World War 2 from JB Books

Garden City: Double Day and Company, 1976. Book. Good-. Hard. First Edition (stated).. It can be wondered how Adolph Hitler would have evolved if Joseph Goebbels had never been born. Goebbels was the man behind the man - the creator of the persona of Hitler - his public image, the Nazi party even the term "Heil Hitler". Not only was… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1988. Book. Fine. Hard. Former Owner Inscription & Signature. First American Edition (stated).. Dismissed as just another war time atrocity, the massacre of innocents at Oradour was another story in World War II journals. In the early 80's, while doing a favor for a colleague, the author discovers, to his detriment that the massacre was more… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing.. A powerful argument presented that the classical German composer Richard Wagner played a vital role in influencing the development of German cultural and social perceptions as well as the National Socialist movement under Adolf Hitler, detailing the belief systems of both men and positing that Hitler became the cultural and… Read more about this item

Boston: Americanist Library : Western Islands, 1965. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition (thus).. A very revealing study of the Victor Sorge communist spy ring which operated out of Tokyo, Japan, during World War 2 but which had subversive tentacles spread over various other cities around the world. Sorge was ostensibly a Nazi functionary but actually had long been loyal… Read more about this item

London: Phoenix Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Former Owner Bookplate. Reprint. The eloquent, heartbreaking memoirs of a German woman surviving the end of Nazi Germany during World War Two and its aftermath whilst under Russian military occupation. Has much information on Nazi demoralization, post-war Soviet abductions, rape, etc. Softcover, 206pp. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

New York: Soho Press, Inc. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (thus). The memoirs of Nazi Germany by the popular American expatriate writer who lived there for several years prior to the war and during the war negotiated for the release of hostages held by the Nazis. Author's earlier works were popular with leading Nazxis. Hardcover with… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Books : Henry Holt and Company Inc., 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Former Owner Bookplate. First Edition (stated).. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). A sympathetic analysis of the life and of a Jewish woman who survived Nazi Germany, in the process the author looking at troubling discrepancies between fact and recollection that so often mar survivor… Read more about this item

Hamden: Archon Books, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Former Owner Bookplate. BCE. The memoirs of a former member of the Hitler Youth and who served in the German Luftwaffe during World War Two. Author had lived in the USA during the 1930s but whose family had moved back to Germany - and who after the war served in the US… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Former Owner Bookplate. BCE. The fascinating true tale of a beautiful Jewish woman living in Nazi Germany who voluntarily worked with the SS to seek out, identify, and have arrested her fellow Jews - most of whom in consequence were interned in Nazi concentration camps - some of whom never returned.… Read more about this item

Kent: Kent State University Press, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Former Owner Bookplate. First Paperback Edition.. The memoir of a former Hitler Youth member who had been an ardent supporter of National Socialism and Adolf Hitler but who after the war moved to the United States, describing his upbringing and ordinary life in Nazi Germany as well as his… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books Inc., Publishers, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Former Owner Bookplate. Second Printing.. A discussion of presumed Nazi war guilt as experienced and held by the surviving family members of leading Nazi officials during World War Two - offering rejection, understanding, confusion, and other emotional elements. This work the result of the author's interviews with the adul chiildren… Read more about this item

Boston: Americanist Library : Western Islands, 1965. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition (thus).. A very revealing study of the Victor Sorge communist spy ring which operated out of Tokyo, Japan, during World War 2 but which had subversive tentacles spread over various other cities around the world. Sorge was ostensibly a Nazi functionary but actually had long been loyal… Read more about this item

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First American Edition. An interesting history of Nazi Germany's large Type IX U-Cruisers, which operate with great success off West Africa during World War Two, sinking a great number of ships as well as forcing major naval dispositions on the Allies with attendant far-reaching political… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Former Owner Stamp & Signature. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A realistic, factual history of the Allied military disaster at Dunkirk during the Nazi German western offensive in 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and their French allies losing all their vehicles and heavy equipment as well as… Read more about this item

New York: Free Press, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Third Printing. A completely fresh perspective on the December 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster in which conventional history dictates America was an innocent and unsuspecting victim; author postulates via the presentation of much recently-released documentation (via the US 'Freedom of Information' document release legislation) that Roosevelt and the US Navy under his… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated).. FIRST PRINTING of the First American Edition (stated). A detailed history of the various persons and groups who conspired against Adolf Hitler and his government during the 1930s and 40s - their background and motivations, their political beliefs, their goals, etc., and how the Nazis steadily… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. The memoirs of one of Britain's leading scientists - he having been a close science and technical advisor to Lord Louis Mountbatten and Dwight Eisenhower during and after World War Two, his experiences in Burma and elsewhere during the war, his… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. The story of two OSS operatives serving in South-East Asia during World War Two together and forming a life-long romantic liaison, setting up an intelligence network across the region whilst serving under British Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters, after the war getting caught up… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition (stated).. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). The story of the exploits of the US Army Rangers during the Normandy invasion of D-Day in which they stormed France's Pointe du Hoc - and forty years later the homage paid to them by President Ronald Reagan. Hardcover with dust jacket,… Read more about this item

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1965. Book. Good-. Soft cover. First Paperback Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Paperback Edition. The dramatic true account of a survivor of a British freighter sunk by a German U-Boat in 1943, enduring nearly two months on the open ocean in a struggle to live. Softcover, contains map, 160pp., book shows mild general wear.… Read more about this item