THE DRY MOUTHED “SPY”

Canal in downtown St. Petersburg, near the Hermitage

The Day we took the head photographer to Leningrad.   There were many communist Africans in Moscow, but one day we took our leading enlisted photographer, a black Air Force Sergeant, to Leningrad (Now re-named St. Petersburg) with us.  He had processed thousands of rolls of film for us back at our Embassy, and we thought he would enjoy visiting this very interesting city in the north.  However, when the KGB saw us with a black man in our car, they went nuts.  They acted as if we had a secret weapon.

            They normally would follow our car with another car full of goons.  But this day, they had four cars, switching off amongst one another.  These were all Soviet Zhigulis, the Russian version of the Fiat, made in a huge factory built with the help of the Italian Fiat company in a city named Tolyatti (after Italian Communist Togliatti) several hundred miles southeast of Moscow.

            Often I would make notes about what I wanted to observe on our drive that day, and I would write these on water-soluble rice paper, which I could easily pop in my mouth if we should be apprehended. This special paper would dissolve at once.

            When, with the four cars of goons following us I thought we would get hauled out, I decided it was time to swallow my notes.  However, when you are scared, which I was, your mouth dries up so much that you can’t even dissolve the paper.

            We were driving next to one of the many canals that run through Leningrad, and since our surveillance was not in sight at the moment, I thought it would be a good time to stop and throw the mouthful of rice paper in the canal.  I think it was the Griboyedova Canal.

            Wrong!  As I should have suspected in icy, frozen Leningrad, there was just ice in the canal.  Foiled! My mouthful of paper just rested on the ice.

            At any rate, we never got apprehended.   The Sergeant had a good ride around town.

            I would make a lousy spy.

 Peter and Paul Fortress, from across the Neva

Women’s Day in Leningrad—Fats took the day off!

                We took the Midnight Red Arrow from Moscow to Leningrad, arriving on schedule at 8:25 a.m. A driver met us at the train station and drove us to the American Consulate, where we stowed our bags and jumped into our car, all set for a day of work.

            One of the things we did a lot of was "Order-of-Battle".  We had to report ships in port, including boats and ships that just moved around the canals and rivers of the USSR.  The information we provided was correlated with information from agents, from satellite imagery, and electronic intelligence intercept to maintain a picture of the Naval Order of Battle of the USSR.  This meant taking a lot of long, long walks in some pretty crappy, snowy places.          

One of our favorite walks was along the Neva River at Schmidt’s Bank, in Leningrad.  Here hundreds of boats and often warships and submarines tied up.  Many of the smaller, lighter draft boats were awaiting a schedule to move up the canals that cut across Russia. Here we could see these boats and ships, and Red Fleet ships, and also ships under construction in the many shipyards of Leningrad. 

            Whenever we would take these walks, we tried to take along our cameras and collect photos of interesting things.  Photography in this area was forbidden, however.

            The KGB assigned an elderly “goon” that attachés named “Fats.”  He and some of his associates generally were around to follow us wherever we walked, or drove, and to make our job harder, or impossible.  They wore the red armbands of “Druzhniki,” or “concerned citizens.”  Sort of like elderly volunteers who operate as school crossing guards, except these were assigned to look after the foreign “spies.”  The Soviets considered all foreign diplomats spies—they hadn’t changed their attitude toward foreigners in centuries.

            One day, March the 8^th, 1983 to be exact, it was International Women’s Day.  Now, in fact, the Soviets didn’t give much of a hoot about women’s rights, except the right of old women to stand in the street all day long in the winter, smashing ice with a heavy iron rod.

            But this day, as we arrived to do our job of collecting intelligence in Leningrad, there was NO KGB.  They had the day off!

            I was traveling with my assistant, Pierce Crabtree,  a big, burly former Navy football player. With no KGB to bother us, we went wild photographing shipyards and ships and everything we could see.  We were driving a Soviet version of a Land Rover, called a “Niva.”  We thought this would be a great day to check out some radar installations near the Czars’ summer palace at Petrodvorets.  However, somewhere between Kipen’ and Ropsha, we got stuck in the snow. 

            If the KGB had been around, we would not have been able to get that far.  Now, free to travel, we had gone and gotten ourselves in trouble.  The snow was pretty deep.

Fortunately, along came a bus full of Russians.  The driver and some of the passengers got out and helped push us out of the snowbank. 

Now for some books and papers from The Personal Navigator:

  

The Locks – Charles River Dam, from Boston, Its Byways & Highways

Boston, Its Byways & Highways, Being Twenty-five Drawings Reproduced in Photogravure by John Albert Seaford ca. 1916 Boston, MA           Le Roy Phillips, Publisher. 24 plates. 13 x 20 cm. Elegant drawings of Boston sights on 7.8 x 10.4 cm. plates tipped in with descriptions. Includes Cover, with drawing of State House, Bulfinch Front; Pemberton Square; Trinity Church; From Adams Square to Faneuil Hall; Towers of Cambridge Bridge; Temple Street and the Bulfinch Dome; Roll Lift Bridge at Fort Point Channel; Market District; The Locks--Charles River Dam; more. Heavy cardboard with paper wraps, cover moderately worn. Individual plates and text block very good. Fair. (4784) $14.00. Travel

Cuba: Pocket Map of Cuba, "The Pearl of the Antilles" --Opportunity of a Life Time 1900            New York, NY: Cuban Land and Steamship Co., 32 Broadway. Map 32 x 52 cm.      Color map, folded in cardboard folder. Scale about 1 inch = 38 miles. Includes large-scale inset map of Nuevitas, destination of Cuban Land & Steamship Co. voyages from New Orleans.  Little booklet advertises that Cuban Land and Steamship Company is actually giving away plantations of 5 to 40 acres. "A small monthly payment will insure you a permanent life income of $1000 to $10,000 annually."  Folder with fold-out map, moderate wear, 8 cm tear in one fold, another pinhole in fold, good. (8172)$40.00. Maps/Advertisement  SORRY--SOLD.

