Search Results: World War II from Hideaway Books

W.W. Norton & Co., 1961. 1st American. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 'Colditz was the supposedly escape-proof castle, high on a pinnacle of rock, in which the Germans of World War II incarcerated the toughest and most ingenious of Allied prisoners of war. It turned out to be as vulnerable before the masterly and outrageous escape plans of its inmates as were the lesser camps. Its story is a combination of high entertainment, heroics, and drama. The story of Colditz as told here is doubly fascinating because it is told by a German, and officer whose duty it was to prevent the escapes that happened anyway.'- {From the DJ}WW Norton & Co, 1961 1st American Very Good/Fair 1961 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION WW Norton & Company 190PP Book in very good condition & DJ in fair condition DJ price-clipped NOT EX-LIBRARY Minor shelfwear present Small signs of visible wear

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. 1st Printing. 263pp. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Moscow: Chuikov was present at the last days of the Third Reich and tells the tale "In the closing stages of the war, the 8th Army spearheaded the Soviet's main effort It took part in the liberation of Poland, crashed through a series of formidable German defense lines on the eastern approaches to Berlin, and finally stormed the capital of Nazi Germany This book describes the closing of the war in vivid detail"The author details at length "the negotiations on the surrender of the Berlin garrison and Nazi Germany's armed forces as a whole which took place in the last days of the Battle of the Command Post of the 8th Guards Army"1978 FIRST PRINTING (stated) Progress Publishers Moscow "Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" 263PP Book in very good condition & DJ in good-acceptable condition NOT EX-LIBRARY Clean text, tight binding Minor shelfwear present Small signs of visible wear Small section of pages… Read More

1957. Indiana University Press. Red boards with silver lettering. 303pp. Hole in cloth on front board. stamp on front paste down and owner's name on FEP. No DJ.Book is in good condition. NOT EX-LIBRARY. No DJ. SEE PHOTOS for condition of book you will receive. ALL PHOTOS taken by Hideaway Books at time of listing. Condition based on age of book. Extra shipping costs may apply to heavy, over-sized, and volumes of books. All books sent from Sacramento.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1948. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. William Morrow & Co, 308pp Book in good condition & DJ in acceptable-poor condition NOT EX-LIBRARY DJ has open tears, rubbing & bumping Book is in G condition Clean text, tight binding. Minor shelfwear present Small signs of visible wear SEE PICTURES for any wear or defects Condition based on age of book To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked conditions of GOOD + If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to send us an email

1964. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 277pp. 1st. Hardcover. VG/Fair. 1st (STATED) EDITION Book in good condition & DJ in acceptable-poor condition NOT EX-LIBRARY DJ has staining & tears Clean text Minor rubbing/bumping to corners & edges of cover Decorative paste-downs Tight binding but front hinge is starting There are signs of visible wear which may include markings, bookplate or authors name, bumping, small tears, non-major spine or binding defects but book is still wholly intact. Most of the well-known heroes of World War II are military figures This book tells the story of another sort of hero, Franz Jaegerstaetter, an Austrian peasant farmer and husband and father of three daughters, who refused to perform his military service in the Nazi army on grounds of conscience He was executed in Berlin on August 9, 1943 by the Nazis for his conscientious objection, ""in solitary witness"" to peace The author, Gordon Zahn, an American conscientious objector during World War II and a sociologist, does a… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1979. Very Good/Good. ""A History of the Character, Causes and Consequences of Military Stupidity, from Crassus to Johnson and Westmoreland""-{From the Cover}1979 edition! Book in very good condition & DJ in good condition NOT EX-LIBRARY NOT PRICE-CLIPPED Minor shelfwear present Small signs of visible wear SEE PICTURES for any wear or defects Condition based on age of book To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked conditions of GOOD + If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to send us an email

Little, Brown, & Company, 1967. Hardcover. Good. <p>' The venture of which I write in this book represents, in the opinion of most engineers, scientists and industrialists interviewed by me, the greatest isngle achievement of organized human effort in history. Though such superlatives are usually exaggerated, a detailed study of the Manhattan Project convinced me that the scope of the performance was indeed without precedent.'- {From the Preface}</p>Little, Brown, & Company, 1967. Good. 1967 Little, Brown, & Company STATED FIRST EDITION (Printed in United States) Book is in good condition NOT EX-LIBRARY No DJ There are minor signs of shelfwear which may include rubbing/bumping to edges & corners or non-major spine or binding defects but book is still wholly intact SEE PICTURES for any wear or defects Condition based on age of book To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked… Read More

1966. Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum. Presumed first edition. 109pp. Orange boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Text is clean and unmarked. This work is designed to fill a gap in the knowledge about Jewish activity and life in Belarus during the Nazi period.Book is in Very Good condition. Not EX-LIBRARY. No DJ. Small signs of visible wear. SEE PHOTOS for condition of book you will receive. ALL PHOTOS taken by Hideaway Books at time of listing. Condition based on age of book. To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked conditions of GOOD + . If you have any questions at all dont hesitate to send us an email.