Lieutenant Bertram: A Novel of the Nazi Luftwaffe
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 430, some wear and soiling to boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper, endpages soiled. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 430, some wear and soiling to boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper, endpages soiled. More
Dulles, VA: Brassey's Inc., 2000. Revised Edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Technical Specifications. Index. This was first published by the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1944. Foreword by Walter J. Boyne. Cover has some wear and soiling. An official U.S. Army Air forces manual exactly as it appeared when issued in 1944 for identifying German military aircraft. *Contains performance data on 57 different warplanes, from gliders to jet fighters. *Over 120 photographs and 170 drawings. No other book on World War II aviation provides so many specifications and details of performance in such a concise format. On one page are a brief description of each aircraft's purpose, as well as photographs and drawings that include fields of fire. On the facing page are its specifications and performance data, including range, armament, bomb/freight load, and armor. Comprehensive and accurate, it is the ideal quick reference for the airplane buff, the modeler, the computer wargamer, and the air warfare historian. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. First Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 22 cm, 160 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Bibliography. The cover has some wear and soiling. This is one of Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Weapons Book No. 6. Introduction by Air Vice-Marshal "Johnnie" Johnson. Studies the development and combat history of the famous R.A.F. fighter that won acclaim in the summer of 1940 during the Battle of Britain. John Vader (1919 - 2005) Australian author, living in the UK in the late 1960s and 1970s, most of whose work has been nonfiction, much of it dealing with military matters. John Vader saw World War II service with 6th AIF in Libya, Greece and Syria. He later transferred to the RAAF and flew Spitfires in the Pacific theater. Vader is reputed to have walked away from two Spitfire crashes, and flown a Wirraway bomber so low the propeller blades were bent. These combined experiences informed his war history writings. In the late sixties Vader went to London to work as a journalist; he wrote articles for Purnell's Magazine and became editor of a weekly journal. It was at this stage he was commissioned to write Spitfire (1969). It was followed by Pacific Hawk (1970), Anzac (1971) and New Guinea The Tide is Stemmed (1971), some of which were included in the Ballantine/Purnell Illustrated History of World War 2 series. His only science fiction novel, Battle of Sydney (1971), is an Alternate History of World War Two in which Australia is invaded by Japan; in the end the Invasion is unsuccessful. Some of Vader's war-themed books have been translated into Turkish, Japanese, Dutch, French and Portuguese. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. First Edition. 25 cm, 440, illus., bookplate and usual library markings. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 384 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, chipped, and price clipped. Sticker inside back cover. Arthur George Joseph "Arch" Whitehouse , M.M. was a World War I Veteran and author of World War I aviation books. He was a 1st Class Air mechanic and Observer with the No. 22 Squadron RAF. On 13 April 1917 Whitehouse and his Pilot Bush were brought down by anti-aircraft fire; Whitehouse believed afterward that the Red Baron mistakenly listed Whitehouse/Bush among the Barons's "credits"-although this was not so. For taking part in shooting down German Aircraft and airplane raiding missions he was awarded the Military Medal with the RFC in November 1917. During the last part of World War I he was undergoing training in England as a Pilot in Sopwith Camels aircraft. As of September 1919 he was a 2nd Lt. A notation on his Medal card noted he was awarded the "British War Medal" and British "Victory Medal" More
London: Collins, 1952. Second U.K. Edition. Hardcover. 766 pages, maps, endpaper maps, appendices, index, name of former owner written in ink inside front board, pages have darkened with age. More
London: Collins, 1952. First Edition. 766, maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, appendices, index, foxing ins bds & flylves & to fore-edge, bds & spine scuffed & scratched. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 22 cm, 766, maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, appendices, index, usual library markings, waviness to a few pages, small spine tears. More
