Jumbo Coins Collectors Centre

22 Woodend Lane                                                                  Last Update –            7th  March  2009
Stalybridge

Cheshire
SK15 2SR
United Kingdom
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Military, Naval & Air Force Books for sale

More specialised Military Information is available on our special webpage.

Books on Firearms and Gun Related Books are available in the Collector’s Section.

Most books are in very good to excellent condition unless otherwise stated.

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars - R Thompson - 1989 - £9.50  <(H8)

38th Parallel: Story of British Army in Korea – Gaston P – 1976 - £15.00  (ML3)

Aeronautica : Illustrated Reference Guide for Collectors - A J Marriott-Smith - 1989 - £5.95   (H18)

Aircraft and Airforce History 1932-1944  (Personal Scrapbook) – bulging with pictures and commentary - £9.50  (ML1)

Aircraft Markings – Wheeler B C – 1986 - £1.95   (ML3)

Air War South Atlantic – Ethell J & Price A – 1983 – Hardback – with lots of appendices on men, material & losses of both sides - £4.50   (700g)   (ML4)

Armies of the Indian Princely States – Volume 1 : Overview - Head/McClenaghan - 1998 – Hardback - £17.25   (ML3)

Armies of the Indian Princely States – Volume 2 : Patiala – Head/McClenaghan - 1998 – Hardback - £17.25   (ML3)

Armies of the Vietnam War 1962-75 (Men-at-Arms 104) - Katcher P/Chappell M - 1980 - £2.50   (ML2)

Armorial Bearings of the Sovereigns of England - Petchley W J - 1967 - (Ex-Libr.) £1.95

Army List 1990 - Part II (ex libris) £3.00    (900g)     (ML1) 

Artillery of the World – Foss C F – (3rd Edition)  - 1981 - £3.25  (450g)  (ML2 )

Atlantic Star 1939-45 – D A Thomas – (Story of submarine activity, plus details of convoys and merchant shipping losses) – 1990 - £9.95  (800g)     (ML4)

Battalion at War: Singapore 1942 – Moore M – 1988 – 1st Edition - £9.95  (H7)

Battlebags - British Airships of 1st Worlld War - Illustr.History - Mowthorpe C - (Excellent Reference - all ships listedd with full histories of each) - As New - (issue price £25) - £17.50   (H8)

Black Watch - Grant/Youens - 1971 - £2.00   (ML1)

Bomber Command Museum Guide - £1.50   (ML1)

British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935) – Harfield A – 1984 – £25.00  (ML3)

British Army in Northern Ireland - M Dewar - 1985 - £9.00   (ML1)

British Artillery Weapons and Ammunition 1914-1918 – I V Hogg & L Ethurston – 1972 – (With DJ) - £17.50

Compendium of Armaments & Military Hardware-Chant -1987 (1st Ed) - (List Price £50) - Brandd new - £29.50      (H8)

Culloden – Taylor I C – No date – (Includes history & maps)  - £2.50   (ML2)

Dunkirk Veterans Assn Journal - Vol 25 No.2 - £0.50     (200g)      (ML1) 

Dunkirk Veterans Assn Journal - Vol 27 No.2 - £0.50      (200g)     

Dunkirk Veterans Assn Journal - Vol 27 No.4 - £0.50      (200g)     

Dunkirk Veterans Assn Journal - Vol 29 Nos.1-4 £2.50      (600g)     

(All above Dunkirk Veterans Assn Journals (7) - £3.25)     (800g)     

Encyclopaedia of Code Names of World War 2 - Chant - 1986 (1st Ed) - (List Price £40) - £25.00

Falklands Task Force – Poster with history, and badges of the services involved. excellent condition - £2.50

Fall of Paris : Siege and the Commune 1870-71 – A Horne – 1967 – Reprint Society – with DJ – (0.5kg) - (Ex-library but very good condition) - £6.95

Fall of Saigon – D Butler – 1985 – (paperback – corner fold at front top) -  £1.95    (550g)     (ML4)

