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CHURCHILL AND SECRET SERVICE.
Abacus, London, 2001, reprint, trade paperback, xviii, 462pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account setting out Winston Churchill's lifelong involvement with the world of intelligence and clandestine operations, based on previously unexplored or recently released sources and presenting an intriguing insight into modern intelligence and Churchill's thinking, faint vertical crease in spine, diagonal creasing lower corner upper wrapper, edges tanned and nick lower edge lower wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, very good,
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Keywords: biography secret service intelligence clandestine operations counter-terrorism subversion
WITNESSES OF WAR - Children's Lives under the Nazis.
Jonathan Cape, London, 2005, 1st edn., xviii, 509pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a study of the effects of occupation on children during WW2, they who were not merely passive victims but also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings, or as they absorbed the brutal new realities of occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the SS, and within days of Germany's own surrender, German children were playing at being Russian soldiers, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww2 children german jewish polish czech
WITNESSES OF WAR - Children's Lives under the Nazis.
Jonathan Cape, London, 2005, 1st edn., xviii, 509pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a study of the effects of occupation on children during WW2, they who were not merely passive victims but also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings, or as they absorbed the brutal new realities of occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the SS, and within days of Germany's own surrender, German children were playing at being Russian soldiers, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
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GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 US$ 16.81 | JP¥ 2456]
Keywords: war ww2 children german jewish polish czech
ONE MAN'S WAR.
Guernsey Press, Guernsey, 1980, 4th edn., paperback, 167pp, half tone frontis, 8pp half tone photo ills., pictorial wrappers (unattrib), account of the German occupation of Guernsey, the shortages and black market, deportation of British nationals to internment first at Dorsten and then Laufen, a vist to the Katyn massacre as an observer and eventual liberation by the Americans, inscribed 'to Keith' and signed/dated by the author, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,
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Keywords: war ww2 guernsey channel islands occupation black market internment dorsten laufen katyn signed
ONE MAN'S WAR.
Burbridge Ltd., Guernsey, 1992, reprint, paperback, 167pp, half tone frontis., 8pp half tone photo ills., [i] ads., pictorial wrappers (unattrib), account of the German occupation of Guernsey, the shortages and black market, deportation of British nationals to internment first at Dorsten and then Laufen, a vist to the Katyn massacre as an observer and eventual liberation by the Americans, edges tanned, fine,
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Keywords: war ww2 guernsey channel islands occupation black market internment dorsten laufen katyn
TROUBLED LOYALTY.
Collins, London, 1969, 1st edn., 477pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, upper edge coloured, dated 1968 on title but copyright 1969, the biography of an anti-Hitler German aristocrat and lawyer Adam von Trott du Salz, executed in August 1944, lightly rubbed at tips., edges tanned, 2 line ink inscr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., sl. loss head of spine end several short edge tears, repaired to reverse, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
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GBP 9.20 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 12.38 | JP¥ 1808]
Keywords: biography war ww2 nazi germany history resistance
A PECULIAR OCCUPATION - New Perspectives on Hitler's Channel Islands.
Ian Allan, herssham, 2005, 1st edn., 256pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and facsimiles, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, TLS from author and separate signature on piece loosely inserted, an account of the four and a half years of German Occupation suffered by the Channel Islanders during WW2, lower board lightly bumped lower cnr., dustwrapper: lightly creased at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww2 occupation channel islands home front
THE RED ORCHESTRA.
Arms and Armour, London, ND (copyright 1995), paperback, 224pp, in text maps, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured decorated wrappers, an account of the most effective spy ring of WW2, the Russian 'Red Orchestra' conducted by Leopold Trepper, a variety of loose groups of agents from diverse backgrounds united only by their hatred of Nazism, which succeeded in penetrating to the highest levels of the Nazi leadership in Germany, lightly rubbed at tips, faint crease upper wrapper, very good plus,
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Keywords: war ww2 espionage russia germany gestapo nazi trepper
THE RED ORCHESTRA.
