World War II
8284 Ackerman, Diane The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story W.W. Norton 2007 0393061728 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) Signed on title page. Unread, as new in like DJ with "Autographed" sticker to front panel. 368 pp. $60 Add to Cart
10170 Berr, Helene The Journal of Helene Berr Weinstein Books 2008 9781602860643 Hardcover 1st Edition First printing. Brown spine over tan boards, gilt titles. The journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied France, her apprehension by the Gestapo and internment in Bergen-Belsen, where she died. A near-new copy in like DJ. 307 pp. $20 Add to Cart
347 Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Harpercollins 2000 006019314X Hardcover First Edition First printing. Remainder mark to top edge, light shelfwear to DJ else unread, as new. 800 pp. $20 Add to Cart
6899 Borowski, Tadeusz This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Viking Penguin 1976 0140041141 Soft Cover 1st Edition 15th printing. Writers from the Other Europe series. General Editor: Philip Roth. Concentration camp stories from Auschwitz and Dachau. Unread copy with some aging to paper. 180 pp. $15 Add to Cart
1528 Bradley, James Flyboys: A True Story of Courage Little Brown 2003 0316105848 Soft Cover First Edition Advance reader's copy, softcover. As new with cover slightly rubbed at corners of spine. With promo materials laid in. 400 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2517 Brookhouser, Frank, ed. This Was Your War: Great Writings From World War II Dell Publishing 1963 Mass Market Paperback 1st Edition First Dell printing. Includes Irwin Shaw, Walter Lord, A.J. Liebling, MacKinlay Kantor, Ernie Pyle, Norman Mailer, Herman Wouk, James A. Michener, others. Very good with some aging to paper, minor shelfwear to cover, slight crease at spine. 495 pp. $15 Add to Cart
1517 Charmley, John Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1940-57 Harcourt 1995 0151275815 Hardcover First Edition Black cloth binding, black boards. Unread, as new in like DJ. 427 pp. $15 Add to Cart
358 Cohen, Rich The Avengers: A Jewish War Story Alfred A Knopf 2000 0375405461 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new. 272 pp. $12 Add to Cart
4356 Colber, David, Ed. WWII: A Tribute in Art and Literature Time Life Education 2001 0737031646 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Foreword by James Bradley. Contains writings by William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Marge Piercy, Joseph Heller, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, Primo Levi, James Clavell, others; art by Thomas Hart Benton, Dame Laura Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Rockwell, Ben Shahn, Graham Sutherland, others. Unread, as new with slight curling to edges of DJ. 238 pp. $45 Add to Cart
2521 Cornwell, John Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII Penguin Books 2000 0140296271 Soft Cover 1st Edition First pb printing. Unread, as new. 426 pp. $12 Add to Cart
419 Coyne, Kevin Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town Viking Press 2003 0670871508 Soft Cover First Edition Advance softcover proof. As new. 186 pp. $15 Add to Cart
1523 Dash, Mike Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny Crown/Random 2002 0609607669 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected proof. Unread, as new. 384 pp. $15 Add to Cart
426 Delbo, Charlotte None of Us Will Return: Auschwitz and After Grove Press 1968 Hardcover First Edition Sttated first printing. Translated by John Githens. Green cloth binding. Soil to top & foreedge, waterstain to back board at bottom edge. DJ sunned at edges. In Mylar. 128 pp. $65 Add to Cart
2099 Djilas, Milovan Wartime Harcourt/Harvest 1980 0156947129 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. By the author of Montenegro. Clean, unread copy with a sticker-removal scar to front cover and some aging to paper. 470 pp. $15 Add to Cart
3180 Dorf, Philip, M.A. This War: A Survey of World Conflict Oxford Book Co. 1944 Soft Cover Second Edition Enlarged, revised edition. Staplebound with cloth-covered spine. Cloth torn at bottom of spine, owner inked chronology on rear endpaper, inked out address on inside front cover. 183 pp. $12 Add to Cart
432 Duboscq, Genevieve My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heronie's Stunning Account of D-Day and After Arcade Books 1994 9781559702775 Soft Cover First Thus First printing of this edition. Cover has faint water (?) spots, slight wear to bottom edge; else unread, as new. 284 pp. $10 Add to Cart
