New York: Random House, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel, set in the Soviet Union, during Stalin's reign and the Great Terror of 1937-38 and World War II, one which follows the Gradov family from 1925 to 1945. Translated from the Russian by John Glad and Christopher Morris. Selective glossary. 592 pp. ISBN: 0-39456961X.

Milwaukie, OR: M Press, (2004.). In 1939, when she was just 11 years old, Ursula and her parents were among the last Jewish families to be able to get out of Germany - and at the time, when of the few places open to Jews was the city of Shanghai, the 'armpit' of the world as one sailor described it. Twenty-thousand Jews found refuge in this city already teeming with people; this is an account of the hardships they encountered, but also the friendships and the helpfulness, and also an account of coming to age in a world torn by war. A fascinating account. Photographs. 267 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket - a "deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources -- including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries -- the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust." Extensive notes, index. 566 pp. ISBN: 1416567844.

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the author's interviews with more than 200 instructors, this is the story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan - "the plan that won the allied air war." In five years, the BCATP turned over 200,000 young men and teenagers into seasoned aircrew. SIGNED on the title page with "All the best" and dated in the year of publication. Sixteen pages of photographs. Notes, sources, index. Map endpapers. viii, 358 pp. ISBN: 0-771591764.

Sonoma, CA: Vine Book Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bartholomew grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, and his careeer in journalism included covering the 1925 earthquake in Santa Barbara, but was most significant as a World War II correspondent in the Pacific. New Guinea, and Okinawa. Includes an account of the Battle of Okinawa, as well as personal reminiscences of his meetings with Winston S. Churchill and accounts of the 'fail safe' patrols of the post War era. Bartholomew was also the founder of the Buena Vista Vinyards winery. Illustrated with photographs. 231 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1977). Hardcover first edition - A look both at the America of pre-Depression years - from 1925 to 1930 - as experienced by a young journalist and student, a temporary immigrant from Italy - and then a look back at those years from the perspective of an established writer. He ends by commenting that he still believes that "the world would be a better place if some of the American ideals of my youth had prevailed everywhere and first of all in the United States itself." Sadly, they did not. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-060102268.

New York: Random House, (1979). Hardcover first edition - The second of his novels set in post-World War II China, where Becker lived for four years - "In January 1949, Jack Burnham (thirty five, ex-major, ex-guerilla, ex-Christian and born-again rebel, who has quarreled with, among others, God and MacArthur) is asked by the U.S. government to fly into Peking and track down a Japanese war criminal." A suspenseful novel, set in a Peking on the verge of falling to the Chinese Communists, a love story and also an exploration of the good and evil in man. 294 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394499271.

New York: Random House, (1979). Hardcover first edition - The second of his novels set in post-World War II China, where Becker lived for four years - "In January 1949, Jack Burnham (thirty five, ex-major, ex-guerilla, ex-Christian and born-again rebel, who has quarreled with, among others, God and MacArthur) is asked by the U.S. government to fly into Peking and track down a Japanese war criminal." A suspenseful novel, set in a Peking on the verge of falling to the Chinese Communists, a love story and also an exploration of the good and evil in man. 294 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394499271.

Naperville: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2023). First edition - Novel based on the lives of the six Mitford sisters in the years between the World Wars - each more beautiful, eccentric and brilliant than the next - but when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader, and Unity follows her to Munich, novelist Nancy Mitford must choose between family and country. Includes a novelist's note and reading group guide. 337 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Boris Vilde and the beginnings of the French Resistance in Paris, after the fall of France to the Nazis in June 1940, by this noted World War II historian. Based on access to documents not previously accessible, and interviews with the survivors and families of those who were executed. Illustrated with photographs. Author's note, index. xiv, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-395253500.

New York: Boy Scouts of America,
1942. An uncommon 1942 manual (marked "proof edition" on title page) of an aviation training program offered to the Boy Scouts of America at the beginning of the Second World War. Illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings. Both the first and second printings were limited to 10,000 copies each. Glossary, bibliography, index. vii, 442 pp.