Boston Almanac 1853 with Fold-out Map

(at left is 1722 map, reproduced in 1853)

Boston Almanac For The Year 1853 with fold-out map of Boston  1853 Boston, MA: Damrell & Moore, and George Coolidge. 188 pp. 8 x 13 cm. Lists businesses, national, state and local leaders. Excellent engravings of local sights. Fifteen page article "Ancient and Modern Boston" by D. J.V.C. Smith compares Boston of 1722 (shown in map) with today (1853). Plans are in works to fill in the whole of Back Bay between Roxbury Mill Dam and the Neck. He predicts that South Boston is "predestined to be the magnificent section of the city, in respect to costly residences, fashionable society and the influence of wealth. Monody to Daniel Webster, who died Oct. 24, 1852. Very interesting ads for ink, removers, carpeting, plumbers, tea, curriers. shell combs, cutlery and more.  Fold-out map of Boston includes Map of Town of Boston in New England by Capt. John Bonner, 1722, engraved for Boston Almanac 1853, and detailed New Map of Boston Comprising the Whole city with the new boundaries of the Wards, 1853.  Map shows Receiving Basin adjacent to Public Garden, South Bay between Albany St. and South Boston. Inset map of East Boston.   Cloth on board with gold printing and blind-stamped design. Back cover spine broken,  Map worn, small tears in folds, fair. Overall fair condition.            (8173) $68.00. Reference       

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Roosevelt: Fear God and Take Your Own Part by Roosevelt, Theodore 1916 New York, NY: George H. Doran Company. 414 pp. 13 x 19.7 cm. Roosevelt dedicated this book to Julia Ward Howe, and includes the words of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the introduction.  Roosevelt has always been a fighter, and he is very clear in his dislike of "Professional Pacifists".  He writes about the injustices caused by Pancho Villa and the Mexicans against Americans South of the Border, and America's failure to take effective action.  He fumes at President Wilson's pusillanimous behavior toward Germany and the sinking of American ships by U-Boats. He blasts "Hyphenated Americans" because they always hoist the American flag undermost, while the American citizen of German descent  or birth is a good American and nothing but. In Appendix C Roosevelt castigates the "Professional Pacifists" again with regard to our lip-service to the terrible fate that has befallen the Armenians.   Yellow-brown cloth on board, cover moderately worn, inside front hinge cracked, fair. (2461) $10.00.  World War I/History.

Roosevelt: State of New York in Memoriam Theodore Roosevelt Born: October 27, 1858  Died: January 6, 1919 1919 Albany, NY: Legislature of the State of New York. 131 pp.           18 x 25.5 cm.            Marvelous tribute to a towering figure of America in the last years of the 19th and the first years of the 20th century. Includes much biographical detail, excerpts from TR's speeches, including last public words about promoting Americanism, and speech in which he publicly accused the Legislature, of which he was member, of corruption in Manhattan Elevated Railroad affair. Includes Address by Sen.Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, his lifelong friend, before Congress on Sunday, February 9, 1919. Black cloth on board with gilt printing on cover and spine. Small biopredation holes in cover. On ffep stamped "Compliments of William Duggan, Senator 19th District" Very good.  (2350) $34.00. Biography/History                                                            

Soviet Theatre ca. 1950 Moscow, USSR. Collection of photos of Soviet theatre performances of 1950s, including actors Y. Tolubeyev, Z. Kirienko, A. Shatov, G. Stepanova, G. Menglet, V. Lepko, A. Kruglov, V. Orlova, T. Samoilova, R. Nifontova, V. Pashennaya and A. Katsynsky; Ballerina Galina Ulanova as Juliet, Yuri Zhdanov as Romeo. 26 pp. 27 x 18 cm. (5695) $15.00. Travel/Educational

Rockport, MA: Ye Headlands of Cape Ann-- Real Estate Advertisement by Giles, Jason 1902 Rockport, MA: The Rockport Review. 32 pp. 23 x 15 cm. Booklet tells history of Rockport as it offers a parcel at the Headlands of the Norwood property.  Property is served by water and electric lights, with an easy walk of eight minutes to stores, markets and post office, and in ten minutes, to the B. & M. R.R. railway station.  Booklet shows the beginnings of granite breakwater in harbor, intended to provide 'Harbor of Refuge' for the North Atlantic Squadron of U.S. Navy war vessels during the summer months.  Photos of local sights, including two page spread showing photo of town and harbor, taken from belfry of the Congregational Church. Paper booklet, very good. (7282) $59.00. Travel/History

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Out of the Navy and into the World

Presenting leadership training completion certificate to factory employee.

            When I turned over command of the Naval Base at Sasebo Japan, there were parties and celebrations, and a Change of Command ceremony.  The Japanese gentlemen of Sasebo who worked so closely with us arranged for the Japanese government to have the Emperor give me the “Sacred Treasure” award.