7351 Forsberg, Franklin S. Highlights from Yank: The Army Weekly Royal Books 1953 Soft Cover First Edition Paperbound collection featuring "the best" by Bill Mauldin, Marion Hargrove, Ralph Stein, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Merle Miller, Robert Neville and many others. Also includes cartoons & illustrations. Very good, probably unread, copy with bump to bottom edge, rubbing to cover, usual aging. 320 pp. $25 Add to Cart
445 Fromm, Bella Blood & Banquets: A Berlin Diary 1930-1938 Simon & Schuster 1992 0671751395 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Cover creased at top edge; else unread, as new. 338 pp, $10 Add to Cart
446 Fussell, Paul Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War Oxford Univ. Press 1989 0195037979 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Bule cloth spine, blue boards, gilt titles. By the author of The Great War and Modern Memory. Minor shelfwear to DJ, else near new. 330 pp. $25 Add to Cart
449 Gilbert, Martin The Day the War Ended: May 8, 1945--Victory in Europe Henry Holt & Co 1995 0805039260 Hardcover First Edition First printing. DJ rubbed, else unread, near fine. 473 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2530 Greene, Joshua M. and Shiva Kumar, eds Witness: Voices from the Holocaust Simon & Schuster 2001 0684865262 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Twenty-seven first-person accounts, including camp survivors, American military personnel, a member of the Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest, and resistance fighters. Unread, as new. 270 pp. $15 Add to Cart
455 Grigg, John 1943: The Victory that Never Was Hill & Wang 1980 041339610X Hardcover First Edition Stated first edition. Lavender cloth, gilt titles. Book near fine. DJ torn 1" at heel of spine, rubbed. 254 pp. $18 Add to Cart
459 Gunther, John Inside Europe: 1940 War Edition Harper & Brothers 1940 Hardcover Revised Edition Black textured cloth binding, black/white/red titles plate pasted at spine. War Edition, printed from new plates. CR statement: C-P. A detailed account of the countries comprising the Western Front, with a fold-out annotated map, and a discussion of their political leaders. Book unread, near fine. DJ very good with edge erosion to spine-ends and flap corners, several short tears, sunned at spine. Price of $3.50 intact. In Mylar. 606 pp. $90 Add to Cart
460 Haffner, Sebastian The Meaning of Hitler Harvard Univ. Press 1997 0674557751 Soft Cover 1st Edition Tenth printing. Biographical character study of the man and his times. Translated by Eswald Osers. Unread, as new. 165 pp. $15 Add to Cart
466 Herf, Jeffrey Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys Harvard Univ Pr 1997 0674213041 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new. 511 pp. $15 Add to Cart
4618 Hersey, John Hiroshima: Six Survived to Tell What Happened Bantam Books 1948 Mass Market Paperback 1st Edition Bantam 404, First Bantam printing, no cover price. The cover depicts two white middle-class Americans fleeing a bright light behind them in the distance. The artist, Geoffrey Biggs, said of the illustration that "... I just drew two perfectly ordinary people-- like you or me -- and had them portray alarm, anxiety, and yet wild hope for survival.. as they run from a man-made disaster..." Very good minus with cover delamination, small stain to foreedge, sunned at spine, paper aged, a few pages chipped at bottom corner. 116 pp. $25 Add to Cart
6690 Hersey, John Into the Valley Maj. Donald L. Dickson Pocket Books 1943 Mass Market Paperback First Edition Pocket Book #225. First PB printing. The US Marines at Guadalcanal. Contains pencil drawings by Dickson (USMC). near fine with slight lean to spine, wear to cover at folds, one or two slight creases. 121 pp. $15 Add to Cart
6032 Hoffman, Eva Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews Houghton Mifflin 1997 0395822955 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Brown cloth spine, beige boards, map endpapers, photo supplement. Near fine, unread copy in very good DJ in Mylar with slight shelfwear. 269 pp. $45 Add to Cart
467 Holliday, Laurel Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries Pocket Books 1995 0671520547 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Remainder mark to bottom edge; else as new in like DJ. In Mylar. 409 pp. $15 Add to Cart
471 Howe, Quincy, ed. The Pocket Book of the War Pocket Books 1941 Mass Market Paperback 1st Edition PB 127, second printing. Featuring excerpts from Dorothy Thompson's Let The Record Speak; Vincent Sheean's Not Peace But A Sword; John Gunthere's Inside Europe; Otto Tolischus' They Wanted War; Andre Maurois' Tragedy in France; Pierre Van Paassen's The Time is Now and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Cover lamination peeling at edges, else very good plus. Paper still bright, minimal aging. 371 pp. $15 Add to Cart
