MILITARY AND WAR FICTION BOOKS
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BENNETT W R  Target Turin
aviation
VG light wear $40 A/A Horwitz [12] 1962 first edition paperback, 130pp Stirling bomber crew over Italy. [PB# 520 world war two fiction]

BENNETT W R  High Conflict
aviation
G+ light wear and soiling including some faint watermarks $15 A/A Horwitz [17] 1963 first edition paperback, 130pp RAF vs Luftwaffe over Dunkirk [PB# 521 world war two fiction]

GANT James  Zero-O-One
war correspondent in the Pacific
G cover wear and aged paper stock $15 A/A Horwitz 1957 first edition paperback, 146pp. Novelisation based on author's experiences as a correspondent in the Pacific campaign. [PB# 867 second world war fiction]

GANT James  Operation No Name
NAZI counterfieting operation
VG- aged paper stock, minor nibbling to lower wrapper fore edge $15 A/A Horwitz 1957 first edition paperback, 146pp. A Commando raid to destroy a NAZI counterfieting operation in Norway [PB# 868 second world war fiction]

GLASSOP Lawson   We Were the Rats
AIF at Tobruk
G+ edge wear, bookseller stamp to first page, $5 A/B Horwitz NA44, 1962 second Horwitz edition, paperback. Foreword by Norman Lindsay. Includes an account of the Siege of Tobruk. Glassop joined the 2nd AIF on the 3/6/1940. As the foreword by Norman Lindsay states ,'Australia owes Lawson Glassop a big debt.. Historians may record the progress of wars, but they cannot project a picture of the men who fought them. And how much of a Country's tradition exists on the record of it's men of action .... If australia is destined for a fine future, this book is necessary to it's spirit.'[PB#1335 military fiction]

GORDON Peter  Commando Sortie
Long Range Desert Group
VG- light wear to wrappers, book exchange stamp and pen 'R' to first page, foxed closed edges $8 A/A Horwitz No17, 1963 first edition, paperback. [PB# 1056 military fiction]

GRANT Fergus  Death on My Wing
fighter pilot
G rubbed joints and covers, age browned, one page short tear $10 A/A Horwitz [19] 1963 first edition paperback, 130pp. Australian Kittyhawks vs. Zero's [PB# 667 world war two fiction]

HASSEL Sven

HASSEL Sven 
Legion of the Damned
cover image of Sven Hassel Legion of the Damned, for sale in New Zealand

Sven Hassel is a nom de plume for a Danish/Austrian conscript who wrote this as a memoir of his experiences in a nazi labor / penal battalion in the hell of the Eastern Front against the Bolshevik Beast.
ISBN0048231827

VG hardback in a VG dust jacket, spine has a lean.
$20 C/C
George Allen Unwin 1980, first hard cover reprint after 1957 original, there were thousands of paperbacks but no hard covers printed between 1957 and 1980, 297pp.
[#4390 ]


Assignment Gestapo
March Battalion
Court Martial
Liquidate Paris
Monte Cassino
Wheels of Terror
The Bloody Road to Death
G-VG $5 each C/B Corgi various dates paperbacks, 200-350 pp approx. Enquire if you are particular as to edition and or condition. Multiple copies will save on postage. A 'Disciplinary Regiment' of German soldiers under Nazi command at the Eastern Front as well as Italy and France. Hard hitting fiction by a veteran writing under the pseudonym 'Sven Hassel'. [WAR PB #1]

HAYES Luke  Island of Death
A Banzai attack on a hard-pressed beachhead
VG rubbed jont, pen 'R' to first page $5 A/A Brown, Watson 1959 first edition, paperback, Digit D290 [PB# 1054 second world war fiction ]

KESSLER Leo  Sabres of the Reich
VG VG 5 digit code to fep, list of numbers to rear paste down, unclipped DW under plastic sleeve has some adhesive bleed to top and bottom edges, some minor instances of foxing, otherwise tidy, book spine has light lean. $35 C/B Severn House 1976 first hardcover edition,191pp. Nazi Cossack division against Stalin's hordes. ISBN 0727803190 [FCT 28 ww2fct]

KESSLER Leo  Guns at Cassino
Seeley hard cover
VG- VG- tidy ex-library with stamps to end papers and closed edges only, unclipped DW short splits to corners $15 C/C Frederick Warne 1980 first thus hard cover, 189pp. War fiction from Wehrmacht point of view. ISBN 0723226784 [# 914 ww2fct]

MACDONNELL J E 
Not Under Command
cover image of Not Under Command for sale in New Zealand

The Frigate Roper loses its full complement of Officers when a bomb destroys the bridge.
It falls to the lowly coxswain to command and navigate the ship back to base.
Horwitz No 49
ww2, wwii, naval, fiction, war story, pulp fiction

G paperback, spine leans
$10 A/A
Horwitz 1963 first edition, 130pp.
[PB1571]

VG- name to first page, spine roll, light wear.
$15 A/A
Horwitz 1963 first edition, 130pp.
[PB525 ]



MACDONNELL J E 
First Command
cover image of First Command for sale in New Zealand

