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New York: Viking/Penguin Grouo, 2010. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Remainder First Printing of First US Edition. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Clean, unmarked, tight, solid volume. Remainder mark, else Fine. Richard Overy re-creates the dynamics and decisions, hour by grim hour, that led to the infamous nonagression pact signed August 24, 1939, signalling an invasion of Poland, daring Western Europe to respond. Within days, World War Two was officially launched. xi + 159 pages, indexed. . 8 x 5.25 inches. 2010, Viking/Penguin Group, New York

New York: MJF BOOKS, 2012. First Thus. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First MJF Books Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Clean, unmarked, tight and solid volume. An amazing story of what happened to some of the passengers on the passenger ship, the Zamzam, which was sunk off the coast of South Africa by a German ship in 1941. They were put on a prison ship and taken to Nazi-occupied France where the Americans were released; the Canadians were interned in German detention camps as enemy aliens. They were eventually brought to Berlin for repatriation but due to bureaucratic bungling, they were abandoned in the heart of Hitler's Germany--seven women. This is their story: how did they survive-no money, no clothes, no food, no place to live--a story told from first-hand accounts and interviews with relatives of these brave and courageous women. 210 pages with Notes, Sources and Bibliography, Zamzam Passenger List, and Index. 8.8 x 5.5… Read More

Novato, California, U.S.A: Presidio Press, 2003. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. First Presido Press Printing. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition, Gently used book, clean and unmarked, trace wear around cover edges, fainlty rubbed along hinge edge. Tight glued binding. Internals very clean and free from any markings, lightly toned. B/w photographs. Combat pilot Norman "Bud" Fortier describes his own hundred-plus missions during World War II and also includes the accounts of fellow fighter pilots. 350 pages with Glossary. 4.25 x 7 inches. Presido Press, Novato, CA 2003.

U.S.A: Potomac Books Inc, 2005. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. Roger Hilsman writes of his expeiences as an American guerrilla in Burma behind Japanese lines during World War II and has added an epilogue about a period when Americans were fighting against guerrillas in Vietnam. 312 pages with index. 7.75 x 5 inches. Potomac Books, USA 2005.

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1981. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Large Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. B/w illustrations. Clean, very slight wear to extremities, no creasing, rem mk on top edge. Pages are toned, quite clean and free from any markings. A comprehensive, authoritative, detailed analysis of the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, as seen from both the American and Japanese sides. 6.4 x 9.25 inches. 873 pages including Notes, Source Material, List of Major Personnel, The Pearl Harbor investigations, Abbreviations Used in Text, Bibliography, Revisionists Revisited, and Index. Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1981.

New York, New York, USA: Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back A first-rate work of history of the campaigns in the Atlantic during WW II with an unusual full portrayal of the German side of the story and to the importance of the role Canada played, as well as the Allied campaign. First Edition Hardcover and Dust Jacket Near Fine Condition. Top edge of text block with light spots, else Fine. Very clean and unmarked navy cloth with sharp and bright bold gilt titling on spine. Tight and solid. Internals in Fine Condition. Endpapers with illustrations of ships used in the Atlantic Campaign. Photographic illustrations. 424 pages, indexed. 9.5 x 6.4 inches. 1988, Harper & Row, New York, New York, USA

New York: Mjf Books, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Dust Jacket as New. 28 illustrations in two sections. A history of how mankind committed the ultimate infamy. The Introduction has text underlined in ink--no other pages are so marked--they are completely clean, no creases. Binding as new in burgundy half cloth, grey boards. tight, solid & square. 327 pp with Notes and Index. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 2005, MJF Books, New York.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Hard Back Hardcover BCE in Very Good Condition, without jacket. Clean and unmarked blue cloth with red titles on spine; square, solid, with sharp corners. Text block edges quite clean. Bookplate on paste down. Battle maps on endpapers. Pages are clean and completely free from any markings. Book club informational flyer laid in. A book about a battle in Tunisia during World War II as told by one who was there--Ralph Ingersoll ; this is what it is about but it is not the book. It is described as if it were two books, the other an analysis of how a battle is prepared for, the supply line and location of camps, the advance tactics, the right training. 217 pages. 8 x 5.5 inches. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1943.

New York, New York USA: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 2007. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Sterling Point Trade Paperback As New. Glossy, hinged cover is clean and bright, no wear. Internals As New. Front cover painting by Robert Bailey. Frontispiece: Getty Images. Map of the Murmansk Run near Iceland. A convoy of helpless and largely unarmed merchant ships carrying vital supplies for the Allied forces sets off from Iceland through dangerous waters. The must get through enemy German forces that are determined to stop them. This is a riveting story of the brave merchant sailors who brought tanks, guns, airplanes, and ammunition to the Eastern Front during World War II. 160 pages with bibliography and Index. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Sterling Publishing, New York, 2007.

Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A: Time Life Books, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback COLLECTIBLE. First Printing. An Outstanding Series on WW II. Detailed and graphic b/w and full color photographs on nearly every page, many full-page and two-page. Includes maps, bibliography, and index. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition. Bound in pictorial cloth, no jacket, as issued. Very clean, a slight touch of wear to some corners, tight sewn binding, solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. Chapters: Unleashing the Sea Wolves; Raiders on the Prowl; Happy Time for U-Boats; Vital Armadas; The Triumph of Technology; The United States at Sea; The Final Round. Picture Essays: The Battle's First Victims; Zany Saga of the Zamzam; Suicide of a Maurader; Sinking of a U-Boat; and more. 208 pages with bibliography and index. 9.75 x 11.25 inches. USA, Alexandria, VA, Time-Life Books, 1977.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. Details and analysis of the Allied battles in 1944 to force the Germans out of the almost impregnable Monte Cassino, perched on the mountain above the little town of Cassino in Italy. Thousands of lives were lost. Some considered these battle a needless waste of lives. First-hand accounts of the campaign are included. Red cloth binding with gilt titles to spine is very clean, tight and solid. Corners rubbed, spine head and heel compressed, rubbed, nick to bottom edge of front panel. Rear upper corner bumped, wrinkled. Numerous photographic illustrations. Pages very clean and completely free of any markings, no creasing. 216 pages with index. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1975.

