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World War II: New Books
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1 POLNISCHE BLUTSCHULD: ÜBERREICHT DEN DEUTSCHEN, die zu neuer Arbeit und zu neuen Aufbau in die alten deutschen Ostprovinzen einziehen. Zusammengestellt aus amtlichen Protokollen, Zeugenaussagen und Fotos. N.p., n.p., (1939)
Royal octavo. Pp. (24). With numerous photographic illustrations throughout, some of which are full-page; with many facsimiles. Printed in red and black. Original illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. In about fine condition. (Private ownership stamp to title, spine edge tender.) Interior crisp.
First edition. Essay in photographs and documents, a fascinating lesson in war-time propaganda. Scarce.
€ 135 --
2 AUSTENFELD, Thomas Carl. American Women writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. x, 190. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.
First edition. Much has been written of late regarding modernist writers who either colluded with fascist leaders or who expressed sentiments that were sometimes alarmingly fascist in nature. With its emphasis on women, politics, and ethics, this book provides a needed and intriguing chapter on the relationship of American writers to one of the most devastating political movements of the modern era, indeed, of any era.
As expatriates in Germany and Austria in the 1930s, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, and Lillian Hellman saw the rise of Nazi ideology firsthand. By documenting the political and ethical apprenticeships each woman served in Germany and Austria, Austenfeld convincingly argues that the genius of these writers exists precisely in their ability to continue the development of their best creative sensibilities in spite of, and indeed because of the ethical challenges they faced as women writers in the tense pre war world. ISBN:#0813920523 ISBN:#0 8139 2052 3
€ 25 --
3 BADOGLIO, Pietro. Foreword by Benito Mussolini. Der abessinische Krieg [La Guerra d’Etiopia]. Volume I: Text; Volume II: Maps. München, C. H. Beck, 1937.Two volumes. 8vo. Text Volume: Pp. x, 215. Portrait frontispiece. Plus seven (helio)gravure plates, four of which are large extending panoramic views, printed in tinted ink; three facsimiles (one folding). Appendix with explanatory notes to the maps. Map Volume: contains nine large folding lithographed maps, printed in several colours, loosely inserted in a folding case; with a printed list of maps. Both volumes are hardcover, original mahogany cloth, spines lettered in black. In fine condition. (Private ownership stamp to each volume; marginal spotting to frontispiece and prelims.) Excellent, bright copies, practically unused.
First German edition, translated from the Italian by Eugen Dollmann. The gravured panoramas are of exceptionally high quality, and the book is of particular visual interest. With a crisp set of maps, the two volumes are fine indeed.
€ 95 --
4 BANHAM, Tony. Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941. Aberdeen, Hong Kong University Press, 2003.BRAND NEW. Royal 8vo. Pp. xx, 431. Plus a number of halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in and 17 full-page halftone maps. With 23 appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original gilt-lettered black cloth, with dust-jacket. Publisher’s complimentary copy with a stamp to this effect. Unused.
First edition. A remarkably researched study. ISBN:#9622096158
€ 75 --
5 BLACHETTA, Walther. Das wahre Gesicht Polens. Berlin, Die Wehrmacht, 1939.12m. Pp. 80. With 4 full-page maps. Set in Gothic type. Original card wrappers with integral dust-jacket, illustrated in red and black. Very good condition. (Private ownership stamps, very slight yellowing of dust-jacket margins.) Well preserved.
First edition, first printing, 1st to 60th Thousand.
€ 22 --
6 BORODZIEJ, Wlodzimierz. Translated by Barbara Harshav. The Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. 183. Plus a double-page map. Illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, cloth with dust-jacket. A most handsome copy.
- - First edition. 9780299207304
€ 30 --
7 BOUT, D. C. A. In den strijd om ons Volksbestaan. Den Haag, Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, n.d.4to. Pp. xiv, (i), 342. Plus a number of halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Maps, illustrations (some full-page). Hardcover, original cloth-backed illustrated boards, spine gilt. Very good.
First edition.
€ 25 --
8 BRENNECKE, Jochen. Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Höhepunkt und Ende einer Epoche. Jugenheim, Koehler, 1960.Thick octavo. Pp. 532. plus folding plate bound at end. Plates and maps throughout. Appendices. Endpaper maps. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, spine faded. Blurbs from dust-jacket laid-in, clipped corner to free endpaper. A very good copy, overall fine.
- - First edition.
€ 18 --
9 BROERMANN, Herbert. “Das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht gibt bekannt” 16 Wehrmachtberichte, deutsch und neugriechisch, mit Ammerkungen und Phraseologie. [Arbeitshefte für den Sprachmittler, Heft 38]. Leipzig, Birnbach, 1942.Octavo. Pp. 66. Interleaved text in German and Greek. List of phrases, arranged alphabetically, in German and Greek. Military ranks and. Original printed wrappers with title both in German and Greek. Publisher’s catalogue. In a very good condition. (Wraps bit soiled, spotted.) Excellent interior.
- - First edition. “The Supreme Command of the Armed forces Announces:” 16 Wehrmacht’s communiqués from 1941, set next to their translation into Greek. Published as a work booklet for language study. Exceedingly scarce. (Arbeitshefte für den Sprachmittler, Heft 38. Herausgegeben von Helmut Wilsdorf.)
