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Noble Frankland -
Imperial War Museum Handbook -
1976. Soft Cover. Good. pb/pub.1976/Gd. condition/48 pages - A picture text of the war. J22915z paperback
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Harry Ashmore -
Mission to Hanoi -
1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1968/Gd. condition/366 pages - A chronicle of double-dealing in high places.A special report from the center for the study of Democratic Institutions. AE42856z hardcover
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Richard Barnard -
The Price of Ashes -
1965. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1995/Gd. condition/648 pages - Fighting on the side of the right wing "Freikorps" movement which battles the revolution throughout Germany. TE52860z hardcover
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Lt. General William G. Pagonis -
Moving Mountains -
1992. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1992/Gd.conditionunderlining/248 pages - Lessons in leadership and logistics from the Gulf War are discussed in this text. TI636187 hardcover
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Arthur Bryant -
The Turn of the Tide : 1939-1943 -
1957. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1957/Gd. condition/622 pages - A history of the war years based on the diaries of Field-Marshal lord Alanbrooke chief of the Imperial General Staff. KN22852z hardcover
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Gregory Sandford -
Grenada the Untold Story -
1984. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1984/Gd. condition/180 pages - Written with access to classified U.S. and Grenadian government documents. AN32849z hardcover
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Guy Arend -
Bastogne -
1974. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub. 1974/Gd. condition/58 pages - The Most Outstanding Photographs of the Battle. Authenic Material. TR22813z paperback
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Gerald Gardner -
More " Who's in Charge Here "
1962. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1962/Fair condition - A text of fun and humor with plenty of photographs of politcal leaders and their. TI13126z paperback
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department of the Navy -
Chemical Biological & Radiological : Defense Orientation -
1998. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1998/Gd. condition/134 pages - Student Guide. Explains chemical agents/ chemical compounds & skin/eyes decon. Also shows and describes protective mask & chemical protective clothing. E93078z paperback
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
Service Member's Personal Protection Guide -
1996. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub. 1996/Gd. condition/32 pages - A Self-Help Handbook to Combating. TA63093z paperback
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Alan Osbourne -
Modern Marine Engineer's Manual 2nd ed. - Vol. 1 -
1965. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1965/Gd. condition corners bumped/ - Covers Mathematics Safety Engineering Materials Piping and Packing Thermodynamics Combustion Boilers Boiler Operation Turbines Bearing and Shafting Lubrication Condensers and Pumps. E93069z hardcover
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Robinson Risner -
The Passing Of The Night -
1973. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1973/Fair condition/264 pages - My seven years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. TN136500 hardcover
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Laurence Thompson -
The Greatest Treason -
1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1968/Gd. condition/298 pages - The untold story of Munich. AI12944z hardcover
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James L. Payne -
The American Threat -
1971. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1971/Fair condition/241 pages - The fear of war as an instrument of foreign policy is discussed in this text. TI836331 paperback
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James Harrison -
The Communists and Chinese Peasant Rebellions -
1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1968/Gd. condition/362 pages - A study in the rewriting of Chinese history. TK32931z hardcover
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Fen Hampson
Unguided Missiles -
1989. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1989/Fair conditionblk markings/369 pages - How America buys its weapons is discussed in this text. TI836333 hardcover
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Peter David -
Triumph In The Desert -
1991. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1991/Gd.condition/209 pages - The challenge the fighting the legacy. A history of the gulf war. TI836293 hardcover
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Cynthia Cockburn -
Brothers -
1991. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1991/Gd. condition/284 pages - Male Dominance and Technological Change. AI42984z paperback
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Henry Munson, Jr. -
Islam and Revolution in the Middle East -
1988. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1988/Gd. conditionex-lib/180 pages - Why did an Islamic revolution occur only in Iran C82993z hardcover
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Adam Nossiter -
The Algeria Hotel -
2001. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.2001/Gd.condition/300 pages - France memory and the second world war. TN236627 paperback
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Mark Weinberg -
The World Trade Center : A Landmark to Remember -
2001. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.2001/Gd. condition - A photo text on the World Trade center from beginning to the attack on Sept. 11. D52946z paperback
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Chaim Lipschitz -
The Shanghai Connection -
1988. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1988/Gd. condition/142 pages - Based on the Hebrew "Nes Hatzalah". A93266z hardcover
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Bill Yenne-
The Encyclopedia of US Spacecraft-
1987. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover dj/ pub.1987 Gd. condition/192 pages- Produced in cooperation with NASA. A detailed catalog of spacecraft developed for commerical military and NASA programs. AH1v7384 hardcover
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Merrill Beal -
I Will Fight No More Forever
1991. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1991/Gd. condition/366 pages - Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War. TA82975z paperback
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MacLean Alistair
Force 10 From Navarone
London: Collins 1968. The heroes of Alistair MacLean's 'The Guns of Navarone' are not allowed to rest long on their laurels. Keith Mallory Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away. Their mission among the mountains of Bosnia is to rescue a division of trapped Partisans. In fact it is to convince the Germans that a major assault on Yugoslavia is impending and thus draw off troops from the Italian Front. The three heroes need all their courage daring and specialized techniques to accomplish their dual objective. Brown boards with gilt title print to spine Name to ffep. A bright illustrated price-clipped dust jacket designed by Norman Weaver. Text shows light age-tone. The top and bottom edge of book shows a small brown spot. This copy remains solid clean and respectable. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Collins Hardcover
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[Pennsylvania – Presbyterian Church – Civil War – World War II] Hill, George; Hill, Harriett; Weeks, WC.; et al. W. C.
