Ballantine Press

Over the years I've been collecting Ballantine Press books. They have a great series called "Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century". I would pick them up here and there and slowly build up my collection. Recently at the "Hot Lead" gaming convention I picked up 82 books for $30. When I got them home I started organizing them. I then noticed printing errors; wrong colours for the different titles, missing volume numbers, etc. This inspired me to find a master list of them all. I started digging around online and using my own collection, I came up with a partial list that I will share. The list has some errors in it. If anyone can add to it please post here. I hope this will help others in collecting this wonderful series. Cheers

Ballantine Press – Master List

Battle Book – orange
1. D-DAY
2. Their Finest Hour
3. Stalingrad
4. Bastogne
5. The Siege of Leningrad
6. Battle of Berlin
7. Kursk
8. Tarawa
9. Airborne Carpet
10. Pearl Harbor
11. Leyte Gulf
12. Okinawa
13. The Defense of Moscow
14. Raid on St-Nazaire
15. Anzio
16. Cassino
17. London’s Burning
18. Kasserine
19. Battle of the Reichswald
20. Midway
21. Battle of the Ruhr Pocket
22. Beda Fomm
23. Bir Hakim
24. Salerno Foothold in Europe
25. Armoured Onslaught, 8th of August 1918
26. Vimy Ridge 1914-1918
27. Rhine
28. Argonne 1918
29. Rotterdam
30. Polesti : Oil Strike
31. Zeebrugge: 23rd April 1918
32. Iwo Jima
33. Dien Bien Phu

Campaign Book – yellow
1. Afrika Corps
2. The Raiders
3. Sicily Who’s Victory?
4. Breakout
5. Defeat in Malaya
6. France
7. Bomber Offensive
8. The Nuremberg Rallies
9. Japan
10. A. Liberation of the Philippines
B. Normandy Bridgehead
11. Barbarossa
12. ?
13. New Guinea
14. Guadalcanal
15. New Georgia
16. Fall of the Philippines
17. Schweinfurt Disaster in the Skies
18. Carpathian Disaster
19. Opening Moves : August 1914
20. Tanganyikan guerilla: East African campaign 1914-18
21. Pacific Onslaught 7th Dec. 1941/ 7th Feb. 1943
22. Operation Torch
23. Over The Hump : Airlift to China
24. The Winter War
25. Pacific Victory
26. Tobruk the Siege
27. Six Day War
28. Palaus
29. Yom Kippur War
30.

Weapon Book – blue
1. U-boat : The Secret Menace
2. Panzer Division Mailed Fist
3. Aircraft Carrier
4. ME-109
5. German Secret Weapons
6. Spitfire
7. Commando
8. Gestapo and SS
9. Zero Fighter
10. The Luftwaffe
11. The Guns 1939-45
12. Airborne
13. Motor Torpedo Boat
14. Pacific Hawk
15. Tank Force allied armor in WW2
16. Waffen SS
17. B29
18. Barrage : the guns in action
19. ?
20. Rocket Fighter
21. T-34 Russian Armor
22. Suicide Weapon
23. Hitler’s High Seas Fleet
24. Mosquito the Wooden Wonder
25. Infantry Weapons
26. P-51 : Bomber Escort
27. The Guns, 1914-18
28. Allied Secret Weapons the war of science
29. Flying Tigers
30. Lancaster Bomber
31. Merril’s Marauders
32. German General Staff
33. ?
34. ?
35. Condor Legion
36. Indestructible Jeep
37. Grenades & Mortars
38. Wellington Bomber
39. ?
40. ?
41. ?
42. Midget Submarine
43. GAS
44. DC-3

War Leader – purple
1. Patton
2. MacArthur
3. Hitler
4. Stilwell
5. Bradley
6. Mountbatten
7. De Gaulle
8. Goring
9. Eisenhower
10. Tito
11. Skorzeny
12. Slim
13. Mussolini
14. Himmler
15. Student
16. Churchill
17. Goebbels
18. Lawrence of Arabia
19. MacArthur in Japan
20. Guderian
21. ?
22. Heydrich
23. Churchill 1914-1918
24. Yamashita
25. Rundstedt
26. Haley
27. Rommel
28. ?
29. ?
30. Tojo
31. Stalin

Personality Book –
Human Conflict Book – yellow/black
1. Olympiad 1936
2. Lidice
3. Death Railway
4. Genocide the Jews in Europe 1939-45
5. Bloody Ulster

Politics in Action Book – black
1. The Conspirators
2. Blackshirts : Fascism in Britain
3. Reichstag fire : ashes of democracy
4. Rape of Ethiopia
5. Warsaw Rising
6. ?
7. Night of the Long Knives
8. Nuremberg Trials
9. Hitler Youth : the duped generation

Full Colour Special
1. Nazi Regalia
2. SS Regalia