Beltrone, Art and Lee Beltrone,
WARTIME LOG.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. (Howell Press, 1995).
Illustrated, 208 pages.
~~~ "With watercolors extracted from food can
labels and paintbrushes made from their own hair, downed WWII American
airmen illustrated their experiences as prisoners of war, excerpts are
collected here."
~~~ "Artwork and anecdotes from more than a dozen log books kept
by U.S. Army Air Force pilots and crewmen held in German camps during
WWII, they provide a unique look at how the prisoners entertained
themselves and their fellow prisoners. Well illustrated, many in
color."
~~~ From Library Journal: "
Among supplies shipped via the International Red Cross to U.S. prisoners
of war in Germany during World War II were blank books supplied by the
YMCA with an inscription that read partly, 'This log book is really a
gift from the folks at home.' Some of those former prisoners now return
that gift by letting us see the thoughts and images they recorded at the
time. What emerges is as vivid a picture of a POW's life as is possible
after this past half-century. Reproduced here and supplemented with
information from other sources about conditions and events in the camps
are evocative drawings ranging from the simple to the professional and
commentary that is sardonic, wistful, forlorn, or defiant -- all speaking
the language of the hunger for freedom. Unexcelled in its recall of this
aspect of the war."
~~~ Originally published at $34.95, now OUT OF PRINT.
$40.00
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Bowen, Robert M.,
FIGHTING WITH THE SCREAMING EAGLES: With the 101st Airborne from Normandy to Bastogne.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001).
Bibliography, Roll of Honor, 256 pages.
~~~
The final chapter of this account covers the author's incarceration at Stalag 10B at Bremervorde. He was wounded and captured just before Christmas, 1944, at Bastogne, and
liberated 29 April 1945.
~~ OUT OF PRINT.
$30.00
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Boyle, Martin,
YANKS DON'T CRY: A Marine's-Eye View of Four Heroic Years in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp.
$25.00
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[Bunker] Keith A. Barlow (ed),
BUNKER'S WAR: The World War II Diary of Col. Paul D. Bunker.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. (Presidio) 309 pages.
~~~ "Powerful account of the tragic fall of the Philippines in 1942 and the horrors he and his fellow soldiers endured as prisoners of war of the Japanese, which ended in 1943 with his death from beriberi."
~~~ OUT OF PRINT.
$27.95
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Burgett, Donald R.,
BEYOND THE RHINE: A Screaming Eagle in Germany.
NEW copy. (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2001). Maps, photographs, 169 pages.
~~~ "Donald R. Burgett and the rest of the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne had
fought long and hard since the Normandy invasion. They fought through seventy-two days of
continuous combat in Holland, and thirty days of frozen hell in Bastogne during the Battle
of the Bulge. War weary, tired, and bloodied, Burgett and other Screaming Eagles of A Company
were heading for the last battle, the drive that would carry them through Alsace, Germany's
Ruhr Valley, the Rhineland, Austria, and the end of the war in Europe. The last push across
Germany did not hold the full-scale fanatic resistance the U.S. command had expected, but
rather, small pockets of die-hard Nazis unwilling to admit that they had lost. It became
clear why some did not wish to surrender. Burgett and the other American soldiers discovered
forced labor camps of half-starved Poles, Russians, Czechs, and Jews; men, women, and
children all forced to labor for the cause of Germany, or die. Burgett and his men
liberated four Nazi concentration camps where inmates were starved, brutally and
systematically tortured, medically and surgically experimented on, and finally gassed and
cremated. Burgett writes: 'German guards were still forcing inmates to stoke the furnaces
with human bodies as we tore through the barbed-wire enclosures. We witnessed atrocities
that were beyond human comprehension.' The Americans fought on from the Black Forest in
Bavaria, to Berchtesgaden, where VE day found the Screaming Eagles finally at rest in the
Eagle's Nest, Hitler's fabled mountaintop retreat. Certainly now the hard charging
paratroopers could return home to enjoy the fruits of their victory, bloodied but
proud, to take up family life with loved ones in a world they fought to keep free. But the
war against Japan still raged, however, and the 101st was one of two airborne divisions
alerted for redeployment to the Pacific. August 1945 brought atomic relief to Burgett and
millions more around the world with the surrender of Japan. On New Year's Eve, 1945,
Sergeant Burgett finally returned to his home in Detroit, still just twenty years old."
