Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Military History


A Collection of Military History and Literature Volumes Including Schindlers Ark and SAS Memoirs - This collection comprises several works primarily focused on 20th-century military history and literature. The group includes One of the Originals: The Story of a Founder Member of the SAS by Johnny Cooper, a hardcover volume with a dust jacket featuring the Special Air Service Who Dares Wins insignia. Also present is Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally, published by Hodder and Stoughton; this volume represents the original UK title of the work later published as Schindlers List. The collection further includes The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill, a hardcover with a dust jacket containing a foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder. A paperback edition of Defeat Into Victory: Field-Marshal Slims Account of the Burma War by Field-Marshal Viscount Slim is included. The Goebbels Diaries, edited and introduced by Hugh Trevor-Roper, is present in hardcover with its original dust jacket. Additionally, there is a red cloth-covered hardcover volume identified as Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy FitzPatrick, which features a distinctive black silhouette of a bull terrier on the front board.