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 The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiersby: Cobbs, Elizabeth

The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
by: Cobbs, Elizabeth

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 370 pages with index. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. "This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary forces, demanded female 'wire experts' when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops under fire. Without communications for even an hour, the army would collapse". Clean copy.

Record # 397614

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)by: Jennet Conant

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jennet Conant

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh living conditions with minimal privacy. Name on prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 382807

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16 Naval Training Bookletsby: Osborn, Robert

16 Naval Training Booklets
by: Osborn, Robert

Softcover. Washington DC, U.S. Navy, 1st, 1943-44, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sixteen softcover manuals, 18 to 32 pages each, each illustrated with b&w cartoons and 2-color cover wrappers by Osborn. All are 2-hole punched for binders (not present). A few dust soiled covers, otherwise very good. The titles are: "Oxygen Sense", "G" Sense", "Arctic Sense", "Aleutian Sense", "Shark Sense", "Gunnery Sense", "Manners Sense", "Dunking Sense", "Patrol Sense", "Prisoner Sense", "Security Sense", "Parachute Sense", "Recognition and Identification Sense", "Flat-Hatting Sense", "Taxi Sense", "Fuel Saving Sense".

Record # 402129

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1914 - 1918 Through the eyes of Fortunino Mataniaby: Peter Richardson

1914 - 1918 Through the eyes of Fortunino Matania
by: Peter Richardson

Hardcover. London, Book Palace Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 160 pages. In August 1914 much of Europe was pitched into a war that would eclipse all others in terms of its industrial ferocity. In an era when photography and film recording were still in their infancy, much of the news was relayed through the work of reportage artists. Pre-eminent amongst such artists was Fortunino Matania who was The Sphere's artist-on-the-spot for events ranging from coronations to colliery disasters. Sent to a variety of Fronts to cover the conflict, his illustrations created a gripping and, at times, life-affirming testimony to those traumatic times, drawn from the personal visits he made and interviews he conducted with survivors. For the first time ever, this book collects those images in large format so that they can be viewed as they were intended. OVER 150 paintings and drawings on the World War 1 conflict, depicting all its horrors and special moments. His work inspired many contemporary artists: Annigoni and Russell Flint both visited his studio, and many comic strip artists collected his work including Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel, Frank Frazetta, John Bolton, Bernie Wrightson as well as film directors such as Cecil B DeMille and Alfred Hitchcock.

Record # 381327

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200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII by: Weckstein, Leon

200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII
by: Weckstein, Leon

Softcover. Ashland OR, Hellgate Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages, b&w illustrations. Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italy's inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler's storm-troopers and Mussolini's Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon Weckstein was there--an American GI in combat fighting with and befriending the Partisans. Here is the story, as told through eyewitness accounts and carefully researched historical archives, of the Italian Partisans and their American OSS allies' battle to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime and expel the culprits from their beloved Italy. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397848

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A Camp Without Walls: The Journey of an Italian Survivor of a Nazi Labor Camp and His Family's Plight from World War II to the Present by: Lombardo, Maria

A Camp Without Walls: The Journey of an Italian Survivor of a Nazi Labor Camp and His Family's Plight from World War II to the Present
by: Lombardo, Maria

Hardcover. Rome, Italy Italy Enterprises, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Clean copy.

Record # 398138

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A History of the Great War (SIGNED)by: Buchan, John

A History of the Great War (SIGNED)
by: Buchan, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Domestic shipping only. 8 Volumes. Hardcovers. Autograph edition is limited to five hundred signed and numbered copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. Number 187. SIGNED BY BUCHAN in volume 1, reverse of title page. 2268 total pages within 8 volumes: Color frontispieces in each volume and b/w illustrations throughout with tissue page guards and fold-out maps. Blue cover boards, navy blue quarter cloths with gilt title on blue paste downs on spines. Covers show very light shelf wear with some slight tanning and a touch of rubbing to bottom of spines (Vol. 3 has small spot on front cover board). Pages offset, some tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Spines straight. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age. Beautiful, historical set perfect for the WWI enthusiast.

Record # 99226

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A Jewish Chaplain in Franceby: Levinger, Rabbi Lee J.