€ 85 --
10 BUKEY, Evan Burr. Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 320. With maps, tables. Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Wrappers.
First paper edition. Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust Category, and the 2001 Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for the best book on Austrian History. “An excellent new book... An important contribution to the debate surrounding Austrians’ acceptance of Nazism.” ISBN:#0807853631
€ 25 --
11 BURLEIGH, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. London, Pan Books, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Crown 8vo. Pp. xxvi, 965. With 8 full-page maps, 10 full-page halftone illustrations; notes, bibliography, index. Wrappers.
Second edition. An award winning book, “the product of authentic historical genius.” ISBN:#0330487574 ISBN:#0 330 48757 4
€ 18 --
12 BUSCH, Fritz Otto. De Vernietiging van de Bismarck. Amsterdam, Omega Boek, 1989.8vo. Pp. 156. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in the text in two suites. With numerous text illustrations and maps (some full-page). Pictorial wrappers. As new.
Translated from the German “Das Geheimnis der Bismarck”.
€ 15 --
13 CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION. [HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE]. THE CAMPAIGN IN BURMA. LONDON, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1946.Royal octavo. Pp. 175. Profusely illustrated with over 90 photographs. Set in double columns. Original pictorial wrappers. In a very good condition. (Wraps bit chipped.)
First edition. The fine original photographs, taken during the campaign, appeared for the greater part for the first time here.
€ 25--
14 CLUTTON-BROCK, Oliver. Footprints on the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War in Germany, 1939-1945. London, Grub Street, 2003.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Crown 4to. Pp. xvi, 528. Plus 16 unpaginated pages containing numerous halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. Glossary, 14 appendices, notes, bibliography, index. With plans of some PoW camps used by RAF; endpaper maps. Hardcover, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.
First edition. With a list of all 10,999 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoners. ISBN:#1904010350
€ 49 --
15 COCHERET, Ch. A. Helpende Handen. Geschiedenis van de Stichting Centrale Voorziening te Rotterdam, 11 october 1940-1 maart 1946. Rotterdam, Brusse, 1951.Thick crown quarto. Pp. 783. Plus folding colour charts. Index. Hardcover, original cloth. In a very good condition. (Spine faded.) Interior in excellent condition.
First edition.
€ 20 --
16 CRAIG, William E. Die Schlacht um Stalingrad: Tatsachenbericht. München, Heyne, 1978.12mo. Pp. 396. Plus a number of halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Maps, bibliography, index. Original pictorial wrappers. In fine condition.
€ 12 --
17 [DAILY MIRROR]. DAILY MIRROR, Tuesday, May 8, 1945: “VE-DAY!” [Original Copy]. London, Daily Mirror, 1945.Original tabloid, dated May 8, 1945, announcing the end of the 2nd World War in Europe. Pp. 8. Tanned, edges frayed, but overall in a very good condition.
- - First edition. Front page announce in large, bold capitals: “VE-DAY! It’s Over in Europe” “Today is VE-Day - the day for which the British people have fought and endured five years, eight months and four days of war. With unconditional surrender of Germany to all the Allies, the war in Europe is over...” With a photograph of flag-waving Wrens and Allied soldiers clambering onto the lions at Trafalgar Square. With illustrated double-page spread “A Diary of the War”. A large, last page photograph of the celebrations in London - “Last night’s scene in Piccadilly.” Scarce collectible, commemorating the moment of victory in Europe. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 325 --
18 [DAILY MIRROR]. DAILY MIRROR, Tuesday, May 9, 1945: “LONDON’S GREAT DAY OF REJOICING” [Original Copy]. London, Daily Mirror, 1945.Original tabloid, dated May 9, 1945, covering the celebrations at the end of the 2nd World War in Europe. Pp. 8. Tanned, corners frayed, last page soiled, but overall in a very good condition.
- - First edition. Front page in large, bold capitals: “LONDON’S GREAT DAY OF REJOICING”. With a photograph of the great crowds at Whitehall after the prime Minister VE-Day broadcast. With illustrated double-page spread “The Great hours at the Palace” and “The Nation Celebrates”. A large, last page photograph of “The Symbol” - St. Paul at the light of 2 giant searchlights. Scarce collectible, commemorating the celebrations of victory in Europe. Preserved flat in acid-free, pH-balanced archival paper.
€ 125 --
19 DIEMER, H. Op den rand van leven en dood: De laatste negen bezettingsmaanden, de barre winter van 1944-1945 en het doodelijk angstige voorjaar 1945. Utrecht, Libertas, (1947).Royal 8vo. Pp. 267. With pen-and-ink full-page illustrations, head-pieces; numerous halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, bound in one suite. Hardcover, original decorated brown cloth, gilt. A very chipped dust-jacket added (rare in any state). In a very good condition.
- - First edition. With a nice collection of photographs and artist impressions of the last nine month of Nazi occupation of Holland. ADDED: Publisher’s advertisement, printed in 2 colours, promoting this book and Diemer’s forthcoming title “Beginsel en Vaderland”.
