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525 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Black and white photographic plates. Illustrated map endpapers. "Based on previously classified archival research and over 100 interviews, including with British and German Commanders who worked with the Canadians. Particularly fascinating are details of NATO planning for meeting a Warsaw Pact attack, including how nuclear weapons would be used." - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Moderate peripheral wear. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Ominous one-page photo ad shows Boeing B-29s being assembled in huge factory; Japs say bombardment of Luzon was terrible - major coverage; Why Nazis caught Allies Off Base on the Ardennes Front; General Ernest N. Harmon; Reproduction of German propaganda piece which shows battle-weary Allied troops on the Saar front that draft dodgers at home are living it up with the lady-folk; Great GM color ad features firing tank and Hydra-Matic transmissions; Sweet one-page ad for the Blue Radio Network features Alan Young - 1944's most promising star; Nice color Schlitz beer ad; Eyewitness to starvation in Italy (with photos); Archibald MacLeish; Photo of Polish government in exile; Australina drought; Nice color-illustrated military ad for Borg-Warner; Firestone Tire color centerfold ad; King Boris III of Bulgaria; Incredible Warsaw photos shows skeletons of horses from which residents have stripped every bit of meat; Packard car ad features letter from Mustang pilot overseas; Photo of Hitler walking through bomb damage; Photos of Betty Morrissey who tends lighthouse at the Northern tip of Prince Edward Island (PEI); Great one-page color ad for White Trucks shows freight being loaded; US domestic manpower push; Photo/ad shows John B. Kennedy of the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers; One-page *FANTASTIC* color-photo ad for Kodak will thrill silver-bugs! - shows dozens of huge silver bars being stacked for photographic use behind watchful armed guard; Nice one-page color Ford ad; Brief obituaries for Dr. John F. Condon, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Romain Rolland; Army study of Marihuana (Marijuana) smokers points to better ways of treatment; GI Surgeon Sgt. Frank Palco of Roth, VA; Photos of US propaganda being loaded into shells to be dropped over Germany; Photo of swimmer Ann Curtis; Nice one-page color ad for American Airlines features the new DC-6 flagship; Nice color ad for Chrysler's fluid drive; Nice photo ad for Bitumous cole features military theme; Anglo-American relations; Nice color military ad for Studebaker; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Great cover photo of men viewing Paris election news; What it is like to live in Warsaw - the daily struggle to achieve the ordinary wears a man out, physically and spiritually, but Poles have not yet quite lost their pride and hope, gaiety and individualtiy; France Chooses a new Assembly - with great photos; Big Three of Algeria's Rebels - Premier Ferhat Abbas, Foreign Minister Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, and Belkacem Krim, Vice Premier; A 600 Billion Dollar Economy?; The Egghead vs. the Muttonhead - too few people dare to be themselves; Small Wonder Called the Gene - How will radioactive fallout affect human genetics?; Rodgers and Hammerstein Brand on a Musical; Real World in the Abstract - photos; He Calls the Signals for Pro Football - Article on NFL Commissioner Bert Bell; Fantastic two-page color-photo as for American Airlines promotes the first jet service in the U.S.A., 707 service scheduled to begin in January, New York to Los Angeles in 5.5 hours!; Impressionistic View of an Art Opening; When Cities Put Out the Welcome Mat to host conventions; Captains of the Subway - brief article on New York subway conductors, with photos; Two Movies - Two Audrey Hepburns; Stuffing recipes; Building the Child's Sense of Ethics; Fashion photos of two-piece swimwear for women; Photo-feature of new five-story Manhattan home designed by Felix Augenfeld and Jan H. Pokorny; Photos of "The Disenchanted" starring Jason Robarts; and more. 96 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Greatest Navy on Earth provides a pageant of power for Truman policy outline - with photo of commissioning of giant carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt; Photo of a million people in Central Park listening to the President; Zionists assail 'ambiguity and delay' on Palestine at a New York Rally - with photo and text; Detroit Mayoralty Race - Gerald L.K. Smith, Jeffries, William Z. Foster, Frankensteen; Red Army's odd ways in peace tilt course of Russian Diplomacy; Photos of tough market life in Warsaw, Poland; Japanese Zaibatsu to be abolished; President Achmed Sukarno of Indonesia; Outer Mongolia now 'independent'; Services war unity flies apart under shock of the atom bomb; Discrimination against blacks in Britain; photo of car down lakefront ravine in Scarborough, Ontario; Labor-Management parley to fix labor strife re: wage-hour questions; Meter, Yard or EII? - Swedish compromise would shift measurement unit to end conflict; and more. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Evidence of moisture exposure to last ten pages or so. A sound copy. Book
