Search Results: History: World War II from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Simon & Schuster [1961]. Hard Cover. 472 pages. Set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small Mediterranean island off Italy-- a world absurd and horrifying.x Good +, blue boards, top of spine worn/ no dj; book club. Stock#100882.

"A fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the previously unexplored strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Paul Kennedy reveals how the leaders' grand strategy was practically achieved by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders' visions of success."xxvi, 436, 1 pages, illustrated, maps, charts; 24 cm. Stock#48214.

[NY, Council on Foreign Relations] 2003. Soft Cover. iv, 186 p.; 25 cm. Reflecting the U.S. unilateral war, the issue contains: Iraq and the Arab's Future; Palestine, Iraq, and US Strategy; If Saddam Strikes Back; Iran's Crumbling Revolution; Loving and Hating America. Stock#47278. Vg / journal.

Provides "a brief and general survey of the material of Russian history" from "the western corner of Eurasia as the cradle of the Russian state" through the end of World War II. ix, 533 p., 3 maps; bibliography, pages 501-512; 21 cm. Bound in tan cloth, spine stamped in black; minor wear; good+. Stock#48161.

NY, Viking, 1960, ©1959. Hard Cover. 467 p., [64] p. of plates, 150 illus. (36 color), maps; 25 cm. Translation of Ore Giapponesi. "Interpretive description of [post-WWII] Japan by an Italian linguist and photographer who spent many years there as teacher and traveler." Filled with touching and illuminating stories and characters. Good+, spine spotted / no dust jacket. Stock#47484.

N.Y., Norton, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. x, 462 p., illus., 24 cm. An engineering officer who held division field command in World War II, Grigorenko became a dissident, and then exile in the U.S. Stock# 31,782. Vg/ dj good+.

VOLUME ONE ONLY. xvii, 551 pages, frontispiece, illustrations including maps, portraits, facsimiles; 23 cm. Contents: Before Sarajevo: Underlying Causes of the War. LACKS VOLUME TWO. Hard Cover. Bound in navy cloth, spine stamped in gold; owner stamp on flyleaf, frequent marginal pencil marks, stain from small newspaper clipping at pages 168/9; withal Good+. Stock#41153/h.

Ballantine Books, NY [1981]. . Soft Cover. Translated by Lieutenant Commander R. O. B. Long, R.N.V.R. Foreword by Vice Admiral Leland P. Lovette, U.S.N. (Ret.). 220, [3] p., , photos; 18 cm. 'The complete true story of German U-boats in action in World War II.' Stock# 31,069. Good+/ color pictorial paper covers. Military history, marine warfare, shipping, North Atlantic.

Harvest / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [‘First Harvest/ HBJ edition 1985']. Soft Cover. ‘Combining acute historical insight with a novelist's perception of the deep humanity that somehow survives the pain and horror of war, Keneally recreates the drama of the Partisan army's struggle against the Nazis as well as the lovers' struggle to retain their humanity in a world being devoured by the terrible flames of 1939-1945.' 206 p.; paper; jacket design by Robert Aulicino; 20.5 cm.; near fine. 101152

A wartime book. Flying in the Pacific in 1942, Rickenbacker's pilot missed their island destination and crashed. For three weeks the eight men drifted in life rafts until rescued. "Everything you can pack into twenty-one days and three rubber rafts." Book club edition; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#27116/h.

The First Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal with a photographic unit of five men led by Lt. Karl Thayer Soule and attached to Division Intelligence. The unit took over 5000 black & white still shots, black & white film, and color film that was lost in transit to Washington. Soule's contribution is not acknowledged here, nor are the pictures well identified (the editors should be embarrassed), but there are remarkable photographs in this book, most of them sharply reproduced. Softcover. 128 pages, chiefly black & white illustrations, 27.5 cm. Fine/ new from publisher. Stock#40720x/h.

"Specially Printed for U.S. Forces Overseas. Editorial content unchanged from the regular edition." Address label on front cover: "The American Consulate / Aden / Arabia." 32 pages plus text on both front & rear covers; reduced format (22.5 x 15.5 cm.) without margins. Front cover stamped "PASSED BY CENSOR". Front-cover portrait signed Ernest Hamlin Baker. Worn, paper darkened; withal Good. Stock#ofc0463.

A hero as a Russian pilot, De Seversky offered his services to the U.S. when the Communists withdrew from the war. He served under General "Billy" Mitchell and, in this best-selling book published as World War II began, continued Mitchell's work to persuade Americans that a powerful air force was required. x, 354 (i.e. 358) pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates, frontispiece, illus. incl. maps, plates, portrait; 21 cm. Stock#48077.

Two volumes: 5 p.l., 558; [559]-128 p.; 21 cm. Events of World War II through narratives centered on one family, with strong emphasis on the Holocaust. Stock#48138.

Three-ring binder holding approx. 32 printed pamphlets, newspapers, and other paper ephemera having to do with the Pacific during World War II. Includes Picture Book of Manila 1945; story The Bamboos by Francisco Arcellana; Del Valle News / Bergstrom Army Air Field, Austin, Texas, Monday, May 31, 1943 (entire paper); page 3 of The Sunday Tribune, April 25, 1943, "30 More Soviet Planes Downed"; mimeograph paper "Rimba Post", Sunday May 27, 1945; "New Republic Is Born in Philippines" from Life Magazine Oct. 9444; Guinea Gold Thurs. May 24, 1945 ("Super-Forts Now Based on Okinawa.."); The Kearns Post-Review; 7 Jan. 1945 issue of Daily Pacifican; paper currency (France, 5 francs; Japan, 5 pesos); U.S. Army map of Tokyo Sept. 1945; pamphlet "These Are the Philippines" printed after July 1945; Map of Greater Manila Area Prepared by VASAC Engr. Div. 24 July 1945; several mimeographed informational sheets; Christmas card from Unit One Camp John Hay, Baguio, Mountain Province, Philippine Islands; entire issue… Read More