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Home Page Please note Do not use PayPal to purchase any product or service from this site. New website & email address are now in place. Please phone 01584 879899& leave message. Please speak clearly and repeat any tel numbers and email addresses. email address is info@dickybloodsbooks.com
Here you can browse my carefully selected new WW2 & WW1 books *Dicky Blood's War now in Borders Books*
SPECIAL Offers for July Buy Dicky Blood's War or Saved by the Bomb and get £5 off your 2nd choice of any book.
Even later News! I have just completed move of office to Shrewsbury Market Hall 2nd floor where I have security, storage and permanent showcase. I shall conduct all my future Dicky Bloods Books business from there, including all on-line sales etc. My email address and phone number remain the same. My mobile number is 07821 897427 I shall still live in Ludlow where I have ongoing commitments and a leaking garage roof. I shall be at the unit Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. In my absence my neighbour, Peter of More Books,or Darrel the Magic man next door will help any visitors.
Today's news Hoping to attend 1940's weekend at Peak Rail, Darley Dale nr Matlock this coming weekend. Have attended Crich several times but not had chance to visit this very popular event before. I was evacuated to Yoxall, Burton on Trent for 3 years and wrote a best selling book about my experiences there, so visiting that area is like 'coming home' to me
If you are writing, or have written, a book that fits in with my WW2 & WW1 genre* & having difficulty getting it published, I may be able to help. If I think I can sell it direct to the public from my stalls, I will publish it far cheaper tnan anyone else because I have no overheads and operate from my home address. In the last 3 years I have travelled 65,000 miles visiting WW2 events all over UK with my bookstall building up a reputation for service and quality whilst adding to my range of books which now number 20 titles, most of which are signed by their author. If you would like to find out more please contact me on 01584 879899 or email info@dickybloodsbooks.com for full details. please note No more publishing contracts before New Year. I have 4 contracts to complete & produce by 1st October
July list
Dicky Blood's War ISBN 1 904166 07 5 nearly 8,000 sold BEST SELLER & not in shops ref; On page 219 there is a piece about Hitler entitled 'Defining Moment' which took place in September 1918 at Marcoing, France, where an Austrian Corporal named Adolf Hitler (yes the same one) had his life spared because he was wounded and limping.
Saved by The Bomb ISBN1 85776 581 8 True saga of 19yr old Naval Commander Brian Carter, winner of Croix de Guerre at Normandy £9.99
Gunner Kaye ISBN 978 0 9557830 0 5 Just published 1st Edition. Vivid account of D-Day,Market-Garden,Ardennes,Seigfried Line by 19yr old. Few 1st editions left.Don't miss out £9.99
D-Day Dodger by Albert Darlington. This 16yr old was fighting Rommel at El Alamein before going to Italy. His Battalion won more battle honours and suffered more casualties than any other regiment in WW2 £12.95
The Journey by Ted Cowling An irresistibly good read "Our starboard engine was hit..we were diving out of control into the sea...two of our formation had colided above us...they just exploded!" £12.95
Sherpas & SAS by 'Brummie' Stokes. Dramatic,funny,intensely moving. 'Brummie's story is as full of life as the man himself. Foreword by Colonel Sir David Stirling, founder of SAS £20
Boys at War By Russell Margerrison 'a vivid story of a few individuals..but in it's meticulous accuracy and honest recall, it paints a picture more real than any history book or film could do' Manchester Evening News £7.99
Guards VC Blitzkrieg 1940 Previously unpublished accounts by Victoria Cross holders £14.95 Spitfire Voices A stunning collection of rare photographs & letters from survivors albums £20 Speedway Flyers Ltd edition. A collectors 'must have' about what speedway riders, who volunteered before WW2 started, got up to when they met. They raced, of course, battlefields, Dunkirk, wherever. Completely mad! Wonderful collection of photos, true stories and hybrid 'bikes' £9.99 Through Peril to The Stars The stories of those that didn't make it. The entire day-fighter air war over North West Europe, told in a unique & moving style. Illustrated with 108 photos £14.95 Johnny Johnson/Part Two By VE day, Johnny Johnson was the RAF's official top scoring fighter pilot of WW2. Ilustrated with numerous, previously unpublished, veteran's photographs £20 A Wartime Poetry Journal by Effie M Roberts.Wonderful, gripping, emotional, creative. This lady wrote about WW1 & WW2 She was there. Lates edition retypd and added to by her gifted Granddaughter.One for the ladies £9.99 All above are signed by their authors Moonless Night by 'Jimmy' James Special Edition profits to project 104 at National Arboretum £14.95 First Light by Geoffrey Wellum. An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone £8.99 Forgotten Voices of 2nd World War in the words of the men and women who were there £20 The Faithful Few by Andrew Long.True stories of WW2 pilots from Worcestershire (photos) £20 Duxford to Karachi byFred Roberts. The remarkable journey of a working class lad whilst armourer to Spitfire Ace George (Grumpy) Unwin. The class system at war in same plane £14 95 Warzone Speedway a magnificent big sister to Speedway Flyers was launched 26th June at The REME Museum Arborfield. This is a big book in every way and a must for historians and followers of Speedway.Order your First Edition copies now £16.99 Tribute ''It is my opinion that Warzone Speedway fills a significant gap in the sports history. The book uniquely, for the first time, records rare Army speedway meetings, riders and machinery from an era in speedway history largely forgotten. I am pleased to recommend this book as a dedication to all servicemen who rode in khaki over 60 years ago'' Squire 'Split' Waterman Do not pay online I have been hacked into several times and book payments have gone into account which is not mine. This is now being investigated. Until I have a secure system installed all payments must be by cheque or money order direct to G Blore 19 Hillside, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 1RB * * * * * * * * * See links page for latest info re EQUALITY Armed forces pension scandal also BRITISH BERLIN AIRLIFT ASSOCIATION 60TH Anniversary of The Berlin Airlift 24th June 1948-12th May1949 On Sunday 29th June in the City of Peterborogh the Veterans of the Berlin Airlift Association will be on parade. The RAF Wyton band will lead the Parade with RAF Wittering supplying RAF peronnel. There will be a contingent of soldiers from St George's Barracks, South Luffenham together with contingents of Navy, Army and ATC cadets. It is expected that an honour guard from RAF Mildenhall will be there along with other American servicemen. for more details emailjanet@pchoward.comThe English soldier was Private Tandey V.C. " I took aim, but could not shoot a wounded man, so I let him go".
Hitler never forgot that pivotal moment, or the man who'd spared him. On becoming German Chancellor in 1933, he ordered his staff to track down Tandey's service records. They also managed to obtain a print of an Italian painting showing Tandey carrying an Allied British soldier on his back, which Hitler hung with pride on the wall at his mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden.
Hitler showed it to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, during his historic visit in 1938 and explained it's significance.
Henry Tandey left the army before WW2 started and became a security guard in Coventry. His 'good deed' haunted him for the rest of his life, especially as German bombers almost destroyed Coventry in 1940 and London burned day and night during the Blitz. "If only I'd known what he'd turn out to be. When I saw all the people, women & children, he'd killed and wounded. I was sorry to God I let him go" he said before his death in 1977 at the age of 86. ref; The History Place-WW2 Statistics
This is one of 50 little known facts, all researched and references shown in Dicky Blood's War £7.99
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