Boatner III, Mark M.,

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF WORLD WAR II.

Presidio Press, California, ND (copyright 1996), 1st edn., 733pp, black glazed cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, lettered dustwrapper, a work containing over 1000 military, political and civilian biographical entries of key personalities from WW2, cross referenced and with a glossary and bibliography, dustwrapper: faint crease along upper edge, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32722

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: ww2 dictionary biography

Bradford, Ernle,

SIEGE : MALTA 1940-1943.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1988), 2nd imp., paperback, xvi, 247pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the battle that the island and British base of Malta underwent during WW2, survival being crucial to being able to supply Britains forces in Egypt and North Africa, and the siege that first the Italians and then the Luftwaffe imposed on that small Mediterranean island, lightly rubbed at extrems., light vertical creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 43467

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 mediterranean malta

Bryant, Arthur and Shanks, Edward,

THE SUMMER OF DUNKIRK and THE GREAT MIRACLE May-June, 1940.

Daily Sketch / Daily Graphic, London, ND [1949], 1st thus, 31pp, red cloth with darker red title panel lettered and bordered in white upper board, a series of short articles and poems commissioned by the proprietor of of the Daily Graphic / Daily Sketch in 1943 to commemorate Dunkirk, reprinted from the Daily Sketch, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., light sunning to cloth, free endpapers tanned, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 36785

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 navy army dunkirk france poetry

Bryant, Arthur,

TRIUMPH IN THE WEST 1943-1946.

Reprint Society, London, 1960, club edn., 447pp, 2 double page maps and 4 maps in text, quarter bound in maroon paper covered boards with cream paper backed spine, black title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge coloured, completing the War Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, lightly rubbed at tips, tiny bump lower cnr. upper board, ink mark front pastedown with some offsetting to ffep., dustwrapper: rubbed at tips with sl. surface loss at head and tail of spine, faint stain at tail of spine on reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32736

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 diary history alanbrooke

Bryant, Arthur,

THE TURN OF THE TIDE.

Grafton Books, London, 1986, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 766pp, pictorial wrappers, a history of WW2 based on the War Diaries of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff from 1941 and architect of the strategy for eventual victory in Europe, roll and creasing to spine, well rubbed at extrems. with some sl. creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 41696

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 diary history alanbrooke

Burleigh, Michael,

THE THIRD REICH - A New History.

Pan Books, London, 2001, trade paperback, xxvi, 965pp, 5 maps and 10 half tone photo ills. in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a radical re-examination of the acceptance by the German people of the Nazi party, how a Germany exhausted by war and depression allowed a liberal democracy to be abandoned in favour of a radical, pseudo-religious movement, and how a neither evil nor uncivilized people could be led to rationalise evil conduct, lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing to wrappers, pages tanned and several cnrs. turned, very good plus,

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Book number: 38573

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany third reich

Butler, Rupert,

GESTAPO.

Hamlyn, London, 1981, 1st edn., paperback original, 319pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [i] ads., lettered and decorated upper wrapper, an account of the Gestapo under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, well rubbed at tips, single vertical crease in sunned spine, light creasing to wrappers, chip from lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 41702

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany nazis gestapo police himmler heydrich

Butler, Rupert,

GESTAPO.

Arrow Books, London, 1988, 2nd imp. in imprint, trade paperback, 319pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., lettered and decorated upper wrapper, an account of the Gestapo under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, light vertical crease at spine and upper hinge, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41944

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany nazis gestapo police himmler heydrich

Butler, Rupert,

GESTAPO.

Hamlyn, London, 1981, 1st edn., paperback original, 319pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [i] ads., lettered and decorated upper wrapper, an account of the Gestapo under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, light vertical creasing to sl. sunned spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 41945

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany nazis gestapo police himmler heydrich

Butler, Rupert,

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE GESTAPO.

Ian Allan, London, ND (copyright 1992), 1st edn., 240pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., bright red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo montage dustwrapper, an illustrated account of all the major events in the history of the Geheime Staats Polizei which evolved from a small department of the Prussian State Police under Goering to the feared secret police of the Third Reich under Himmler, light bump head of spine, dustwrapper: light creasing head of spine, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32737

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 third reich gestapo himmler goering secret police

Butler, Rupert,

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE GESTAPO.

Wordwright Books, London, 1996, 1st in imprint, 240pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., red paper covered boards backed with red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo montage dustwrapper, an illustrated account of all the major events in the history of the Geheime Staats Polizei which evolved from a small department of the Prussian State Police under Goering to the feared secret police of the Third Reich under Himmler, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, repaired nick at head of spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41055

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 third reich gestapo himmler goering secret police

Butler, Rupert,

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE GESTAPO.

Ian Allan, London, ND (copyright 1992), 1st edn., 240pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., bright red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo montage dustwrapper, an illustrated account of all the major events in the history of the Geheime Staats Polizei which evolved from a small department of the Prussian State Police under Goering to the feared secret police of the Third Reich under Himmler, very slightly cocked, dustwrapper: faintly rubbed, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41056

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 third reich gestapo himmler goering secret police

Carruthers, Bob (Gen. Ed. and foreword by Simon Trew),

SERVANTS OF EVIL - New first-hand accounts of the Second World War from survivors of Hitler's armed forces.

Andre Deutsch, London, 2001, 1st edn., xvi, 270pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, hlaf tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a collection of WW2 experiences based on interviews with army, air force and navy veterans of Hitler's armed forces they unclude details of the personal motivations and attitudes prevailing during the Third Reich as well as relating episodes of WW2 including the Blitzkrieg Era 1939-41, the U-boast War, The rise and fall of the Luftwaffe and the closing land battles from Stalingrad to Berlin, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41095

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 german armed forces

Churchill, Winston S. (intro. by John Keegan),

THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Vol. I - The Gathering Storm.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1985, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xxxiv, 724pp, maps in text, [iv] ads., photo pictorial panel upper wrapper, volume 1 of Churchill's classic history of WW2, quoting from his own minutes and letters, covering the military and political situation between WW1 and WW2 including his politcal exile while Hitler comes to power and Germany rearms, Churchill's pre-war warnings and his appointment to the Admiralty on declaration of war, joining the war cabinet, the early months and sending the BEF to France, the critical battle against the magnetic mine, the German raider Graf Spee and its support vessel the Altmark, the war between Russia and Finland, the proposed mining of Norwegian waters, the brief campaign in Norway and the German invasion of the Low Countries up to May 1940 when he became Prime Minister and formed a coalition government, a little rubbed at extrems., some creasing to wrappers, edges sl tanned, small ownership label half title, very good,

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Book number: 41131

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 inter war politics military build-up re-armament poland war admiralty first lord bef magnetic mine north sea rnps graf spee altmark eskimo exeter achilles ajax finland norway narvik trondheim namsos france belgium

Clark, Alan,

THE FALL OF CRETE.

Cassell, London, 2004, reprint, trade paperback, 211pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the battle for Crete in May, 1941, when German parachutists managed to defeat a much larger defensive force (but with such severe casualties that parachute troops were not to be used again by the Germans), a little rubbed at extrems., nick in tail of spine, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 38486

Catalogue: WW2 - General

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