User:Simon Harley/Library



It is my opinion that on Wikipedia, while good-faith is always to be assumed, that in certain cases it is not. In the instance of someone questioning my good faith, I would ask them to refer to my other edits and my repeated queries on article and user talk pages, and to this library of books which I own and refer to personally. I've been buying books like other people buy magazines (and I have a fair few of those also) since the age of ten - nearly fifteen years now. Without exception I have read every book on this list, and although I may disagree with the scholarship and conclusions of some of them, I wholeheartedly recommend them all.

''God, this sounds pompous, doesn't it? At any rate, since I stopped updating this my library has increased by hundreds of volumes and tens of thousands of photos of primary sources at archives.'' &mdash;Simon Harley (Talk | Library). 16:47, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Books


All twenty-two volumes of the series The Seafarers, published by Time-Life Books in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These books are sumptuously illustrated and were written by authorities. Some of the facts are somewhat dated now, but there's no denying it's an exceptional set.

Articles
Many of these are by kind courtesy of friends and acquaintances, as with the Official Publications above.



I also have a large collection of Ships Monthly magazine collected when I subscribed in 1995–1996 and found at various car-boot sales, book fairs and trips to Hay-on-Wye.

Military

 * 1) A Nation Forged in Fire, Granatstein and Morton, Lester & Orpen Dennys
 * 2) Battlefields of the First World War, Tony and Valmai Holt, Parkgate Books
 * 3) Roy F. Dunlap, Ordnance Went up Front, Samworth
 * 4) Richard Connaughton, MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines, The Overlook Press
 * 5) Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won, W.W. Norton
 * 6) Alistair Horne, To Lose a Battle, Little Brown
 * 7) Belton Y. Cooper, Deathtraps, Presidio - U.S. 4rd Armored Division in WWII
 * 8) J.W. Thompson, Fix Bayonets, Greenhill Press
 * 9) H.W. McBride, A Rifleman Went to War, Lancer Militaria
 * 10) H.W. McBride, The Emma-Gees, Lancer Militaria
 * 11) Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June, Doubleday
 * 12) Tom Pocock, Battle for Empire, Caxton
 * 13) Captain J.C. Dunn, The War the Infantry Knew, Abacus
 * 14) V.W. Wheeler, The 50th Battalion in No Mans Land, CEF
 * 15) Will R. Bird, Ghosts Have Warm Hands, CEF
 * 16) Will R. Bird, Thirteen Years After, CEF
 * 17) Fred Bagnall, Not Mentioned in Despatches, CEF
 * 18) John Harold Becker, Silhouettes of the Great War, CEF
 * 19) Wilfred Kerr, Shrieks and Crashes, CEF
 * 20) Frederick G. Scott, The Great War as I Saw It, CEF
 * 21) George B. McKean, VC, Scouting Thrills, CEF
 * 22) Will R. Bird, The Communication Trench, CEF
 * 23) Wilfred Kerr, Arms and the Maple Leaf, CEF
 * 24) Cinquante-Quatre, CEF
 * 25) Will R. Bird, Private Timothy Fergus Clancy, CEF
 * 26) James H. Pedley, Only This, CEF
 * 27) Kate Wilson-Simmie, Lights Out!, CEF
 * 28) George Forty, Tank Aces, Sutton
 * 29) Major H. Hesketh-Pritchard, Sniping in France, Leo Cooper
 * 30) Ian Dear, Ten Commando, St. Martin's Press
 * 31) Graham, The Price of Command, Stoddart - Guy Simmonds
 * 32) R.H. Roy, THe Journal of Private Fraser, CEF
 * Kay, Magee and MacLennan, ''Battery Action!", CEF
 * 1) Andrew B. Godefroy, For Freedom and Honour?, CEF
 * 2) Putkowski and Sykes, Shot at Dawn, Leo Cooper
 * 1) R.H. Roy, THe Journal of Private Fraser, CEF
 * Kay, Magee and MacLennan, ''Battery Action!", CEF
 * 1) Andrew B. Godefroy, For Freedom and Honour?, CEF
 * 2) Putkowski and Sykes, Shot at Dawn, Leo Cooper

Air

 * 1) Mustangs of the RAAF and RNZAF, P.N. Anderson, Reed
 * 2) Patrick Abbot, Airship: The story of R34, Brewin Books
 * 3) Roy Conyers Nesbit, Torpedo Airmen, William Kimber - Beaufighters
 * 4) Fletcher and Macphail, Harvard!, Flying Books
 * 5) Jonathon Falconer, Stirling Wings, Sutton
 * 6) Chaz Bowyer, Guns in the Sky, Corgi
 * 1) Patrick Abbot, Airship: The story of R34, Brewin Books
 * 2) Roy Conyers Nesbit, Torpedo Airmen, William Kimber - Beaufighters
 * 3) Fletcher and Macphail, Harvard!, Flying Books
 * 4) Jonathon Falconer, Stirling Wings, Sutton
 * 5) Chaz Bowyer, Guns in the Sky, Corgi

Weapons


Every issue of the Double Gun Journal (lately the Double Gun and Single Shot Journal) printed thus far.