[8] VINTAGE PULP PAPERBACKS LOT WWII War Adventure Western SIGNET PYRAMID BANTAM

Description: ***Please check out all our media lots*** Here are 3 World War II books, and 4 other pulps focusing on Westerns, action thrillers, adventure, and other lurid topics. ---------- 1) THE PASSWORD IS COURAGE by John Castle * The man who broke into Auschwitz. When he was captured in France in 1940 Sergeant-Major Charles Coward launched his own private war against the Germans (although he was being held as a prisoner-of-war). For several years he was the most incredible amateur espionage and sabotage agent of World War Two, opposing the Nazis while sending back vital information to England. He escaped from captivity nine times and was, eventually, sent to Auschwitz III (a labour camp just five miles from Auschwitz II, the extermination camp). He carried guns and dynamite for the Polish underground movement, traded in dead bodies (by swapping the corpses of dead prisoners for Jewish prisoners, allowing the prisoners to escape) and, finally, he smuggled himself into Auschwitz where he witnessed the full horrors of the extermination camp. This is one of the most heroic and extraordinary stories of World War Two. Charles Coward fought the might of the Nazi army and won, his courage is testament to the indomitable human spirit facing overwhelming odds. At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Coward's testimony was sensational, allowing over 2,000 Auschwitz survivors to file lawsuits for compensations against their former oppressors. * 3rd Printing, 1960 * Ballantine Books 2) THE SURVIVOR by John Ehle * True story of Nazi Storm Trooper Eddy Jukov in the final year of WWII, and in French Foreign Legion in IndoChina. * 1st Ed. Pyramid Books 1959 3) THE RAFT (The Greatest Adventure Of World War II) by * The Raft, the subject of the 2014 movie Against the Sun (also known as Ghosts of the Pacific), recounts the harrowing adventures of three downed U.S. Navy airmen -- Harold Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich -- in the Pacific Ocean during World War Two. The men, forced to ditch their TBD Devastator plane after running out of fuel, were then confined to a 4 foot by 8 foot rubber raft for 34 days at sea, with no food or water (apart from what they could catch or trap), and no protection from the relentless tropical sun and the long nights. The men finally reached a small inhabited island (Pukapuka in the Cook Islands) where they stayed for 7 days before a U.S. warship arrived. * 6th Pyramid Printing, 1965 4) THE SOURCE OF FEAR by Bill S. Ballinger * A lost city of sin, a fantastic treasure, and two men with a beautiful woman. * First Printing, 1968 * Signet 5) THE CAPTIVE WITCH by Dale Van Every * Dale Van Every’s soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both… They weathered the brutal winter of ‘79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the proud, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw. They shred that cruel season knowing that, when the thaws came, Adam would return to Trace’s Landing and to Cynthia, the faithful young widow who waited for him there; knowing, too, that Nita would try to keep him—with all the savage passion that had earned her the name… One of Dale Van Every’s most exciting historical novels…filled with the raw emotions and rich adventures of America’s untamed past… * New Bantam Edition, 1962 6) APACHE DEVIL by Edgar Rice Burroughs * Shoz-Dijiji, the Black Bear... a white man who believed himself to be a full blooded Apache, and who had dedicated his life to a feud against the treacherous "white eyes" who had invaded his country and destroyed his family... To the pony soldiers and to white travellers he became known as the Apache Devil, a pitiless scourge who swept in, killed, took his vengeance, and slipped away without a trace. Thus Shoz-Dijiji, the adopted son of Geronimo, was honored in his tribe. And even among his sworn enemies there were those who called him just, and a friend. One of these was a woman--who loved Sho-Dijiji. But she was white--an impossible obstacle to the racial pride of an Apache warrior. So Sho-Dijiji continued to live his life of hate and loyalty and love, of running fights, of massacre and torture; until at last even the tribe of Geronimo signed a peace treaty with the white men--and Sho-Dijiji learned that the woman he loved had been stolen by renegade white outlaws. Then Sho-Dijiji hunted as he had never hunted before. * First Edition, 1964 * Ballantine Books 7) THE HAPPY MEDIUM by Lissa Charell * First Crest Printing, 1961 ***Binding pulls away a bit 8) NIGHTMARE AT RIVERVIEW by Angela Gray * The plantation house was a three-story, white frame structure with a large portico to the north, a wide veranda at ground level. The porch was pillared with thin, fluted columns and the green blinds offered a pleasing contrast to the white of the walls. It was a house built for happiness, and for many years the people who lived there had been happy. But now a gray cloud seemed to hang over the property, coloring the emotions of Janet Bowen. Her father was dead, brutally murdered—and the man convicted of the crime on Janet’s testimony had sworn vengeance against her—even though he was locked behind prison walls, waiting his appointment with the hangman. And now it seemed as though someone—or something—was carrying out his threats as Janet, besieged, could not fight off the terrors that had taken control of her life! * First Printing, 1973, Lancer Books Easy Eye

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