Results for: Military History
Ballistic Missile Defense.
Adams, Benson D.
New York: American Elsevier, 1971..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good clipped dust jacket. Edges and corners of dj are chipping, with water staining to heel of spine. Some wear to corners of boards, with staining to heel of spine and at back endpapers. Former owner's name on endpaper. 274 p. w/tables, bibliography, index. A study of evolution and formulation of US missile defense policy up to the early 70's.
Price: $60.00
Diary of Colonel Israel Angell Commanding the Second Rhode Island Continental Regiment During the American Revolution 1778-1781.
Angell, Israel. Edward Field editor.
Providence, R. I. : Preston & Rounds Company, 1899.
Octavo (standard size). Yellow coth with Blue text to spine and front board. Cover soiled, more so at spine. Top edge of textblock soiled. Top edge of title page lightly chipped in 3 spots. Bookplate of former Brown Archivist William Easton Louttit at rear endpaper. Former owner signature (not Louttit) on free endpaper. 149 p. w/ additional 12 p. of books for listed at the back. Includes fold out map, photograph of page from the diary, and index. The diary of Angell from Providence. Originally commissioned a major in 1775, Angell was made Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment in 1777, and then Colonal on the death of its commander. Angell was at Valley Forge and took pains to write back to Rhode Island concernign the needs of his men then and later. He participated part in the battles of Monmouth and Springfield, eventually resigning his commission then the First & Second regiments were combined. He ended his life as a farmer, cooper, and tavern owner in 1832.
Price: $250.00
Rabbis in Uniform : The Story of the American Jewish Military Chaplain.
Barish, Chaplain Louis, United States Army, editor.
New York, NY: Jonathan David, 1962.
Octavo (standard size). Dj has wear to edgs and corners, more so at head and heel of spine, with chipping and edge loss. Boards have light wear to edges. Gift inscription on pastedown. 347 p. w/appendices on rabbis in various wars. A collection of primarily first hand accounts by Jewish chaplains of their experiences in the US army. The great majority of the accounts regard WWII, but not all.
Price: $30.00
Surfboats and Horse Marines : U.S. Naval Operations in the Mexican War 1846 - 1848.
Bauer, K. Jack.
Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1969.
Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Slight soiling to dj covers and edges of textbloack. Sticker spot to flyleaf. 291 w/ appendices, illustrations, chronology, bibliographic notes, index, and maps on endpapers. A detailed study of the operations of the Navy on land and sea, both in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Californian coast.
Price: $55.00
An Historical Guide to Arms & Armor [Armour].
Bull, Stephen. Edited by Tony North.
New York: Facts on File, 1991..
First edition. Very good folio-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the lower corners of the panels. The dj has light wear along the edges and minor scuffing to the covers. 224 pages with illustrations, bibliography, and index. An excellent history of weapons from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. Due to the size of the book, special shipping rates will be applied.
Price: $20.00
Stories from Three Wars : One Soldier's Memories.
Crain, Charles L.
Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 2005.
Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Gift inscription on front free endpaper to previous owner (not by author). Light mark on fore-edges of pages. 227 pages with illustrations and maps.
Price: $20.00
La Conscription en Debat : Ou Le Triple Apprentissage de la Nation, de la Citoyennete, de la Republique (1798-1889).
Crepin, Annie.
Artois Presses Universite, 1998.
Very good trade paperback. Light wear to edges of covers with slight scuffing. Clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. 253 pages with footnotes, maps, and bibliography. Study of the debates around military conscription in France during the 19th century.
Price: $45.00
Moon Dash Warrior : the Story of an American Indian in Vietnam, a Marine from the Land of the Lumbee.
Cummings, Delano.
Livermore, ME: Signal Tree Publications, 1998.
4th printing. Slight wear to edges and corners of dust jacket and boards. Corner of title page and next 2 pages show signes of having been opened roughly. Stamped by former owner of book on endpaper. 266 (v) p. , w/ illustrations, maps, index. The memoir of a Native American Marine from North Carolina who served from 1966-1971 in Vietnam, first as part of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines than 2 more tours as part of recon groups.
Price: $15.00
The New World of Russian Small Arms & Ammo.
Cutshaw, Charlie.
Boulder: Paladin Press, 1998.
Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and light scuffing with a few faint scratches to covers. Slight bowing to boards. Printer's stamp on front pastedown endpaper. 152 pages with illustrations and boxes with the specifications of various weapons and ammunition.
Price: $25.00
The Battle of Bunker's Hill.
Elting, John R.
Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press, 1975.