A Jewish Chaplain in France
by: Levinger, Rabbi Lee J.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 220 pages, a Jewish Chaplain's memoir of service in France during WWI. Foreword by Cyrus Adler. Frontis photo of Jewish welfare workers. Bookplate from private library on inside front cover, faded lettering on spine otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 385614

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A Shipyard at War: Unseen Photographs from John Brown's Clydebank, 1914-1918 by: Johnston, Ian

A Shipyard at War: Unseen Photographs from John Brown's Clydebank, 1914-1918
by: Johnston, Ian

Hardcover. Naval Institute Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. This collection of stunning shipyard photos, most previously unpublished, showcases the work of a major shipbuilder during the Great War. Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and 1920, the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast range of vessels. This volume features 200 photos depicting in unprecedented detail every aspect of the yard's output, from the liner Aquitania in 1914 to the cruiser Enterprise, completed in 1920. While ships are the main focus of the book, the photos also chronicle the impact of the war on working conditions in the yard, most noticeably in the introduction of women in large numbers to the workforce. This book is a vivid portrait of a lost industry at the height of its success. Clean copy.

Record # 386072

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A Visit to Three Fronts: Glimpses of the British, Italian and French Linesby: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Visit to Three Fronts: Glimpses of the British, Italian and French Lines
by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Co., 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Small octavo, tan boards with paper labels on top cover and spine. 93 pages. Doyle's account of visiting the military fronts during World War I. Clean, some scraping to paper covered board on rear otherwise very good.

Record # 373364

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Adoration of the Soldiers, Theby: Cammaerts, Emile and Louis Raemaekers

Adoration of the Soldiers, The
by: Cammaerts, Emile and Louis Raemaekers

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, ND (1915), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages, 6 b&w tipped-in illustrations by Raemaekers. English and French rendered in black and red calligraphy by Margaret Calkin. Thin white cloth covers with gilt design, light soil. A short mystery play written by the noted Belgian playwright and Great War poet, inspired by a visit he paid to the Belgian trenches during Christmas week and written in the style of a Nativity Play: it depicts the Virgin and Child amongst ordinary soldiers in a miserable Western Front dug-out.

Record # 900107

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After The War Was Over: The Sequel to the Award-winning War Boyby: Foreman, Michael

After The War Was Over: The Sequel to the Award-winning War Boy
by: Foreman, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with the author/artist's drawings and photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 371201

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After The War Was Over: The Sequel to the Award-winning War Boyby: Foreman, Michael

After The War Was Over: The Sequel to the Award-winning War Boy
by: Foreman, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with the author/artist's drawings and photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 373720

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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955by: Jahner, Harald

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
by: Jahner, Harald

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II, when Germany raised itself put of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust.

Record # 383496

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Airway to Indiaby: Lieutenant Joseph B Roberts Jr (editor)

Airway to India
by: Lieutenant Joseph B Roberts Jr (editor)

Hardcover. NY, Central African Division Air Transport Command , 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with gilt lettering. 48 pages, photo illustrations, maps. A pictorial history on the operations of the Central African Division of the Air Transport Command of the United States Army during the Second World War. Lots on activities of servicemen on air bases in Africa.

Record # 374202

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Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 - April 1944 - Volume 7 in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War IIby: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 - April 1944 - Volume 7 in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, 369 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386584

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All American Aircraftby: Gann, Ernest K.

All American Aircraft
by: Gann, Ernest K.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 Pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Author's scarce 2nd book. Blue fabric covered, no fraying, intact, no rips or tears. Some foxing on boards and endpapers. Pages yellowed from age and a small bit of water damage at very bottom of fore edge, does not affect text or illustrations. Original owner's signature on front flyleaf dated 1941. Picture of author glued on front flyleaf. An overview of American aircrafts up to 1941, both commercial and military.

Record # 30431

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Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (SIGNED COPY)by: Stoler, Mark A.

Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stoler, Mark A.

Hardcover. University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 380 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy. Clean copy.

Record # 378938

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Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story by: Martin Clemens

Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story
by: Martin Clemens

Softcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 343 pages, b&w illustrations. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Clemens managed to survive months behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains in the world. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397907

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America's Black and White Book. One Hundred Pictured Reasons Why We Are At War (SIGNED WITH A SKETCH)by: Rogers, W.A.