Multigenerational Archive of a Pennsylvania Family Spanning More Than a Century
United States Norway and Germany 1960. 320 items: 276 letters thirty-eight modern photographs five CDVs and one cabinet card; with a large amount of unsorted ephemera. Of the letters 198 are from the nineteenth century with most from the 1840s through 1870s; and seventy-eight are from the twentieth century with most from the 1940s and 1950s. Excellent. A broad archive mainly of letters spanning over 130 years. The letters were mostly sent between members of the Hill family of Pennsylvania and other families Lewis Hosack and Weeks that married in. In the nineteenth century George Hill 1815–1895 his wife Harriet Lewis 1820–1852 and their two oldest daughters Jane Hosack 1842–1878 and Harriet Hill 1844–1928 are the main correspondents; in the twentieth letters are mainly from Cornelia 1863–1948 and Charlotte 1874–deceased Lewis Harriet Lewis’ nieces and the family of Nancy Weeks 1909–1992 her great-granddaughter-in-law. Weeks also had several correspondents in Europe immediately after World War II.<br /> <br /> Earlier letters discuss family affairs temperance societies and church business—George Hill was a Presbyterian minister and writes to his family from trips to the General Assembly. For instance he describes the 1843 Assembly:<br /> <br /> “We have dispatched a good deal of business this week in the Assembly. The question which detained us longest was with regard to the right of Elders to impose hands in the Ordination of Ministers this was discussed for the greater part of two days and finally decided against the right to impose. But of all the questions which have yet come before us none has excited so much interest or called forth half the feeling which the question on the approval of the records of the Synod of Pittsburgh did. The committee on the records took exception to the mention of the Synod on the subject of Temperance . On this I let them know my mind at considerable length and in the course of the proceedings voted down the very same proposition which was adopted by the last Gen. Ass. on the subject of Temperance.†May 27 1843<br /> <br /> At the same time Hill was preaching around Pennsylvania and Ohio to raise funds to start the Blairsville Female Seminary which was open from 1851 to 1913. Among his travel correspondence is an interesting description of antebellum Athens Ohio:<br /> <br /> “On Tuesday morning I rode 6 or 7 miles to Athens . which is wholly given over to abolition. This subject is to that people ‘The one thing needful’. It is the law and the gospel; it is philanthropy patriotism morality and religion. It swallows up everything else and enlists the sympathies & energies of the people to the exclusion of almost everything besides.†January 29 1844<br /> By the outbreak of the Civil War Jane and Harriet are young adults and Harriet gets involved with the war effort. She writes to her stepmother Abigail Hawes:<br /> <br /> “I was in sewing for the Soldiers yesterday. I made a Havelock. I guess there were over thirty ladies there sewing. The Bardstown ladies are making clothing for Capt. S’s company. They leave on next Monday. . I went in early last Monday morning to see our company off. The flag was presented by Mr Beaumin to Capt. Nesbit. Then Mrs Thompson & Luther Martin presented Testaments & ‘Prayer Books’ some of Mrs. McAfee’s work they then marched up to the depot followed by men women & children. Such a sight I never witnessed. Some of the soldiers large men cried like children – bade goodbye to every body – men that I never saw before came up & bade me goodbye & then turned their heads away to hide the tears. . But to go back to our Sewing Society you ask ‘will they really do anything’ I tell you they really have done something. Made seventy five shirts & intend making so many more of blue & red flannel & forty five or fifty Havelocks about thirty five towels eighty pin cushions or needle books. Then when the company went away the ladies supplied them with either a blanket or a comfort apiece . The ladies also intend making bandages or something to fasten tight round their stomachs to keep them from taking dysentery so readily.