I have 20 or so paperback books that were published between the 50's and 70's written on WWII. I would love to hear if any of you have read them. I will eventually be putting them up on EBay for sale, but would love to know if you have heard of them or read them. Here are the first four:
Break Through
The Kaiten Weapon
Midway
Set Europe Ablaze
Break Through, Franklin M. Davis, Jr.,
The Epic Story of the Battle Of The Bulge -
"This battle," Hitler said, "is to decide whether we shall live or die."
Skillfullyl, secretly, he assembled three German armies - 24 divisions, 250,000 men, 970 tanks and 1900 pieces of artillery.
Taking advantage of the harsh winter, he picked a place where the Allied forces were water-thin - four American divisions and one armored cavalry regiment - and unleashed a devastating attack to annihilate the outnumbered defenders.
Thus started the greates pitched battle ever fought by the United States in the 168 years of its history - the engagement that destroyed forever the myth of the vaunted superiority of the German soldier.
C1961, paperback, 159 pages
The Kaiten Weapon - by Yutaka Yokota, former Petty Officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy with Josheph D Harrington
Japan's suicide torpedo pilots - undrewater counterpart of the deadly and fanatic Kamikaze.
The Kaiten Weapon is the full story of a fantastic suicide weapon - the manned torpedo - and of the volunteers who deliberately offered their lives in defense of Japan.
So secret that few people even in Japan knew of its existence, the Kaiten force was desperate and fanatic attempt to smash the U.S. fleet in the closing months of the war.
Yutaka Yokota, a Kaiten force volunteer himself, tells how men were trained, gives complete details about the weapon's performance and how it was operated, and provides a comprehensive account of every Kaiten mission.
C1962, paperback, 256 pages
Midway - by Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okeumiya, Formerly of the Imperial Japanese Navy
The Japanese Navy's story of the battle that doomed Japan.
"The battle of Midway was without question a turning point of the Pacific War," says former Japanese Admiral Nabutake Kondo in his introduction to this book.
In that battle, the Japanese suffered "a defeat so decisive and so grave that the details, like the plans, were kept the guarded secret of a limited circle, even within the Japanese Navy."
Not until Captain Fuchida and Commander Okumiya, both of whom took part in the overa-all operation, brought out the Japanese edition of their book in 1951, did the Japanese public learn for the first time the story of the disasterous naval defeat which turned the tide of the Pacific War.
C1955, paperback, 223 pages
Set Europe Ablaze - by E.H. Cookridge
The Story of Special Operations In Western Europe 1940 - 45
The breathtaking story of the men, and women, whose daring explits set Europe ablaze.
Worth a whole library of fictional thrillers . . .
Packed with astounding incidents, vivid sketches of Resistance life, and a whole series of excellent and often tragic adventure stories. (Sunday Telegraph)
E. H. Cookridge was himself a war-time secret agent and he gets across the atmosphere of the training and preparation of the eventual excitement and danger. (The Scotsman)
C1969, paperback, 516 pages
Old Paperback Books