America's Black and White Book. One Hundred Pictured Reasons Why We Are At War (SIGNED WITH A SKETCH)
by: Rogers, W.A.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial pastedown on paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine. 100 b&w editorial cartoons reprinted from The New York Herald. Rogers was one of the country's top illustrators and a star in the Harper stable of artists. INSCRIBED BY ROGERS on the front fly leaf with a sketch of a boot kicking two Hun-like jackals. Light edgewear to boards.

Record # 359335

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American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann by: Mike Guardia

American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann
by: Mike Guardia

Softcover. Philadelphia, Casemate Publishers, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages, b&w illustrations. With his parting words "I shall return", General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese, killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur?s HQ in Australia and directed Allied forces to key enemy positions. When General Yamashita finally surrendered, he made his initial overtures not to MacArthur, but to Volckmann. This book establishes how Volckmann's leadership was critical to the outcome of the war in the Philippines. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397909

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Americans vs Germans: Individual Battle Experiencesby: The Infantry Journal

Americans vs Germans: Individual Battle Experiences
by: The Infantry Journal

Softcover. Washington/NY, Infantry Journal / Penguin Books, 3rd pr., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, orange and black pictorial wraps, 189 pages. Paper lightly tanned, clean, solid copy.

Record # 384184

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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 1943 Volume One of the Liberation Trilogyby: Atkinson, Rick

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 1943 Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
by: Atkinson, Rick

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Illustrations. 18 maps. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of miscalculation and incomparable courage, of calamity and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson focuses on 1942 and 1943, showing how central the great drama that unfolded in North Africa was to the ultimate victory of the Allied powers and to America's understanding of itself.Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algiers, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia.

Record # 381238

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An Artist at War: The WWII Memories of Stars & Stripes Artist Ed Vebell by: Ed Vebell

An Artist at War: The WWII Memories of Stars & Stripes Artist Ed Vebell
by: Ed Vebell

Atgen PA, Schiffer, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 144 pages illustrated in color and b&w. In 1942, Ed Vebell landed with the US Army in North Africa and was recruited by Stars & Stripes, the US armed forces newspaper, as their official staff artist. Daily, he drew illustrations and reported on the progress of World War II throughout Europe. This book offers a selection of his sketches, drawings, paintings, and photographs from that time, and presents one artist's view of the war from North Africa, through the campaigns in Italy, France, and Germany. After the war, the author spent two weeks with the Russians in Berlin, and was then assigned as the courtroom artist during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Along the way are Ed's reminiscences about such personalities as famed war correspondent and artist Bill Mauldin, singers Josephine Baker and Edith Piaf, Charles de Gaulle, Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr., and many others. Ed also reminisces about his two years photographing backstage at the Folies Bergere in Paris, as well as his time as an Olympic fencer. Clean copy.

Record # 384769

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An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps by: Sylvia J. Bugbee (Ed.)

An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps
by: Sylvia J. Bugbee (Ed.)

Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Softcover, 222 pages. From 1942 to 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Betty Bandel (retired) served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later WAC, the Women's Army Corps), eventually heading the WAC Division of the Army Air Force. During these years she wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends tracing her growth from an enthusiastic recruit, agog in the presence of public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt (code named Rover), to a seasoned officer and leader. Bandel was one of the Corps' most influential senior officers. Her letters are rich with detail about the WAC's contribution to the war effort and the inner workings of the first large, non-nurse contingent of American military women. In addition, her letters offer a revealing look at the wartime emergence of professional women. Perhaps for the first time, women oversaw and directed hundreds of thousands of personnel, acquired professional and personal experiences, and built networks that would guide and influence them well past their war years.

