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  • Shapiro, Karl.
    THE YOUNGER SON: The Youth and War Years of a Distinguished American Poet.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in Shapiro's autobiography. Photographs. 287 pgs.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line top edge.)

    Book ID: 11479
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  • GO WITH THE RIVER. by Shaw, Mary Wright.
    Shaw, Mary Wright.
    GO WITH THE RIVER.

    Edition: First printing.

    Palo Alto, CA: Gander Publishing, Inc. (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Stories taken from the author's personal journal, sharing her experiences in childhood, as a student nurse at Massachusetts General in the 1930's, as an army nurse during World War II, as wife and widow, as a mother and grandmother of "brown babies and pink babies," and as an educator and public health advocate. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- with love and memories of so many years!" and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-9639586-07.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 55212
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  • J'ACCUSE! The Men Who Betrayed France. by Simone, Andre.
    Simone, Andre.
    J'ACCUSE! The Men Who Betrayed France.

    Edition: First American edition.

    New York: Dial Press, 1940. Hardcover first edition - A book written in anger, during a time of defeat and betrayal for France - but a book which puts the blame not just on the Germans, but on the politicians, the military and the wealthy families who ruled France but who were corrupt and complicit in the Nazis rise. Introduction by Carleton Beals. 304 pp.

    Condition: Very good in beige cloth with red lettering (bookplate, prev owner's name stamped, no dust jacket)

    Book ID: 71168
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  • Simpson, Howard R.
    THE JUMPMASTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A gathering of World War II veterans in Marseilles leads to a murder with its roots 40 years in the past. Introduces Inspector Roger Bastide. A Crime Club selection. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 183 pp. Dust jacket by William Naegels. ISBN: 0-385-193823.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 38927
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  • (Simpson, Mona, signed) Buford, Bill, editor..
    GRANTA 24, Summer 1988: INSIDE INTELLIGENCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Granta, 1988. SIGNED first edition - "A Paperback Magazine of New Writing. " This issue features "Inside Intelligence," a long excerpt from the memoir which Anthony Cavendish, who witnessed some of the most important events in Europe folowing WWII., was not allowed to publish, except privately as a "Christmas greeting." Granta itself was prohibited from publishing large sections of this, so the banned portions are included, but blacked over. This copy is SIGNED by Mona Simpson at her story "Victory Mills." Also includes contributions from Bruce Chatwin, Gilles Peress, Philip Roth, Tobias Wolff, Peter Carey, James Fenton, Nick Cohn, E. L. Doctorow, and Jay McInerney. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others -…

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    New York: Granta, 1988. SIGNED first edition - "A Paperback Magazine of New Writing. " This issue features "Inside Intelligence," a long excerpt from the memoir which Anthony Cavendish, who witnessed some of the most important events in Europe folowing WWII., was not allowed to publish, except privately as a "Christmas greeting." Granta itself was prohibited from publishing large sections of this, so the banned portions are included, but blacked over. This copy is SIGNED by Mona Simpson at her story "Victory Mills." Also includes contributions from Bruce Chatwin, Gilles Peress, Philip Roth, Tobias Wolff, Peter Carey, James Fenton, Nick Cohn, E. L. Doctorow, and Jay McInerney. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-14-0086064.

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    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 47820
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  • THE FORGOTTEN DEAD: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story. by Small, Ken and Mark Rogerson.
    Small, Ken and Mark Rogerson.
    THE FORGOTTEN DEAD: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story.

    Edition: Paperback.

    London: Bloomsbury, (1989). SIGNED - "The night of 27th April 1944 - 'Exercise Tiger' - German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings. Only 45 years later has the full story of this tragedy been uncovered. A gripping tale of wartime disaster and r escue - and one man's fight to uncover the true story." Illustrated with a section of black and white photos. SIGNED and dated by author Ken Small at Slapton Sands. List of missing or known dead. Index. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-747504334.

    Condition: Very good (slight spine slant)

    Book ID: 86123
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  • WINGS FOR VICTORY. by Snell, Roy C.
    Snell, Roy C.
    WINGS FOR VICTORY.

