Browsing Subjects  :  77 Books

• Patricia Anthony  :  Flanders   Ace Books, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of Travis Lee Stanhope, a Texan sharpshooter serving in an English unit during World War I. A remarkable novel by this writer of speculative fiction. F/F. $10.00.

• Lucie Aubrac  :  Outwitting The Gestapo   University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993. Hardcover. First English Translation. Lucie Aubrac, newly married, was teaching history in Lyons when World War II broke out. She and her husband soon joined the Resistance movement. This is her account of the months when, pregnant with her second child, she planned and took part in raids to free captive comrades - including her husband. F/F. $10.00.

• Pat Barker  :  The Man Who Wasn't There   Virago Press, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. A twelve-year-old imagines his father's life in World War II. Author's fourth novel. F/F. $60.00.

• Nella Bielski  :  The Year is '42   Pantheon, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. Set in occupied Paris, this tells the story of ordinary lives in extraordinary times. F/F. $5.00.

• Tim Binding  :  Island Madness   Picador, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The British territory of Guernsey in the Channel Islands is occupied by the Germans in 1943. A local woman is found murdered. The highest ranking Nazi officer and island's police inspector form an uneasy alliance as they search for a killer feared by the islanders and enemy alike. A brilliant novel about collaboration and the nature of war. F/F. $75.00.

• Tim Binding  :  Island Madness   Picador, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Tim Binding  :  Lying With The Enemy   Carroll & Graf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. The island of Guernsey in the English Channel was the only British territory to be occupied during World War II. It is 1943 and Nazi officers party with local girls and love affairs blossom. When a young woman is found dead with her nose and mouth filled with cement, collaboration goes sour. The highest ranking Nazi officer and the island's police inspector form an uneasy alliance as they search for a killer feared by the islanders and enemy alike. F/F. $10.00.

• John Boyne  :  Next of Kin   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• John Boyne  :  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas   David Fickling, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anopther copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

• John Boyne  :  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas   David Fickling, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A journey with Bruno, a nine-year-old boy, to the fence. F/F. $55.00.

• Tom Bradby  :  The God of Chaos   Bantam, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A British officer is found murdered in Cairo in June 1942. It looks like a political assassination but former New York cop Joe Quinn doesn't think so. F/F. $35.00.

• Lily Brett  :  Too Many Men   William Morrow, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Ruth Rothwax is a successful independent New York woman who runs her own business writing letters for others. But as the devoted daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor, Ruth can find no words to help her understand the loss her family experienced during World War II. F/F. $5.00.

• Marshall Browne  :  The Eye of the Abyss   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Browne puts aside his series featuring Inspector Anders to write about the dilemma of an ordinary man in Nazi Germany. In 1938 Frank Schmidt is the chief auditor in a commercial bank and the bank's prestigious new client is the Nazi party. Schmidt oversees the account, but he soon finds himself embroiled in duplicity, violence, and the horror that is Nazi Germany. F/F. $10.00.

• Bartle Bull  :  The Devil's Oasis   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. It is 1942 and in North Africa the brilliant General Rommel's panzers threaten the Suez Canal and the oil fields of the Middle East. To win Egypt, though, Rommel must first take the port of Tobruk and destroy the British fortress of Bir Hakeim. There, Wellington Rider, a young English hussar, fights beside the French Foreign Legion. F/F. $10.00.

• Philippe Claudel  :  By A Slow River   Knopf, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. Elegant mystery set in a small French town during WWI. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  Tug of War   Constable, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe Sandilands is embroiled in a mystery in Northern France in 1926. F/F. $45.00.

• John Cornwell  :  Hitler's Pope   John Cornwell, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. The previously untold story of Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, Pontiff from 1939 to 1958 and known as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitler's final solution. Here is the full story of how Pacelli in fact prompted events in the 1920s and '30s which helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power. F/F. $20.00.

• Francis Cottam  :  Hamer's War   Simon & Schuster, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. German soldier confronts the horrors of Nazism in occupied Poland. F/F. $40.00.

