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PACIFICALL: Newsletter of the S.S. Uruguay, World War II U.S. Army Troopship - October 2, 1945

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: At Sea, S.S. Uruguay: 1945

Seller ID: 10793

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

About 8 X 13 inches with fold marks and small edge tears. Printed front and back, a two-page newsletter from the Army troopship S.S. Uruguay on its way to Manilla from San Francisco shortly after World War II ended. About the S.S. Uruguay from Troopships of World War II, by Roland W. Charles (1947): "Operated prior to and during World War II by Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. The Uruguay was allocated to the Army in late January 1942 for use as a troopship. Her war service was as varied as any other allocated vessel and was surpassed in the number of voyages by very few other ships."
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World War II Soldier's Ration Book Two with Return Envelope (OPA Form No. R-191) to the War Price and Rationing Board upon Induction

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Office of Price Administration - Rationing Department: 1942

Seller ID: 10828

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very mild wear, clean and free of any writing. War Ration Book Two with ration stamps, some removed, accompanied by the return envelope to the War Price and Rationing Board-OPA Form No. R-191. Measures 4.75 X 6 inches folded. Five full sheets and two partial sheets of stamps remain. Persons inducted into service were required to return their ration books to a War Price and Rationing Board. This folded envelope opens up to include a ration book and a set of instructions and form printed inside the envelope. The form is to be completed if a book(s) is not being returned for some reason. Apparent...
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The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Lincolnwood, Illinois, Legacy Publishing: 2007

Seller ID: 06110

ISBN: 0785329633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine -

Minor bumping to book and jacket. Clean copy. 765 pages, including Appendices (statistics on deaths, death camps, concentration camps, ghettos, Jews killed by country, Jewish Resistance Organizations, and Jewish immigration to Palestine), Further Reading, Glossary, and Index. Numerous photos, including those of a horrific and disturbing nature (photo credits at back of book, following the Index). The book is organized into chapters by year, from 1933 to 1946, plus an Epilogue (The Aftermath). Oversized, heavy book, which may require extra postage for expedited or international delivery.
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The Dark City: Being an Account of the Adventures of a Secret Agent in Berlin (Classics of World War II: The Secret war)

By: Andersen, Hartvig

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Time Life Books: 1992

Seller ID: 09667

ISBN: 0809487411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Quarter-bound imitation leather and paper-covered boards. All edges gilt. Red, silk ribbon bookmark sewn into the binding. The Secret War blind-stamped along the spine on the front and rear covers. Light bump at the foot of the spine, otherwise a fine, tight, and apparently unread copy. Publisher's synopsis and an unused bookplate laid in. Reprinted from the original 1954 edition for the Time Life series. 255 pages.
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POW-152: How I Survived 3 1/2 Years as a Japanese Prisoner of War

By: Andrews, Austin "Andy" & Austin Andrews, Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Xlibris Corp: 2008

Seller ID: 09398

ISBN: 1436330858

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

The dust jacket is worn at the spine ends and corners. Paper with printed greeting from the author laid in. The author has signed the book on the front pastedown under the front jacket flap. The author recounts his capture in the Philippines during the early months of the war and his survival to the end of the war during the next three and a half years. During that time, he and fellow soldiers were subjected to torture, starvation, and extreme brutality at the hands of the Japanese guards. 141 pages with Appendices and black and white photos.
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Tanks Advance! All About the Modern Tank, Profusely Illustrated

By: Beckles, Gordon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Cassell and Company, Limited: 1942

Seller ID: 00128

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Heavily bumped, head of spine torn. Pictorial dust jacket has long tears and pieces missing. Title, artwork, and author's name still visible. The binding is solid and pages clean. 128 pages with black and white photos.
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From the Ruins of the Reich

By: Botting, Douglas

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1985

Seller ID: 10952

ISBN: 0517558653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Foxing to the top edge of the text block, otherwise clean. 341 pages with Sources, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with maps and black and white photos. "On 8 May 1945 the Nazis surrendered, bringing to an end the Second World War in the West. Two huge allied armies occupied the ruins of the once-mighty Reich. Germany was prostrate, its population starving and its cities devastated. This book tells of the period that followed until the years of the Berlin airlift and the division of Germany into two separate nations."
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Secret Channel To Berlin: The Masson-Schellenberg Connection And Swiss Intelligence In World War II

By: Braunschweig, Pierre

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, Casemate: 2004

Seller ID: 09361

ISBN: 1932033394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A clean, sharp copy. 522 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the dust jacket: This book is the first comprehensive history of Swiss Intelligence and its astounding secret connections in World War II. It tells the fascinating story of the most controversial Swiss intelligence operation of the war: the covert interaction between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the head of German SS Foreign Intelligence, General Walter Schellenberg.
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JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe

By: Caldwell, Donald L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Orion Books: 1991

