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Stapled softcover booklet. Zustand: Very Good. Aircraft Profile series, details on the German Air Force fighter planes. Color centerfold illustrated by P. Endsleigh Castle. 20 pages, circa 1972.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 230mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). [120pp]. Colour and b/w illustrations. P.Z.L P-24; Fiat G.50 Freccia; Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu ('Nick'); Hawker P.1127 & Kestrel; Westland Lysander Mks I-III; Handley Page Heyford I-III; Liore et Olivier LeO 45 srs; Vickers Valiant B.1 & 2; N. American T-28 Trojan; Lockheed Constellation (USAF: C-69/C-121). Illustrated laminated card cover. …

White illustrated card cover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover slightly soiled. 230mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). 114pp. American DH-4; Sopwith Pup; Bristol M1A to M1D; Sopwith Dolphin 5F1; Martinsyde Elephant; De Havilland DH10; SVA Scouts; O. Aviatik D1; Pfalz D XII & D XIV; Junkers Monoplanes. …

White illustrated card cover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover slightly soiled. 230mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). 114pp. Grumman F8F Bearcat; Fokker D.XXI; Hawker Sea Hawk F1-FGA6; De Havilland Hornet F1-4; PZL P-23 Karas; Curtiss SOC Seagull; Potez P630; Avro Vulcan B1/2; Ryan PT & ST; Vickers Viscount 700. …

Stapled softcover booklet. Zustand: Very Good. Aircraft Profile series, details on the famous British Royal Air Force World War II fighter plane. Paginated 21-40. March 1972.

Stapled softcover booklet. Zustand: Fine. Aircraft Profile series. Paginated 265-288. 23 pages. December 1972.

Stapled softcover booklet. Zustand: Very Good. Aircraft Profile series, details on the 'Barra' Royal Air Force fighter plane. Color illustration by P. Endsleigh Castle. 23 pages, paginated 121-144. August 1972. Series Editor Charles W. Cain.

Stapled softcover booklet. Zustand: Very Good. Aircraft Profile series, details on the German Air Force fighter plane. 20 pages, paginated 41-60. March 1972.

Paperback. Zustand: Gut. S. 217-240; Ill. Good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Profusely illus. Profile Aircraft Series, No. 223. 25 x 19 cm., 24 pp.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Boards lightly discoloured as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; [4], 104 p. illus. (some col). 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Great Britain Army Armored troops. Armored vehicles, Military. Mechanization, Military. Armored vehicles, Military. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Includes many b/w photographs and several colour illustrations. 63pp. Cover lightly worn.