x, 214 pp. Index. Foldout map. Seven black and white plates. First published in the U.S. in 1942. "Compiled under the auspices of the Research Institute for Peace and Post War Problems of the American Jewish Committee, New York. [The author] is able to lay bare every step taken by the Nazis to impose their evil will upon Poland; he describes too the resistance and underground activities of the population in opposition to the invader. Poland is being used by the Nazis as a testing ground for their scheme for a future German colonial empire in Europe. This book is of the utmost importance as an analysis of the evil which the United Nations have to combat." - dust jacket. Moderate wear to publisher's black cloth which is lettered in silver with red trim upon backstrip. Binding sound. Gentle toning to clean and unmarked contents. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this important work compiled while the final outcome of WWII was unknown. Kehr & Langmaid 5414, Wiener Library Catalogue Seven 983. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with front and rear endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Detailed and inspiring history of the Polish Underground by its foremost leader. A cornerstone of the literature of Poland in WWII. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.342.
328 pages. "A significant document by which the author acquitted himself of the obligation bequeathed on the survivors of the Holocaust by its victims to tell the world what happened to the Jews during World War Two, when to be a Jew was a crime. The Memoirs based on the author's own experiences and reports told to him by his relatives and friends, survivors of the Holocaust, describe the fate of hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews, banished by the Russians to Siberia and in particular the lot of those who came under the Nazi regime... A rich source of first hand information about the life in the ghetto, the Judenrat, the Jewish Ghetto Police and the methods used by the Nazis in the destruction of the Jews." - dust jacket. Author lost his parents, wife and two sons in the Holocaust. Map endpapers. Black and white illustrations. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket lightly sunned at spine, bears several closed tears and is missing some small chips - now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy.. Book
FIRST EDITION OF ELUARD'S RAREST BOOK, WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY MAURICE MENDJIZKI. Includes a 5-page poem by Eluard and 31 extremely high-quality (Jacomet process?) full-page reproductions of drawings by Mendjizki depicting the suffering and heroism of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Uprising. Dedicated to the artist's son Claude, shot by the Nazis in 1944 for being a member of the Resistance. THIS FIRST EDITION STRICTLY LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, of which this is number 100, SIGNED BY ELUARD AND MENDJIZKY AND CONTAINING AN WONDERFUL ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY MENDJIZKY, depicting three people trying to sleep in very cramped quarters (200 additional unsigned copies were also printed, 100 in French and 100 in Yiddish, which are not part of the first edition.) Printed on fine wove paper. 4to. Original wraps FINE AND BRIGHT, LIKE NEW WITH NO DEFECTS, IN THE ORIGINAL BOARD CHEMISE AND SLIPCASE. A wonderful example of extremely rare and haunting 20th-century Judaica.
Signed and inscribed by Jan Karski upon front free endpaper. Karski [1914-2000] recounts his experiences when his homeland of Poland was rent asunder by the joint Nazi and Soviet invasion of 1939, and his harrowing subsequent life as a member of the Polish underground, during which he was captured by the Gestapo and severely tortured. Provides a ghastly eyewitness account of life in the Warsaw ghetto, into which Karski was smuggled so his observations could be reported to the outside world. Firearms advocates will cringe at Karski's account of what happened after he and a large group of Polish soldiers handed over their weapons to their 'comrades' from the Soviet Union. In 2012 Karski was posthumously awarded America's highest civilan honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Obama. 391 pages. Moderate wear to publisher's red cloth. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Binding intact. A sound copy of this truly unforgettable WWII narrative. Laska 672, Kehr & Langmaid 5407, Weiner Library Catalogue Seven 997, Enser p.343. Book
