Wilson, H.W.: EditorMareMagnum
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Pages: 225-252. Magnificent centerfold contains a montage of photos of Canadians on their way to serve the British side. Cover photo of Czar Nicholas II, Emperor of all the Russians. This part contains the conclusion of Chapter 13 and the beginning of chapter 14 which is entitled "How Germany Sowed the High Seas with Mines." Photos/illustrations include: H.M.S. Monarch; Germany's Battleships and Small Craft; Panoramic view of German battle fleet in Kiel Harbour; Wilhelmshaven; A German Contact mine; Minesweepers; Canada's splendid rally to the flag; Cross-section of a torpedo; The Tsar inspecting Russian aviators; Cossacks in Galicia; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Front cover taped in place. Book
Signed by Robert Conquest [1917-2015] upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by Bob [Robert Conquest] to Joe [Joseph D. Dwyer, 1942-2017] upon front free endpaper in the year of publication. Dwyer was an invaluable resource to Conquest at the Hoover Institution and succeeded him as curator of its Russian collection in 2002. 412 pages with black and white plates, extensive footnotes, select bibliography and index. "A meticulous and moving account of a momentous, tragic yet neglected chapter of modern history [now known as the Holodomor]. Presents for the first time the full story of Stalin's collectivization program and its consequences. Reconstructs the background of the events and carefully details the fate of villages and individuals, the desperate condition of children left homeless, and the various cruelties and agonies of the man-made famine that followed. Seeks a true accounting of the death toll and shows how the West has long been deceived about what really happened." - dust jacket. "Conquest's excellently and professionally written book investigates the most serious crime of Leninist-Stalinist communism: its war against the peasantry of the U.S.S.R., which, before its destruction, constituted 82 percent of the entire population." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Unmarked with light overall wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. This stark testament of one of the greatest crimes in human history is a must for the shelf of any serious sovietologist. Book
Features: Title page illustration of British Artillery officers tobogganing on the Italian Front; Flesh-Food Shortage - Ways to Reduce It (article); The Blue Laurel (article); War and the Oceans (article); One illustrated page of coverage of the Malvy Trial in the French Senate; Two pages of photos of the British Army in camp and in the trenches in Mesopotamia; G.K. Chesterton writes of the importance of Poland and Alsace-Lorraine to the present war; Nine photos of "Men of the Moment" including C. A'Court Repington, T.H.J.C. Goodwin, Lord Glenconner, Travers Clarke, Sir Herbert Lawrence, Sir A. Hunter-Weston, Sir R.Y. Tyrwhitt, Count Hertling and Count Czernin; Illustrations of Cossack Troops, a subject of recent Bolshevist rumours; Two photos of Roumanian troops; Photo of the Bolshevist "Revolutionary Tribunal" dealing with Countess Panina; Photo of Russian Constituent Assembly members before they were disbursed by Red Guards with bayonets; One-page photo of Dryburgh Abbey; Two-page illustration of Italian trench-raiding party crossing the Piave by night on a raft; The Nitrogen (fertilizer) Problem Again (article about food in short supply); Page of photos of 21 British officers on the Roll of Honour, including Capt. John Fox Russell, V.C., M.C., R.A.M.C.; Two-page illustration of a German counter-attack crushed at Cambrai; Two-page illustration at Bourlon Wood where British rifles and machine-guns infliected huge losses on the German counter-attack; Five photos of British naval winter life in the Arctic Circle; Two photos of Royal Navy visitors on the Lapland coast; and more. 36 pages, including ten pages of charming vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. In particular, the back cover ad for "Harlene Hair-Drill" will fascinate anyone interested in early women's hair treatments. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
pp. xxii, 442. Index, footnotes, chronology, black and white photographic plates. "An expose of the responsibility of Harold Macmillan for the forced repatriation of Cossacks and Yugoslav citizens from British occupied Austria in 1945. This book is censored in England, and has been removed from the Bodleian and other research libraries. It is thought to be the first book banned on political grounds for exactly two centuries, the last being Thomas Paine's 'The Rights Of Man', condemned by the English courts in 1792". - Michael Hurst, per author's website. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Four small bits of clear tape to endpapers. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. A quality copy. Enser p.242. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of Stalin's deportation post-WWII of 40,000 Cossacks and White Russians and the subsequent cover-up. With a number of relevant cuttings loosely inserted.
196 p. Light insect damage rear cover. Uncut. Text lightly browned but not brittle. On the title page is the autograph ownership of Dab. Johnson. Probably Dabney Johnson (1785-1835) who was married in 1813 to Elizabeth Burnett, in Patrick County, VA. He was a veteran of the War of 1812. XLib bookplate of the Tenney Memorial Library Newbury, VT 1896 given by Mrs. S. F. Wheeler. 12mo. 200 mm. Original scarce printed paper boards. Major paper loss on spine. Extremities worn with some loss. S&S/AI 28450. Second edition. Very good. Hardbound. AI BX 3
Numerous black and white photographs. "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter CXLVII - Germany's Second Year of War; Chapter CXLVIII - Operations North of the Pripet Marshes, Summer, 1916. Contains black and white reproduction of a fascinating cartoon warning Germans against "the Dragon of Usury and Profiteering." Also contains reproduction of Berlin Bread tickets, January-February 1916. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in France in 1973.
pp. xxii, (1), (1)-612. LACKS two maps. Text very browned and age stain. New endpapers. 8vo. Rebound in brown library buckram. Title stamped in gold gilt on spine. First Part. Hardbound. Poor. S&S/AI 22541. PALIB 4
New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 14 cm). In Turkish. 436 p. Türk halklarinin etnik yapisi. [= Ethnic structure of Turkic peoples]. Translated by D. Ahsen Batur.
219 pages. Born and brought up on Russia, Zoe Polanska was just 13 when she was wrenched at gunpoint from her family and taken to Auschwitz, where she was subjected to the monstrous pseudo-medical experiments of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. From Auschwitz, she was transfered fo Dachau. Escaping from Dachau, she found refuge in Vienna and later in Italy. But when victory was announced, she was forcibly repatriated along with Cossacks and others who had fought alongside the Nazis, as part of the terms of the Yalta agreement. "One of the most remarkable stories of the Second World War." - The Scotsman. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