            This is an award emperors have been giving foreigners who rendered a service to Japan for some time, and the emperor that signed my award was Hirohito, the same one who had ruled the Empire of Japan during  World War II.

            At any rate, back to America my family and I came, and I was assigned a job in the Pentagon for the final year of my career.

Plunk!  I was one more superannuated captain, whiling away this last year, in the outer rings of the Navy part of the Pentagon.  I belonged to a small staff of captains and commanders, working for a junior rear admiral, supposedly the international affairs element for advising the Chief of Naval Operations. 

            In my time in the Pentagon, which some call “the five-sided wind tunnel” I’m afraid I did not detect much of the good works that come out of the Department of Defense.  Most of what I saw was bureaucracy that was not unlike that of the Soviet Navy. 

            Too much of what I saw the senior leadership of the Navy doing looked like circling the wagons, and protecting.  Protecting turf, making sure someone or some other service didn’t steal billets, or bodies.   We could have had three minor wars going on, but if some congressman hatched a plan to reduce the size of a base, or to cut the number of people assigned here or there, the admirals would circle and buzz like a flock of horseflies over a manure pile.  

            The admirals I saw in Japan, and all during my years in the Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean, were generally fine seamen and good leaders, the kind of men I would expect to be running our Navy.

            But here in the Pentagon, there were so many admirals stuffed inside the confines of the E-Ring it seemed to resemble the sight of six elephants investigating an orange. 

            One day President Reagan went to Reykjavik, Iceland to hold a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev, then leader of the USSR.  They agreed to get rid of a whole class of nuclear weapons, without consulting with the armed services.  Or at least it seemed that way.  What a scramble!

            The Navy I saw in the Pentagon, albeit in a relatively short exposure of less than a full year, was not the Navy of Spruance and Nimitz, Dewey, Mahan, Halsey, and Burke.

            Maybe that is what Washington does to politicians and military people alike.

When I retired from the Navy in Washington, I found myself in the scramble most naval officers do, trying to find a job in “the real world”. Our Navy retirement pay was just a portion of what we’d earned on active duty, so we looked for jobs.

            Most civilian companies didn’t need old guys to hold inspections and drive ships around.  They really would like to find ex-service types who can connect them up to a continuing stream of government contracts.

            When an officer has been ensconced in the Pentagon for years, often they simply take off the uniform and slide into a civilian position, working for a company that provides contract work for the Navy.

            Such a contrast.  I felt sorry for myself.  Just a few short years ago my counterparts and I were sliding through the back streets of Leningrad, trying to gather intelligence on a new Soviet warship… then I was commander of a naval base in Japan, hobnobbing with Japanese and American politicians and admirals, greeting commanding officers of carriers that visited, and generally representing the United States in the south of Japan. Now I was trying to weasel a good word toward winning a contract out of some Lieutenant Commander.

            So, in July 1987, the “eternity” of thirty years that I saw when I graduated in 1957 had flown by in a blink of the eye, and here I was, one more retiree, looking for a job.

            I eventually found a job at Sonalysts, a company that hired retired submariners and made most of its money helping the Navy plan antisubmarine warfare and submarine warfare programs.  Headquarters was in Waterford, Connecticut, close to New London, the heart of the submarine world.  But I went to an office in Alexandria, Virginia, which of course was close to the headquarters of the Navy, and the source of money that came from all the appropriations.

            The people at Sonalysts were good, dedicated former submariners helping current submariners think and plan for the future, helping with tests on submarine and surface warfare detection and warfighting systems.

            However I found that the skills I had used in the Navy were much less important than a skill I lacked, and that was how to wheedle or wangle new contracts.  

            After a year of this, I left before they could fire me. 

            I started a job search in Washington, but since we had just bought a small house in Rockport, Massachusetts, with the idea of making it into a retirement, or vacation, home, I also searched for jobs in Boston.

            One of the first jobs I looked for was as executive director of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War.  The founder of this prestigious organization was Dr. Bernard Lown, and I had met him in Moscow when the IPPNW had a meeting at our embassy there with Soviet Physicians.   Perhaps the fact that a few years before I had been the officer in charge of 16 nuclear missiles aboard a Polaris ballistic missile submarine suggested that I wasn’t all that dedicated to preventing nuclear war.  At any rate, I didn’t get the job.

            I visited a few colleges in the Boston area, and at one, Endicott College in Beverly, MA, the president seemed interested in hiring me. 

            Dick Wylie had recently taken charge as president of Endicott College, and he was one whirlwind of energy and enthusiasm.  He hired me to develop a brand new operation for this small, two-year women’s college on the shore in the exclusive little village of Beverly Farms.  

Endicott College

             I was teamed with Chuck Clayman, Ed.D. and the two of us began a corporate education program to offer leadership training to employees at area businesses. Chuck was another very energetic, bright and knowledgeable man.  We began calling, visiting and schmoozing with presidents and human resource officers of banks, hotels, hospitals, factories, and city government offices, to develop tailor-made training programs for them.

            One of our search techniques was to meet company people at Chamber of Commerce breakfasts and after-hours get-togethers.  Chuck and I regularly fanned out at six in the morning, one to the north, the other to the south, and drinking coffee and eating muffins with business people in Amesbury, Newburyport, Salem, Lynn, Danvers, Beverly, Gloucester, Middleton, Topsfield, Ipswich, Essex, Swampscott, Lawrence, Lowell, Methuen, Salisbury, MA and Plaistow and Salem, NH. 