New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Hardcover Reprint and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Over 20 maps, by John Tremblay. Clean and unmarked blue paper-wrapped boards with gilt titles to spine; slight lean to spine, tight and solid binding; lower edges lightly rubbed. Pages toned, clean, no markings of any kind. The military editor and analyst of the New York Times (1966) evaluates eleven crucial battles of the Second World War, analyzing what happened in each and why, as well as the larger results. They present a cross-section of the world's greatest war, from the Polish campaign, where Blitzkrieg was born to Okinawa, the 'last battle'. 532 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1966, Konecky & Konecky.

Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A: Time Life Books, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback COLLECTIBLE. First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition. An Outstanding Series on WW II. Detailed and graphic b/w photographs on nearly every page, many full-page and two-page. Includes maps, bibliography, and index. Bound in pictorial cloth, no jacket, as issued. Very clean, a touch of wear to some corners, tight sewn binding, solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. Contents include chapters on: Hitler Weather; A Season of Blunders; Iron Hands on Scandinavia; First Blood in the West; Deliverance at Dunkirk; The Fall of France. Includes Picture Essays. 208 pages with bibliography and index. 9.75 x 11.25 inches. USA, Alexandria, VA, Time-Life Books, 1976.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6. Ballantine Books, 1961, Third Printing 1968. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Foreword by Field-Marshall Lord Harding. Clean illustrated cover with golden background has light wear to upper front corner; binding solid and square; pages moderately toned, clean, completely unmarked. A tank officer's story of desert war in North Africa during World War II, fighting Rommel's crack Afrika Korps and eventually defeating them. 190 pages. 12mo. 1961, Ballantine Books.

Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1978. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6. Bantam Doubleday Dell. Paperback. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Full color painting by Gunter Scherrer laid in. Foreword by Field-Marshall Lord Harding. Clean white illustrated cover; binding solid and square; pages moderately toned, clean, completely unmarked. A tank officer's story of desert war in North Africa during World War II, fighting Rommel's crack Afrika Korps and eventually defeating them. 233 pages. 12mo. 1978, Bantam Doubleday Dell . SBN10: 0553118129, ISBN13: 9780553118124

New York: Ballantine Books, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Campaign Book, No. 4. Second Printing, 1970. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. B/w photos throughout. Clean and unmarked with slight rubbing to upper edge and corner. No text markings of any kind, pages quite clean, double column format. 160 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1970, Ballantine Books, New York.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket in clear archival protective cover. 4 Plates. 1 Map and 1 Plan. Bound in black cloth w/gilt outlined title panel, gilt titles within, on spine and front. Very clean and unmarked, trace wear to corners; tight and solid, square, intact hinges. Internals fine, completely unmarked and very clean. Illustrated with photographs. Jacket is clean, unmarked, edgeworn at spine heel and rear lower edge, spine head has v-shaped piece missing at rear edge and is wrinkled around it. Gerald Green, author of the "Holocaust", has this to say about this book: "This is a riveting, near incredible (but true) story of the last days inside Hitler's underground hideout in Berlin. Nothing I've read on the subject reveals so vividly the psychopaths, quasi-criminals and looneys who made up the entourage around Germany's… Read More

New York: Empire Books, 1983. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Empire Books, 1983. Hardcover BCE Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Sixteen page illustration section with historical photographs. Bound in deep red half cloth with bright and bold gilt titles, tan boards. Clean and unmarked with slight wear to bottom front corner, spine head and heel rubbed. Internals quite clean, free from any markings, no creasing, not toned. Grey jacket with red and black titles is clean, with slight wear to spine head and heel. The story of this Gestapo lieutenant's brutal repression of French Resistance fighters and Jews during World War II. After escaping justice for his war crimes for almost forty years, he was finally tried and imprisoned in France. How he escaped justice and who helped him to do so, is explored in this book. 336 pages with Notes and Index. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Empire Books, New York, 1983.

USA: William Morrow, 1976. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. William Morrow, 1976. Hardback. The greatest convoy battle of all time-a major turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II. Hardcover BCE and Jacket in Good Condition. Photographic illustrations. Blue half-cloth with red and gilt lettering, with blue boards. Light spine heel wear; binding tight, solid and square. Pages clean, clear and unmarked and are all a little wavy. Jacket is clean with corner wear and light chipping to spine head and heel, small closed tear on rear upper edge. Nice solid volume with wavy pages. The German U-boat peril during World War II was a real threat to Allied shipping convoys. During the winter of 1942-43, the Germans came close to cutting the North Atlantic lifeline. 97 Allied ships were sunk in the first 21 days of March, 1943. Convoys SC. 122 and HX 229 sailed from New York headed to England; 42 U-Boats trapped them and 21 merchant ships were sunk in this battle,"… Read More

London, UK: Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition, 2012. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Pristine red cloth binding w/gilt titles to spine; tight, solid and square sewn binding. Internals as new. Philip White has recreated the eight months between the Potsdam Conference at the end of Worldf War II and the world-changing event in Fulton, Missouri. It is the story of the speech that defined the Iron Curtain as the new threat to world peace and inspired a belief in political freedom that would one day see the Berlin Wall pulled down. It is also the portrait of the irrepressible man whose words changed history.288 pp. Notes and Index. 9.5" x 6.25". 21012, Gerald Duckworth & Company, London, UK