New York & London & Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - During World War II, Near the island of Chicki Jima, nine American flyers, Navy and Marine airmen, were sent to bomb Japanese communications towers. They were shot down and one - a young George W. Bush - was miraculously rescued at sea. The other 8 were captured by the Japanese and then they disappeared. This is an account of what happened to them, set against the backdrop of the history of Japan and the US. Illustrated with photographs. Maps, notes, index, bibliography. Photo-illustrated endpapers. 398 pp. ISBN: 0-316105848.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1945. Hardcover first edition - The poet's first book, a volume from the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Foreword by Archibald Macleish, who notes that this is a book by a soldier, dedicated to soldiers but not a war book, rather a witness to war. At the time this was published, Butler was still serving in the Air Force in England. 61 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of international political intrigue, deception and suspense: a murder in 1980s California turns out to have roots in the Resistance in occupied France. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-553-052950.

New York: Bantam, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of international political intrigue, deception and suspense: a murder in 1980s California turns out to have roots in the Resistance in occupied France. SIGNED by the author, 279 pp. ISBN: 0-553-052950.

Kingston Springs, Tennessee: The Teenage Soldier Trust, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of "The 79th Division from Normandy - Belgium - Holland - to the surrender of Germany June 1944 to May 1945." SIGNED by the author on the title page with the words "To help our future generations to never forget." Also SIGNED on the front cover of the dust jacket under his picture with "Roger Campbell 1943." Illustrated with photographs and maps. Includes 4 appendices and glossary. viii, Large format. 189 pages. ISBN: 0-970736304.

Santa Fe, NM: Sherman Asher Publishing, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The story of the poet's boyhood in California, where he arrived from his native Costa Rica in 1939 at age twelve. Cover praise from Marjorie Agosin, among others who called it a "lyrical memoir shaped by an exquisite language and a wise heart." IINSCRIBED on the half title page - "To --- the delights of meeting" and dated in 2000. 140 pp. ISBN: 1-890932078.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel which spams the years from depression-era, gangster-controlled Irish Chicago, to the early years of the FBI, wartime Washington, the defeat of Hitler, i and finally to Vietnam. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-395511364.

London: Macmillan, (1993). SIGNED hardcover - The author's sixth book - "A provocative novel about a disillusioned writer who travels to Africa to research a screenplay [about an early anthropologist.] Cartwright tellingly contrasts the supposed savagery of the dark continent with the very real barbarism of Nazi Germany and the modern world." (Esquire) SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-333592816.

Chicago: Rotary International, (1942). Articles in which thirty men - including H. G. Wells, Norman Douglas, John Dewey, F. W. Sollman, Ricardo J. Alfaro, Henry Ford and others - explore problems which will become acute when World War II ends. 96 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning journalist's expose of the 'detailed systematic looting' of Europe's Jews - by the Nazis, their collaborators, the neutrals, and even the Allies, to steal billions form the Jews of Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust - even 50 years later, assets are still being held in Swiss banks. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-385487630.

New York: Harper & Row, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second autobiography by this English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. who is best known for the landmark television program "Civilization." - "beginning with the hazardous evacuation of the National Gallery pictures to the safety of a slate quarry in Wales at the beginning of World War II and ending with a calm look at a lifetime of accomplishment". Illustrated with photographs. Index. 259 pp. ISBN: 006010774X.

Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, (1982, c 1981). SIGNED - Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout plus maps and diagrams. SIGNED on the title page. Large format. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-933126158.

Los Angeles: Uglytown Productions, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The first book in this series set in Seattle in the years after World War II and featuring private investigator Jake Rossiter and his assistant Miss Jenkins (who is eager to be an investigator herself). A young Negro jazzman has gone missing and his proud father will not give up hope. "SIGNED on the title page. 361 pp. ISBN: 0-966347358.

New York: Dutton, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Australian writer's first novel, a coming of age story originally published as 'The Boys from Bondi'. Set in Sydney during the depression and World War II, this is the story of two orphaned Jewish boys, who wind up in a home filled with refugees from the Nazis. ISBN: 0-525-672729.