Quick and the Dead

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"In experimental flying, says Bill Waterton, there are only two kinds of people; the quick and the dead." After service as a fighter pilot in WW2, the author spent thousands of hours testing jets, including breaking the current world speed record. A fascinating insight into the British post-war aviation industry.
Ernest K. Gann
£27.00

Fate is the Hunter

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Spanning early civilian air transport, WWII and post-war airlines. Each chapter contains an individual story which together provide a pilot's history of aviation. Compared at the time to Hemingway in style.

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Cecil Beaton
£95.00

The Glass of Fashion

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Cecil Beaton's personal history of fashion and those who have influenced it in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Witty and wise, a most knowledgeable book about fashion and it's designers. Full of anecdotes and the authors own drawings and photographs.

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A. Keiller
£65.00

The Personnel of The Aberdeenshire Witchcraft Covens 1596-7

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A description of the witches and their covens who were tried and often executed in the Aberdeen trials of 1596-7. The book attempts to pass no judgement and rather relates the facts as discovered of a very far away time.

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Jane Toller
£12.00

Prisoners-Of-War Work 1756-1815

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In the period covered by the book, several thousand French and Dutch prisoners of war were incarcerated in Great Britain. As funds were only provided for a very meagre food ration, prisoners without wealthy families turned to producing handicrafts to raise a little income. Markets were allowed in the prisons, and some of the work produced was of a very high quality, especially by those who had been artisans such as cabinet makers in civilian life. This book describes many of the typical wares produced, from wood, bone and horn to lace and model ships. 

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Barbara Jones
£25.00

The Isle of Wight

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A charming little guide to both some well-known and more hidden attractions of the Isle of Wight. From Osborne House to Newport Quay, Blackgang Chine Bazaar to Alum Bay and the St Lawrence Topiary boat. Please see our journal entry, "Island Quirks," for further elaboration. 

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