The battle in September 1944 when the citizens of Aachen defended their city from the attacking US Army for six weeks - thus giving Hitler the time to mobilise his forces for the Battle of the Bulge. A story of the city and its occupants as much of a military operation of people, opposed to Hitler, but determined to defend their homes and unwittingly aiding the Nazis.

1976, Corgi Books, , 0552102512,< G-01>,159pp maps, mass market paperback pages browning ow very good, , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 5530-02..............................£3.00 

The race to the Baltic. the British army's last campaign

1973, Corgi Books, , 0552092606,< G-01>,174pp ills, mass market paperback. pages browning. edgeworn ow vg, , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 32386-01..............................£3.00 

For a few weeks in February 1943, the action in and around a remote mountain village at Kasserine in French Tunisia, held the attention of the whole world. Here a major American army met the Germans for the first time in battle, and was defeated. This inauspicious beginning to a vital campaign rocked US military confidence, but brought together the commanders who would finally fight that decisive campaign in North West Europe.

1984, Guild Publishing, Book Club Edition, ,< G-01>,208pp, 40 photos, 4 maps, index, vg in dw, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 5974-02..............................£4.00 

A history of the German Parachute forces in WWII. Looks at the fate of the Fallschirmjager from their spectacular debut during the invasion of Crete 1941.

1975, Purnell, , ,< G-01>,231pp, ills, maps, Prev. owner inscr. ow vg in rubbed dw, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 20774-01..............................£9.00 

An account of the bitter battles fought on the Siegfried line in 1944 by the US Army. Includes the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Rhineland.

1984, Panther Books, , 0586060707,< G-01>,335pp maps ills, mass market paperback pages browning. very good, , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 613-02..............................£3.00 

1972, Pan/Ballantine, , 0345097173,< G-01>,160pp, photos, ills, maps., small tear on spine., , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 2536-01..............................£3.00 

Dustjacket creased with small tear on back cover. Fair. Drawn on personal recollections of servicemen and their families returning home after the end of the war, the demob procedures, returning to the family home, finding employment including being trained. Contemporary accounts of a very emotive time.

1991, Book Club Associates, , ,< G-01>,189pp illustrations., , ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 7773-01..............................£5.00 

Mass market paperback. Pages browning. very good. One the great POW escapes from Germany in WWII. This true story is set in Stalag Luft III where The prisoners faced with the problem of digging an escape tunnel came up with an ingenious way of concealing it with the entrance located in the middle of an open area relatively near the perimeter fence and using a vaulting horse (constructed largely from plywood from Canadian Red Cross parcels) to cover the entrance.

1984, Penguin Books, , 0140070303,< G-01>,240pp, , , CARD
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 14217-02..............................£3.00 

June, 1944 was one of the most important months of WWII. The victory at Cassino and the liberation of Rome, the Allied landings in Normandy, the Soviet offensive in Belorussia and the destruction of Army Group Centre, the Japanese offensive in Burma and its defeat, the invasion of Saipan and the Battle of the Phillipine Sea in the Pacific all took place in that "Month of Victories" for the Allies.

1984, Blandford Press, , 0713714468,< G-01>,224pp, 31 photos, 19 maps, tables, vg in worn dw, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 15527-01..............................£10.00 

One of the most important books written soon after World War II, it tells the story not only of how Hitler and the Third Reich were defeated, but of how Stalin and the Soviet Union emerged the real victors. The book draws on thousands of German State Papers plus official material which emerged at the Nuremburg Trials as well as Allied documents lluminating Anglo-American differences. All this apart, it tells a racy tale of the build-up to D-Day and the scenes on the Beaches and Bocage country of Normandy

1952, Collins & Brown, , ,< G-01>,766pp, numerous maps, appendices, index., Good in very worn and chipped d/w, ,
Subject...World War II - General
Web No. 5586-02..............................£10.00