1. 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].

2. Clark, Alan.

Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941 – 45.

New York, Quill, 1985. 15 cm x 23 cm. XXII, 522 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

3. [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.

4. [English History Collection] – [Churchill, Winston] Soames, Mary.

Family Album: A Personal Selection from Four Generations of Churchills.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. 22 cm x 27 cm. 216 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Worn edges on dustjacket.

5. Smith, Lyn.

Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust. A new history in the words of the men and women who survived.

London, Ebury Press, 2005. 16 x 24 cm. XVIi, 352 pages, including images. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. 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.

7. [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.

8. Reid, Brian A.

No holding back. Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944.

Toronto, Robin Brass Studio, 2005. 16 x 24 cm. XIX, 491 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. 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.

10. 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.