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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.

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.

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.

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

Edinburgh, ; London: W. Blackwood and sons, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xii, 316.

London: The Sunday Times, 5 June 1994. First edition. Newspaper. Fine copy. Newspaper insert Pp 16 Illustrated. Diagrams. Maps. Issued on 5 June 1994, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the D-Day Landing. With articles by Stephen Ambrose ("They All Liked Ike"), John Crossland ("The Boffins Lay Churchill a Golden Egg"), Robert Kershaw ("Slaughter on Omaha Beach"), and many others.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Edges foxed; else fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 192. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Biographical Notes on Contributors. Index. The contributors include: Hugh Thomas, Claud Cockburn, Brian Crozier, and Peter Kemp.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xxiv, 616. Illus. : (40) pp. of plates. Checklist. Maps. Index.

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.

New York: Schocken Books, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. iv, 156. Frontispiece photograph. Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. This tells a harrowing story about a child's experiences in the Riga Ghetto, followed by imprisonment in the concentration camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz. However, the story is entirely fictional, for the author was born in Switzerland in 1941 and never left that country in his youth. Nevertheless, this book seems to have found a place in the vast literature of The Holocaust

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy/slightly worn. 8vo, Cloth. Pp. xiv, 384, (ii). Illustrated: 28 pp. of plates. Maps. End-paper maps of region. Notes on Sources. Index. On April 15, 1915 British and Dominion troops forced a landing at the south tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula in an effort to force Turkey to abandon its alliance with Germany. What followed was eight months of disaster and some half million casualties on both sides. It is a bitter, heart-breaking story but told here never better.

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 complete record of them.

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

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

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 he perished in their hands.

Pebbant, Somerset: Privately Printed, [None]. First edition. Wraps. Fine. 22 leaves stapled into wrappers. No dj, as issued. Signed by author.

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: Allen Lane, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature on first free end-paper. Else near fine copy/fine. 8vo. Pp. 320. Maps. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Appendices. Unpublished Sources. Index.

London: Jarrolds, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/a few minor tears. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xii, 196. Maps. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Appendix. Notes. Biographical sketches. Index. Based on two journals, one by Freda Schlosberg, the other by James Alexander Kay.