Delaney, John,

VE DAY - The Album.

Limited Editions / Randon House, London, 1995, 1st in imprint, 144pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., oversize 11 x 8.5 inches, laminated pictorial boards, matchiong pictorial dustwrapper, using photographs drawn from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, many previously unpublished, a record of the last few months of WW2 in Europe and of the celebrations at the end in May, 1945, faintly bumped at upper tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32760

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Delaney, John,

VE DAY - The Album.

Ebury Press, London, ND, (circa 1996), 3rd imp., 144pp,half tone photo frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., oversize (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), laminated pictorial boards with matching dustwrapper, using photographs drawn from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, many previously unpublished, a record of the last few months of WW2 in Europe and of the celebrations at the end in May, 1945, a little bumped lower tip upper board, five line ink gift inscr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: a little creased lower tip upper panel, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43550

Catalogue: WW2 - General

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Dollinger, Hans (trans. by Arnold Pomerans),

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF NAZI GERMANY AND IMPERIAL JAPAN - A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II.

Odhams, Feltham - Middlesex, ND (copyright 1965), 432pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills., maps and facsimiles, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), red cloth with black title panel lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a profusely illustrated chronological account of the final days of WW2 with maps, tables, facsimiles of documents and photographs, with images of combat and prisoners, the civilian population, copies of command signals and extracts from local contemporary newspapers, etc., very heavy, sl. shaken, dustwrapper: rubbed, torn, chipped and repaired, very good in a poor dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36020

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany japan

Dower, K. C. Gandar,

THE FIRST TO BE FREED - The Record of British Military Administration in Eritrea and Somalia, 1941-1943.

HMSO, London, 1944, 1st edn., paperback, 72pp, 2 maps and a number of half tone photo ills. in text, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 5.5", after ther liberation from Italian occupation related in HMSO The Abyssian Campaigns this is an account of the peoples of Eritrea and Somalia, and of the subsequent military administration by British forces, slight roll to spine, tanning to edges, very good plus,

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Book number: 45443

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Eisenhower, Dwight D.,

REPORT BY THE SUPREME COMMANDER TO THE COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF ON THE OPERATIONS IN EUROPE OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE - 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945.

HMSO, London, 1946, 1st edn., paperback original, 149pp, organisation chart and 11 maps in text, large format (9.5 x 6 inches approx.), grey/black paper wrappers lettered in white with coloured decoration, details of the directive from the Combined Chiefs, an account of the planning and preparation for Operation Overlord, the assault by allied armies, establishment of their position in Normandy, the breakout from the beachhead and the advance to Germany, including coverage of the various obstacles to advance and counter-attacks by the retreating Germans, various local surrenders as pockets became isolated and the final total surrender at midnight 8th May 1945, wrappers a little rubbed at extrems., some flaking at spine edges, light soiling and creasing, cnrs. inclined to curl, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 41545

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Eisenhower, Dwight D.,

REPORT BY THE SUPREME COMMANDER TO THE COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF ON THE OPERATIONS IN EUROPE OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE - 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945.

HMSO, London, 1946, 1st edn., paperback, 149pp, organisation chart and 11 maps in text, large format (10 x 6" approx.), grey/black paper wrappers lettered in white with coloured decoration, details of the directive from the Combined Chiefs, and account of the planning and preparation for Operation Overlord, the assault by allied armies, establishment of their position in Normandy, the breakout from the beachhead and the advance to Germany, including coverage of the various obstacles to advance and counter-attacks by the retreating Germans, various local surrenders as pockets became isolated and the final total surrender at midnight 8th May 1945, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing to cnrs., edges tanned with ssome foxing, very good,

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Book number: 44825

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 overlord normandy assault france belgium holland germany invasion strategy tactics supreme command shaef hmso

Elson, Robert T. and the Editors of Time-Life Books,

PRELUDE TO WAR.

Time-Life Books, Alexandria - Virginia, 1977, 3rd imp., 216pp, coloured and half tone photo ills., maps and facsimiles throughout, coloured endpapers, large format (11.5 x 9.5 inches approx.), wraparound half tone photo pictorial boards, a pictorial account of the politics of Europe after World War 1 which led to World War 2, the rise of fascism in Geremany, Italy and Spain, the birth of the Nazi Party, the coming to power of Adolf Hitler and the subsequent expansion of Greater Germany leading directly to WW2, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 36861

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww1 ww2 germany

Eton, Peter and Leasor, James,

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE.

