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Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .
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Toronto: Oxford University Press 1st Canadian Edition, 1943 ----------hardcover, no dust jacket. A Biggles adventure. Light blue cloth with black lettering on the front boards and spine. A little soiled, pen initial on front boards, minor wear to extremities, faint pencil name inside, a VG copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Radcliffe Wilson (interior illustrations). Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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50 Years Later: Remains of the Battle of the Bulge
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Histoire Secrète De La Gestapo (4 volumes)
by Dumont, Jean
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Genève: Éditions Du Crémille, 1971. Complete 4 volume set. First editions. Hard covers. Published Genève: Éditions Du Crémille., 1971, first printing. 12mo., 255; 255; 253; 253pp. Text in French. Illustrated with plates, pictorial endpapers, red ribbon markers. Black leatherette with red and silver design, silver titles. a near fine set.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo.
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The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the Bulge
by Giles, Janice Holt
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Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970, hardcover, xxi-409 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, previous owner's embossing to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, small spine-end and corner nicks, wear to folds, short closed edge tears, some discreet tape repairs, in new Brodart sleeve. The definitive account of the participation of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge compiled by the famous Kentucky author from accounts given by her husband, fellow author Henry Giles, and other members of the Battalion who took part. Illustrated with 22 pages of black-&-white plates and 11 maps. Mapped endpapers show the Kampfgruppe Peiper advance route. ISBN 9780395077443
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Russo-German War: Winter and Spring 1944 : Battles for Central Europe/No 32 (Battle situation--east front)
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Game Book Marketing Co, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Madeja, W. Victor : Russo-German War: Winter and Spring 1944 : Battles for Central Europe/No 32. Allentown (PA) : Valor Publishing Co, PB, 1988. First edition. Demy quarto (4to) size, 10 7/8"/28cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy stock wrappers glued to textblock; front cover features color reprod of German situation map for 11 March 1944; back is 8 April '44. ii pp prelim material, 88 numbered pp, two unnumbered following. 26 separate orders of battle for German army groups during the period in question, along with 15 tables/charts, 57 b&w maps, seven color glossy maps, and ten b&w photos. Condition notes: No notes or highlighting. Pages clean, binding sound. Light wear to cover. An extremely data-rich and interesting volume for those interested in the Russo-German War of 1941-45 (the "Eastern Front" of the European Theater of WWII). Russian units/strengths are treated on maps, in tables, and in descriptive text, but not in OOBs. Author/editor…
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
by Manchester, William
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This Book is a Masterpiece account of one of the greatest American Military Generals of all time by award-winning Author, William Manchester. This Biography details the life of General Douglas MacArthur from childhood to the day he died. It covers his military career that spanned more than 50 years and includes his participation in all wars from the beginning of the 20th Century through Korea. This Book has maps and several sections of photographs spanning MacArthur's life and contains 793 pages, including the Bibliography and Index.
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Santa Barbera: Zeldis Publishing, 7-04. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large format hardback with dust jacket which is has minor wear, Signed by Photgrapher Bill Zeldis
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A Fence Away From Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II
by Levine, Ellen
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New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995, hardcover, x-260 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light scratches, in new Brodart sleeve. The award-winning author of Freedom's Children helps recount the stories of a number of young Japanese Americans whose lives and families were changed forever when the attack on Pearl Harbor prompted FDR to sign an executive order forcing their evacuation and imprisonment. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs. Appended: Glossary, Chronology, Acronyms, Camp Sites, Who's Who, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780399226380
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The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies
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London, MacMillan, 2013, hardcover, xiv-304 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket Signed by the Author on the title page with the brief inscription "To Van Best Wishes". Clean and firmly bound, slight lean to spine, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light corner nicks, stubborn sticker remnant to bottom of rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The wartime memoirs of a member of the British Secret Operations Executive F Section who spent 1943 till the end of the war aiding the French Resistance by meeting with agents returning from behind enemy lines, acting as a decoy, passing messages in tea rooms, and picking up codes in crossword puzzles, as part of Churchill's 'secret army'. Appended: SOE Organization, Roll of Honour, SOE F Section circuits in France. Foreword by Paddy Ashdown.
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The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh
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This Book was published in 1970, the same year that is listed in the front pages. This Book should be the First Edition, although the frontispiece doesn't specifically state that. This Book describes the content of the diaries of Charles Lindbergh from 1937 to 1945 and contains 1,038 pages. Charles Lindbergh was an American hero who had a lifetime of achievements. This Book contains several sections of photos and is in Very Good condition and well preserved.
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Junge Liebe in Einer Alten Stadt
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A 1st ed. good hardcover (cloth-bound), soiling of cloth & signs of age as in image, with stamp fr. end p. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg* spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1942 Gau Westmark". "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen. Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte nach den Erfolgen der letzten zwei Sammlungen ein…
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Spitfire Parade
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Oxford University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. Reprinted. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Spine noticeably sunned. Some additional mild marks and staining.
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Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. Reprinted. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Radcliffe Wilson. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean.
