Search Results: WW II from Cocksparrow Books

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Review Headline.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases & minimal dish to spine. Seems lightly-used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat pen dedication to head of title page. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 339 pp. text. vii pp. author?s notes, blank pages and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In 1938, Ulrike Walter, a beautiful young German musician, is engaged to be married to Erich Hinkel, a member of the Hitler Youth. But when she meets Inspector Cameron Ross, a Scotland Yard policeman, whose father is a colonel in British Intelligence, her life will be changed for ever. When war is declared, Ulrike flees Germany for the safety… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 3rd. Stated.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Penguin Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Single reading crease to spine, not to hinge. Seems lightly-used VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 326 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters, and later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners, the war is far from home. Listening to Frankie are Iris James, a Cape Cod post-mistress, and Emma Fitch, a doctor's… Read More

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Amended & updated. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2006 (1986) * Publisher: Grub Street Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Mono photo illustrated dust wrapper showing Johnny Checketts in New Zealand Airforce Uniform. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.00. Green, white and maroon titles to face and white to maroon spine strip. No visible faults, now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One 8pp. block of b/w photos, with line drawn maps to end papers.* Pages: 174 pp. text. xviii pp. afterword, notes, bibliography, index & blank page at rear.* Description: Johnny Checketts, widely recognised as one of the great fighter pilots of World War II, was… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2002 (1996)* Publisher: Cassell Military Paperbacks.* Binding and cover condition: Soft photographic card covers. No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. No visible faults AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. No tanning. AS NEW* Illustrations: 16pp. block of b/w photos, some line drawings and maps within text.* Pages: 208 pp. text. xvi pp. Appendices, Notes & Index at rear.* Product Description:- The shadowy but nonetheless invaluable under cover work of the American OSS and the British SOE in the Second World War needs no invention to make its retelling a tale of extraordinary courage and daring. In this compilation the author tells of thirteen specific operations in Europe and the Far East describing the work of code-breaking, blockade running, kidnapping, forging, raiding, assassination and sabotage carried out by the SOE… Read More