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USA: ABACUS/Little Brown and Co, 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Photographic illustrations. Clean, tight and unmarked book with a touch of cover edgewear and a small closed tear on lower edge of back cover. Internals very clean and free from any markings. Essays by eminent historians on twenty generals whose reputations were made, or broken, by Churchill and the Second World War. 368 pages with index. 5 x 7.75 inches. ABACUS/Little Brown and Co., London, England, 1999.

USA: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First US Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. Photographic illustrations. Essays by eminent historians on twenty generals whose reputations were made (or broken) by Churchill and the Second World War. Olive-green half cloth gilt titled with olive-green boards, pristine condtion. Pictorial jacket with photographs of some of the generals. Not price-clipped. 368 pages. 6.5 x 9.6 inches. Grove Weidenfeld Publishers, New York, 1991.

Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2008. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7. First Sourcebooks Trade Paperback Edition in Good Condition. An account of the Yalta Conference, the men who had the destiny of Europe in their hands-- Churchill, Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt-- and the outcome. 338 pages. Naperville, Ill, Sourcebooks Landmark, 2008.

Cassell Illustrated/Octopus Publishing Group, Ltd, 2018. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. This Edition first published by Cassell Illustrated, 2018. (First published in 1989 in Great Britain by Octopus Publishing Group). As New Condition. No Jacket. Flexibound in lime-green cover with orange title; various authors names on front in dark green. Very handsome. Sewn binding. Endpapers in front and back with Dated Events Invasion Map of Fortress Europe. in color. Authentic and impassioned stories of heroism and brutality, starvation and survival, defeats and triumphs from World War II's most poignant hours. Highlights from the greatest war novels include James Jone's "From Here To Eternity". Evelyn Waugh's "Officers and Gentlemen", Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." True-life accounts include the Battle of Britain from Guy Gibson, VC, the exploits of the French Resistance from Australian Nancy Wake, and a report of Hiroshima by John… Leer más

Regnery History, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Publisher: Regnery History, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Capt. George Starks, WWII B-17 Pilot The Mighty Eighth. Foreword by Lt. Gen. E. G. "Buck" Shuler, Jr., Former Commander English Air Force. Book is bound in black cloth with silver title to spine, very clean and unmarked, faint rubbing to lower edge, ever-so-sight compression of upper corner tips, remainder mark to lower edge of text block. Internals as new. A story of Adventure, Loyalty, and Brotherhood. On March 16, 1944 Lt George Starks and the nine-man crew of his Flying Fortress headed for Germany assigned to "coffin corners', the most exposed position in the bomber formation. They never got there. Shot down over Nazi-occupied France, the airmen bailed and scattered over the countryside in the farmland of Champagne. This is their story--the one who got safely across the border, Capt. George W.… Leer más

New York, New York, USA: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Good + Condition. No Jacket. Solid, tight, large volume in blue cloth binding with red panel on front and spine, gilt titles. Rubbed on edges, lightly scuffed at corners and spine ends; on front around the lower part of the red title panel, the blue is faded. Lower edge of text block is spotted. Former owner name on endpaper. Flyleaf in front is wrinkled. Internals clean, unmarked, untorn--no highlighting or underlining. This is the story of how France fell before Hitler's armies in 1940, told against the background of Frrench history and World War II, which helps explain, in some measure, the fall and occupation. 1,082 pages. 6 x 9.25 inches. 1969, Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, USA

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6. Type: Hardback Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Mylar Jacket Cover. Clean and bright, tight and solid book.Jacket not price-clipped. The Conquerors reveals one of the most important stories of WW II. While the fighting was going on in the battlefield, Roosevelt and later Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again. This is that story. 377 pages, indexed. 6.5 x 9.5. 2002, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Mylar Jacket Cover. Clean and bright, tight and solid book. Jacket not price-clipped. The Conquerors reveals one of the most important stories of WW II. While the fighting was going on in the battlefield, Roosevelt and later Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again. This is that story. 377 pages, indexed. 6.5 x 9.5. 2002, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA

New York, New York, USA: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked book with faint wear to extremities; tight, solid and square. Internals completely unmarked. The Conquerors reveals one of the most important stories of WW II. While the fighting was going on in the battlefield, Roosevelt and later Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again. This is that story. 377 pages, indexed. 6.5 x 9.5. 2002, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA

New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century Campaign Book No. 1. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. First Printing. B/w photos throughout. Clean and unmarked with slight wear to extremities, hinge edges rubbed, no text markings of any kind, pages quite clean, double column format. The mission: "As Stauffenberg reached the staff car, the explosion went off with an enormous, deafening sound. Stauffenberg knew at once from its sheer magnitude that his mission must have been successful. It was 12.42 by their watches-the historic moment (he was convinced) of Hitler's death". 158 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1971, Ballantine Books, New York.

