World War II Almanac.
New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2008. Hardcover. 1324 pp. 4to. Boards. Lightly scuffed. Bumping to sp. ends. Rear joint bumped. Has tobacco odor.
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Full Fathom Five:; A Daughter's Search
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 274 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. A woman's quest to uncover the mystery of the father she never knew; an intriguing mixture of memoir & World War II naval history. Light dampstain to rear board top edge. Slight cocking.....
The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys:; COurage, Tragedy, and Justice In World War II
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Hardcover. 236 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Inscribed by author; inscription covered, only signature visible. Light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Bumping to spine ends. Some cocking to spine. Binding tight. Pgs clean & crisp. Some scuffing & shelfwear to dj; sicker to back panel.....
The Damned Engineers.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 409 pp. Very light wear to head of spine. Dj has light wear to spine-ends and corners, green ink marking on back of dj. The story of how one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the.....
The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the Bulge.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 409 pp. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Book is slightly rolled. Former owners bookplate to half-title page. Former owners name to half-title page in blue marker, small lettering, dated 1970. Slight rubbing to covers of dj. Pages are very crisp.....
Famous Fighters of the Second World War.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1975. Second revised edition. Cloth. 276 pp., 4to. Dark blue cloth hardcover in dj. Second revised edition. Illustrated by G. W. Heumann & Peter Endsleigh Castle. Very light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Some shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very.....
The Midway Campaign:; December 7, 1941 - June 6, 1942
Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 263 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Revised & expanded edition. Great Campaigns series. Light flexing to boards. Slight shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Some very light soiling to textblock edges. Pgs clean & crisp. Slight.....
Atlas for the Second World War:; Europe and the Mediterranean
Wayne, NJ: Avery Publishing Group Inc., 1985. Paperback. Unpaginated, folio. Plastic spiral-bound paperback. The West Point Military Series. Filled w/ illustrative maps. Some scuffing, creasing & wear to covers. Sunning & wear to plastic spine. Some very sm dog eared pgs & very light soiling scattered to otherwise clean &.....
Combats du 6 Juin 1944.
Paris: Editions Normandes, 1963. Wraps tied with red cord. oblong 8v. Unpaginated. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, light soil & browning to cover edges. 16 compositions from the text of H. Fleuret accorded from witnesses and original documents. Filled with black and white plates throughout.
They Who Wait.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1943. Cloth Hardcover. 8vo. 256 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, lightly shaken, former owners bookplate to ffep. Light rubbing and tiny tears along dj edges and corners. Who are the quiest men that will someday lash out at.....
Charleston Reborn:; A Southern City, Its Navy Yard and World War II
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2005. Paperback. 188 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Chronicling the changes & challenges faced by Charleston as its population exploded in response to expansion of the Charleston Navy Yard. Filled w/ b&w; photos. Very light scuffing & shelfwear to covers & spine; sm tear to spine mid-section.....
Monty:; Final Years of the Field Marshal, 1944-1976
New York, St. Louis, San Francisco, Hamburg, Mexico: McGraw-Hill, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 996 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in dustjacket. First edition. Bumping to dj spine ends and corners. Minor edgewear to boards, light bumping to spine ends and lower corners. Pen underlining to some pages.
Caissons Across Europe:; An Artillery Captain's Personal War
Austin: Eakin Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 306 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in dustjacket. First edition. Shelfwear to jacket, bumping to corners, spine head and upper edges, front flap corner creased, spine sunned. Book spine rolled. Scuffing and edgewear to book. Foxing to textblock. A few lt stains to some pages.....
They Shall Not Have Me.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1943. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 43 pp. Light soil to dj cover edges, small white sticker to rpd. Otherwise book is in excellent condition. (Ils ne m'auront pas) The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner of War. First edition.
The Battle of Britain:; The Greatest Air Battle of World War II
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2004. Leather. 413 pp. 8vo. Full leather. Collector's edition bound in army green genuine leather w/ gilt decoration to boards and spine, raised bands to spine, a.e.g., silk moire ep's w/ matching silk ribbon marker bound in. Very sl. wear to corners. In excellent condition.
The Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945:; The 50th Anniversary International Naval Conference
London and Annapolis: Greenhill Books and Naval Institute Press, 1994. First edition. Cloth. 639 pp., 8vo. Cloth in dj. First edition. Faint soiling to boards. Light soiling to textblock edges. Slight rubbing to edges, more w/ bumping to spine ends. Light creasing to joints. Glue mark, soil mark to fpd.....
The Men:; American Enlisted Submariners in World War II: Why they joined, why they fought, and why they won
Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2010. Paperback. 176 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Filled w/ b&w; photos of smiling people, boats & even some smiling people standing on boats. Very light scuffing & shelfwear to covers & spine. Faint soilinf to textblock edges. Po pen name & date to title pg, otherwise pgs.....
Action At Sea:; The Saga of the Sydney
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. Cloth. 185 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Illustrated w/ b&w; photos & maps. Slight edgewear to boards. Some sunning, cocking, shaking & wear to spine but binding sturdy. Some light soiling to pds & eps & sm po pen name & date to title pg, otherwise pgs.....
Churchill's Generals.
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Hardcover. 368 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth hardcover in dj. Examining the careers of 20 of Churchill's top generals. Illustrated w/ b&w; photos. Boards & spine fine. Binding tight. Textblock clean, practically crisp. Dj fine; price clipped to front flap.
'Queen Elizabeth' at War:; His Majesty's Transport 1939-1946
Wellinborough: Patrick Stephens, 1985. Hardcover. 124 pp. 4to. Hardcover in dj. Edgewear and lt scuffing to dj, bumping to sp. head and upper corners. Bumping to book sp. head and upper corners, lt wear to lower edges. With sketches by Oswald Brett. Foreword by Frank O. Braynard. Afterword by Walter.....
Knights of the Wehrmacht:; Knight's Cross Holders of the U-Boat Service
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military / Aviation History, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 307 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Covering all the Knight's Cross holders of the U-Boot Waffe; each recipient accompanied by biographical info & photo. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Faint soiling to.....
British Submarines.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pp., oblong 32mo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Navies of the Second World War series. A small but authoritative & fully-detailed account of British submarines in the Second World War. Slight shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Some.....
British Submarines.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pp., oblong 32mo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Navies of the Second World War series. A small but authoritative & fully-detailed account of British submarines in the Second World War. Slight shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Pgs.....
One Marine's Story.
Verona, VA: McClure Press, 1970. Cloth. 387 pp. 8vo. Cloth in dustjacket. Shelfwear to jacket, bumping to upper edges, foxing to flaps, light crease to front flap. Shelfwear and minor scuffing to book, foxing/soiling to text block, spine slightly rolled, soiling to endpapers. Inscribed by author James A. Michener to.....
We're in This War, Too.
Oxford: Oxford, 1994. First edition. hardcover. 8vo. 272 pp. Spine ends lightly bumped. First edition in excellent condition. World War II letters from American Women in Uniform.