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The cover is dark stormy blue. There is an outline of a cloudy cityscape and spotlights shinning up in the sky tracking a large imposing Zeppelin.

$35.50

Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain During the First World War

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The cover is a colorful illustration of two large warships in the ocean. It also includes three small photographs of warships.

$20.00

Ottoman Navy Warships 1914–18

The Illustration shows three polish soldiers in uniform.

$18.00

Polish Legions 1914–19

The artwork shows a large World War I battleship being fired at with smoke in the background. Along the bottom, three black-and-white historical photographs of battleships are below.

$20.00

US Flush-Deck Destroyers 1916–45: Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson classes

Illustrated book cover shows a Canadian Corps soldier in uniform holding a machine gun and a Royal Bavarian soldier in uniform and helmet holding his rifle. Behind them are scenes from the battlefield.

$23.00

Canadian Corps Soldier vs Royal Bavarian Soldier: Vimy Ridge to Passchendaele 1917

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Illustrated cover showing three New Zealand soldiers in WWI uniforms.

$20.00

The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I

Dramatic illustrated book cover showing a World War I aerial battle with biplanes flying amid orange and red explosions. In the top corner, the talons of a large bird of prey reach downward. Title text in bold white letters reads “Across the Breach” by Michael Krogh.

$13.50

Across the Breach

Minimalist white cover featuring an illustration of a group of men in formal dress seated and standing around a long table in a grand, high-ceilinged room, with tall windows in the background. The title is in dark serif font above the image, and the author’s name is printed below in the same font.

$40.00

Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War

The title for A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period is in large red letters, with the subtitle in smaller dark blue text below. The background features an ornate historical style world map centered on Europe, Africa, and Asia, bordered by portraits of military and political leaders from the interwar era. At the bottom, text reads “Edited by Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm. The overall design resembles a vintage illustrated atlas or political chart from the early 20th century.

$55.00

A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period (Modern War Studies)

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The cover for A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart is bright red with yellow travel stamps from New York, Calcutta, San Francisco, and Berlin. The main image is of a man and woman embraced and a crack starting at the top of the cover and running central through their embrace and ending at the bottom of the book.

$28.00

A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart: A Novel

$25.50

Orpen at War

The cover for the World War One Diary & Art of Doughboy Cpl. Harold W. Pierce is a painting of three doughboy soldiers in uniform in a large field. They backs are to the viewer and one soldier points towards the hills in the distance giving the feeling that the three are traveling across the field.

$38.00

The World War One Diary and Art of Doughboy Cpl Harold W Pierce: Duty, Terror and Survival

$10.00

After the Dancing Days

The cover for The Last Ships From Hamburg is a black and white photo of a large steam shipper floating in the water while a dense crowd of onlookers wait on the shore.

$32.50

The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I

The cover for That Knock at the Door shows two images. The first is an illustration of a woman holding a gold star flag to her cheek. The second is a photograph of a woman in vintage style clothing posing with a cross grave marker in a cemetery filled with other white cross grave markers.

$27.50

That Knock at the Door: The History of Gold Star Mothers in America

The cover for Unknown Soldier World War I is the United States Flag as the backdrop for a white tomb of the unknown soldiers and a black silhouette of a soldier in front of the tomb.

$22.50

Unknown Soldier: World War 1 (Unknown Solider #1)

$25.50

Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow (American Indian Studies)

The cover for World War I President Wilson and His Fourteen Points is a colored photograph of Wilson and a black and white photograph of WWI soldiers in the trench.

$22.00

World War I, President Wilson and His Fourteen Points - History 5th Grade Children's Military Books

The cover of Citadel of Ice is a man standing on a crude wooden bridge in an ice cave.

$22.50

Citadel of Ice: Life and death in a glacier fortress during World War I

The cover for Work, Fight, or Play Ball shows a black and white photograph of men in vintage baseball uniforms with smoke stacks in the background.

$25.50

Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I

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Book cover of Stalking the U-Boat by Geoffrey L Rossano featuring a blue toned photograph of two men in aviator clothing and white and red text.

$30.50

Stalking the U-Boat: U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I

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The cover for Hidden History is made to look like a document that has been redacted with the only visible text being the authors' names and title of the book. At the bottom of the cover are 3 photographs of 3 different men. The redacted document and photographs are on fire with flames at the bottom of the book cover.

$43.50

Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War

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$19.50

Missing of the Somme

Book cover of Victors by Heather Buchanan, featuring a singer at a microphone, an award emblem, and the Arc de Triomphe. Subheading reads A Novel of Love, War & Jazz, capturing the spirit of the Harlem Hellfighters during World War Is tumultuous era.

$20.00

Victors: A Novel of Love, War and Jazz (Victors Saga)

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