†June 4 1861<br /> <br /> Harriet notes that Abigail doesn’t “seem to be much disturbed about the war†May 20 though she requests that although “We all admire your patriotism . be sure & dont send us an envelope with ‘Death to Traitors’ on it†June 4.<br /> <br /> Other letters from Harriet and Jane discuss school family and especially health; a number of deadly diseases were rampant throughout the century and many letters read as litanies of dead and dying friends and family. The CDVs from this era mainly taken in studios in Blairsville seem to be mostly family friends or employees at the Female Seminary; many of the subjects are identified verso.<br /> <br /> The family’s letters in the twentieth century are similar though with less sickness and death and from more dispersed locations in the US—seemingly few family members remained in Pennsylvania.<br /> <br /> One particularly interesting thread is Nancy Weeks’ correspondence with several Europeans immediately after World War II. One is Benjamin Molnar a Hungarian living in Munich and in the process of emigrating to the US. Molnar describes himself and continental Europeans generally as “prejudiced and very nationalistic†and explains that he would prefer to live in the American midwest or west as the “types of people†on the east coast “are rather unamerican looking†July 14 1949. He ends up in California and complains to Weeks that:<br /> <br /> “Everybody here seems to be violently pro-negro and pro-Jewish. Jews and negroes are all right I suppose and I have nothing against them but is it a sin for a white man to prefer to live among his own kind†December 27 1949<br /> <br /> On the other end of the spectrum are the Bjelkes a Norwegian family who write a number of times to Nancy. They describe the Nazi invasion:<br /> <br /> “Reidar drove me and the children 7 & 2 years up in the country the first day thinking we would be safe there he had to leave right away to do his duty of course and we were left alone. Not many days later we were in the middle of the whole war shooting and bombing all around then the middle of the nite we had to flee out in the snow two children and no place to go at last I could no more and together with some others we broke the window of a little mountain home and crawled thru finding the house empty. . But the peace was short not long after some soldiers came and said we must off as the germans would soon be there. Well out in the deep snow again and we struggle thru and at last came to a little mountain farm where we were allowed to stay. But they had little food and for four weeks we starved . At last Reidar found us and we wandered our way towards home . to Bygdo. Mother had been there all the time and everything had been fine there.†October 10 1945<br /> <br /> They also tell Weeks about Oslo during the war and their experience of the occupation:<br /> <br /> “We demonstrated our hate as far as we dared to – by not sitting beside any Germans for example on the car it went so far that they put up a ticket saying ‘no seat must stay vacant or we would be arrested.’ The result was that we just stood all the time then a new ticket came up we were not aloud to stand. Well I had to jump off the car several times in order not to seat myself beside a uniform. Then they started taking our red caps & scarfs – we used them as a demonstration you see & they not only took them off us but kept them. They even took our red jackets from us if we dared wear them on the street & so many dared! On our Kings last birthday during the war several hundred were arrested because they wore flowers in their buttonholes– Oh the Germans & Naszi were so childish.†May 11 1945<br /> <br /> They also describe the difficulties of postwar life including the dangers of unexploded ordnance left around the area which stop the ferries from running to Oslo and injure the family’s young son Per.<br /> <br /> Overall the archive is notable for its breadth spanning at least four generations of a family and many historical eras and events. unknown
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[World War II – Occupied Japan – Art] Smith, Cpl. Perring F.