            We found good teachers, and taught classes ourselves, to provide skills that most college graduates had never learned, like how to interview a prospective employee, how to evaluate employee performance, how to counsel an employee.  How to chew out an employee (in private) and how to praise an employee (in public).  How to communicate with your employees; how to be a team member, how to form and lead a team, and so on.

Our training involved lots of role-playing and games, and

students  seemed to enjoy classes.

            It quickly became apparent that any man or woman who had served in the military, even as a very junior enlisted person, was miles ahead of the rest of the class in understanding leadership.

            My wife described the teamwork that Clayman and I developed:  He shook the trees, and I caught them when they fell out.  Chuck was brilliant at shaking the trees, and finding prospects, and my strong suit was developing solid leadership programs. 

            In the meantime, President Wylie was expanding Endicott.  First, it became a four-year institution, offering a bachelor’s degree.  Then it became co-ed, and the first men enrolled.  Soon after, he started to build up Endicott’s sports teams, and Endicott began to get more and more notice. 

            Total Quality Management (TQM) was starting to catch the attention of business leaders across America in these days (1989 to 1995) and we hired skilled trainers to conduct seminars.  W. Edwards Deming, a management training guru, had tried to teach automobile industry people in Detroit this marvelous technique, but they weren’t listening.  Someone at a Japanese automobile factory, probably Toyota, had him fly to Japan, and the Japanese did listen. 

            The Japanese caught on to TQM in a hurry, and it spread through their companies like wildfire, and gradually, the process started to spread in the U.S. 

            TQM was really quite simple.  It involved measuring performance, and involving employees in problem solving.  It required absolute honesty at every level, and once people learned these skills, they actually saw how to observe their own success. 

            We taught this business for about five or six years, and held conferences on campus several times. 

            Since Endicott was still a women’s college most of my time there, we also developed and offered several large women’s leadership conferences, inviting nationally known women authors and management consultants to come address the group and sit in on seminars.

            I got to see the inside working of many factories, banks, hospitals, schools and other businesses all over eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. I learned lots about flip charts, slide and overhead projectors, arranging for catering, advertising, and preparing work books. I sure got my fill of muffins at early morning meetings.  

And now, The Personal Navigator offers these interesting books and papers:

Tariff Reform or Free Trade?

Great Question, The: Tariff Reform or Free Trade?  By L.M.S. Amery and Free Trade or Tariff Reform? By J.M. Robertson, M.P. 1909 London, England: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., No. 1 Amen Corner, E.C.             106 pp. 12 x 18 cm. Unique little book is bound with Amery's text, making the case for Tariff Reform at front of book, and Robertson's text, making case for Free Trade, bound upside down so HIS text is at the front of a book one might read in Chinese or Arabic fashion. Amery makes point that free trade is harmful and government intervention is helpful; Robertson points out that in union-controlled (protectionist)  countries like Germany and the United States, with tariffs, there is much more unemployment. Hardbacked cardboard covers, both loose. Front cover shows Britannia with shield, with factory smokestacks in background; Back cover shows her shield cast aside, as she welcomes birds labeled "imports".  In view of loose covers, poor.  (8163) $36.00. History/Economics

  

Crete: History of Crete by Theocharis E. Detorakis, Professor at University of Crete, Translated by John C. Davis [English Edition]        1994                Iraklion, Crete, Greece: Th. Detorakis. 469 + 54 pp. 13.8 x 20.2 cm. Author in Preface suggests that "the time for writing of an accurate history of Crete has not yet arrived" because of the length and depth of Cretan history.  Story of Crete from pre-history, through Minoan civilization, Dorian Crete, Roman period, Byzantine Crete, Period of Venetian rule, Ottoman rule, Autonomy, and Liberated Crete (1913-1941). Author ends with very brief account of Nazi invasion of Crete in May 1941. Includes 54 pages of maps, drawings, photos and other illustrations of Cretan history, including Nazi paratroopers invading island in 1941. Paper binding, wraps slightly worn, "Agglika" (English) sticker on cover, very good. (1724) $39.00. History/Greece

Modern Sanitation, March 1907 published by Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co., New York, London, Chicago  1907 Pittsburgh, PA: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. Magazine features cover photo of London's Piccadilly Circus, where public toilet is now located. Editorial by Horace Barnes notes that Europe is far ahead of U.S. in providing public toilets. "Sewage Purification and Disposal" by J.J. Cosgrove, Principles of Sewage Purification, Part III. "History of Sanitation" Part III. Ads for Porcelain Enameled Closet, Porcelain Enameled Bath and Lavatory all feature details and illustrations.  32 pp. 17.5 x 24.7 cm. Periodical, moderate wear, good. (8160) $35.00. Advertising

Vielliebchen [in German] von Marie von Olfers,  1882 Berlin, Germany: Verlag von Georg Stilte            15 pp.   20.5 x 27 cm. Vielliebchen by Marie von Olfers (b. 1826 d. 1924) is a children's book drawing upon old German custom. "Ihr Mädchen und Bübchen, Nur ja sin Vielliebchewn, S'ist nicht um das Essen, Uber um's Vergessen!" Decorated paper on board, worn, price mark on front free endpaper. All illustrated pages printed on one side of heavy stock.  Good. (2612) $29.00. Children's

Welcome Soap Premium Book          ca. 1926 Cambridge, MA: Lever Bros. Co., 164-190 Broadway 64 pp.     15 x 22 cm.            Housewives— save your wrappers from Lever Bros. Welcome Borax soap!   The soap that gives you smooth, soapy water to get clothes clean offers 1000 wonderful premiums, and they are all in this ca. 1926 book! Paper booklet, slight rusting around staples, else very good.   (2206) $22.00.  Advertising/Ephemera   

             

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Feeling the Climate of World War II (Part II)

Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor

            I was seven years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec, 7, 1941—old enough to feel the atmosphere of our nation snapping to attention.

