‎Guerre‎

‎[WORLD WAR I -- POW'S].‎

‎Escapers all: being the personal narratives of fifteen escapers from War-time prison camps 1914-1918. With an introduction by J.R. Ackerley. . . .‎

‎London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1932. 8vo. 302 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. With photo plates maps plans. Blue-green publisher’s cloth orange lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear very light foxing fore-edges a few pages w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of men prisoners escaping pictorial map backed in archival paper upper fore-edge restored on back cover still VG/Fair copy. Third printing of this anthology of the World War I prison escape stories first broadcast as interviews on the BBC including Englishmen escaping from Germany & Turkey two by Germans who escaped in England and another German which escaped in the Indian Ocean. John Lane The Bodley Head, Ltd., hardcover‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II MAPS] THOMPSON, KENNETH W (ARTIST); ELIOT, GEORGE FIELDING‎

‎Five WWII Bird's-eye View Maps including the Pacific and Southeast Asia.‎

‎Remington Rand. 1944. Five printed colour maps each: 31.4 x 47 cms; 46.3 x 53.3 cms sheet central fold marginal edge wear chips and a few small edge tears tidemark affecting the ocean at the outer edge of Map VII but all the maps in very good condition. From a series of World War II battlefront maps "for the delight of arm-chair strategists" published by the Library Bureau of Remington Rand seven were published. Taken from a bird's eye view of the globe and with relief artistically rendered by artist Kenneth Thompson 1907-1996 and descriptive text by George Fielding Eliot 1894-1971. Eliot spent his youth in Australia attending Melbourne University serving with distinction in the Australian Infantry in WWI. Moving to the United States after a short stint in Canada serving with the RCMP her served as a reserve officer in the U.S. Army reserve in military intelligence from 1922 to 1933 and during WWII Eliot famously broadcast the first extended television coverage following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He continued to write books and articles about military strategy and world politics into the 1960s. <br> <br>In keeping with the "aviation-age" cartography of Richard Edes Harrison the unusual perspective of the maps--from above and often with a direction other than north at the top of the map--challenges the viewer to reconsider the geopolitical situation with the text of Eliot as a further prompt his captions below: <br> <br>Map III Italy & South France "Hannibal Caesar and Napoleon made their reputations here" <br>Map IV The Western Front "Will the cockpit of 1918 see the decisive battles of 1944" <br>Map V Southeastern Asia "The road to Mandalay -- and to China --along which bombs for Tokyo must travel" <br>Map VI The Southwest Pacific "Island-hopping toward Japan -- in short and long hops" <br>Map V11 The North Pacific "Here the enemy trusts in the protection of vast ocean distances" . Remington Rand. unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II]. [McBRIDE, Major General HL]. H L‎

‎Forward 80th: the story of the 80th Infantry Division.‎

‎Paris: Printed by Desfosses-neogravure 1945. 16mo. 31 3 pp. Printed in red blue tan & black numerous photo illustrations double-page centerfold pictorial map self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copy. First edition of this title in the series of G.I. stories of the Ground Air and Service Forces in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. This compact regimental history details the history of the “Blue Ridge†Division landing at Utah Beach on August 3 1944 engaging German forces in Argentan fighting in the Saar Region by early December 1944 helped blunt the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge and advanced into Erfurt Weimar and Jena by April 1945. Less than two months later they liberated Ebensee Concentration camp a subcamp of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. Printed by Desfosses-neogravure, paperback‎

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‎[World War I; Souvenir kerchief ]‎

‎Gibraltar Souvenir" - Patriotic kerchief of the First World War‎

‎1917. Very good condition. Embroidered souvenir World War I kerchief with a large color image taken from a postcard titled "Rock from the Neutral Ground Gibraltar". The words "Gibraltar Souvenir" embroidered in blue below the image and embroidered flags from left to right: Japanese flag American flag French flag unidentified flag and below British flag crossed with flag of the Royal Navy. During the war Gibraltar served an important role as a base for the US Navy the Royal Navy and other navies in protecting Allied Expeditionary Forces bound for combat in Europe from attacks by German submarines. The US Navy's Patrol Force in Gibraltar included cruisers destroyers Coast Guard cutters and submarine chasers. Color lithographic image taken from a postcard with embroidery below. Kerchief edged with one inch wide border 13 x 13" unknown‎

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‎[World War II]‎

‎Group of Eight World War II Anti-Fascist Patriotic Cachets‎

‎Ephemera. The group includes eight World War II anti-fascist cachets. They show cartoons from the Chicago Tribune featuring Mussolini Hitler the Japanese Imperial Army and more. One cachet is mildy foxed but overall a nice lot. unknown‎