Three Illustrations by Cartoonist Perring Smith of the 1689th Engineering Combat Battalion for Thanksgiving 1945
Japan 1945. 8 x 10 ½ inch double-sided mimeographed sheet with damage to margins and tape at corners; very good plus. With one 3 ¾ x 3 ¼ inch photograph of an illustration; Fine. Overall excellent. Three illustrations—two of which are for a Thanksgiving menu—by cartoonist Perring Smith of the 1689th Engineering Combat Battalion stationed in occupied Japan. One side of the Thanksgiving menu has caricatures of several men in the unit and the menu for Thanksgiving dinner at “Stew’s Hash House†and the other shows a woman in a kimono and geta in front of a pagoda carrying serving trays with drinks and a roast turkey. The other illustration is a cartoon dog mascot for the battalion who carries besides his gun a shovel pickaxe and metal detector. Though not strictly trench art these items will be of interest to historians of art produced by deployed soldiers particularly in the Second World War. unknown
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Isabel Carvalho. Guerra
Participação E Acção Colectiva
pp. 173 . Papeback. New. unknown
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Wilfred Nunn
Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War In Iraq 1914-1917
Chatham Publishing 2007. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. Hardback reprint with a new introduction by Sir Jeremy Greenstock 2007 with unclipped jacket. In overall fine unread condition in a near-fine dust jacket just a touch faded to spine. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text maps and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Chatham Publishing hardcover
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Richard W. Skinner
The Saint And The Sparrow: The Sinking Of U-309
Historic Military Press 2003. 1st. Paperback. Fine. First edition paperback in the Wrecks & Relics series 2003 in overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Historic Military Press paperback
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Ken Rimell
The Typhoon At War: A Pictorial Tribute
Historic Military Press 2002. 1st. Paperback. Fine. First edition paperback in the Through The Lens series 2002 in overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Historic Military Press paperback
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Alexander Nicoll
German Fighters Over The United Kingdom 1939-45
Historic Military Press 2001. 1st. Paperback. Fine. First edition paperback in the Wrecks & Relics series 2001 in overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Historic Military Press paperback
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War Department
War Department Circulars 1946 circulars 1 thru 251
Washingtion DC: War Dept. 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. unpaginated; HB blue Remington Rand 8¾x6½" style 'HW' Kanvas binder; rubbed&scuffed w/wear on edges&corners; some pencil; bound by cord; some lt.tan w/cleantight pgs. Circulars from January 1 1946 #1: List of War Dept. circulars 1945 thru August 20 1946 #251: Settlement Under the Armed Forces Leave Act of 1946 for Compensable Furlough <br/> <br/> War Dept. hardcover
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Eugen Kogon
The Theory and Practice Of Hell
New York NY: Farrar Straus. Black Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Moderate shelf wear to covers name inside front cover otherwise a sound unmarked copy. "The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them". A gruesome story told by a man who was there. This appears to be the first American edition published around 1950. <br/> <br/> Farrar, Straus hardcover
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[Mexico]. [Pastry War]. Lawyer, AF. A. F.
Autograph Letter Signed from A.F. Lawyer a U.S. Medical Officer Off the Coast of Mexico During the First French Intervention to His Father in New York Writing About the Conflict and His Medical Experiences Helping the Mexican Navy
Off Tampico: May 27-29 1839. Good. 3pp. addressed on the verso of the second leaf. Original mailing folds considerable wear some dampstaining across upper third resulting in minor fading of text small losses at two crossfolds with old cello tape repairs along some fold lines. With remnants of original wax seal. A unique and highly-informative correspondence from A.F. Lawyer a medical officer serving in the U.S. Navy on the Ship of War Warren while moored off Tampico Mexico during the Pastry War also known as the First French Intervention. Lawyer's letter is well written describing the war as he sees it from the ship and detailing his experiences with the wounded after being summoned to help by Mexican general Mariano Arista. Arista 1802-1855 was second in command to Santa Anna in 1836 then rose to General-in-Chief and commanded at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma during the Mexican-American War before being elected President of Mexico in 1851 before being exiled two years into his term. The text of the present letter reads in part:<br /> <br /> "I write this in anticipation of an opportunity of sending via New Orleans by schooner Creole now laying in Tampico River if she be allowed to go to sea. Since my last considerable has transpired on shore. General Arista of the Government Party attacked the schooner which was protecting the bar of the Tampico River & after a short action took the vessel & as a consequence the entrance to the river. He is now in possession and he says he has thousand men. We could see the action from our ship. There were several seriously wounded on the schooner but none of Arista‘s army. Arista has no surgeon with him nor instruments & yesterday morning I went ashore.to render the wounded all the assistance necessary. I found the Captain of the schooner with a severe wound of the elbow joint from a great shot and not being able to save the limb performed amputation immediately above the joint and very successfully as the man immediately ran from the table and walked across the room. Very great attention was paid me by Gen Arista & I drank a couple of glasses of wine with him. Bustamante is approaching on the other side. Urrea has command of Tampico but the officers have no confidence in him & he is thought to be a coward. Let the action terminate as it will I think I shall have great surgical practice."