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Gallagher, W. G.
THE THIRD DAY AT GETTYSBURG & BEYOND
B&W Photographs; 8vo; 217 pages
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Nevins, Allan
ORDEAL OF THE UNION. [VOLUME II only] A House Dividing 1852 - 1857
Light rubbing to boards ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 590 pages
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Humphreys, A. A.
GETTYSBURG TO THE RAPIDAN The Army of the Potomac. July, 1863 to April, 1864
Rear fold out map; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 86 pages
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Bowen, John
BATTLEFIELDS OF THE CIVIL WAR A State-By-State Guide
Profusely illustrated; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 189 pages
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Coco, Gregory A.
A VAST SEA OF MISERY A History and Guide to the Union and Confederate Field Hospitals At Gettysburg. July 1 - November 20, 1863
Profusely illustrated coffe table book; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 208 pages
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Baxter, Nancy Niblack
GALLANT FOURTEENTH The Story of an Indiana Civil War Regiment
DJ with light rubbing ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 205 pages
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Smith, Fredrika Shumway
FREMONT Soldier, Explorer, Statesman
DJ a bit darkening and with light rubbing. Former owner's name on front free endpaper ; SIGNED on front free endpaper by the author; 8vo; 256 pages
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Benet, Stephen Vincent
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
Spine darkened. Spine label and front label lightly rubbed and yellowed; Benet's epic poem about the Civil War; 8vo; 377 pages
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Korngold, R.
TWO FRIENDS OF MAN
B&W Photographs; 8vo; 415 pages
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Ryan, David D.
FOUR DAYS IN 1865: THE FALL OF RICHMOND
B&W Photographs; 8vo; 161 pages
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Josyph, Peter
THE WOUNDED RIVER The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, MD
8vo; 241 pages
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Worsham, John H.
ONE OF JACKSON'S FOOT CAVALRY His Experience and What He Saw During the War 1861-1865
Full leather binding. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Three dimensional pictorial decoration to front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers; Collector's Library of the Civil War; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 353 pages
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Jones, J. B.
A REBEL WAR CLERK'S DIARY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES CAPITAL [VOLUME II only]
Full leather binding. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Three dimensional pictorial decoration to front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers; Collector's Library of the Civil War; 8vo; 480 pages
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Billings, John D.
HARDTACK AND COFFEE Or the Unwritten Story of Army Life
Full leather binding. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Three dimensional pictorial decoration to front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers; Collector's Library of the Civil War; 8vo; 408 pages
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Walton, Clyde C.
CIVIL WAR HISTORY [15 VOLUME SET] March 1955 - December 1969
Complete quarterly periodical nicely bound in green buckram - one volume per year ; State University of Iowa Library; 8vo
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Woodward, W E
MEET GENERAL GRANT
Spine faded. Slight wear to extremities ; Gilt portrait of Grant on front board ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 512 pages
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Rawson, Edward K. & Woods, Robert H.
OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE STATES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
Wear to extremities. Binding not tight. Both hinges well started, showing much webbing; Voluminous correspondence by soldiers on both sides detailing the struggle ; 8vo; 895 pages
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Stackpole, Edward J.
DRAMA ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK The Fredericksburg Campaign
Wear & chipping to DJ. Endpapers browned; SIGNED by author to half-title page. stated first edition ; 8vo; 297 pages
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Williams, George F.
BULLET AND SHELL War As the Soldier Saw It
Wear to extremities, particularly spine ends. Hinges well started. Binding not tight ; Civil War veteran speaks out ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 454 pages
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Various
THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Report of the Joint Committee on Arrangements on the Commemoration Ceremony in Observance
Light occasional foxing. Light apparent pencil marks to title page. Corners bumped; A joint session of Congress convened to honor the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth. Includes program of event in rear envelope; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 32 pages
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Catton, Bruce
TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD
Wear to price clipped DJ; Numerous maps; The Centennial History of the Civil War; Vol. 2; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 559 pages
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Lewis, Berkeley R.
NOTES ON AMMUNITION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865
Wear to wraps. Previous owner's inscription to title page; Voluminous list of weapons and ammunition and supplies for Civil War troops. One such list includes 3,004 frogs at a cost of $1,035. unpaginated; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall
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Canfield, Eugene B.