Seller ID: 08743

ISBN: 0517570394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The epic saga of Germany's greatest fighter wing. 440 pages with Glossaries, Appendixes, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photos and endpaper maps of Europe.
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Wings for Victory - The University of Texas, Ragsdale Flying Service, Browning Aerial Service - World War II Flight Training

By: Carter, William J. (Editor)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, The University of Texas Press:

Seller ID: 10611

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to the spine and short tears at the spine ends. Stapled booklet, 8.5 X 11 inches. No date indicated, but 1942-43 (World War II). University of Texas CAA-WTS publication offering a brief review of the government-sponsored flight training effort between the university and civilian flight operators to train pilots and ground personnel for service in World War II. CAA was Civil Aeronautics Authority (predecessor to the FAA) and WTS was War Training Service. Unpaginated, but 24 pages with numerous photographs of personnel from the university and flying services and students engaged in th...
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Above It All

By: Chapman, Don W.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Houston, Texas, Halcyon Press: 2004

Seller ID: 09500

ISBN: 1931823189

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A collection of interviews relating the wartime experiences of men and women prior to and during World War II. xii, 229 pages : black and white photographs.
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Final Letters

By: Dafni, Reuven and Yehudit Kleiman (Selected by)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1991

Seller ID: 00791

ISBN: 0297811517

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

A collection of letters, from the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem, written by Jews under Nazi oppression. Most offer the last signs of life for these Holocaust victims. Illustrated with 59 black and white photographs of selected correspondence; 128 pages.
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Inside North Pole: A Secret Agent's Story (Classics of World War II - The Secret War)

By: Dourlein, Pieter

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Time Life Books: 1989

Seller ID: 10915

ISBN: 0809472627

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Couple of nicks to the front cover and bump to the bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy. Quarter-bound imitation leather and paper-covered boards. All edges gilt. Red, silk ribbon bookmark sewn into the binding. The Secret War blind-stamped along the spine on the front and rear covers. Publisher's synopsis and blank bookplate laid in. Reprinted from the original 1953 edition for the Time Life series. 206 pages. The author recounts his short career as a Dutch secret agent.
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Kriegsgefangener (Prisoner of War)

By: Ferguson, Clarence

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Waco, Texas, Texian Press: 1983

Seller ID: 09175

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear; dust jacket is edge-worn, rubbed, and has several edge tears. Protected now in a clear Mylar sleeve. Inscription to the previous owners of the book, signed by the author's niece. World War II memoir about time in a German prisoner of war camp after his capture in Italy. The author landed on the beach at Salerno, Italy with the 2nd Battalion of the 143rd Infantry. 295 pages with 4 pages of black and white photos.
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Third Down and a War to Go: The All-American 1942 Wisconsin Badgers

By: Frei, Terry

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 2005

Seller ID: 10902

ISBN: 0870203606

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

MIld wear to jacket and a small tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. Protected in a Mylar sleeve now. 260 pages, Index, black and white photos.
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Intrigue for the Literate

By: Gidley, Andrew Jackson

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Carlton Press, Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: 11143

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very mild shelf wear to the boards. The author's obituary (1991) is affixed to the front free endpaper. Jack Gidley signed the book to the previous owner of the book. The dust jacket is chipped at the spine ends, otherwise mild wear. From the author's Introduction: "This book is an intrigue story about World War II. It is about Hitler and the Nazi party. But more especially, it is about German Intelligence and American Intelligence." 305 pages.
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China Mailbag Uncensored: Letters from an American GI in World War II China and India

By: Glist, Lou

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, Emerald Ink Publishing: 2000

Seller ID: 08720

ISBN: 188537321x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

303 pages with Suggested Reading and Glossary. Numerous illustrations by the author. Nice, clean copy--like new.
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The Last Sunrise

By: Gordon, Harold (SIGNED)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Salinas, CA, U.S.A., H & J Publishing, Inc.: 1993

Seller ID: 02070

ISBN: 0963258915

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Heart-wrenching autobiography of a ten-year-old boy's struggle to survive the Nazi death camps in World War II, his eventual escape and liberation by General Patton's Armored Division, and new life in America. Inscribed and signed by the author inside the front cover and also signed on the title page.
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Brothers in Arms: The Story of a british and a German Fighter Unit, August to December 1940

By: Goss, Chris

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Crecy Books Ltd: 1994

Seller ID: 10630

ISBN: 0947554378

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear, bumping, slight shelf lean, and a short tear to the upper corner of the dust jacket's rear panel. Protected now in a Mylar cover. 201 pages with Appendices and black and white photos. Account of the Battle of Britain in 1940 from the points of view of both British and German fighter pilots--609 Squadron and I/JG53 units respectively.
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Okinawa 1945: Gateway to Japan

By: Gow, Ian

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1985

Seller ID: 03989

ISBN: 038519918x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

jacket has a few small edge tears. 224 pages with Index, photos.
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Category: World War II