€ 20 --
20 EICKHOFF, Michael, Wilhelm Pagels, and Willy Reschl. Der unvergessene Krieg: Hitler-Deutschland gegen die Sowjetunion, 1941-1945. Köln, Vgs, 1981.Crown 4to. Pp. 192. With many halftone illustrations and maps, some of which are full-page. Bibliography, index. Original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition.
First edition.
€ 20 --
21 EIJI, Takemae. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy. London, Continuum, 2002.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xlvi, 751. With 76 illustrations, 10 maps and diagrams; notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, red cloth, spine lettered in black, with dust-jacket.
Translated and adapted from the Japanese by Robert Ricketts and Sebastian Swann. This is a substantially revised and expanded version of “GHQ,” originally published by Iwanami Shinsho, Tokyo, in 1983. A rare account in English translation of a Japanese view of the allied occupation of Japan, 1945-52. Very well documented. ISBN:#0826462464 ISBN:#0 8264 6246 4
€ 35 --
22 FLEMING, David. Weapons of the Waffen SS. Saint Paul, MBI, 2003.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 4to. Pp. Colour plate frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous monochromatic and colour photos. Glossary, index. Hardcover, pictorial boards.
First edition. ISBN:#0760315949
€ 20 --
23 FRITZ, Stephen G. Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2004.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. xvii, 382. Plus 2 suites of photographs, printed on fine paper, bound-in. Maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover with dust-jacket.
- - First edition. ADDED: “A Conversation with Stephen G. Fritz”, a 2-page leaflet issued by the University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813123259 ISBN 0 8131 2325 9
€ 20 --
24 (H. D & H. O. WILLS). AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS. AN ALBUM TO CONTAIN A SERIES OF CIGARETTE CARDS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. WITH A FOREWORD BY THE HOME SECRETARY. N.P., Wills, n.d.Oblong small octavo. Unpaginated. Complete with a total of 50 colour card plates, each mounted within red decorative frame. Extended explanatory text to each card. With a a Foreword by the Home Secretary and his facsimile signature to verso of cover. Original illustrated stiff card wrappers, stapled as issued (staples rusted causing a little staining), cover printed in red and black. In fine condition. Neat, handsome copy, remarkably well preserved.
First edition. A superbly illustrated booklet, published by W. D. & H. O. Wills, branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland. With instruction of how to choose, prepare, and equip a Refuge Room; how to control, cool-down, and extinct an incendiary bomb; fire fighting; large chapter on chemical gas warfare, the various shelters, respirators and their handling, protective gear, training, etc.; air defence, including fighter planes, balloon barrage, anti-aircraft searchlight and sound locator units, guns, etc.
€ 185 --
25 HENDERSON, Aileen Kilgore. Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women’s Army Corps, 1944-1945. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2001.Octavo. Pp. 252. Plus a number of halftone illustrations. Index. Hardcover, leaf green cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket. Fore-edges dyed black. Else, a crisp NEW copy.
- - First edition. Henderson served as one of more than 15,000 American women who joined the Women’s Army Corps, the first group of women other than nurses to serve in the ranks of the United States Army. Here, she offers a view into her diary and personal letters that recount her 23 months of experience in the Army.
€ 19 --
26 HENRIOT, Christian, and Wen-hsin Yeh. In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xii, 393. Photos, figures, tables. Notes, index. Hardcover, cloth with dust-jacket.
First edition. A volume in the Cambridge Modern China Series. ISBN:#0521822211
€ 65 --
27 HOARE, Oliver (Editor). Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi Spies. The Official History of MI5’s Wartime Interrogation Centre. Richmond, Public Record Office, 2000.Virgin copy, not yet traded. New. 8vo. Three volumes in one. Pp. viii, 376. With halftone illustrations; notes, appendix, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.
First edition. A volume in the Secret History Files Series, which brings to the public, for the first time, formerly “Top Secret” government dossiers. This is the story of Latchmere House, MI5’s wartime holding centre for captured enemy agents. Hoare’s introduction provides expert background, context and analysis of the original files.
€ 33 --
28 HOLZTRÄGER, Hans, and Duncan Rogers. Translated by C. F. Colton. In a Raging Inferno: Combat Units of the Hitler Youth, 1944-45. Solihull, Helion & Company, 2000.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 4to. Pp. 148. With 4 full-page colour plates depicting the combat uniforms of the Hitler Youth, maps (some full-page), numerous halftone illustrations throughout; 9 appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Printed on fine paper. Hardcover, pictorial boards without dust-jacket as issued.
First English edition. Originally published in Germany under the title “Kampfeinsatz der Hitler-Jugend im Chaos der letzten Kriegsmonate,” this first English text version remains identical to that of the German, but has been greatly enhanced by expanding the photographic content. This is the story of the last days of the war and of the desperate, rather pathetic last effort of the Third Reich to stop the advancing liberating armies by throwing into action the boys and girls of the Hitlerjugend. ISBN:#1874622604 ISBN:#1 874622 60 4
€ 43 --
29 HÜMMELCHEN, Gerhard. Handelsstörer. Handelskrieg deutscher Überwasserstreitkräfte in Zweiten Weltkrieg. München, Mercator 1960.Crown 8vo. Pp. 557. With maps, some printed in two colours, some full-page; illustrations. Extended appendices, bibliography, index, footnotes. Hardcover, original black cloth. Very good condition. Nice, clean copy.