Paperback. Zustand: Gut. S. 169-192; Ill. Good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Printing. Pages 177-196. Many illustrations of tanks in black and white; two pages of tanks in full color. Some creasing at spine. The series editor was Duncan Crow. By 1942, the British War Office recognized that there was an urgent requirement for a tracked recovery vehicle, able to operate over the same terrain as the combat tanks, and having the same tractive power to retrieve the dead tank by dragging or towing it to a point where the casualty could be loaded on to a wheeled transport and taken to a base workshop. The recovery vehicle should also be able to carry personnel, spare assemblies, repair equipment, and a light jib crane, so as to be able to make repairs on the spot, and be capable of moving at the same speed as the armoured formation to which it was attached. An armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) is typically a powerful tank or armoured personnel carrier (APC) chassis modified for use during combat for towing or repair of battle-damaged, stuck, and/or inoperable armoured fighting vehicles, such as tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCs). Most ARVs have motorized tracks, like a tank or bulldozer, enabling the ARV to operate on uneven ground. The term "Armoured Repair and Recovery Vehicle" (ARRV) is also used. ARVs may have winches, jibs, cranes, and/or bulldozer blades to aid in tank recovery. Typically, any specialized lifting and recovery equipment replaces the turret and cannon found on a regular tank. ARVs may in some cases have electric generators, blowtorches, chainsaws and fuel pumps to help with recovery operations, or spare parts, to facilitate field repairs. Some ARVs have a spade component to anchor the vehicle when it is towing or lifting. Since most ARVs are based on tank or APC chassis, they have an armored crew cockpit and engine, which means that ARVs can be operated in combat conditions. Rarely, an ARV may be armed, such as some M32s, which have an 81 mm mortar for screening purposes, and the M88, which has a .50 cal heavy machine gun. One WWII Sherman-based ARV had a dummy gun installed where the turret would normally go. Early ARVs in WWII were often repurposed tanks, with the turret and cannon removed and replaced with some type of winch. In the 2010s, ARVs are generally factory-built. Even so, ARVs often use a shared chassis that is used on an army's other fighting vehicles, as this facilitates repair and maintenance of the ARV (as parts from tanks using the same chassis can be used to repair the ARV). Some ARVs are operated in tandem with armoured bulldozers. ARVs generally can only tow an equivalent-class vehicle or one that is lighter in weight. As such, an APC chassis-based ARV can only tow and recover an APC, but not a much heavier tank. While most ARVs are made from or based on APC or tank chassis, more rarely, an ARV may be based on an artillery tractor chassis. Some ARVs have specialized equipment that enables them to operate on beaches or in shallow water.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Printing. 22 pages, German Armoured Cars profusely illustrated in black and white; two pages of German Armoured Cars illustrated in color. Series edited by Duncan Crow. Although the Germans played a prominent part in the development of the internal combustion engine, they were slow in the application of this invention to military use. In 1906, the German firm of Ehrhardt built an armoured car as a private venture. The is the first recorded instance of an AA armoured car, and foreshadows those built during World War II. It indicates the attention paid in Germany, even at that early date, to the possible dangers of aerial reconnaissance. The potential of the armoured car continued to attract inventors, and up to 1914 various prototype vehicles were constructed, although none of them were officially adopted for use in the German Army. German military thought discounted the possibility of using machines on a large scale, either to reduce casualties or to achieve victory at a greater pace than that at which a horse could move. The term Schwerer Panzerspähwagen (German: "heavy armoured reconnaissance vehicle), covers the 6 and 8 wheeled armoured cars Germany used during the Second World War. In the German Army, armoured cars were intended for the traditional cavalry missions of reconnaissance and screening. They scouted ahead and to the flank of advancing mechanized units to assess enemy location, strength and intention. Their primary role was reconnaissance, but they would engage similar or light units and at times attempt to capture enemy patrols. The heavy Panzerspähwagen was a large but very fast and highly versatile addition to the German Army. The original 6 Rad (6 wheel) versions were based on a 6x4 truck with an armoured body, but by 1937 they were being replaced by the 8 Rad versions. During the replacement, the Sd.Kfz. (Sonderkraftfahrzeug, "special vehicle") numbers were carried directly over; differentiation is made by the addition of 6-Rad or 8-Rad in the vehicle's name. These vehicles were used throughout the war in various guises and first saw combat in the campaign against Poland and in the Battle of France. Later, they saw use in both the USSR and North Africa campaigns. Extreme climatic conditions in both these areas proved too severe for the vehicle. In the USSR, adverse ground conditions immobilized 150 Sd.Kfz 232s during the first wet season of the campaign.[citation needed] The speed of the eight-wheeled cars made them the best scouting vehicles that Rommel had for long range reconnaissance across the wide desert territory.…

Wraps. 12 p. Includes illustrations. Color illustrations inside back and front covers. Hurricane IICs entered into operational service with the Royal Air Force in May, 1941. The Hurricane IIC was involved in the disastrous Dieppe Raid. Hurricane IICs saw service throughout the world. In all, 670 Hurricanes were based in India, and supported the campaigns in Burma. @00 were later turned over to the Indian Air Force. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Goulding, James (illustrator).…

Wraps. 12 p. Includes illustrations. Color illustrations inside back and front covers. The Bf 110 displayed in the great air battle over Kent and Sussex all the shortcomings which had been built into it. It was easily identifiable from long distances. Its acceleration and speed were insufficient to enable it to avoid combat. Its turing circle was wide and it presented a good target. The single rear gun was inadequate for defense. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. P. Endsleigh Castle ARAaS (illustrator).…

Illustrated card cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 230mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). 24pp.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 2 clean and tightly bound paperback originals, stapled spines, pictorial covers, edges tanned with label marks on rear covers, no inscriptions, 20 & 24 pages respectively, illustrations in the text. No 48 published in 1978.

. p. 201-236. booklet. Profile AFV Weapons Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 900.

Stapled Card Covers. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 24 pages, 75g. Stapled paper covers. Very Good with the contents tight and clean. Illustrated with b/w photographs and 2 pages of colour. a detailed look at this class of locomotive.

