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WORLDWARII

First edition. Original cloth. A near fine copy. This history of the 272 Infantry regiment was printed and distributed in Germany at war's end. The German firm responsible had been in the business since 1834. The printing, paper quality, and binding are all superb. The text is quite informative and the work is loaded with period photographs. A rare regimental. OCLC 72210792 locates one copy.
$ 250.00

165. Jeffers, Harry Paul. ONWARD WE CHARGE THE HEROIC STORY OF DARBY'S RANGERS IN WORLD WAR II.
New York: NAL Caliber, 2007. 312 pp., plates.

First edition, first printing. Original paper covered boards, very good in very good pictorial dust jacket. "ONWARD WE CHARGE takes readers from the beachheads of North Africa to the bloody campaigns of southern Italy, and to Darby's tragic death from German shrapnel just eight days before VE day. This is the true story of a man who held his own beside the greatest military figures in history."
$ 25.00

166. Macksey, Kenneth. KESSELRING: THE MAKING OF THE LUFTWAFFE.
New York, [1978]. 262 pp., plates.

First edition. Original cloth, near fine in very good dust jacket. Kesselring was the only senior German officer to start and finish the Second World War holding a high command appointment. He was deeply involved in all of the major campaigns.
$ 25.00

167. Payne, Robert. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLPH HITLER.
New York and Washington, [1973]. 623 pp.

First edition. Publisher's review copy with letter from a Trade Sales Manager laid in stating "this copy is one of the first off the press." Original cloth, very good in very good dust jacket.
$ 35.00

168. Stilwell, Joseph W. THE STILWELL PAPERS.
London: Macdonald & Co., [1949]. 327 pp., plates.

First edition. Original cloth. A very good copy. Memoirs of `Vinegar Joe' Stilwell, the senior US Commander in the India-Burma-China Theatre in World War II.
$ 35.00

169. United States. Army. 533d Engineers. THE 533d ENGINEER BOAT AND SHORE REGT. OVERSEAS.
[Manila?, P.I.], 1945. 12 unnumbered leaves (some color), illus.

Quarto. First edition. Original decorative wrappers. A near fine copy containing numerous inset photographs with explanatory text. WORLDCAT/OCLC records only one copy at the New York Public Library. Inscription on last blank leaf shows why this, the second known copy, survived. It reads: "Dear Dad and folks: Well heres a little something different for a change. It is a pretty good story of the outfit. Hope you like it. Love, Jack. P.S. Save this and I'll be able to tell you a lot more when I get home soon. I hear you all had a big V E Day back home." Covers actions in New Guinea and the Philippines. A most interesting and rare U. S. Army Special Engineer assault unit photo book.
$ 375.00

170. United States. War Dept. Historical Division. THE CAPTURE OF MAKIN (20 NOVEMBER - 24 NOVEMBER 1943).
[Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946]. viii,136 pp., fldg. maps.

First edition. Original stiff printed wrappers. A very good copy. Foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Chief of Staff. The Pacific Theatre combat account of the United States Army 27th Division, 5th Amphibious Corps, and 7th Air Force, and the battle and capture of Makin Island. The first full- scale effort to recover some of the Japanese strongholds in the Central Pacific was the expedition to the Gilbert Islands in November, 1943. The Capture of Makin narrates the Army's part of the campaign, which was a prelude to later advance to the Marshall Islands. The two maps affixed to inside rear cover are in fine condition and titled Attack From the Lagoon, 20 November, 1943, and Main Defensive Area of Butaritari.
$ 45.00

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