First edition. Scarce.
€ 35 --
30 HUSEMANN, Friedrich. Die guten Glaubens waren: Geschichte der SS-Polizei-Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division). Volume I: 1939-1942; Volume II: 1943-1945; Volume III: Bildband. Osnabrück, Munin, 1971-77.Three volumes. Text volumes 8vo. Pp. 472; 703. Plus numerous halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in each volume. Several maps, some full-page, to the text. Appendices, lists of causalities, documents, bibliography. Map endpapers. Picture volume 4to. Pp. 224. Profusely illustrated throughout, many full- or double-page plates, maps, some colour plates. With a 4-panel fold-out panoramic view bound in. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original green cloth, lettered in silver, with matching dust-jackets, this of the 3rd vol. printed inside with publisher’s illustrated catalogue. In fine condition. (Bookplate to each volume.) Bright copies, hardly used. Excellent.
First edition. Scarce as a set, particularly so in such exceptionally fine condition. (3921242290)
€ 245 --
31 JOLLUCK, Katherine R. Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union During World War II. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 356. Plus a number of halftone plates bound in. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.
First edition. A volume in the Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Focuses on the experience of hundreds of thousands of Polish women forcibly transported into the USSR as prisoners after the Soviet invasion and consequent annexation of eastern Poland in 1939. With some rare photographs from the collection of the Hoover Institution Archives. ISBN:#0822941856
€ 38 --
32 JONG, L. de. Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de tweede wereldoorlog. [12 Parts in 26 VOLUMES]. ’s-Gravenhage, Staatsuitgeverij, 1969-88.12 parts in 26 volumes, including the 2-volume “Epiloog”. Thick royal octavo. Profusely illustrated throughout. Uniformly bound in original brown cloth, spines gilt. In fine condition. Excellent set (few volumes still brand new).
- - Various printings. The 26 volumes are as follows: 1; 2; 3; 4a+4b; 5a+5b; 6a+6b; 7a+7b; 8a+8b; 9a+9b; 10a/1+10a/2+10b/1+10b/2; 11a/1+11a/2+11b/1+11b/2+11c; 12a+12b.
€ 70 --
33 KELLY, Arthur L. Combat Fire!: Combat Stories from World war II. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1997.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xii, 228. With two double-page maps, 6 line and halftone maps, numerous halftone photographic illustrations; sources, index. Pictorial wrappers.
First edition. Features 12 tales of courage told by ordinary men who participated in the war. Col. Kelly (U.S. Army, Ret.), a veteran of the World war II, Korea, and Vietnam, interviewed more than a hundred veterans over the course of a decade for this book. ISBN:#081319010X ISBN:#0 8131 9010 X ISBN:#0 8131 2034 9 ISBN:#0813120349
€ 25 --
34 KOGON, Eugen. l’Enfer Organisé: Le système des camps de concentration. Paris, La Jeune Parque, 1947.Royal 8vo. Pp. 356. Plus 2 folding plans tipped-in. Frontispiece, printed with additional colours. Original red printed wrappers. In fine condition. (Wraps edges slightly rubbed.)
First French edition.
€ 25 --
35 LAWLER, Nancy Ellen. Soldiers, Airmen, Spies, and Whisperers: The Gold Coast in World War II. Athens, Ohio University Press, 2002.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xxvi, 286. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text in two suites. With halftone frontispiece, 30 halftone illustrations, 3 full-page maps; notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, pale red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.
First edition. Describes how the Gold Coast Regiment, denuded of battalions fighting in East Africa, was rapidly expanded to meet the threat of invasion when in June 1940 the fall of France left the Gold Coast surrounded by potentially hostile French colonies that had rejected de Gaulle’s call to continue the fight. Important reading for understanding what was happening in Africa during World War II. ISBN:#0821414305 ISBN:#0 8214 1430 5
€ 56 --
36 LYAUTEY, Pierre. La Campagne de France 1944-1945: Provence, Alpes, Jura, Vosges, Alsace. Paris, Plon, 1946.Crown 8vo. Pp. vi, 240. Letterpress device to title. With 5 maps. Original white wrappers, printed in black and red. Uncut. Very good condition. (Binding extremities slightly rubbed, private ownership stamps.)
First edition.
€ 35 --
37 MAGA, Tim. Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 181. With halftone illustrations; notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, navy blue cloth, spine lettered in white, with dust-jacket.
First edition. A reassessment of the Japanese war crimes trials, which encompassed some of the most fascinating criminal cases of the twentieth century. In contrast to Nuremberg, these trials received little attention by the Western press, and the atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Army throughout the 1930s and early 1940s were rarely mentioned.
€ 25 --
38 MARNHAM, Patrick. The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost. London, John Murray, 2000.Virgin copy, not yet traded. New. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 290. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in the text. With 31 halftone illustrations, 2 full-page maps; glossary, chronology, notes, select bibliography, index. Hardcover, grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust-jacket.