Cassell, London, 1998, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 224pp, in text maps, pictorial montage upper wrapper, an account of the most effective spy ring of WW2, the Russian 'Red Orchestra' conducted by Leopold Trepper, a variety of loose groups of agents from diverse backgrounds united only by their hatred of Nazism, which succeeded in penetrating to the highest levels of the Nazi leadership in Germany, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,
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Keywords: war ww2 espionage russia germany gestapo nazi trepper vf45
DEFIANCE.
Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, US edn., trade paperback, xxiv inc. maps, 374pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., film tie-in, photo pictorial upper wrapper, US edn., but priced in sterling, the true story of the Bielski partisans, the Jewish resistance fighters who in 1942 who formed a community of the forests of western Belorussia and within two years numbered more than 2000, now the subject of a major feature film starring Daniel Craig, lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing to spine and cnrs., edges tanned, very good,
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Keywords: war ww2 bielski partisans belorussia jewish resistance 43132
ODETTE - The Story of a British Agent.
Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 286pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 2 plans in text, GP35, coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Sax, account of the war experiences of Odette Marie Sansom, a French woman who had married a Briton in 1931 and moved to the UK. Her husband enlisted in 1940 and in 1942, in response to a public appeal for photographs of pre-war France she wrote to the War Office. As a result she was invited for interview and joined SOE as a member of FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), landing in the south of France and serving as Peter Churchill's courier with the codename 'Lise', before being captured and eventually sent to Ravensbruck which she survived, rubbed at extrems. with flaking to spine edges, light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, ink name inside upper wrapper, good,
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Keywords: ww2 germany france resistance french section soe buckmaster fany pow agent raoul lise churchill
ODETTE.
Headline Review, London, 2007, 1st in imprint, xii, 371pp incl [iii] pp half tone photo ills., [i] ad., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, account of the war experiences of Odette Marie Sansom, a French woman who had married a Briton in 1931 and moved to the UK. Her husband enlisted in 1940 and in 1942, in response to a public appeal for photographs of pre-war France she wrote to the War Office. As a result she was invited for interview and joined SOE as a member of FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), landing in the south of France and serving as Peter Churchill's courier with the codename 'Lise', before being captured and eventually sent to Ravensbruck which she survived, edges a little tanned and foxed, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, short nicks at spine ends, very good plus in a very good dustrwapper,
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Keywords: ww2 germany france resistance french section soe buckmaster fany pow agent raoul lise churchill
ODETTE - The Story of a British Agent.
Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 286pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 2 plans in text, [ii] ads., #GP35, coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Sax, account of the war experiences of Odette Marie Sansom, a French woman who had married a Briton in 1931 and moved to the UK. Her husband enlisted in 1940 and in 1942, in response to a public appeal for photographs of pre-war France she wrote to the War Office. As a result she was invited for interview and joined SOE as a member of FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), landing in the south of France and serving as Peter Churchill's courier with the codename 'Lise', before being captured and eventually sent to Ravensbruck which she survived, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good plus,
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Keywords: ww2 germany france resistance french section soe buckmaster fany pow agent raoul lise churchill
ODETTE - The Story of a British Agent.
Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 286pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., 2 plans in text, [ii] ads., GP35, cover art by Sax, account of the war experiences of Odette Marie Sansom, a French woman who had married a Briton in 1931 and moved to the UK. Her husband enlisted in 1940 and in 1942, in response to a public appeal for photographs of pre-war France she wrote to the War Office. As a result she was invited for interview and joined SOE as a member of FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), landing in the south of France and serving as Peter Churchill's courier with the codename 'Lise', before being captured, tlrtured and sentenc ed to death and eventually sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp which she was fortunate to survive, roll and vertical creasing to spine, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good plus,
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Keywords: ww2 germany france resistance french section soe buckmaster fany pow agent raoul lise churchill ravensbruck
HITLER'S FORTRESS ISLANDS.
New English Library, London, 1978, 1st edn. in hardback, 160pp, numerous half tone ills. in text throughout, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, previously issued in paperback this is the first hardback edition, an account of the occupation and fortification of the Channel Islands, a little rubbed at extrems., paper tanned, remainder 'R' on verso title, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,
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Keywords: war ww2 channel islands jersey guernsey occupation fortification todt
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