Quarrie, Bruce,

HITLER - THE VICTORY THAT NEARLY WAS.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, ND (copyright 1988), 1st edn., 208pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 2 double page maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a theoretical extrapolation of the consequences of the fall of Malta to an airborne German invasion force in September, 1940, followed by Rommel's victory in North Africa and heavy Commonwealth casualties, South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth with the resultant loss of British naval bases, the strangulation of Atlantic convoys by U-boats leading to the British population starving, the Duke of Windor's broadcast from Berlin of the offer of an honourable armistice, the abdication of King George VI, etc., edges tanned, faint mark lower board, ink name front free endpaper, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, some light overall creasing, repaired feather-edge tear in lower flap, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40991

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Read, Anthony and Fisher, David,

THE FALL OF BERLIN.

Hutchinson, London, 1992, 1st edn., [xiv inc, 5 maps], 513pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the fall of Berlin, opening with a description of the city at the height of its pre-WW2 fame during the 1936 Olympics, becoming the showcase of the Nazi government and then with the outbreak of WW2 the prime target for Allied bombers, with the eventual final destruction and occupation by the Soviet army, a few faint bumps at edges of boards and one to fore-edge of leaves, sl. marks to lower edge, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 31387

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany

Reit, Seymour,

MASQUERADE - The Amazing Camouflage Deception of World War II.

Robert Hale, London, 1979, xii, 255pp [253pp], 22pp half tone photo ills., green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, publishing details as stated but spine marked 'bca' at tail, an account of the methods, use and successes of camouflage during WW2, and of the many brought in from the theatrical world to create illusions to deceive the enemy, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at extrems., probably a book club edition, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 36376

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 camouflage

Reynolds, David,

RICH RELATIONS - The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945.

Random House, New York, ND (circa 1996), reprint, xxx, 555pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, 16pp half tone photo ills., tables, charts and 6 maps in text, [ii] notes, black paper covered boards backed with brown cloth lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, author initials in blind upper board, half tone photo pictorial panel dustwrapper, the story of the effect of three million young servicemen from USA who passing through Great Britain between 1942 and 1945, the effect on the host nation but also the effect of the exeriences over here on the Amercians when they returned home, with the first accurate estimate of the numbers of war brides, accounts of their experiences and those of the illegitimate children, etc., a heavy book, tanned at edges, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41066

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 american troops britain

Rosenbaum, Ron,

EXPLAINING HITLER - The Search for the Origins of his Evil.

Macmillan, London, 1998, 1st edn. UK, xlvi, 444pp, half tone photo pictorial title, [ii] notes, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper, after re-examining the assessments of the major analysts of Hitler's career and personality the author delves in the basic issues of ethics, free will and the nature of his evil, tanned at edges, dustwrapper: faint impressed marks lower panel, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42725

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 hitler holocaust third reich

Rothberg, Abraham,

EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II - Vol 2 Siege.

Bantam Books, New York, 1966, paperback, 215pp, [ix] ads. and blanks, half tone photo ills throughout, pictorial wrappers, volume two of a four pictorial volume history of WW2 covering the period of the Battle of Britain and the blitz, the war in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, the invasion of the Balkans and the war in North Africa, the German attack on Rusiia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint vertical crease in spine, small price label upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41871

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: ww2 history

Rothberg, Abraham,

EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II - Vol 2 Siege.

Bantam Books, New York, 1966, paperback, 215pp, [ix] ads. and blanks, half tone photo ills throughout, pictorial wrappers, volume two of a four pictorial volume history of WW2 covering the period of the Battle of Britain and the blitz, the war in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, the invasion of the Balkans and the war in North Africa, the German attack on Rusiia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several vertical creases in spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41872

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: ww2 history

Rothberg, Abraham,

EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II - Vol 4 Victory.

