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Knopp, Guido Hitler's Henchmen Konecky & Konecky 2016 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149941. ISBN #1568528183 / 9781568528182. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Knopp, Guido Hitler's Henchmen Konecky & Konecky 2016 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149941. ISBN #1568528183 / 9781568528182. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Without the evil dynamism of Adolf Hitler the Third Reich might never have existed. But to cement his grip on power, the Nazi dictator was reliant on an inner circle of henchmen who dedicated themselves entirely to his service. So who were these men who smoothed Hitler s path to power and became the perpetrators of a reign of terror unparalleled in history? What drove them to warmongering and mass murder, to unquestioning obedience and manic racial hatred? Since the early 1980s Guido Knopp has talked to countless people who knew Hitler s paladins. He has interviewed family members, friends, colleagues and other eyewitnesses; and his has gained access to personal papers. His meticulous research has also uncovered new material from British and Russian archives. Here he draws the political and personal profiles of the men behind Hitler, men who became the most important pillars of the Nazi dictatorship. Goebbels, G ring, Himmler, Hess, Speer and D nitz: these were the supporters and executives of Hitler s regime, carrying out his orders with deadly efficiency. Their significance in the web of Nazi power and the extent of their implication in its crimes differed greatly. Yet their psychological profiles have one thing in common: they all provide answers to how the atrocities of the Nazi era came to be committed. This radical new assessment of power under the swastika scrutinizes the leading personalities of the Third Reich. It reveals many hitherto unknown facts and offers a chilling glimpse behind the scenes of the Nazi regime.
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Kochanski, Halik The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Pole in the Second World War Harvard University Press 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165026. ISBN #0674068149 / 9780674068148. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Koerner, Brendan I. Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII Penguin Press HC, The 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021559. ISBN #1594201730 / 9781594201738. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Koerner, Brendan I. Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII Penguin Press HC, The 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021559. ISBN #1594201730 / 9781594201738. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Part history, part thriller, Now the Hell Will Start tells the astonishing tale of Herman Perry, the soldier who sparked the greatest manhunt of World War II and who became that war s unlikeliest folk hero A true story of murder, love, and headhunters, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a budding playboy from the streets of Washington, D.C., who wound up going native in the Indo-Burmese jungle not because he yearned for adventure, but rather to escape the greatest manhunt conducted by the United States Army during World War II. An African American G.I. assigned to a segregated labor battalion, Perry was shipped to South Asia in 1943, enduring unspeakable hardships while sailing around the globe. He was one of thousands of black soldiers dispatched to build the Ledo Road, a highway meant to appease China s conniving dictator, Chiang Kai-shek. Stretching from the thickly forested mountains of northeast India across the tiger-infested vales of Burma, the road was a lethal nightmare, beset by monsoons, malaria, and insects that chewed men s flesh to pulp. Perry could not endure the jungle s brutality, nor the racist treatment meted out by his white officers. He found solace in opium and marijuana, which further warped his fraying psyche. Finally, on March 5, 1944, he broke down an emotional collapse that ended with him shooting an unarmed white lieutenant. So began Perry s flight through the Indo-Burmese wilderness, one of the planet s most hostile realms. While the military police combed the brothels of Calcutta, Perry trekked through the jungle, eventually stumbling upon a village festooned with polished human skulls. It was here, amid a tribe of elaborately tattooed headhunters, that Herman Perry would find bliss and would marry the chief s fourteen-year-old daughter. Starting off with nothing more than a ten-word snippet culled from an obscure bibliography, Brendan I. Koerner spent nearly five years chasing Perry s ghost a pursuit that eventually led him to the remotest corners of India and Burma, where drug runners and ethnic militias now hold sway. Along the way, Koerner uncovered the forgotten story of the Ledo Road s black G.I.s, for whom Jim Crow was as virulent an enemy as the Japanese. Many of these troops revered the elusive Perry as a folk hero whom they named the Jungle King. Sweeping from North Carolina s Depression-era cotton fields all the way to the Himalayas, Now the Hell Will Start is an epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption. Yet it is also an exhilarating thriller, a cat-and-mouse yarn that dazzles and haunts.