First edition. The story of Moulin, the political head of the French Resistance in 1943. Arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, he is believed to have died without talking. So much for the legend, but what is the truth of the national hero honoured in the Panthéon, France’s greatest honour, where his memory is revered beside that of Voltaire, Zola, and Victor Hugo?
€ 30 --
39 MARTIENSSEN, Anthony. Hitler and his Admirals. London, Secker and Warburg, 1948.Crown 8vo. Pp. xv, 275. Plus eight halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in one suite. With five single-page maps. Appendices, index, sources. Hardcover, original blue cloth. In a very good condition. Save for a slightly faded spine, an excellent copy.
First edition.
€ 30 --
40 MCFARLAND, Stephen L., Wesley Phillips Newton. To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Superiority over Germany, 1942-1944. Washington & London, Smithsonian, 1991.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 328. plus a couple of suites of plates, printed on fine paper, bound-in. Notes, bibliography, index. Stiff wrappers.
€ 15 --
41 MIERZEJEWSKI, Alfred C. The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway. Volume II, 1933-1945. Chapel Hill, University Of North Carolina Press, 2000.Virgin copy, not yet traded. New. 8vo. Pp. xxvi, 248. With 3 full-page maps, 2 halftone illustrations (one full-page), 20 tables, appendix with extra 5 tables; notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.
First edition. The German National Railway played a crucial role in the Holocaust by supporting the construction and operation of the Nazi death camps and by transporting Jews and others for extermination. In this, the second and independent volume of Mierzejewski’s comprehensive history of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, this period, from 1933 to 1945 is explored. The author examines the role of the Reichsbahn in German armament, its participation in Germany’s military operations, and its cooperation with the government’s anti-Semitic policies. “An original and compelling account. An essential sourcebook for the specialist, a catalyst for further research by the student, and a fascinating saga for the general reader”.
€ 43 --
42 MORISON, Samuel Eliot. Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume VI. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xxix, 463. Plus 30 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text. With halftone portrait frontispiece, numerous halftone illustrations and maps (some full-page), 37 charts (some double-page); appendix, index. Pictorial wrappers (with a bumped corner.)
Renewed in 1978, this is an excellent reprint of the 1950 edition. Morison (1887-1976) was the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and the author or editor of more than fifty books. This volume tracks the Allies’ entrance into the offensive phase of the Pacific war. Having gained crucial victories at Midway and Guadalcanal, Allied forces committed substantially increased resources to breaking the Bismarcks barrier, a formidable net of Japanese air and naval bases stretching from the central Solomons to New Guinea, controlling all shipping between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 0252069978 0 252 06997 8
€ 19 --
43 MORISON, Samuel Eliot. Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume IV. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xxiii, 305. Plus 30 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text. With halftone portrait frontispiece, numerous halftone illustrations and maps (some full-page), 19 charts (some double-page); index. Pictorial wrappers.
Renewed in 1977, this is an excellent reprint of the 1949 edition. Morison (1887-1976) was the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and the author or editor of more than fifty books. Here he details the American victory in the Coral Sea and the U.S. Navy’s stunning defeat of a far superior Japanese force at Midway, as well as the events leading up to the six-month struggle at Guadalcanal. This volume also provides a richly detailed look at the first-year exploits of the “Silent Service”: the fledgling American submarine corps in the Pacific. Morison supplements his firsthand experience of American operations and access to Allied documents with critical information from the Japanese side. 0252069951 0 252 06995 1
€ 19 --
44 MORISON, Samuel Eliot. The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume V. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xxii, 389. With halftone portrait frontispiece, numerous halftone illustrations and maps (some full-page), 36 charts (some double-page); appendix, index. Pictorial wrappers.
Renewed in 1977, this is an excellent reprint of the 1949 edition. Morison (1887-1976) was the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and the author or editor of more than fifty books. During the six months covered by this volume, the U.S. Navy fought six major engagements in waters surrounding Guadalcanal, more bitter and bloody than any naval battle in American history since 1814. From the Solomon Islands campaigns to the courageous action of Edson’s Raiders at the Battle of the Bloody Ridge, from the great three-day Naval Battle of Guadalcanal to the Battle of Tassafaronga, Morison describes the events of these excruciating months in thrilling, heartbreaking detail from the ship decks, cockpits, and exposed ridge-tops where the fate of thousands of soldiers and sailors was decided. 025206996X 0 252 06996 X
€ 19 --
45 MORRIS, Kate. British Techniques of Public Relations and Propaganda for Mobilising East and Central Africa During World War II. Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. 480. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, light sand cloth, lettered in dark blue, without dust-jacket as issued.
First edition. Studies in British History, volume 61. Kate Morris is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Here she presents a thoroughly researched, soundly judged and readable account of how British officials and politicians had sought to create a “new” empire in Africa, and of their attempts to develop and deploy the appropriate techniques of persuasion. ISBN:#0773478051 ISBN:#0 7734 7805 1
€ 140 --
46 MUNOZ, Antonio J. The Druzhina SS Brigade: A History, 1941-1943. Bayside, Axis Europa Books, 2000.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. 98. With numerous halftone and line illustrations throughout, 4 full-page maps, tables, charts, appendix; notes, bibliography. Pictorial wrappers.