• Francis Cottam  :  Slapton Sands   Simon & Schuster, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. American student researches a catastophe which claimed the lives of almost 1,500 American marines in 1944. F/F. $40.00.

• Francis Cottam  :  The Fire Fighter   Chatto & Windus, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in England during World War II. Author's First Novel. F/F. $25.00.

• David Crackanthorpe  :  Horseman, Pass By   Review, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus. Bernard Vipont is a lawyer in Marseille. But he is secretly carrying out his own campaign of vengeance against wartime collaborators who appropriated works of art from Jewish collectors denounced to the Nazis. In wraps as issued. Slight crease on front wrap. Near Fine. $15.00.

• David Crackanthorpe  :  Stolen Marches   Headline, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Now that the Germans are withdrawing from France, Stephen Seagrave is free to search for Ida, the young prostitue he once saves. However, new forces rush in to fill the vacuum left by the retreating Germans and old scores are being settled. Stephen realizes that peace has made the world an even more dangerous place. Author's First Novel. Unusual to find this title in hardcover. F/F. $20.00.

• Michael Dobbs  :  Churchill's Hour   HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third book in the series featuring Winston Churchil during World War II. F/F. $40.00.

• Michael Dobbs  :  Churchill's Triumph   Headline, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Winston Churchill at Yalta. Fourth in the series. F/F. $40.00.

• Michael Dobbs  :  Never Surrender   HarperCollins, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. On Friday May 10th 1940 Hitler launches a devastating attack that, within days, will overrun France, Holland and Belgium, and bring Britain to its knees at Dunkirk. It is also the day Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister. This is the story of courage and defiance over three of the most momentous weeks in British history. F/F. $45.00.

• Michael Dobbs  :  Winston's War   HarperColllins, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In October 1938 two men meet. One is elderly and one in his twenties. One will become the most revered man of his time, and the other known as the greatest of traitors. Dobbs throws brilliant fresh light upon Winston Churchill's relationship with Soviet Spy Guy Burgess. Small stain on front end paper. NF/NF. $45.00.

• Helen Dunmore  :  The Siege   Grove Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Two love stories unfold during the 1941 Siege of Leningrad. F/F. $20.00.

• Helen Dunmore  :  The Siege   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Two love stories unfold during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Sebastian Faulks  :  Birdsong   Random House, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. Classic story of love and war set in France during World War I. F/F. $65.00.

• Niall Ferguson  :  The Pity of War   Basic Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. A history of World War I bound to transform the way we think about that conflict. F/F. $10.00.

• Niall Ferguson  :  The Pity of War   Allen Lane, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. A history of World War I which will transform the way we think of that conflict. F/F. $10.00.

• Christopher Fowler  :  Full Dark House   Doubleday, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. First in the Bryant and May series. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

• Mona Golabek  :  The Children of Willesden Lane   Warner Books, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. A remarkable memoir of concern pianist Mona Golabek who was part of the Kindertransport from Vienna. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Robert Harris  :  Enigma   Random House, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. The story of Tom Jericho, a cryptographer, who is called to Bletchley Park to help break the Nazi's unbreakable Enigma code. When Jericho's ex-girlfriend goes missing and is suspected of being a Nazi mole, British and US intelligence take frightening steps to plug the leak. Filmed starring Jeremy Northam. F/F. $35.00.

• Sheridan Hay  :  The Secret of Lost Things   Fourth Estate, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Biblio. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Ronald Hayman  :  Hitler & Geli   Bloomsbury, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. An account of the affair Hitler had with his niece, Geli Raubal. It started in 1927 and lasted until 1931 when Geli was found dead in the Munich flat she shared with Hitler. F/F. $5.00.

• Peter Hogg  :  Crimes of War   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Special Prosecutions Unit in Ottawa is dedicated to investigating and indicting Nazi war criminals in Canada. But as the years pass the files are closed, only one man cannot give up the search. Dennis Connor is obsessed with Friedrich Reile and the crimes he committed. With no legal recourse, Connor begins to send anonymous letters to the man who used to be Friedrich Reile. Author's First Novel. CHAPTERS/ROBERTSON DAVIES PRIZE. F/F. $5.00.

