Penguin Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's.....
Doubleday & Company, 1969. Hardcover. 636 pages. First published in London. Illustrated, some in color. A fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket.
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953. Hardcover. Volume I: The Fight at Odds; 430 pages. Volume II: The Fight Avails; 415 pages. Volume III: The Fight is Won; 441 pages. All three volumes illustrated with fold-out maps, some in color. Later printing. A very good copies in a price-clipped dust jackets.....
Random House Trade, November 2014. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager.....
Regnery History, October 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Hero or Villain? THE FIREBOMBING OF TOKYO. Strategic Air Command. John F. Kennedy. Dr. Strangelove. George Wallace. All of these have one man in common--General Curtis LeMay, who remains as unknowable and controversial as he was in life. Until.....
The Lyons Press, June 2007. Trade Paperback. We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply.....
Crown, April 2019. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)--and all of it true."--Erik.....
Acme Newspictures, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Photograph. Photograph, B/W, 6 x 8 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy. Stamp on rear of Acme Newspictures, Inc., Chicago Bureau. Caption pasted to rear: 'Chicago Bureau, Internees Help with Illinois Peach Harvest. Freeburg, Ill.: Tak Kikita, a Jap internee from.....
Hachette Books, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a prodigiously researched and engrossing (New York Times) book that shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history (Denver Post). Recruited.....
Walker Books for Young Readers, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Navajo Code Talkers tells the story of this special group, who proved themselves to be among the bravest, most valuable, and most loyal of American soldiers during World War II. On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were.....
Presidio Press, May 2007. Trade Paperback. "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific--the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary--into terms we mortals can.....
Back Bay Books, June 2013. Trade Paperback. A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The.....
Diamond Match Co. (items 1 and 2), ca. 1943. Trade Paperback. Items 1 and 2 are paper match book covers with printed admonitions. Item 3 is a printed hand-addressed envelope with slogan upper left. Near fine copies. The matches and staples have been removed from the match covers.
U. S. Army, 1946. First Edition. Ephemera. 4 pages with Headquarters and names of all personnel and Roster of Medical Detachment with names and rank of personnel and 1123 Postal Unit, Military Police Detachment, US War Department Civilians and American Red Cross(with names for each). Menu printed inside rear cover.....
L. Adamic, n.d, ca. 1943. First Edition Thus. Ephemera. Single sheet trifolded to create 6 pages, printed on 5 leaves, in red on white. From the book 'My Native Land'. Adamic relates the story of a Yugoslavian partisan who mortally wounded writes a brief unfinished letter to his unborn son.....
Knopf, October 1997. Hardcover. "A valuable service . . . serious, entertaining, provocative and distinctive." -- "Cleveland Plain Dealer" In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time--and at the center.....
Anchor, December 2007. Trade Paperback. From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain's premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job.....
Hachette Books, October 2018. Trade Paperback. The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a prodigiously researched and engrossing (New York Times) book that shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S......
The Aeroplane Spotter. Temple Press, Ltd., 1942-6. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol. 2, July 3, 1941 - December 18, 1941, No. 27-47, pp. 1-252. Vol. 3, January 1, 1942 - December 31, 1942, No. 48-74, pp. 1-323; Vol. 4, January 14, 1943 - December 30, 1943, No. 75-100, pp. 1-312. Vol.....
Camp Wallace, 1943. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Camp Wallace newspaper, 9 pages. Camp Wallace was opened February 1, 1941, as a training center for anti-aircraft units in WWII. It was declared surplus in 1946. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Newspaper has been folded twice. Paper is tanned.
Heyday Books, 2000. Trade Paperback. Later printing. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and.....
McChord Field, Washington, 1944. Trade Paperback. 22 pages. Published weekly 'as a morale function by and for McChord Field personnel.' Issue dedicated to the retirement of the Commanding Officer Colonel Herold. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Oldhams Press, Ltd., ca. 1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. Issue offered complete. B/W illustrations throughout. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Issue previously folded in half.
Ballantine Books, May 2020. Trade Paperback. THE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing's turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak.....
Hachette Books, February 2007. Trade Paperback. A groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millions In 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to send teams of scholars around the world to search for proof.....