<br /> <br /> As sometimes occurs with military letters and others the present letter was written over the course of multiple days. Here Lawyer continues his correspondence two days later on May 29: "Yesterday 5 gun boats or rafts came down the river and made an attack upon Arista's camp. The firing continued about 2 hours. The firing was distinctly visible from where we are. The Creole the vessel I spoke of to carry this letter is now out of the mouth of the harbor being permitted to pass by Arista out of courtesy to our flag."<br /> <br /> As he writes in the opening Lawyer hoped to get his letter out of New Orleans which is exactly what happened owing to the ink stamp postal mark on the address leaf dated June 9 in the Crescent City. A.F. Lawyer was most certainly related to the family that founded Lawyersville New York where he addressed this letter to his father. His letter provides a rare look at the Pastry War from an American point of view as well as vital content on medical practice in the U.S. Navy in the early-19th century. May 27-29 unknown
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[Spanish-American War]
Archive of Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder with Significant Official and Personal Correspondence from the Spanish-American War
Various locations 1906. Very good. 108 letters and documents totaling 314pp. Mostly quarto sheets. Old fold lines some minor wear but condition generally strong. Significant archive of letters and documents written by Seaton Schroeder including sixty-four letters written in 1898 from aboard the USS Massachusetts; forty-six orders appointments and Naval documents; Schroeder's twenty-one-page contingency plan for the invasion of Cuba submitted in 1906; and his 1921 notes for the Limitations of Armaments convention among other naval and family material. Schroeder 1849–1922 started his career in 1869 with the Pacific Fleet served as a hydrographer and developed the Driggs-Schroeder naval gun with fellow officer William H. Driggs. He served as executive officer of the battleship Massachusetts during the Spanish-American War and was subsequently appointed Naval Governor of Guam. He became Chief Intelligence Officer of the Navy and was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1908 following which he took command of the Atlantic Fleet. He retired in 1911 though he would be recalled to active duty several times before his death in 1922.<br />  <br /> Schroeder wrote almost daily and at length to his wife Maria Wainwright about his activities aboard the Massachusetts providing detailed commentary on the events leading up to the war preparations for combat and the naval battles against Spanish forces as well as chronicling conflicts with his superiors. On February 27 1898 he writes of the sinking of the USS Maine:<br />  <br /> “There is little doubt that a mine was detonated under the Maine's bottom. I do not for an instant believe that the government or higher officers had any knowledge or took any part in it; but it must have been fired by some officer or other person familiar with the firing station; and in not removing the mine or taking other efficient precautions against such a possibility the Spanish authorities were criminally negligent and are responsible to the extent of trying the guilty person for murder apologizing paying the full value of the ship and proper indemnities. If there is any great delay in doing this it will be hard to avert war. War is about the last recourse of Spain now to cover her retreat from Cuba and may also be necessary in order to prevent a revolution.â€<br />  <br /> Following the declaration of war with Spain in April 1898 Schroeder travels with the Massachusetts from the Florida Keys to the coast of Cuba. In his letter of June 3 he describes the strategic sinking of the USS Merrimac in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba which Schroeder details alongside his conflicts with Admiral Winfield Schley:<br />  <br /> “The work of sinking the big collier Merrimac in the entrance to the harbor was gallantly done last night; but I am afraid all the heroic little band perished; none have returned so far. For reasons unknown to any of us Comd'r Miller was detached from his command yesterday and ordered north by the first conveyance and strangely enough the young Naval Constructor Hobson finally prevailed upon the Admiral to let him take her in. It appears that he conceived the idea and prepared the vessel and on those grounds insisted that he should be given command. The thing was to have been done night before last but the collier could not be gotten ready; some think that is the reason that Miller was detached but I think that is all wrong; many think he was breaking down & had to be relieved. … Hobson started in between 3 and 4 this morning and got quite near the entrance before he was discovered then one big gun banged at him after a while a couple more and in a few minutes there was one incessant blaze and rattle hundreds of muskets apparently lining the shore besides several automatic Maxim one-pounders apparently. We can see the masts upright in the water now a little farther in the harbor than I would have selected but apparently across the channel. … All this honey dear is of course in the most sacred confidence.