    Edition: Reprint.

    Chicago: Goldsmith, (c 1942). Hardcover - Boys' World War II adventure novel set in which opens in Hawaii with the attack on Pearl Harbor. 251 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in blue cloth with black lettering in a fair dust jacket with stereotypical art (usual toning to the pages, previous owner's name on both endpapers and dj flap, several chips to the dj, rubbing to the folds, and loss of about 1/2 inch at top of dj spine affecting "wings").

    Book ID: 79917
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  • NORMA KENT OF THE WACS. by Snell, Roy J.
    Snell, Roy J.
    NORMA KENT OF THE WACS.

    Edition: First edition.

    Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1943.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated by Hedwig Jo Meixner. During World War II, Norma Kent joins the Women's Army Corps, never gets sent overseas, but has lots of adventures and does her part to win the war. A title in the 'Fighters for Freedom' series. Illustrated endpapers. 252 pp.

    Condition: Good in dark green boards with orange lettering (usual rather severe toning to pages, front hinge cracking), in a good dust jacket (large chip at top of dj spine, but front cover illustration bright and attractive.)

    Book ID: 49147
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  • NISEI DAUGHTER. by Sone, Monica.
    Sone, Monica.
    NISEI DAUGHTER.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1979). A memoir by this Japanese American woman originally published in 1952. In it she describes growing up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and what it was like to be "subjected to "relocation" during World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry--77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens--she and her family were uprooted from their home and imprisoned in a camp," Introduction by Frank Miyamoto. xvii, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-295956887.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 77571
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  • Sorel, Nancy Caldwell.
    THE WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    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.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 32626
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  • BORN AND RAISED IN WAIKIKI. by Sorenson, Betty Dyer.
    Sorenson, Betty Dyer.
    BORN AND RAISED IN WAIKIKI.

    Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.

    Santa Cruz, CA: Limu Press, (1995). SIGNED - An account of the author's childhood in old Waikiki in the 1930s, and of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and her trip back to California for college shortly after that attack and her return to Hawaii after graduation as a censor of the US mail. Illustrated with black and white photographs and of her later married life in California. SIGNED on the half title page with the word "Aloha." 225 pp. ISBN: 0-964563177.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (Christmas inscription on first page).

    Book ID: 76116
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  • ANOTHER WORLD INSTEAD: The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947. by Stafford, William; Fred Marchant, editor.
    Stafford, William; Fred Marchant, editor.
    ANOTHER WORLD INSTEAD: The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947.

    Edition: First printing.

    St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2008). Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems from the first decade of Stafford's writing life, many never previously published, edited and with an introduction by the poet Fred Marchant, who was one of the first Marine officers honorably discharged as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. "Twenty-eight years old and a conscientious objector during World War II, William Stafford was assigned under penalty of law to work in camps, an internal exile within his own country. . . [these poems] tell the story of a committed pacifist living in a time of war and a writer beginning a major life in American poetry." Frontispiece of a page from the Stafford archives. Notes. xxiv, 149 pp. ISBN: 978-1555974978.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68686
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  • DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946. by Stark, Freya.
    Stark, Freya.
    DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946.

    Edition: First American edition, printed from the British sheets.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth volume in her autobiography - this covers the years during World War II when, despite her personal sufferings (the man she loved killed by the Germans, her mother imprisoned by Mussolini) she used her knowledge of the middle East to act as a liason to the Arabs and to the United States, and to counter the Nazi propaganda in the area. Illustrated with photographs, chronology, index. 297 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (gift inscription, price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 52889
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  • DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946. by Stark, Freya.
    Stark, Freya.
    DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    London: Century, (1985.). The fourth volume in her autobiography - this covers the years during World War II when, despite her personal sufferings (the man she loved killed by the Germans, her mother imprisoned by Mussolini) she used her knowledge of the middle East to act as a liason to the Arabs and to the United States, and to counter the Nazi propaganda in the area. Illustrated with photographs, chronology, index. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-712604510.

    Condition: Good overall - some spine slant, contents clean.