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‎[World War I]‎

‎Group of Fifteen Aeollian Hall "Smoking Concert" Progams 1917 - 1919‎

‎Light creasing and toning each with various hole-punch marks one April 17th 1918 torn with pencil markings. Overall very good. <p>Fifteen different programs for the London Aeolian Co's "Free Sunday Smoking Concert" Series "for Soldiers Sailors and Their Friends." Dates include: December 16th 1917; April 7th July 14th December 15th 22nd and 29th 1918; January 12th February 2nd 9th 16th and 23rd March 2nd 9th and 16th and April 6th 1919.</p> <br /> <p>Each measuring approximately 9.5 x 6 inches. Three pages each on bifolium leaves.</p> . unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR I -- RANGE-FINDERS].‎

‎Handbook of range-finders 70 cm. and 80 cm. base for use of infantry and cavalry with description and instructions for their care and use. . . No. 1797.‎

‎Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1917. 8vo. 25 1 pp. With 12 plates most photographic. Tan printed softcovers minor dustsoiling edgewear minor creasing to couple corners still VG copy from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair 1895-1971 enlisted in 1917 trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan CO and Fort Douglas UT and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston Fort Riley KS. Revised edition of this work on using telescopic coincidence rangefinders which used parallax to calculate the range by adjusting the two separate images until they were aligned and then the range could be calculated. Government Printing Office, paperback‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- 12TH ARMORED DIVISION].‎

‎Hellcats. 12th Armored Division.‎

‎Atlanta GA: Albert Love Enterprises 1943. Folio. 120 pp unpaginated. 100s of photos. Colour-illust. softcvrs unit mascot illust. on frnt cvr mnr creasng edgewear VG from former member of the 12th Division Clifton K. Hunter. First edition of this exceedingly scarce first yearbook intended as a record of the 12th Armored Division training at Camp Campbell KY. The 44th Division pictured in this yearbook was shipped to the Pacific Theater and was the first armored unit to enter Manila. The 12th Armored Division fought across Europe at Utweiler then their great defensive battle at Herrlisheim and later after joining Patton’s Army they were one of the first Divisions to reach Dachau and many of the other Concentration camps by swiftly moving across Germany in 1945. Albert Love Enterprises, unknown‎

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‎[World War I] [27th Engineers, USA] U S A‎

‎History of the 27th Engineer's U.S.A. 1917-1919‎

‎New York: Association of the 27th Engineers 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 5 94 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with title and insignia on the front cover. Illustrated with photographs of officers towns construction projects etc. in France during World War I. Roster of soldiers listed in back. Gift inscription written in the upper right corner of the right front flyleaf. Interior contents clean. Association of the 27th Engineers hardcover‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- SHIPBUILDING]. [BARNES, Julius; BUTLER, Walter (Owners)]; RUBEL, S[tephen] O[ren] (Photographer)].‎

‎Home file. S.tandard O.il Co. of N.J. Progress pictures month of August 1943. In-house Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co. photo album with 20 photographs documenting the construction of Lake Maracaibo oil tankers for Creole Petroleum Co.‎

‎Duluth MN: Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co. Office & Yards at Riverside 1943. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 9 in. 20 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs sized 8 x 10 in. each mounted on linen hinges text w/in negative at lower right corners. Original Smead Manufacturing Press-board binder Acco-fastener sliding posts at gutter margin typed and printed label on front cover rounded corners NF. Scarce in-house shipbuilding photo album documenting the construction progress for several Lake Maracaibo type tankers for the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey subsidiary in Venezuela Creole Petroleum Co. or Esso originally developed by Edward Doheny. The shipyards were originally developed by Captain Alexander McDougall who built whaleback barges and steamers in Duluth for bulk cargo and passenger travel on the Great Lakes and later sold the shipyards to Julius Barnes who renamed them the Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co. which in 1943 were purchased by Walter Butler Shipbuilders. The Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co. was quite popular with non-government and government contractors as it was one of the few which produced nearly fully outfitted ships. Photographs in the album show the progress of several hull Nos. 683 including the SS San Cristobal owned by Creole Petroleum until about 1950 later reflagged the Witwater when it ran aground in 1968 in a storm; the SS Temblador which operated on Lake Maracaibo until 1977 when reregistered and reduced to a barge at Hamilton ONT and flagged as the Liquilassie; the SS Valera which was sunk less than 6 months later by the German Navy U-518 submarine on July 3 1944 with Captain Russell perishing in the sinking as well as the SS Guarico and SS Guiria. Rubel 1917-1980 was commercial photographer for the Walter Butler Shipyards in Duluth MN during World War II and also photographed the shipbuilding in the Barnes-Duluth Shipyards after they were purchased by Butler in 1943 before enlisting in the US Navy and served until April 1946. At its’ height the Duluth Shipyards employed over 3000 workers and following the War were sold to the Spirit Lake Marina with most of the buildings raised restarting commercial boat building in 2014. Worldcat locates only some construction data and photos of the San Cristobal & Liquilassie Milwaukie City Library; See: Dierckins & Norton Lost Duluth: Landmarks Industries Buildings Homes and the Neighborhoods in Which They Stood 2012; Our History Spirit Lake Marina & RV Duluth MN 2014; Bowling Green State University Libraries Historical Collections of the Great Lakes 2019. Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Co., Office & Yards at Riverside, unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- JAPAN]. FUKUI, Shizuo‎

