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A boy sitting reading a book under a tree looks up to a green dragon acting as the leaves. The countryside can be seen in the background with windmills and winding roads.

$23.00

John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien

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Book cover of The Legend of Albert Jacka by Peter FitzSimons. The cover features a painted portrait of a World War I Australian soldier in uniform and slouch hat, facing forward against a warm toned sky. Below the portrait is an illustrated battlefield scene with soldiers advancing on foot and tanks moving across rugged terrain.

$23.00

The Legend of Albert Jacka: From the Shores of Gallipoli to the Battlefields of France, the Epic Story and Fierce Battles of the First Australian Soldier

Book cover for Rogue Agent is a gray, wintry scene of Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral. In the foreground, a dark silhouette of a man in a long coat and hat walks away from the viewer. A small inset black and white portrait of a young man appears in the lower right corner.

$30.00

Rogue Agent: From Secret Plots to Psychological Warfare: The Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockhart

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$19.00

The Library of Lost Dollhouses

Book cover for The Silver Bone, a novel by Andrey Kurkov and the first in The Kyiv Mysteries series. The cover has a black background with a central image of a single elongated silver bone standing upright. The title The Silver Bone appears in large white capital letters across the center. At the top, small text reads The Kyiv Mysteries. An orange vertical band runs along the right side with text noting it is translated from Russian and published by New York Review Books.

$19.00

The Silver Bone: A Novel (The Kyiv Mysteries, 1)

The cover shows black and white images of WWI soldiers. One image is of a trench and the other is a group of soldiers huddled together.

$30.00

Gallipoli Soup: A War Story of Statecraft and Sacrifice

The image is a colored painting of the famous WWI Gassed painting by John Singer Sargent.

$40.00

John Singer Sargent’s Gassed

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$32.00

Paris Gun The Bombardment Of Paris By The German Long-Range Guns And The Great German Offensives Of 1918

The cover is black and white and shows a photograph of WWI soldiers and a WWI trench.

$8.50

The Marne, 1918 BY Edith Wharton

The cover's background is an colorful illustration of many poppies in bloom. They are bright red flowers with vibrant green stems and leaves. In the bottom corner is a black and white photograph of a soldier, presumed to be Sgt. Bernard Brooks, in a WWI uniform.

$22.50

A signaller's war: notes compiled from my diary 1914-1918

The cover is dark stormy blue. There is an outline of a cloudy cityscape and spotlights shinning up in the sky tracking a large imposing Zeppelin.

$35.50

Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain During the First World War

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The cover is a colorful illustration of two large warships in the ocean. It also includes three small photographs of warships.

$20.00

Ottoman Navy Warships 1914–18

Illustration of the Hindenburg Line Battle. There is an explosion and soldiers taking cover.

$25.00

The Hindenburg Line 1918: Haig’s forgotten triumph

The Illustration shows three polish soldiers in uniform.

$18.00

Polish Legions 1914–19

Illustrated book cover shows a Canadian Corps soldier in uniform holding a machine gun and a Royal Bavarian soldier in uniform and helmet holding his rifle. Behind them are scenes from the battlefield.

$23.00

Canadian Corps Soldier vs Royal Bavarian Soldier: Vimy Ridge to Passchendaele 1917

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The top image shows an Anti-Tank Rifle and the bottom image shows a soldier using the rifle while lying down.

$23.00

The Anti-Tank Rifle

The artwork shows World War I biplanes and two large battleship being fired at with smoke arising from two ships. Along the bottom, three black-and-white historical photographs of battleships are displayed.

$20.00

Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroyers 1914–18

The artwork shows a World War I large British Battleship being fired on with smoke and flames around the ship. Along the bottom, three black-and-white historical photographs of battleships are displayed.

$20.00

British Battleships 1914–18 (1): The Early Dreadnoughts

Illustrated cover showing Australian soldiers in WWI Uniforms. One soldier rides on a horse.

$20.00

The Australian Army in World War I

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Illustrated cover showing three New Zealand soldiers in WWI uniforms.

$20.00

The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I

Minimalist white cover featuring an illustration of a group of men in formal dress seated and standing around a long table in a grand, high-ceilinged room, with tall windows in the background. The title is in dark serif font above the image, and the author’s name is printed below in the same font.

$40.00

Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War

The title for A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period is in large red letters, with the subtitle in smaller dark blue text below. The background features an ornate historical style world map centered on Europe, Africa, and Asia, bordered by portraits of military and political leaders from the interwar era. At the bottom, text reads “Edited by Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm. The overall design resembles a vintage illustrated atlas or political chart from the early 20th century.

$55.00

A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period (Modern War Studies)

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The cover for A Shipwreck in Fiji is a beautiful illustration of a man in uniform standing on a small wooden sailboat. He is close to the shore which is vibrant with the deep greens of the trees and bright pinks and yellows of the flowers. The boat rocks precariously among the rocky shoals and looks to be in danger of tipping as the man puts out his hands to catch his balance just as a wave crashes on the front of the boat.

$30.00

A Shipwreck in Fiji (A Sergeant Akal Singh Mystery)

The cover for A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart is bright red with yellow travel stamps from New York, Calcutta, San Francisco, and Berlin. The main image is of a man and woman embraced and a crack starting at the top of the cover and running central through their embrace and ending at the bottom of the book.

$28.00

A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart: A Novel

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