European History from Berthoff Books

Little, Brown and Company, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 439 pages, with index. First American edition. Account by the famous British intelligence agent of his travels in Scandinavia, East Central Europe, and the Balkans on the eve of World War II. 8vo, metallic silver cloth with butter-yellow lettering, wear to crown/heel/corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, chips to… Read more about this item

Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corp.), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 319 pages. First published 1969, first-hand account of British Intelligence's Room 900 operations to extract captured operatives and other POWs from Nazi-occupied Europe. Illustrated with black and white photos. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn, pages brown from age, a few pages accidentally creased at bottom, binding tight. Old pencil price… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Good. 248 pages, with index, select bibliography, list of primary sources. Three maps, 28 b&w illustrations on plates. Account of various deception operations in North Africa and occupied Europe; fake weapons and bases, false radio signals, etc., and the politics of Allied coordination in this field. 8vo, black material over boards with gilt… Read more about this item

Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages. English translation by George Miller of book published in French the year before. The journalist author was born in Algeria. High-quality mass-market paperback, scant wear to edges, diagonal creases to a few pages, edges/page margins age-tanned. Yellow highlighting observed on five pages.

Charter Books (Grosset & Dunlap), 1978. Soft cover. Good. 342 pages, with Index, Appendix "Organizational Structure of the SS". History with chapters on the formation of the SS, Kristallnacht, Heydrich, the Warsaw Ghetto, Adolf Eichmann, Himmler, more. Mass-market paperback, wraps worn with 1/4" tear at heel and rubbing along spine, foxing to top edge, edges and page margins… Read more about this item

Taplinger Publishing Company, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 374 pages plus viii front matter pages, with Bibliography and Index. First U.S. edition. Essays by several historians on controversies over German motives in World War I, with Fritz Fischer's work refuting claims about Germany's war intentions as a touchstone. Mass-market paperback, creases to spine, wraps lightly soiled and shelf-worn,… Read more about this item

Harper Torchbooks, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 286 pages, with Index, Bibliography, four maps. Translated by Robert Baldick. TB1346, first Torchbook edition of book published the previous year in the Collins History of Europe series. Chapters on liberalism, socialism, constitutional monarchies, British parliamentary system, Italian Risorgimento, nationalism in Germany, Austria, and more. Trade paperback, remainder mark - hole punched… Read more about this item

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 502 pages, with index. First Doubleday Anchor paperback edition of collection of essays on socialism first published 1940. Touches on Michelet, Vico, Anatole France, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Marx, Engels, Lassalle, Bakunin, Lenin and Trotsky. Mass-market paperback, wear to corners, spine creased and sunned, a few pages dog-eared. Name of former owner and… Read more about this item

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 375 pages, with index. Third impression of British first edition of 1934. Translated from Italian by Henry Furst. Includes chapters on the Romantic Movement, Liberalism, German consolidation, the lead-up to World War I. 8vo, red cloth with almost completely rubbed away gilt lettering on spine, wear at crown, corners… Read more about this item

Pocket Books Inc., 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 231 pages plus xxiv pages front matter including Authors' Preface and Note, diagram of map-room where the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt took place, Dramatis Personae list; bibliography, index. First printing of Pocket Cardinal edition of book first published 1964. Eighteen b&w photos on four double-sided plates. Mass-market paperback, edges… Read more about this item

Collier Books, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 159 pages, with index. Fourth printing (1966) of first Collier edition. "A study of the ideals and the realities of the Revolution as revealed in the life of its most controversial spokesman" by the Oxford historian, author of longer works on the French Revolution and on Robespierre, as part of the… Read more about this item

Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 328 pages plus xxiv front matter pages including Foreword by Lang and von Schenck, Dramatis personae, six-page chronology. Written during the Nuremberg Tribunal on Nazi war crimes, Rosenberg's memoirs were edited by Swiss journalists Lang and Schenck, whose notes are interspersed in the text. This is the first American… Read more about this item

Vintage Books (Random House), 1961. Soft cover. Good. 191 pages plus Index and translator's Preface. Sixth printing of 1957 Vintage edition, translation by R.R. Palmer first published 1947, the book in French - 1939. Appendix: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Mass-market paperback, water stains and slight waviness to top of the text block, light wear… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1941. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1107 pages, with index and bibliography, 25 b&w illustrations (art reproductions) on plates, three maps of where composers from certain countries were active. Covers ancient Greece to the early 20th century. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), black cloth with gilt lettering in red insets all rubbed especially on spine… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Good. 363 pages. Reprint of book first published 1975, which looks at the literary remembrance and mythologization of World War I. 8vo, blue-green paper over boards with black quarter, gilt lettering on spine, light shelf wear, damp damage (rippling) along bottom of front board and top of text block near the back, foxing… Read more about this item

M.-J. Challamel Éditeur, 1948. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH with "Historical Note" also in English. Préface de Paul Claudel. Collection "Charme de la France". 70 b&w photos of the town, the abbey and 11th century basilica, with details of stone carvings, by Roubier, French photographer who made photos for more than 100 books on art… Read more about this item

Officine grafiche Poligrafici il Resto del Carlino. Soft cover. Good. 30 pages, with Short Bibliography. Special issue in the Tesori d'arte cristiana series (text in English). A survey of the structure begun in the 13th century as a Franciscan gothic church, transformed for Lord of Rimini Sigismondo Malatesta in the 15th century by Alberti's design. Illustrated throughout with… Read more about this item

Mainstream Publishing, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages, with list for further reading. Illustrated with b&w photos (cuts and plates, many portraits) and color ones on 12 double-sided plates. History is interspersed with accounts of travelling through the Highlands. The author formerly headed the Scottish Crofters Union. Super 8vo (8" x 11"), gray buckram… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 389 pages, with index of places and subjects, index of people, list of the 260 illustrations (b&w photos, diagrams; mostly cuts, a few full-page). Large (8-1/2" x 11") trade paperback, crease to spine, a little shelf wear and page-turning soil, slight discoloration and foxing along top of covers, top edge,… Read more about this item

Polonia Publishing House, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 209 pages. Illustrated history of Poland, published in the period of Communist rule, with art reproductions both color and b&w throughout, and pull-out maps. The three authors were professors in Poland. The history is in four sections: Part I from the formation of the Polish State into the early middle ages; Part… Read more about this item