‎In Japanese. Shashinshu. Nihon no gunkan. Pictorial: Fighting ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.‎

‎Tokyo: Besuto Serazu 1970. Oblong folio. 327 1 pp. 100s of photo illusts. many with identifying text translated into English in manuscript diagrams colour-illust. endpapers. Textured brown boards gilt lettering on spine & front cover slightly shaken minor bumping to corners w/ open-backed slipcase minor wear some bumping to corners VG-/VG- copy from the library of Jack H.W. Dunn. First edition of this expansive reference work based on Japanese sources of the Naval ships during World War II. Besuto Serazu, hardcover‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- US NAVY].‎

‎Instruction manual: controls for shipboard. . . electric control devices. . . .‎

‎Mount Vernon NY: Ward Leonard Electric Co. 1945. 4to. Approx. 250 pp sections & supplements all separately paginated. sections separated by thumb tabs. With 100s of text illustrations diagrams & photo illustrations. Original navy-blue textured cloth post-binder rounded corners brass screw posts at gutter margin gilt lettering & decoration stamped on front cover & spine minor shelfwear dustsoiling minor staining to title printed on thick blue paper stock w/ former ownership markings on front pastedown. First edition of this scarce World War II manual for electric control devices and electronics on Naval ships including sections on controllers accessories resistors rheostats regulators general maintenance and more. Ward Leonard Control systems were pioneering devices and Harry Ward Leonard held over 100 patents on DC motor speed control systems. They were essential equipment not only on Naval ships during World War II but were also used extensively in anti-aircraft radars which required smooth speed control. No copies located in Worldcat. Ward Leonard Electric Co., hardcover‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- JAPANESE AVIATION].‎

‎Japanese aircraft: aircraft intelligence report. Restricted. . . ; The Japanese Zero fighter Type Zero Mark I Carrier Fighter Model 2 Informational intelligence summary no. 59. . . .‎

‎Dayton OH: The Material Center Experimental Engineering Section Wright Field Aug. 1942; Sept. 4 1942. Two vols. 4to. 40; 11 1 pp. mimeograph typescript. First with photo illustrations both with text illustrations diagrams. 1st w/ blue-tinted printed softcovers Rising Sun motif on front cover blue lettering minor age toning to fore-edges minor bumping to couple corners edgewear still VG copy former ownership markings of O.G. Hoffman front cover; 2nd w/ self-printed mimeograph softcovers uniform light toning red restricted stamps pencil marking faint remnants of staple marks at gutter margin still VG copy. First editions of this very rare original Restricted Wartime reports on the flight and combat capabilities of the famed and innovative Japanese aircraft less just 9 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the US was able to secure a Mitsubishi A6M2 Type Zero which had crashed during the Aleutians campaign in Alaska in July 1942. The longer 1st report focuses on the Mitsubishi Aichi Kawanishi and Nakajima bombers fighters reconnaissance aircraft torpedo bombers dive bombers flying boats and float planes. The second exceedingly scarce original report focuses entirely on the famed Zero. Although the Chinese had secured two Zero’s as early as late November 1941 those rebuilt aircraft would not reach Wright Airfield until late 1943. Worldcat locates 1 copy of 1st Defense Bibliothek NL; No copies of 2nd are located An expanded No. 85 Report issued at the end of 1942 in 25 leaves is located at USAF Academy Smithsonian Emory Museum of Flight WA Australian Defence Force Academy Lib. The Material Center, Experimental Engineering Section, Wright Field, paperback‎

