{"title":"Collectibles","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"grossdeutschlands-kampf-wilhelm-ziegler-reclam-leipzig-1941","title":"Großdeutschlands Kampf — Wilhelm Ziegler (Reclam, Leipzig, 1941)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA first-year retrospective of the Second World War as told by the Reich itself. Written by Wilhelm Ziegler — a senior official in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda — this 1941 Reclam edition surveys the war of 1939\/40 in politics and military conduct, illustrated throughout with photographs and campaign map sketches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAs a primary source it is unusually direct: this is the regime narrating its own early victories in real time, produced for a domestic readership. The book was later placed on the postwar Soviet occupation zone's index of literature to be withdrawn from circulation — a marker of its authenticity as period propaganda and of how thoroughly such material was suppressed after 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHardcover in blue-grey linen boards with a sword on the front cover and Fraktur lettering to the spine. 267 pp., with photographic plates and maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCondition: Very Good — clean boards, sound binding, bright text block with light foxing; see photos. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOffered as a historical artifact for research, education, and collecting. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underground Canon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58688496304463,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/7177\/0191\/files\/wilhelm-1.jpg?v=1788659923"},{"product_id":"unser-bataillon-in-frankreich-soldaten-berichten-gauverlag-bayerische-ostmark-bayreuth-c-1941","title":"Unser Bataillon in Frankreich — \"Soldaten berichten\" (Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark, Bayreuth, c. 1941)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA soldiers' own account of the 1940 campaign in France — a Wehrmacht battalion's commemorative history, assembled from the diaries and firsthand reports of men across its units. Compiled by Unteroffizier Walter Stark, with original drawings, initials, and vignettes by Gefreiter Edmund Saalfrank and photographs by Unteroffizier Ludwig Höning, and issued through the NSDAP regional press at Bayreuth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eUnlike the mass-market propaganda titles of the period, unit books like this were printed in small numbers for the soldiers themselves and their families, which makes surviving copies comparatively scarce. The text moves at ground level — the campaign as recorded by the men who fought it, illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates, text drawings, and a color plate (\"Triaucour\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis copy carries its own wartime history: it entered the student library of the Gymnasium Amberg in Bavaria, accessioned in 1942, with the school's stamp and shelf number to the title page — a tangible trace of how such accounts reached young readers on the home front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGrey linen hardcover with stamped steel-helmet-and-oak-leaf to the front board, Fraktur title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCondition: Good — water-staining to lower front cover, wear and light fraying to spine ends and corners; interior clean and sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e42 Pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOffered as a historical artifact for research, education, and collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underground Canon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58688856392015,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/7177\/0191\/files\/unser-1.jpg?v=1788659819"},{"product_id":"die-wehrmacht-der-freiheitskampf-des-grossdeutschen-volkes-okw-verlag-die-wehrmacht-berlin-1940","title":"Die Wehrmacht: Der Freiheitskampf des großdeutschen Volkes (OKW \/ Verlag \"Die Wehrmacht,\" Berlin, 1940)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe first annual volume of the German High Command's official pictorial record of the war, issued directly by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and edited by Karl Fischer. A gravure-illustrated propaganda yearbook covering the campaigns of September 1939 through summer 1940 — Poland, the West, and the fall of France — assembled from reportage and photography originally run in the OKW's mass-circulation magazine \u003cem\u003eDie Wehrmacht\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAs a primary source it's the regime's own war narrative in its most produced form: photograph after photograph chosen to present the campaigns as the \"freedom struggle\" of the title, closing with a foreword over a printed facsimile signature of the Generalfeldmarschall heading the High Command. The book carries the state eagle to the binding and is a representative artifact of how the Wehrmacht documented and mythologized its early victories for a domestic audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eComplete with the color folding campaign map in the rear appendix — the element most often lost from surviving copies. Field-grey linen hardcover, blindstamped eagle to front board, \"1940\" at the spine tail. No dust jacket. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCondition: Good — light soiling to boards, binding sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e319 Pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOffered as a historical artifact for research, education, and collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underground Canon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58688917045583,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/7177\/0191\/files\/IMG_1542_listing.jpg?v=1788658677"},{"product_id":"der-dienstunterricht-in-der-luftwaffe-service-instruction-in-the-luftwaffe-generalmajor-ehrenfried-tschoeltsch-e-s-mittler-sohn-berlin-1941","title":"Der Dienstunterricht in der Luftwaffe (\"Service Instruction in the Luftwaffe\") — Generalmajor Ehrenfried Tschoeltsch (E. S. Mittler \u0026 Sohn, Berlin, 1941)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe standard service manual issued to Luftwaffe recruits — the airman's equivalent of the Army's \"Reibert.\" Compiled by Generalmajor Ehrenfried Tschoeltsch, commander of the Luftwaffe's NCO schools, and published by E. S. Mittler \u0026amp; Sohn, the German military's principal publisher. This is the 13th, fully revised edition (1941 year-class), with a foreword dated September 1941 and a printed facsimile endorsement of Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch, State Secretary for Aviation, to the front matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOver 250 illustrations and plates across more than 300 pages take the new airman through the whole of basic service: conscription law, ranks and insignia, uniform and equipment, drill and conduct, guard duty, weapons, discipline, and military law. As a primary source it's a ground-level look at exactly what the German air force taught its enlisted men in the middle of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis copy carries its original owner's handwritten entry on the printed Truppenstammrolle (personnel record) page inside the front cover — a period ownership inscription tying the book to the airman to whom it was issued. Original printed grey wrappers with the Luftwaffe eagle and a standing airman to the front cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCondition: Good — wrappers toned and edge-worn, vertical crease to front cover, text block sound and complete; see photos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e302 Pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOffered as a historical artifact for research, education, and collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underground Canon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58689056538959,"sku":null,"price":245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/7177\/0191\/files\/luftwaffe-1.jpg?v=1788662234"}],"url":"https:\/\/undergroundcanon.com\/collections\/collectibles.oembed","provider":"Underground Canon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}