U.S.A: Dell Publishing, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover, solid and tight glued binding, slight wear to cover edges, internals clean with no marks of any kind. Monotone historic photographs on coated paper. Gerald Astor brings to life the struggle to recapture the Philippines from the Japanese during World War II: the men who fought, the battles that set the stage for an Allied invasion, from Correegidor to the Battle for Manila, from horrifying jungle warfare to sea battles--Astor's vivid recounting of this history brings it alive for the reader. 651pages with Index. 7 x 4.25 inches. 2002, Dell Publishing, USA

New York: Random House, 1944. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Random House, 1944 Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Vintage Good Dust Jacket protected in archival sleeve. World War II from the viewpoint of a foreign correspondent on the ground, from his dispatches in the midst of the war--from Trinidad. Cairo, Palestine, Russia, North Africa, Sicily---. Book is bound in copper cloth with black title panel to spine, very clean, faintly bumped lower corner, tight and solid binding, rough cut. Former owner name of endpaper. Internals lightly toned, very clean, no marks of any kind. 353 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" Tall. 1944, Random House, NY

Conshohocken, PA: Savas Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Remainder First Edition Trade Paperback As New. Remainder Mark on lower edge. Bright, clean, tight and solid volume. This is the second book in the "History at a Glance" series, written to provide an overview of the Invasion of Normandy during World War II for people with little or no knowledge of this subject, yet also serving as a road map for those who are knowledgeable about WW II but want a review or are looking for other avenues to explore more deeply. It is full of fascinating detail about the men, strategies, tactics, and weaponry of D-Day. 219 pages, indexed. 6 x 9 inches. 2001, Savas Publishing, Conshohocken, PA.

Dachau: Dauchauer Hefte, Dachau, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publisher: Dauchauer Hefte, Dachau] Paperback Periodical in Very Good Condition. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. 240pp. Published for the Comitie International de Dachau, Brussels. Twelve essays appear in this new periodical; essentially they are unabridged English translations of the most important contributions from the three earlier issue of 'Dachauer Hefte' (which is published only in the German language). The focus is on three main areas: the liberation in 1945 (concerned principally with Dachau itself), slave labour in the concentration camps in German territory, and the resistance and persecution of women in the National Socialist state." 1988, Dauchauer Hefte, Dachau.

Pan Books/Pan Macmillan, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7. Pan Books/Pan Macmillan, 1983. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Eight pages of black and white photographs by The War Museum and Air Ministry. First published in England in 1951 by Evans Brothers Ltd. Clean and unmarked cover has light wear to edges, light spine creasing, tight and solid glued binding. Pages toned, clean, no marks, no creases. The story of the raid on May 17, 1943 when nearly 350 million tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 Squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder Dams with colossal blockbuster bombs. And it tells how 617 Squadron took out the V3 rocket weapon and destroyed the Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord. A classic of the Second World War. 272 pages. 8vo. 1983, Pan Books/Pan Macmillan.

U.S.A: Henry Holt & Co, 2001. First Thus. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Owl Books Edition. A classic re-creation of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Cover is clean and bright with light crease to lower corner of cover and first few pages. That corner of textblock has dark spots. Pages are clean and unmarked. Glued binding is tight and solid, with slight lean to spine. Walter Lord traces the human drama of the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the arfields and bases; and much more. 241 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Henry Holt & Co, New York, 2001.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. W. W. Norton, 1988. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. 48 illustrations. 7maps. Two-toned gray cover is clean and unmarked with slight wear to edges. Cover has entwined swastika and hammer and sickle at the top, in black and red. Pages very clean, no marks, no creases. Text block edges have some scattered spotting. In August 1931 Stalin signed a mutual nonaggression treaty with Hitler. With the Soviet Union off her back in the East, Hitler was able to unleash its Blitzkrieg on Poland, Holland, Belgium and France. Stalin was given large areas of Eastern Europe-the Baltic States, eastern Poland and parts of Romania. Stalin apparently had great faith in Hitler, ignoring warning signs of an attack on Russia. The attack at Barbarossa in 1941 by Germany took him completely by surprise. Now they became deadly enemies. Anthony Read and David Fisher provide a detailed and dramatic account in… Leer más

U.S.A: Free Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Tim Clayton and Phil Craig. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust jacket As New. Mylar jacket cover. Illustrations are photographs by the authors. In the spring/summer of 1942, a series of battles fought in North Africa's Western desert were the pivot point of the Second World War. This is the story of those battles-- Rommel's attack on the Gazala Line, the fighting retreat of the British 8th Army, the fall of Tobruk, El Alamein. It is more than a chronicle of battles won and lost, of the decisions of statesmen and generals.Iits stories are told from the perspective of the men and women who spent those months on the very tip of the Allied spear, with raw, personal experience documented on nearly every page. An exrtaordinary assessment of of the most important campaigns of the Second World War. 368 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Free Press, New York and London, 2003.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Mainstream of America Series, 1965. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket in protective archival sleeve. 14 Maps by Rafael Palacios. Maps on endpapers. In Grey cloth with gilt titles and stars to front, red title panel to back strip with gilt titles within, very clean, slight wear to lower front corner and spine heel. Sound, tight binding. Internals in Fine Condition-clean, unmarked, no creases. 704 pages. Bibliography, Notes, Index. 1965, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY

New York/Toronto/London: Bantam, 1966. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Remainder Paperback Book in Good Condition. World War II: The total experience in words and photographs, from the battle of Britain to Japan's dominance of the Far East. Historic photographs throughout. White cover with black lettering and airplanes is clean and unmarked, light wear to corners, spine creased, rem mk on lower edge; binding tight, solid and square. Pages quite clean, no markings of any kind, no creasing. 215 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches. 1966 reissue-first published 1962 with six reprints. Bantam Books, New York/Toronto/London.