Trevor-Roper, H. R. (ed.),

HITLER'S WAR DIRECTIVES 1939-1945.

Pan Books, London, 1966, 1st in imprint, paperback, 319pp, maps in text, [i] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, Germany's conduct of WW2 was very personal being based on a number of Directives issued by Hitler, restricting the strategic planning of the armed forces but here providing a record for historians with comments and explanations by Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper,sl. roll to spine, numerous light creases to spine and wrappers, a little rubbed at tips, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 41913

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 hitler germany military strategy politics

Turner, Barry,

COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY - The Final European Campaigns of World War II.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2004, 1st edn., xviii, 494pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text maps, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the little known story of the final months of WW2 in Europe seen through the eyes of both combatants and civilians, covering a variety of aspects including the intense defence of the Fatherland by German forces, the race to cross the Rhine between patton and Montgomery, the starvation of the Dutch population in parts of occupied Holland, Berlin being left open for the Russian advance, etc., very faint foxing to edges, dustwrapper: light staining to upper edge of lower panel, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39617

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Tute, Warren,

THE RELUCTANT ENEMIES - The story of the last war between Britain and France 1940-1942.

Collins, London, 1990, 1st edn., 334pp, 6 maps in text, a library rebind in unlettered blue cloth, original half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the tensions and in some cases real antipathy between former allies Britain and France, after the President Marshal Petain sought peace terms with Hitler in 1940 WW2, appointing Admiral Darlan to high office in his Vichy government, which led to Britain having to destroy the French fleet when Darlan refused to prevent their being taken into Axis use by ordering them to be scuttled, and of the opposite opinion of the leader of the Free French forces the self-styled General de Gaulle, a county library rebind lacking original endpaper maps, but contains the usual stamps and blemishes, reading copy in a fair dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45535

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 britain france

Walton-Kerr, Philip St. C.,

GESTAPO - The History of the German Secret Service.

Senate, Twickenham, ND (circa 1997), reprint, trade paperback, 286pp, pictorial upper wrapper, a re-issue of a title first published in 1939 and so providing a contemporary account of the pre-WW2 development of the German Gestapo, from the former secret police of Imperial Germany which was re-organised under the Nazi regime to the ruthless organisation it became under Himmler, lightly rubbed at tips, pages tanned, near fine,

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Book number: 41315

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 third reich gestapo himmler goering goebbels secret police

Walton-Kerr, Philip St. C.,

GESTAPO - The History of the German Secret Service.

Senate, Twickenham, ND (circa 1999), reprint, trade paperback, 286pp, pictorial upper wrapper, a re-issue of a title first published in 1939 and so providing a contemporary account of the pre-WW2 development of the German Gestapo, from the former secret police of Imperial Germany which was re-organised under the Nazi regime to the ruthless organisation it became under Himmler, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical crease in spine, pages tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 41316

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 third reich gestapo himmler goering goebbels secret police

Warner, Philip,

WORLD WAR TWO - The Untold Story.

Cassell, London, 2003, reprint, trade paperback, [xii], 308pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, in the Cassell Military Paperbacks series, an account of the progress of WW2 covering the major events and also the background intelligence material, unpublished until recently but which gave those involved an better awareness of enemy intentions, fine,

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Book number: 40575

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 intelligence german japanese code ultra enigma purple

Weinberg, Gerhard L.,

A WORLD AT ARMS - A Global History of World War II.

Cambridge University Press / TSP, 1994, club edn., paperback, xx, 1178pp, 23 maps, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial wrappers, a general history of WW2 based on existing works and on British, American and German archives covering all theatres of the war. the weaponry used, and developments on the home front as well as a global perspective of events, the role of diplomacy, of intelligence and espionage, a large and heavy volume, slight lean and roll to spine, rubbed at extrems., wrappers creased and inclined to curl, binding reinforced at half title which bears a review taped to the page, good,

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Book number: 41180

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Weintraub, Stanley,

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO WAR : December 7, 1941.