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‎[World War II]: [Film]‎

‎Japanese Press Sheet for The Beginning or the End the First Hollywood Film to Dramatize the Story of the Atomic Bombing of Japan‎

‎N.p. probably Washington D.C. or Los Angeles: MGM / Motion Picture Export Association 1952. Single sheet folded into a four page brochure with black and white photographic illustrations on front and rear 9.75 x 7 inches. Text mainly in Japanese but the list of "players" and production credits in both English and Japanese. A few tiny marks and mild edge wear else very good. A Japanese-language flyer advertising the 1947 MGM movie The Beginning or the End a docu-drama about the development of the atomic bomb to the Japanese market. Interestingly in spite of the press release it seems highly likely the film was not released in cinemas in Japan; we have been unable to find any record of the film being shown there. The film mixed dramatized scenes with actual footage of the bombing in telling the story beginning with the Manhattan Project and proceeding through the bombing.  Major Hollywood actors participated in the project including Brian Donlevy Robert Walker and Hume Cronyn as J. Robert Oppenheimer in a film directed by Norman Taurog responsible for 180 films during his career and produced by Samuel Marx MGM stalwart with a screenplay by Frank Wead from an original story by Robert Considine. The film was made commercially with the blessings of the United States government President Truman reportedly suggested the film's title as well as the input of Robert Oppenheimer who found the script lacking in authenticity.<br /> <br /> The present advertising piece was produced some years after the initial release date of the film during the Korean War and appears to be addressed primarily to distributors of the film in Japan. It asks the distributors to do their best to promote press interest in the film and to seek tie-ins with books about atomic weapons. Rather surprisingly given the film's largely uncritical presentation of the bombing of Hiroshima the text includes the words "in the midst of the Korean War this film should be a force for inspiring Japanese citizens' wish for peace.†The pamphlet goes on to suggest advertising slogans for the film such as: "The whole historical account of events leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima from an American perspective†and "A must-see movie for all Japanese people. In the face of this shock and emotion you must strengthen a new commitment to peace!" A fascinating document of its time and place. Though the film's reception in the English-speaking world was lukewarm it is difficult to imagine the reception of such a film in war-torn and still-occupied Japan. MGM / Motion Picture Export Association unknown‎

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‎[World War I Photographica]. Tolman, William H‎

‎Large Group of Over 200 Images Taken and Collected by an American Aid Worker During World War I‎

‎Various locations in Europe mostly France 1918. Very good. 206 original black-and-white photographs between 3.5 x 2.5 inches and 5 x 7 inches. Occasional minor wear light chipping or short tears to images but most are in very good or better condition. An informative collection of contemporary photographs detailing the impact of the First World War in France. The images include numerous images showing the destruction of the war across France some casualties of the war group portraits of military officers and politicians street scenes and parade shots picturing dignitaries and military figures often in motorized vehicles but sometimes on horseback or on foot scenes along railroad lines scenes in factories both functional and bombed out numerous shots featuring the architecture and statuary in France street scenes in numerous French towns and villages and much more. A handful of small groups of images are held within a single sheet of paper identifying a common location or shared subject matter such as a pair of images from Saint-Quentin including a photo of a group of German prisoners at a rail station there seven images of flowers in Toulouse several images in Amiens including street scenes and a few with military content numerous images in Reims and Verdun three images documenting the destruction in Noyon and so forth. In addition to the war content the collection provides a broad view of the urban architecture and variety of landscape in World War I-era France among other research-worthy topics. <br /> <br /> Particularly interesting images feature a group of women busily writing dispatches a larger group of women working in a textile factory the statue of Joan of Arc in Reims soldiers cutting vegetables outside the citadel at Verdun the ruins of Sainte-Genevieve a town scene in the village of St. Martin a large group of men repairing the railroad an elderly woman standing below a bombed-out elevated railroad in Charleville and a crowded street scene and parade in Reichshoffen. Two images feature soldiers and resident of Reims rescuing large framed paintings from the Hôtel de Ville; both images feature men carrying a single large painting down the cobblestoned streets of the city.<br /> <br /> In addition to the images featuring human subjects and scenery four photographs memorialize signage the photographer came across in his time in Europe. One concerns the evacuation of a town in France in April 1916 another informs the French public that German soldiers are only allowed to pay for goods with certain vouchers the third sign lists the officials responsible for railway security in Noyon dated October 8 1916 and the last pictures a British Red Cross poster. The collection is rounded out by a handful of images in Sweden England and Egypt. The photographs are occasionally annotated on the verso in pencil identifying the subject location and/or the setting of the images. Several of the images include a personal stamp on the verso belonging to William H. Tolman Ph.D. of Pawtucket Rhode Island and New York City. According to newspaper records Dr. William H. Tolman 1861-1958 was a "social economist" and "social service expert lecturer and writer" who graduated from Brown University was an active citizen of Pawtucket was decorated by the regent of Hungary for creating a chapter of the YMCA in that country and while in New York City founded and served as the director of the American Museum of Safety and Sanitation from which he resigned in 1916. From about that year to 1920 Tolman engaged in welfare work in Europe and served as director of the YMCA in Bordeaux France spurring his personal interest in France and the First World War. A fascinating group of photographs documenting numerous scenes during the First World War. unknown‎