            Before that date in 1941 Americans wanted to believe that those two big oceans insulated us from war.  After all, the Nazis, who had marched all over Europe, didn’t threaten us.  And the Japanese – more trouble for China, and all those countries over there. 

            But the day the Japanese bombed Hawaii brought us all to realize that this was WAR.  This was serious. 

            Right away young men started enlisting in the Army and the Navy, and quickly companies that had been making automobiles for Americans converted to make airplanes and tanks and everything necessary to outfit a country that was in NO way ready for war. 

            Soldiers drilling at camps in the U.S. used wooden dummy rifles because every spare rifle was issued to soldiers going to War.  They used wooden mock-ups to simulate tanks, because we didn’t have many tanks, or anything else to fight a war.

            On December 7, 1941 America was in pitiful condition to fight a war, but that Sunday was the day when it all began to change, as nearly everyone went to war.  If not in uniform, then people went to work in defense industry jobs.  Food and gasoline and many other things were rationed. 

            If someone griped about the shortages of things for civilians, someone else quickly reminded him that there was a war on.

            Many Japanese Americans (over 100,000) were removed from their homes and put into internment camps. 

            I walked a mile to Franklin school (Port Arthur, TX) every morning for classes that started at 8:45, 9:23 or 10:01.  I always thought those were strangely precise times, like we were catching a train!

            Soon my brother, two years younger, joined me on the trips to and from school.  One day he found an old exhaust muffler that had dropped off a car, and dragged it home.  We built a mock machine gun and set it up in our back yard. 

            Then I gathered up all the scrap wood I could find and the two of us built a submarine right there in the yard. 

            We had a conning tower and a piece of 2” x 4” lumber for a periscope, and we had pieces of timber with nails sticking out to form the hull of our “boat”.  I didn’t realize that 18 years later I would be serving as a young officer aboard a real American submarine!

            One day I brought home an empty wooden egg crate from the grocery store near our house. When I dropped it on the ground, about one billion cockroaches ran out, in all directions, probably glad to join the war effort as residents at our house.

            We were both Cub Scouts and then Boy Scouts, and both organizations pitched in to help collect scrap metal, scrap paper, kitchen fat and soap.  We learned how to live and survive in the woods, and we learned how to signal with semaphore and Morse code, and First Aid, and swimming.  The British guy (Lord Baden-Powell) who started the Boy Scouts knew what he was doing when boys all over the world learned the first basic things they would need to know,  living and fighting in jungles, forests, snowy tundra, or in deserts.

            Americans were challenged like never before.  Never in any war since, and that includes Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan—never has the American civilian population been so involved.  Here’s more about that time in our national life: 

            Adolph Hitler had heated the German people to white-hot hatred, and German troops marched all over Europe while we watched.  Most of Europe belonged to the Nazis before we even got into the fight. 

            When the Japanese attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, they thought they would prevent our navy from interfering with all their aggressive activities in the Pacific; with our navy knocked out, Americans would be demoralized.

            These are a few of the items I list in my World War II Collection. Some are in German, or French, or Polish, and if you know any of those languages, they’ll interest you.  The others are all in English, and they’re interesting too:

Bluejacket's Manual, United States Navy, 1940, Tenth Edition    1940    Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute.           When sailors joined the U.S. Navy in 1940, this is the book they studied.  The kept it close to their heart in boot camp, and it went in their seabag when they went aboard ship. This copy has owner's name on front free endpaper. Includes information for new recruits, information all Navy enlisted men must know: Discipline and Duty, Seamanship, Gunnery, Personal Hygiene and First Aid, Naval Customs, Shipboard Terminology, much more. 791 pp.  13 x 19 cm. Dark blue cloth on flexible board, Very good. (3436) $30.00.            Nautical/Educational/Reference

See Here, Private Hargrove, with foreword by Maxwell Anderson, eleventh printing by Hargrove, Marion 1943            Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press. 211 pp. 14 x 20 cm. This book was wildly popular near the start of World War II, made into a movie starring Eddie Bracken.  The life of an army private--high good humor. Cloth on board, very good.  Dj spine sunfaded, edges worn, fair.       (4021) $15.00. Humor/World War II  

                                   

Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer Lyric by Harold Adamson, Music by Jimmy McHugh, Featured by Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra      1943    New York, NY: Robbins Music Corporation    4 pp.    23 x 30 cm.      Popular World War II tune, cover features inset photo of Carmen Cavallaro.      Sheet music, moderate wear, good.       (7113) $10.00.   Music                                               

A Mother’s greeting to her soldier son….