Fantastic Aircraft - Chant C - 1984 - £3.75

Francis Drake - Williams N - 1973  - £3.00

Frigates : Account of Lesser Warships of  the Wars from 1793 to 1815 – James Henderson – 1998 (as new) - £3.95      (ML4)

Great Battles of the Royal Navy – E Grove – 1994 – (Complete history of major battles, together with comprehensive details of strategy, plans and maps) - £13.95  (1050g)       (ML4)     (ML4)

Great Trek (S Africa) - O Ransford - 1973 (Spine tear) £2.75   (ML2)

Hero of the Afghan Frontier (fiction) - 1917 - £2.00

Himalayan Frontiers - Polit.Review of Brit,Chin,Ind.& Russ.Rivalries - Woodman 1969 - £6.00

History of Weaponry - C Canby - 1962 - £4.00  (ML2)

Infantry Weapons of the World – Foss C F & Gander T J – (2nd Edition)  - 1979 - £3.25  (450g)  (ML2 )

Jane’s 1981-82 Military Annual – Weeks J – 1981 - £4.95   (ML1)

Jane’s Aviation Review 1982 – (2nd in the series) – Ed. M J H Taylor – 1982 - £4.95   (ML)  (800g)

Jewish Brigade : An Army with Two Masters 1944-45– Morris Beckman – 1998 – Spellmount – 1st Edition – (Brand new) - £15.50

King's Royal Rifle Corps - H F Wood - 1967 - £12.00   (ML3)

King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1961 - (Details of Officers and NCOs and News of the Regiment) - £7.50   (ML2)

Lancashire Fusiliers (Famous Regiments) - C Ray – 1971 -  £6.50   (ML1)

Last Year of the Luftwaffe May 1944 to May 1945 – A Price – 1991 – (Complete history of this era, together with comprehensive details of deployment of units and aircraft) - £12.95  (600g)       (ML4)

Leek & District Soldiers & Sailors Roll of Honour - 1916 (P/copy) - £7.50   (ML)

Life & Deeds of Earl Roberts (2 Vols) - J M Cobban - Pub. Jack - 1901 - £32.00   (H6)

Militair 1982 - J Andrade - 1982 Complete breakdown of world military aircraft - £8.00   (ML4)

Military Music - H G Farmer - 1950 - £3.50   (ML1)

Monty: Master of the Battlefield 1942-44 – Authorised Biography by N Hamilton – 1985 – Coronet - £2.75   (ML4) (700g)

NVA & Vietcong (Elite Series 38) - Conboy/Bowra/McCouaig - 1991 - £2.50   (ML2)

Navy List 1991 £3.00   (ML2)

Nelson and his Captains – Kennedy L – 1976 – Fontana - £1.95  (ML1)

Nicolson VC : Biography of only Pilot in WW2 to be Awarded VC – Mason P – Geerings of Ashford – (with DJ) - £5.25  (ML2)

Over There : Commem.History of Old Leek Battery 1908-19 - Blore/Sherratt - 1991 £9.50   (ML2)

P-47 Thunderbolt – Edward Shacklady – 2000 - (Classic WWII Aviation Vol. 4) – (Brand new with perfect DJ) – £9.50  (ML4) (650g)

Peloponnesian War – Thucydides – Everyman’s Library No. 455 – 1957 – (Good condition, ex-library) - £1.95    (ML1)

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – Shirer W L – 1970 – (1.5Kg ) – Poor condition – no spine - £0.95

Rommel - D Young - 1950 £4.00   (ML2)

Royal Air Force Athletic & Games Handbook - 1951-52 - (Used Condn.) £3.00   (ML1)

Royal Air Force - Brize Norton Information Handbook (S/B) - 1971? - (for RAF Personnel) £5.00   (ML2)

Royal Air Force Valley : Anniversary Special – 1991 - £1.25

Royal Army Service Corps (Famous Regiments) - G Crew – 1970 - £6.50   (ML3)

Royal Navy : An Illustrated History – 1999 – (includes 8 appendices and details of the battles) – (Perfect condition with DJ) - £13.95  (ML)   (1100g)     (ML4)

Royal Navy & the Falklands War – David Brown – 1988 – (includes maps and complete breakdown of all ships used in the conflict) – (Excellent condition with DJ) - £9.95  (ML4)   (1300g)

