Search Results: World War II from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. , 2008. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very good/no dust jacket. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 165 p. w/ color and b&w illus., maps, 5 appendices, bibliography, and additonal 2 pages of ads. An attractive work detailing the activities stories of this P-38 equipped figher group that fought in North Africa and Italy, fighting German, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, and even Russian planes at times from Nov. 1942 til the end of the war.

Charlotte, NC: 306th Bombardment Group Associaton, 2001. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thick quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Note from former owner in pencil at top of title page. Front cover slightly scuffed. Ink note on half title. A collection of all the issues of ECHO, the newsletter for this veterans group of US Army Air Force men. Uncommon. Section B

no place : Task Force 31, ca. 1945.. Pamphlet. Very Good. Very good in glossy cover. Bound with a bates fastener. Slight scuffing and wear to edges and corner of cover. Last page slightly browned. 10 p. w/ 2 photos per page. A very scarce small military publication of small ship naval losses around Okinawa from shore batteries and kamikaze attacks. Includes scarce photographs of the explosion of the Longshaw (DD 559), loss of the William D. Porter (DD 579), Bates (APD 47), and PC 1603, damage to an APD called Roper, decoy ships, Hagushi and Naha harbors, and more.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Square octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Pages just bit wavy. 225 p. w/ index and illustratins. Includes a heavily illustrated section the Type IXC/40 boat, with many photos inside and out never published before. An important memoir of a surviving german U-Boat officer, who served from 1941 to the end of the war.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxii, 638 p. w/ maps, notes, bibliography, index. A detailed study reassessing Fletcher, whose successful performance at the start of the war was later questioned and downgraded. Lundstrom finds new evidence supporting the decisions and actions of Fletcher.

Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. One corner bumped, and pages bumped as well. xxxii, 191 p. w/ illus., many color maps, appedicces, bibliography, index. A hour by hour account of this important fight between the British 1st Tynesside Scottish Battalion, 49th Division and German forces from the 2nd and 9th SS Panzer divisions, focusing on the British side. Includes many first person sources from the Scottish, as well as a few from the Durham Light Infantry, 24th Lancers, and others.

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Later printing. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Near fine. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued with this printing. xxiv, 257 p. w/ biographies of key figures, endnotes, select bibliography, index. An examination of British SOE and MI6 activities in this WW2 Axis ally.

Washington DC: War Department, July 1944. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Original softcover, not a reprint. Slight wear to edges and corners. 180 p. w/b&w illus., specifictations, index. "Restricted" with paragraph listing the restrictions on front cover. Uncommon.

Washington DC: War Department, May 1, 1943. First edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Original pamphlet not a reprint. Slight wear to edges and corners. Ink drawing on back, faint small damp stain to side of front cover. 40 p. w/color and b&w illus.. Covers Aircraft on the ground, the individual soldier, Seen from Above, From the Far Easst, Nets and Netting, Choice of Position, New Camouflage Films. Uncommon.

Washington DC: Center for Air Force History, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with some small tears with scratch going length of front cover, crease going length of back cover, and some light scuffing to both covers. Slight foxing to page edges. Inscribed by author to previous owners on half-title page. 808 pages with maps, illustrations, notes, statistical appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. Extra shipping for this work due to its bulk. A detailed look at the career of Carl Spaatz and his direction of American air power over Europe during World War II.

Evansville, IN: M.T. Publishing, 1991. 5th printing, 2007. Hardcover. Very good. Landscape format quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. [ xii ] 118 [2] p. w/many b&w illus. A history of tis Evansville shipyard that made many WWII LSTs (landing ship tank) for the US, with information on the war activities and uses of many of the LST produced there,

Barnesly, UK: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2013. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. xii, 516 p. w/many photo illus., maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. A hisotry of RAF'S No, 1 Fighter Wing during the 1942 - 1943 Japanese raids on Darwin. Composed of both British and Australian pilots, RAF 1 opposed some 70 Japanese raids.

Lake MIlls, IA: Graphic Publishing Company, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards.more so to dust jacket. x, 661 p. w/maps, illus., index. A detailed unit history of this Infantry division and it's attached unites, notably the famous Nisei of the 442nd RCT, and their often ferocious fights in North Africa and Italy, notably Cassino, Anzio, and the Appenines Line.

Charleston, IL: BLT & J Publishing, 1992. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 163 p. w/illus. A colleciton of photos and letters fro a woman who served in the Women's Army Corps in WWII, most of the time at Fort Ogelthorpe, Georgia.

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Originally published in the UK as DESTROYER'S WAR : A MILLION MILES WITH THE FIGHTING EIGHTH. Some wear, small tears and light chipping to edges and corners of dj. Dj is also a bit soiledwith fading to spine. Front cover still bright and dramatic with image of a charging destroyer. Less wear to boards. Former owner's information in ink on flyleaf. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. 251 p. w/photographic illustrations. A thrillign tale of the Firedrake, a British F - Class Fleet destroyer and her adventures with the 8th Flotilla and Force H in the North Sea and Norway and later in the Mediterranian. Heavily damaged near Sardinia by air attack, she was safely brought to Gibraltar and at the time of the book was undergoing repairs in the US. Sadly, she was later torpedoed by U211 and broke in half on Atlantic convoy duty. Only 26 of her crew of 148 were… Read More

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Stamped name & address of former owner on flyleaf. xxiv, 240 p. w/ illus., maps, endnots, bibliography, index. A detailed study of both sides strategies in the crucial first months of the war, with exensive discussion of the Battle of Coral Sea and its impact.

Wiesbaden: Limes Verlag, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. Dj has chipping at edges and slight soiling to covers. Slight foxing to endpapers. Ink mark on one endpaper Name of former owner at top of first chapter. 297 p. w/illus, maps, chronology, and 2 fold out maps at rear. Essentially a WWII memoir of General Franz Halder, chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. He was one of the leading post war proponents of the "clean" Wehrmacht in WWII.

Northville, MI: Published by the author, 1989. Second edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Head of spine has a small bump. Crease to back lower corner of cover. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on half-title page. 453 p. w/ illustrations, bibliography, index, and interesting, unusual maps of different actions. A history "on the ground" of the aactions of the 101st Airborne division in Operation Market Garden, with extensive quote from interviews by the author with many members of the unit.

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Later printing. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued with this printing. ix, 136 p. w/chapter endnotes, bibliography, index. A study looking at the inadequate training, combat adaptations, and innovation of US Army combat medics in WWII in Europe.

Neckargemünd, Germany: Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Original editon. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Dust jacket has more wear and small closed tears to edges. Some corners folded, some ink marks to margins. Musty smell to book. 312 p. w/ maps, photographic illus. Text in German. Covers the operational history of three Croat Legion divisions in World War II- the 369th, the 373rd, and the 392nd. All three were used in anti-partisan operations in Yugoslavia.