• Helen Humphreys  :  The Lost Garden   W.W. Norton, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Gwen Davis works with the Women's Land Army in England during 1941. A stunning novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Greg Iles  :  Black Cross   Dutton, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. In January 1944 four people hold the fate of the world in their hands. At the command of Winston Churchill, those four people are brought together and asked to do womething that will have far-reaching effects. Author's second book. Some shelfwear. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Mick Jackson  :  Five Boys   Faber & Faber, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Strange things are happening in a small English village during WWII. Author's second novel. Only 800 copies printed in hardcover. F/F. $20.00.

• Bill James  :  The King's Friends   Severn House, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Brilliant thriller set in 1936 Britain when the idealistic Edward VIII is under the influence of some of the country's deadliest enemies. First Hardcover Edition. Originally published in paperback in 1982 under James's pseudonym, James Tucker. F/F. $50.00.

• Donald James  :  Walking the Shadows   Century, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Secrets buried with a town in the South of France during World War II start to come to light when the village is uncovered during a drought. Unread copy, but slight nick to the dustjacket. F/F. $5.00.

• J. Robert Janes  :  Beekeeper   Victor Gollancz, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. St-Cyr of the Surete and Kohler of the Gestapo investigate a missing shipment of honey and a murdered beekeeper in Belleville, Paris in 1943. F/F. $30.00.

• J. Robert Janes  :  Flykiller   Orion, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. St Cyr and Kohler mystery. Set in France during the German occupation. F/F. $30.00.

• J. Robert Janes  :  Gypsy   Constable, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. The Ritz Hotel in Paris is rocked by an explosion in 1943 and millions of francs worth of diamonds destined for the Third Reich are missing. Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Surete and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo investigate. F/F. $65.00.

• J. Robert Janes  :  Madrigal   Victor Gollancz, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. St. Cyr of the Surete and Kohler of the Gestapo are sent from Paris to Avignon to investigate the violent death of a young woman in the Palais des Papes. Set during the German occupation of France. F/F. $40.00.

• J. Robert Janes  :  Sandman   Constable Crime, London, 1996. First Edition. A St. Cyr and Kohler investigation. WWII setting. F/F. $55.00.

• Roy Jenkins  :  Churchill   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Monumental biography of England's hero by late MP Jenkins. F/F. $10.00.

• Eric A. Johnson  :  Nazi Terror   Basic Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The role of ordinary Germans in implementing racial and political oppression. F/F. $20.00.

• James Jones  :  The Thin Red Line   Scribners, New York, 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. Classic WWII novel. Tight, square copy with very slight crimping top and bottom of spine. In dust jacket showing small tear and scratch on front, else fine. NF/NF. $100.00.

• Pavel Kahout  :  The Widow Killer   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. In the German-occupied city of Prague during World War II a serial killer is one the loose. The unlikely pair of Jan Morava, a rookie Czech detective, and Erwin Buback, a Gestapo agent, set out to track down the sadistic killer. F/F. $20.00.

• Thomas Keneally  :  The Widow and Her Hero   Sceptre, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sixty years after her husband never returned from the war, Grace is still haunted by the tragedy of her doomed hero. Set in Australia. By the author of Schindler's Ark. F/F. $55.00.

• Philip Kerr  :  The One From the Other   Putnam, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Bernie Gunther thriller set in Munich in 1949. Signed on tipped in page. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Ian Kershaw  :  Hitler: 1936-1945   W.W. Norton, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. Second volume of monumental biography of Adolph Hitler. F/F. $20.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Hanging on the Wire   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. When someone takes a potshot at a patient at a military hospital, Nell Bray investigates. Set in World War I. F/F. $5.00.

• John Lukacs  :  Five Days in London: May 1940   Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The Blitz. Mayor Rudolph Guliani said he was inspired by this story during the attacks on the World Trade Center. F/F. $20.00.

• Gila Lustiger  :  The Inventory   Arcade, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First English Translation. A novel about the effects of Nazi oppression on every segment of German society. F/F. $10.00.