Place_Pub: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 22 cm, 766, maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, appendices, index, some darkening to text, boards worn & scuffed, spine lettering faded. More
Leatherhead, Surrey, England, United Kingdom: Profile Publications, Ltd., 1965. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 12 p. Includes illustrations. Color illustrations inside front and back covers. More
Leatherhead, Surrey, England, United Kingdom: Profile Publications, Ltd., 1965. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 12 p. Includes illustrations. Color illustrations inside front and back covers. Some edge soiling. More
New York, N.Y. Dell Publishing Company, 1979. First Dell Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. 270, [2] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes chapters on Convictions; M16; Berlin 1934; Nazi Leaders; Blitzkrieg; Progress; Distractions; Politics; Detente; East Prussia; The Vital Question; Exposure; Flying High; and War. Also includes Author's Note, and Index. The Riveting, True Account of a Master Spy Inside Hitler's Reich. In 1934 the Nazi machine grinds into gear. War looms ever closer on the horizon. British Intelligence Agent Frederick Winterbotham arrives in Germany to play his dangerous game. He dines with generals, drinks with Luftwaffe pilots, befriends top brass like Goering, Hess, and Himmler. He has met the Fuhrer himself and is privy to Hitler's most secret plans. Frederick William Winterbotham CBE (16 April 1897 – 28 January 1990) was a British Royal Air Force officer who during WWII was involved in military intelligence. In 1932,Winterbotham, with the full knowledge of MI-6, escorted Rosenberg around Britain, made some appropriate introductions, and played up to him. Neither Ropp nor Rosenberg knew that Winterbotham had any intelligence connections—he was just a civilian official of the Air Staff. Winterbotham continued in this role for the next seven years. He became a regular visitor to Germany, and an apparent Nazi sympathizer. As such, he was welcomed into the highest circles in Germany, meeting Hitler and Göring, and with Göring's Luftwaffe subordinates such as Erhard Milch and Albert von Kesselring. He gathered a tremendous amount of information on the Luftwaffe and on German political and military intentions. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 22 cm. [12], 222, [4] pages. Bookplate inside the front cover. DJ has slight wear and soiling and small edge tears. Frederick William Winterbotham CBE (16 April 1897 – 28 January 1990) was a British Royal Air Force officer (latterly a Group Captain) who during World War II supervised the distribution of Ultra intelligence. His book The Ultra Secret was the first popular account of Ultra to be published in Britain. In 1974, Winterbotham's book, The Ultra Secret, was the first book in English about Ultra, and it explained what Ultra was, and revealed Winterbotham's role, particularly with regard to the dissemination and use of Ultra. Winterbotham's book was the first extensive account of the uses to which the massive volumes of Enigma-derived intelligence were put by the Allies, on the western and eastern European fronts, in the Mediterranean, North Africa, and most crucially, in the Battle of the Atlantic. Winterbotham acknowledged that he had only slight understanding of the cryptologic side of the multi-faceted and compartmentalized Ultra operation. Noted in the book is the myth of Churchill and the Coventry Blitz. Coventry was severely bombed by the Luftwaffe on the night of 14–15 November. Winterbotham asserted that Enigma decrypts provided warning of the raid but that Churchill decided not to take countermeasures that might alert the Germans that the British were reading Enigma. This story has been refuted by historians. Winterbotham concluded that the war's outcome "was, in fact, a very narrow shave, and the reader may like to ponder [...] whether or not we might have won had we not had Ultra" More
New York: Dell Publishing Company, c1979. First Dell Printing. pocket paperbk, 270, wraps, index, ink name inside front flyleaf, slight wear to cover edges. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961. First U. S. Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. 536 pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has some wear, tears, soiling and chips. Derek Wood was a noted writer on aviation and defense topics. Derek Dempster was a volunteer for the Royal Air Force in WWII and began his writing career after the war, The authors spent two years examining pertinent British and German records, and interviewing participants in the struggle that followed Dunkirk. The maps and photographs are expert and the appendices include drawings of all bombers, commands and casualty numbers of both sides and listings of all targets attacked. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1961]. First Edition. 22 cm, 536, illus., bibliography, index, usual library markings, dings to several pages. More