The Destroyer HMS Reaper loses its Officers when a bomb destroys the bridge.
It falls to Lieutenant Holland to navigate the ship back to base in Alexandria.
Horwitz No 117
ww2, wwii, naval, fiction, war story, pulp fiction

VG paperback, with mild wear.
$15 A/A
Horwitz 1975 second edition, 127pp.
[PB1572]



MACDONNELL J E   Battle Fire
naval
G+ name to first page, rubbed joints, light wear to cover $10 A/A Horwitz [35] 1961, first edition paperback, 162pp. [PB# 1022 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E  The Big Wind
naval
VG light crease to lower corner $10 A/A Horwitz [59] 1964, first edition paperback, 162pp. [PB# 1004 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   The Buffer
naval
VG- light wear to joints, name to first page $10 A/A Horwitz [52] 1963 first edition paperback, 130pp. [PB# 1021 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   Course To Intercept
naval
G spine rubbed, light fade to wrappers, age browned $10 A/A Horwitz [62] 1964, first edition paperback, 162pp. [PB# 670 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   Dive! Dive! Dive!
naval
VG+ name to title page $8 A/A Horwitz [17] 1962, second edition paperback, 162pp. [PB# 523 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E 
First Command
cover image of Away Boarders!, for sale in New Zealand

Australian Navy WWII fiction.
Horwitz No 41
ww2, wwii, naval, fiction, war story, pulp fiction

VG paperback with light wear to spine edges.
$20 A/A
Horwitz 1962 first edition, 130pp.
[PB1735]


MACDONNELL J E   Fleet Destroyer
naval
VG $15 A/A Horwitz [31] 1964, second edition paperback, 162pp. [PB# 529 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   The Gun
naval
VG- name to first page, small closed edge tear to rear cover $10 A/A Horwitz [54] 1963, first edition paperback, 130pp. [PB# 522 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   The Gunner
naval
VG $15 A/A Horwitz [19] 1962, second edition paperback, 130pp. [PB# 1012 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   Night Encounter (#13)
G rubbed edges split tail of joint $8 A/A Horwitz 1970 paperback 130pp ISBN 0725500638 [PB# 461 world war two fiction]

MacDONNELL J E  Petty Officer Brady
VG+ $20 A/A Horwitz No 87 1968 first edition paperback, 130pp. [PB# 364 ww2fct]

MACDONNELL J E   Point of Departure
naval
VG-spine leans, light wear $15 A/A Horwitz [72] 1966 first edition paperback, 130pp. [PB# 1013 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   Rat Island (#84)
G+ rubbed edges $7 A/A Horwitz No 84 1977 reprint paperback 130pp ISBN 072550403X [PB# 458 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   The Rocky
naval
VG- name to first page $8 A/A Horwitz [32] 1964, second edition paperback, 161pp. [PB# 524 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   Sainsbury V.C.
naval
VG- small pen R top corner of cover and first page $10 A/A Horwitz [37] 1965, second edition paperback, 162pp. [PB# 527 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   Sainsbury V.C.
naval
G+ spine roll, browned paper, some light soiling, partial rubber stamp to closed top edge $10 A/A Horwitz [37] 1962, first edition paperback, 162pp. [PB# 528 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   Standing Into Danger
naval
VG- shop stamp to first page, rubbed joints $8 A/A Horwitz [118] 1971 paperback,127pp. ISBN 0725501421 [PB# 1014 world war two fiction]

MACDONNELL J E   U-boat
naval
VG-light wear to covers, browned page edges, top edge remainder striped $20 A/A Horwitz [43] 1962, first edition paperback, 130pp. [PB# 526 world war two fiction]

MASON A E W  The Drum
the novel of the Sabu film
G+ G DW well rubbed with chipping loss and heavy soiling, book rubbed to boards, dusty closed edges but internally tidy $15 A/B Hodder 1940 (3rd printing) hardcover, 124pp. Illustrated in line by Joseph Simpson. [# 1598 other war fiction ]

REEMAN Douglas  Strike from the Sea
VG+ VG+ name and date to fep, unclipped DW near fine $10 C/C Hutchinson NZ 1978 first edition hard cover, 256pp ISBN 0091328101 [# 739 ww2fct]

RICHLER Anton  The Long Shadow
VG aged, initial to first page $7 A/A Badger Books [WW160] nd (early 1960s) paperback, 158pp +2pp adverts. Novel around a German soldier unwilling to accept German defeat who takes part in the round up of the July conspirators. Some good Eastern front action. swastika cover design [PB# 636 world war two fiction]

STRANGE Stephen  Brave Journey
South Africans in the Desert War
VG minor bending to book block and light spotting to closed edges $10 A/A Digit Books [D221] / Brown Watson Ltd 1959 first edition paperback original, 157pp [PB# 863 second world war fiction]

TABORI Paul  Bricks Upon Dust
VG light edge wear $5 A/A Viking [208] first paperback edition, undated approx 1950, 191pp. A man returns to his destroyed village after the end of the war. [PB# 706 world war two fiction]
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