    Book ID: 80253
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  • Steinman, Louise.
    THE SOUVENIR: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In 1945 , a G.I. mailed home a Japanese flag. Fifty years later, his daughter unfolds the past and this book is the story of her quest to find out what happened to her father, the men he fought with, and the men he fought against. By weaving together her father's poignant letters with her accounts of her own journey, Steinman presents a powerful view of how war changed one generation and shaped another, and in the process makes a powerful argument for peace: in war there are no winners. ISBN: 1-56512-3107.

    Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 24946
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  • THESE MEN MY FRIENDS. by Stewart, George.
    Stewart, George.
    THESE MEN MY FRIENDS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, (1954.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Interviews with, and impressions of, men and events in the British Army and the R.A.F. from ten extended tours of service during World War II - in the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia, Africa and on the Continent - Malta, Marrakech, Samoa and many other places. 400 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (light edgewear to the dj.)

    Book ID: 37776
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  • [Strickland, Auby Caey, 1896-1969] O'Neal, Mary Lee Strickland.
    WHY DID YOU START WITHOUT ME?

    Edition: First printing.

    San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1975. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Very personal memoir of Brigadier General Auby Strickland by his daughter - including the years when he was a young flight instructor (who taught so many that he became known as the 'man who helped give wings to the world') and especially his service during World War II. Introduction by Senator Barry Goldwater who served under Strickland when he was a young military pilot. Photographs, brief bibliography, index. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-8111-05725.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author 'in memory of a lovely evening' and dated May 22, 1975, in the year of publication.

    Book ID: 26342
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  • THE GLASS-BLOWER and Other Poems. by Struther, Jan (pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham, 1901 1953)
    Struther, Jan (pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham, 1901 1953)
    THE GLASS-BLOWER and Other Poems.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1941). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book by the author of the immensely popular Mrs Miniver, which was the basis for the Academy Award winning film of the same title. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 67 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in blue cloth with pale blue pasted on labels, lacking the dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58479
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  • RETURNING AS SHADOWS. by Taibo II, Paco Ignacio.
    Taibo II, Paco Ignacio.
    RETURNING AS SHADOWS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Novel of Mexico, 1941, during the Second World War - a book which revisits the characters in 'The Shadow of a Shadow,' but set nearly 20 years later. Translated from the Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz. Roger L. Simon calls this "another brilliant work by Paco Taibo, the man who brought 'magic realism' to the mystery form." 455 pp. ISBN: 0-312-301561.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58279
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  • Takamura Kotaro, 1883-1956 (Translated by Hiroaki Sato.)
    CHIEKO and Other Poems of Takamura Kotaro.

    Edition: First printing.

    Honolulu, The University Press of Hawaii, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kotaro Takamura was a renowned sculptor (in his youth he studied art in NY, London and Paris), poet, and translator; his poems for his wife Chieko, published after her death in 1938, which cover the 30 years of their relationship, from courtship, years of loving companionship, to her descent into insanity and death, are unique in Japanese literature and what makes him one of the most widely read poets in Japan. This book includes 26 poems about Chieko in the second section; in addition, the first section "The Journey" includes 58 chronologically arranged poems selected from those written throughout his life, and the final section "A Brief…

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    Honolulu, The University Press of Hawaii, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kotaro Takamura was a renowned sculptor (in his youth he studied art in NY, London and Paris), poet, and translator; his poems for his wife Chieko, published after her death in 1938, which cover the 30 years of their relationship, from courtship, years of loving companionship, to her descent into insanity and death, are unique in Japanese literature and what makes him one of the most widely read poets in Japan. This book includes 26 poems about Chieko in the second section; in addition, the first section "The Journey" includes 58 chronologically arranged poems selected from those written throughout his life, and the final section "A Brief History of Imbelicity" is a complete translation of the 20 autobiographical poems published under that title in 1947. Frontispiece portrait. xxiv, 164 pp. ISBN: 0-8248-06891.

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    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, some underlining in the introduction, but otherwise tight and clean in a very good dustjacket.

