Search Results: World War II from Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

London, MacMillan, 1995. XVI,757 p., plates. Hardbound 24 cm (4 plates are loose) (The authorative biography of Speer. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, 1905-1981, was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry",[b] he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime, while insisting he had been ignorant of the Holocaust. (Source Wikipedia)) (In reality this book is a paperback, it is not sewn)

Hamburg, Claassen Verlag, (1950). 346 p. Cloth 23 cm (Including a worn dustjacket) (Carl Haensel,1889-1968, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Rechtsanwalt. (...) Nach der Machtübergabe an die Nationalsozialisten 1933 unterschrieb er mit 87 anderen Schriftstellern das Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft für Adolf Hitler. In den Jahren 1935 bis 1938 schrieb er im Sinne der Machthaber ein Außenpolitisches ABC. (...) Im Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess war er ab 1. April 1946 Assistent von Horst Pelckmann bei der Verteidigung der als verbrecherische Organisation angeklagten SS einschließlich des SD. Seit 1950 war er Justitiar beim Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. Haensel übernahm ab 1952 einen Lehrauftrag für Rundfunk- und Urheberrecht an der Universität Tübingen. (Source Wikipedia))

Bissendorf, Biblio Verlag, 2007. VIII,489 p. Hardbound 25 cm

Zürich, Europa Verlag, 1951. 168 p. Paperback 21 cm (Cover worn; paper yellowing)

Berlin, Ullstein, 1994. 464 p. Hardbound 22 cm (Including dustjacket) (Alexander Stahlberg, 1912-1995, war Mitglied des militärischen Widerstandes um Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg und seinen Cousin Henning von Tresckow. (...) Am 18. November 1942 wurde Stahlberg Ordonnanz-Offizier des Feldmarschall von Manstein, zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch Oberbefehlshaber der 11. Armee. (...) In den nächsten Monaten stand Stahlberg mit Mitgliedern des militärischen Widerstandes in Kontakt, die Manstein aufsuchten. Unter anderem wurde er Zeuge, wie Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg und Henning von Tresckow vergeblich versuchten, Manstein für den Widerstand zu gewinnen. (...) Nach der Entlassung Mansteins durch Hitler im April 1944 wurde Stahlberg Adjutant des Feldmarschalls. In dieser Funktion kümmerte er sich um dessen persönliche Belange und befand sich bei Kriegsende mit diesem in Schleswig-Holstein. Am 6. Mai 1945 übergab er einen persönlichen Brief Mansteins an den… Read More

New York, Overseas Editions, (1944) 408 p. Wrappers 16 cm (Cover worn, right edge slightly thumbed. Small piece of the back cover gone. Paper yellowing) (On the frontcover: 'This edition of an American book is made available in various countries only until normal free publishing, interrupted by Axis aggression, can be reestablished'. This book is a compilation from 'Here is Your War' and 'Brave Men'. The columns start in North Africa in november 1942, the last one was written in August 1944, the liberation of Paris)

Paderborn etc., Ferdinand Schöhning, 2006. XXIV,306 p. Cloth 24 cm (Including dustjacket)

New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. XIX,497 p. Hardbound 24 cm (Including dustjacket)

Darmstadt, Primus Verlag, 1998. XVI,2 volumes: 302;XIII,327 p. Hardbound 23 cm (Including dustjacket)

Paris, Robert Laffont, 1967. 399 p., illustrations. Cloth 24.5 cm (Small spot on the frontcover)

Wiesbaden, Limes, 1975. 292 p., plates. Hardbound 22.5 cm (Including dustjacket) (Otto Moritz Walter Model, 1891-1945, was a German field marshal during World War II. He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west. He has been called the Third Reich's best defensive tactical commander. (Wikipedia))

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1952. 528 p. Cloth 24 cm (Traces of sellotape on the endpapers. Stamp: 'Property of Base Library U.S.A.F., Base, High Wycombe', on the front pastedown and the title) (Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, 1888-1954, was a German general during World War II, noted for his success as a leader of Panzer units in Poland and France and for partial success in the Soviet Union. (Source Wikipedia))

München, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2008. Operation Valkyrie 191 p. Hardbound 21 cm (Including dustjacket. Original title: 'Nous voulions tuer Hitler. Le dernier survivant du complot du 20 juillet 1944'. It contains the conversations of Jérôme and Florence Fehrenbach with Boeselager, who authorised the text) (Philipp von Boeselager, 1917-2008, was the second-to-last surviving member of the 20 July Plot, a conspiracy among Wehrmacht officers to assassinate German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1944. When Boeselager was a 25-year-old field lieutenant, he was part of Operation Walküre, which was a plan developed to re-take control of Germany once Hitler had been assassinated. Boeselager's role in the plan was to order his troops (who were unaware of the plot) to leave the front lines in Eastern Europe and ride west in order to be air-lifted to Berlin to seize crucial parts of the city in a full-scale coup d'état after Hitler was dead. (Source Wikipedia))