â€<br />  <br /> Schroeder is blunt in explaining to his wife his conflicts with Naval leadership and his vivid descriptions of naval engagements include his own commentary on Schley's leadership. In his letter of June 6 he writes:<br />  <br /> “We silenced the enemy but most of their guns are still there and they are hard at work repairing traverses etc. You see all we have to aim at is the individual guns and unless we hit them they can repair between them whatever damage we may do to the earthwork. We landed 6 heavy shells right there and the men cheered as the clouds of earth and dust blew up; but no serious damage was done. . Owing to delay of two vessels of the other squadron in taking position we did not open fire until ¼ to 8. And then for some time owing partly to Schley's great disregard of orders concerning the direction and range to be observed and partly to the L.S.'s pitiable ignorance of how to handle the ship so as to facilitate accuracy and rapidity of fire and nervous contradiction of orders &c. this ship was about as useful as if she had been in New York. When it was imperative that the range should remain as constant as possible so we could correct the fire he kept moving the ship about at varying speeds and twisting her about so the batteries would bear first in one direction and then in another distorting the aim completely. … I finally fled and told him the regulation ordered that I should be where I could best look after the general working of the armament and therefore I could sometimes do that best at one end of the ship and sometimes at the other. Then the poor orderlies were kept chasing me with a multitude of ridiculous and contradictory orders.â€<br />  <br /> He is especially incensed by the notion following the Battle of Santiago de Cuba that Schley could be considered by any means a hero writing on July 7:<br />  <br /> “It is dreadful to see how some of the papers are trying to make a hero of Schley. Not only did he have absolutely no influence in the result of the fight but the Colon was lost to us as a prize by his timidity and delay in having her boarded which was not done for 3 ¾ hours after her surrender during which time she floated off from the beach and the Spaniards dishonorable opened their valves during that time to sink her. It is absurd to try to make any capital out of the fact that the Admiral had gone Eastward for a conference with the army and did not reach the scene of action until after the Colon had been forced to surrender by the Oregon. Schley did not make a single signal. The ships had been individually assigned to certain stations to watch that entrance being ordered even to keep headed towards the entrance; they were all there like terriers watching a rat-hole and it was a notorious feat commented upon by everyone that the Brooklyn Schley's ship was always miles away from her post -- "off pouting by herself" as it was universally described. … It is nauseating.â€<br />  <br /> Of the 1898 letters two are drafts of battle reports dated June 16 and July 7 and totaling three pages; fifty-one are letters to his wife dating between January 23 and August 13 and totaling approximately 172 pages; and eleven letters to other family dating between February 6 and July 11 and totaling approximately thirty-eight pages. These describe engagements inform his family of his whereabouts and candidly discuss his resentment of both Schley and the Captain of the Massachusetts Charles J. Train. The battle reports provide listings of the ships involved in combat and the number timing and caliber of shots fired. Also included in this archive are Schroeder's contingency plans for an invasion of Cuba written in 1906. This report lists two plans A and B: Plan A is for "defense of the city i.e. Havana against imminent attack by the insurgents from the west" and Plan B is for "preserving order and protecting property within the city in case of riot." He lists the ships present their commanding officers companies gunners and medical personnel. In Plan A he describes decisions about points of attack:<br /> <br /> “On account of the flatness of the country at Marianao affording no points of vantage for defense and of the inadvisability of taking measures leading to street fighting and of the extended front that would be involved it was decided not to try to cover Marianao but to hold a line at the Almendares river or Chorrera and a series of heights extending from it to the eastward and thence northward to the head of the harbor.†He lists where each brigade should be and describes each position; for instance: "Position 'A' is at the Electric Railway Bridge near the mouth of the river. There is a new wood and coral blockhouse there well able to resist the small arm fire of the insurgents … From 'A' to 'B' the ground is high and firm." He also makes suggestions about the specific buildings or facilities to be attacked and notes people who are sympathetic to the American cause: “Position No. 6 The Palatino is the property of Senora Abreu a lady of strong American sympathies and over whose house an American flag always flies." Plan B mainly consists of suggestions for where to quarter troops especially "having in view the existence of yellow fever" and out of the way in order not to "cause undesirable irritation" among Havana's residents.<br />  <br /> These materials are accompanied by Schroeder's naval orders and appointments from 1869 to 1911; with other material including an invitation to the 1910 launch of the battleship Florida and a copy of a booklet Schroeder authored titled A Personal Error in Estimating the Direction of a Sound; and letters by other family members including a 1902 letter describing an earthquake in Guam while Schroeder was its governor. There is also included a 1921 draft of Schroeder's response to a request for comment on a number of disarmament proposals for the Washington Naval Conference. An extensive and significant archive of correspondence from a commander during the Spanish-American War. unknown
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African Americana. Civil War. Miles John B.
