Search Results: History - Europe from W. Fraser Sandercombe

London: The Folio Society, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. 245 pp. Light brown cloth decorated in red, black and gilt on the front panel and spine; brown upper edge; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white plates and presented in a black slipcase. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. Subtitled: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI, Written by His Master of Ceremonies. The Borgias in all their glory, Lucrezia, Joffre, Juan, Cesare....

Oswiecimiu, Poland: Panstwowe Muzeum, 1961. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Edition. 83 pp. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Some of the chapters are: Hitler's Army; Racial Discrimination of Jews; World Opinion; Resistance Movement; Concentration Camps; Extermination of Soviet POWs; Extermination of Gypsies; The Road to Death - Deceiving of Victims; Extermination Factory; Process of Extermination; Administration of the Camp; German Industry Used Prisoners as Workmen; Starvation; Fate of Women and Children; Experiments on Prisoners; The Block of Death; and Punishing the Criminals - Nuremberg..

Oswiecimiu, Poland: Panstwowe Muzeum, 1976. Book. Very Good-. Paperback. Later Printing. 120 pp. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the front hinge and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and a fold-out map. The Contents are: Entrance to the Former Camp; Hitler Takes Over in Germany; Fire in the Reichstag; Racial Discrimination of Jews; Remilitarization; World Opinion; First Operations; Outbreak of World War II; Resistance Movement; Concentration Camps; Auschwitz - Oswiecim; Hall of Nations; Extermination of Soviet P.O.W.s; Extermination of the Gipsies; Extermination; The Road of Death, Deceiving the Victims; Conditions of Transportation; Selection; Extermination Factory; Process of Extermination; Camouflaging of Crimes; Cyclon B; Exploiting the Corpses; Dividing the Loot; Material Proofs; Arrival at the Camp; Hair Cutting and Bathing; Registration and Tattooing; Marking the Prisoners; Clothes; The Amount of Prisoners with Camp Numbers;… Read More

Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing, 1969. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 310 pp. Holloway House book HH-171. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. During the twelve years of Hitler's reign of terror in Germany, millions of Europeans were proscribed to work for the Reich as voluntary labour - most of them ended up slaves and eventually dead. This is the biography of one young man who survived the horror..

Cleveland: Albert Skira - with World Publishing, 1972. Book. Illus. by Bruegel;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 153 pp. Beige cloth decorated in red on the front panel and spine; headband; profusely illustrated with colour plates of Bruegel's paintings. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings..

Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1996. Book. Illus. by Lionel Royer;. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xii) 285 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Wraparound dustjacket art by Lionel Royer. The Contents are: Preface; Prologue; Caesar in Rome; The Celts in Europe; Caesar in Gaul; The Rhine and the Channel; Expedition to Britain; To the Thames; Turmoil in Rome; Revolt in Gaul; Divus Julius; and Postscript: The English Search for Caesar; followed by an index..

New York: Gramercy Books, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xiv) 450 pp. Quarter-bound in green cloth on green boards; decorated in gilt on the spine; headband. Illustrated with colour plates. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block. The Contents are: The Interest and Importance of Celtic Mythology; The Sources of Our Knowledge of the Celtic Mythology; Who Were the Ancient Britons?; The Religion of the Ancient Britons and Druidism; The Gaelic Gods and Their Stories; The British Gods and Their Stories; and Survivals of the Celtic Paganism; followed by an index..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings..

Milpitas, California: The Society for Creative Anachonism, 1985. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 44 pp. Digest format. Light wear; no interior markings. This issue contains: The Barbarian West: The Germans; The Franks and Alemans. The Barbarian East: The Germans: Goths, Depids and Others; The Huns; The Vandals, Burgundians and Sueves; Visigoths and Ostrogoths after 378; The Lombards. Post Invastion West. Coastal Germans and Celts. The East Revisited: The Slavs; The South Slavs; The West Slavs; The East Slavs; Magyars and Others; followed by a bibliography..

London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 279 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Pictures through a Spyglass; Awakening; La Belle Indienne; The Years Between; Questa Donna; and The Last Act; followed by a bibliography and an index..

Ottawa, Ontario: Government of Canada Veterans Affairs, 1984. Book. Illus. by Eric Aldwinckle;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing. 8vo. 48 pp. This is in English and in French. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light edge and corner wear with some minor rubbing on the covers. Aviation painting on the cover by Eric Aldwinckle. Illustrated with black and white photographs and a four-colour map. The Contents are: Preface by W. Bennett Campbell; The Landings in Normandy June 6 1944; The Assault Plan; Preparation for the Assault; The Assault; Normandy Cemeteries and Memorials; Canadian Memorials - D-Day Area; Canadian Forces Associated with D-Day Landings; Canadian Army Units; 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade; and Royal Canadian Air Force Squadrons..

