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Reykjavik, Iceland: Futura / Prentval. Paperback. FINE. Tight, bright, clean, slight tilt. "er saga I svipuoum dur og Arnarhreiorio og Byssurnar I Navarone, storkostlegar fradagnir af hernaoar tokum, par sem soguhetjurnar eru menn us urvalsfjallas eitum Hitlers, Edelweiss storm sveitunum, serjalfaoir fjallgongumenn og striosmenn..." Text in Icelandic.

NY: Del Rey / Random. (1st edition, 1st printing). Hardbound. FINE / Fine DJ. As new except for tiny number written on top of page edges near spine. "What if the South had won the Civil War?" Alternative history. #2 - 0345444213 - 2002. It's 1924, a time of rebuilding, reclamation and reconstruction in the United States...a time of poverty and calamity in the Confederate States...#3 -034544423X - 2003. It's 1934 and the Freedom Party "is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred…"

NY: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster, 1991. Audio Book. VERY GOOD. 2-tape Audio Book. Slipcase has worn corners. Running time: @ 3 hours. Read by: Gerald McRaney. "Guadalcanal...daredevil pilot, Charles Galloway...infantry combat commander, Jack 'No Middle Initial' Stecker...ex-Marine Fleming Pickering..." ISBN: 0671730053.

NY: Signet (#P2514), 1964. (1st edition). Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, yellowed pages, clean, square. A few barely visible creases and faint edgewear. "The fabulous, indefatigable, 6 foot blonde who played 'hostess' to 51,840 GI's during World War II is back."

Reykjavik, Iceland: Prenthusid, 1977. Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. Light rubbing to covers and edges. "Petta er saga um flotta tveggja ungmenna undan ogneum nasista I sioari heimstyrjold. Sagan lysir vel miskunnarleysi og ofbelbi pessara hormungara og er geysispennandi fra upphafi..." Text in Icelandic.

NY: Berkley (#N2185), 1972. (1st thus). Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, slight yellowing, light age soil to exterior, faint curl. Faint edgewear and a few light crease to covers. "Battle on the high seas!..a freighter...with a crack team of dedicated guerillas...a gift of food for a starving nation...Cable's assignment was to preserve his nation's honor and rescue thousands from certain destruction - by stopping that food shipment at all costs!" ISBN: 0425021858.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961. (signed, 1st edition). Hardbound. NEAR FINE/ Very Good+. As new except for faintest of age soil to top edge. Inscription signed by author dated December 17, 1972. DJ as new except for faint wear and light age soil to top edge. "novel of survival in the Balkans in WWII…One of the American ambulance planes…(which) delivered supplies...and brought out the wounded...(is) shot down by the Germans..." The author served in WWII Yugoslavia and the person to whom it is inscribed is a Dr. ISBN: 684133016.

London, UK: Futura, 1990. (1st thus). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for slight corner wear. "high combat in the skies above Europe, from shipping recces in the North Sea to raids on the most heavily defended industrial targets in German..." Based on the author's own experience as a fighter pilot. ISBN: 0708845541.

NY: Del Rey / Random. (1st American paperback). Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. All 4 as new except for faint curl from their own weight and tiny number written on top of page edges near spine. "what if the South had won the Civil War?" - Alternative History from 1914 through 1944. #1 - 0345464052, 2005 - It's 1914 and North America is fractured into the United States, the Confederate States Occupied Canada, The Republic of Quebec, The Empire of Mexico, with the Russian tsar ruling Alaska. #2 - 0345464060, 2006 -It's 1942 and The US and Confederate States continue their war with Canada in revolt and Japan attacking the Sandwich Islands. #3 - 9780345464071, 2007 - light creasing to top of front cover, 1/4" rip on bottom edge of back cover, check-marks on "Books by Harry Turtledove" page. It's 1943 and the war goes on with bigger and better weapons and a race to the atomic bomb. #4 - 9780345492487 - 2008 - It's 1944 and "the new weapon has shattered a… Read More

NY: Manor, 1979. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, yellowed pages, clean interior, light soil to exterior. Wear to exterior edges. Light crease on each cover. "A shocking novel of men fighting to stay alive in the bloody hell of Vietnam. " Men lived and grew old and died in a few weeks in Vietnam. A lot of them didnt live that long. This is the story of one young soldier's coming of agel. What he saw, how he felt, the way he reacted when friends were blasted to bits right in front of him. War brought out the best and worst in men, the killers and the guys who just wanted to get home. They were there and they fought a merciless enemy, killing to stay alive.

NY: Little, Brown & Company, 1945. (1st edition). Hardcover. FAIR / No dj. READING COPY. Tight, stained and faded covers, clean interior with faint tanning of pages, square. Severely sun-faded spine. Gift inscription on first free page. Although a love story runs through the background of this novel, it's true focus is on the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a staff officer of A. P. Hill's Third Army Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. From June of 1864 in Petersburg, VA to April of 1965 at Appomattox Court House, we see the every day life of the Confederate military and civilians in the Petersburg-Richmond area and end up hoping for the survival of individuals as we see the details of the failing war.