Grahame Thornton, Bookseller

A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to June 1945

Anonymous: · 2011

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Virago Modern Classics: London, 2011 Reprint PBK 311pp. Small nick head front cover by spine, o/w G+.

The Beautiful Spy: the Life and Crimes of Vera Eriksen

Tremain, David: · 2019

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Stroud: History Press, 2019 1st. ed. HBK + d/w.Index 368pp. + 17 b/w photos + some diagrams. VG/VG.

Women Warriors: Ten Courageous Lives of Women Who Went to War

Knight, Tracey-Ann: · 2017

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Stroud: Amberley, 2017 1st. thus HBK + d/w. Index 288pp. + 30 photos mostly b/w. Kit Cavanagh, Mary Read, Jennie Hodgers, Hannah Snell, Lady Jane Ingleby, Margaret Bulkley, Deborah Sampson, Dorothy Lawrence, Mary Ann Talbot, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez.

A Bookshop in Berlin

Frenkel, Francoise: · 2019

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥949)

New York: Atria Books Simon & Schuster, 2019 1st. thus HBK + d/w. 269pp. + 1 b/w photo + some diagrams. Remainder mark top edge, o/w VG/VG.

Women in the War: the Last Heroines of Britain's Greatest Generation

Fisher, Lucy: · 2022

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London: HarperCollins, 2022 1st. thus PBK Index 317 pp. + 33 photos, mostly b/w. VG.

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War

Vaughan, Hal: · 2012

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥949)

New York: Vintage Books, 2012 1st. thus PBK Index 313pp. + multiple small b/w photos. Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w VG.

Lonely Courage: the True Story of the SOE Heroines Who Fought to Free Nazi-occupied France

Stroud, Rick: · 2018

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2018 1st. thus PBK Index 295pp. + 35 small b/w photos + 4 maps. VG.

Secret Naval Investigator: the Battle Against Hitler's Secret Underwater Weapons

Lincoln, Commander F. Ashe QC RNVR: · 2017

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Barnsley: Frontline Pen & Sword, 2017 1st. thus. HBK + d/w. Index 182pp. + 16 b/w photos. Small tear foot bottom right jacket, o/w VG/G+.

Hitler's Ghost Ships: Graf Spee, Scharnhorst and Disguised German Raiders

----: · 2012

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Plymouth: University Plymouth Press, 2012 1st. thus PBK 216pp. + 27 diagrams. VG.

Games of Birds and Wolves: the Secret Game That Revolutionised the War

Parkin, Simon: · 2020

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Sceptre 2020 1st. thus PBK 310pp.+ 31 b/w photos. World War Two, a secret strategy in the Battle of the Atlantic. VG.

New Biology No. 11

Johnson, M.L. and Abercrombie, Michael: · 1951

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1951 1st. ed. PBK. No. 11 October 1951. 123 pp. + 20 plates. Good copy. Two copies with same stock number. One copy sold 6.01.23.

Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer

Shapiro, Walter: · 2016

£9.95 (€11.93 | $13.15 | ¥2,099)

New York, Blue Rider Press: 2016 HBK + d/w 435pp. VG/VG. The title is a misnomer, as there is very little about Hitler in the book, which is a biography of the subject. Large and heavy book, so postage will be higher than that quoted.

Double Agent

Bradby, Tom: · 2020

£9.95 (€11.93 | $13.15 | ¥2,099)

New York, Grove Atlantic: 2020 1st. ed. thus, HBK + d/w, 355pp. Fiction, not Espionage as the title suggests. F/F.

Escape to Honour

Harris, Larry and Taylor, Brian: · 1985

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Robert Hale, 1985 1st. ed. HBK+D/W. 241 pp. + 16 pp. photographic plates. VG/VG.

Thirty Years with the KGB: The Double Life of Hugh Hambleton

Heaps, Leo: · 1984

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Methuen, 1984 1st. ed. HBK+D/W. Slight page browning, o/w VG/VG. 158 pp.

Atlantic Bridge: The Official Account of R.A.F. Transport Command's Ocean Ferry

----: · 1945

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: HMSO, 1945 1st. ed. PBK. 75pp. + 6 b/w plates + maps inside covers and end papers. Prepared for the Air Ministry by the Ministry of Information. Covers scuffed at edges, small hole at back. Staples rusted. Covers repaired at spine. O/w good reading copy.

The Hidden War

Haldane, R.A.: · 1978

£1.50 (€1.80 | $1.98 | ¥316)

London: Robert Hale, 1978 1st. ed. HBK+D/W. Ex-Library copy, FEP excised, stamps verso TP, no other marks. D/W slightly scuffed bottom FC, o/w G-. Some page browning, o/w good copy. Index 224 pp. + 8 pp. photographic plates.

Grand Barrage

Gun Buster: · 1944

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1944 1st ed. HBK. Red lettering on spine dull. Covers ageing. Some page browning. Corner FEP nicked. O/w fair copy. 186 pp.

Hampshire on Horseback

----: · 1994

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

Kenilworth: British Horse Society, 1994 1st. ed. PBK card covers ring bound. 74pp. + route maps, b/w illustrations and advertisements throughout. Good copy.

Goering

Gregory, F.H.: · 1974

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Wayland, 1974 1st. ed. HBK. Good copy. 96 pp. Profusely illustrated. Wayland History Makers series.