Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning author, the story of a Japanese-Canadian woman who discovers, after the death of her father, that she has a half sister in Japan, and that he might even have been a kamikaze pilot during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-676-975119.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by the author of 'Rabbit Boss' and 'Zoot-Suit Murders,' a sweeping story of love, art and politics, set in Vichy-dominated France during World War II and in modern Mallorca. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401628.

New York: Dutton, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel set during the Second World War in the Mexican-American barrio in Los Angeles called the "Zona Roja" and climaxes during the infamous ÔZoot-Suit RiotsÕ of 1943, when sailors assaulted zoot-suiters in downtown Los Angeles. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-525-240608.

New York: Dutton, (1978.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel set during the Second World War in the Mexican-American barrio in Los Angeles called the "Zona Roja" and climaxes during the infamous ÔZoot-Suit RiotsÕ of 1943, when sailors assaulted zoot-suiters in downtown Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Los Angeles 2005. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-525-240608.

New York: Viking, (2008). First edition - Suspense novel set in September 1940 - the Spanish Civil War is over and Madrid lies in ruins while the Germans continue their march through Europe.. . Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a privileged young man who was recently traumatized by his experience in Dunkirk and is now a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. . . a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and riveting tale that offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices." Historical note. Select bibliography. 537 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. dj. Hardcover - The third volume of the Roads to Freedom series, this opens in June 1940 with the fall of France in World War II. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 421 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2016). First edition - The author's first novel, a story for older children set during World War II. "Krakow, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. . . . Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, linguistics professor during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She's alone. And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver. . . Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgement, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Swallow Man." Letter from publisher bound in. 232 pp.

Honesdale, PA: Front Street, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of loss and survival in eastern Germany at the end of World War II as Soviet army invades and takes over the village. Based in part on events that happened to the author's father in 1945. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in New Delhi in the year of publication. Author's note. 163 pp. ISBN: 978-1590787014.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1942). Hardcover - Story of 3 young people - college age, this time - who become involved in a mystery in a remote coastal area, related to the growing threat of World War II. Illustrated by Manning deV. Lee with a frontispiece and 8 small en texte drawings (although he is not identified as the illustrator in the book). 222 pp

NY and Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a story of an aircraft carrier's disastrous encounter with a Japanese air attack, culmininating in attacks by kamikaze pilots, based on one of the great stories of valor during World War II. 304 pp.

New York: Dial Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover - Set in 1946, this is an immensely appealing novel, in the form of letters, about life on the island of Guernsey during World War II when it was occupied by the Germans. Basis for the film of the same name, but much better! 278 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-385-34099-0.

New York: Dial Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover - Set in 1946, this is an immensely appealing novel, in the form of letters, about life on the island of Guernsey during World War II when it was occupied by the Germans. Basis for the film of the same name, but much better! 278 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-385-34099-0.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). First edition - The author's third book, a novel set in Germany before, during and after World War II, one which focuses on the effects of the war on three women and their children, each from very different backgrounds. 358 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's third book, a novel set in Germany before, during and after World War II, one which focuses on the effects of the war on three women and their children, each from very different backgrounds. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1939. dj. Hardcover - A prophetic novel , originally titled What Happened to the Corbetts. and written before World War II broke out in 1939, and before German bombs fell on London and England's south, but partly as a protest against the preparations being made by the English authorities (they were focusing on possibly gas attacks, rather than on the more mundane but likely effects of loss of phones, gas, electricity, water and other services modern life has come to depend upon.) Described as "not so much a study of war as of the human spirit, of its infinite capacity to endure and to re-shape the world to its destiny." 280 pp plus an author's note.

New York: Viking, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which looks back forty years to Los Alamos during World War II, in 1942-1943, as told by one of the 'women on the Hill' - the wives of the scientists working on creating the atom bomb. 414 pp. ISBN: 0-670-830623.

New York: Avon, 1999. First edition - From the back cover: ' In 1942, at the height of World War II, Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true: the author here expands this little known historical fact into a tour de force of historical suspense.'

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Warsaw. Poland, in the 1930's, during the years of Hitler's rise to power. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-374-263361.

New York: Random House, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspenseful novel about the testing of the first atomic weapons at Los Alamos, a site hidden on a mesa and surrounded by a vast Indian reservation. SIGNED on the title page.Map. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-394-530063.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in Tokyo in 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. SIGNED on title page. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684-872536.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in Tokyo in 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684-872536.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, n.d. (c 1945.). Hardcover - Adventure story set in the South Pacific during World War II - on the same day that the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Judd Anders and his friends are set adrift on a raft, as their ship is taken over by the Japanese and German crew members. Illustrated by the author. 213 pp. Reprint for The Parents' Institute, Inc as a title in the 'Teen-age Mystery Classics' series, no date (only orig copyright), probably late 50's or early 60's, bound in dark blue cloth with red magnifying glass on front cover with 'Teen-age Mystery Classics' inside, red panel with title in dark blue on spine. One of a series of books published in a uniform binding.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Adventure story set in the South Pacific during World War II - on the same day that the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Judd Anders and his friends are set adrift on a raft, as their ship is taken over by the Japanese and German crew members. Illustrated by the author. 213 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.

New York: The Viking Press, 1942. dj. Hardcover first edition - Steinbeck's classic short novel set in "any conquered country in any time" but probably based on the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. 188 pp. First issue with all the points, in the uncommon first issue dust jacket with the original price of $2, corners of flaps square and unclipped and box on the bottom of the back cover with "The Men in the Service Need Books." 188 pp.

New York: Avon, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - Hugo Award winning writer's massive novel, which was also shortlisted for the Hugo and winner of the Locus Award. An amazing tour de force involving Nazi cryptography Enigma code and project Arethusa, leaping between World War II history and the near future Worldwide Web, while hinting at a dark tomorrow for personal and digital liberty. "great art, thought and creative daring; a truely iconoclastic imagination working with white hot intensity." 918 pp. ISBN: 0-380-97346-4.

New York: Avon, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hugo Award winning writer's massive novel, which was also shortlisted for the Hugo and winner of the Locus Award. An amazing tour de force involving Nazi cryptography Enigma code and project Arethusa, leaping between World War II history and the near future Worldwide Web, while hinting at a dark tomorrow for personal and digital liberty. "great art, thought and creative daring; a truely iconoclastic imagination working with white hot intensity." Relatively small first printing.. 918 pp. ISBN: 0-380-97346-4.

New York: Bantam, (1980.). Novel of the Holocaust, and its effects on a woman who survived the death camps. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award winning movie of the same name, featuring Meryl Streep. 626 pp. ISBN: 0-394-461096.

New York: Random House, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the Holocaust, and its effects on a woman who survived the death camps. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award winning movie of the same name, featuring Meryl Streep. 515 pp. ISBN: 0-394-461096.