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20028vo., First Edition with photographs and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A teenager's story of the last few weeks leading to the fall of Berlin
20028vo., First Edition, with 49 plates on 24 and 16 full-page maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Detailed and harrowing account by an eminent military historian. The author, with material from former Soviet files, as well as from German, American, British, French and Swedish archives, has reconstructed the experiences of the millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. Includes well-chosen selection of photographs (many not previously published) and bibliography. Signed copies are scarce.
19598vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes an extensive bibliography.
19508vo., First UK Edition, on laid paper, with 28 plates on 16, and front and rear endpaper maps in blue; original cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. General Clay's careful yet gripping account of Germany's first four years after WWII. As Allied C-in-C, the author organised the Allied Control Council and outwitted Zhukov with the Berlin Airlift. He also discusses Nuremberg, the Black Market and the all-threatening Iron Curtain. Utterly absorbing. The UK edition, published in the same year as the US edition, is scarce, especially in this condition.
19788vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 22 maps in the text; grey boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt and blue, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. Gavin commanded 82nd Airborne through Sicily, Salerno, Normandy and perhaps most famously, at Nijmegen as part of MARKET GARDEN. Enser, p.3
19408vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; maroon cloth, gilt back, green top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account by the British ambassador to Berlin of the diplomatic attempts to prevent the outbreak of WWII. Published simultaneously with the UK edition. Enser, p.202 (recording the UK edition by Hodder & Stoughton).
19924to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and plans in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
19888vo., First Edition, with plates, maps, diagram in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Between August 1943 and March 1944 the RAF dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs on Berlin. More than 10,000 aircraft sorties resulted in the loss of 600 bombers and their crews. As always with this author, a detailed and well-researched account with much new information from participating crews and ground staff, and from German civilians who lived through it
19798vo., Second Impression, with 26 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Compelling and dramatic account of the last days of Hitler and the Reich Chancellery Group. First published in the US as 'The Bunker' (Houghton Mifflin) in the previous year. Enser, p.24.
19888vo., First Edition, with 52 plates on 16, paper browning slightly; dark green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned at backstrip. A well-illustrated personal account. The author served with The Glosters in France during 1940 and again in 1944, ending the war as Senior Chaplain. In 1947 he was appointed SC to 43rd Wessex Division, and Honorary Chaplain to HM the Queen in 1959.
19368vo., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text, free endpapers lightly dust-soiled, text lightly browning at outer edge as often; original decorative cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, very neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. Includes the well-known full-page portrait of Jesse Owens at the start of the 200m sprint.
19918vo., with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; black cloth patterned in red, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
19978vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, facsimiles in the text, pictorial front endpapers and rear endpaper map; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fascinating record of the author's war experience, beginning with escape from Hitler's Germany, enlistment in the Pioneer Corps, commission in the Royal Fusiliers, and posting to Charlottenburg (his birthplace) as Food and Transport Officer during the immediate post-war period. Extremely scarce.
20032 vols., First Editions, with 32 plates on 16, and 52 double- and full-page maps in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Vol. I: The Long Drive East, 22 June 1941 to 18 November 1942; Vol. II: The Defeat of Germany, 19 November 1942 to 15 May 1945. The war on the Eastern European Front was the largest conflict the world has ever seen. Taylor provides a detailed narrative chronology, detailing the development of the numerous campaigns on an almost day-by-day basis. A valuable addition to the literature of 'Barbarossa', with bibliography, and indexes of places and people.
19818vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, page-edges browning; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.24
19798vo., First Edition thus, with 26 plates on 16, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Compelling and dramatic account of the last days of Hitler and the Reich Chancellery Group. First published in the US as 'The Bunker' (Houghton Mifflin) in the previous year. Enser, p.24.
1923Sm. 8vo., Sixth Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, double-page coloured map, 9 folding coloured maps, 13 folding plans and numerous plans in the text, series catalogue on front endpapers and rear endpaper map, a few maps poorly folded and thus slightly chafed at fore-edge; original grained red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, marbled edges, silk marker, backstrip faded (but lettering wholly legible), covers a little bowed else a bright, clean copy. The folding maps and plans are on japon. SCARCE WITH ALL MAPS.
19738vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The story of Kitty Schmidt, Berlin's most famous madam, and the ensuing use of Salon Kitty by the SS throughout WWII. Enser, p.188.
19668vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text, and coloured endpaper maps, wanting front free endpaper; green tweed cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears. Ryan's vividly written account of the final three weeks of Berlin in WWII. Enser, p.62.
1998Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
19758vo. First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth, backstrip blocked in black, brown top, brown endpapers, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19818vo. with plates and maps; blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser p.24
19928vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19998vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1994. Arguably the best complement to Verney, with useful index of veterans but no units quoted. Smith 276.
19648vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in dustwrapper. One of the first detailed accounts in English. Dustwrapper artwork by Arnold Schwartzman.