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Koop, Gerhard, Klaus-Peter Schmolke Battleship Scharnhorst Conway Maritime hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Some underlining. Book #or1152943. ISBN #0851777724 / 9780851777726. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Koop, Gerhard, Klaus-Peter Schmolke Battleship Tirpitz Conway Maritime hardcover. Some ink marking on front end sheet.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. Book #or1152944. ISBN #0851777732 / 9780851777733. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kopanski, Tomasz J. Barbarossa Victims: Luftwaffe Kills in the East (Mushroom Model Magazine Special: Red Series) Mushroom Model Publications 2001 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161623. ISBN #8373000658 / 9788373000650. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Korda, Michael With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain Harper 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059143. ISBN #0061125350 / 9780061125355. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Korda, Michael With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain Harper 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059143. ISBN #0061125350 / 9780061125355. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force often no more than nine hundred on any given day stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. Korda re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England, and at the same time perhaps for the first time traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. Korda deftly interweaves the critical strands of the story the invention of radar the most important of Britain's military secrets ; the developments by such visionary aircraft designers as R. J. Mitchell, Sidney Camm, and Willy Messerschmitt of the revolutionary, all-metal, high-speed monoplane fighters the British Spitfire and Hurricane and the German Bf 109; the rise of the theory of air bombing as the decisive weapon of modern warfare and the prevailing belief that "the bomber will always get through" in the words of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin . As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, the central figure of Korda's book, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted creator and leader of RAF Fighter Command, did not believe that the bomber would always get through and was determined to provide Britain with a weapon few people wanted to believe was needed or even possible. Dowding persevered despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting to perfect the British fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught. Korda brings to life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict, from such major historical figures as Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Herman G ring and his disputatious and bitterly feuding generals to the British and German pilots, the American airmen who joined the RAF just in time for the Battle of Britain, the young airwomen of the RAF, the ground crews who refueled and rearmed the fighters in the middle of heavy German raids, and such heroic figures as Douglas Bader, Josef Franti ek, and the Luftwaffe aces Adolf Galland and his archrival Werner M lders. Winston Churchill memorably said about the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Here is the story of "the few," and how they prevailed against the odds, deprived Hitler of victory, and saved the world during three epic mon
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Koschorrek, Gunter K. Blood Red Snow : Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front Zenith 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161415. ISBN #0760321981 / 9780760321980. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kozak, Warren Lemay : The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay Regnery Publishing 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160159. ISBN #1596985690 / 9781596985698. (keywords: United States Army General Biography) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Krawczyk, Wade German Army Uniforms Of World War II in Color Photographs Motorbooks International 1995 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152939. ISBN #0760302499 / 9780760302491. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kurowski, Franz An Alle Wolfe Angriff!: U-Boote Crews Und Kommandanten Im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945 (German Language) Pawlak 1986 hardcover. German language edition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1143869. ISBN #3881997415 / 9783881997416. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kurowski, Franz Balkenkreuz Und Roter Stern: Der Luftkrieg Uber Russland 1941-1944 (German Language) Podzun Pallas Verlag 1984 hardcover. German language. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140480. ISBN #3790992216 / 9783790992212. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kurzem, Mark The Mascot: Unraveling The Mystery Of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood Viking 2007 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152929. ISBN #0670018260 / 9780670018260. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kurzman, Dan Fatal Voyage: The Sinking Of The USS Indianapolis 1990 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1050033. ISBN #0689120079 / 9780689120077. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kurzman, Dan Fatal Voyage: The Sinking Of The USS Indianapolis 1990 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1050033. ISBN #0689120079 / 9780689120077. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, the Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. The ship had just left the island of Tinian, delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. As the torpedoes hit, the Indianapolis erupted into a fiery coffin, sinking in less than fifteen minutes and leaving nine hundred crewmen fighting for life in shark-infested waters. They expected a swift, routine rescue, unaware that the Navy high command didn t even realize that the Indianapolis was missing. Help would not arrive for another five days. Drawn from definitive interviews with key figures, Fatal Voyage recounts the horrific events endured as the number of water-treading survivors dwindled to just 316. Each gruesome day brought more madness and slow death, from explosion-related injuries, dehydration, and, most terrifying of all, shark attacks. But the pain did not end when the men finally returned home: The Indianapolis s commander, Captain Charles B. McVay III, was court-martialed for causing the clearly unavoidable disaster. With a new afterword chronicling the fifty-five-year campaign by Indianapolis survivors and their supporters to win public vindication for Captain McVay, this classic is restored, along with memories of the Indianapolis crew.
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Kurzman, Dan Fatal Voyage: The Sinking Of The USS Indianapolis hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133853. ISBN #0767906780 / 9780767906784. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kurzman, Dan Left To Die: The Tragedy Of The USS Juneau Pocket Books 1994 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1146478. ISBN #0739400894 / 9780739400890. (keywords: WORLD WAR 2) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Lande, Nathaniel Spinning History: Politics and Propaganda in World War II Skyhorse Publishing 2017 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134774. ISBN #151071586X / 9781510715868. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Lande, Nathaniel Spinning History: Politics and Propaganda in World War II Skyhorse Publishing 2017 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134774. ISBN #151071586X / 9781510715868. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this fascinating book, more relevant than ever in today's political climate of "alternative facts," bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin. Each leader used all the tools at his disposal to present his own distinctive vision of the global drama that was the Second World War. Each area of the media was fully exploited. Brilliantly conceived oratory was applied to underscore each vision. Impression management, the art of political spin, was employed to drive the message home with the careful use of black and white propaganda. Each side employed uniforms, meticulously staged events, and broadcast their messages via all media available motion pictures, radio broadcasts, songs, posters, leaflets, and beyond. Their ambitions were similar, but each leader had his own distinct methods, his own carefully created script for elaborately produced and often wildly successful acts and campaigns of deception to win hearts and minds on the frontlines and the home front. The result of this investigation is a wholly distinctive and often surprising work of history, a book that manages to cast a fresh light on the most obsessively studied conflict in human history.
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