Folio-sized (oversized). Some light wear and rubbing to edges of boards. Bumping to corners. Edge of font board bumped as well. Slight musty smell to book. 56 pages with maps, 4 appendices (1. weapons, 2. warships in Boston Harbor, 16-17 June 1775, 3. American forces, 17 June 1775, 4. British troops in Boston), bibliography, and index. An uncommon work by an important military historian, with useful maps, extensive bibliogaphy, and detailed notes.
Price: $85.00
Documenti e Ricordi Africani (1935 - 1941).
Fabio Lisi.
Casamari: 1992.
Good softcover with white illustrated cover. Light wear to edges of covers with pastemark leftover from removed tag on front cover. Otherwise slight scuffing to covers. 63 pages with illustrations. Documents regarding the military erive of the author in Ethiopia while serving in Mussolini's army. Text of this work is in Italian.
Price: $45.00
Women in Combat: Civic Duty or Military Liability?
Fenner, Lorry M., and Marie E. deYoung.
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001.
Very good trade paperback. Light wear to edges of covers with some mior scuffing. Business card of Lorry Fenner laid in. Inscribed by Fenner to previous owner on half-title page. Otherwise, the text is clean and unmarked. Tight binding. 207 pages with notes, tables, references, selected bibliography, and index. A series of essays and responses on whether women should be allowed to particpate in combat with Fenner presenting arguments in favor of allowing women into combat while deYoung offering reasons against them.
Price: $20.00
The Rifled Musket.
Fuller, Claud E.
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1958.
Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards, with a couple closed tears to edges of dj. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. 302 p. w/ illustrations. A detailed study of the muskets, their ammunition, and their makers during the era of the Civil War.
Price: $30.00
Mustang : The Story of the P-51 Fighter. Revised Edition.
Gruenhagen, Robert W.
New York, NY: Arco Publishing Company, 1976.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards with fading along edges. Dj has wear and small tears along edges with inch chip missing from head of spine and some scuffing to covers. 252 pages with illustrations and index. An excellent examination of this fighter plane.
Price: $20.00
Aggies of the Pacific War: New Mexico College of A & M and the War with Japan.
Hines, Walter.
Las Cruces: Yucca Tree Press, 1999..
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in red illustrated boards without dust jacket. Light wear to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Some minor scuffing and light scratching to the covers. 166 pages with maps, illustrations, 3 appendices, list of sources used, and index. A history of the contributions of New Mexico A&M alumni during World War II in the Pacific Theatre.
Price: $20.00
Ammunition : Small Arms, Grenades and Projected Munitions. Greenhill Military Manuals.
Hogg, Ian V.
London: Greenhill Books, 1998.
Very good hardcover in grey glossy illustrated binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight rubbing and minor nicks on lower edges. Slight scuffing to covers. 144 pages with illustrations and glossary.
Price: $40.00
The Scientific American War Book: The Mechanism and Technique of War.
Hopkins, Albert A., editor.
New York: Munn & Company, 1916..
Later edition/printing (1915 was the first). Good quarto hardcover in maroon binding with gilt lettering on spine without dust jacket. Rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the panels. Small holes in binding on the corners. Light scuffing and minor soiling to the covers. Split/separation developing in binding where webbing is visible between pages 38-39, 54-55, 278-279, and 326-327. Page egdes are lightly foxed and browned. 338 pages with illustrations and index. A collection of articles on warfare and technology focusing on developments during World War I. As the editor says in his preface: "We invite every force-God-greated and man-created-to destroy our fellow man and his hard earned property. The glamour of war is gone, it is hard, unsentimental, unchivalrous, but not uninteresting. This volume is not a history of the great European war, nor will it depict its horrors-there are already too many books on the war-but it does give a succinct account of what war really means, how it is carried on, how men are gotten up to position, fed, bathed, fought imprisoned, wounded, and killed."
Price: $30.00
Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536.
Housley, Norman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and lighter bump to lower edge of front cover. Dj has wear andrubbing along edges with a few minor tears including one on the lower corner of front cover. Slight scuffing to covers. 238 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and 2 indices. A study of warfare from the Hussite wars to the early conflicts of the Reformation analyzing how religious and crusading ideas were used to justify and characterize many early modern conflicts, especially those against the Ottoman Turks and religious dissenters.
Price: $60.00
Our Coast Guard Academy : a History and Guide.
Hughes, Riley. Foreword by Rear Admiral James Pine, USCG.
New York, NY: Devin-Adair Company, 1944.
Octavo. Some small tears and chipping to dj, more so at head of spine. Slight soiling to dj cover. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Some weakness to hinge at center of book. Book has musty odor. 213 p. w/illustration, index, and appendices on songs, slang, uniforms, people, and more.
