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Dobson, Christopher; Miller, John
The Day They Almost Bombed Moscow : The Allied War in Russia 1918-1920
New York NY U.S.A.: Atheneum Books 1986. 288 pp. Photo illustrations. Maps in text and end-paper maps. Very Fine copy in Fine dust-jacket. The little known and much misunderstood war - the Allied intervention into the Russian Revolution. What began as a desperate attempt to maintain the Eastern Front against the Germans developed into a haphazard and chaotic offensive against the Bolsheviks. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Atheneum Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002009 ISBN : 0689117132 9780689117138
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Stern, Robert C
U-boats in Action
Warren MI: Squadron/Signal Publications 1977. No. 1 in the Warships series. 50 PP with 35 sketch-plans 10 profiles 110 b/w photos. Title page: U-Boots-kriegabzeichen Submarine War Badge. Pictorial card cover. An illustrated and written history of the U-Boats of the German navy during World War II. Includes descriptions of all types with photographs and drawings colour illustrations and specifications. Inside cover taped. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Squadron/Signal Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : 004003
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Gretton, Vice Admiral Sir Peter
Winston Churchill and the Royal Navy
New York: Coward McCann 1969. 338 pages with several photos. Impact of Churchill on the Royal Navy as First Lord of the Admiralty 1911-15 and again 1939-40. Small gift inscription inside front cover. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Coward, McCann hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001294
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Bonn, Keith E
When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign October 1944-January 1945
Novato California U.S.A.: Presidio Press 1994. 294pp/illus/maps. History of the Vosges Mountain Campaign in Northeastern France Oct 44 - Jan 45. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presidio Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003730 ISBN : 0891415122 9780891415121
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Vernon, Alex; Creighton, Neal, Jr.; Downey, Greg; Holmes, Rob
The Eyes of Orion : Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War
Kent OH U.S.A.: Kent State University Press 1999. 330 pages hardback book and dust jacket near fine condition black and white photos highly personal day-to-day experiences of five platoon leaders who served in the same tank battalion in the 24th I nfantry Division during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kent State University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003191 ISBN : 0873386337 9780873386333
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Ziemke, Earl F
The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany 1944-1946
Washington DC: Center of Military History 1975. 477 pages with several photos and maps including several fold-out maps. Details the history of the US occupation of Germany following World War II. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Center of Military History hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000404
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MacDonald, Callum A
The Killing of Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich
New York NY U.S.A.: Free Press The 1989. Book contains 239 pages with b&w illustrations. Never been read - so very clean and tight. In the darkest months of 1941 as Hitler and his generals consolidated their grip on Western Europe and rolled swiftly into the Soviet Union the world despaired at the seeming invincibility of Nazi power. Determined to smash all remnants of resistance Hitler appointed Reinhard Heydrich the most feared figure in occupied Europe and symbol of the hated Nazi SS elite as Reichsprotektor of Czachoslovakia. Heydrich who had organized the infamous Wannsee Conference to plan the Final Solution terrorized the Czechs in an orgy of torture and murder in order to establish his model SS State on their torture and murder in order to establish his model SS State on their soil. First Printing. Hard Cover/Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Free Press, The hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001826 ISBN : 0029195616 9780029195611
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Messimer Dwight R
In the Hands of Fate : The Story of Patrol Wing Ten
Annapolis MD U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press 1985. 350pp. b/w pls. maps bibliog. index Story of the PBY Pilots & their Planes fighting in Java and on Bataan & Corregidor. Previous owner embossed name on free end-paper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naval Institute Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002073 ISBN : 0870212931 9780870212932
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Rawls, Walton
Wake up America! : World War I and the American Poster
New York NY U.S.A.: Abbeville Press Incorporated 2001. 288pp A detailed and superbly illustrated study of the poster campaign with which the American people were persuaded by the Wilson government to accept involvement in the first world war. Whatever the moral status of the campaign the posters were artistically superb creations by the likes of Charles Dana Gibson N. C. Wyeth Jessie Wilcox Smith and many others and this book is the first to acknowledge and discuss in detail their artistic merit. Fully illustrated in colour. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Abbeville Press, Incorporated hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002905 ISBN : 0896598888 9780896598881
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Holberton, William B
Homeward Bound: The Demobilization of the Union & Confederate Armies 1865-66
Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Stackpole Books 2001. 224pp 17 illustrations hb. This fascinating study examines what happened to the Union and Confederate armies when peace broke out in 1865. William B. Holberton has based his extraordinarily detailed study on countless eyewitness accounts and brings this unique and dramatic period of American history to life. Beginning with the surrender of the Appomattox Courthouse the author lucidly takes the reader through all aspects and phases of demobilization including the Grand Review of the victorious Union Army in Washington the desertion of soldiers too impatient to return home the difference between demobilization in the South and that in the North joyful homecomings the diverse experiences of men travelling home across a continent and the deferred return of prisoners of war. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Stackpole Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003625 ISBN : 0811707881 9780811707886
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Harms, Norm
German Infantry in Action
Warren MI: Squadron/Signal Publications 1973. oblong 8vo. 50pp. col. & b/w pls. Combat Troops No. 2. Nice pictorial study based on archive photos. Clean. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Squadron/Signal Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : 004004
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Read, Anthony; Fisher, David
The Fall of Berlin
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated 1993. Book has 513 pages with section of photographs. As World War II draws to a close in Europe the attention of the Allied and German high commands is focused on a signle city: Berlin crown jewel of the Nazi empire now the scene of Adopf Hitler's desperate last stand. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001147 ISBN : 0393034720 9780393034721