5953 Humes, Edward Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream Harcourt 2006 0151007101 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. The story of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 -- the "GI Bill of Rights." By the author of Mississippi Mud and others. Unread, as new in plain red wrapper. 311 pp. $15 Add to Cart
472 Irwin, John P. Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat, 1945 Random House 2003 0375759638 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Some sticker residue to cover; otherwise unread, as new. 176 pp. $10 Add to Cart
8693 Kohl, Christiane The Maiden And The Jew: The Story Of A Fatal Friendship In Nazi Germany Steerforth Press 2004 1586420704 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new in illustrated wraps with some excess glue to inside front cover. 202 pp. $10 Add to Cart
9214 Liebling, A. J. The Road Back to Paris Paragon House 1988 1557781060 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Unread, as new. 300 pp. $35 Add to Cart
7404 Lowe, Keith Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943 Scribner 2007 0743269004 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new. Extensive Notes, select Bibliography. 418 pp. $20 Add to Cart
6029 Manchester, William Goodbye, Darkness A Memoir of the Pacific War Little, Brown 1980 Hardcover BOMC Edition Blue cloth spine, beige boards, map endpapers. Book very good minus with stain at foreedge seeping onto edge of text block. DJ in Mylar rubbed, wrinkled, one tear. 401 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2506 Manuel, Frank E. Scenes from the End: The Last Days of World War II in Europe Steerforth 2000 1883642558 Soft Cover First Edition Uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new. 135 pp. $12 Add to Cart
4681 Mason, John T., Jr., Ed. The Pacific War Remembered: An Oral History Collection Naval Institute Press 2003 1591144787 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Collection of interviews with Admirals, Vice Admirals & Rear Admirals, on the war. Unread, as new. 382 pp. $25 Add to Cart
1492 Mauldin, Bill Up Front Henry Holt & Co 1945 Hardcover 1st Edition First printing (NAP). Brown cloth binding, black titles & decoration. No DJ. The author's stories and cartoons of the Eastern Front. Owner bookplate to pastedown else very good plus. 228 pp. $55 Add to Cart
6768 Mauldin, Bill Back Home Bantam Books 1948 Mass Market Paperback First Edition Bantam 461. First pb printing. Very good plus copy with one page creased at top foreedge, cover delaminated in places, aging to paper. 250 pp. $15 Add to Cart
492 Modley, Rudolf A History of the War in Maps, Pictographs & Words Penguin 1943 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Wartime paper aged, cover has some minor creases & rubbing. 177 pp. $20 Add to Cart
2532 Moorehead, Alan Eclipse: An Eye-witness Account of the Allied Invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II Soho Press 1999 1569471649 Soft Cover First Edition First pb edition. Unread, as new. 300 pp. $12 Add to Cart
9687 Morgan, Robert;Powers, Ron The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a World War II Bomber Pilot Penguin USA 2001 0525946101 Hardcover First Edition Sixth printing. Center B&W photo supplement on coated paper. Book near fine with edge soil, slight bump at bottom foreedge corner, remainder mark to bottom edge. DJ in Mylar also near fine with some light creasing. 388 pp. $15 Add to Cart
9830 Oren, Ram Gertruda's Oath: A Child, A Promise and a Heroic Escape During World War II Doubleday & Co. 2009 9780385527187 Soft Cover First Edition Softcover bound galley. Nonfiction. Unread, as new. 308 pp. $15 Add to Cart
8158 Pollatschek, Henriette; Polt, Renata A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters Univ of Alabama Pr 1998 0817309306 Hardcover First Edition Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Photo supplement on smooth finish paper. A fine, unread copy in like DJ.210 pp. $60 Add to Cart
505 Reynolds, Quentin Dress Rehearsal: A Stirring Eyewitness Account of the Raid at Dieppe - the First Air-Land-se Performance in the European Theatre of War Random House/Blue Ribbon 1943 Hardcover Reprint Edition Wartime reprint. Book overall solid with chipping to head & heel of spine. DJ also chipped at spine, worn at folds, edgewear. Some minor spotting to endpapers but book clean, binding tight. In Mylar. 278 pp. $15 Add to Cart
