New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith Inc., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 521; black cloth ruled in red and lettered in silver. A view of the European powers in the period leading up to WWII; British, Germans, Italians, Russians, French all careening toward the edge... More about Not to Be Repeated, Merry-Go-Round Of Europe
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Second Edition, but first Macmillan edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 131, glossary; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; photographs by Cpl. Edward J. Freeman and Pfc. John H. Birch Jr.; quarter gray blue cloth and pictorial boards; lettered in silver. This copy is inscribed... More about Boot, A Marine In The Making
(Hamden Ct.): Anchon Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (viii), 119; black cloth lettered in gilt; in a dust jacket; A beautiful inscribed copy. The personal experiences of an American infantry soldier of the 10th Mountain Division in WWII. He recounts the final skirmishes against the retreating German Army... More about War Journal of an Innocent Soldier
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. (New York: 2001). Quarto (8.5" x11"), blue boards in pictorial jacket. 240pp. with index and glossary. Illustrated with vintage photos in sepia-tone. More about Jane's Battles with the Luftwaffe; The Bomber Campaign Against Germany 1942-45
Waukesha & New York: Country Beautiful Foundation, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. quarto; pp; 98; illustrated with black and white & color photographs; pictorial blue paper covered boards lettered in gilt;. A lovely retrospective. More about Winston S. Churchill: A Man of Destiny
New York: Barnes & Noble, (1995). First B & N Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; viii, (ii), 734, index; black and white photographs; black cloth and black paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. "An indispensable, compellingly readable political, military and social history of the Third Reich... More about Nazi Germany: A New History
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1940. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; Unpaginated, (approx. 225 leaves) printed on rectos only; black cloth top edge and yellow printed paper wrappers;. Bound from the top as a tablet might be, this polemic and propaganda piece outlines the Nazi take over of the... More about Total Defense, Memorandum, Economic Conquest Of The Americas
New York: Metropolitan Books, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (x), 507, (i), index; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps; burgundy cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There... More about Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
(Amsterdam, NY: printed by Howard Coggeshall for Mohawk Carpet Mills, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (68); illustrated with thirty-five mostly two page black and white photographs; cream linen with a leather title label lettered in gilt; binding is a bit soiled else very good;. A chronicle of the contribution... More about Smoke: The Story of a Fight
Delacorte Press, (2014). First Edition, ARC Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (x), 292; illustrated with black and white photographs and a map; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback;. This is "The #1 New York Times Bestseller Adapted for Young Adults." Advanced Reading Copy. These are prepublication copies, true first editions that... More about Unbroken, An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
New York: Pantheon, (1989). Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 365; green cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Extensive excerpts from Kennan's diaries. Kennan was at the center of so much 20th century history. More about Sketches From A Life
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 337, index; eight plates, map endpapers; beige linen in a dust jacket, top edge stained red; jacket chipped at spine ends;. An inciteful account from both sides of the lines by a Red Cross PR officer... More about Let There be Mercy, the Odyssey of a Red Cross Man; Foreord by Theodore Roosevelt
Italy: Stars And Stripes Mediterranean, 1945. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp. (viii), 117, (i); illustrated with the cartoons of Bill Mauldin; original printed stiff pictorial paper wrappers; Some edge wear, fading to the covers, what do you expect, it has been through a war, else very good. Mauldin chronicaled the... More about This Damn Tree Leaks: A Collection of War Cartoons
(Somerset): Patrick Stephens Limited, (1994). Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo, pp; (16), 224, index; photographs; gilt lettered blue cloth in a pictorial dust jacket;. WWII memoirs and incidents. More about Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories; Eye-Witness Accounts From American Airmen And British Civilians...
London: George Rainbird, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 32; beautifully illustrated throughout with impressionist color plates; black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. More about The State Funeral Of Sir Winston Churchill: A Sketchbook By Charles Mozley
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. (1977). Octavo (6.25" x 9.25"), brown boards in dust jacket. 308pp. with index, bibliography and notes. Maps and photos in black and white. With an autograph letter, signed "Gus" by the author and a lengthy inscription in the book. The letter refers... More about German Raiders of World War II; The first complete history of Germany's ocean mauraders- the last...
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (2000). Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 765; profusely illustrated with twenty-four maps and one hundred twenty-eight black and white photographs; black cloth and gray boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. "In the course of the twentieth century, no war... More about A War to Be Won, Fighting the Second World War
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; (xvi), 767, index; illustrated with fifty-five maps and other photographs; cream cloth lettered in red in a dust jacket;. Photographs, glossary, chronology, tables, plans, maps, bibliography, indexed, a very substanial reference work. More about The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II
New York: Macmillan, (1973). Stated First American Edition. Compiled by Jochen Von Lang, Translated from the German by Nicholas Fry. Large octavo; pp; 223, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; black cloth, gilt in a dust jacket;. Gleanings of statements from Hitler in what one might call off the... More about Hitler Close-up; Compiled by Jochen Von Lang, Translated from the German by Nicholas Fry
New York: Doubleday & Company, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xii), 353, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; black cloth and gray paper covered boards, lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket;. A Chronicle of Joe & Jack in WWII. More about The Kennedys At War 1937-1945
(Boulder): University of Colorado Press, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xviii, (iv), 256, index; photographs, maps; gray cloth, lettered in silver, in a dust jacket; Very good in very good dust-jacket. Concentrates on three American ski champions who were transformed into alpine troopers in the storied 10th Mountain Division... More about The Boys Of Winter; Life And Death In The U.S. Ski Troops During The Second World War
New York: Arcade Publishing, (1995). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; viii, (ii), 286, bibliography; illustrated with photographs and a genealogical chart; red cloth and black paper covered boards lettered in black in a dust jacket; A review copy with the release laid in;. Wallenberg saved as many as 100,000... More about Letters And Dispatches 1924-1944
New York: Modern Age Books, (1939). First Modern Age Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 324; original printed paper wrappers, paperback. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Written on the eve of World War II, subtitled “A Soldier’s Forecast For Citizens”; “Werner takes up the war potentials of each country, -- man..... More about Military Strength Of The Powers