Truman Tulley Dutton, New York, 1991, 1st edn. US, [xiv], 706pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, decorative chapter heads, grey paper covered boards backed with black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured endpapers, decorative dustwrapper, a description of world events and the of action on every war front on the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, from the Red Army counterattacks in Russia, Rommel at Tobruk in North Africa, trials of the 'final solution' in a Polish forest, in Malaya and the Philippines, faint mark upper board, edges sl. dusty and small ink mark lower edge, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36007

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Westwood, John,

1944 -THE ALLIES TRIUMPH.

Grange Books, London, 1994, 1st edn., 176pp, numerous col'd and half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial laminated boards with matching dustwrapper, coloured endpapers, oversize (12 x 9 inches), an account of the upturn in the Allied fortunes in 1944, with the overcoming of the Gustav line and Monte Cassino in Italy, the start of the Russian offensive, the advance into Burma, D-day and the invasion of Normandy, the invasion of the Marshalls and Mariannas, etc, illustrated with contemporary photographs, some in colour, slightly cocked, dustwrapper: unrpiced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 29281

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 normandy italy germany russia pacific burma china

Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler),

SKORZENY - 'The Most Dangerous Man in Europe'.

Leo Cooper, London, 1998, 1st ed., [vi], 145pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, first published in Ballantine History of a Violent Century in USA, this hardback is the first British edition with much new material and covers Otto Skorzeny's WW2 exploits in some detail, dustwrapper: tiny crease upper edge lower panel, slight sunning to spine, fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39581

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 army wehrmacht hitler mussolini churchill

Willey, Bob (compiler),

FROM ALL SIDES - Memories of World War II.

Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1989, 1st edn., trade paperback, viii, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., col'd pictorial wrappers, a collection of anecdotes from numerous prominent people from all over the world about their recollections of receiving the news of the outbreak of WW2, produced in aid of UNICEF, fine,

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Book number: 26990

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Wilmot, Chester,

THE STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE.

Fontana, London, 1979, 6th imp., paperback, 829pp, maps in text, [ii] ads., wraparound photo pictorial cover art, an explanation of how the Western Allies gained military victory in Europe and at the same time suffered political defeat in Eastern Europe, with a step by step account of the progress of the European war from the Normandy invasion to the fall of Berlin, rubbed at extrems. light creasing to spine and wrappers, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 42040

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 europe normandy invasion caen falaise paris arnhem rhine ardennes balkans roosevelt stalin churchill yalta

Wilmot, Chester,

THE STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE.

The Reprint Society, London, 1954, club edn., 848pp, frontis port. of author, over 40 maps in text, maps at endpapers, dark blue cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered in gilt, gilt facsimile signature upper bd., top edge coloured, wrapround photo pictorial dustwrapper, an explanation of how the Western Allies gained military victory in Europe and at the same time suffered political defeat in Eastern Europe, with a step by step account of the progress of the European war from the Normandy invasion to the fall of Berlin, and how Stalin succeeded in obtaining from Roosevelt and Churchill what he failed to obtain from Hitler, heavy bump upper corner upper board, edges tanned and dusty, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. and relined to reverse, vertical crease lower panel, good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44161

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 europe normandy invasion caen falaise paris arnhem rhine ardennes balkans roosevelt stalin churchill yalta

Winn, Godfrey,

SCRAPBOOK OF VICTORY - Further Extracts from a War-time Scrapbook.

Hutchinson, London, ND (c1945), 124pp incl. frontis and 30pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, account of many theatres of the war by the war correspondent in diary format of the period from January 1943 until May 1945, sl. cocked, rubbed and bumped at extrems., light foxing to endpapers, 3 line ink inscr. and erasure ffep., no dustwrapper, good,

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Book number: 26549

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 press war correspondent

Winn, Godfrey,

SCRAPBOOK OF VICTORY - Further Extracts from a War-time Scrapbook.

Hutchinson, London, ND [1945], 1st edn., 124pp, half tone photo frontis, 30pp half tone photo ills., large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in white at spine, account of many theatres of the war by the war correspondent in diary format of the period from January 1943 until May 1945, rubbed at extrems. with fraying to cloth at spine ends, a little bumped at extrems., edges tanned, no dustwrapper, reading copy only,

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Book number: 36865

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 press war correspondent