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Chamberlin, Brewster & Feldman, Marcia (Ed)
The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945 - Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators
Washington D.C: US Holocaust Memorial Council 1987. 214pp/illus. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Introduction by Robert H. Abzug. Combatants from 14 nations recount the sights they discovered as they entered the Nazi concentration camps. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. US Holocaust Memorial Council hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003699 ISBN : 0961651806 9780961651800
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Crookenden, LTG Sir Napier
Dropzone Normandy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1976. 304pp/illus/maps. The Story of the American and British Airborne Assault on D-Day 1944. DJ has light wear. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Ed. Charles Scribner\'s Sons hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003303 ISBN : 0684145596 9780684145594
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Maas, Peter
The Terrible Hours : The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
New York NY U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers 1999. Book has 259 pages DJ has light wear to edge and price clipped. Gift inscription in front endpaper. Story of the Squalas that plunged helplessly to the bottom of the North Atlantic during a test dive. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003621 ISBN : 0060194804 9780060194802
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Rolf, David
The Bloody Road to Tunis : Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa November 1942-May 1943
London United Kingdom: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Limited 2001. Book contains 320 pages with center section of b&w photographs. Title page has 2 very small dirt marks. The battle for Tunisia was the culmination of the struggle for North Africa in World War Il. It saw experienced German and Italian troops in superb defensive positions pitted against well-equipped Anglo-American units and from first to last was a battle of skill and determination. David Rolf now provides for the first time a complete history of the campaign and his vivid study charts the fighting from both the Axis and Allied perspective. . Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, Limited hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002176 ISBN : 1853674451 9781853674457
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Price, Alfred
Targeting the Reich: Allied Photographic Reconnaissance over Europe 1939-1945
United Kingdom: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal 2003. 144pp 173 photographs. The Allied campaign to destroy Germany's means of waging war depended on accurately identifying & precisely locating of each target. This book brings together some of the most fascinating results of those aerial sorties over Europe & includes more than 150 clear & precise photographs of railway yards warships & troop concentrations. Dr Price's captions describe the significance of each picture & the clues which reveal the target's significance. Clean . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003638 ISBN : 1853675466 9781853675461
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Perry, Hamilton Darby
The Panay Incident: Prelude to Pearl Harbor
Toronto Ontario: Toronto Ontario: MacMillan 1969 1969. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scarce - First Edition. Book contains 295 pages with a few b&w photos/maps. Little bit of wear to edge of dj and cover. The story of the Japanese bombing and sinking of the U.S.S. Panay. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Toronto, Ontario: MacMillan, 1969 hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002092
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Hall, R. Cargill
Lightning over Bougainville : The Yamamoto Mission Reconsidered History of Aviation Ser.
Washington DC U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press 1991. Book contains 220 pages with some b&w illustrations. Contains key information about the Yamamoto mission and explores as well the moral and military issues that arose in the wake of the admiral's death. The near miraculous interception and killing of Admiral Yamamoto provoked immediate controversy among British and American leaders for it involved the us of "broken" Japanese naval codes. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover/Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Smithsonian Institution Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001322 ISBN : 1560980125 9781560980124
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Ellis, Chris ; chamberlain, Peter, Illustrated by Batchelor, John
German Tanks and Fighting Vehicles of World War II
Secaucus NJ: Chartwell Books 1976. This book tells the story of Germany's best fighting vehicles - from the secret training machines of the Weimar period through the intense innovative and experimental phase to the WWII itself. From the lightest four-wheeled armoured car to the heaviest tank and self-propelled gun the vehicles are analysed model by model. The text provides a wealth of information while the full-colour drawings add the necessary visual impact. 126 pages. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Chartwell Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002731 ISBN : 0702600113 9780702600111
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Stove, R. J.; Stove, Robert J
The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their Victims
San Francisco California U.S.A.: Encounter Books 2003. 367pp. The first history of secret police around the world.Many books have been written about spies but few perhaps none about secret police. Rob Stove tells the story of Elizabeth Is Walsingham Napoleons Fouche and the secret police chiefs of the Russian tsars Lenin and Stalin and Hitler. The book finishes with J Edgar Hoover. The interest lies in the strange personalities of these chiefs who built their organisations and shaped them according to their own warped personalities. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Encounter Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003394 ISBN : 189355466X 9781893554665