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‎[World War I – Ottoman Empire – Turkish War of Independence] "HC" H C‎

‎Letters Home from an American Professor Working in the Ottoman Empire in the Aftermath of World War I.‎

‎Constantinople New York City and others 1922. Four letters totaling seven pages. Folded else fine. A small collection of letters from “H.C.†who seems to have been an American university professor in Constantinople to his “Darling Clementine†back home. H.C. may have taught at Robert College a Christian college founded in 1863 now a prestigious private highschool.<br /> <br /> It is not clear when H.C. first arrived in Constantinople but he had been there for several years already by the time the letters begin and was certainly there at a critical point in its history. He writes in 1918 shortly after the arrival of occupying forces:<br /> <br /> “conditions are still very bad in town I long to see the suffering diminished. Some say it will be months yet. Sometimes now there is no coal no electric light no bread no water. Can you imagine the state of an Oriental city under such conditions We have had are still having trouble about light water-supply but we have steam heat plenty of food of a plain kind. We all keep well. . I hear that an American Red Cross boat will arrive next week I am eager to see its passengers. We may have a chance to leave on it but I can not see my way clear to skip because our faculty is depleted ever since the exodus at the time of the panic long ago when Miss Lyon left. . We have a good college now – boarders about 90 in the College-department – and many day scholars but lately the Spanish fever the lack of tram-car service has kept many students away. As soon as our cousins supply coal we hope for improvement. The Ententists are spreading over the city thoroughly quietly – like oil. It is a delight to see so many manly looking officers after the ones we have had here for years. There is a spiritual look in the eyes of the present occupants a look of bull-dog determination.†December 6 1918<br /> <br /> H.C. enjoys a “real yachting cruise†on his way back to Constantinople from the States in 1921 tells Clementine about his plans for his commencement speech in 1922 and describes a college reception in New York City which “General Custer’s wife†Elizabeth Bacon Custer attended undated letter. Meanwhile Turkey was engaged in its brutal war for independence. At some point H.C. befriended Electra—probably a Greek woman—whom he sent along to visit Clementine in part to help Electra cope with her traumatic experiences during the war:<br /> <br /> “As you will recall my young friend’s father was executed – tho innocent – with about 70 others. At first E. bore this with wonderful fortitude but after Xmas a reaction set in naturally enough. She developed morbidness a hyper sensitive attitude toward all of my looks words – probably a condition due to shock. I am confident that travel new scenes interests will bring her back to her old self your wholesome household will chase all gloom away. A doctor told her lately that she has hysteria that she must think of cheerful things only. I tell you this thinking that you might keep her from talking about the nation that does cruel things. The truth is that cruelty is pretty generally distributed a judicial mind finds it difficult to pick choose. Some nations get the public ear so the pot can call the kettle black!†June 6 1922<br /> <br /> Indeed both sides of the Greco-Turkish war—part of the larger Turkish campaign for independence—massacred each other. However only the Turkish contingent’s actions have been argued by historians to constitute ethnic cleansing or genocide.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey post-World War I especially Americans’ experience thereof. unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II POSTER -- WAR BONDS]. [PERLIN, Bernard (Artist).]‎

‎Let’em have it: buy extra bonds. We bought extra War Bonds 4th War Loan. No. O-563183. WFD 879-A.‎

