In 1976 I purchased a significant WWII book collection (260 books) from a London book dealer. The collection came from the library of G.M. Hallowes. At the time I was not familiar with Mr. Hallowes, but I was certainly familiar with the exploits of his wife Odette. (see below)

Odette (Sansom) (1912–1995) Hero of the French Resistance, known only as Odette, worked for the British War Department during World War II and, when captured and tortured by the Nazis, refused to divulge classified information.
Name variations: Odette Hallowes; Odette Churchill; (code names) Odette Matayer, Céline, Lise.
Born: Odette Marie Céline Brailly on April 28, 1912, in France; died in 1995 in England; daughter of Yvonne Brailly and Gaston Brailly (a bank official and soldier); married Roy Sansom in 1930; married Captain Peter Morland Churchill in 1947; married Geoffrey Hallowes in 1956.

Geoffrey MacLeod Hallowes was an officer of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.
He was the third husband of World War II heroine Odette Sansom; they married in 1956.

Unfortunately, Mr. Hallowes was not a serious bibliophile and didn’t keep the dustjackets for the books in his collection.
Most of the books are first editions, with the signature of Mr. Hallowes and date of acquisition in pencil in each book and some have newspaper reviews of the book loosely inserted in envelopes.

Offered here are 47 books from that collection:

Abshagen, K.H. Canaris: 1956

Agar-Hamilton & Turner. Crisis in the Desert – May – July 1942: 1952 No dustjacket

Berben, Paul. Dachau – The Official History: 1968

Blumentritt, Guenther. Von Rundstedt – The Soldier and the Man: 1952

Byrnes, James F. Speaking Frankly: 1947

Callinan, Bernard. Independent Company: 1953

Creel, George. War Criminals and Punishment: 1944

Dallin, Alexander. German Rule in Russia 1941 – 1945. A Study of Occupation Policies: 1957. With dustjacket.

Ebermayer & Meissner. Evil Genius – The Story of Joseph Goebbels: 1954

Fitzgibbon, Constantine. The Blitz: 1957

Frischauer, Willi. Himmler – The Evil Genius of the Third Reich: 1953

Gilbert, G.M. Nuremberg Diary: 1947

Gorlitz, Walter. The German General Staff: 1953

Hagen, Louis. Arnhem Lift: 1953

Hanley, Gerald. Monsoon Victory: 1946

Hillson,Norman. Alexander of Tunis. 1952

Hottl, Wilhelm. Hitler’s Paper Weapon: 1955

Ingersol, Ralph. The Battle is the Pay-Off: 1943

Kersten, Felix. The Kersten Memoirs 1940 – 1945: 1956

Klibansky, Raymond. Benito Mussolini Memoirs 1942 – 1943: 1949

Liddel Hart, B.H. (Edited by) The Rommel Papers: 1953

Lochner, Louis P. (Translated & Edited by) The Goebbels Diaries: 1948

Manvell, Roger & Heinrich Fraenkel. Heinrich Himmler: 1965

Manvell, Roger & Heinrich Fraenkel. Herman Goring: 1962

Mayor, Andreas. Ciano’s Diary 1937 – 1938: 1952

Mayor, Andreas. Ciano’s Diary 1939 – 1943: 1947

Mackiewicz, Joseph. The Katyn Woods Murders: 1951

McGovern, James. Martin Borman: 1968

Monelli, Paolo. Mussolini – An Intimate Life: 1953

Moorehead, Alan. Eclipse: 1946

Mosley, Leonard. The Reich Marshal – A Biography of Hermann Goering: 1974. With dustjacket

Musmanno, Michael. A. Ten Days to Die: 1951

North, John. (Edited by) The Alexander Memoirs 1940 – 1945: 1962

Paget, R.T. Manstein His Campaign and His Trial: 1951

Powell, Anthony G. (Translated by) Last Letters from Stalingrad: 1956

Semmler, Rudolf. Goebbels – The Man Next to Hitler: 1947

Smyth, Brig. Sir John. The Will To Live – The Story of Dame Margot Turner: 1970.
Signed by the author Sir John Smyth and by Margo Turner.

Stephanides, Theodore. Climax in Crete: 1946

Strutton, Bill & Pearson Michael. The Secret Invader: 1958

Thompson, R.W. Dieppe at Dawn: 1956

Trevor- Roper, H.R. (Editor) The Bormann Letters: 1954

Von Hassell. The Von Hassell Diaries: 1948

White, Osmar. Green Armour: 1945

Wighton, Charles. Heydrich – Hitler’s Most Evil Henchman: 1962

Wilson, R.D. Cordon and Search: 1949

Young, Desmond. Rommel: 1950

Young, Peter. Storm from the Sea: 1958

All books are in excellent condition, many with newspaper clippings & hand-written notes loosely inserted.

Item #814

Price: $1450.00