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Martin, David G
Gettysburg July 1 Autographed
Conshohocken PA U.S.A.: Combined Publishing 1995. Book has 736 pages. Signed by the author on title page. Light wear to edge of dj. A detailed regimental level account. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Combined Publishing hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000250 ISBN : 093828939X 9780938289395
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Arthur, First Lieutenant Robert A. USMCR, and First Lieutenant Kenneth Cohlmia, USMCR
The Third Marine Division
Washington D.C: Infantry Journal Press 1948. 399pp/illus/maps. History of the Third Marine Division from its formation throughout its involvement in the Pacific Theater during World War II. It is profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. It also has lists of Command and Staff. Overall a very good copy in dark green cloth boards with divisional insignia on front board & gilt titles stamped on spine; printed on glossy stock; section in back lists Medal of Honor winners with portrait photos & descriptions of unbelievably heroic acts that gained them the honor in several cases posthumously ; includes maps & photo-pictorial endpapers. Scarce 1st Ed. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Infantry Journal Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003723 ISBN : 1112784241 9781112784248
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Collier, Richard
The Road to Pearl Harbor 1941
New York: Bonanza Books 1984. Book has 310 pages with center section of b&w photographs. Dj has light wear to edge and a couple of small chips. A narrative history that draws upon the experiences and memories of hundreds of participants great and small to bring the past to life. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bonanza Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000239 ISBN : 0517448599 9780517448595
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Whiting, Allen S
China Crosses the Yalu : The Decision to Enter the Korean War
New York: MacMillan 1960. 219 pp/maps. This book examines the question of what led up to the Chinese intervention in the Korean War. . 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MacMillan hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003589 ISBN : 0804706271 9780804706278
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O'Connor, Dr
The Japanese Navy in World War II
Annapolis MD: U. S. Naval Institute 1969. 148 pp illustrations maps cloth vg. An anthology of articles by former Officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Defense Force originally published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. U. S. Naval Institute hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002453
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Rosenbaum, Ron
Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil
Mississauga ON Canada: Random House of Canada Limited 1998. 444 pages. Story of Hitler's early life. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House of Canada, Limited hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001643 ISBN : 0679431519 9780679431510
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Nicosia, Gerald
Home to War : A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement
New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group 2001. Book has 689 pages with some illustrations. An epic narrative history that chronicles for the first time the experience of America's Vietnam veterans who returned home to fight a different kind of war. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Crown Publishing Group hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000719 ISBN : 0812991036 9780812991031
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Wheeler, Gerald E
Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid U.S. Navy
Washington D.C. U.S.A.: Naval Historical Center 1996. 531pp 58 b/w photos and illustrations 10 maps 6 charts bibliography index. Forty-two years as a professional naval officer including four battle-filled months aboard Enterprise around Guadalcanal action at Coral Sea and Midway etc. Several short tears to dust jacket. Text clean and unmarked. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Naval Historical Center hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004087 ISBN : 1557509360 9781557509369
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Ziemke, Earl F
The German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945. Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 20-271
Washington D.C: U S Government Printing Office 1976. 342 pages. Stiff printed wrappers covered with thin navy blue flexible leatherette gilt lettering on spine and front wrapper paperbound. With 23 maps including fold-out maps. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Footnotes. Chronology. List of major participants. Bibliographical note. Glossary. Index. "This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched on 9 April 1940 against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. Clean. Flex Cover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. U S Government Printing Office hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003911
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Bill Arp-From the Uncivil War to Date 1861-1903
Atlanta GA: The Hudgins Publishing Company 1903. Bluish green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine and front. Blind stamped decorations on top and bottom edge of front and back. Memorial Edition; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 378 pages. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Hudgins Publishing Company hardcover
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Glines, Carroll V
The Doolittle Raid: America's Daring First Strike Against Japan
Atglen Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd 1991. 258 pages/illus. The story of America's first major World War II offensive against the Japanese Home Island Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolitle and his sixteen B-25 Bombers flying from the aircraft carrier "Hornet" and their targets Tokyo Yokohama Kobe Osaka and Nagoya this then became the beginning of the end for the aggressive Japanese Empire. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Schiffer Pub Ltd hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003837 ISBN : 0887403476 9780887403477
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Jones, Howard
Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and John F. Kennedy Prolonged the Vietnam War
Oxford: Oxford Univ Pr 2003. 562pp/illus. Looks at the Vietnam War from the perspective of the Kennedy and Diem assassinations. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003686 ISBN : 0195052862 9780195052862
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Held, W
Fighter! Luftwaffe Fighter Planes and Pilots
London: Arms & Armour Press 1979. 224 pgs Clean tight & bright. Illustrated by 500 B/W Photos. . 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arms & Armour Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002877 ISBN : 0853681333 9780853681335
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Hoyt, Edwin P
Hitler's War
New York: McGraw-Hill Companies The 1988. 388 pages/illus/maps. Explores Hitler's prosecution of WWII. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. McGraw-Hill Companies, The hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003939 ISBN : 0070306222 9780070306226
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Calhoun, C. R
Typhoon - The Other Enemy : The Third Fleet & the Pacific Storm of December 1944
Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press 1988. Book has 247 pages. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. As commanding officer of a ship that came close to destruction in the typhoon of December 1944 Captain Calhoun was in an unparalleled position to document a tragic ordeal that claimed 778 men three destroyers and more than 100 aircraft. This penetrating account details for the first time the events surrounding the storm its chilling onset and ferocity as well as its controversial aftermath. Clean. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naval Institute Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004058 ISBN : 0870215108 9780870215100
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Heinrichs, Waldo H., Jr
Threshold of War : Franklin D. Roosevelt & American Entry into World War II
Don Mills ON Canada: Oxford University Press 1988. Book has pages. 6 pages in the prologue have stars pencilled in the margins. Can be erased. No other marks in the book. And two of the pages have the corner folded dog-eared. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000559 ISBN : 019504424X 9780195044249
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Toliver, Colonel Raymond F.; Constable, Trevor J
Fighter General : The Life of Adolf Galland
Zephyr Cove Nevada: AmPress 1990. Book has 355 pages with several illustrations. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj at corners. Very very nice copy. The most famous German fighter ace and airman of his generation. Adolf Galland began WWII as a lieutenant and squadron commander flying biplanes. He ended the war as a Lieutenant General - and was again a squadron commander - flying Me-262 jets. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall - Folio. AmPress hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003689 ISBN : 0962551902 9780962551901
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Pullen, John J
The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War
Dayton OH: Morningside Bookshop 1980. 338pp/maps/illus. From August 1862 to Lee's surrender at Appomattox the 20th Maine was in the thick of the fighting most famously at Little Round Top in Gettysburg where they saved the left of the Union line. . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Morningside Bookshop hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003488 ISBN : 0786123494 9780786123490
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Hoyt, Edwin P
Hitler's War
New York: McGraw-Hill Companies The 1988. 388 pages/illus/maps. Explores Hitler's prosecution of WWII. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. McGraw-Hill Companies, The hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002276 ISBN : 0070306222 9780070306226
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Seaton Albert
Stalin as Military Commander
New York: New York: Praeger 1976 1976. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 311 pages/photos. This is the first comprehensive and' analytical military biography of Stalin to be published in the Western world or the Soviet Union. It is based on extensive study of Russian texts documents and orders of the Red Army and the Soviet high command as well as the memoirs and other personal accounts of Red Army commanders and staffs covering the period from 1918 to 1953. This work which has been compiled in conjunction with authorities in Britain Germany and the United States explains the technicalities of the organization and functioning of the Red Army and its supreme command the details of its communications system and day-today working as a background to the part played by Stalin during the Civil War the Russo-Polish War the Russo-Finnish War and World War II. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Praeger, 1976 Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002704 ISBN : 0275229602 9780275229603
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Mayer S. L. Editor
The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan 1894-1945
New York: Military Press 1984. 255pp. illustrated in color and black & white with photos & drawings on most pages. color endpaper maps. In 1868 Japan emerged from feudalism and civil conflict as a comparatively undeveloped industrial state in an age of European imperialism in East Asia. Within a generation Japan had risen to the ranks of the foremost industrial and military powers in the Western Pacific. A generation later Japan had become the paramount poVier in East Asia and her naval and air forces spread Japanese power across the Pacific. The fromidable weapon built in the name of the Emperor swept across China and Manchuria; her air forces pummelled Pearl Harbor and Darwin; her armies marched to Singapore and the gates of India. Her navies seized some Aleutian islands and strafed the California coast. By 1942 the world had come to know the power of the most devastating force in the Pacific - the Japanese War Machine.The force and power of the Japanese War Machine is told here by some of the world's leading experts in guns tanks planes and ships of World War II. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Military Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002876 ISBN : 0517423138 9780517423134
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Boggs, Charles W. , Jr
Marine Aviation in the Philippines
Washington D.C.: Historical Division. Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps 1951. viii 166p. ca. 50 illus. 12 maps 9 fold. & partly color pictorial boards. Marine Corps Monograph Series No. 9. Extremely nice condition. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Historical Division. Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps hardcover
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Quarrie, Bruce
Panzers in North West Europe World War Two Photo Album No. 5
Tucson Arizona U.S.A.: Aztex Corporation 1981. 96pp/illus. Double page photo illustrated title. This is a unique pictorial record of those hectic days on the Normandy beaches taken from the German viewpoint. Clean. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Aztex Corporation paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004001 ISBN : 0894040472 9780894040474
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Shirer William L
The Nightmare Years 1930-1940 : Twentieth Century Journey - A Memoir of a Life & the Times Vol. 2
New York NY U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company 1984. Book has 654 heavily illustrated pages. Light wear to edge of dj. This is the second volume of the author's memoirs. He was a journalist and covered the Nuremberg rallies when Hitler roared through the streets celebrating his newly won domination of Germany. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Little, Brown & Company hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000803 ISBN : 0316787035 9780316787031
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Girdner, Audrie, and Loftis, Anne
The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War II
New York: The Macmillan Company 1969. 562 pages illustrated with photographs. The controversal study of the West Coast Japanese-Americans who by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidential Order in 1942 were relocated to ten different interment camps in the Western States. Clean tight copy marked only on spine and top edge. end-paper page removed. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good-/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. The Macmillan Company hardcover
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Hattaway, Herman; Jones, Archer
How the North Won : A Military History of the Civil War
Champaign IL U.S.A.: University of Illinois Press 1983. 762 pages with numerous maps. Careful analysis of the North's campaign planning logistics and administration as well as war fighting. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Vanderlinde Jerry A. illustrator. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. University of Illinois Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000680 ISBN : 0252009185 9780252009181
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Bowman, Martin W
Castles in the Air : The Story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Crews of the U. S. 8th Air Force
Wellingsborough UK: Patrick Stephens 1985. 209pp. b/w pls. index The story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Crews of the US 8th Air Force. . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Patrick Stephens hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002895 ISBN : 0850596750 9780850596755
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Lucas, James
Alpine Elite : German Mountain Troops of World War II
New York: Jane's Publishing 1980. Book contains 263 pages with b&w illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj with some scuffing and a wee bit of chipping along top edge. DJ lightly faded on spine. The story of German's mountain troops the Gebirgsjager. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Ed. Jane\'s Publishing hardcover
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Hammond, William M
Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War
Lawrence Kansas U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kansas 1998. 362pp/illus. Examines the changing relationship between the Press and the Military/Political side during Vietnam. How early there was a single vision and cooperation that even tually changed to distrust as Johnson and Nixon tried to manage the media. . 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ Pr of Kansas hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003327 ISBN : 0700609113 9780700609116
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Hadley, Michael L.; Sarty, Roger
Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships : Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea Raiders 1880-1918
Montreal PQ Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press 1991. 391 PP plus 16 pages with 2 maps & 19 b/w photos. Cloth cover Naval operations and politics of Canada and Germany between 1880 and 1918. Pirates i.e.: U-boats and commercial submarines/undersea cruisers loading Canadian strategic metals from neutral USA. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. McGill-Queen\'s University Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002337 ISBN : 0773507787 9780773507784
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Beschloss, Michael R
The Conquerors: Roosevelt Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-1945