Magazine, Soft Covers. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Published. July 1972, unpaginated, 20pp, illustrated with black & white photos and and double page centre spread with colour drawings, printed paper covers with previously published and forthcoming titles printed on the inner covers, some damp damage evident along the spine of the covers and some pages. Size: 9.75 x 7.25 Inches. Weapons.…

Magazine, Soft Covers. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Published. March 1972, pp189-212, illustrated with black & white photos and double page centre spread with colour drawings, printed paper covers with previously published and forthcoming titles printed on the inner covers, some damp damage evident along the spine of the covers and some pages. Size: 9.75 x 7.25 Inches. Weapons.…

Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 48 S.; KIll. Good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

Paperback. Zustand: Gut. S. 73-96; Ill. Good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Undated, probably published in the 1970s. Stapled edition, firmly bound and clean inside. Some handling wear and marks to covers including a creased tear to the top spine hinge edge. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and diagram figures (illustrator).

USS Enterprice (CVAN-64) Nuclear Attack Carrier. In engl. Sprache, ca. 25 x 19,5 cm Deckel leicht berieben. Broschur mit Gebrauchspuren, innen im guten Zustand. O-Brosch 23 Seiten.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 7.375 inches by 10 inches. Pagination is 97-120, plus covers. Illustrated covers. Footnotes. Illustrations (centerfold in color). tabular data. Aldo Fraccaroli (17 September 1919 - 22/23 March 2010) was an Italian naval historian and photographer who specialized in 20th-century Italian naval history. He served in the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during World War II and briefly in the Marina Militare during the 1950s. He began contributing articles and reviews to the newspaper Corriere della Sera among other general interest publications and the French naval annual Flottes de combat in 1937. The following year his photographs from the 5 May 1938 naval parade in the Gulf of Naples that was observed by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were published by the naval annual Jane's Fighting Ships. After the war Fraccaroli began working with the Italian edition of Reader's Digest and publishing articles in the newspapers. He resumed contributing to Jane's Fighting Ships and he published a special supplement to the 1950/51 edition covering Regia Marina's wartime construction that was the first authoritative material on this subject in English. In the late 1960s, he published Italian Warships of World War I and Italian Warships of World War II with Ian Allan Publishing who was publishing a series on all the navies involved in the world wars. Fraccaroli wrote the Italian sections of the 1860-1905 and 1905-1921 volumes of Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships and also contributed articles to both Warship and Warship International. He also wrote articles for the Italian Storia Militare. Zara was a heavy cruiser built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy), the lead ship of the Zara class. Named after the Italian city of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia), the ship was built at the Odero-Terni-Orlando shipyard beginning with her keel laying in July 1928, launching in April 1930, and commissioning in October 1931. Armed with a main battery of eight 8-inch (200 mm) guns, she was nominally within the 10,000-long-ton (10,000 t) limit imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty, though in reality she significantly exceeded this figure. Zara saw extensive service during the first two years of Italy's participation in World War II, having taken part in several sorties to catch British convoys in the Mediterranean as the flagship of the 1st Division. She was present during the Battle of Calabria in July 1940, the Battle of Taranto in November 1940, and the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. In the last engagement, Zara and her sister ships Fiume and Pola were sunk in a close-range night engagement with three British battleships. Most of her crew, 783 officers and sailors, including the divisional commander Admiral Carlo Cattaneo and the ship's commanding officer Luigi Corsi, died in the combat and sinking. She was protected with an armor belt that was 5.9 inches thick amidships. Her main deck was 2.8 inches thick and there was a secondary deck 0.79 inches thick over the main one. The gun turrets had 150 mm thick plating on the faces and the barbettes they sat in were also 5.9 inches thick. The main conning tower had 5.9 inches thick sides. Zara was armed with a main battery of eight 8 inch Mod 29 53-caliber guns in four gun turrets. The turrets were arranged in superfiring pairs forward and aft. Anti-aircraft defense was provided by a battery of sixteen 4 inch 47-cal. guns in twin mounts, four Vickers-Terni 40 mm/39 guns in single mounts and eight 0.50 inch guns in twin mounts. She carried a pair of IMAM Ro.43 seaplanes for aerial reconnaissance; the hangar was located in under the forecastle and a fixed catapult was mounted on the centerline at the bow. Aldo Fraccaroli (illustrator).…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Pagination is 25-48 plus covers. Fold-outs. Illustrations. This is number 38 of the Profile Warship series. Perhaps the scarcest title in this valuable and much sought-after series. The author had a long-standing interest in these vessels and went to great lengths to verity the true speeds attained, for the fast minelayers exploits are surrounded by myths and folklore. This profile shows that the speeds attained were roughly 37 knots, which was about 5-6 knots higher than contemporary British destroyers could manage in actual service conditions.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 7.5"x10", 20 pages. illustrated with Photos, Drawings etc including colour. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions ,pictorial paper covers light browning to covers.