 "Waiting to hear from you" , four-page greeting card from Mother to soldier son 1943 Worcester, MA:  11 x 14 cm.       Card from Mrs. Burdett in Worcester to Pvt. Kenneth Burdett in Camp Breckinridge, KY.        Greeting card, WWII, very good.  With envelope.  (2908) $10.60. Ephemera                                            

                       

If you read German, here is a fine piece of Nazi propaganda. Even if you don’t read German you’ll quickly see the kind of enemy America faced:       

Der Grosse Deutsche Feldzug Gegen Polen, [The Great German Campaign in Poland] Eine Chronik Des Krieges in Wort und Bild; Herausgegeben im Einvernehmen mit dem Reichsbildberichterstatter der NSDDAP, Prof. Heinrich Hoffman, Geleitwort Generaloberst Von Reichenau [Text in German] ca. 1940 Vienna, Austria:  Verlag Für Militär Und Fächliteratur A. Franz Göth & Sohn.  Triumphant book of pictures and German text extolling German march into Poland in 1939, with many references to the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919. Geleitwort [Preface by] Generaloberst Von Reichenau. [Many photos of Adolf Hitler and his generals, happy “liberated” Germans in Danzig and other cities in Poland greeting Hitler and his troops with enthusiastic "heils".  Many spirited exhortations from A. Hitler, General von Brauchitich, Field Marshal Hermann Göring, Admiral Raeder. Pictures of children presenting flowers to troops. Picture of truckload of Jews, text notes that a million Jews live in Poland. This is one of many propaganda pieces created by the Nazis to "explain" their attack against the “aggressive” Poles to "rescue" the beleagured Germans in the City of Danzig. Der Feldzug in Polen; Zusammenfassende Darstellung, Die polnische Wehrmacht; Der polnische Angriffsplan; Ziel und Anlage der deutschen Operationen.  Maps show how German troops stormed across Polish border, with attacks from Czechoslovakia, Germany and East Prussia; Drives on Lodz, Warsaw and Krakow. Maps show attacks as of 2, 6, 11, 14, 18 and 19 September. Last two maps show attacks from East by Soviet troops. Full-page portrait photos of Göring, Von Brauchitsch, Halder, von Rundstedt, von Bock, List, von Reichenau, von Kluge, von Küchler, Keitel, Guderian, Hoepner, Strauss, Hoth, Schmidt, von Briefen, Reinhardt, Kübler, Olbricht, Admirals Albrecht, and Schniewind. 344 pp. 22 x 32 cm.Green cloth on board, front and back hinges cracked, inside front hinge mended with black plastic tape, but front board loose; frontispiece of Hitler loose, top 6 cm of each page warped from moisture.  On front free endpaper is inscription: "Sgt. H. White, Salzburg '45". All pictures and text completely readable, clear. Poor. (7697) $95.00. World War II/Propaganda

“I Fight” was the essential document that told German citizens all they needed to know about being a Nazi, the Nazi Way of Life, the German concept of Freedom. [in German]

Ich Kämpfe (I Fight); Die Pflichten des Partei-Genossen. Original 1943 Edition of famed Nazi Propaganda Booklet, In German by Hitler, Adolf; Rosenberg, Alfred; Goebbels, Dr. 1943 München, Deutschland: Zentralverlag der NSDAP Franz Eher Nachf.  Treuegelöbnis; Ich Gelobe meinem Führer Adolf Hitler Treue. Ich Verspreche, Ihm und Den Führern, Die er Mir Bestimmt, Jederzeit Achtung Und Gehorsam Entgegenzubringen. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. This booklet was issued to new members of the Nazi Party in 1943; Subjects covered include the SS, the SA, NSFK, NSF, NSKK, Promise of Loyalty to the Führer, Program of the NSDAP, the German Concept of Freedom, the National Socialist Revolution, Honor List of the Martyrs of the Movement, Our Will, the Responsibilities of Political Leaders, the National Socialist Way of Life, the Responsibility of Party Members, Dates in the History of the NSDAP, etc., etc. Sections written by various Nazi leaders, including Rosenberg and Goebbels.  Excellent photos of Nazi Youth, children, soldiers; Color Portrait of Hitler, other color photos. 97 pp. 21 x 24 cm Paper booklet, cover in tan color with embossed Nazi eagle and swastika and leaf border design. Lightly soiled. Last page has several chips in page edge. Very good. (7387) $90.00. World War II/Germany.

Two issues of “Signal” a Nazi Photo Magazine…[in German]

Signal, Sonderausgabe der "Berliner  Illustrierten Zeitung" 1 Oktoberheft 1940 D Nr. 13 [in German] 1940 Berlin, Germany: Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. Nazi Photo Magazine published 1940-45, propaganda organ widely distributed during World War II. Cover shows black & white photo of German warplane flying at low altitude over English Channel, "Im Mittelpunkt des Weltinteresses: Ein Blick über den Kanal nach England". Lead article, " 35 Kilometer vir Englands Küste.." includes  large photo showing Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring  on the Flanders coast looking toward England with binoculars. Photo essay shows Nazi bombers bombing English targets, "Bomben werden eingeklinkt; Bomben werden aüsgeklinkt". Another large photo shows aerial view of London from 9000 meters, with German bomb hits identified. "Umschwung in Romänien" story about Romanian King Carol and Romania, with historical photos, photo of foreign correspondents in Wald von Compiègne. 48 pp. 27 x 36 cm. Periodical, incomplete: Missing pp. 9-10. Thus, poor.  (7827) $21.00. World War II/History

