An assortment of books, primarily non-fiction historical works, biographies, and mid-century fiction, contained within three cardboard flats. Key non-fiction titles include Antony Beevor, Crete (John Murray); Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Iron Maze (Macmillan); Wilfred Thesiger, The Life of My Choice (Collins); Sir Oswald Mosley, My Life (Nelson); Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (Weidenfeld & Nicolson); and William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Secker & Warburg). The collection also contains Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford); A.J.P. Taylor, The Habsburg Monarchy; and various fiction titles by authors such as Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, and Frederick Forsyth. The lot comprises a mix of publisher’s cloth-bound hardcovers, many with original dust jackets, and various paperback editions, notably several mid-century Penguin Books titles. Publishers represented include Heinemann, Collins, Macmillan, and Oxford University Press. The formats are predominantly octavo.
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