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Hachette/Little Brown, 2019. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Hachette/Little Brown trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle (2019). Journey back to 1930's Paris with this "startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever. Lee's journey of self-discovery takes took her from the… Read More

Da Capo Press, 2003. 1st Paperback Edition 12th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. 2 B&W era photo sections; B&W maps. CONDITION: NEW 2003 Da Capo Press trade paperback, first paperback edition, 12th printing. Includes Reader's Guide. 2 B&W era photo sections plus B&W maps. CONTENT: June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia -- population just 3,000 in 1944 -- died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost--it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. This is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, as well as diaries and letters, Kershaw's book focuses on… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W House Map. CONDITION: NEW 2022 St. Martin's Press hardcover (blue boards with gold foil lettering) and dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W map of house. Decorated end pages. CONTENT: Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls. Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans: Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section; B&W maps throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 2003 Simon & Schuster hardcover (black boards) and dust jacket, first edition, first printing. INSCRIBED TO:___ AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the Title Page. B&W era photo section with B&W maps throughout.

Minotaur Books, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Minotaur Books hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. The title is in embossed gold foil as is the eagle. Author's name embossed. This is a really nice book - well put together -font makes reading it easy and the DJ is outstanding. CONTENT: February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, Charlie takes a swing at one with tragic results and a torrent of unintended consequences follows. Two years later. America is wrestling with whether to enter the growing war. Charles's estranged wife and six-year-old daughter, Emma, now live in a quiet brownstone in the… Read More

William Morrow, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Serge Balkin cover art. CONDITION: LIKE NEW, UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2019 William Morrow hardcover (dark blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. What makes this book "like new?" - remainder mark bottom edges. Interior perfect. Deckle edges. CONTENT: This is a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young "society reporter" is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 1st American Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Knopf hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first American edition, assumed first printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home. On a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great-grandfather who was murdered by Nazis. The man who sent Komissar to his death was one of Norway's vilest traitors, Henry Oliver Rinnan, a Nazi double agent who set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and… Read More

Arcturus, 2020. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Arcturus trade paperback, first edition, printing not given. B&W era photos throughout. Depressing photos, at that. CONTENT: When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe. Paul Roland tells the story of daily life under Nazi rule - in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey and the Channel Islands- to be brought to heel by bribery and brutality, rape and torture, inducement and intimidation as the Germans carried out their vile policies. We hear of quislings and collaborators who conspired with their captors, the 'enemies of the Reich' including Jewish citizens who were rounded up and exterminated, as well as stories of… Read More

HarperPerennial, 2019. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2019 HarperPerennial trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. CONTENT: Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy. What if your family's fate could be traced back to one indelible summer? Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true?and if they will survive to see their country liberated. Moving… Read More

Putnam, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Putnam trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: From the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit comes a chilling contemporary thriller about an enigmatic hunter on the trail of a Nazi who has secretly continued his devilish work here in America. Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the U.S. under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified. Travis quickly learns that Goodman has powerful friends who will go to any length to protect the Nazi; what he doesn't know is that Goodman has furtively continued his diabolical work, amassing a congregation of followers who believe he possesses Godlike powers.… Read More

William Morrow, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2021 William Morrow trade paperback, first edition, first printing. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: Two sisters join the Paris Resistance in this page-turning new novel inspired by the real-life bravery of Catherine Dior, sister of the fashion designer and a heroine of World War II France. Paris, 1944: The war is nearly over, but for members of the Resistance in occupied France, it is more dangerous than ever before. Twenty-five-year-old Gabby Foucher loathes the Nazis, though as the concierge of 10 rue Royale, she does her best to avoid conflict-unlike her bolder sister Yvette, who finds trouble at every turn. Then they are both recruited into the Resistance by Catherine Dior and swept into a treacherous world of spies, fugitives, and intrigue. While Gabby risks everything for the man she is hiding from the Nazis, Yvette must decide whether to trust an enigmatic diplomat who… Read More

John Wylie & Sons, 2016. New Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photos throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 2016 John Wylie hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, new edition, 2nd printing. B&W era photos throughout. CONTENT: As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime. --William B. Breuer. The annals of World War II are mined with captivating cases of strange coincidences, ominous premonitions, and baffling mysteries. Now, William Breuer's painstaking research has yielded over 100 fascinating historical accounts, including: The mysterious fire on the Normandie . . . Who really was behind the eerily efficient destruction of the famed ocean liner? The ominous "Deadly Double" advertisement in The New Yorker . . . Was it a coded leak to Japanese and German spies announcing the upcoming bombing of Pearl Harbor? The botched Nazi kidnapping of the Duke of Windsor . . . How did a serendipitous series of events save the duke from Hitler's grasp (and… Read More

Grand Central Publishing/Hachette, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2021 Grand Central Publishing hardcover (lime green and navy boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: One woman must make the hardest decision of her life in this unforgettably moving story of resistance and faith during one of the darkest times in history. Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now, he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the past to come knocking on his door. Paris, 1944. A young Jewish woman's past is torn apart in a heartbeat. Herded onto a train bound for Auschwitz, in an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger. All she has left now is hope. On a darkened platform, two destinies become intertwined, and the choices each person makes will… Read More