Ottawa, Illinois & Thornwood, New York: Caroline House Publishing, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1945 Berlin, this is a "novel of love and death amidst the rubble of the Third Reich." Based on an actual diary, this is a story of horror in the final days of the Reich as seen through the eyes of one woman - and also of heroism, as she struggles to save the lives of two young Jewish girls. Author's epilogue on Hitler's death. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-916054802.

New York: Berkley, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Leslie Charteris, author of "The Saint" mystery novels. SIGNED on the title page. 257 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425174093.

New York: Berkley, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The third novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan books and his son. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425174093.

New York: Paragon House, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Edna McCown; introduction by Peter Demetz. ISBN: 1-55778-2652.

New York: Dutton / Caliber, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the French Resistance in Paris, and of the Allied liberation of Paris from the Nazis during World War II. Photographs, maps, notes, index. xi, 385 pp. ISBN: 978-0593183090.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of international suspense as a man finds his all-American life turned upside down. Set in 1963, in the days following Kennedy's assassination, and with its roots in Nazi Germany. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0197708.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifty years after the end of World War II, a painting from a missing truckload of looted artwork which the Nazis had stored in the salt mines of Altaussee turns up in a pawnshop in Boston. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-688-159273.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of international suspense as a man finds his all-American life turned upside down. Set in 1963, in the days following Kennedy's assassination, and with its roots in Nazi Germany. SIGNED on the title page. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0197708.

London: Simon & Schuster, (2006.). Second mystery featuring Lucifer Box, his Majesty's (King Bertie) most daring - and dissolute - secret agent. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-57103.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive history of Hitler's infamous personal army, the military wing of Himmler's SS, which acquired a reputation for military excellence and also for atrocities against soldiers and civilians alike. Photographs, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography and index x, 496 pp. ISBN: 978-0306824654.

New York: Henry Holt, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Based on interviews with the few survivors and their families, this is a comprehensive look at those who resisted the power of Hitler and the Nazis from inside Germany. "The numbers are small. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looks puny: too little, too late. And yet, in the context of a police state, it assumes larger proportions. For those who have never known life under such a regime, it is hard to grasp the daily terror that makes an act of political graffiti a capital offense, that labels resistance 'treason.' " Illustrated with maps and photographs, with a chart of resistance groups. Includes chronology, a 'who's who', notes, bibliography and index. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-805035141.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - Set in a Paris just after World War II it tells the story of a son's quest to recover his family's lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation. When Paris falls to the Nazis, the Berenzons survive in hiding. They return in 1944 to find that their priceless collection has vanished; driven to recover his father's paintings, Max navigates a city of corrupt art dealers, black marketers, Resistants, and collaborators. This novel draws on the actual stories of France's art-dealing familes and the forgotten biography of the only French woman (Rose Valland) to work as a double agent inside the Nazis' stronghold of looted art. Author's note. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-0307266859.

New York: Pantheon, 1985 dj. Hardcover first edition - transcription of English subtitles to the 1985 French film. Photographs. 200 pages. ISBN: 0-394-551427.

New York: Morrow, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of a life corrupted by evil - this is a massive fictionalized autobiography of Goring, based on years of research. (718 pp.) Laid in are newspaper clippings of reviews of this book (by Anne Tyler and Patricia Holt) and an interview with Leffland about writing the book. ISBN: 0-688-058361.

London: Severn House, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller based on actual events beginning in 1941 - the prison at Spandau has only one inmate, the closely guarded Nazi Rudolf Hess. Originally published in 1986 under the pseudonym Peter Lear. SIGNED by Lovesey on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-727856590.

New York: A Yearling Book / Bantam Doubleday Dell, (1999). SIGNED - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. INSCRIBED on the title page. Newbery award winner. Author's afterword. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. Newbery award winner. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Newbery award winner. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first full-length novel by this Danish born writer, director and television and movie producer of mostly science fiction films. While this book, set in the final days of the World War II Allied drive into Nazi Germany is fiction, it is based on the author's own experiences and files of the US Counter Intelligence Corps; the story deals with ferreting out and destroying the Nazi Werewolf organization. SIGNED on the title page (not on a bookplate). Bibliography. 304 pp. Dust jacket design by Muriel Nasser. ISBN: 0-06-0129379.

New York: Stein & Day, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of this decisive World War II campaign, waged in North Africa in 1941-1942, based on Rommel's letters and papers and accounts of his subordinates. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-8128-27848.

New York: Scribner, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of three short stories and one novella in which the children of Holocaust victims and participants try to come to terms with family secrets and their past history. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0743292689.

New York: Atheneum, (1990). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Berlin, in early 1933 as the Nazi regime is gaining power, and Jews, radicals, and other undesirables are leaving the city. Based on film director Fritz Lang and his wife Thea. Praise from Thomas Pychon, among others, who called it "daringly imagined and darkly romantic - a moral thriller." Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-689120907.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A well-researched and fascinating account of the women war correspondents during War II, who brought a fresh vision to the battlefields of the war and reported home with a new sensibility. Included are photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western journalist to cover the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. and the first to photograph Buchenwald; Martha Gelhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway; photographer Lee Miller; the New Yorker's Janet Flanner and more. In the years leading up to the war, in France during the invasion, in London during the Blitz, in China and Manila and Madrid, these women were there. Illustrated with photographs. Includes 39 pages of bibliographical notes, bibliography and index. xviii, 458 pp. ISBN: 1-559704934.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the 36 hours leading up to the 20 July 1944 attempt of Hitler's life - a book which is a combination of historical fiction, biography, and intellectual history. It is also an exploration of Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenber's complicated life as a charismatic officer, and soldier, badly injured in Tunisia, and as an aristocrat, an amateur cellist, a friend of poet Stefan George and as a man who tried and failed to change history. Includes an introduction in which West explains how he came to write this book, and two appendices with names and places in the book, and maps. xii, 365 pp. ISBN: 0-06014593.