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Grant, R. G.: Battle At Sea 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare. DK Publishing. New York: 2011. Reprinted (first published in 2008). 4to. Pictorial boards. Pp. 360. Illustrated. Index. Fine copy in dj.

Edited by Killian Jordan. First edition. 4to. Boards. Pp. 192.

Very large 8vo. Boards. Pp, 728. Illustrated. Index. No dj as issued. Extra shipping on this book because of its weight.

Music CD. # CD6363. 18 tracks. Fine copy with original booklet and liner notes. Popular songs from World War II.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. First edition. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (xviii), 446. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Fine copy in dj.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. (xii), 622, (iv). Map on end-papers. Translated by Michael Glenny.

London: Bloomsbury, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (xiv), 290. Maps. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American edition. Hardcover. Small red dot on bottom edge, else near fine/near fine. 8vo. cloth. Pp. x, 438. Illustrated. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. German soldiers captured during the Second World War were interned. Naturally they spoke among themselves freely about their experiences. Unbeknownst to them their conversations were secretly recorded by… Read more about this item

New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Remainder stamp on bottom edge; else near fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. 298, (iv).

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (xii), 400, (iv). Illustrated: (32) pp. of plates. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is a story from World War II. It is about an American bomber crew that was shot down over the Pacific island of Chichi Jima and what happened to them.

London: Cassell & Co., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. cloth. Pp. xxxvi, 572. Includes 42 essays by such notable writers as Robert Graves, Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Edmund Blunden, L. P. Hartley. The essay by Keynes, who was by profession a surgeon—and by avocation a bibliographer and book collector—is particularly interesting: "A… Read more about this item

New York: Enigma Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (x), lii, 1160, (vi). Maps. Checklist. Index. Translated by Roland Winter, Krista Smith, Mary Beth Friedrich. Because there was disagreement with his military staff, Hitler had stenographic records taken of his situation conferences. A number of these have survived, and this is the most… Read more about this item

New York: Waxtel & Hasenauer, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp xiv, 354. Illustrated. Translated by Maureen Carlson Reinertsen.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Sources. Index.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. x, 286. Family tree. Illustrated. Checklist. As is well known, Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, was asked to help in the evacuation of Hungarian Jews in June 1944. Some 100,000 were saved. But Wallenberg himself fell afoul of the Soviets, and it is believed… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury Books, 1988. Later edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Small 4to. Boards. Pp. 190. Illus. Checklist. An excellent history of medieval warfare including reconstruction of famous battles. The author details how medieval chivalric idealism was destroyed by the advent of firearms.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/a bit frayed. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xx, 652. Maps. Illustrated: (32) pp. of plates. Maps. Sources. Notes. Index.

New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (xii), 212. Appendix. Notes. Index. A meeting, lasting an hour and a half or so, at a villa in Wannsee, near Berlin, in January 1942 was convened by Reinhard Heydrich to coordinate what had been going on for some time,… Read more about this item

Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 4to. Boards. Pp. 192. Maps. Illustrated. Edited by John Walton. Well over 200 photographs illustrate this history of the London Blitz.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 4to. Boards. Pp. 176. Illustrated. Index. The story of what happened during the winter of 1942-43 at Stalingrad where the German 6th Army was surrounded, ground down, and finally forced to surrender .