Cabinet Card Portrait of John B. Miles Veteran of the 43rd U.S. Colored Infantry
Thomaston Me: Levi Morse 1900. Very good. Cabinet card photograph 6 x 4 inches on printed studio card reading "Photo'd by Levi Morse Thomaston." Minor dust-soiling and light foxing signature reading "John B. Niles" in image area mild overpainting of subject. A wonderful photographic portrait of an African-American infantry veteran of the Civil War named John B. Niles 1844-. Niles was born in Portland Maine; the Niles family were founding members of Portland's Abyssinian Meetinghouse and their family home is the oldest remaining house built by African Americans in the city. Niles was a laborer who enlisted with Company B of the 43rd United States Colored Infantry in December 1863 for a period of three years; his service record states that he fought in the Battle of Hatcher's Run in Virginia. The present portrait of Niles was taken by Levi Morse a noted photographer in Thomaston Maine north of Portland. Niles appears to be in his fifties or sixties and Morse died in 1902 dating the photograph most likely towards the end of Morse's life. We could locate no other examples of Niles' handwriting so are not sure if the signature in the image area of the photograph belongs to Niles or was simply supplied by another as identification. Levi Morse unknown
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[Civil War]. [Confederate Texas]
Partially Printed Form Completed in Manuscript Attesting to the Loyalty of a Texas Cavalryman and Giving Him Permission to Return Home
West Point Ga: May 13 1865. About very good. Partially-printed document completed in manuscript docketed on verso. Old folds minor loss at one crossfold some archival reinforcements along fold lines minor creasing and edge wear. A late Oath of Allegiance sworn by Private William M. Lewis Company F of the 8th Confederate Texas Cavalry. William M. Lewis enlisted with the 8th Texas Cavalry better known as Terry's Texas Rangers after its organizer Benjamin Franklin Terry. Although originally intended to serve in Virginia the Rangers were assigned under General Albert Sydney Johnston for service in the West. Colonel Terry was killed early in a skirmish on December 17 1861. Terry's Texas Rangers were reassigned to the Army of Tennessee led by General Braxton Bragg where they were used as shock troops given their high skill level at mounted shooting. The regiment would ultimately fight in nearly 275 engagements distinguishing themselves at the battles of Shiloh Murfreesboro Chattanooga and Chickamauga. During the Atlanta Campaign the regiment continually harassed Sherman's army on its March to the Sea. Although 248 survivors of the 8th Texas Cavalry declined to surrender with the rest of the Army of Tennessee at the end of the war it appears that Lewis was captured. The rest of his regiment fled south to reunite with Confederates who had yet to bend the knee. In the present document Lewis does "solemnly swear that I will not bear arms against the United States of America or give any information or do any military duty whatsoever until regularly exchanged as a prisoner of war." The oath is followed by information on Lewis's physical description describing him as a five-feet-tall with "dark" hair "grey" eyes and a "fair" complexion. The document is signed by Lewis after the oath and at the bottom by Captain and Assistant Provost Marshall Asa B. Fitch of Company H of the 4th Iowa Cavalry which also fought at the Battle of Bentonville. The printed text above Fitch's signature states that he is allowing Lewis "to return to his home not to be molested by the military authorities of the United States as long as he observes this parole and obeys the laws which were in force previous to January 1 1861 where he resided." Loyalty oaths for Confederate Texas soldiers are rare but rarer still from prisoners of war held by Union forces at the end of the conflict and especially rare from members of Terry's Texas Rangers. This document is all three rolled into one. May 13 unknown
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War Office, UK
German Order of Battle 1944: The Directory Prepared by Allied Intelligence of Regiments Formations and Units of the German Armed Forces
Greenhill Books 1994-04-29. hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 6x2x9. Unpaginated Red spine 8vo. sized. Many pages. A fold-out map at the rear. Original publisher's black boards - gilt embossed to the spine. A lovely fresh clean tight very good plus copy in similar jacket. No inscriptions. The tail of the spine a little bumped and a slight bump to the head of the spine. The slightest of spotting to the upper fore-edge. The jacket has not been price-clipped with slight shelf wear. A well preserved clean tight and bright copy. Greenhill Books hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 024848 ISBN : 1853671703 9781853671708