~~~ Originally published at $24.95, now OUT OF PRINT.
$25.00
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Chancellor, Henry,
COLDITZ: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes.
(NY: William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2001). NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket; jacket in mylar protector.
First American Edition. Maps on end pages.
Photographs, diagrams, List of Escape Attempts, List of Interviewees, notes,
bibliography, index. 446 pages.
~~~ "Breathtaking and mesmerizing, Colditz is a gripping tale of perseverance, heroism, and adventure. Filled with the thrilling never-before-told personal stories of the prisoners of war held within the walls of this medieval fortress turned German high-security prison camp, Colditz offers endlessly intriguing stories of consummate survivors who proved the human spirit to be indomitable. In more than fifty original interviews, the English, French, Dutch, and Polish officers and their guards describe their experiences in the notorious castle. They reveal their boredom and frustrations, as well as the challenges inherent in making maps out of jelly or constructing tunnels with mere cutlery knives. The stories are by turns comic and tragic, as much of their labor and invention ended in failure. But what emerges is a story of breathtaking ingenuity and an intriguing portrait of the fascinating game of wits between captives and captors, who were bound together by mutual respect and extraordinary tolerance."
~~~ Hardcover originally published at $27.95, now OUT OF PRINT.
$35.00
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Chittenden, William Howard,
FROM CHINA MARINE TO JAP POW: My 1,364 Day Journey through Hell.
Inscribed by author.
$45.00
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Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Pelt,
AUSCHWITZ: 1270 TO THE PRESENT.
W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. F/VG. Some minor flaws to jacket. 7.5x10 First Edition. Maps on end pages.
Photographs, charts, diagram, plates, maps. Extensive notes,
bibliography & index. 443 pages.
$30.00
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Habe, Hans,
A THOUSAND SHALL FALL: A SOLDIER'S STORY OF THE BATTLE AGAINST
GERMANY. N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and
Company., Second Printing, 1941. VG/VG. Light chipping to jacket, and a 1/2" square
hole in jacket on spine, not affecting picture or lettering. Jacket
in mylar protector. Book clean and tight. Former owner's small ink
signature on front flyleaf. 442 pages. Author was born in Budapest in 1911, edited the Viennese newspaper 'Der Morgen' while only 21 years of age.
He worked as a foreign correspondent and wrote two novels, one of which was burned by the Nazis,
who also tried to murder him in Vienna in 1932. With the outbreak of war, Habe enlisted in the French
21st Infantry of Foreign Volunteers, and fought in engagements on the Belgian and Luxembourg frontiers.
He was captured by the Germans near Charmes in the Vosges in late June, 1940,
and interred in a prison camp at Dieuze, forty kilometers north of Nancy. By August of that
year he had escaped and made his way into unoccupied France.
~~ A common title, but uncommon in dust jacket.
$35.00
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Mace, Frank R (Curley),
THE STORY OF WAKE ISLAND, BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER LIFE AS
A PRISONER
OF WAR OF THE JAPANESE.
$35.00
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Sacco, Jack,
WHERE THE BIRDS NEVER SING: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket.
(NY: Regan Books / Harper Collins, 2003) First Edition. With a Foreward by Bob Dole. Maps, photographs, 316 pages.
