POUR L'EUROPE: THE FRENCH VOLUNTEERS OF THE WAFFEN-SS by Robert Forbes - 2000-01-01

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… Read More

Valor Publishing, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Madeja, W. Victor : The Russo-German War, 25 January to 8 May, 1945. Allentown (PA) : Valor Publishing PB, 1987. 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 Army Group Center, 4 May, 1945, while rear cover similarly features situation map of 19 Feb 1945 for Army Groups Center and Vistula. [iv] pp prelim material, 74 numbered pp, plus three additional glossy leaves inserted to text with color maps printed on one side (only) - thus total number of leaves/sheets is 42. 31 separate orders of battle for German army groups during the period in question, along with 14 tables/charts, 42 b&w maps, six color glossy maps, and a table of abbreviations. Condition notes: About 30 pages have fairly discreet yellow highlighting of specific unit names/locations. Otherwise no notes or highlighting. Pages clean, binding sound. Light… Read More

Game Book Marketing Co, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Madeja, W. Victor : The Russo-German War, Summer 1944/Destruction of the Eastern Front. Allentown (PA) : Valor Publishing PB, 1987. 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 (undated) German situation map for Army Group Center, approx August 1944. [iv] pp prelim material, 77 numbered pp, plus one - thus total number of leaves/sheets is 41. 22 separate orders of battle for German army groups during the period in question, along with 11 tables/charts, 29 b&w maps, and a table of abbreviations. Condition notes: 16 pages show fairly discreet yellow highlighting of specific unit names; else clean, binding sound. 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,… Read More

R. James Bender Publishing, Mountain View, Calif. @ 1971 stated First edition. This is a collector's volume #323 of the first 500 and signed by author, see picture. Hard cover with tight binding and pages. Some rubbing on the front and back cover and slight bumping at corners. Top edge of pages are slightly curling and stained up to about page 26, see pictures. Some browning on the edges and soiling to boards, spine and first free page, see pictures.Many black & white photos, some color photos and drawing.
No writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT a library copy. I have gone through this book and it is a good reading copy. Page 265/266 has a corner fold, pic #6.
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London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Laid-in is a typed signed letter on the author's personal letterhead and dated 1986, referencing her 1985 collection of stories A Glimpse of Sion's Glory, and mentioning her current project that would become Deceits of Time (1988), the original Air Mail envelope is also included. To be clear, the book itself is not signed, the laid-in letter is. Straight, tight, and clean with no markings, slight corner and spine-end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, rubs, short closed edge tears, 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

Paris: Musee de l'Ordre de la Liberation [2-9505191-0-5] 1990. (4to) 607pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Ribbon marker, illustrations, photographs, maps, diagrams, bibliography. The corners are lightly bumped, the dust jacket has minor edgewear and tears including a narrow inch-long chip from the top edge of the front panel. Text in French Language. Locale: ; Musee de l'Ordre de la Liberation. (World War 2, Exhibition Catalog--France, Exhibition Catalog--Musee De l'Ordre de la Liberation, French Resistance, Resistance Movement--France, World War 2).

Collins. London. 1945. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 11 mono photos and 7 maps. Neat contemporary previous owner inscription on front free endpaper (Lord Milne from Col. Collins. 1945). Overall a very good copy in very good original dustwrapper with some minor rubbing to the edges but generally clean and bright. Overall very good indeed.

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

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.

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.