Record # 387523

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Art and the Great War: With One Hundred Illustrationsby: Gallatin, Albert Eugene

Art and the Great War: With One Hundred Illustrations
by: Gallatin, Albert Eugene

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages. 100 plates (3 tipped-in color plates), including 37 examples by American artists. Survey of the art of the First World War by Allied artists from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, lithographs, and posters. Works by Maxfield Parrish, George Luks, George Bellows, Harvey Dunn, Paul Manship, Mahonri Young, William Orpen, C.R.W. Nevinson, James McBey, Paul Nash, G. Spencer Pryse, Edmund Dulac, Wyndham Lewis, Frank Brangwyn, Th.A. Steinlen, and others. Bibliography, p. 285-288. Handsome production, with decorations designed by Frederick W. Goudy and printed by William E. Rudge. Dark green boards with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, light corner wear, mild bump to top of rear board.

Record # 361002

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Art of the Defeat, France 1940-1944by: Dorleac, Laurence

Art of the Defeat, France 1940-1944
by: Dorleac, Laurence

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Art of the Defeat provides an unflinching look at the art scene in France during the German occupation. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 353003

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Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of Franceby: Brunelle, Gayle/ Finley-Croswhite, Stephanie Annette

Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France
by: Brunelle, Gayle/ Finley-Croswhite, Stephanie Annette

Softcover. University of Toronto Press , 1st pbk, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 312 pages. During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the following morning launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy's murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the "Cagoule," a violent right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot. Based on the meticulous examination of thousands of documents, Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy's murder and the investigation that followed. At the heart of this book lies a true crime that was sensational in its day. A micro-history that tells a larger and more significant story about the development of far-right political movements, domestic terrorism, and the importance of courage, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of France's deep political divisions, wartime choices, and post-war memory. Clean copy.

Record # 397356

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Assignment Algiers: With the OSS in the Mediterranean Theater by: Erasmus H. Kloman

Assignment Algiers: With the OSS in the Mediterranean Theater
by: Erasmus H. Kloman

Hardcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 126 pages, b&w illustrations. Princeton grad Erasmus Kloman was undergoing Army training at Fort Bragg in 1943 when, due to his passing knowledge of French, he was interviewed for potential involvement in "a highly confidential activity." The interview culminated in the question, "Would you be willing to volunteer for hazardous duty behind enemy lines?" He signed up for duty with the newly formed Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and after an intensive period of training in various aspects of espionage, found himself on assignment in wartime Cairo, Algiers, and then Caserta. At age 24 with the title of OSS Acting Chief of Operations in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, he helped organize and coordinate the actions of Operational Groups (OGs) , which infiltrated Italy and occupied France on daring sabotage missions. Clean copy.

Record # 397910

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At the Dragon's Gate: With the OSS in the Far East by: Fenn, Charles

At the Dragon's Gate: With the OSS in the Far East
by: Fenn, Charles

Hardcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 226 pages. Fenn's skill as a spy is matched by his talent as a storyteller, and this witty, elegantly written account of his OSS days not only adds to the historical record, it makes for a compelling read. Clean copy.

Record # 397908

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Australian Commandos: Their Secret War Against the Japanese in WWII by: Feuer A. B. /foreword by Robert Barr Smith ; afterwords by George Folta and John Keith Leasure

Australian Commandos: Their Secret War Against the Japanese in WWII
by: Feuer A. B. /foreword by Robert Barr Smith ; afterwords by George Folta and John Keith Leasure

Softcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 194 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a fascinating account of Australia's M/Z commando unit and the part it played in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. M Unit personnel were secretly landed to set up coast-watching posts and radio stations to monitor Japanese shipping movements and bombing flights. Members of the Z Unit carried out raids in enemy-controlled areas and also attacked targets of opportunity. Many commandos were delivered on their missions by U.S. Navy submarines that sneaked into dangerously shallow waters to put the men ashore. Other operatives were inserted by PT boats, Catalina aircraft, parachute, and snake boats. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397851

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Batman: The War Years 1939-1945: Presenting over 20 classic full length Batman tales from the DC comics vault!by: Thomas, Roy

Batman: The War Years 1939-1945: Presenting over 20 classic full length Batman tales from the DC comics vault!
by: Thomas, Roy

Hardcover. New York, Chartwell Books, 3rd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color, black and white pictures throughout. For more than 75 years, through countless comics, television, and movies, Batman has been a symbol of strength and perseverance. He was created in 1939, on the brink of World War II -- a volatile time, when we needed a hero most. Who better to come to the rescue than the Caped Crusader? For the first time, Batman: The War Years 1939-1945 details The Dark Knight's involvement in the war and his fight against some very real villains.

