Resultados de búsqueda: History -- German from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Aina Kai Books, Pennsylvania, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 410 g.; X, 212 pages, Preface by Author, A Note to the Reader. Red coloured cloth covered boards with gilt illustration and titles to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the book corners. Illustrated dustwrappers, same illustration as the underlying board, with white background and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. A hint of rubbing to the dustwrapper edges. In this book of 70 stories, the author recounts his childhood growing up under the regime of the Nazi political system. First English Translation. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Military History -- World War II; Social History; History -- German; ISBN: 0964431807. ISBN/EAN: 9780964431805. Inventory No: 0109981. . 9780964431805

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. XIV, 450pp., last 5 blank, forward by authors, list of illustrations, sources, references and index. Within the text there are 27 black and white photographs and one double page map, showing the Berlin blockade. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Bumping to the top front corner of the book and there is faint browning to the top paper edge. Photographic dustwrapper showing montage of photographs of the Berlin airlift, with black writing on the front panel and grey and white on the spine. Faint crinkling to the top dustwrapper edge and there is a stain visible on the verso on the lower front panel closest to the spine. Some rubbing to the top rear spine gutter edge. A history of the Berlin airlift 1948-1949, when the Russians decided to starve Berlin into submission. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity… Leer más

I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, Publishers, London, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. VI, 184 pages, last six pages blank, introduction by author and post script. Black coloured boards with built titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a member of the Nazi party holding his young child, against a black background with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. " Many books have attempted to explain that Nazi phenomenon, how ordinary, decent law-abiding citizens were swept up and away by Nazism's deadly ideology. But none have dealt adequately with its legacy to subsequent generations. In this important book Sichrovsky, is himself a Jew, has interviewed the children and grandchildren of Nazis to explore how they have come to terms with their parents' part in some of the most sinister and systematically executed crimes in the history of mankind" -- from the front fold over panel. Translated from the German by Jean Steinberg.… Leer más

The John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Maps. XIV 434 pages, last two pages blank, acknowledgements, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with the two maps which are both foldout . Brown coloured cloth covered boards with yellow titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip and nothing to the book corners. Light age toning to the text block edges. The major damage of the book has been contract with moisture to the endpapers through to the end of the book -- the residual moisture marks and bumping fades as the book gets further to the back. The creation of the Berlin Wall, the political machinations between President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev and the escalation of the Cold War. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Politics & Government;… Leer más

John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: photographic and Diagrams. 725 g; X, 310 pages, includes appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, index; the text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout the text, and a diagram showing German intelligence command structure. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. The book shows no signs of damage, other than having been gently read. In May 1940, as Nazi panzers overran the Netherlands, Felix Kersten received a summons he dared not refuse. A successful and prosperous physical therapist who administered the Dutch Royal family, Kersten was "asked" to forsake his adopted home in the Netherlands and become personal physician to the Nazi Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler. While others might have spent the ensuing years paying fearful obeisance to this monstrous and unpredictable master, Kersten discovered that he had both the means and the courage to manipulate the surprisingly… Leer más

German Section, Dept of Modern Languages, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 1967. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. VIII, 537., last page blank, introduction by authors, abbreviations, index to classification, alphabetical author and title index. Pale grey card covers, with black writing on front panel and spine. The corners of the are slightly turned over and there is rubbing and fading to the covers. Grubby marks to both front and back panels. Result of insect activities can be seen on front panel, spine, back panel and to the first few pages of book. Creasing and small tears has happened to the edges of the covers. The authors in 1967, set out catalogue all books held in the various Melbourne libraries relating to Germans speaking people and culture. This book is the result. Size: Oblong 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" tall but wider. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2… Leer más

William Heinemann, North Sydney, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. (11), XII-XIII, (5), 2-366, (2) pages, preface by authors, four appendices, acknowledgements, references, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photography between paid 176 and 177. Colour photographic cover with black and ochre coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. previous owner's details at the top of the 1st page. No other damage to describe. The story of one of the most extraordinary wartime sagas of the 20th century, let alone the First World War. " Sent by Germany on a suicide mission to the far side of the world, the Wolf was a formidable and ingenious commerce-Raider. Their task was to inflict maximum destruction on Allied shipping using all the latest technology of warfare -- torpedoes, minds, cannons, smokescreens, wireless receivers even a seaplane. It was an assignment so secret that she… Leer más