First edition. The “Druzhina” SS Formation was a brigade of Russian volunteers who collaborated with the German Army during the Second World War, as did many hundreds of thousands of other Russians. An interesting publication by an interesting publishing house. ADDED: A curious document, a Disclaimer by Rabbi Dovid HaKohain Kent, in which he expresses his wish “to go on the record to state that Axis Europa books are devoid of any anti-Jewish content (...) For a person to call the author, Antonio Munoz a Nazi, God Forbid, is guilty of falsehood.” ISBN:#1891227378 ISBN:#1 891227 37 8
€ 28 --
47 NEWCOMB, Richard F. Iwo Jima. [Dutch Translation]. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, n.d.Crown 8vo. Pp. Plus a suite of halftone plates. Endpapers maps. Hardcover, original red cloth gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. Very good condition.
First Dutch edition.
€ 22 --
48 NOAKES, Jeremy, and G. Pridham (Editors). Nazism 1919-1945. Volume I: The Rise to Power 1919-1934; Volume II: State, Economy and Society 1933-1939; Volume III: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination; Volume IV: The German Home Front in World War II. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2001.Four volumes. BRAND NEW. Virgin copies, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. viii, 206; viii, 434; x, 678; (viii), 698. With tables, lists of sources, notes, bibliographies, indices. Volume III with 15 full- and double-page maps in two colours. Wrappers (back of Vol. III creased).
Reprints. Vol. 1 first published 1983; new edition with Index, 1998, reprinted 1999. Vol. 2 first published 1984; new updated edition with Index, 2000. Vol. 3 first published 1988; new updated edition with Index and with revised Chapters 37, 38, and 39, 2001. Vol. 4 first edition, 1998. The documents in the four volumes of this acclaimed series are drawn from a wide range of sources - official and party documents, memoirs, letters, diaries and newspapers - and are linked with a commentary. The combination of documents and commentary represents at the same time a textbook, an original contribution to scholarship and a useful source books for students and historians. “The finest collection of sources, and moreover one in which the documents are interwoven with a fascinating analytical narrative.” - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich: A New History. ISBN:#0 85989 598 X ISBN:#0 85989 599 8 ISBN:#0 85989 602 1 ISBN:#085989598X ISBN:#0859895998 ISBN:#0859896021 ISBN:#0859893111
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49 NOREL, K., and L. D. Terlaak Poot; M. J. Adriani Engels en G. H. Wallagh; (no author); Antoon Coolen; Abel J. Herzberg; J. H. D. Kammeijer; Boudewijn van Houten; Hans Nesna. De tyrannie verdrijven. AND: Nacht over Nederland. AND: Vijf jaar ondergrondse strijd. AND: Bevrijd vaderland. AND: Amor Fati. AND: 5 (vijf) jaar onder Duitschen druk. AND: Ooggetuigen van de tweede wereldoorlog. AND: Dans of de vulkan. [Lot van 8 boeken]. Wageningen, Zomer en Keunings, 1947; Ons vrije Nederland, 1946; No imprint; Rotterdam Nijgh Van Ditmar 1945; Amsterdam, Moussault, 1947; Laren, Schoonderbeek, 1946; Hoevelaken, Ruitenberg, 1990.Lot of 8 books on the history of the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Hardcover, original cloth. “Ooggetuigen...” is a brand new soft cover. Excellent collection in a very good condition, very moderately priced.
Lot van 8 boeken: De tyrannie verdrijven. AND: Nacht over Nederland. AND: Vijf jaar ondergrondse strijd. AND: Bevrijd vaderland. AND: Amor Fati. AND: 5 (vijf) jaar onder Duitschen druk. AND: Ooggetuigen van de tweede wereldoorlog. AND: Dans of de vulkan.
€ 45 --
50 (NOVÁK, Václav). Terezín. Terezín, Terezín Monument, 1985.4to. Pp. 77. Commemoration album with over 80 photographs. Original card wrappers. In a very good condition.
First edition. Chronicles the history of the camp. Text in Polish, Russian, German, French, English.
€ 20 --
51 OBERKOMMANDOS DER WEHRMACHT (HRSG.) DER OSTEN SONDERLEHRGANG. 1. TEIL. 16. SAMMELBAND DER SCHRIFTENREIHE “SOLDATENBRIEFE ZUR BERUFSFÖRDERUNG”. BRESLAU/LEIPZIG, Hirt, 1941.Octavo. Pp. 182. Plus extra suite of photographs, printed on different paper. Text illustrations, maps, photographs. Original printed wrappers. In about fine condition.
- - First edition.
€ 15 --
52 OLSON, Wesley. Bitter Victory: The Death of the HMAS Sydney. Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 2000.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. ix, 437. Plus extended plan of HMAS Sydney bound in. With a number of halftone illustrations and naval charts, some full-page. Appendices including Roll of Honour, notes, bibliography, index. Pictorial wrappers.