‎Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1943. One atlas folio colour-lithograph poster sized 20 x 27.75 in. minor age-toning couple very minor closed tears at fold creases still a VG bright copy folded as issued. First edition of this large version of famed poster issued during the 4th War Loan Campaign which ran from January 18-Feb. 15 1944 by the US Treasury to funds for the War Effort. The campaign issued this painting by Perlin depicting a US soldier preparing to hurl a grenade across the smoke-filled battlefield of the image. Perlin 1918-2014 was a gay Jewish-American born in Richmond VA studied in Poland before the War and while traveling personally witnessed the rising Nazi racist tide and discrimination against Jews. Although banned from serving in the US military due to his homosexuality he designed several propaganda posters for the war effort and would later work as war correspondent for Life and Fortune magazines. U.S. Government Printing Office, unknown‎

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‎[World War II – Germany – Nazism] Bliwernitz, Annemarie‎

‎Looking Back. A World War II Memoir by Annemarie Bliwernitz‎

‎St. Petersburg Florida: unpublished 1974. Ninety-four typed and photocopied pages measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches in a soft binding. Binding with wear; pages generally excellent to Near Fine. Overall excellent to Near Fine. Annemarie Bliwernitz 1905–2005 née Entz was born in Notzendorf East Prussia. In 1952 after surviving both World Wars she and her husband Bruno 1900–1992 immigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. Offered here is Annemarie’s unpublished memoir written between 1972 and 1974.<br /> <br /> Bliwernitz grew up in a wealthy land-owning country family which she remembers lived far west enough that they did not have to flee the Russians during World War I and was less affected by the postwar economic situation than were city residents. Most of the memoir is taken up by Bliwernitz’s remembrances of World War II and life leading up to it. Of Hitler’s rise she writes:<br /> <br /> “During these years conditions got worse in Germany . A new name came up ‘Adolf Hitler.’ – It was not hard for him to find followers now by the thousands and soon by the millions. He dared to stand up against the Communists with his brown uniformed S.A. men and a new wind seemed to blow over our illfated land. No wonder young people looked up to him and followed the new star nobody had much to lose. . Bruno and brother-in-law Willy after some meetings attended showed up in the new brown uniform also and farmers and laborers seemed to be united in that new idea. – It really changed Germany in a short time nobody could deny that unemployment ceased people got jobs again and housewives and mothers could buy the necessities of life for their families especially food. And it brought us to our feet again also.â€<br /> <br /> Though of course Bliwernitz maintains that the “Concentration Camps and what happened in them was not known to the German people" she mentions that Bruno quickly became an Arbeitsdienstführer—essentially a labor camp overseer—and remembers dissenters being disappeared:<br /> <br /> “As an example I will tell about Bruno’s oldest brother Alfred. He was all against Hitler from the beginning. One day he came home and picked up his neighbor’s paper at his frontdoor and wrote his ideas about Hitler and his lies down with pencil. This neighbor reported him they picked him up and that was the last his family saw of him. They were told ½ year later that he had died in Stuhm West Prussia a Concentration Camp. No explanation to his wife whatsoever. The same destiny happened to my co-worker a highly educated person at the Translation Office. She said in the lavatory where many ladies could hear: Hitler’s big picture in the office should be placed here in the toilet-rooms where it belongs. One of the ‘kind’ co-workers reported her and she came next day only to pick up her belongings and was not seen any more.â€<br /> <br /> While Bruno is sent to the Eastern Front Bliwernitz and their children flee the Russians trying to reach the Americans on the Western Front. Along the way they encounter deserting German soldiers and near Hamburg liberated camp inmates:<br /> <br /> “Shooting started close to us and we heard bombs exploding would we be hit We found out that the Concentration Camp near us had been opened and those freed inmates had shot their guardians. At daybreak we met the first one still in his black and white striped prison-suit kneeling on the ground by the chicken-coop and with his both hands feeding himself out of the bowl with the chicken food. . They came to us begging for a little bit of salt to cook the horse-meat they had cut out of the dead horses lying along the ditches . We talked to them and I remember one told me he was imprisoned because of his religion not to go to any war. He was from Elbing where I had gone to school as a young girl.â€<br /> <br /> The family are reunited with Bruno and shortly before they surrender to the Americans they destroy the evidence of their party involvement: “Bruno’s N.S.D.A.P. membership-card my certificate for the ‘mother’s cross’ the passports of Horst and Juergen showing that they had been students of the Nazi-school in Stuhm etc.†After the German surrender the family is sent back east where they struggle to avoid starvation then return west where they are sent to live in Hardegsen. They finally decide in 1951 to emigrate as life in postwar Germany is simply too difficult but make the mistake of being honest about their history:<br /> <br /> “Another big obstacle for us was that Bruno had been in a member in a Nazi-party though not an active one. But it was still a handicap in those days for any undertaking. We had not kept it secret in our immigration papers and they wanted a detailed description about our political involvement. That we did wrote a long letter in German didn’t have the money for an interpreter and never got an answer. . That was a bitter pill to swallow.â€<br /> <br /> After this they decide to try for Canada instead and this time savvily “didn’t mention any Nazi-party attachmentâ€. This is a success; the family moves to Winnipeg and eventually to St. Petersburg Florida where the narrative was written. Bliwernitz recalls working as a housekeeper which she contrasts with her previous life in which she and her family would not allow maids farm hands or tradesmen to eat at their table with them.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the German civilian experience during the Second World War especially that of women and children. unpublished unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- HOMEFRONT WOMEN]. [PALMER, Mabel Evelyn].‎