    Book ID: 33873
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  • WOLFSBANE. by Thomas, Craig.
    Thomas, Craig.
    WOLFSBANE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel to be published in the US - a tale of vengeance and international intrigue - "For almost half a lifetime ex-agent Richard Gardiner has buried his searing memories of treachery and torture at the hands of the Gestapo in Paris. But in the mid 1960s, back in France on holiday, he is confronted by the past." 324 pp.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 68023
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  • TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945. by Toll, Ian W.
    Toll, Ian W.
    TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final volume of the Pacific War trilogy,a comprehensive account of the bitter island battles that led to Japan. Illustrated with maps and photographs. SIGNED on a preliminary page. Notes, bibliography, index. A thick, heavy book - xv, 926 pp. ISBN: 978-0393080650.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88402
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  • Worldwar: STRIKING THE BALANCE. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    Worldwar: STRIKING THE BALANCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth and final volume in the epic alternate history series about World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 465 pp. ISBN: 0-345-405501.

    Condition: Good only in a near fine dust jacket (stains to edges of textblock)

    Book ID: 57718
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  • Settling Accounts: THE GRAPPLE. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    Settling Accounts: THE GRAPPLE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third volume in this epic alternate history series about World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 616 pp. ISBN: 0-345-405501.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread)

    Book ID: 62921
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  • THE INVISIBLE THREAD. by Uchida, Yoshika
    Uchida, Yoshika
    THE INVISIBLE THREAD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Julian Messner / Simon & Schuster, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's account of growing up in California in the 1930s as a 2nd generation Japanese-American and her family's internment in a Utah concentration camp during WWII. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-671741640.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63425
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  • ASTRONOMICAL NAVIGATION TABLES: Latitudes 20 - 24, North and South, Volume E by United States Navy Department, U.S. Hydrographic Office.
    United States Navy Department, U.S. Hydrographic Office.
    ASTRONOMICAL NAVIGATION TABLES: Latitudes 20 - 24, North and South, Volume E

    Edition: First edition.

    Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. Hardcover first edition - H.O. Publication no. 218. Reproduced by photo-lithographic process for emergency use from British Air Publication 1618. "RESTRICTED" is printed in bold letters on the cover and the title page. Laid in a sheet with instructions on how to use this volume. 232 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in green cloth with gold lettering, a sturdy volume.

    Book ID: 69958
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  • Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth.
    A TRAITOR AMONG US.

    Edition: First printing.

    Grand Rapids: Erdmans Publishing, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of a young boy helping the Dutch resistance in occupied Holland during World War II. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in 1999. ISBN: 0-8028-51519.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 19083
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  • LETTERS AND DISPATCHES, 1924 - 1944. by Wallenberg, Raoul.
    Wallenberg, Raoul.
    LETTERS AND DISPATCHES, 1924 - 1944.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Arcade Publishing, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Published in association with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. on the fiftieth anniversary of his mysterious disappearance of Wallenberg, this contains the letters and dispatches of this young Swede who was sent to oversee a rescue operation of Hungarian Jews being deported to the death camps by Adolf Eichmann. By the time of his arrest by the Soviet army in 1945, he had helped to save the lives of over 100,000 people. Translated by Kjersti Board. Edited by Timothy Bent. 16 pages of plates, viii, 286 p., [16] p. of plates. ISBN: 1-559702753.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped, small slit in front cover)

    Book ID: 63417
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  • THE CULT OF POWER: Essays. by Warner, Rex.
    Warner, Rex.
    THE CULT OF POWER: Essays.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1946.). Hardcover first edition - A series of essays written at the end of World War II on the cult of power in literature, from the classics to modern writings, from Aeschylus to Dostoievsky, Dickens and Yeats. 155 pp.

    Condition: Very good in original red cloth (no dust jacket, small strip torn off top of front endpaper, some rubbing to the spine.)

    Book ID: 53004
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  • A THOUSAND SISTERS: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Wein, Elizabeth.
    Wein, Elizabeth.
    A THOUSAND SISTERS: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Balzer + Bray (Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - The story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - Led by Marina Raskova three regiments consisting of women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics were formed including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. Photographs, source notes and an author's note. 376 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock).

    Book ID: 81283
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