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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light browning on half of side page edges, small publishers printing crease on top of pages 107 to 112. Dj front inside flap has a brown ghost label mark. In these exciting memoirs, ' Titch' Rochford writes about his two action filled years as a World War 1 fighter pilot with the famous No 3 ( Naval ) squadron when he flew planes such as the Sopwith Pup and the Sopwith Camel. He vividly recalls engagements in the air with enemy aircraft and the exploits of the pilots with whom he flew. This is a fascinating insight into the air war of the First World War.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Horwitz Publications Inc. Pty. Ltd., London, Melbourne and Sydney. Second Edition 1961. Paperback (12 x 18 cm), 162 pages. Bumped, rubbed, scuffed, soiled and creased. Pages tanning, foxing. Numerous ink stamps on first page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 303pp, illustd, small bit of foxing to top text block, vg copy in vg dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book covers the author's flying career from the finish of World War II until his final appointment as CO of the Naval Test Squadron at Boscombe Down. Having had an outstanding wartime record 'Mike' Crosley became heavily involved with the introduction of Britain's first carrier-borne jet aircraft. The book explains how modern techniques, such as the angled flight deck, steam catapult and decklanding mirror sights were developed and tested. At Boscombe down he developed the 'hand's-off' launch technique for the Buccaneer which saved it from probable cancellation at a very difficult time for British naval aviation. Ref NNN 2.

Hard Back. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Edition. Green boards with gilt titles to spine, 224pp, b/w frontis + 71 other illustration. Written by one of the most distinguished pilots and flight commanders of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force in the First World War - "Titch Rochford" from forward by Raymond Collishaw. VG+/VG (Book- no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- non price clipped - cover £5.25 . A little sun fade to spine and light rubbing to extremities. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 271pp. B/w photographs throughout. Not library copy, name/date in ink to ffep, some page tanning, few light marks to rear boards. (48/4).

Couverture illustrée. Condition: Très bon. Collection : " Cap sur l'aventure " - Traduit del'anglais par Henri Daussy - 4 Ill hors texte - 2 dessins (plan de l'Unbroken) - Poids : 270 gr.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x21cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ has repairs spine on the to the underside & is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & White portrait frontispiece. Small previous owners name to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. The author, an ace submarine commander in World War 2, was dismissed from the Royal Navy in 1952 after one of the most sensational Courtsmartial of all times. This is the story of that Court-Martial, and of the remarkable chain of events that led to it.

Condition: Very good.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (9s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks almost unread. 164pp. Set in the South China Seas, a young boy permitted to go on a submarine on a training run, finds his vessel involved in an international incident. By Lieutenant Commander Alastair Campbell Gillespie Mars, DSO, DSC and Bar (1915-85), who was a Royal Navy World War II submarine commander. After the war Mars was posted in 1946 to HMS Dolphin but was eventually assigned to a post in New Zealand, where his pay of $39 per week as a lieutenant commander proved inadequate to support him, his wife and his two children. The Royal Navy spent four years arguing over an extra living allowance before it was paid. With a sick wife, he was then assigned to Hong Kong where he was unable to afford even the single hotel room he rented. Becoming ill himself and heavily in debt, he returned to the United Kingdom and hospital. On his discharge he requested leave to try to put his finances in order but this was refused. He was ordered to report to Portsmouth but he wrote from his home in London to the Navy refusing to do so and requesting his retirement. He commented in his letter that 'I do not wish to plague My Lords with a mass of detail mainly repugnant to them. It should be sufficient to say that I have lost faith in the present governmental hierarchy and all that goes with it'. Mars entered politics as a parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Party at the 1950 General Election. He contested the constituency of Windsor, but finished third. Mars was arrested and court martialled for insubordination and absence without leave, which resulted in his dismissal from the Navy in June 1952. The controversy over his dismissal was the subject of a parliamentary question the following month, when the future prime minister James Callaghan asked the then First Lord of the Admiralty whether Mars would receive his pension, which eventually he did, pursuing a subsequent career as a successful author.

Condition: new.

5½'' x 3½''. Divided back. High gloss monochrome post card. Maud took over as captain of the destroyer Somali in September 1942 when her captain, Jack Eaton, was taken ill. SIGNED by Maud to the rear 'Escort in large Russian Convoy 23/9/42 Torpedoed and taken in tow by another destroyer but Board of Admiralty regrets to announce that having been in tow for 3 days in bad weather ship broke in two and sank. Lieutenant Commander C. D. Maud D.S.C. R.N. in command | 23rd September 1942.' Somali was hit in her engine room and although taken under tow by Ashanti, on 25 September heavy weather broke the destroyer's back and she sank. Maud was rescued by Leading Seaman William Goad, who dived into the freezing water with a rope, for which Goad was awarded the Albert Medal. Of the 102 men on board, only 35 were rescued. Maud had spent an hour in the Arctic water and credited his survival to the fact that he had drunk a bottle of whisky after going overboard. As a result, he ordered men under his command to carry a bottle of whisky, which proved to be a popular order. On 1 December 1942 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN).