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‎Lingeman, Richard R.‎

‎Don't You Know There's a War on?‎

‎495 pages including bibliography and index. A nostalgic look at the American Home Front during World Warr II. "Fascinating and fun." - Hartford Times. Average wear. Prior owner's initials else unmarked. Binding intact. Good reading copy. Book‎

‎O'Hagan, Michael (editor)‎

‎Aircrew Memories : Collected World War II Memories of Members of Aircrew Association‎

‎424 pages including photographic plates. The collected World War II and later memories of members of the Aircrew Association, Vancouver Island Branch, Victoria B.C. Sixty-five stories of service with the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Air Force in war and peace. Clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear. Splendid copy in giftable condition. Book‎

‎Gardam, John‎

‎Ordinary Heroes‎

‎205 pages including index. An eloquent collection of stories of over forty Canadian heroes of World War Two. All were ordinary men and women before volunteering to serve, and each reveals in their own way a gallantry, courage and perserverance that Canadians will take pride in. Includes black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Resnick, Philip‎

‎The Land of Cain: Class and Nationalism in English Canada 1945-1975‎

‎297 pages. The first book-length study of English Canadian nationalism in the post-World War II period. Approaching the subject from a Marxist perspective the author sets out to examine the class basis of nationalism in English Canada since the war. Average wear. Light pencil markings throughout. Good working copy. Book‎

‎Choban, Jennie T.S. [Signed]; Qureshi, April-Ria‎

‎Kapusta or Cabbage : A Mother and Daughter Historical and Culinary Journey‎

‎125 pages including index. Signature and inscription (with a dying ball point pen) by Jennie Choban upon half-title page. From the steppes of the Ukraine, through Europe during the Second World War, Ewhenia (Jennie) crosses the Atlantic Ocean, making her home in Canada's Quebec in 1949. From Ontario to travels in Quebec, Sweden and Norway, April-Ria makes her home along Canada's Pacific Coast. Combines recipes with anecdotes about the good old days for a unique Ukrainian/Canadian dialogue cookbook. Includes some black and white illustrations. Includes two promotional bookmarks. Light wear. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Furst, Alan‎

‎The Polish Officer : A Novel‎

‎325 pages. A gripping, panoramic espionage novel set in the shadowy, clandestine arena of World War II spycraft. Written with a keen awareness of the nuances of national character, individual psychology, and the weight of history. Very light wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Three inch crease to back flap of dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Perry, Thomas L.: Editor‎

‎The Prevention of Nuclear War - Physicians for Social Responsibility (British Columbia Chapter)‎

‎338 pages. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of British Columbia March 5-6, 1983. "We have created a technology that acts at speeds beyond our biological ability to cope. Yet the programs upon which the computer will act are themselves products of human thought which cannot possibly anticipate every situation and every event. By their very nature, therefore, they are highly fallible. We must face up to this fact. Nuclear arms are literally out of human control." - from foreward by David Suzuki. Moderate wear. Letter 'F' atop half-title page else contents clean and unmarked. Solid copy. Book‎

‎Portal, Ellis‎

‎Killing Ground - The Canadian Civil War‎

‎269 pages. "The story of the bloody civil war that breaks out in the early 1970s between Canada and Separatist Quebec. Every event... is imaginary. But every event is possible, perhaps even likely." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Moderate wear to book. Well-worn dust jacket. Book‎

‎Geoffrion, Bernard; Fischler, Stan‎

‎Boom Boom: The Life and Times of Bernard Geoffrion‎

‎271 pages including index. Includes black and white photographic plates. Bernard 'Boom Boom' Geoffrion stands among the 20th century's most galvanic athletes. And its most magnetic personalities. Geoffrion invented the slapshot, was one of the first players in the post-World War II era to produce 50 goals a season, had teammate Doug Harvey saw off his leg cast against doctor's orders so that he could skate in the 1961 playoffs, and much more. A candid, entertaining and at times controversial story of this great Hall of Famer. Prior owner's details upon front endpaper else clean and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Wicks, Ben‎

‎No Time to Wave Goodbye‎

‎228 pages. Author and thousands of other British children became know as the 'evacuees,' part of the greatest movement of people that Britain had ever experienced. This in the early days of World War II. Clean, bright and unmarked but for prior owner's name atop front endpaper. Light wear overall. Bit of price sticker adhesive remains upon dust jacket. Minor lean to spine. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Winterbothom, F.W.‎

‎The Ultra Spy - An Autobiography‎

‎258 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. Author is well known for his bestselling books The Ultra Secret and The Nazi Connection, which revealed the secret of the Ultra decrypts for the first time. He was Churchill's personal liaison with Bletchley Park, the country house in Hertfordshire where the Enigma codes were decrypted, and was therefore at Churchill's right hand during some of the most important and secret decisions of the war. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Some yellowing to pages. Lovely copy. Book‎

‎Sutherland, Neil‎

‎Growing Up : Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television‎

‎327 pages. Investigates a wide selection of experiences of growing up. Lays out the structure of children's lives in such settings as the home, the classroom, the church, the street, and the playground - in chort, the communities of childhood. Explains how children arrived at their gender, class, and other identities, and how they came to adopt the values they did. Prior owner's name atop first page else clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy in glossy illustrated covers. Book‎

‎Arnold, Gladys‎

‎One Woman's War: A Canadian Reporter with the Free French‎

‎222 pages including black and white photographic plates. Author's vivid, eyewitness account of the fall of France and the growth of the Free French resistance. She was sent to Paris by Canadian Press in October 1939, and was the only Canadian reporter to experience the sudden, traumatic invasion of France by the Germans in the spring of 1940. Clean, bright and unmarked. Cigarette smoke odour. Negligible wear. Splendid copy. Book‎

‎Humphreys, Derrick; Munro, John‎

‎The Making of a Grey Panther : The Derrick Humphreys Story‎

‎283 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. "Devastatingly candid... Rousing... Fascinating... Beautifully written... You'll be charmed, enlightened and entertained." - Trevor Lautens. "Destined to become a bible for every aspiring municipal politician, and anyone with a bitch against City Hall." - from back cover. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Various‎

‎The Wide World Magazine - February 1950‎

‎Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine‎

‎Allen, Bruce‎

‎Germany East : Dissent and Opposition *Signed By Author*‎

‎226 pages including notes, glossary and bibliography. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. "This work on the scope of dissent in East Germany integrates the post World War II uprising and the birth of the oppositional forces with the 1980s social change movements." - from back cover. "....Proves the existence of an internal opposition.." - Montreal Mirror. Very light wear and soiling. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Spiller, Frank‎

‎The House on the Sunderstrasse : A Novel *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*‎

‎Over 373 pages. A haunting story of the hardships created by World War II and their impact on human behaviour. An inclusive portrayal of the power of love, hate, friendships and family life in circumstances beyond normal comprehension. Author's signature and inscription atop half-title page. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Roussopoulos, Dimitrios I.‎

‎The Coming of World War Three : From Protest to Resistance/the International War System (Vol. 1)‎

‎299 pages. Provides an analysis of the various forces bringing us closer to nuclear annihilation. Surveys the numerous anti-war and disarmament organisations and identifies a myriad of political issues contributing to international tensions. Minimal highlighting and prior owner's inkstamp inside front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Droste, C.L.(Compiler); Tantum, W.H. (Editor)‎

‎The Lusitania Case - Documents on the War‎

‎Reprint of the 1916 first edition. 224 pages. The Lusitania Massacre is one of the great landmarks in history, not alone in American history but in human history, because it ensured German defeat in the World War. Chapters include: Should passenger vessels carry war material?; English orders to fight submarines; The German warning; The American warning; The Cunard Company's warning; American Ruling (not law) on foreign armed merchant vessels; Was the Lusitania armed?; The Manifest of the Lusitania; Who is responsible?; View of the English, Austrians and Germans; The official English investigation; and more. Black and white illustrations. Some markings. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Front hinge secured with librarian's tape. Spine leaning moderately. Remains a decent working copy. Book‎

‎Allen, Cecil; Stone, J.V.; Macmillan, Norman‎

‎Railways, Ships and Aeroplanes Illustrated - Their Construction and Working Fully Described in Words and Pictures‎

‎320 pages including index. No date. Appears to be circa the World War II era. Loaded with nostalgic black and white illustrations and photographs of state of the art transportation hardware of a few decades back. Many illustrations include very detailed labelling of parts etc., making them highly informative. Decorated endpapers. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Nice copy in red leatherette boards. A most educational work. Book‎

‎Wilson, Derek A.‎

‎The King and the Gentleman: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell 1599-1649‎

‎473 pages including bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. Details the parallel lives of a foreign-born aesthete-prince and a down-to-earth country squire. The passions they aroused and the conflict they unleashed would forever change the face of a nation. Book virtually as new. Lightest wear to dust jacket. Gift quality. Book‎

‎Scott, H.G.‎

‎From Storm to Storm‎

‎242 pages. "Contains a number of short glimpses of certain scenes in the tragic drama of Europe between the two Great Wars, as they were witnessed by the writer. The implications of those scenes were so clear that it must remain something of a problem why the leaders of the nations which wished for peace failed to take warning while yet there was time to avert disaster. A scene from each of the Great Wars has been included as prelude and climax, and some account of what defeat has so far meant for Germany. It is a mild punishment compared with what would have befallen her opponents if they had been defeated." - foreword. Black and white photographic plates. Front free endpaper removed. Prior owner's details blacked out inside front board. Average wear to maroon boards. Spine sunned. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Charlton, Mark; Riddell-Dixon, Elizabeth‎

‎Crosscurrents : International Relations in the Post-Cold War‎

‎582 pages. A lively anthology in which experts from around the world debate 24 issues that dominate the world arena today - from the New World Order to the Persian Gulf War, GATT to NAFTA, human rights to the environment. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Nice working copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Current Affairs for the Canadian Forces - The Struggle for Men's Minds - Volume 11, Number 3 - 1 March 1957‎

‎26 pages. Illustrated. "The totalitarian has been demonstrating that if you can capture a man's mind and control his thoughts, you've got him exactly where you want him." - from page 5. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine - Volume 13 Number 10 - October 1979‎

‎62 pages. Features: Around the corner and out of the way - some forgotten places with hidden treasures; Handcrafted Jewelry not that tough to do; locating collection sites; The mysteries of Hollister Peak; Hunting gemstones in New York - quartz, chrysoberyls, tourmaline, and diamonds; A bottle collector's heaven - Washington State; Trash and the treasure hunter; valuable dime found with low-priced detector; Don't give up - a story to encourage you; Mine hopping in Idaho; West Tennessee relic hunting - all civil war camps have not been worked out; Whiskey Run - a Pennsylvania ghost town; Time out to put on a hunt; Coin hunting in the world's greatest gold camp. Average wear. Book‎

‎Kaufman, David: Editor; Horn, Michiel‎

‎A Liberation Album - Canadians in the Netherlands 1944-45‎

‎176 pages including index. Black and white illustrations. Based upon the film "Liberation!", produced and directed by John Muller. Book is clean, bright and unmarked, but for gift greetings to verso of front free endpaper. Negligible wear. Back panel of attractive dust jacket bears chipping at top and one inch tear at bottom. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Aza, Bert‎

‎Our Gracie - The Story of Gracie Fields‎

‎32 pages. Includes over 100 black and white photographs from Gracie's album. Circa 1950s. A primarily pictorial tribute to the life of Miss Gracie Fields, First Lady of the Music Hall. Above-average wear but still a respectable, unmarked copy. Book‎

‎Haggart, Ron; Golden, Aubrey E.‎

‎Rumours of War‎

‎311 pages. Illustrated. The first comprehensive history and analysis of the October 1970 crisis and the dilemma of a democratic state which claims to preserve liberty as it suspends rights which have existed since Magna Carta. Exterior shows average wear and above-average soiling but contents remain clean and unmarked. Good working copy. Book‎

‎Paterson, T.W.‎

‎Canadian Battles and Massacres - 300 Years of Warfare and Atrocities on Canadian Soil‎

‎248 pages including index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Chapters include: Terror of the Tomahawk; The French-English Wars; The War of 1812; Growing Pains; The March West. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else book clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Attractive dust jacket, now in mylar, bears light wear. Very attractive copy. Gift quality. Book‎

‎Walker, J. Samuel‎

‎Prompt and Utter Destruction : Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan‎

‎142 pages including index. Examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made to nuke Japan. Remainder mark upon bottom edge of text. Significant markings. Moderate wear. Decent working copy. Book‎

‎Simard, Francis (translated to Engilsh By David Homel)‎

‎Talking It Out : The October Crisis from the Inside‎

‎192 pages. "This book has no literary pretentions. It is experience rather than literature; it bears witness to real events. Written by Francis Simard, it is also the story of Paul Rose, Jacques Rose and Bernard Lortie. It is an act of Solidarity." - from Prologue. Prior owner's details atop half-title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice clean copy. Book‎

‎Campbell, Alfred S.‎

‎Sunny Isle of Jersey‎

‎192 pages including bibliography. Published to help raise funds to support the 40,000 inhabitants of the Channel Islands who were evacuated to England just before the Nazi invasion. Only remnants of dust jacket remain. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Binding solid. Book‎

‎Hoyt, Edwin Palmer‎

‎To the Marianas: War in the Central Pacific, 1944‎

‎292 pages including index. and black and white photographic plates. Reconstructs a fascinating account of America's first great amphibious operation of World War II - its drive northward through the Pacific to capture the Marshall and Mariana Islands from the Japanese. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Spine leaning. Usual library markings. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Air Combat Magazine - Vol. 8, No. 6 November 1980‎

‎74 pages. Features include: Air Intelligence - what is new in the military aerospace world; Corsairs for Two - The TA-7C is now in production and, along with a profile of this new warplane, we look at some of the previous 'two-holers' from Vought; NAS Sigonella - A visit to the Navy's vital air base in the Med; Richy Stops a Convoy - Flying in the back seat of an OV-10 can be hadardous to your health; NATO at Newbury - large warplane display at RAF Greenham Common; Target Practice in the BUF - Flying a mission in the ancient B-52D Stratofortress; World War Two Miscellany - Camouflage and markings of World War Two aircraft; KC-10 Extender - New McDonnell Douglas tanker is rolled out for test flying. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Capa, Cornell‎

‎Robert Capa : Photographs‎

‎191 pages including bibliography and chronology. "The first true retrospective book of one of the century's greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs we see through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. Shows us the remarkable range of his work, which encompasses the sufferings as well as the tenderness, humor, and wonder of his subjects." - from dust jacket. Oblong 8.5" high by 11.5" wide. Reading copy only. Usual library markings. Significant loosening of binding yet all pages remain loosely attached. Above-average wear. Book‎

‎C.P. Stacey‎

‎The Military Problems of Canada - A Survey of Defense Policies and Strategic Conditions Past and Present‎

‎184 pages including index. "At the time when I undertook to write this book, the defence policies of Canada were a matter of greater public interest than perhaps at any previous period in time of peace since the Dominion came into existence in 1867. Today, with the country involved in a new Great War and that war in a critical stage, they command still more attention. This volume is presented as a possible contribution to public information and discussion on the subject... Intended to provide an outline of the history of Canadian defence policy, with emphasis upon the most recent period." - from Author's Preface. Chapters include: Geography and Canadian Security; The Military Institutions of an Unmilitary People - Canadian Defence Policy to 1914; The Great War and After 1914-1935; The New Defence Policy 1935-1939; The Second World War. Appendices include: The Hudson Bay Route; The Militia Reforms after 1989; Defence Expenditure 1929-1939; plus notes. Some yellowing to contents. Moderate wear to navy cloth-covered boards. Map endpapers. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Zundel, Ernst; Von Kerney, Franz‎

‎Ethnic Cleansing - Then and Now: Trying to Make Sense of NATO's Balkan War/The Danube Swabian Story - A Century of Achievement and Injustice‎

‎40 page. Contains two works. First 11 pages by Zundel. Balance by von Kerney. "These days it is fashionable for the Western/NATO Allies to have their history conveniently start in 1948, after their murdurous blueprint of raping, robbing, expelling and killing 17 million Germans had been successfully completed." - from page 3. Von Kerney's writing begins around 1900 with the Danube Swabian (ethnic German) communities in the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian dual-monarchy. Includes maps and grainy illustrations. This copy was printed by photocopier. We do not know if it is an original. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Book‎

‎Engle, Eloise; Paananen, Lauri‎

‎The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish Conflict, 1939-40‎

‎176 pages including index, bibliography and appendices. Black and white illustrations. Maps. "For months the Finns, who received scant help from an admiring world of sympathizers and avowed allies, held on. Yet the holding could only last until the Russians gathered themselves. When that happened and Red wheel-to-wheel artillery attacks and new hordes of troops and tanks again took their toll, the Finns bowed to the inevitable defeat... Describes the big picture and relates the stories of many individual Finns and Russians in combat. The result is a fascinating and moving book." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reading copy. Book‎

‎Tymos, A.H.‎

‎The Leading Hand‎

‎139 pages. Circa 1967. "This is a story of my experience during six years of war, and of miraculous deliverance and protection. Knowing not which way to turn myself, I put my trust in a Higher Power, and an unseen hand took me out from place to place. I lived under five different governments. Poland, my country, was occupied by Russia and later by the Nazis. I was moved to Germany which was later under American occupation, and finally emigrated to Canada, now my beloved home." - Author. Frontis illustration of author in her youth. Photo of author, her husband and daughter inside back cover. A challenging true story of mystery and adventure. Prior owner's name inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book‎

‎Sewell, Richard (Signed)‎

‎Survival - The Story of a Life: 1942-2001‎

‎180 pages. Author's signature and inscription to Jim Munro, of Munro's Books, Victoria, upon front flyleaf. The graphic recollections of a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II. "Richard Sewell writes very well, the major publishing houses to which he sent the manuscript said so, but they were very sorry to have to say 'no' and pass it by - 'because it might possibly offend the Japanese, who are now, after all, our (business) friends and allies... Tackles squarely the question of why and how such systematic, deliberate, and intense cruelty was endemic in the Japanes treatment of prisoners of war... While the author dissects the nature of human cruelty, at the same time he also shows us the other side of the coin - the remarkable care and love people show to each other in the worst of all possible conditions. That is why this is an uplifting story, one not just of survival, but of the triumph of goodness." - from Foreward by Bishop Robert C. Crawley SSC. Clean and bright with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Todd, Jack‎

‎The Taste of Metal : A Deserter's Story‎

‎254 pages. "Now one of Canada's most successful journalists, Jack Todd is a remarkable writer of great power and vibrancy. It has taken him thirty years to come to terms with the guilt and shame of desertion, to break the silence, to hell this controversial and important story." - from dust jacket .Book clean, bright and unmarked with faintest hint of wear. Unread. Light wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book‎

‎Colombo, Richard; Richardson, Michael‎

‎We Stand on Guard - Poems and Songs of Canadians in Battle‎

‎210 pages. The first comprehensive collection of the songs, poems, and verses of Canadians in battle. Dramatizes the history of Canada, conflict by conflict, from the Indian battles through to today's Peacekeepers. A tribute to the spirit of man and the love of freedom. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Michel, Henry‎

‎The Shadow War: Resistance in Europe 1939-45‎

‎416 pages including index, bibliography and abbreviations. "The first adequately comprehensive history of the Resistance in Europe during Hitler's war to be published in any language." - The Times Literary Supplement reviewing the original French edition. Translated from the French by Richard Barry. Light wear to attractive price-clipped dust jacket. Prior owner's details upon front endpaper. Pencil markings to contents. Nice copy overall. Book‎

‎Nolan, Brian‎

‎Hero: The Buzz Beurling Story‎

‎201 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "The moving account of an eccentric Canadian youth who was probably the most deadly-accurate marksman of all the pilots who flew the Spitfire in battle... well-told, diligently researched." - Major-General Richard Rohmer, CMM, DFC. Half-title page removed. Average library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Useful reading copy. Book‎

‎Macbeth, Jack‎

‎Ready, Aye, Ready - An Illustrated History of the Royal Canadian Navy‎

‎176 pages including index. "This splendidly illustrated book brings together archival and contemporary photographs; superb reproductions of rarely-seen paintings belonging to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa; and an astute text by veteran naval officer, Jack Macbeth. Together they vividly convey the proud story of what was once the fourth most powerful navy in the world." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked. Minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book‎

‎Greer, Rosamond "Fiddy"‎

‎The Girls of the King's Navy‎

‎160 pages including bibliography. A memoir of the author's service time and an historical account of Canada's Wrens. Reproductions of black and white photos. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Corner of half-title page clipped. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Cave, Joy B.‎

‎What Became of Corporal Pittman?‎

‎180 pages plus extensive appendices. Black and white illustrations. "The story of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in World War I and its most tragic and glorious moments - July 1st at Beaumont Hamel. In half an hour this entire regiment was cut down by German machine gun fire till only a handful of men remained. Attempts to explain to the younger generation of the present day the reasons for such sacrifices. The result of years of careful research." - from dust jacket. Discard stamp upon front free endpaper else book clean, bright and unmarked with virtually zero wear. Light to moderate wear to dust jacket which is now in protective Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book‎

‎Peis, Gunter‎

‎The Mirror of Deception - How Britain Turned the Nazi Spy Machine Against Itself‎

‎190 pages including index and black and white photographic plates. The glamorous world of the secret agent is shown as it really is... a myth perpetuated in novels, films and the memoirs of super-agents. "...one of the most historically interesting and informative books about espionage in World War Two." - Heinz Hohne, Der Spiegel. Lovely clean, unmarked copy with minimal wear. Dust jacket protected by attractive Brodart cover. Book‎

‎Moss, George Donelson‎

‎Vietnam - An American Ordeal‎

‎420 pages including bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. A comprehensive narrative that depicts the history of American involvement in Southeast Asia from its genesis in the 1940s to its tragic denouement in 1975. Addressed to those who lived through the war as well as those too young to have experienced those troubled years firsthand. Discard ink stamps upon preliminary pages and top edge else unmarked. Moderate wear. Solid working copy. Book‎

‎VanderMey, Albert (Signed)‎

‎When a Neighbor Came Calling - Personal Accounts of the Nazi Occupation of The Netherlands 1940-1945 *SIGNED BY AUTHOR*‎

‎314 pages. Author's signature and inscription atop half-title page. Over 150 archival black and white illustrations. "The powerful story of Dutch life under Nazi rule, as told by dozens of people who lived through that terrible time." - from back cover. Light yellowing at edges. Somewhat above-average wear. Book‎

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