Signal, Sonderausgabe der "Berliner  Illustrierten Zeitung" 2 Oktoberheft 1940 D Nr. 14 [in German] 1940 Berlin, Germany: Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. Nazi Photo Magazine published 1940-45, propaganda organ widely distributed during World War II. Cover shows black & white photo of Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, Italian Count Galleazzo Ciano and Japanese Ambassador Saburo Kurusu. "Der Dreier-Pakt ist unterzeichnet: Ribbentrop, Ciano und Kurusu verlassen die Reichskanslei". (Tripartite Pact is signed by Ribbentrop, Ciano and Kurusu for Germany, Italy and Japan.)  Lead article: " Japan im Dreimächtepakt"  several photos show "Peace-loving" Japanese troops playing with Chinese children, feeding a Chinese baby, and giving an old Chinese man a cigarette. Another photo shows Hitler, Kurusu, Ciano, Ribbentrop, with caption, "Die Unterzeichnung des Paktes".  "Zwischen Neufundland und Kap Horn; Der britische Ausverkauf in der westlichen Hemisphäre"(Between Newfoundland and Cape Horn, the British sell-out in the western hemisphere.) with full-page map of North and South America. Photo essay "Im Gespräch mit dem Reichsaußenminister; Eine Bildfolge aus dem Hauptquartier" (Interview with the Foreign Minister, photos from the headquarters)  features nine photos of Adolf Hitler. "hieraus zieht man seine Schlüsse" shows work in Aerodynamic research in wind tunnel.  "Italians Luftwaffe"  shows photos of Italian warplanes. "Auf der  Höhe der Zeit"  shows how German military doctors take care of German soldiers. One photo shows a hospital corpsman attending to a wounded soldier, another shows a soldier carrying "Lebenselixier in Flaschen" and another shows surgeons at work in operating room. Another shows pretty Krankenschwestern und freiwilligen Helferinnen des Roten Kreuzes (Volunteer nurses and helpers of the Red Cross) helping recovering soldier; final picture shows recovering soldiers relaxing at Autobahn-Rasthaus am Chiemsee, with pretty nurses lounging around them.  "Mut und Haltung entscheiden-- Schulpforta: Tradition und Zukunft einer Nationpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt."  Two pages of photos of young men developing themselves-- boxing, marching in the fields, with gymnastics, swimming, studying, etc. "Umschwung in Rumänien" Part II. "Weisst Dü, wie ich wirklich bin? -- Ein junges Mädchen zeigt - wie viele Gesichter es hat" features photos of young women. 48 pp. 27 x 36 cm. Periodical, incomplete: Missing pp. 9-10. Thus, poor. (7828) $26.00. World War II/History

This one’s in English…

Our Battle, being one man's answer to "My Battle" (Mein Kampf) by Adolph Hitler by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1938. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Struck by the apathy with which Americans greeted Hitler's rolling conquest of Europe, a great historian issues this call to Americans to awaken, rearm and resist.  He cites apathy of New Yorkers after their Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, was jeered, and Hitler cheered. October 12, 1838 was... a day of disgrace. 139 pp. 13 x 21 cm. Yellow paper on board, paper on spine nearly detached, penciled name, etc. on ffep, good. (0125) $20.00. World War II/History

Biography of Former Political Prisoners in German Camp System

In Polish:

 Nazi Death Camps: Biografia Bylych Wiezniow Politycznych Niemieckich Obozow Koncentracyjnych [Translated: Biography of Former Political Prisoners in the German Concentration Camp System]  Tom I [Vol. I]  Text in Polish. By Komitet Wykonawczy Gladysz, Dr. Inz. Antoni; Szymerski, Andrzej 1974 Philadelphia, PA Wydawnictwo "Promyk".  This book, all in Polish, contains a large collection of photos and drawings and text telling the stories of people who were sent to Hitler's Concentration Camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau,  Majdanek, Bergen-Belsen, Plaszów, Buchenwald, Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and more. Many pictures of corpses stacked one upon another, starving children, naked women and children  do komór gazowych w obozie koncentracyjnym w Treblince;  three ranks of naked boys, ages 12 to 15 at Mauthausen. Also interior view of crematorium. Several pages are devoted to text and drawings of the story of Father Maximillian Maria Kolbe, at Auschwitz (Oswiecim), who offered himself to be poisoned by the Nazis, that another man might be saved. Bolesne Wspomnienia. Recollections of Piotr Abraszewski, Franciszke Bak, Dr. Stefan Benedykt,  Fr. Andrzej Bialoglowski, Wladyslaw Budweil, Antoni Kaputa, Fr. Jozef Chmiel, Kasper Ciolkosz, Ks. Andrzej Czelusniak, Tadeusz Dziekanowski, Ks. Stefan Flisiak, Marian Gabriel, Ks. Franciszek J. Gabryl,  Ks. Pralat Tadeusz Gaik, Janina B. Gazdajska, Ks. Pralat Jozef Gluszek, Felicja Oswit-Grzegorzewska, Juliusz L. Grzedziel, many more. Konferencja Delegatow Zviazkow Bylych Wiezniow Politycznych i Ruchu Oporu w Sprawie Odszkodowan --w Wiedniu 25-26 Czerwca 1973 Roku.  368 pp. 28 x 22 cm. Decorated white cloth on board with drawing of concentration camp, with prisoner slumped on barbed wire, with "Arbeit Macht Frei" on arch above. Fine condition. No dustjacket. (4865) $195.00. World War II/History

