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Knauer, Kelly (editor) D-Day: 24 Hours That Saved the World Time Inc 2004 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1180154. ISBN #1932273220 / 9781932273229. (keywords: WORLD WAR 1939 1945 CAMPAIGNS) (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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Kogon, Eugen The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 paperback. Previous owner embossed stamp present.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185726. ISBN #0374529922 / 9780374529925. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kogon, Eugen The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 paperback. Previous owner embossed stamp present.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185726. ISBN #0374529922 / 9780374529925. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to be reached intact was Buchenwald, in central Germany. American soldiers struggled to make sense of the shocking scenes they witnessed inside. They asked a small group of former inmates to draft a report on the camp. It was led by Eugen Kogon, a German political prisoner who had been an inmate since 1939. The Theory and Practice of Hell is his classic account of life inside. Unlike many other books by survivors who published immediately after the war, The Theory and Practice of Hell is more than a personal account. It is a horrific examination of life and death inside a Nazi concentration camp, a brutal world of a state within state, and a society without law. But Kogon maintains a dispassionate and critical perspective. He tries to understand how the camp works, to uncover its structure and social organization. He knew that the book would shock some readers and provide others with gruesome fascination. But he firmly believed that he had to show the camp in honest, unflinching detail. The result is a unique historical document--a complete picture of the society, morality, and politics that fueled the systematic torture of six million human beings. For many years, The Theory and Practice of Hell remained the seminal work on the concentration camps, particularly in Germany. Reissued with an introduction by Nikolaus Waschmann, a leading Holocaust scholar and author of Hilter's Prisons, this important work now demands to be re-read.
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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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Kuehn, John T.; Giangreco, D.M. Eyewitness Pacific Theater: Firsthand Accounts Of The War in The Pacific From Pearl Harbor To The Atomic Bombs Sterling 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174269. ISBN #1402762151 / 9781402762154. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kuehn, John T.; Giangreco, D.M. Eyewitness Pacific Theater: Firsthand Accounts Of The War in The Pacific From Pearl Harbor To The Atomic Bombs Sterling 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174269. ISBN #1402762151 / 9781402762154. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Eyewitness Pacific Theater tells the remarkable story of U.S. operations in the Pacific during World War II by documenting the experiences of the men and women who were stationed there. Written by award-winning author D.M. Giangreco and venerable Commander John T. Kuehn , this volume is illustrated with hundreds of contemporary photos, including wartime pictures of the veterans themselves. Bringing the full force of personal recollections home to the reader, Eyewitness Pacific Theater is accompanied by a full-length compact disc of interviews produced by Emmy Award-winning historical documentarians Rob Lihani and Rob Kirk in collaboration with First Person Productions. Listen to dramatic tales in the voices of the Allied soldiers, sailors, airmen, and medical personnel as they recount the tragedies and triumphs of life during wartime in the Pacific Theater.
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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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Kurson, Robert Shadow Divers : The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II Random House 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1186919. ISBN #0375760989 / 9780375760983. (keywords: Excavations World War II Naval Operations) (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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Laqueur, Walter Terrible Secret : Suppression of the Truth about Hitlers' Final Solution Little, Brown & Company 1981 hardcover. Usual library markings. Reading copy only. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1185819. ISBN #0316514748 / 9780316514743. (keywords: HOLOCAUST JEWISH 1939 1945 HISTORY Censorship) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Laqueur, Walter;Breitman, Richard Breaking the Silence Simon & Schuster 1986 hardcover. Previous owner embossed stamp present. Jacket has chipping and rubbing.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Some Chipping. Book #or1185821. ISBN #0671546945 / 9780671546946. (keywords: WORLD WAR 1939 1945 UNDERGROUND) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Larson, Erik In The Garden Of Beasts: Love, Terror, And An American Family in Hitler's Berlin Broadway Paperbacks 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185824. ISBN #030740885X / 9780307408853. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Larson, Erik In The Garden Of Beasts: Love, Terror, And An American Family in Hitler's Berlin Broadway Paperbacks 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185824. ISBN #030740885X / 9780307408853. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes. New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America s first ambassador to Hitler s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the New Germany, she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler s true character and ruthless ambition. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre G ring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were
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Larson, Erik Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Crown 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1186251. ISBN #0385348711 / 9780385348713. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Lash, Joseph P. Roosevelt and Churchill 1939-1941 W.W. Norton & Company 1976 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1171854. ISBN #0393055949 / 9780393055948. (keywords: Politics WWII Military History Biography Roosevelt) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Lash, Joseph P. Roosevelt and Churchill 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West W. W. Norton & Company Inc. 1976 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149399. ISBN #0393055949 / 9780393055948. (keywords: CHURCHILL WINSTON SIR 1874 1965) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Lawson, Robert; Tillman, Barrett Carrier Air War in Original WWII Color: U. S. Navy Air Combat 1939-1946 Barnes & Noble Books 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174418. ISBN #0760713685 / 9780760713686. (keywords: MILITARY AVIATION AIRCRAFT CARRIERS WARFARE BOATS SHIPS MARINE AIRFORCE NAVAL HISTORY) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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