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Bantam Books. Good. 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Bantam 1946. Cover has moderate edgewear, laminate on cover has some peeled areas, tears to spine bottom taped. Soiling/discoloration outer edge of pages and light watermark stain/wrinkling to bottom corner of numerous pages. Pages otherwise clean and intact, with some age tanning to pages and covers. " Adano was a small Italian town , and its heart was a 700-year-old bell. Farmers set off to their fields, bakers make their bread, and the faithful went to church by its resonant ringing. At the outbreak of the war, the Fascists took the bell to a factory in Milan to melt it down for guns and ammunition. " (140os) ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Australia: Bayda Books. Very Good+. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. 0908480032 . Pages clean and tight, no markings. Cover has light scuffing, a few light creases and light wear at corners. Translated from the Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach, woodcuts by Lopata. A short history of the Ukrainian Cossacks has been included as a foreward to give the English speaking reader background knowledge of the events taking place in this novel. This book is a song to the exploits of the Zaporozhian Army which amazed the whole of Europe. It begins in the spring of year 1629. [472 ]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .

Arrow Books. Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Softcover. 009925560X . Pages clean and unmarked other than bookstore stamp inside front cover. Cover has spine creasing, scuffing and light wear to edges, spine cocked forward a bit. "The infamous Gulag Rats have a new commander. The Marshall has finally won Stalin's favour, and now it is he who must lead the desperate ballation in the race to reach Warsaw before the Polish revolt and ruin Russian plans to 'liberate' them..." (150noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

White Wolf Publishing. Near Fine. 1996. Softcover. 156504942X . Excellent condition - only light wear overall, clean, no markings. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Picking up where Child of the Light left off, Child of the Journey begins as the Nazi tides sweeps to power in Germany. Jewish visionary Solomon Freund desperately seeks to rejoin his bloved Miriam. His quest leads him from the precarious refuge of Holland back into the deathtrap of Berlin to the horrors of Sachenhausen concentration camp, and finally to Madagascar. .. (250-noto) .

Time Life. Very Good. 1981. Softcover. Very light wear to covers, light soiling to outside edge of pages, interior clean & tight, b/w illustrations. 478 pages.Description:Here is a twentieth-century classic that inspired a generation of nautical novels. Delilah is an old, four-piper destroyer whose regular beat is one of the world’s most exotic—and dangerous—bodies of water: the Sulu Sea. Set at the beginning of the American century just before the Great War, this novel tells the story of how the ship and her crew patrol the islands in the time of violent racial and religious unrest. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

William Morrow. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0688036066 . HC/DJ - fine/very good. Hardcover is clean, tight and unmarked. Jacket has age tanning, light edgewear, creases to rear flap and a couple tiny edge tears. "During the early days of the Battle of Britain the fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe dominated the skies of southern England. In the thick of it Flying Officer Keith Stewart and Mike Browning, an American, in their battle-weary Hurricanes contested the might of Goering's gleaming Messerschmitt 109s and 110s.... " [445-noto]; 8vo .

Lawrence Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0882081667 . Ex-library with usual stamps & stickers. Light soiling and minimal edgewar on cover. Pages clean & tight. A very nice copy. In this extraordinary story of World War II, the author's father, who enlisted in the army at age 16, describes the experiences that would affect the course of his life. Douglas Valentine tells of his capture by the Japanese in the fetid jungle of New Guinea, as well as his internment with Australian and British prisoners-of-war in the Hotel Tacloban — a place where no mercy was shown or expected, and from which few came home alive. A celebration of camaraderie and a testament to "the soldier's faith", this is a story of murder, mutiny and an incredible military cover-up; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Award Books. Good. 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Good used condition, with some wear and tear. Pages are clean and intact other than one paper split at spine, pages to that area are a bit loose top and bottom but still attached. Light age tanning to interior. Book spine is tipped forward and cover and spine have several creases. Moderate wear to edges and corners of cover. Inside back cover has two rows of numbers written in ink and rear has a small peeled area on top edge. The most brutal undercover attack of World War II. First published as "But For These Men" - filmed as "The Heroes of Telemark." (120os,713) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Toronto: Doubleday. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385133324 . HC/DJ - near fine/good+. Hardcover is clean, with all pages intact and no markings. Bumping to spine ends and bottom corners and light age tanning to page edges. Dustjacket has scuffing, light wear to edges, wear, age tanning and a few tiny edge tears, not price clipped. "Laughing War does for Vietnam what Catch-22 did for World War II, laying bare the absurdity of war with a taut, fast-moving, darkly humorous tale of romance and suspense in a combat zone. " (435noto,0914) ; 8vo; 295 pages .

Arcade Publishing. Very Good+. 1990. First Edition. Softcover. 1559700904 . Pages clean and tight, with no markings. Cover has a little wear at corners, light scuffing and a small tear to upper spine. Rear is lightly creased/indented and these indents also show on last few pages (quite minor). 8vo (8.5" tall). Hans Winterschild joins the German army at nineteen and participates in the "glory" of the Polish campaign and losing all his illusions during his years on the Russian front. With Allied victory almost certain, he is transferred to Italy where he falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute - a sad, lost creature who will affect Han's life forever. [410-noto] ; 8vo .