NOTES ON NAVAL ORDNANCE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865
Wear to wraps. Previous owner's inscription to title page ; Weaponry the Navy used during the Civil War. unpaginated; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall
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Bengtson, Bradley P. & Kuz, Julian E.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF CIVIL WAR INJURIES Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens
Stated first edition. From the Otis Historical Archives. Photographs with accompanying medical explanations of injuries to Civil War soldiers and civilians. NOTE: most of the photographs are graphic and gruesome; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 446 pages
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Greene, Francis Vinton
THE MISSISSIPPI
Bookplate; Campaigns of the Civil War VIII; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages
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Derrik Mercer:
Fog of War
very good, good. First edition. First? 24 cm, 413, bibliography, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Foreword by Sir Tom Hopkinson. How military and political leaders in Britain, the United States, and NATO are planning to cope with the increasing ability of journalists to bypass official controls such as censorship. Much of the secret contingency planning for war is revealed
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ESHEL D.:
Bravery in Battle stories from the front line
VG/ VG 1st Edition 1993. As new No significant faults with book or dj. no inscriptions. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 240pp, photographs
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Gibbs, Peter:
Death of the last republic: The story of the Anglo-Boer War
Vg . re-cased for library in attractive green with gilt titling to spine. book pocket to reverse of front board. no inscriptions, but some library marks. internally a very good clean tight bright copy. 1st edition.
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William Seymour:
Battles in Britain, 1066 -1547
Vg/VG dj is slight;y creased to top edge, but no loss. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. First Edition.Clean throughout with no inscription or annotation. Narrative accounts of main battles; Explanation of historical background; Analysis of commanders; Guide to battlefields with road directions; Specially keyed aerial photos; Detailed battle plans; Drawings of all main weapons and armour; Comtemporary illustrations
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William Seymour:
Battles in Britain, 1642 - 1746
Vg/VG dj is slight;y creased to top edge, but no loss. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. .Clean throughout with no inscription or annotation. Narrative accounts of main battles; Explanation of historical background; Analysis of commanders; Guide to battlefields with road directions; Specially keyed aerial photos; Detailed battle plans; Drawings of all main weapons and armour; Comtemporary illustrations
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Dean E Hess:
Battle Hymn
Vg no dj . spine is rounded to both ends and worn to edgesof spine - but no loss. no inscriptions. boots library sticker to front board - but no library reference internally. there are the odd few tarnish marks/discolourations in the text - but nothing unsightly. American fighter pilot and chaplain recalls his experiences in the Second World War and the Korean War
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Potter, Lou; Miles, William & Rosenblum, Nina:
Liberators : Fighting on two fronts in World War II
Vg/VG not price-clipped. no inscriptions.Lavishly illustrated with rare contemporary photographs. Potter has produced a unique work of military and social history, that examines the role of African-American troops in WW II. He particularly examines the role of the only black armoured force, the 761 Tank Battalion, the so called 'Fighting Black Panthers. This force was helped in the liberation of the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Potter points out the irony of this. Given the explicitly entrenched racist system in the American South.
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James Lucas:
WAR IN THE DESERT
VG/VG near fine . not price-clipped. no inscriptions. 1st Thus. 8vo over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 284 pages, b/w plates, maps & diagrams, glossary, chronology, bibliography, index of military formations, general index. 284 pp The eighth army at El Alamein
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Laffin John:
World Word 1 in Post Cards
VG/VG near fine . not price-clipped. no inscriptions. 8vo Reprint. 199pp. With numerous illustrations, a few in colour. Illustrations of postcards sent home by troops during the Great War, taken from the author's collection
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TITHERINGTON, Arthur.:
Kinkaseki : One Day at a Time. A British Prisoner of War's Account of 1300 Days in a Japanese Slave Labour Camp
VG paperback with glossy covers. clean bright copy. tiny owner sticker to reverse of front cover. no inscriptions. 46 b/w photographs and illustrations on plates. The author's slave-labour experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, and of being forced to work in the Kinkaseki copper mines
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John Selby:
THE ROAD TO YORKTOWN
VG/VG (no significant faults with book or dj) Octavo 214pp illustrated. 'The surrender at Yorktown was the real climax of the war. There, in 1781, the end of the road which the Americans had started off along from Lexington in 1775 was reached'
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Harry Levy:
THE DARK SIDE OF THE SKY
Near fine/near fine (near fine unclipped dj,a very clean tight bright copy in near fine condition, hint of faint cockling top edges of pages) octavo 190pp. First edition. The story of a young Jewish airman in Nazi Germany and his time in a prisoner of war camp. 4pp b/w photographs.