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. (xii) 180 pp. Quarter-bound with Navy blue cloth on gray boards; lettered in copper foil on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with maps, colour plates, and black and white plates. The Chapters are: PART ONE: HITLER'S BODY: The Last Prize; 1945: These Bones Have Never Been Found; 1968: The Russian Bombshell; 1979: Hitler Was Not a Coward; The Discovery of Hitler's Skull; Bitter Almonds: The Forensic Evidence; 1995: Professor Zyagin's Independent Verdict. PART TWO: HITLER'S OTHER REMAINS: The Spy in the Bunker; Hitler's Sketchbook; and The Bavarian Squire: Hitler's Photograph Album; followed by Epilogue: Other Secrets in the Russian Archives; Appendix A: The Fate of Hitler's Relatives; Appendix B: Russian Archives Consulted During Research; Annotated Bibliography; and an index..

Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (viii) 231 pp. Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Preface; Deportation; A Small Shtetl in Poland; The Blitzkrieg; German Occupation; The Ghetto in Dobra; Steineck; Zosia; Gutenbrunn; The Murder of My Family; On Cattle Cars to Auschwitz; Auschwitz; Furstengrube; The Dentist of Auschwitz; The Death March; Dora Mittelbau; Disaster on the Baltic Sea; Inferno; Where Do We Go?; and Postwar Germany; followed by a Postscript, Appendices and an Index..

New York: Harper Torchbooks - Cloister, 1957. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xiv) 266 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Included is a selection of letters of Eramus..

London: Pan Books, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 48, 64 pp. First and Second Printings in a oblong trade paperback format. Both books have been illustrated in colour and in black and white, and with maps. Both books have light wear on the corners with flat uncreased spines; no interior markings. The Chapters for Waterloo are: The Protagonists; The Beginning; The Battles of Quatre Bras and Ligny; June 17th; The Battle of Waterloo; The Men; The Weapons; Aftermath; The Anglo-Allied Army; List of Anglo-Allied Army Regiments and Units; The Prussian Army; The French Army; and Strength of the Armies. The Chapters for Trafalgar are: The Protagonists; The Campaign; September 14th - October 20th, 1805; The Battle; October 22nd - December 24th, 1805; The Men; The Ships; and Aftermath..

London: Arrow Books - A Grey Arrow, 1959. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 192 pp. Grey Arrow G16. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front cover and a crease on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: I: The ANCIENT REGIME: Introduction; Faulty Finance; Administrative Complexity; Agrarian Distress; II: THE REVOLT OF THE NOBILITY - 1787 - 1788: Calonne's Plans for Radical Reform; The Revolt of the Notables; The Revolt of the Parlements; The Revolt of the Provinces; III: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONFLICTS ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION - 1788 - 1789: Necker's Second Ministry and the Recall of the Parlement; The Formation of the Partiotic Party; Pamphlet Warfare and the Attack on Privilege; Necker and the Convocation of the States General; The Elections to the States General; IV: THE REVOLUTION OF THE LAWYERS - 5th May - 27th June 1789: The Opening of the States General; The Conflict of the Orders - 6th May - 9th June 1789; The Formation of the National… Read More

London: Constable and Co, 1941. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 24mo. (vii) 138 pp. Beige boards matching the dustjacket. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name inside. The Contents are: Translator's Note; A French Soldier Speaks; The Cattle Leave Lorraine; Christmas Eve 1940; The Marseillaise; The Treason of the Elite; and The Quest of Lost Valley..

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 76 pp. Trade paperback format. Very light rubbing at the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Presentation slip dropped in that reads: With the compliments of Professor W. Macneile Dixon (University of Glasgow). The Contents are: Frightfulness in Retreat; Proceedings of the French Senate, March 31st, 1917 - translated from the Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise; and Official Report of the French Commission Appointed to Investigate Acts Committed by the Enemy in Violation of the Law of Nations..

New York: Penguin Books, 1992. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; ink marks on the contents page. The Contents are: German Efficiency by Heinrich Boll; The Great Migration by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Losing the War: Liberation Day by Christa Wolf; Buchenwald by Ian Buruma; The German Character: Love in Germany by Doris Dorrie; Losses by Gunter Grass; Berlin by Night by Ed Kashi; The East German Character: Zonophobia by Monika Maron; Halle by Day by Hans Joachim Ellerbrock; The Stone-thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt by Max Thoms Mehr and Regine Sylvester; A Hippy Among Communists by Klaus Schlesinger; The Virtues of Communism: Shaking Hands with Zeitgeist by Wolf Biermann; As Seen by Foreigners: The Devil's Kitchen by Russell Hoban; The Table by Pawel Huelle; Lederhosen by Haruki Murakami; Ohne Mich: Why I Shall Never Return to Germany by Martha Gellhorn; Baghdad Diary by Nuha Al-Radi; Notes… Read More

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (viii) 347 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on brown cloth; decorated in gilt on the spine; black endpapers; headband. LIght rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket with some darkening on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Realities Before the Revolution: The ABCs; Colleges and Private Schools; Higher Learning. Nationalization: The Growth of Royal Authority; Signs of the Enlightenment; Writings of the 1760s on National Education; Actual Changes 1762 - 1789; The State the Church and the Public Power on the Eve of the Revolution. Politicization: Politics and Education; Plans and Projects; The Talleyrand Report and Its Critics; Discord and Disarray; Disendowment. Democratization: The Quest for Equality: The Condorcet Plan; The Disintegration of the Condorcet Plan; The Ambiguities of Education Commune; The Parisian Democracy of 1793; Educational Demands of the Sections of Paris;… Read More