1. Carroll, Joseph T.

Ireland in the war years.

Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1975. 23 cm. 190 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man, full of the most remarkable newspaper-clippings related to irish politics, constitution and History. Name of preowner on endpaper.

2. de Waal, Edmund.

The Hare With Amber Eyes – A Family’s Century of Art and Loss.

11th edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 354 pages. Several black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Stunning condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print Hardcover – Version.

3. Fugate, Bryan I. / Dvoretsky, Lev.

Thunder on the Dnepr – Zhukov-Stalin and the Defeat of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg.

California, Presidio Press, 1997. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XVI, 415 pages. Several black and white photographs in centre and maps throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Out of print.

4. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.

Hitler’s Willing Executioners – Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. X, 619 pages. Several black and white photographs, tables and maps throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print.

5. [Great British Admiralty].

British Vessels Lost at Sea 1939-45. A reprint of the original official publications Ships of the Royal Navy: Statement of Losses During the Second World War and British Merchant Vessels Lost or Damaged by Enemy Action During Second World War. Crown copyright: first published in 1947 by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, London. Reprint by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationary Office.

Cambridge, Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1977. 21.5 cm x 24 cm. VI, 103 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition+ with only minor signs of external wear. Ephemera lossely inserted listing rescues made by Irish Naval ships during this period. Rare.

6. Hill, F.M.

Permanent Way – The Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway – Being the Official History of the Development of the Transport System in Kenya and Uganda. Foreword by Sir Reginald Robins, the Commissioner for Transport, East Africa High Commission.

Nairobi / Kenya, East African Railways and Harbours, [1949]. 20.5 cm x 25.5 cm. XII, 582 pages. 18 plates with fantastic monochrome photographs. 2 beautifully coloured fold-out maps within, showing 1. East Africa in 1892 with the proposed Railway / 2. East Africa in 1949 showing the Principal Land & Water Communications with finished Railways and Railways under construction. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and gilt design on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor stain to front board lower corner. Binding is firm and strong. Foxing and tanning to edges. Some occasional pencil-markings. Interior is otherwise tight, bright and clean.

7. Hill, M.F.

The Dual Policy in Kenya. Being a collection of articles, published in the Kenya Weekly News, between July, 1943, and March, 1944, on the past, the present, and the future of Kenya Colony.

Nakuru, The Kenya Weekly News, no year (c.1944). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 276 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth]. Poor condition with stronger signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Corners bumped. Boards show smudges and fading. Tears to gutter between pastedowns and endpapers. Binding somewhat shaky but book block intact. Internally clean and bright with sharp corners.

8. [Jane, Fred T.] McMurtrie, Francis E.

Jane’s Fighting Ships 1944 – 45 [1945] (corrected to April, 1946). Founded in 1897 by Fred T.Jane – Forty-Eighth Year of Issue.

London, Sampson Low, Martson & Co., [1946]. Oblong Quarto [near Folio]. Pagination: 70 pages of advertising are preciding the book, Frontispiece, XXX, 636 pages with hundreds of photographs of Fighting ships, Submarines, Destroyers etc. from all nations, and countless pages of Advertising for Industries related to shipbuilding and Maritime Suppliers. With an alphabetical list of Advertisers. Including a “War Loss Section” which details the fate of each vessel (captured, sunk etc.). Hardcover. Spine damaged (split from binding). The binding still firm. Interior excellent. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the very rare 1944/1945/1946 edition.

9. Kennan, George F.

Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin.

Boston / Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1961. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. X, 411 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small crease in page 411. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on pastedown. [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book].

10. Kessel, Sim.

Pendu A Auschwitz.

4e Trimestre. Paris, Presses Pocket, 1974. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. 248 pages. Red painted edges. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages slightly discoloured. Top edge paint faded.

11. Nicholas, Lynn H.

The rape of Europa – The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War.

1st edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 500 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckled edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Page 499-500 stuck together.

12. Overy, Richard.

1939 – Countdown to War.

London / a.o., Penguin Books, 2009. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. IX, 158 pages. One black and white map. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Allen Lane an Imprint of Penguin Books].

13. Read, Anthony / Fisher, David.

The Fall of Berlin.

New York / London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. 16 cm x 24 cm. 513 pages. Several black and white photographs in centre and maps at beginning of book. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print.

14. Ritchie, Eric Moore.

The Unfinished War. The Drama of the Anglo-German Conflict in Africa in Relation to the Future of the British Empire.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1940. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 341 pages. 3 illustrations. 8 maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing on edges. Interior bright and clean. Armorial bookplate (‘Nil Sine Deo’) of F. Hamilton Lacey on front pastedown. Private inscription from previous owner on front endpaper.

15. [Wiesenthal, Simon] Levy, Alan.

The Wiesenthal File.

Grand Rapids MI, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993. 16.5 cm x 24.2 cm. 463 pages and 17 monochrome illustrations Hardcover [publisher’s original dark cloth] with lettering on spine. Illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent, as new condition.