Search Results: World War 2 from Trench Books

New York: Time-Life, 2005. Black Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Inscription on flyleaf, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows very minimal rubbing; nice copy. "America's Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph". Hundreds of photos of the men and women who won the war. One of the best of the Time-Life books!

Crescent, 1983. Reprint . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Light wear to edges and spine ends, inscription on back of front flyleaf. Jacket shows minimal edgewear. A biographical sketch, with several hundred B&W photos.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, light rubbing, not price clipped. "the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day". Illus with numerous B&W photos.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1940. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Faint stains to cover, name on flyleaf, othewise a sound copy. Only 29 pages, but was a bestseller, this being the twelfth printing. Published anonymously, this letter was written by a flyer with the RAF to be sent to his family in the event he did not return from a mission.

New York: Chilmark Press, 1967. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Slight bumps to lower corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light shelfwear, not price clipped. A collection of twenty essays the author read over the radio to the British during WWII. Introduction by Eric Sevareid.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Light edgewear, inscription on flyleaf. Jacket shows rubbing, light edgewear. "From WWII to Nixon what happened and why". 500+ pgs.

London: John Murray / Pilot Press, 1942. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Poor. Inscription on flyleaf, light wear. Jacket complete but quite ragged. "The Story of American Volunteers in Britain 1939-1941". A slim volume (64 pgs) with lots of B&W photos. Even though the US was not yet in the war, many Americans wanted to help. This tells what they did.

Novato CA: Presidio, 1988. Black Hardcover. Good+/Good+. Light wear/soiling, inscription on half-title page. Jacket show light soiling/edgewear. Detailed history of the battle to free France. Numerous B&W photos, maps.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Light wear, minor foxing to front cover, unmarked. Jacket shows light wear/rubbing, surface tear to spine from sticker removal. "Here is the battlefront front as an American soldier sees and knows it....".

New York: Appleton Century, 1940. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Faint stain to back cover, otherwise a nice clean and unmarked copy. Letters written by Mr. Jesson to Mr. Leighton Rollins, Director of the Rollins Studio of Acting at East Hampton, L.I. Jesson, a pacifist, was returning to England in 1939 to face the war.

New York: Farrar Straus, 1948. Gray Cloth. Very Good/Good. Light shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Jacket worn at edges, rubbing. The story of what WWII GIs found when they returned home from the war. All was not as good as it should have been.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Co, 1972. First American Edition . Gray Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light soiling. Very detailed history, hundreds of B&W photos.

New York: Henry Holt, 1997. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Just a trace of shelfwear at bottom edge; remainder mark to top page edges. Jacket shows minimal edgewear. "The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors". Illus with B&W photos. 500+ pages.

New York: Longmans Green, 1952. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Light wear to corners, clean copy. Jacket shows moderate wear/soiling, not price clipped. The story of Monsignor Carroll-Abbing and his Boys Town of Italy, formed after WWII to shelter war orphans. Illus with several B&W photos. Inscribed by the author (in 1974) on the front flyleaf. Also included are a few items: a Christmas greeting from the mayor of Boys' Town - Rome, a donation card, and a photo greeting from the citizens of Boys Towns of Italy.

New York: Pocket Books, 1995. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal shelfwear. Diaries kept by children during the war. Illus with B&W photos.

New York: Viking, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Slight bump to one corner, faint pencil erasure on flyleaf, otherwise a nice clean copy. Jacket shows light wear, minor soiling to spine, not price clipped. The way of life for children in WW2 Britain. Many B&W photos. Review copy, slip included. Extra postage outside the US.

New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 1991. First Edition . Gray Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Light wear to edges, a few small spots of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal wear. "Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe". Illus with B&W photos.

London: Lorenz, 2009. Pictorial Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Clean and unmarked, exceptional condition. Very detailed history, 250+ pages; 500 photos, maps and diagrams. Oversized, extra postage outside the USA.

Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1942. Reprint . Gray Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Letter"S" embossed in corner of end papers, otherwise a nice sound copy, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows rubbing, somewhat faded. True WWII story of the author's transatlantic journey as part of a convoy of freighters.

New York: Macmillan, 1954. First Printing . Black Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Slight bumps to lower corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear at edges and corners, light rubbing, not price clipped. Illus with several maps.