First edition. On 11 November 1941, Armistice Day, HMAS Sydney sailed from Fremantle on a routine escort mission, failing to return nine days later as expected. Olson provides “perhaps the most valuable contribution towards solving this lingering naval enigma,” one of the greatest maritime mysteries in Australian history. ISBN:#1876268913
€ 28 --
53 PARKER, Pauline E. (Editor). Women of the Homefront: World War II Recollections of 55 Americans. Jefferson, McFarland, 2002.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. x, 300. Index. With a number of halftone illustrations. Wrappers.
First edition. The personal stories of women marines, secret government project workers, mothers and others during the Second World War. ISBN:#0786413468
€ 32 --
54 PEELEN, G. J. Illustrated by H. Berserik. ’t Begon onder melkenstijd. Den Haag, Voorhoeve, n.d.Crown 8vo. Pp. 172. With many full-page pen-and-ink drawings. Illustrated front endpapers, printed with a map in colour. Hardcover, original cloth-backed boards, cover illustrate in brown. Very good condition.
Third edition.
€ 24 --
55 PEELEN, G. J. Illustrated by H. Berserik. ’t Begon onder melkenstijd. Den Haag, Voorhoeve, n.d.Crown octavo. Pp. 172. With many full-page pen-and-ink drawings. Endpapers printed with a map in colour. Hardcover, bound in the original cloth-backed boards, cover illustrated in brown, with dust-jacket (chipped, repairs to verso). In a very good condition.
Fifth edition.
€ 28 --
56 PICHT, Werner. Das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht gibt bekannt: Wahrheit und Lüge über den September-Feldzug 1939. Berlin, Mittler, 1940.8vo. Pp. 72. Plus folding map “Operationsskizze der ersten 16 Tage des Feldzuges in Polen (1-16 Sept. 1939)” loosely inserted in pocket at rear as issued. Original wrappers, printed in white. In fine condition. (Private ownership stamp, lower cover spotted.) A fine, crisp copy.
- - Second edition.
€ 75 --
57 PINKERTON, Elaine (Editor). From Calcutta With Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard. Lubbock, Texas Tech University Press, 2002.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xxvi, 352. With frontispiece, numerous halftone illustrations throughout (some full-page); appendix, notes, glossary, further reading list, index. Hardcover, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket.
First edition. With a foreword by Wendall A. Phillips, National Chaplain. The China-Burma-India theatre was one of the most complex and frustrating of any theatre of World War II. Often called the forgotten war, it was holding action until the war in Europe had been won. The CBI was a combined military effort of the United States, British Commonwealth, China, Burma, India, Canada, and Australia, with both air and ground forces. This is an extraordinary selection of letters, the first ever published with an American’s perspective of “the forgotten theatre.” ISBN:#0896724689 ISBN:#0 89672 468 9
€ 22 --
58 POSPELOW, P. N. (Editor). Geschichte des Großen [Grossen] Vaterländischen Krieges der Sowjetunion in 6 Bänden. Volumes I-VI. Plus Map Volume. [SEVEN VOLUMES]. Berlin, Deutscher Militärverlag, 1962-68.Seven volumes. Thick crown quarto. Pp. xxxx, 587; 749; 730; 780; 719; 685. Plus several suites of photographic plates to each volume; fine plates of insignia and decorations, printed in colour from relief metal blocks. Footnotes, indices. Map Volume is a case containing a total of 119 single-sheet colour lithographic maps, many folding, divided into folders; a list of contents and a cartographic legend. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher’s cloth, gilt, spines decorated, marker ribbons, with dust-jackets (these are very good with few minor nicks). In a very fine condition. Excellent set, wonderfully well preserved. All single-sheet maps are in pristine condition.
- - First edition. A remarkable enterprise, exceedingly scarce.
€ 350 --
59 REYNOLDS, David. From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 2001.Virgin copy, not yet traded. New. 8vo. Pp. x, 209. Index. Wrappers.
First edition.
€ 15 --
60 RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL, Lord. The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes. London, Cassell, 1958.Crown 8vo. Pp. xv, 335. Plus 24 pages of halftone illustrations. Appendix, index. Hardcover, original black cloth, spine lettered in red. Very good condition. (Some spotting to edges and margins.)
Second edition, published the same month as the first. Based on material produced at war crimes trials, and evidence collected by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Include a chilling set of photographs of atrocities.
€ 30 --
61 SCHRÖDER, Bernd Philipp. Deutschland und der Mittlere Osten im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Studien und Dokumente zur Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Göttingen, Musterschmidt, 1975.Royal octavo. Pp. 310, (2) publisher’s catalogue. Plus 28 photo plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Three folding maps, printed in black and red, loosely inserted in rear pocket. Footnotes, appendices, bibliography, indices. Hardcover, original black cloth, gilt, with dust-jacket (this good), bookplate. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused, with a crisp set of maps.
- - First edition. Exceedingly scarce standard work. 3788114169
€ 165 --
62 SNOW, Edgar. The Battle for Asia. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1944.Crown 8vo. Pp. ix, 431. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original printed blue cloth. Very good condition.
Fourth printing.
€ 20 --
63 SPEIDEL, Hans. Invasion 1944: Ein Beitrag zu Rommels und des Reiches Schicksal. Tübingen, Wunderlich, 1952.8vo. Pp. 203. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original cloth-backed boards, decoration in blind to upper board. In fine condition. (Private ownership stamp to blank prelim.) Excellent copy.
