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THE KINGS DEPART
Written by Richard M. Watt.
Stock no. 1831413
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
1st
1969.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution. German history, the collapse of the Kaiser's armies. Extraordinary drama in an era of violent upheaval. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Maps to endpapers. 604 pages including index. Top edge red. ISBN: 029717858X. Lower edge of spine lightly shelf-rubbed. Light foxing to top of boards and spine. Text block a little grubby and foxing to vertical edge. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn. Musty odour present.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- WORLD WAR I
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
DRESDEN: TUESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 1945
Written by Frederick Taylor.
Stock no. 1831411
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
1st
2004.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been dropped on the unprotected city... This book is a serious reappraisal of an event that lives in the popular memory with Guernica and Hiroshima as a by-word for the horror of twentieth-century air warfare. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and maps and 518 pages including index. ISBN: 0747570787. Boards clean, text block grubby. Occasional foxspot to contents. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to spine.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- AVIATION
- WORLD WAR II
BAYREUTH: A HISTORY OF THE WAGNER FESTIVAL
Written by Frederic Spotts.
Stock no. 1831076
Published by Yale University Press.
1994.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
This book is the first to provide a frank and comprehensive account of the institutions's history and functioning. The core of the study is a critical analysis of the performances and productions, brought alive with illustrations of stage settings, conductors and singers in costume. Around this artistic history is woven the remarkable story of why Wagner established the Festival and how his controversial descendants have managed it after him. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. x and 334 pages including index. ISBN: 0300057776. Reprint. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- MUSIC
- COMPOSERS
- OPERA
WAR EXPERIENCES IN RURAL GERMANY 1914-1923
Written by Benjamin Ziemann.
Stock no. 1830293
Published by Berg.
1st thus
2007.
Very good condition.
World War I was a uniquely devastating total war that surpassed all previous conflicts for its destruction. But what was the reality like on the ground, for both the soldiers on the front-lines and the women on the homefront? This book paints a vivid picture of the dynamics of total war on rural communities, from the calling up of troops to the reintegration of veterans into society. First published in 1997 as Front und Heimat: Landliche Kriegsfahrungen im sudlichen Bayern 1914-1923. Matt pictorial boards. xiii and 302 pages including index. ISBN: 9781845202446. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Lower horizontal edge of boards lightly knocked. Rear board a little scuffed. A few minor marks to vertical edge of text block. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- GERMANY
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
THE MYTH OF THE MASTER RACE: ALFRED ROSENBERG AND NAZI IDEOLOGY
Written by Robert Cecil.
Stock no. 1829814
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd..
1st
1972.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A full-length study of the man appointed by Hitler to be the chief theoretical exponent of the ideology of the NSDAP. Alfred Rosenberg's role has been underestimated, as has that played by the ideology itself in contributing to the rapid rise of Hitler to power. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. x and 266 pages. Top edge red. ISBN: 071341121X. Small nick in the cloth on the vertical edge of rear board. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Text block browned. Minor foxing to endpapers. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby to rear panel and lightly faded to spine.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- NAZIS
THE MAKING OF A NAZI HERO: THE MURDER AND MYTH OF HORST WESSEL
Written by Daniel Siemens; David Burnett.
Stock no. 1829796
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd..
1st UK
2013.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Originally published in German in 2009. This is the English translation, translated by David Burnett. Horst Wessel, was a young and ambitious member of the SA, shot point-blank at his home in Berlin in 1930. This is an account of the background to Horst Wessel's murder, uncovering how and why the Nazis made him a political hero. Red boards, black title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and 316 pages including index. ISBN: 9781780760773. A lovely copy!
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- POLITICS
- NAZIS
THE UNWRITTEN ORDER HITLER'S ROLE IN THE FINAL SOLUTION
Written by Peter Longerich.
Stock no. 1329370
Published by Tempus.
1st thus
2003.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Hitler's role in the Holocaust. ISBN: 0752419773. Spine bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at edges.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- WORLD WAR II
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- NAZIS
THE JACKDAW OF LINZ: THE STORY OF HITLER'S ART THEFTS
Written by David Roxan; Ken Wanstall.
Stock no. 1329367
Published by White Lion Publishers Limited.
1st thus
1976.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
First published by Cassell in 1964. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 195 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 0856172669. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents browned but otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and browned.
- Categorised in:
- ART
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- WORLD WAR II
- NAZIS
DIGGING FOR HITLER: THE NAZI ARCHAEOLOGISTS SEARCH FOR AN ARYAN PAST
Written by David Barrowclough.
Stock no. 1829538
Published by Fonthill Media Limited.
1st
2016.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A deep evaluation of the practices and beliefs of the SS-Ahnenerbe and similar Nazi groups, revealing the myriad frauds committed by individuals seeking a moral justification for categorically indefensible acts. A gripping journey into the warped minds within the Third Reich, stratching from the mythical lost world of Atlantis to the mountains of Tibet. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 223 pages including index. ISBN: 9781781555002. A lovely copy.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- NAZIS
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- ANTHROPOLOGY
THE HOLY REICH: NAZI CONCEPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY, 1919-1945
Written by Richard Steigmann-Gall.
Stock no. 1829451
Published by Cambridge University Press.
2009.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Originally published as a hardback in 2003 and transferred to digital printing in 2009. The author here argues that the Nazi movement, contrary to the conventional view, was not anti-Christian, let alone atheistic. He demonstrates that many participants in the Nazi movement felt a personal attachment to Christiantity, and claimed that their ideology of antisemitism, anti-Marxism, and antiliberalism was inspired by Christian values. Pictorial cardwraps. xvi and 294 pages including index. ISBN: 9780521603522. A physical copy of a Print-On-Demand item. Minor knock to top rear cover edge. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- NAZIS
- RELIGION
- CHRISTIANITY
THE HUNDRED DAYS TO HITLER
Written by Roger Manvell; Heinrich Fraenkel.
Stock no. 1829447
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd..
1st
1974.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
What were the precise circumstances that made possible Hitler's seizure of power? A detailed day-to-day account of exactly how Hitler and the Nazi leaders manoeuvred their way to power. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 245 pages including index. ISBN: 0460078593. Text block browned with some foxing and a small stain. Grubby marks to page 15 and facing page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- NAZIS
- POLITICS
THE COWARD OF MINDEN: THE AFFAIR OF LORD GEORGE SACKVILLE
Written by Piers Mackesy.
Stock no. 1828462
Published by Allen Lane.
1st
1979.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Lord George Sackville was court-martialled for disobedience at the battle of Minden in 1759 and pronounced to be 'unfit to serve His Majesty in any military capacity whatsover'. What caused him to disobey the orders of his German Commander-in-Chief to bring up the cavalry? Was it cowardice? Or incompetence? Or a determination to be awkward? Or was he an unlucky victim of circumstance? Yellow cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0713908513. Small black mark to front endpaper. Pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Top edge of text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Black dustwrapper is a little scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- MILITARY