Brittain, Vera.
Poems of the War and After:
(Victor Gollancz, first edition, 1934).
Ex-Wigan Free Public Library. A signed first edition copy. Inscription reads: 'With best wishes to Wigan, and Wigan Public Library from Vera Brittain. Wigan, December 7th, 1936'. Scarce, for the collector. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps.(Wigan Library). Cream cloth soiled, lacks spine cover, but contents firm, solid. Collectible though a working copy. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C16020
Keywords: Vera Brittain, First World War, Great War, poems, verse, poetry, signed, women, women's history, social history, grief, mourning, signed editions, first editions, first edition, World War I, Wigan, Wigan Free Public Library, Lancashire, interwar, inter war, 1930s, thirties, antiquarian, collectible, literature, women writers, pacifism, pacifists
Price £150.00.
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Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil.
Finest Hour:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Revised edition. Paperback. Very good. x + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-A11891
Keywords: 0340766352, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, Home Front
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Saunders, Hilary Aidan St George Saunders.
Combined Operations, 1940 - 1942:
(HMSO, 1943).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, spine a little worn, otherwise very good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A15964
Keywords: B01FWU8ZQI, war, 1940s, Second World War, World War II, forties, history, operations
Price £10.50.
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Shaw, Frank & Joan.
We Remember Dunkirk: Over 100 Personal Accounts
(Echo Press, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, otherwise good in slightly torn dustwrapper. xiii + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-A2903
Keywords: 1872779 00X, Dunkirk, British Legion, war, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Kipling, Rudyard, ed.
The Irish Guards in the Great War:
(Macmillan, 1923).
Volume II. The Second Battalion and Appendices. Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Edges slightly worn, some fraying to spine edges, otherwise good. vi + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-D15250
Keywords: B0006DMHC0, Kipling, Irish Guards, Ireland, Great War, World War I, fighing, battalions, Loos, Somme, Arras, history, Bourlon Wood
Price £25.00.
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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology of Women's Writing, 1937 - 1945
(Phoenix Press, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5912
Keywords: 1842122134, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, mass observation studies
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Paperback. Fly leaf clipped, spine creased, minor pencil annotation, with newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C2122
Keywords: 0719044618, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Putnam, Emily James.
The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of her History
(Sturgis & Walton, 1910).
Emily James Putnam, nee Emily James Smith, was an American educator and historian, remembered especially for her early influence on Barnard College in New York. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, and then attended Girton College, Cambridge. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers & stamps, edges & spine ends frayed, a good working copy in worn cloth. xxi + 323pp. Order No. NSBK-C4141
Keywords: B000J0SFDK, Emily James Putnam, women's history, gender, world, salon, blue stockings, Greece, Rome, Renaissance
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Royal Norwegian Government, Information Office.
Before We Go Back: Norway's Fight Since April, 1940. A Pictorial Record Of Norway's Fight Against Nazism Both Inside And Outside Germany, With A Postscript By Philip Noel-Baker
(HMSO, 1944).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, covers slightly browned, otherwise good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-H15136
Keywords: B004H3CS2Y, Norway, Norwegian, history, World War II, Second World War, Nazism, Nazi occupation, occupied, occupied territories
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Atholl, Katharine, Duchess of, Marjory Ramsay.
Working Partnership: Being the Lives of John George, 8th Duke of Atholl and of His Wife Katharine Marjory Ramsay
(Arthur Barker, 1958).
Scarce. Hardback. Green cloth slightly marked, with some rubbing to rear and wear to edges amd corners, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C16041
Keywords: B0007IZ34I, history, autobiographies, biography, autobiography, autobiography, antiquarian, Duke of Atholl, history, Duchess of Altholl, John George Atholl, Katharine Marjory Ramsay, Scottish, Scotland, inter-war, First World War, Second World War, peace, parliament, women MPs, Perthshire
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