~~~ From Publishers Weekly: "Written in an unusual style by the son of a G.I., this episodic WWII chronicle covers the career of the author's father, Joe Sacco (no relation to the comics artist), from his induction into the U.S. Army and stateside training during 1943, overseas deployment to Great Britain in early 1944, and his experiences in combat and behind the lines at Normandy through the end of the war. The account of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, in late April 1945, comprises only one short chapter in the book. Although the narrative is first-person, the author's father is given neither co-authorship, nor "as told to" credit. This peculiar style limits the impact of some of the writing. "They say that war is comprised of one surreal moment after another, millions of them all strung together until nothing is real anymore except for one's own mortality"-loses some punch if linked back to "a director, writer, and composer living in Los Angeles," as this debut author is credited. Yet the extensive reconstructed (or invented?) dialogue is largely successful: Sacco's barracks life and period profanity make for one of the more accurate and compelling recreations of the G.I. experience in recent years. The book is particularly good on Sacco's first few days in the service, combat action in a small German city in March 1945, and on the liberation of Dachau, but readers expecting extensive tales of armed conflict will be disappointed. While not a classic among World War II memoirs, nor particularly historically significant, this odd duck quacks convincingly."
~~~ Hardcover originally published at $24.95, now OUT OF PRINT.
$25.00
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Holmes, Linda Goetz. UNJUST ENRICHMENT: HOW
JAPAN'S COMPANIES BUILT POSTWAR FORTUNES USING AMERICAN POWs.
Stackpole Books, 2001, NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Military
Book Club edition. Photographs, drawings, document copies, appendices,
notes, bibliography, index, 202 pages.
$24.00
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Tanaka, Yuki. HIDDEN HORRORS: JAPANESE WAR CRIMES IN WORLD WAR II.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Westview Press, 1996. Maps, photographs, notes, index, 267 pages.
"This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in WWII, including
cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments."
$30.00
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Warfield, Hania and Gaither,
CALL US TO WITNESS: A Polish Chronicle.
VG/Poor. (NY: Ziff Davis Publishing Co., 1945). First Edition. INSCRIBED & DATED BY BOTH
AUTHORS. (Mrs. Alice L. Thomas, With best regards, Gaither P. Warfield, Hania Warfield,
Rockville, Md, 1950).
Jacket, protected by mylar, is in poor condition, with some pieces missing. Book is generally
tight and clean, though with some tape marks on rear end pages. 434 pages.
~~~ "With poignancy and deep emotion, an American clergyman and his Polish-born wife, who
were caught in the maw of war in Poland, give their account of everyday living under the German
conquerors. As they became victims of Nazi brutality, their world of peace fell away
precipitously. Overnight, life was pervaded with destruction and horror. Everybody
suffered. And everybody resisted the Germans.
~~~
Dr. Warfield carried on his work as best he could between prison terms. Whether in or out of
prison he jeopardized his life to aid both Jews and gentiles. He fled before the Germans with
the population of Warsaw and was machine-gunned on roads and in cattle cars. He was caught by
the Russians in their invasion of eastern Poland and was carried by truck into the Soviet Union,
where he was imprisoned. He was exchanged by the Russians to the Germans while they were yet
allies. Weakened by cold and hunger, he was released by the Germans because he had become too
weak to work. On the declaration of war by Germany against the United States, he was interned
by the Gestapo, on orders from Berlin, in Pawiak prison in the Warsaw ghetto. ~~~ For three
years the Warfields -- along with the Poles and Jews (this distinction was made by the Germans)
-- suffered hunger, cold, humiliation, and abuse. They were witnesses of death by firing squads,
by starvation, by freezing; witnesses of looting and hundred-fold reprisals. They devoted
themselves to helping the men and women who came to them bloody and hungry and dazed. They
kept right on doing the almost impossible until their return to America as exchange prisoners
on the Swedish S.S. Drottninghold. ~~~ Because Dr. Warfield was head of the American
Colony in Warsaw as well as head of the Methodist Church, and because his Polish wife was an
accomplished linguist, these two had unparalleled vantage points from which to view the whole
whirlpool of tragic events in Poland. After he was interned, Mrs. Warfield mediated between
the Americans and the Gestapo. ~~~ Call Us To Witness leaves the reader with the
feeling that there is no limit to human endurance when freedom is the goal. The Warfields'
story, told now by oine, now by the other, will stand as a historical document against force
and national aggression, against the German oppressor, against any oppressor. It should be
read by all who are concerned for justice in the postwar world."
$75.00
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