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( L`Album de la guerre 1914 - 1919)
L`Album de la Guerre. Histoire photographique et dokumentaire reconstituee chronologiquement a L`aide de cliches et de dessins publies par "L`Illustartion" de 1914 a 1921. Zwei Bände
L`Illustration Paris 1927. Zusammen 8 Bll./1312 S. mit zahlr. Avvildungen und z.Teil aufgezogenen Tafeln goldgeprägte original Ledereinbände. Folio 405 cm x 32 cmeine widmung auf Vorsatz/Band II mit kleinem Fleck auf einband. - gut erhaltene Exemplare - unknown
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Guerra de la Vega, Ramon
El Madrid de Carlos III: guÃa de arte y arquitectura
Pozuelo de Alarcón C/ Caridad 16 28224 Pozuelo: Ramón Guerra. 2002. Paperback. Firma del anterior propietario. Good. 24 cm. 214 p. il. col. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Siglo XVIII' numero colecciont. 2. Guerra de la Vega Ramón 1951-. Textos y fotografÃas de Ramón Guerra. Arquitectura. Madrid Comunidad Autónoma. GuÃa de Madrid y la Granja. t. 2 . Firma del anterior propietario. ISBN: 8488271212 Arquitectura 72.034.7460.27 Ramón Guerra. paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 3389578 ISBN : 8488271212 9788488271211
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Matthews, Wayne & Wilson, David
Fighting Nineteenth. History of the 19th Infantry Battalion AIF 1915-1918
Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2011. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Mint condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. A new copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Research CD to rear pocket. Nominal Roll Honours and Awards. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 520 pages. After almost 95 years the story of the Fighting Nineteenth can finally be told. Almost 5000 men served in the 19th Battalion AIF during its three and a half years as one of the four battalions of the 5th Brigade 2nd Division. Formed in Sydney in 1915 with many of its first recruits recently discharged members of the Australian force that captured the German colonies in New Guinea. This history traces the battalion's progress from Australia to Egypt and then on to Gallipoli where it was responsible for Popes Hill. After Gallipoli it was the Western Front. . New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Australian Military History Publications hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : BIB328004 ISBN : 0980777445 9780980777444
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Guerra, Wendy,
Todos Se Van
new. unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 21786105-n ISBN : 8433997823 9788433997821
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Coastal Command: The Air Ministry Account of the Part Played by Coastal Command in the Battle of the Seas 1939-1942
<p>NY: The Macmillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn. 1943. Hardcover. Black cloth binding. Many photos maps illustrations. Inscribed on half-title by Lt. Kenneth S. Fletcher of Coastal Patrol CAP Army Air Forces to H Frederick Bibbons Jr. Of Royal Air Force Coastal Command then signed by Lieutenant Jack Ball UB-132 and Lt. Jack M. Wallace USNR. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages .</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover
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Imperial War Museum
Cabinet War Rooms
Imperial War Museum. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Imperial War Museum unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : L05A-03230 ISBN : 1870423119 9781870423113
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Junqueiro, Guerra
Os Simples Portuguese Edition
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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Office, War
The Queen's king's Regulations And Orders For The Army. with Amendments
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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Guerra, Chelsea
Writing Conversational Korean For Beginners
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1737677776.G ISBN : 1737677776 9781737677772
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Imperial War Museums
Churchill War Rooms Guidebook
Imperial War Museums 2019-03-15. paperback. Good. 7x0x8. Imperial War Museums paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 190489755X-3-28866421 ISBN : 190489755X 9781904897552
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War Department Office of the Chief of St
Drill Regulations For Field Artillery United States Army Provisional 1908 1908
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1164625268.G ISBN : 1164625268 9781164625261
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