New York: Doubleday, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of one of the most enigmatic and glamorous actresses of the 20th century: Marlene Dietrich went from cabarets of Berlin in Germany during the 1920's to Hollywood in the 1930's, to being an entertainer in World War II (and receiving the Medal of Freedom) - the title refers to Josef von Sternberg's film that catapulted here to fame. Photographs, bibliography, index, notes, 333 pp. ISBN: 0-385-425538.

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

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother, and left to him by his uncle only many years after her death. This is the story of rediscovery of his mother through her own words, many years after he wrote about his family in his 1978 book 'This House of Sky.' 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother, and left to him by his uncle only many years after her death. This is the story of rediscovery of his mother through her own words, many years after he wrote about his family in his 1978 book 'This House of Sky.' 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.

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: The Viking Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Avignon in Vichy France during World War II. "the third (with Monsieur and Livia) of Mr. Durrell's cluster of five novels, a 'quincunx'." 393 pp. ISBN: 0-670-239097.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1991.). First edition - A collection of 14 interlinked short stories set in Wyoming during and after World War II - a revisiting of the characters - cowboys, waitresses, bartenders and the Japanese Americans who were interned at Wyoming's Heart Mountain. Her third book. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-88496-3152.

New York: Persea Books, (1978). An account of her childhood years in England, as a German-Jewish refugee, and especially of the time spent at an unusual school in the ancient town of Cirencester, where she and her brother and mother were among the evacuees from London. 140 pp. ISBN: 0-892551372.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1943) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the history and the people of the Caribbean islands, but one which focuses on how these islands guard the entrance to the Panama Canal during World War II - including US naval bases in the Virgin Islands and on Antigua. Illustrated with photogravures and maps by F.A. Fanale. Index. 170 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second memoir by this award-winning author, focused on the very beginning of her career - "In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experience in Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service - including a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat." Illustrated with photographs. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-805078061.

Drexel, PA Casemate (2008). First edition - The wartime memoir of Will, the nephew of Reinhard Gehlen, head of Nazi Germany intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. He was only 10 when the war began but as a member of the Jungvolk, and lived in a small town near the Westwall, but he became a helper with the local Luftwaffe flak battery. Photographs, ix, 318 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Genet's second novel, and like the first, written while he was in prison in 1943 and set in the state prison of Fontevrault during the height of the German occupation. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. 344 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - Called the most important work of this great modern writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, this volume covers the years from his 59th to his 70th, the years leading up to World War II. Translated and with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Includes a glossary of persons mentioned in the journal, a bibliography of works by Gide, index, frontispiece. 450, xx pages.

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.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1966. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Photographs, index. 326 pgs. An interesting book, whether or not you agree with the conclusions reached by the author.

London: Michael Joseph, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The novel opens in 1942 when Sorrel, in the WRNS, learns that her mother has died in a London bombing. Soon Sorrel is embroiled in mystery and a romance inevitably put on the line as World War II blazes. ISBN: 0-7181-31959.

n.p. [Canada?] By the author, n.d. (ca 1982). SIGNED first edition - In the preface to this book, the author explains that he started writing these poems in 1942, while he was engaged in "underground" activity in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, and that the original notebook survived his arrest and imprisonment for espionage (he escaped execution only because of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought an abrupt end to the war.) INSCRIBED on the verso of the title page with a note referring to the kindness of his American cousin. 87 pp.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First person accounts from 13 of the thousands of young Jewish children who were sent away from their families to live with others - often strangers who risked their own lives to take them in - to avoid the Nazis and escape the Holocaust. Illustrated with many photographs. Written for older children or young adults. Suggestions for further reading, index. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-395-660742.

New York: Penguin, 2019. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The astonishing story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day." Photographs, maps, notes, index. xvii, 252 pp. ISBN: 978-0735225206.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, which takes place in 1943 during World War II "in a village which could hardly be further removed from [the war]. Joseph's Landing, New York, knows no bombings, no evacuations, no shortages; even its few gold stars hang in the windows of late-comers to the town." Removed that is, until the town's only wounded veteran returns and a young Jewish doctor arrives to take the place of the former doctor whose "malignant genius survives in the lives of the townspeople." 186 pp.

New York: Orion Books (1989.) dj. Hardcover - "Turning the Tide Against Japan in the South Pacific" - an account of one of the United States first sustained offensive actions against Japan in World War II, an action which began in June 1943. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Appendices, bibliography, index. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-517569728.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor. "In 1943, the United States military began to plan one of the most dramatic secret missions of World War II. Its code name was Operation Vengeance. Naval Intelligence had intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated Americas entry into the war." Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. xvi, 430 pp. ISBN: 978-0062938091.

New York: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster, (2023). SIGNED first edition - Novel set against the backdrop of World War II. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy!" Author's note. 372 pp.

New York: Hawthorn Books, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A popular biography of Eugenio Pacelli who became Pope Pius XII, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church during "the rise of Fascism, World War II, the postwar menace of Communism, the Korean War, the unrest in the Soviet satellites, the Suez crisis." Illustrated with 38 black and white photographs, including previously unpublished pictures of the Pope as a young child, and 22 full page drawings by Louis Priscilla. Index. Imprimatur. Illustrated endpapers. 251 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A young Englishwoman obssessed with a past she cannot understandcomes to Tokyo seeking a rare piece of film footage that has been lost for decades. It shows a specific horrifying incident that took place during the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre." Hayder's powerful third novel, one which alternates between Nanking in China as the Japanese Army comes closer and closer and the underworld of the yakuzi in modern Tokyo. Author's note. 363 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-17945.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - The 'great fire' of the title is World War II, which swept Europe and Asia - in the aftermath, Leith, a war hero, is sent to occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham (who calls Hazzard 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today') and Ann Patchett (who says it is 'brilliant and dazzling... worth a twenty year wait.') Winner of the 2003 National Book Award. ISBN: 0-374-166447.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'great fire' of the title is World War II, which swept Europe and Asia - in the aftermath, Leith, a war hero, is sent to occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham (who calls Hazzard 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today') and Ann Patchett (who says it is 'brilliant and dazzling... worth a twenty year wait.') Winner of the 2003 National Book Award. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166447.