Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In 'Serving the Reich,' Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin, with those..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc- tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. "On August 23, 1942, (Adolf) Hitler's 16th Panzer Division halted on the banks of the Volga (River). To their right, the city of Stalingrad blazed from the first of General (Baron W.) von Richthofen's air raids, which ultimately killed 40,000 civilians. Many German soldiers thought the war against Russia was won. But in Stalin's namesake city on..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Henry Beston. "The author of The Outermost House, which...remains one of the most beautiful and popular accounts of an experience with nature, again writes of an adventure with the earth, this time with the herbs in his own garden. He lists and describes the various herbs and their culture and associates them with their ancient historical..... More

London, England: Geoffrey Cumberlege/ Oxford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "Marc Bloch, a world-renowned medieval historian who was read and valued by scholars far beyond the Sorbonne, of which he was a distinguished member, had many devoted friends in England. He fought in both World Wars, and in 1942, when fifty, became active in the French Resistance. Two years later he was caught by the Germans, tortured, and executed..... More

New York, NY: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "This unprecedented volume considers the profound and enduring impact of Spain's history, art, and culture on one of the greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Cristobal Balenciaga. Hailed as "fashion's Picasso" by Cecil Beaton, Balenciaga created a revolutionary oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris..... More

London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "In the early 1800s a Brazilian slave trader sailed to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, entered into a bizarre history of relations with its monarchs, acquired wealth and a position of outlandish influence but died a poor man. Bruce Chatwin's research into this curious story was abruptly thwarted when, on his second trip to Dahomey (by then called Benin), he..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Winston Churchill's first book, was originally published in 1898. The author was at the time a subaltern in the 4th Hussars but, finding regimental life too quiet to satisfy his adventurous spirit and hearing that a field force of three brigades was being formed under General Sir Bindon Blood to..... More

Washington DC: National Geographic Partners, LLC, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "Come with National Geographic on a fascinating journey through ancient Greece: the land of marathons and wrestling, debate and city-states, Plato, Socrates, and Alexander the Great. In this lavishly illustrated book, historian Diane Harris Cline creates a dynamic and engaging portrait of politics, social life, inventions, conquests, ideas, art, and more. These vivid pages are filled with amazing history, gripping..... More

Silver Springs, FL: Carita Doggett Corse, 1938. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Water Worship holds first place in the primitive religions of the world. It was the first of all things, the parent of all things. Even the gods themselves were born of water. Adoration of springs, or rather of the spirits that ruled them, prevailed everywhere among the American Indians, and a grove by a spring provided a ready-made shrine..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. “Speaking subjectively as a civil rights leader, I can say that this book is a most valuable documentation of the successive stages of direct action efforts in a community; it gives insight into the thinking of all of the protagonists; it takes into consideration the conflicting legal and moral issues raised. Surely it merits a wide audience among all persons..... More

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Already hailed in Europe as a masterpiece, Oriana Fallaci's powerful new novel is the dramatic love story of a man and a woman who are caught in the conflicts of political struggle and are moved inexorably toward a confrontation with death. In A Man Fallaci draws a dynamic portrait of the unparalleled hero of the Greek resistance, Alexander Panagoulis..... More

London, England: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2010. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself 'carrying France on my shoulders'. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared..... More