Record # 352708

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Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps by: Eaton, Allen H.

Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps
by: Eaton, Allen H.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 209 pages with index, 4 color and 88 b&w plates. Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. Remnants of very worn, tape-repaired dust jacket. A study of the art created by Japanese-Americans placed in barracks during World War 2. Book is very good, tight and clean.

Record # 397635

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Belinda of the Red Crossby: Hamilton, Robert W.

Belinda of the Red Cross
by: Hamilton, Robert W.

Hardcover. New York, Sully and Kleinteich, 3rd, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt, red and white decoration, 342 pages, with frontispiece portrait of Belinda Melnotte by A. O. Scott. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853432

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BETTER 'OLE, A: THE BRILLIANT BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER AND THE FIRST WORLD WARby: Gosling, Lucinda/ Bruce Bairnsfather

BETTER 'OLE, A: THE BRILLIANT BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR
by: Gosling, Lucinda/ Bruce Bairnsfather

Softcover. Canada, The History Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages, softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 350998

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Biggles Defies the Swastikaby: Johns, Captain W. E.

Biggles Defies the Swastika
by: Johns, Captain W. E.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red covers stamped with black lettering and line art of plane with map of Norway behind it. Color frontis by Howard Leigh and 6 b&w plates by Alfred Sindall. 1941 date on copyright page, no other printings noted, top edge stained red. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories, who wrote under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He is best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles. In this exciting Biggles adventure, we see the much-loved adventurer stranded in Oslo during the Nazi occupation. Biggles is advised to find out all he can about the enemy's intentions, all while assuming the identity of a member of the Gestapo. Covers show wear, light soil. Small ink name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Record # 397438

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Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sailby: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
by: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages, b&w illustrations. Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together-even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart-but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.

Record # 381743

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Book of Modern Warplanesby: Booth, Harold H.

Book of Modern Warplanes
by: Booth, Harold H.

Hardcover. New York, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, color illustrations by Booth. Illustrated boards in an edge worn dust jacket with closed tears. Previous owner's markings on inside flap of dust jacket and front fly leaf.

Record # 354199

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Brandenburger: Wartime Photographs of Wilhelm Walther (Images of War) by: Rogers, Anthony

Brandenburger: Wartime Photographs of Wilhelm Walther (Images of War)
by: Rogers, Anthony

Softcover. London, Greenhill Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. More than 200 images, together with the original German captions and English translations, portray the life and times of a career officer, from the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, to operations in Russia, Greece and the Balkans during 1941-44. In comparison with other units of the Second World War, relatively little has been published about Germany's commando forces. This unique collection of rare images was sourced from the photograph album of Wilhelm Walther.

Record # 398455

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Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 6) by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 6)
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 463 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386582

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Brushes & Bayonets: Cartoons, Sketches and Paintings of World War Iby: Gosling, Lucinda

Brushes & Bayonets: Cartoons, Sketches and Paintings of World War I
by: Gosling, Lucinda

Hardcover. London, Osprey Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages, a collection of 250 illustrations from the archives of the Illustrated London News. Black cloth spine and boards, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 351120

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Burma: The Longest War, 1941-1945by: Allen, Louis

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-1945
by: Allen, Louis

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green boards, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W plates and maps; Large 8vo 9' - 10' tall; 686 pages; 'Allen's work deals primarily with the human elements of the forgotten war waged between the doomed empires of Great Britain and Japan in Southeast Asia between 1941 and 1945. The author's familiarity with Japanese sources enables him to strike a balance unusual in Western accounts. Allen's Japanese are as much prisoners of their culture as the British are of theirs. They are victims of incompetent command and inadequate logistics. They do not want to die, but their ready acceptance of death lends a special horror to Allen's descriptions of some of the century's most vicious fighting.' Clean bright copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 386371

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Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific -  Vol.1by: Crane, Roy

Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific - Vol.1
by: Crane, Roy

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, World War II action/adventure from one of the all-time great cartoonists. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 351930

