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.....
War Production Board, 1944. First Edition. Poster. Poster, 11 x 15.5 inches. Printed in yellow, dark and light blue, and red. First edition (first printing). A very good copy. Folded once in center. Some wrinkling to edges.
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.....
W W Norton & Co Inc, November 2000. Hardcover. Near fine in a near very good dust jacket. The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see", and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second.....
The Technical Education Press, 2003. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 99 pages. Includes B/W maps, illustrations and portraits. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
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.....
Broadway, May 2012. Trade Paperback. Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Nazi Germany in a year.....
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.
Little, Brown and Company, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer.....
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.....
Skyhorse, November 2011. Trade Paperback. "Riveting, powerful, moving."--The Observer, "Compelling . . .A book that must be read."--Daily Mail. A story of almost unimaginable suffering." --BBC Radio 4. "Urquhart grabs our attention with unforgettable stories."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2020. Trade Paperback. "A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has.....
Bantam Books, 2006. Trade Paperback. 382 pages. B/W illustrations. First movie tie-in paperback edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The perfect gift for Father's Day, this is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize.....
Simon & Schuster, 1995. Trade Paperback. 655 pages. Later printing. A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose.....
Vintage Books, 2006. Trade Paperback. 368 pages. First Vintage Books edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).