Price: $30.00
Pershing : A History of the Medium Tank T20 Series.
Hunnicutt, R. P.
Berkeley: Feist Publications, 1971.
Good quarto-sized hardcover in fair dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards with inch long gouge/tear on lower edge of back cover. Slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with many tears, nicks, and much chipping including two inch chip missing from head of spine and 1 inch chip on upper corner of back cover. Two inch tear on upper edge of dj's front cover. Some scuffing to dj as well. Book has musty odor. 240 pages with illustrations, references and selected bibliography section, and index. A detailed study T20 series of American tanks including a comparison of the Pershing with the German Panther and Tiger I tanks.
Price: $150.00
On War.
Karl von Clausewitz. Translated by O. J. Matthijs Jolles. Preface by Richard McKeon. Foreword by Colonel Joseph I. Greene.
Washington DC: Combat Forces Press, 1953.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and light rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with minor tears and some scuffing and browning to covers, especially along spine. Page edges are browned with some foxing to upper edges. Inscription on front free endpaper to previous owner. 641 pages with index. A nice edition of this classic work on military strategy.
Price: $20.00
Chinese Military Modernization.
Lane, C. Dennison; Mark Weisenbloom; and Dimon Liu, editors. Foreword by James R. Lilley.
Washington DC: The AEI Press, 1996.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has minor wear along edges and slight scuffing to covers. 298 pages with notes after each essay and index. A collection of essays on the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Price: $20.00
Guerrilla : A Historical and Critical Study.
Laqueur, Walter.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1976.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has wear along edges with tears and large two inch chip missing from lower half of back cover. Some scuffing to covers of dj. Embossed stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. 462 pages with notes, chronology of major guerrilla wars, list of abbreviations, bibliography, and index. A detailed study of the origins and nature of guerrilla warfare in history to the 1970s.
Price: $20.00
Glock's Handguns.
Long, Duncan.
El Dorado: Desert Publications, 1996.
Very good softcover. Light wear to edges of covers with lifgt creasing to lower corner of front cover and upper corner of back cover. Minor scuffing to covers. Light creasing to upper corners of pages. 180 pages with illustrations and 2 appendices (1. accessories sources, 2. useful information).
Price: $18.00
America's Strategic Blunders : Intelligence Analysis and National Security Policy, 1936-1991.
Matthias, Willard C.
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along edges of boards. Dj has minor wear along edges and slight scuffing to covers. 367 pages with footnotes, references, and index. An interesting look at American intelligence analysis and World War II and the Cold War.
Price: $20.00
Soldiers and Sailors of France in the American War for Independence (1776-1783). Authorized Edition.
Merlant, Captain Joachim. Translated by Mary Bushnell Coleman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
Good octavo hardcover in blue library binding without dust jacket. Ex-library with many of the flaws, stamps, and marks associated with that condition including call number printed on spine and card pocket on front free endpaper. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with scuffing to covers. Page edges are a bit browned. Staining on fore-edges of pages. 213 pages with few illustrations and appendix.
Price: $15.00
Fighting Highlanders! The History of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
Mileham, P. J. R.
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1993.
Octavo. Light wear and minor scuffing to covers. Name of previous owner written in upper edge of front free endpaper. 188 pages with illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. A look at the campaigns of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1794 to the late twentieth century.
Price: $30.00
Generals of Israel.
Moshe, Ben Shaul, editor. Translated by I. Hanoch.
Tel-Aviv: Hadar Publishing House, 1968.
Very good octavo hardcover in red cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight scuffing to covers. Light browning to page edges. 303 pages plus poem ("Tree") with illustrations. A series of brief biographies of Israeli generals from Moshe Dayan and Itzhak Rabin to Ariel Sharon and Abraham Tamir.
Price: $20.00
German FLAK in World War II, 1939-1945.
Muller, Werner. Translated by Ed Force.
Schiffer Publishing, 1998..
First edition thus. Very good quarto hardcover in illustrated glossy boards without dust jacket. Some scuffing to covers with light rubbing to edges and bumping to head and heel of the spine. 160 pages with illustrations. "This volume is a valuable illustrated documentation of German Flak guns, using photos largely unpublished to date, and includes their use on all fronts in both the air and ground roles. Included are the 37mm, 105mm and 128 mm guns and especially the famed 88mm" (from the back cover).
Price: $20.00
A MiG - 15 to Freedom : Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953.
No Kum-Sok with J. Roger Osterholm.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1996.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards and minor scuffing to covers with light white mark on back cover. Isbn sticker on back cover as well. 221 pages with illustrations, bibliography, and index. The story of No Kum-Sok's defection during the Korean War.
Price: $50.00