‎Memory book. Fascinating scrapbook filled with clippings menus invitations letters thank you notes itineraries mimeograph publications and more. compiled by the Vice President and then President of the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs by a Eugene Oregon beauty and fashion shop owner during World War II.‎

‎Eugene OR: Mabel Evelyn Palmer Business and Professional Women’s Clubs 1940-1946. Oblong 4to. 13.25 x 9.75 in. 56 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 140 pieces of ephemera tipped-in including 12 printed & dittoed conference booklets w/ itineraries & menus schedules of events and participants 12 issues of the B.P.W. News magazine numerous TLS & ALS notes some on letterhead many on decorative cards Homefront Wartime fundraiser events and more. Half-black cloth over pinkish boards sewn at gutter margin through nickel-plated rivets w/ black lace occasional loose pieces toning to clippings still a NF exemplar. This remarkable scrapbook preserves and documents the many different activities meetings conferences banquets and programs by Vice President and President Mabel Palmer for the Eugene Professional and Business Women’s Club. Established initially during World War I the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs helped to organize and direct the resources of professional American women and were the first organization to focus on working women’s issues and repeal and prohibit legislation across America denying jobs to married women and end the legality of favoring young unmarried women for cheap labor. Palmer 1906-1983 during her tenure from 1941-1942 helped the Eugene BPW the largest in Oregon to focus on defense and home front war activities. As evidenced by the many clippings printed programs and in-house journal publications within the scrapbook the Eugene club donated money to the Salvation Army raised funds for the benefit of Chinese Nurses sponsored lectures on promoting American Democracy and protecting against Nazi sympathizers raised funds for War Bonds and the Red Cross and even organized fashion show fundraisers. There are menus and souvenir brochures from the BPW conference at Eugene in 1941 the Timberline Conference held in Sept. 1940 sponsored programs such as “Strengthen Democracy in our Town†“Our Country in a War Torn World†“Training for Defense†and many others. Mabel Evelyn Palmer, Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, hardcover‎

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‎[World War I].‎

‎Newark Evening News. Germany Signs Armistice. Monday November 11 1918. No. 10780.‎

‎<p>Newspaper folio illustrated 8 pp. Paper brittle as expected folded chips and tears with some loss at center fold normal aging and browning; otherwise in fair or better condition. Historically significant newspaper that announces the end of WWI. Several articles about the armistice including the abdication of the Kaiser. While the paper is a little brittle it is still a readable copy. </p>‎

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‎[World War II] US Army, Army Information Branch U S‎

‎Newsmap Monday 21 August 1944. with map of Philippine Islands.‎

‎<p><i>Newsmap</i> was a poster/newspaper issued weekly during World War II by the U.S. War Department to military installations and government and civic groups working on War Department projects. Issues generally contained one or more maps as well as reports of recent military actions. A good overview of the history and content of the <i>Newsmaps</i> is provided by the University of North Texas Digital Library. https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/NMAP/</p><p>This issue features a large and dramatic map of the Philippine Islands. The reverse has two additional maps: Southern France and an untitled map of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.</p><p><b>Reference: </b> Not in <i>David Rumsey Historical Map Collection</i>.</p><p><b>Condition:</b> Sheet size: about 47 x 35" folding to 8 ¾ x 11 ¾." Folded as issued. Some soiling; a few minor breaks at fold intersections;. </p><p>Note: Several other <i>Newsmaps</i> from World War II are currently in stock. Please inquire if interested. </p>ICN7729.3. U.S. Army.‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- MACHINE GUNS].‎

