First Edition. A very nice inscribed first edition of one of the great works of journalism, a moving account of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan. New York University's school of journalism ranked Hiroshima as the top work of journalism of the 20th century. Hersey, who had just won.....

First Edition. The Blue Danube can best be described as a gentle satire of Nazi Germany, belonging somewhere on the continuum of works about the Second World War with Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 and Mel Brooks' The Producers. He treats the horrors in a completely deadpan fashion. Residents are sent to.....

First Edition. In all likelihood, this is the first published book to describe the internment of the Japanese in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Taguchi (1905–1956), a Japanese documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, had been in the United States for several years making newsreels for American studios;.....

First Edition. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War. The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in Before.....

First Edition. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also.....

First Edition. A reprint of an article from Harper's Magazine by a Navy doctor stationed in Hawaii who describes the response of the Japanese-American community to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Coggins describes their efforts to demonstrate that they.....

First Edition. Long poems about the Second World War: The Battle of Britain, The Battle of Greece, The Battle of the Mediterranean, Battles Long Ago, and The Battle of the Atlantic. This is one of 250 specially-bound initialed and numbered copies issued in dark blue pebbled morocco stamped in gilt.....

A homefront poster from the middle of the Second World War explaining the need for gasoline rationing on the East Coast. It reads (ellipses or ... in the original), "Last year... we used about 22,000,000 gallons of gasoline a day in the gasoline rationed Eastern States alone. This year... Because.....

A blank poster for menus or price lists for price controls during the Second World War. The poster, folded to make four pages, as issued, includes a page of instructions to merchants and restaurant owners; the interior spread provides forty lines for filling out price information. An interesting piece of.....

A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in price-control efforts in order to keep inflation under control. The main graphic shows two women reaching for their baskets of groceries. The woman from 1918—the First World War—finds the basket out of reach. The "modern" 1944 woman can easily.....

The smallest of three sizes of this homefront poster promoting the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD). The artist was one of the few women to design government posters during the Second World War. According to the Long Branch, New Jersey, Daily Record (12 October 1942), Emily Newman was an advertising.....

A homefront poster produced during the Second World War by private industry to promote the installation of insulation in houses. The text continues, "Install it yourself, flame proof cotton insulation." 14 by 20 inches. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction. A near fine copy, folded.....

A World War Two-era homefront poster from private industry urging compliance with federal energy conservation goals through the purchase of consumer products (i.e., storm windows). Compared to official government posters, business propaganda posters are rather scarce. This private poster, compared to official US posters, is also much more sexist than.....