Samuel Pepys Trilogy - Matching bindings - Reprint Society (1949-1952) - set £8.50   (ML1)

... The Man in the Making

... Years of Peril

... Saviour of the Navy

Seaforth Highlanders 1939-45: A Fighting Soldier Remembers - J Stockman – 1987 - £7.50   ()

Soldier – 4 issues of the British Army Magazine – Jan to April 1996 - £2.50  (ML2)

Soldiers of the Peninsular Wars - North - 1972 £3.00   (ML1)

South Africa & Transvaal War (6 Vols) - L Creswicke - Pub. Jack - 1901 - £75.00   (H10)

Soviet Army Uniforms 1961 – Ministry of Defence (Restricted Access) – (Contains details of uniform, insignia, medals and badges) – £15.95    (H5)

Soviet Bloc Elite Forces (Elite Series 5) (Reprint) - Zaloga/Loop/Volstad - 1991 - £2.50  (ML2)

Spanish Civil War – Thomas H – 1977 – (1.25kg ) – very good condition – with DJ - £3.50

Spider Web: Romance of Flying Boat Flight in WW1 – Hallam T D – 1st Reprint 1979 - £6.95  (ML3) 500g

Staffords 1881-1978 - Rosignoli & Whitehouse (Hardbound) - £8.50   (ML2)

Staffordshire Regiment : Prince of Wales's - J C A Swynnerton - £1.95

Staffordshire Regiment : Prince of Wales's (Earlier Ed.) - J C A Swynnerton - £2.95

Standard Catalogue of British Orders Decorations & Medals - 3rd Ed. 1976 - £7.00   (H12)

Strike Wings – Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45 – R Conyers Nesbit – HMSO – 1995 – (History of the squadrons, details of Locations and aircraft, plus listing of shipping attacked) - £11.95  (750g)       (ML4)

Struggle for Europe: Second World War - Wilmot C - 1954 - £7.50   (ML2)

Submarines (Modern Military Techniques Series) - Gibbons T - 1986 £1.50   (ML2)

Tank & Other A.F.V.'s 1900-1918 - White B T (1920s?) - (Stain inside front cover) £2.75   (ML1)

Thin Red Lines – British & Allied Communications over the Imperial Cable & Wireless Network, and the People that Worked on it. – C Graves – Late 1940s – Very good condition. - £8.95   (ML2)

Thirty Years War – C V Wedgwood – 1981 - £2.75   (ML3)

Tribute to Men of Tameside Awarded the Victoria Cross - 1995 - £1.50   (ML2)

US Army Special Forces 1952-84 (Elite Series 4) Reprint - Rottman G/Volstad R - 1993 - £2.50   (ML2)

Valentine in North Africa 1942-43, The (Tanks) - B Perrett - 1972 £4.50   (ML2)

Warfare Renaissance to Revolution 1492-1792 : Cambridge Illustrated Atlas – J Black - 1996 - £11.50  (1200g)  (L2)

War in Peace – Orbis Magazines – Numbers 1 to 26 – in official binders – Excellent Condition - £13.50  (ML3)

Who Dares Wins : Story of SAS 1950-1980 - T Geraghty - 1981 - £7.50   (ML3)

With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-17 – 1918 - £32.00

With the Eighth in Italy - L Melling – 1955 - £2.50   (ML2)

Women's Royal Army Corps (Famous Regiments) S Bidwell - 1977 - £7.50   (ML3)

Wonder Book of the R A F – 1942 ?? – bit battered but complete – A great book - £9.95     (MV5)   (1.1kg)

World Military Aircraft Since 1945 – Jackson R – (3rd Edition)  - 1979 - £2.95  (450g)  (ML2 )

World’s Air Forces – Chant C - £8.50   (L3)

All books available at time of writing, please check availability.

Postage costs will be calculated at cost, however costs are likely to be roughly :-

Pamphlets at approx. 50p each.

1 book - £1.50

2 books - £2.75

3-4 books - £3.75

5+ books - £5.00

We also advise Recorded Delivery on small parcels at 65p extra.

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