7134 Reynolds, Quentin 70,000 to One: True War Adventure Pyramid Books 1965 Mass Market Paperback Fifth Printing The Story of Lieutenant Gordon Manuel. Pyramid R999. Reader's crease at spine, front cover. Else very good plus with paper and cover still bright. 142 pp. $10 Add to Cart
510 Ryan, Cornelius A Bridge Too Far Simon & Schuster 1974 0671217925 Hardcover BOMC Edition Black cloth binding, gilt titles, map endpapers. Book spotted at top edge, owner stamp to ffep; else very good in like DJ. 670 pp. $20 Add to Cart
2048 Sides, Hampton Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission Doubleday 2001 0385495641 Soft Cover First Edition Advance reader's edition. Unread with paper starting to age. 255 pp. $20 Add to Cart
524 Sinclair, Andrew War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the 1940s Hamish Hamilton 1989 0241125316 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Black cloth, gilt titles. A cultural survey of the war years. Dirt spot to top edge, DJ rubbed. In Mylar. 321 pp. $15 Add to Cart
4518 Sloan, Bill Given Up For Dead: America's Heroic Stand At Wake Island Bantam Dell Pub Group 2003 0553803026 Soft Cover First Edition Advance softcover reading copy. Unread and as new with a tiny dent to cover at top edge, back. Index TK. 401 pp. $15 Add to Cart
5820 Steinbeck, John Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team Paragon House 1990 155778311X Soft Cover 1st Edition Second printing. Unread, near new. Illustrated with B&W photos. Uncommon. 185 pp. $55 Add to Cart
5042 Stone, I. F. The War Years, 1939-1945 Little Brown & Company 1988 0316817716 Hardcover First Edition First edition, second printing. Unread, near fine copy with tiny tear to ffep caused by binding flaw. Has two DJs; one as new, outer with very slight shelfwear. 350 pp. $30 Add to Cart
5140 Tateishi, John And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps Random House Inc 1984 0394529553 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Black cloth spine, white boards, gilt titles. Very good with remainder mark to top edge. DJ in Mylar also very good. 259 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2974 Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War Fawcett Books 1966 Mass Market Paperback 1st Edition Fourth Fawcett printing. Cover slightly rubbed, some pages creased at top corner. Paper bright, binding tight. 304 pp. $10 Add to Cart
530 Tempel, Gudrun The Germans: An Indictment of My People Random House 1963 1111540179 Hardcover First Ediiton First edition, first printing. Translated from the German by Sophie Wilkins, DJ sunned & soiled, stains to back endpaper, paper torn at front hinge. Text block clean with minimal aging. 172 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2535 Toland, John But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor Random House 1961 Hardcover Book Club Edition Very good copy with remainder spray to bottom edge and uneven cut to top edge of front matter. DJ very good with edgewear and small tear at front fold. 462 pp. $20 Add to Cart
447 Whittemore, Katharine The World War Two Era: Perspectives on All Fronts from Harper's Magazine Harpers 1994 1879957159 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Contributions by John Gunther, Rebecca West, JB Priestley, Bernard DeVoto, Margaret Bourke-White, William L. Shirer and others. Some smudges to cover; else unread, as new. 283 pp. $15 Add to Cart
548 Wiesel, Elie One Generation After Random House 1970 0394439155 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Black cloth spine, mustard boards, blue topstain. Aging, minor soil to DJ, text block clean & bright. 198 pp. $45 Add to Cart
550 Williams, Andrew Battle of the Atlantic, The: Hitler's Grey Wolves of the Sea and the Allies' Desperate Struggle to Defeat Them Basic Books 2003 0465091539 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new. 304 pp, $15 Add to Cart
6093 Yank Yank: The Army Weekly Vol. 4 No. 16 US Army 1945 Soft Cover Continental Edition. October 7, 1945. Folio size. Feature: The Surrender & Occupation of Japan, including articles and photos of Tokyo, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Self-cover, staplebound. Paper aged, spotted at front, Pages creased at corners, small tears to foreedge. Unpaginated. $25 Add to Cart
6095 Yank Yank: The Army Weekly Vol. 1 No. 47 US Army 1945 Soft Cover Continental edition. June 17, 1945. Feature: The Pacific War as it Looks to an ETO Veteran. Very good with aging to paper. Unpaginated. $20 Add to Cart
8334 Zinn, Howard Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence Open Magazine Pamphlet Series 1995 1884519148 Soft Cover First Edition Staplebound in wraps. Very good with cover crease/bump at top foreedge. 21 pp. $40 Add to Cart