• Ben MacIntyre  :  The Englishman's Daughter   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. True story of love and betrayal in World War 1. When a handful of British soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines on the Western front, they hid in the French countryside. A love affair between a villager and a British soldier produced a young child which tears the community apart. F/F. $25.00.

• Ian Macmillan  :  Village of a Million Spirits   Steerforth Press, Vermont, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. On August 2, 1943, prisoners of the Treblinka "secret camp" armed with stolen guns and grenades, attacked their guards, set fire to the camp, and fled into the neighboring forest. Forty of the six hundred prisoners who escaped, lived. F/F. $30.00.

• Glenn Meade  :  The Sands of Sakkara   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. Major Johann Halder, one of the Abwher's most brilliant agents is under orders from Hitler to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill when they visit Cairo for a secret conference. Halder must race against time to reach Cairo and fulfill his mission or forfeit his own life and that of his young son. F/F. $20.00.

• Barbara Nadel  :  After the Mourning   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the Francis Hancock series. Set in London during the Blitz. F/F. $50.00.

• Irene Nemirovsky  :  Suite Francaise   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Very slight wear. . NF/NF. $100.00.

• Ian Ousby  :  Occupation   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. History of occupied France 1940-1944. F/F. $30.00.

• Ian Ousby  :  The Road to Verdun   Doubleday, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Account of one of the longest engagements of World War I. F/F. $30.00.

• John Preston  :  The Dig   Penguin, London. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In 1939, as Britain prepares for war, an archaeological dig is taking place in Suffolk. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Jonathan Rabb  :  Rosa   Crown, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A serial killer is on the loose in Berlin during the last days of the First World War, and one of the victims just may be Rosa Luxembourg, the revolutionary. F/F. $20.00.

• Owen Sheers  :  Resistance   Faber & Faber, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. In 1944 after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counter-attack lands on British soil. Within a month half of Britain is occupied. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Martin Cruz Smith  :  December 6th   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in Tokyo in late 1941. Harry Niles is half American, half Japanese, but on the eve of Pearl Harbor, he will have to decide where his true allegiances lie. F/F. $35.00.

• Jane Stevenson  :  London Bridges   Jonathan Cape, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in the 1990s, the story involves treasure lost in the Blitz. Superb mystery. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• James Thayer  :  Five Past Midnight   Simon and Schuster, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. April 1945 and President Roosevelt is briefed on the war in Europe. 28,000 men, women, and children are dying every day. A group of German staff officers is ready to assume leadership of the Third Reich and surrender instantly. Hitler may be able to carry on the war for years. The president makes the obvious decision: assassinate Hitler. Immediately. F/F. $20.00.

• Charles Todd  :  Wings of Fire   St. Martin's, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second Ian Rutledge mystery. F/F. $35.00.

• Sarah Waters  :  The Night Watch   Virago Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Story follows four Londoners backwards through the 1940s. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. F/F. $60.00.

• Paul Watkins  :  The Forger   Faber & Faber, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. It is 1939 and young art student David Halifax is in Paris where he is falsely arrested for art forgery. As the Nazis converge on Paris, Halifax is press-ganged by the Resistance. It is a commission that could cost him his life. In wrappers as issued. Fine. $30.00.

• Paul West  :  The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery   New Directions, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Adolf Hitler's "memoir" of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna just before World War I. Published simultaneously in the US and Canada. F/F. $20.00.

• Laura Wilson  :  The Lover   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A serial killer is at large in London in 1940 during the Blitz. Based on a true story. F/F. $35.00.

• John Wray  :  The Right Hand of Sleep   Knopf, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Oskar Voxlauer decides to return to his Austrian village after fighting in the Great War and living in the Ukraine. But it is 1938 and Oskar cannot escape the tensions that are threatening his once tranquil village. Hitler marches into Austria and the Black Shirts come to the valley. Author's First Novel. F/F. $25.00.

• Steve Yarbrough  :  Prisoners of War   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in a Misissippi farming town during the second World War, Yarbrough's novel explores the conflict between the powerful and the proud and presents a disturbing portrait of a nation at war. F/F. $25.00.