Bantam Books, New York, 1966, paperback, 215pp, [ix] ads. and blanks, half tone photo ills throughout, pictorial wrappers, volume four of a four volume pictorial history of WW2, cobvering the period of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the battle for France, the Red Army offensive of 1944, the Yalta conference and the capitulation of the third Reich, the savage war in the Pacific, MacArthur's return to the Philippines, the dropping of the Atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender, lightly rubbed at extrems., faint vertical crease in spine, small price label upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41873

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: ww2 history

Rothberg, Abraham,

EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II - Vol 2 Siege.

Bantam Books, New York, 1966, reissued edn., paperback, 215pp, [ix] ads. and blanks, half tone photo ills throughout, pictorial wrappers, volume two of a four pictorial volume history of WW2 covering the period of the Battle of Britain and the blitz, the war in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, the invasion of the Balkans and the war in North Africa, the German attack on Rusiia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a little rubbed at extrems., faint vertical creasing in spine, very good,

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Book number: 44619

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 history

Ryback, Timothy W.,

HITLER'S PRIVATE LIBRARY - The Books that shaped his Life.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008, 1st edn. USA, xx, 278pp, half tone frontis portrait, half tone ills. in text, [ii] notes, cream paper covered boards backed with orange cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, fore-edge uncut, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an assessment of the influences on Hitler by an examination of the books from his private library, edges tanned, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42726

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 hitler library books

Shaw, Antony (editor Peter Darman),

WORLD WAR II - Day by Day.

Grange Books, Hoo, Rochester, 2005, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, half tone photo pictorial half title and double title, maps and half tone photo ills. in text, oversize (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial wrappers with flaps, a new edition of the title first published in 2000 re-packaged for the 60th anniversary, a chronological day by day listing of major events of World War 2 with numerous in text photo illustrations, plans of battles and campaigns, with additional commentary about key moments, key personalities, strategy and tactics, decisive weapons, etc., four line ink gift inscr. on title, near fine,

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Book number: 43549

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2

Sheridan, Dorothy (ed.),

WARTIME WOMEN - A Mass-Observation Anthology 1937-45.

Phoenix, London, 2002, reissued edn., trade paperback, xvi, 268pp, [ii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, a selection of the many contributions written by women and accumulated by the mass-observation movement during WW2, recording those women's experiences as they took over many of the tasks previously understaken by men, lightly rubbed at tips, light vertical creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41037

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 women

Shirer, William R.,

BERLIN DIARY.

Sphere, London, 1972, reprint, paperback, 493pp, [iii] ads., coloured lettered upper wrapper, the author William Shirer was the Berlin Correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and later the US Columbia Broadcasting System and he recorded, on a daily basis at times, the rise of Nazism from 1934 to 1941, the political events, Hitler's ever increasing expansion of German borders into Europe and the ineffective responses by Chamberlain, Deladier and other representatives of their countries, rubbed at extrems., light creasing to cnrs, edges tanned, light creasing to prelims., short tear fore-edge title, good,

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Book number: 44594

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 germany berlin nazism

Sidnell, P. (edited by),

TRIBUTE - Combat Experiences of the Military and Aviation Book Society.

Book Club Associates, London, 2002, club edn., viii, 280pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a book about men in combat, the specific experiences of 32 members of the Military and Aviation Book Society and so mainly of service with British armed services but including those of a Pole mobilised in late August, 1939, tales of combat which highlight comradeship and duty, the special bond that exists within small groups in imminent danger of death, mainly WW2 but some from Cyprus, Malaya, Borneo, Falklands and Iraq, lightly bumped at tips, edges tanned with some small marks at fore-edge, small ownership labels to pastedowns, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38801

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 navy raf army malaya cyrpus borneo falklands iraq

Smith, Godfrey (ed.),

HOW IT WAS IN THE WAR - An Anthology.

Pavilion / Michael Joseph, London, 1989, 1st edn., 317pp, chapter heads in line, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, an anthology of prose and poetry, letter, comment and narrative, from a variety of writers, both professional and amateur, all aspects of WW2 and from every front, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40455

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 navy raf army home front firefighters land army factory workers