An anthology edited and introduced by Mordecai Richler. An international selection of writings by novelists, poets, essayists, diarists and journalists. Includes Simone de Beauvoir, Evelyn Waugh, Norman Mailer, Primo Levi, Martha Gellhorn, Yukio Mishima, Studs Terkel, John Hersey, Elie Wiesel et al. Subjects as diverse as the London Blitz, the invasion of Poland, the Australian war, and Hiroshima are covered.

1991, Chatto & Windus, , 0701139129,< G-01>,727pp, vg in chipped d/w, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 28105-01..............................£10.00 

How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke won the war in the west. Focuses on the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill and the military commanders of their armed forces. Each was exceptionally tough willed and each was certain that he knew how to win the war.

2008, Allen Lane, Penguin Press, , 9780713999693,< G-01>,674pp illustrations, Very good in good d/w with slight edge creasing, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 10634-02..............................£8.00 

Mass market paperback. Pages browning. Previous owner name on endpaper. Pages browning. Good, reflecting age and use. Giles Romilly, who was Churchill's nephew, was captured at Narvik, and Michael Alexander was captured in N Africa. They were among the "Prominente", POWs whom the Germans thought to be of special value, and they were held as hostages. They were eventually imprisoned in Colditz - along with other "Prominente" including Earl Haig, Marquess of Linlithgow, Michael Alexander, Bor-Komorowski, and John Winant (son of the US wartime Ambassador in London).

1956, Pan Books, , ,< G-01>,251pp illustrations, , , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 21676-03..............................£3.00 

Featuring the work of many artists including Edward Ardizzone, Frank Wootton and Albert Richards and veterans of the 1st world war, Wyndham Lewis, John Nash, Stanley Spencer. The author has drawn heavily on the archives of the Imperial War Museum, he relates the war paintings of the individual artists with their art in general and their attitudes to war.

1983, Jonathan Cape, , 0224020382,< G-01>,192pp profusely illustrated., Light marks on endpapers. Good in d/w, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 37134-01..............................£8.00 

Volume 3, covers Stalingrad, Midway and El Alamein.

1966, Bantam Press, , ,< G-01>,215pp ills, mass market paperback. shelfwear ow vg, , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 32404-01..............................£3.50 

A contemporary account of WWII from early 1943 to mid 1944, by noted military analyst H. Rowan-Robinson. He looks at major events of WWII including Stalingrad, Allied victory in North Africa, Burma, the Atlantic, the Summer and Winter offensives in Russia in 1943, Sicily, Italy and the Balkans

1944, Hutchinson, , ,< G-01>,176pp, frontis, 14 maps, red cloth, spine faded, top of boards darkened, g, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 913-01..............................£11.00 

Small nick top right hand corner spine otherwise very good. A national hero after the first world war, as the fall of France became imminent in 1940 he became President of the Ministerial Council and the entire government moved to Vichy in central France. Pétain became a puppet of the German military administration. After the war, Pétain was tried and convicted for treason. This is an account of the trial, the witnesses and the verdict.

1968, Faber & Faber, , ,< G-01>,xxiv + 223pp, Good in d/w, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 12098-01..............................£10.00 

Reprint of the original 1945 German edition. English text with numerous black and white photos. Sections include: 1. The War and the Destruction of Berlin. 2. The Legacy; The Capital of the "Third Reich". 3. The Chance for a New Beginning". This volume was Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Berlin Staatliche Kunsthalle 10 April - 13 August 1995.

1995, Verlag Willmuth Arenhovel, , 3922912338,< G-01>,200pp, numerous b/w photos & illustrations, like new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 8773-01..............................£10.00 

Used Paperback. Creased covers. Reading copy only. The story of the final, cataclysmic battles for Berlin in April, 1945. Nazi Germany stood on the brink of defeat, yet still fought with undiminished savagery. From his Berlin bunker, Hitler issued hysterical orders to his generals, while every available man, woman and child was pressed into service to defend the final bastion of the thousand-year Reich against the massive Russian assault

1980, New English Library, , 0450045498,< G-01>,446pp, photos & maps., , , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 10615-03..............................£4.00 

The author, an Officer during the German invasion of Poland, relates his experiences as a member of the Polish Forces in exile and the Polish underground resistance. After Poland's defeat in 1939, he joined the Resistance, fighting on two fronts - against the German occupiers and the Russians. He was a witness to the German extermination of the Jews. At the end of the war he escaped to the West pursued by the Russians.

1984, Leo Cooper, , 0436440792,< G-01>,xxii + 200pp, 12 illustrations, Good in d/w with small tear on edge., ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 16204-02..............................£8.00