London: Cassell. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Cassell edition - precedes US edition, 1953. Hardcover has light wear, light spotting/soiling to outer edge of pages, interior clean and intact, with no markings, some age tanning inside covers. 255 pages. Jacket has light edgewear, light spotting inside flaps, not price clipped, light soiling to rear. "Tension between two European countries culminates in war and creates the stage for this remarkable novel, based on the age-old problem of justice which Aeschylus propounded in the Oresteia..." Author's first novel. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

MacFadden-Bartell. Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Cover has light edgewear and creasing, light soiling. Pages clean and intact, light age tanning, bookstore stamp first page. As a black man, a soldier, and an American, Captain David Walsh was acclaimed a hero and feted with a hero's welcome, publicly and privately. Could he, for only personal reasons-integrity, honesty-give the lie to those honors and all that they meant? Here is a brilliant novel which reveals a terribly real, frightening dilemma in which a good and decent man may have no choice except on which horn he is to be impaled. [osl]; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 222 pages .

Dell Books. Very Good. 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Cover has light wear, light soiling. Small tear to upper end of spine. Pages clean and intact. A novelized account, drawn from thousands of pages of sworn evidence, from the trials at Nuremberg and Belsen, and from searing personal memoirs, this is the story of the blood-drenched third reich, written by one of the most gifted storytellers of our time. (os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 254 pages .

London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover, with white/gold lettering & decoration on spine, has minimal wear and is clean. There is a slight soiling on top edge of pages, a small price sticker mark on endpage and all else is clean & tight. DJ has very lightedge/cornerwear and light scuffing/soiling to back, not price clipped. 310 pages. Pulitzer prize winner in international journalism, Harrison E. Salisbury covered the eastern front during WWII, including the siege of Leningrad, one of the most horrific events of the war. He uses fiction to give an honest picture of the defenders of Leningrad and what became of them under Stalin. ; 8vo .

Bard/Avon. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0380631318 . Paperback has light edge/corner wear to covers, creasing to spine, small tear on rear. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; "...Imagine the elation of having your dead son brought back to life. That is what Michael Sumner's parents experience when, one year after he's reported killed in action in Vietnam, they are told their son is alive and has escaped from a cadre of Viet Cong. But reunited with his family in their new Florida home, Michael has become a stranger to them, and soon living with him becomes more difficult than having him dead. Attempting to break into his suffering and get him back, fearful he may turn to violence, his parents suspect the worst when a young woman who has befriended Michael abruptly disappears. " [130-osl] .

U. K.: Pan Books. Good. 1972. Second Printing. Softcover. 0330232568 . Pages clean and unmarked other than name on endpage, paper split at spine at one point, but no loose pages. Cover has moderate edgewear and creasing, light soiling. Great naval adventure novel of World War II. An exciting and full-blooded story of life in Gibraltar during the most perilous days of World War Two. [220-noto]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Pocket Books. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671799584 . Hardcover is clean with ony light wear. Pages are intact and cleant other than minor spotting outer edge of pages. Jacket has very light edgewear, a little scuffing, no tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Pocket Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671896733 . Hardcover has only light wear, pages clean other than a couple earmarks and small publisher's mark bottom edge of pages. Jacket has light edgewear and scuffing, no tears, not clipped. " The Rogue Warrior swings into action following an assassination by the Russian Mafia. After best sellers Red Cell, Green Team, and Task Force Blue, Marcinko is clearly going for the gold. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Collins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 000222237X . Collins 1st ed. , 2nd printing. HC/DJ - near fine. Hardcover is clean and tight, slight soiling outer edge of pages, no markings. Price sticker endpage. Jacket is scuffed and has light wear to edges. Price clipped. 279 pages. Novel based on fact. On the night of 10 May 1941 the second most powerful man in Hitler's Germany, Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, parachuted from a two-seater Messerschmitt 110 over Scotland. When captured and while still unrecognized he gave his name as 'Captain Alfred Horn'. Who was Alfred Horn? Do we really know why the Deputy-Leader of the most powerful military national in the world undertook so mysterious a mission? Or where in fact he was heading? .... ; 8vo .

New English Library. Very Good. 1975. Second Printing. Softcover. 0450019926 . 2nd printing 1975. Cover has light wear to edges and corners, a little sticker residue on front, light soiling. Pages clean and intact, age tanning to page edges. 173 pages. TARANTO - November 11, 1940. The Italian battle fleet lay snugly at anchor behind powerful defences. How could it be destroyed? Until then no navy had attempted to destroy a fleet with aircraft and it was believed in this case that an attack could only be successful if it were conducted within range of guns. Nevertheless there were some "fanatics"-as they were dubbed-who predicted an effective strike could be made by the flimsy slow-flying aeroplanes of the Fleet Air Arm. The "fanatics" proved to be right. They took off form the carrier Illustrious and flew 170 miles into air-naval history and fought a battle that was to become known as "the Trafalgar of the Air". They crippled the Italian fleet and altered the… Read More