Angus and Robertson, London, 1960, 1st edn., 239pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 4pp maps, decorated endpapers, purple cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, allegedly true accounts of two hordes of treasure - millions of pounds worth of gold bullion, discovered in a road check during the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 and in 1943 the loss overboard of Rommel's Afrika Korps loot whilst en route to Germany, the authors attempt to unravel the mysteries surrounding both, edges tanned and foxed, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., lightly foxed, competition coupon clipped from lower flap, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39509

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Eton, Peter and Leasor, James,

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE.

Pan Books, London, 1962 1st in imprint, paperback, 253pp, maps in text, [iii] ads., #X143, pictorial wrappers, allegedly true accounts of two hordes of treasure - millions of pounds worth of gold bullion, discovered in a road check during the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 and in 1943 the loss overboard of Rommel's Afrika Korps loot whilst en route to Germany, the authors attempt to unravel the mysteries surrounding both, rubbed with slight loss at extrems., roll and slant to spine, overall creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 44405

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 army rommel corsica gold yugoslavia

Fountain, Nigel (consulting editor),

WOMEN AT WAR.

Michael O'Mara, London, 2002, 1st edn., 143pp, coloured frontis, facsimiles, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial montage boards with matching dustwrapper, in the Voices fom the Twentieth Century from the Imperial War Museum series, includes a 1 hour CD of actual eyewitness accounts, an examination of the role of women in two world wars, as munitions works, factory hands, land girls, postal workers, drivers as well as nurses, and in the women's corps of the armed services, as well as on the home front, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38779

Catalogue: WW2 - General

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Galante, Pierre with Silianoff, Eugene (trans. by Mark Howson and Cary Ryan),

HITLER LIVES - and the generals die (first published in France under the title Hitler est-il mort? and in the USA as Operation Valkyrie : The German Generals' Plot Against Hitler).

Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1982, 1st edn. UK, xii, 274pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the uneasy relationship between Hitler with his Nazi hierarchy and the career officers of the General Staff after 1932, which eventually led to the 20 July 1944 bomb von Stauffenburg assassination attempt, based on the recollections of General Adolf Heusinger, Chief of the Operational Section of the Army Command, who was with Hitler at the time, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint foxing upper edge, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35915

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany stauffenberg valkyrie

Garratt, G. T.,

GIBRALTAR AND THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1939, 2nd imp., 351pp, 9 in text maps, light blue cloth lettered in navy blue at spine, lower edges uncut, lettered dustwrapper, an account of the history of Gibraltar and how Britain came to acquire it, an examination of Gibraltar's strategic significance in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and speculation on the eve of WW2 of its possible future, edges tanned, six line ink inscr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper lightly rubbed at edges and relined to reverse, lighty soiled, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44268

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: gibraltar mediterranean spain england

Gerhardi, Helga,

HELGA.

Virona, Aylesbury, 1994, reprint, half tone photo ills. and facsimiles in text, large format (8.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, breaking the silence of the horrors faced by people from the Eastern states of Germany at the end of WW2, the story of a Swiss family trying to live an ordinary life in Hitler's Germany and told by Helga, the daughter who, as a young girl, she met Hitler and supported her mother when the SS repeatedly searched their home. As a medical student she cared for some of the thousands of woun ded soldiers returning from the Russian front but by 1944/5 she herself joined the refugee treks in the severe winter being chased and shot at by the Russian army, eventually escaping south in search of her family, which is finally reunited, lightly rubbed at tips, cnrs. inclined to curl, near fine,

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Book number: 41583

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 east prussia konigsberg russia refugee switzerland

Gilbert, Martin,

THE DAY THE WAR ENDED - VE-Day 1945 in Europe and Around the World.

Harper Collins, London, 1995, 1st edn., xxi, 473pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured endpapers, large format (9.5 x 6" approx,), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tailbands, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the liberation of occupied countries, the freeing of prisoners from the Concentration and POW camps, the fleeing and capture of war criminals, the celebrations of the end of six years of war, and the logistical and political problems of the aftermath, lightly rubbed at tips, impressed marks upper board, edges tanned, dustwrapper: impressions upper panel, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44814

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 liberation surrender camps palestine pows holocaust

Glass, Brent D. (foreword),

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM : AMERICANS AT WAR.

Marquand Books, Seattle, ND, [2004], paperback, 96pp, pictorial montage double title, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), folding pictorial card wrappers, a catalogue to the permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History setting out the history of America's military from the colonial era to the present (2004), with many of the most prized objects in the military collection and covering the Colonial Conflict and Independence, Westward Expansion, The Civil War, WW1 and WW2, the Cold War (incl. Korea and Vietnam), and New American Roles (incl. Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom), fine,

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Book number: 40349

Catalogue: WW2 - General

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