Fence at Nazi Concentration Camp at Auschwitz

United States Naval Institute Proceedings, August 1938, Vol. 64 No. 426 Stewart, G.V., Captain, USN, Editor 1938                Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute. Pre-World War II issue includes excellent photos of British, French, German and Italian warships, including Dunkerque, Admiral Graf Spee and Nürnberg. "A Fast Battle Wing" by G.H. Hoffman. "The Passing of the Cadet Engineers" by Captain J.M. Ellicott, USN (Ret.). relates his visit to President Rutherford B. Hayes to win an appointment to the Naval Academy. Includes photos of engineer cadets at Annapolis, classes of 1875-78. "Hwang Tsao" by LCDR Glenn Howell, USN (Ret.). "Lessons Learned in Shanghai in 1932" by LCDR H.H. Smith-Hutton, USN. "Professional Notes" includes London report that Ambassador Kennedy hopes to get a trade agreement with Great Britain and West Indies bases.  Germany's New Fleet. Great Britain: Relationship Between Diplomacy and Strategy. Italy's Modern Navy.  Check to Japanese War Movement. Many ads for shipbuilders and naval equipment. 152 pp. + adv. 17 x 25 cm. Paper periodical, owner name on cover, very good.  (7922) $28.00. Navy/World War II

In English:

"The Warsaw Ghetto no longer exists" [Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohubezirk - in Warschau mehr!] From the Warsaw Ghetto Archivesof Alexander Ben. Bernfes--the story of the Nazis' extermination of the Polish Jews by Bernfes, Alexander Ben. 1973 London, England: Orbis Publishing Ltd. Collection of photos showing how the Nazis steadily squeezed the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, then systematically exterminated them.  They were sent to Treblinka, where they used monoxide gas, but then Hoess, commandant at Auschwitz used Zyklon B, crystallized prussic acid, which was "much more efficient."  Photos show how Nazis tightened their grip on the Ghetto in Autumn 1941; dehumanizing techniques, baiting of Jews, shooting children who slipped into the Aryan areas to steal food, children branded as human vermin. Making Jews dig graves for themselves. Photos of many corpses, including children. In charge of this: Jürgen Stroop, SS-Brigadeführer and Majorgeneral of Police. He was executed in Warsaw, the site of his greatest crimes, on 8 Sept. 1951. "May this record of infamy perpetrated against my people, portraying with total authenticity the life and annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto, help to perpetuate their hallowed memory. Gloria Victis."-- Alexander Ben. Bernfes, Jewish Martyrs' Graves Commission. 64 pp. 22 x 29.5 cm. Paper booklet very good. (8003) $20.00. World War II/Holocaust

Voice of Britain, The: Churchmen, Statesmen, Publicists, Doctors, Scientists and Sportsmen on Hitlerism by Austen Chamberlain, Sir; Churchill, Winston; Lloyd George, David; Barrie, James; Archbishop of Caterbury, et al. ca. 1934 London, England: McCorquodale & Co. Ltd. Collection of statements by prominent British citizens against the rise of Hitlerism, particularly the racial attacks on Jews in Germany. Includes statements by Archbishops of York and Canterbury, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, leaders of the United Methodist Church, Rt. Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Rt. Hon Winston Churchill, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, the Late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Rt. Hon. Walter Elliot, Rt. Hon. W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, The Countess of Oxford and Asquith, editorials by J.L. Garvin, Editor of The Observer, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane and Tennis Champions Austin and Perry. 16 pp. 13.8 x 21.4 cm. Pamphlet, very good. (7813) $45.00. World War II/Anti-Fascist            

Child’s drawing of “Arrest” of Polish people by Nazis

[In Polish]

W Oczach Dzieci: 10 lat Polski Ludowej w rysunkach dzieciecych [Through the Eyes of Children: 10 Years of the Polish People] In Polish. Zagala, Boleslaw; Jackiewiczowa, Elzbieta 1954 Warszawa, Poland: Nasza Ksiegarnia Warszawa.  Collection of delightful, full-color drawings by children during the years of World War II when Nazis occupied the country. Drawings include one labeled Wysadzenie pociagu niemieckiego przez partizantow polskich [Polish partisans blowing up German train], by Andrzej Wolniewicz, 13. Ewa Mehl, 7 draws a picture "Daddy Takes a Walk" shows prisoners in a concentration camp. Janina Piekarska, 14, drew a picture of Nazi soldiers arresting Polish people, all shown kneeling.  The children captured the terror and cruelty, and the heroism of liberators, and then rebuilding the country after the war. This copy has mimeographed summary in English pasted in front of book, and translation of titles of drawings pasted in back of book. ~85 pp. 28 x 20.6 cm. Blue-grey cloth on board, front hinge cracked, text block good, with added sheets containing translations. Good. (5377) $55.00. World War II/Poland

[In French]

Stories about the Nazi Occupation of France, and the French Resistance… 

Le Livre des Otages, la politique des otages menée par les Autorités allemandes d'Occupation en France de 1941 à 1943; Préface de Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier  [Story of French Hostages during Occupation of France by Germans in World War II.] [In French.] by Klarsfeld, Serge   1979 Paris, France: Les Éditeurs Français Réunis.  Preface by Auschwitz survivor. Author has collected files which detail arrests of French citizens by Nazis during World War II, for various crimes, including "communists", "Recrutement de membres our le PCF clandestin", "Activité terroriste", more. Photos include those of key S.S. officers Lischka, Hagen, Heinrichsohn.  Files reproduced in book include reports from Romainville camp, detailing Raisons de la désignation comme otage, passé et activités politiques. Un des ouvrages les plus émouvants et les plus révélateurs de l'histoire de l'occupation et de la résistance. 295 pp. 13 x 21.5 cm. Trade paperback, text block loose from cover, good. (1682) $42.00. World War II

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