Fourth edition.
€ 29 --
64 TAYLOR, A. J. P. The War Lords. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1977.Royal 8vo. Pp. 189. Index. Profusely illustrated throughout. Hardcover, original light-blue cloth, spine gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. In fine condition.
First British edition.
€ 25 --
65 TOMBLIN, Barbara Brooks. With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2004.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 578. Plus 2 suites of photograph inserts, printed on fine paper. Endpaper maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover with dust-jacket.
- - First edition. ADDED: “A Conversation with Barbara Brooks Tomblin”, a 2-page leaflet issued by the University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813123380 ISBN 0 8131 2338 0
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66 TULEJA, Thaddeus V. Eclipse of the German Navy. London, Dent, 1959.8vo. Pp. 284. Frontispiece. Plus a number of halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. Bibliography. Hardcover, original leaf green cloth, spine lettered in copper, with dust-jacket. In a very good condition.
First British edition. A portrait of the German naval men, the sea battles they fought, their victories and defeats.
€ 35 --
67 VAT, Dan van der. Paintings by Tom Freeman. Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy: An Illustrated History. New York, Basic Books, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Square crown 4to. Pp. 176. With over 250 halftone and colour images (many full-page) throughout; bibliography, index. Hardcover, navy blue cloth, lettered in silver, with pictorial dust-jacket. Printed on fine paper.
First edition. Recreates every key moment of the hours of Pearl Harbor. Compelling narrative illuminated by a wealth of archival images, including previously unpublished material and contemporary photographs. With specially commissioned paintings by Marine artist Tom Freeman. Plus dimensional diagrams tracing every stage of the attack. ADDED: 8-page publicity brochure, printed on fine paper, with numerous halftone and colour illustrations of which many appear in the book. Identical in size, it features the dust-jacket illustration on its front cover. ISBN:#0465089828 ISBN:#0 465 08982 8
€ 29 --
68 VAT, Dan van der. Paintings by Tom Freeman. Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy: An Illustrated History. New York, Basic Books, 2001.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Square crown 4to. Pp. 176. With over 250 halftone and colour images (many full-page) throughout; bibliography, index. Hardcover, navy blue cloth, lettered in silver, with pictorial dust-jacket. Printed on fine paper.
First edition. Recreates every key moment of the hours of Pearl Harbor. Compelling narrative illuminated by a wealth of archival images, including previously unpublished material and contemporary photographs. With specially commissioned paintings by Marine artist Tom Freeman. Plus dimensional diagrams tracing every stage of the attack. ADDED: 8-page publicity brochure, printed on fine paper, with numerous halftone and colour illustrations of which many appear in the book. Identical in size, it features the dust-jacket illustration on its front cover. A scarce collector’s item, with small ink inscription to back cover. ISBN:#0465089828 ISBN:#0 465 08982 8
€ 29 --
69 WEBER, Theo. Die Luftschlacht um England. Frauenfeld, Flugwehr und -Technik, 1956.Octavo. Pp. 205. Illustrations, photographs, diagrams. Original wrappers, spine ends worn, shelf label, old institutional stamps. Else a good copy, very good interior.
- - First edition.
€ 20 --
70 WERTH, Alexander. Rusland in oorlog, 1941-1945. Amsterdam, Omega Books, 1979.Royal 8vo. Pp. 582. With illustrated endpapers, vignette headpieces to each of the book’s eight parts, numerous photographic plates, printed on different paper, bound in the text in several suites, several full-page maps describing different stages at the theatre of war; index. Hardcover, spine lettered in gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. Very good condition.
Translated from the original English title “Russia at War 1940-1945” by Sem Davis.
€ 20 --
71 WEYGAND, Général (Preface). La Seconde Guerre mondiale. Numéro spécial du Larousse Mensuel de 1939 à 1947. Paris, Larousse, 1951.Royal quarto. Pp. viii, 552. Plus eight colour plates bound in. Profusely illustrated with 1035 photos and 68 maps. Title-page printed in red and black. Extended chronology of events, necrology, extended indices. Hardcover, original pebbled cloth, aeroplane formation embossed in gilt and in blind, spine decorated gilt. Decorative endpapers. In a very good condition. (Old institutional stamp; paper label to front paste-down.) Overall an excellent copy.
First edition. Remarkable collection of images, including views, portraits, civil life, battle scenes, etc. The colour artwork plates are worth pursuing in particular. Uncommon, particularly so in the original publisher’s decorative binding.
€ 115 --
72 WHITING, Charles. Ghost Front: The Ardennes before the Battle of the Bulge. New York, Da Capo Press, 2002.BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. 220. Plus 12 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the. With 23 halftone illustrations, 3 full-page maps; notes, sources, index. Hardcover, half cloth, spine lettered in yellow, with dust-jacket.
First edition. The Story of America’s worst intelligence blunder of World War II. The book tries to answer the question of exactly how Germany was able to secretly mass its strategic reserves opposite the U.S. front, in preparation for Hitler’s gigantic counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest during the final year of the war. ISBN:#0306811480 ISBN:#0 306 81148 0
€ 18 --
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