With Three Armies: On and Behind the Western Front
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, c1918. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 303, illus., front board weak, usual library markings. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, c1918. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 303, illus., front board weak, usual library markings. More
London: T. F. Unwin Ltd, 1917. 22 cm, 124, wraps, covers worn: some tears, pieces missing on spine. More
Paris: Les Presses Universitaires, 1923. 222, ftnotes, apps, bibliography, lib bookplate and stamps, library call number on spine, boards soiled and discolored, text browned. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 31 cm, 192, illustrations. Index. Bibliography. Pencil erasure residue on fep verso. Ward Rutherford was brought up in Jersey, where as a schoolboy during the German occupation he had firsthand experience of Nazi propaganda. Early in 1945 he was imprisoned for listening to the BBC and remained there until the end of the war. He became a journalist in Fleet Street, radio and television. In 1962 he was appointed Head of Local Programs for Channel Television, the independent television station for the Channel Islands. He is the author of numerous books of non-fiction and at least two novels. More
Toronto, Canada: The Musson Book Company, 1915. First Canadian Edition. First? Printing. 226, fold-out map, boards somewhat worn and soiled, edges soiled, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. More
New York, NY: Grove Press, 2003. First American Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. First edition. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 308 p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Afterword to the English-language edition. More
New York, N.Y. Grove Press, 2003. First American Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 308 pages. Includes 20 black and white illustrations. Foreword by Paul Spiegel. Afterword to the English-language edition. Bibliography. Appendix: the deportees. Marion Schreiber was born in 1942 in Drossen and was an editor at Der Spiegel for sixteen years. The spring of 1943 was a desperate season for the Jews of Brussels. The resistance movement had successfully bombed the SS headquarters that January, but anti-Jewish laws were tightening, and a camp had been set up in the nearby town of Mechelen to transport Belgian Jews to Auschwitz. One day in April, resistance fighter Youra Livchitz, a young doctor, discovered the departure date of the next transport train. With only one weekend in which to organize a raid, Youra recruited two school friends, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau, to pull off one of the most daring rescues of the entire war. Equipped with only three pairs of pliers, a hurricane lamp covered in red paper, and a single pistol, the men ambushed the train, which was transporting 1,618 Jews to Auschwitz. These three men freed seventeen men and women before the German guards opened fire. Miraculously, by the time the convoy had reached the German border another 225 prisoners had managed to escape and found shelter. The three young rescuers were turned in by a double agent, imprisoned, and killed. Marion Schreiber's gripping book about the only Nazi death train in World War II to be ambushed draws on private documents, photographs, archive material, and police reports, as well as original research, including interviews with the surviving escapees. More
Madison, WI: U.S. Armed Forces Institute, 1940. 1092 total, 2 vols., wraps, maps, ftnotes, bibliographical notes, appendix, index, covers stained & sm pcs missing, tears at spines. More
Stuttgart, Germany: 60th Infantry, c. 1945. Approx. 125, profusely illus. (some in color), color endpaper illus., map, color fold-out map, soiling to a few pgs, bds somewhat soiled. More
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1960. First Printing. Hardcover. 224, illus., maps, appendix, index, slight soiling inside rear flyleaf, boards stained. John Alfred Terraine (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003) was an English military historian, and a TV screenwriter. He is best known as the lead screenwriter for the landmark 1960s BBC-TV documentary The Great War, about the First World War, and for his defense of British General Douglas Haig – who commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war – against charges that he was "The Butcher of the Somme". Terraine had 16 books published, most of them dealing with aspects of the great European wars of the 20th century, and numerous articles and book reviews. His major study of the First World War, Mons: The Retreat to Victory was published in 1960. In 1964 Terraine edited a collection of diaries written by General James Lochhead Jack during the First World War, which became a best-seller. The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939–45 (1985) won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year award. His last book was Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars, 1916–1945. One obituarist wrote that for sheer scholarship, the quality and accessibility of his writing and for his debunking of historical myths, Terraine was one of the outstanding military historians of the 20th century. Terraine was a member of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies. He was awarded the Institute's Chesney Gold Medal in 1982. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1987. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Index. , slight soiling inside rear flyleaf, boards stained. John Alfred Terraine (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003) was an English military historian, and a TV screenwriter. He is best known as the lead screenwriter for the landmark 1960s BBC-TV documentary The Great War, about the First World War, and for his defense of British General Douglas Haig – who commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war – against charges that he was "The Butcher of the Somme". Terraine had 16 books published, most of them dealing with aspects of the great European wars of the 20th century, and numerous articles and book reviews. His major study of the First World War, Mons: The Retreat to Victory was published in 1960. In 1964 Terraine edited a collection of diaries written by General James Lochhead Jack during the First World War, which became a best-seller. The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939–45 (1985) won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year award. His last book was Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars, 1916–1945. One obituarist wrote that for sheer scholarship, the quality and accessibility of his writing and for his debunking of historical myths, Terraine was one of the outstanding military historians of the 20th century. Terraine was a member of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies. He was awarded the Institute's Chesney Gold Medal in 1982. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1987. More
Belgium? The 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographical Battalion, 1944. Presumed First Edition, First printing [The unit at the end had 30 Officers and 550 men--edition likely did not exceed 750 to 1000 copies]. Wraps. Format is approximately 7.875 inches by 10.25 inches. Unpaginated (68 pages). RARE, not found in Dornbusch!!! Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is largely a pictorial work, with many head shots of individual members of the Battalion. In addition, includes some photographs of Belgium, High Wycombe, Battalion activities. When the Battalion was activated in was located at Kew Gardens, Surrey (within the limits of greater London). On April 17th, 1944 the Battalion arrived at its permanent quarters which were located at AAF Station 101, Eighth Air Force Headquarters, High Wycombe. Upon arrival, the Battalion was immediately engaged in much preparatory work for the invasion (D-Day). With the advent of "Bombing through the clouds" the Battalion was called upon to originate and develop a map for radar navigational purposes. This map was used to guide the bombers to the target even though clouds obscured the check points. The Rhine River and Siegfried Line defenses were photo-mapped and a 1:5000 scale mosaic of Berlin, one of the largest mosaics ever attempted in the theater, was successful completed. Important 'Dropping Zone" maps for airborne landings were made. One of the several jobs that were produced for 'outside the Theater" planning agencies was a series of special maps of power facilities of Japan. This particular project involved the use of as many as 157 different color patterns. In January 1945 the Battalion was reorganized and became an integral part of the 325th Reproduction and Interpretation Center at Virton, Belgium. More
London: T.F. Unwin, Ltd., [1917?]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 94, wraps, footnotes, library stamp on front cover, covers worn and soiled and some edge chipping, cover weak. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1953. 24 cm, 977, this vol. only, fold-out map, appendices, some edge soiling, boards somewhat scuffed & scratched, front & rear boards weak. More
West Point, NY: U.S. Military Academy, 1942. 1945 reprint. wraps. [2]. 69, [1] pages. Wraps. 7 fold-out maps at the back. Underlining and marginal markings noted. Cover, especially the spine, has wear, soiling, tears and chips. Stamped name on front and back covers. Marked "Restricted". Staple bound, with some rust coloring aroung the staples at the front and rear covers. The text is marked as associated with particular maps. This account of the campaign in the West has been written for use in the instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy. The sections related to land operations are based for the most part on Lord Gort's report and on material prepared by the Military Intelligence Service, War Department. The story of the Battle of Britain is based largely on published accounts. More
Chicago, IL: Privately Printed, 1915. 6.75" x 9.5", 24, wraps, footnotes, some soiling to covers, small tears at spine. More
n.p. Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1948. VFW Edition. 512, illus., maps, text slightly darkened, slight waviness to bottom margin, some wear to board corners and spine edges. More
Cambridge: The University Press, 1915. Third Printing. 22 cm, 28, illus., boards worn at corners, top and bottom of spine worn, some browning of pages. Introduction by Lloyd George. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1917. 8, wraps, entire document folded in half, pages soiled and worn and edges creased, soiling to covers. More
London: Verso, 2001. Second Printing. More