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Canteen Kateby: Baker, Matt

Canteen Kate
by: Baker, Matt

Hardcover. Rosewell GA, Canton Street Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 352407

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Captured Not Conquered: The American POW Experience in the First World Warby: Colonel Greg Eanes

Captured Not Conquered: The American POW Experience in the First World War
by: Colonel Greg Eanes

Softcover. Crewe VA, E & H Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 465 pages, b&w illustrations. Captured, Not Conquered is a survey history of the American prisoner of war experience in the First World War. It encompasses U.S. forces as well as Americans in foreign service. It contains tables, charts and photographs from official records and documents over 100 escapes from Imperial German captivity. It documents German intelligence interrogation tactics, techniques and procedures, Allied intelligence activities, POW life and treatment and the evolution of POW intelligence. Includes bibliography, notes and index. Clean copy.

Record # 382507

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Careless Talk Costs Lives: Fougasse & the Art of Public Information by: Yaylor, James

Careless Talk Costs Lives: Fougasse & the Art of Public Information
by: Yaylor, James

Hardcover. London, Conway, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. During World War II, the British government issued a series of public warnings in the form of witty posters by the brilliant cartoonist Fougasse, a.k.a. Cyril Kenneth Bird. ("Don't forget that walls have ears!" a fashionable woman whispers to a friend, as Hitler's face peers ominously out of the wallpaper.) This illustrated tribute to one of Britain's most popular artists begins with his celebrated WWII posters and continues with his later work for Punch magazine and elsewhere. An important contribution to the history of both cartooning and propaganda, it compares the relative effectiveness of hard-hitting American wartime designs versus Fougasse's light touch.

Record # 362088

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Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945by: Copp, Terry

Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
by: Copp, Terry

Hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 407 pages, b&w illustrations. In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of the war, and extends the argument developed in Fields of Fire that "the achievement of the Allied and especially the Canadian armies... has been greatly underrated while the effectiveness of the German army has been greatly exaggerated." Copp supports this argument with research conducted on numerous trips to the battlefields of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. His detailed knowledge of the battlefield terrain, along with contemporary maps and air photos, allows Copp to explore the defensive positions that Canadian soldiers were required to overcome, and to illustrate how impressive their achievements truly were. Clean copy.

Record # 379018

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Cinquant Anni a Londraby: Franzero, Carlo Maria

Cinquant Anni a Londra
by: Franzero, Carlo Maria

Softcover. Torino, Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1st Italian, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, illustrated wrappers. An Italian journalist's memoir of a half century living in London. With a SiGNED letter laid in to the previous owner Cecil Roberts from the author. ITALIAN TEXT.

Record # 405513

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Clandestine Parachute Pick-Up Operationsby: Perquin, Jean-Louis

Clandestine Parachute Pick-Up Operations
by: Perquin, Jean-Louis

Softcover. Paris, Histoire and Collections, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 pages. profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This second volume of the collection Resistance is devoted to the parachuting and picking up of agents, from 1940 to 1944. It is a gripping frieze of these operations and a vigorous tribute to those heroes of the resistance whom the author describes here, using both his extensive personal documentation, connections among the veterans and many museum conservators throughout Europe. The reconstitution is rigorous and the information precise about both material and methods, and the wealth of pictures will live up to the expectations of most enlightened amateurs. But above all, each reader can discover the personal life stories more intimately, from the training exercises in England awaiting departure, to the sacrifices made so freely in carrying out the missions. Clean copy.

Record # 397846

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Coast Watching in WWII: Operations Against the Japanese on the Solomon Islands, 1941-43by: Feuer, A.B.

Coast Watching in WWII: Operations Against the Japanese on the Solomon Islands, 1941-43
by: Feuer, A.B.

Softcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole Books, 1st pbk, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. From their perches on islands such as Buka and Bougainville, coast watchers -- for the most part, Australian civilians -- monitored Japanese shipping and aircraft activity. They played a pivotal role during the battle for Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, when their intelligence facilitated the interception and destruction of twelve Japanese transports. These reports from the participants themselves provide a fascinating account that will intrigue historians as well as World War II and espionage buffs. Clean copy.

Record # 397911

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