New York: Simon & Schuster 2003. 377pp/illus. Based on recently released documents- one of the nation's most celebrated historians reveals FDR'sand Truman's plans for a postwar Germany. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003838 ISBN : 0684810271 9780684810270
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Pershing, John J
My Experiences in the World War 2 Volume set
New York: New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1931 1931. 400p and 436p with 69 photos and numerous maps. Memoirs of Gneral Pershing. Light water damage at bottom corner near spine does not affect text. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1931 hardcover
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Manvell, Roger And Fraenkel, Heinrich
The Incomparable Crime. Mass Extermination in the Twentieth Century: the Legacy of Guilt
New York: Putnam 1967. 339pp/illus. Mass extermination in the twentieth century: the legacy of guilt. Discusses the significance of the crime of genocide which the Third Reich perfected mechanised and finally commercialized. Clean. 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Putnam hardcover
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Hoyt, Edwin P
MacArthur's Navy : The Seventh Fleet and the Battle for the Philippines
New York NY U.S.A.: Orion Books 1989. 216 pages with some illustrations. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. Small red remainder dot on bottom edge of pages. The corner of a few pages have a very small crimp in them. As the Japanese began their onslaught through the Pacific American forces were under two separate commands. Gen. Douglas MacArthur the army commander needed teh cooperation of the navy to conduct operations and move troops. But the Allies - at war in the Atlantic as well as the Pacific - were woefully short of ships and besides the navy was at odds with MacArthur's plan to recapture the Philippines a strategy as much political as military. First Edition. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Orion Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001073 ISBN : 0517567695 9780517567692
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Tillman, Barrett
Hellcat : F6F in World War Two
Annapolis MD U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press 1979. Operational history of the F6F Hellcat fighter plane used against Japanese forces from 1943-44. 265 pg/illus. Previous owner nameplate inside front cover. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naval Institute Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002913 ISBN : 0870212656 9780870212659
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Rosignoli, Guido
Badges and Insignia of World War II: Air Force-Naval-Marine
London: Peerage Books 1980. 363pp with 6 bw and 144 colour plates. Over 2500 colour illustrations of badges insignia shoulder straps cap tallies. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Peerage Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002602 ISBN : 0907408346 9780907408345
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Messenger, Charles
Hitler's Gladiator: The Life and Times of Oberstgruppenfuhrer and Panzergeneral-Oberst Der Waffen-Ss Sepp Dietrich
Herndon Virginia U.S.A.: Brassey's Inc 1988. 245pp includes bw photographic portrait frntis with another 37 bw photographs;14 bw maps an intro appendices3;source notes5pp biblio and an index. Biography of General Josef Sepp Dietrich who despite humble origins and intellectual limitations was to prove an effective if unusual soldier who rose from the rank of policeman to the head of Hitler's bodyguard and in 1944 led the VI Panzer Army in the Battle of the Bulge. In 1946 was tried for culpability in the Maledy Massacre where American POWs were killed-was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brassey's Inc hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 003829 ISBN : 0080312071 9780080312071
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Duncan, Richard R
Lee's Endangered Left: The Civil War in Western Virginia Spring of 1864
Baton Rouge Louisiana U.S.A.: Louisiana State Univ Pr 1999. 346pp/illus/maps. An absorbing chronicle of Grant's western Virginia campaign. In the spring of 1864 Ulysses S. Grant as general-in-chief of the Union armies devised a plan to bring down the Confederacy. Grant aimed to destroy Lee's supply source for his Army of Northern Virginia in western Virginia and to use military activity there as an extended turning movement to threaten Lee from the west. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Louisiana State Univ Pr hardcover
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Honan, William H
Visions of Infamy : The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor
Toronto ON Canada: McClelland & Stewart 1991. 346 pages with some photos and end-paper maps. The story of Hector C. Bywater and his prophetic writings of the 1920s outlining a blueprint for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. McClelland & Stewart hardcover
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Nesbitt, Mark V
Saber and Scapegoat : J.E.B. Stuart and the Gettysburg Controversy
Mechanicsburg PA U.S.A.: Stackpole Books 1994. Book has 227 pages with a few illustrations/maps. Book and DJ has light shelfwear to edge. The author gives a detailed reconstruction of Stuart's actions during the Gettysburg campaign and presents the case that Stuart was not at fault for the loss: He was following orders to the best of his ability. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stackpole Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000266 ISBN : 0811709159 9780811709156
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Verrier, Anthony
The Bomber Offensive
New York: MacMillan 1969. The exciting saga of the American and British strategic bomber offensive against Germany 1939-1945 The bomber offensive against Germany was the longest campaign of WWII and this book relies on many interviews with participants on both sides. First Edition. 373pp. 60 illus Very Good/clean condition. Call number on spine. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MacMillan hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 002688 ISBN : 0330238647 9780330238649
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