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Eric Morris:
BLOCKADE Berlin and the Cold War
Vg/Vg (two 1/2" tears to clean unclipped dj, a very good clean bright tight copy with no marks or inscriptions,a couple of small spots top page edges) octavo 278pp. Authoritative account of the whole series of events from the partition of Germany during the last days of World War II, through the blockade of 1948, the Berlin Airlift, and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
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William Buchan (editor):
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AT WAR
VG (original blue cloth with gilt eagle on front board, minimal wear) Large format, quarto. Fourth edtn revised. 64pp illustrated throughout. A nice piece of upbeat propaganda at the point during the war when the RAF was probably at its lowest
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C O Jennings:
AN OCEAN WITHOUT SHORES
G/Fair (clipped dj chipped and worn round edges and large damp stain back cover, clean grey cloth with blue titles on spine and blue illustration of boat on front board, damp stains at hinge of front endpapers, top page edges dusty and brown spotting outside page edges only, internally pages clean and bright with one dog-eared corner) octavo 221pp. Second impression. The incredible voyage of two British soldiers who set out to sail from Sumatra to Australia in a small open boat in their attempt to escape from the Japanese in Singapore. They were at sea for 127 days.
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EDWARD P. NON DER PORYEN:
Pictorial history of the German Navy in World War II
VG/VG dj has 1 tear to top edge on back with a folded down flap. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. 1st edition. extensive history with huge number of photographs and background details. not a coffee table book = richly detailed
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Hooton, E.R.:
Eagle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe
VG/VG near fine. octavo. no inscriptions or internal markings. not price-clipped . 1st edition. internally a clean crisp copy The author follows the demise of the Luftwaffe after the reversals in the Battle of Britain to Germany's final defeat and surrender. the text analyses the complexities of the air war from 1940 to D-Day, and appendices detail Orders of Battle, aircraft production, equivalent ranks etc
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heinz g konsalik:
THE NAKED EARTH
VG/VG dj is price-clipped, and has light rounding to both ends of spine, and 1 small nick to edge. edge has light wear with odd small chip - but nothing major - mentioned for completeness. 1st edition in UK as translation from german edition. 1 inscription. light foxing to edge of textblock. good clean copy. novel based on the activities of a german doctor held after stalingrad, and then in prison camps. uncommmon title
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Alec Le Vernoy:
NO DRUMS NO TRUMPETS a Remarkable true story of courage and endurance in World War II
Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Octavo 320pp Maps at bendpapers. The multiple wartime adventures of a Frenchman who tried and failed to join De Gaulle and the Free French in London
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Eric l Muller:
Free to Die for Their Country
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cloth Covered Boards Good. Good. The story of the Japanese American draft resisters in WWII. The red from fep's has run into the title pages and slight cockling to pages and plates from storage in damp conditions, but no marks and does not detract from the contents of this hard to find book.
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Arnold, James R.:
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR Volume 7 ARTILLERY
paperback VG 1 inscription to reverse of front cover. minor corner wear.
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Asher, Michael:
The Real "Bravo Two Zero": The Truth Behind "Bravo Two Zero"
Vg/VG internally no fault. octavo First edition.. not price-clipped. the dj has a short tear to the top rear corner - easily repairable. an investigation on what really happened on the mission that made mcnab wealthy from a best-selling account. The Bravo Two Zero SAS operation in the first Gulf War by patrol commander "Andy McNab" did not seem to tally with the events as described by other participants. some things just did not happen in real life. Michael Asher, who also served in the parachute regiment and the SAS, went to investigate on the ground, to see what really happened. Includes eight pages of black & white photographs
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terence horsley:
FIND FIX AND STRIKE
G+ green boards with some wear to corners, and some isolated staining/discolouration to board. no inscription. spine binding a internally has cracked at one point - but all pages bound in safely. a work on the fleet air arm.
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Mark Lloyd:
COMBAT UNIFORMS OF THE CIVIL WAR
Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Substantial large format quarto. 220pp illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Wonderful reference
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Edmund L. Blandford:
GREEN DEVILS - RED DEVILS. UNTOLD TALES OF THE AIRBORNE IN WORLD WAR II
VG/VG. dj is lightly rubbed to top end of the spine. no inscriptions. not price-clipped. 1st Edition. 204pp. ills.
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