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New York: Basic Books. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1997. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0465041949 . DJ shows some shelf wear with creasing top and bottom edges, top fore corners and spine ends bumped. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.30 X 6.50 X 1.30 inches; 278 pages; "Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cézanne, and Picasso. Before they were through, the Nazis had taken more than 20,000 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from France.The Lost Museum explores the Nazis’ systematic confiscation of these artworks, focusing on the private collections of five families: Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss. The book is filled with private family photos of this art,… Leer más

London: Penguin Press HC, The. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1594200300 . Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Photographs; 9.3 X 6.5 X 1.7 inches; 488 pages; "Describes how one of Britain's most important aristocrats, Lord Londonderry, was ruined by his association with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and the miscalculations on the part of the British that led to the Second World War." .

New York: Chartwell Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2016. Reprint. Hardcover. 0785834354 . DJ shows light shelf wear, 1" tear top fore edge.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Map endpapers, color and B&W maps throughout ; 11.0 X 9.0 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages; "From the earliest onslaught of troops in the Invasion of Poland to the D-Day and the Liberation of France. Features historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert historian. The events of the battles are detailed and illustrated, artfully telling a story of what occurred through maps with handwritten notes from the front lines. Complete with detailed courses of action for air strikes and naval battles along with annotated maps that illustrated the planned supply routes and attacks for soldiers is pictures of ruins, troops, world leaders, newspaper clippings, and more! Types of maps featured: Maps cover key battles and offensives on major… Leer más

Deloraine, Manitoba, Canada: DTS Pub. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0968266207 . Light scuffing to DJ.; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar; 138 pages; From the front DJ flap. "Traditions of a pacifist people clashed with the demands of World War II. Mennonites in Canada with a reputation for non-resistance in terms of military service faced the demands of the times. 'Mennonites at War' documents the astonishing extent to which Mennonites in Canada served the country of their adoption in the military during those trying years." .

New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0670286303 . The dustjacket shows some light wear and chipping, book shows light wear to extremities. ; A bright, solid book, map endpapers, illustrated with B&W photos and maps. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 323 pages; "In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel… Leer más

New York: Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ scuffed with short tears head and tail of spine ; A tight solid book. Dustjacket in mylar, map endpapers ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 509 pages; An analysis of what led to the beginning of hostilities in WWII .

Washington, DC: Regnery History. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2015. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 162157346X . As new; A near-fine binding in a near-fine DJ. Dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 244 pages; "In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched “Operation Long Jump,” an intricate plan to track the Allied leaders in Tehran and assassinate all three men at the same time. “I suppose it would make a pretty good haul if they could get all three of us,” Roosevelt later said. Historian Bill Yenne retells the incredible, globe-spanning story of the most ambitious assassination plot ever thwarted in Operation Long Jump." .

London: John Murray. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2005. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0719554780 . DJ and boards show some shelf wear. Small tears on bottom edge of DJ.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; 9.3 X 6.5 X 2.1 inches; 739 pages; "1945 is a monumental, multi-dimensional history of the end of World War II. Dallas narrates in meticulous detail the conflicts, contradictions, motives, and counter-motives that marked the end of the greatest military conflict in modern history and established lasting patterns of deceit, uncertainty, and distrust out of which the Cold War was born. Beginning with the siege of Berlin, Dallas describes in simple human terms the interactions of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Zhukov, Truman, de Gaulle, Macmillan, along with others relatively unknown, vividly portraying the interpenetration of the daily with the epochal, the obscure with the great political events taking place… Leer más

London: W.S. Cowell. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ chipped with tears, creasing and soil, back board is a little warped. End papers foxed, gift notation on FFEP ; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 80 pages .

London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with small tears and chipping. The white matte dust jacket is dust soiled with the common darkening of the spine. Page edges lightly foxed and soiled ; A tight solid book. Dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 248 pages; Garratt writes of an ominous period before WWII when Hitler was gaining more power and support in Germany, the Communists and Fascists were fighting in Spain, Mussolini was gaining power in Italy. His main concern seems to be the draw that Fascism seemed to be having even in England. .

Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0750937084 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.2 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches; 209 pages; "Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish Section between 1942 and 1944. Polish agents at Audley End undertook a series of arduous training courses in all aspects of guerrilla warfare before being parachuted into occupied Europe. In 1943, Audley End, or Secret Training Station 43, was placed exclusively under Polish control, a situation unique within SOE. The training was tough and the pass-rate low, but a total of 527 agents passed through Audley End between 1941 and 1945." .

UK: Sutton Publishing Ltd. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0750925221 . A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; 183 pages .

New York: Bantam. Very Good-. 1985. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 0553342266 . Some creasing of card covers, pages lightly tanned ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 712 pages; "On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieving what had been considered impossible -- total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. Army, 600,000 American soldiers found themselves facing Hitler's last desperate effort of the war." .

Toronto: Stoddart. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0773732268 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Illustrated with B&W photographs and maps. This book was previously published in 1984 by Beaufort. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 470 pages; Brigadier General Denis Whitaker was a Lieutenant Colonel in this battle, commanding the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. .

Toronto: Harpercollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002000172 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. map endpapers, B&W photos ; 9.0 X 6.2 X 1.4 inches; 372 pages .

Boston: Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1944. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows soiling and edge wear with small tears and chipping, small stains on back. 1/2" piece missing from top spine of DJ. ; A tight solid book, blue cloth covered boards. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Map endpapers. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 127 pages; Written during the last years of World War II, this book is the story of the strategic implications of Greenland during the second world war, as a weather station to predict weather conditions during planned bombing runs over Europe. The book also recounts the crash of a B-17 bomber on the ice-cap during the war, and the subsequent rescue of the crew. .

Surrey, BC: Heritage House Publishing. Near Fine. 2002. First Edition. Paperback. 1894384466 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; B&W Photographs; 8.68 X 5.58 X 0.73 inches; 240 pages; "When Chief Gunner Hashiro Hayashi took dead aim on British Columbia's Estevan Point Lighthouse and wireless station on a June morning in 1942, the realities of war had come to North America. Sixty years later, the fascinating events of that era and their impact on both the Canadian and American psyches remain unknown to much of the world. After conducting decades of research and interviews with veterans on both sides of the conflict, author Brendan Coyle now reveals the campaign that included three attacks on British Columbia, an air raid on Portland, Oregon, and the harsh battles fought in Alaska. From the foreword:"Brendan Coyle has done a magnificent job in this comprehensive review of the war on the West Coast. No other single volume has so neatly tied together the… Leer más

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374286558 . Spine lightly concave.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; 9.1 X 6.1 X 2.4 inches; 738 pages; "In 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city's destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan community a thousand years old was facing its final days-and then opportunity struck. As Soviet soldiers turned back the Nazi invasion of Russia and began pressing west, the underground Polish Home Army decided to act. Taking advantage of German disarray and seeking to forestall the absorption of their country into the Soviet empire, they chose to liberate the city of Warsaw for themselves. Warsaw 1944 tells the story of this brave, and errant, calculation. For more than sixty days, the Polish fighters took over large… Leer más

Bellingham, WA: Exxel Publishing Co. Very Good+. 2006. First Edition. Softcover. 0978558200 . Signed by Author; Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, signed by the author on the half-title page.; B&W Photographs; 8.8 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches; 168 pages; "On May 10, 1940, Hitler's war machine blitzkrieged its way through the peaceful farm country of the Netherlands. In one small village, a boy's life would be forever changed by the events of the next 5 years. Readers will discover what it was like when you knew you were about to die in a hail of bullets. Still there is plenty of fun and mischief too with friends and siblings. The Way it Was is mostly about events during the Second World War. Those events not only affected the author's life; it largely molded the lives of all those who lived during the twentieth century. The Way it Was is intended to assure that the memories of that great conflict and the sacrifices made, will not soon be forgotten." .