The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II, Volume I
London: Orbis, 1972. 31 cm, 140, v.1 only of the 25-vol. set, illus. (some color), maps (some color). Foreword by Brig. Gen. James L. Collings. More
London: Orbis, 1972. 31 cm, 140, v.1 only of the 25-vol. set, illus. (some color), maps (some color). Foreword by Brig. Gen. James L. Collings. More
Place_Pub: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. 400, illus., endpaper illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, some darkening to text, some wear to DJ edges. The author was formerly an intelligence officer in Hitler's Navy. The book contains revelations about the conflict of strategic ideas, both within the German Admiralty and between its head and Hitler; about the failure of the Navy under Raeder and the Luftwaffe under Goering to cooperate; and about the feuds between the Naval staff on shore and the Fleet Commanders at sea. Strange as it may seem, no reliable and yet popular history of the German Navy during the Second World War has appeared since the German war records were returned from London and became available to German historians and journalists. With such records now to hand, this book can report the highlights and decisive phases of the war at sea from the German point of view. Germany's defeat at sea was the one which irretrievably lost her the war. Efforts to suppress or forget our mistakes, though originally understandable, have succeeded only in cloaking personalities in a veil of "taboo'' quite contrary to German naval tradition. Erich Raeder, architect of the fleet that in 1939 had to be sent out to fight a war that it did not expect, once pronounced: "The deeds of the German Navy must be subjected to the full light of day." More
New York: Dorset, 1996. Reprint Edition. First Printing. 272, illus., glossary, notes, index. More
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, [c1966]. 25 cm, 794, usual library markings, boards soiled, edges soiled, publisher's ephemera laid in. Text is in German. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 584 pages, chronology, endpaper maps, pages slightly darkened, small stains to fore-edge, boards somewhat scuffed. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition. 584, chronology, endpaper maps, usual library markings, pages slightly darkened, boards somewhat scuffed & edges worn. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Printing. 150, illus., slight foxing & soiling ins bds & flylves, pgs somewhat darkened, DJ worn & soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Second Printing. 187, maps, apps, bibliography, index, footnotes, pencil marks on a few pages, part of DJ flap cut off & pasted inside front flyleaf. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Second Printing. 368, illus., map, appendices, chronology, gazetteer, index, black mark on fore-edge, DJ somewhat soiled. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. 566, frontis illus., notes, index, weakness to front board, some discoloration inside boards, boards worn, spotted, & stained. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 231, maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, glossary, index, usual library markings. More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941. Second Printing. 1008, index, ink notation inside front flyleaf, front board weak, spine lettering somewhat faded. More
Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 574, [2] pages. Foreword by B. H. Liddle Hart. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Glossary of military terms. Index. Stamp inside front flyleaf. DJ somewhat soiled/small tears, DJ spine faded/wrinkled. The author was the most independent minded of the German Generals in World War II. He has much to say on the subject of Hitler as a military leader and on some of Hitler's disastrous decisions. Verlorene Siege (English: Lost Victories is the personal narrative of Erich von Manstein, a German field marshal during World War II. The book was first published in West Germany in 1955, and its English translation was published in 1958 for distribution in the UK and the US. Manstein presents his own experiences, ideas and decisions as they appeared to him during the 1930s and 1940s. He wrote as one who played an active part in the story he was relating. Discussing the 1939 invasion of Poland, Manstein alleged Poland's lack of military leadership. Manstein, who commanded the south German sector forces in 1943, complained that Operation Citadel (the offensive against Kursk) was delayed too long for the German force to break through. He also wrote that Hitler halted the attack prematurely, a decision he called "tantamount to throwing away a victory". According to Manstein, Hitler (whom he praises and criticizes,) did not allow the detailed planning of large-scale military operations. Manstein wrote that in 1943, a draw could have been achieved on the Eastern Front by bleeding the Red Army dry if the generals had been allowed to operate properly. More
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1984. Reprint Edition. Fourth Printing. 574, illus., maps, appendices, glossary, index, long ink notation (not from author), small tears/pieces missing to DJ edges. More
Place_Pub: Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1994. Reprint Edition. First Paperbk? Printing. 574, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, glossary, index, slight wear to cover edges, front flyleaf creased, ink # inside rear cover. More
Place_Pub: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. First Edition. 22 cm, 215, illus., dramatis personae, chronology, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears/chips, bds worn/discolored. More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [c1941]. 22 cm, 249, index, usual library markings, boards somewhat soiled and some edge wear, corners slightly bumped, some page discoloration. More