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Spitfire Parade
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Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, London, 1952. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Radcliffe Wilson. Biggles's Philosophy, Green coloured boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The story of how Biggles was appointed the head of Squadron 666  " ... the Squadron had been formed for the special-purpose of accommodating a collection of brilliant but unstable types whose capacities as fighter pilots are in inverse ratio to their amenity to discipline at the normal routine of a station."  from the front fold over panel blurb. A little softening of the back strip edges and bumping of the top right hand corner of the front panel. Tanning and some foxing to the text block edges  particularly to the top edge. Age toning of the pages with faint offset tanning to the end pages and original bookseller's sticker…
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Spitfire Parade
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London: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1951. Turquoise cloth on boards with black titles; faint dusting of a little soiling. Spine: thin surface crinkle to centre of spine; head & foot with thin wear. Edges: light age yellowing and moderate foxings. Eps: age shadowing; sprinkling of foxing; ffep with signature stamp and small booksellers stamp to foot. Clean contents. Binding is V+ albeit only slightly cocked. 256p Dj: front flap seperated from dj. Light dusting of soiling and rubbings. Spine: small irregular hole to centre; head & foot with wear, small splits and chips. Top and bottom edges with small splits and chips. . Reprint. Hb. VG/VG. Illus. by Radcliffe Wilson.
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Spitfire Parade
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London: Oxford, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3Cm Closed Tear To Dj At Spine Chipped Back Of Dj At Top. Bright Dj . Foxing To Endpapers And Top Edge Very Lightly Bumped Spine
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Spitfire Parade
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Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1960. First Edition Thus. 184 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and moderate foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Notable tape staining to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscription and drawing to rear endpapers. Heavy tanning and foxing to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine,which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Books has a backward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Tape to edges and flaps, which have mild scuffing. Moderate tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.
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Hasen
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New York: Knopf, 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket woodcut from Rockwell Kent Legacies, cover design by Lidia Ferrera.. This First Edition title translates to "Hare", a story of two young boys surviving in the wild near a concentration camp, and the day everything changes. "As simply and beguilingly told as a fairy tale, this is a novel whose terror belongs to reality-a novel that evokes with extraordinary power the essence, the beauty, of loyalty and commitment tested to the utmost." (from DJ). 5½ x 8". Original black boards over cloth, silver letters to spine, black top edge. Bottom spine slightly bumped, DJ has tiny chips at top & bottom spine and light wear to back, else a near fine dustjacket over a near fine book with Kent's striking woodcut on cover.
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THE ASIATICS
by Prokosch, Frederic
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New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., 1945. 348 pages, Armed Service edition #764, published in July 1945. During World War II more than seventy American publishers cooperated with the Council on Books in Wartime to distribute books free of charge to American servicemen. The flat oblong paperback books were designed to be easily carried into battle in soldiers' pockets. From September 1943 through June 1947, there were 1,322 titles published in Armed Services Editions. The book offered here is in very good condition: clean and tight, with minor edgewear.. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong 32mo - over 4" - 5" Tall. Book.
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Orlando King
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London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529
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Yank, The Army Weekly; World War II from the guys who brought you victory
by Steve Kluger
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Arms and Armour, 1991. Hardback. good/good, faded spine (red spine). with Dw, slightly faded on the spine, slightly foxed and tanned on the page edges otherwise very good
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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Santa Barbara Photographs
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Santa Barbera: Zeldis Publishing, 7-04. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large format hardback with dust jacket which is has minor wear, Signed by Photgrapher Bill Zeldis
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50 Years Later: Remains of the Battle of the Bulge
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Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
by Manchester, William
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This Book is a Masterpiece account of one of the greatest American Military Generals of all time by award-winning Author, William Manchester. This Biography details the life of General Douglas MacArthur from childhood to the day he died. It covers his military career that spanned more than 50 years and includes his participation in all wars from the beginning of the 20th Century through Korea. This Book has maps and several sections of photographs spanning MacArthur's life and contains 793 pages, including the Bibliography and Index.
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BLOODY BURON NORMANDY - 08JULY 1944
by SNOWIE, Capt. J. ALLAN
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Erin, ON: The Boston Mills Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [1-8]9-120. FIRST EDITION. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth boards, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece photograph, photos, maps, glossary, nominal roll for D-Day. A history of the actions of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada near the village of Buron during the month following the D-Day landings. They faced the 12th SS (Hitler Youth) exchanging artillery barrages and fighting patrols. On the 8th July, 1944 the regiment executed a plan to capture the village which is described in this book. The unusual aspect of the fighting was the ferocity with which it was carried out on both sides. The text includes many full page photographs. The soldiers in most of the photos are identified by name and rank. The appendices include; a list of participants in the battle taken from The Highland Light Infantry of Canada with a determination of killed or wounded.…
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Die Befreiung 1813 - 1814 - 1815 : Urkunden - Berichte - Briefe mit geschichtlichen Verbindungen
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A 1st ed. good paperback, soiling & other signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, with stamp fr. end p. & inside of cov. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1941 Gau Danzig" also FON pasted label. 520p. 19x13cm. 500gr. "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen.Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte… Read More
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