‎Nomenclature of the Thompson Sub-machine Gun. B-1351.‎

‎Fort Lewis WA: United States Army 752nd Tank Battalion Medium 1941. Oblong 4to. 10.5 x 8 in. 64 pp assorted paginations. mimeographed 1 pp. large folding. With photo illustrations and blueprint diagrams for Thompson submachine guns throughout. Front cover w/ mimeograph title stapled at gutter margin as issued B-1351 stamped on 3 different section titles on multi-coloured papers age toning to fore-edges minor scuffing edgewear still VG copy from library of Sergeant Bill Godwin of the 752nd Tank M.edium Battalion stationed in 1941 after being activated in Fort Knox KY at Fort Lewis Washington. First edition of this exceedingly scarce World War II manual for the Thompson Submachine gun which clearly illustrates the disassembly and assembly of the gun; all the parts; blueprints of the gun features; and specific care and cleaning instructions. All of these steps are clearly delineated in large photos with step-by-step descriptions. First conceived and designed in 1918 by John T. Thompson for a high velocity and lightweight weapon for soldiers on the Western Front during World War I the submachine gun did not start rolling off the assembly lines until 1921 and subsequently became known as the ruthless weapon of the mob wars and later soldiers during World War II with monikers of “Chicago Organ Grinder†“Trench Broomâ€and “The Annihilator.†It was initially not issued to police departments around the country due to the fact that the rapid fire of the gun was uncontrollable and could potentially injure or kill an innocent bystander. No copies in Worldcat. United States Army, 752nd Tank Battalion (Medium), unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- NSBO]. STARCKE, Gerhard‎

‎NSBO. Und Deutsche Arbeitsfront von . . . .‎

‎Berlin: Verlag von Reimar Hobbing 1934. Tall 8vo. 258 2 pp. Photo frontispiece 52 photo illusts. 1 large folding table with the organizational structure of the NSBO. Gray linen black lettering & decoration on front cover spine removed ex-lib spine label ffep. pasted to front pastedown small ex-lib stamp on title minor shelfwear still G copy. First edition of this very scarce work tracing how the NSBO Labor Front was broken from its Socialist leanings and brought within the Nazi Party ranks. After the unions were dissolved by Hitler in May 1933 many of the NSBO thought they would become a state-sanctioned monopoly instead they were relegated to a minority position and the youth organization was transferred entirely over to the control of the Hitler Youth. After the purges of the SA the labor leaders were forced to report directly to the Nazi Party and were no longer allowed to intervene in State or local affairs. Within a very short amount of time the Labor Front turned from being an economic revolution of the masses into a characteristic Nazi bureaucracy. See: Schoenbaum Hitler’s Social Revolution: Class and status in Nazi Germany 1933-1939 pp. 82-87. Verlag von Reimar Hobbing, unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR I, WOMEN] Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot‎

‎On Duty and Off Letters of Elizabeth Cabot Putnam Written in France May 1917-September 1918‎

‎Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 222 pp 7.5 x 5.25 inches in publisher's blue cloth with mounted spine label. Spine toned label rubbed but legible one small stain on front board. Internally clean and sound. No dust jacket. Elizabeth Cabot Putnam was the daughter of Harvard neurologist James Jackson Putnam. She graduated from Radcliffe in 1910 and in 1917 went to Paris where she worked as a secretary for the American Expeditionary Force's Air Service and as a Red Cross volunteer. Her letters home to her family discuss both her work and her general experiences as a young woman in a foreign country at war. Occasionally she comes across as a breezy society girl rather than someone viewing the horrors of war but at other times she is clearly deeply affected. Finally getting to rest after working at a hospital until three AM she looks out a window at the beautiful sky and writes "It was more than one could bear with equanimity -- so heavenly outside and so horrible inside -- all the blood and the hacked-up flesh and the thought of how each one is going to suffer when he gets out of ether." She cared for French soldiers ar the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris and for wounded Marines at a hospital in Neuilly. In mid-1918 she worked as a Red Cross searcher helping to track down missing servicemen. The Riverside Press hardcover‎

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‎[World War I Film]. Keaton, Buster‎

‎Original Pictorial Herald for: DOUGH BOYS‎

‎Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer 1930. Original. Original pictorial leaflet folded to 14.5 x 11 cm. 4pp. A bit rumpled and smudged but a good bright copy. <br /> <br /> A publicity herald for this "War Comedy of Comedies" based on a story idea by Keaton and others scripted by Richard Schayer directed by Edward Sedgwick. Buster Keaton and Sally Eilers lead the cast and are pictured. The blank rear panel intended for localized advertising copy promotes the Imperial Theatre "The Home of Big Hits" in Newton NC. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer unknown‎

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