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Conot, Robert E
Justice at Nuremberg : The First Comprehensive Dramatic Account of the Trial of the Leaders
New York NY U.S.A.: HarperTrade 1983. Book has 593 pages. DJ price is clipped off flyleaf. Small amount of wear to edge of dj. The story of the greatest trial in history. The first and only time the leaders of a defeated nation have been placed on trial. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperTrade hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000436 ISBN : 006015117X 9780060151171
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Franks Norman
Claims to Fame : The Lancaster
London: Arms and Armour 1995. Book contains 222 pages with black and white illustrations. This book celebrates the Lancaster 'centenarians' - 34 machines that achieved the remarkable goal of 100 or more operations flown during the course of World War II. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arms and Armour hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002232 ISBN : 1854092200 9781854092205
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Sontag, Raymond James (ed)
Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941: Documents From the Archives of the German Foreign Office
Washington DC: Department of State 1948. 362pp. Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office. Meticulously chronicles the collaboration between the two regimes which began before the German invasion of Poland. These are the captured German Archives captured in 1945. A very important publication for anyone interested in Nazi and Soviet evil particularly the German Foreign Office's view of how events would unfold. Includes sections on "Tentative Efforts ToImprove German-Soviet Relations April 17-August 14 1939"; "Friction In The Baltic & The Balkans June 4-September 28 1939" and "The Failure Of Efforts To Preserve Peace April . . First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Department of State paperback
Bookseller reference : 003251
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North Korean Military Orders and Medals Poster
Burke VA: DBM Enterprises 2002. Beautiful 11"x16" color poster showing Orders and Medals and Ribbons of North Korea. . 1st Edition. DBM Enterprises unknown
Bookseller reference : 001637
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Heiber, Helmut (editor); Glantz, David M. (editor)
Hitler and His Generals : Military Conferences 1942-1945 Ser.
New York: Enigma Books 2003. 1158 pg.Text of Hitler's military conferences with his military generals from the Battle Stalingrad in 1942 to the Fall of Berlin in 1945. ILLUSTRATED BY TABLES CHARTS MAPS Clean. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Enigma Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002589 ISBN : 192963109X 9781929631094
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Carter, Kit C. & Mueller, Robert (Compilers)
The Army Air Forces in World War Two: Combat Chronology 1941-1945
Washington D.C: Office of Air Force History 1973. 991pp textvery good copy in cloth as issued. Day by day record of the principal events and campaigns. Very detailed. Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Office of Air Force History hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002552
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Read Anthony; Fisher David
Deadly Embrace : Hitler Stalin & the Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939-1941
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company 1988. 687 pages with several maps and photos. Has gift inscription inside front cover. History of the Nazi-Soviet relations and their mutual non-aggression pact from 1939 to 1941. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000512 ISBN : 0393025284 9780393025286
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Lamont-Brown, Raymond
Kempeitai : Japan's Dreaded Military Policy
New York NY U.S.A.: Sutton Publishing 1998. 182pp. Origins training recruitment operation etc of Japan's ruthless "Gestapo" of World War Two also covers their disbanding aftermath and assimilation at the end of the conflict.Includes accounts from Kempeitai members and victims. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sutton Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002885 ISBN : 0750915668 9780750915663
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Macksey Kenneth
Why the Germans Lose at War : The Myth of German Military Superiority Greenhill Military Paperbacks Ser.
New York: Military Book Club 1999. 240pp. b/w pls. maps bibliog. index The Fatal Flaws of German Generalship from Moltke to Guderian. First published as From Triumph to Disaster. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Military Book Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002794 ISBN : 1853673838 9781853673832
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Adams, Edward B
Korea's Pottery Heritage - Volume 1
Seoul Korea: Seoul Korea: Seoul International Publishing House 1986 1986. 122 pages with numerous color and b&w photos. Presents a detailed account of the evolution of Korean pottery and ceramics. Clean. 1st Printing. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seoul, Korea: Seoul International Publishing House, 1986 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001493 ISBN : 0804814317 9780804814317
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Gilbert, Martin
Winston S. Churchill Vol. IV : The Stricken World 1916-1922
Boston MA U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company 1971. This volume of the Official Biography covers the period when David Lloyd George was in office the First World War ended and Churchill was again moving up the ladder. 967 pages maps and photos index. Has notations inside front cover and light underlinining on approx 10 pages. DJ has small tear at top of spine. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003009 ISBN : 0395131537 9780395131534
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Y'Blood William T
Red Sun Setting : The Battle of the Philippine Sea
Annapolis MD U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press 1981. 257 pages/photos end-paper maps. History of the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naval Institute Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003356 ISBN : 0870215329 9780870215322
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Esposito Colonel Vincent J. ed
Atlas to Accompany Steele's American Campaigns
West Point NY: Department of Military Art and Engineering United States Military Academy 1956. Book has 158 pages and is 10 6/16" tall by 14 1/4" wide. Book has light wear to edge of cover. Has battle maps from the Colonial Wars The Revolutionary War The War of 1812 The Mexican War The American Civil War and The Spanish-American War. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Department of Military Art and Engineering, United States Military Academy hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000386
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Carter, Boake
Black Shirt Black Skin
Harrisburg PA: Telegraph Press 1935. 178 pp/illus. Black cloth lettered in silver on front and spine. Endpapers are color maps of Ethiopia. The story of the Italian-Ethiopian conflict. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Telegraph Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004255
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Read Anthony; Fisher David
The Fall of Berlin
Ols Saybrook CT: W. S. Konecky 1993. 513pp. A history of the Battle for Berlin over the course of the Second World War that includes the intense Allied bombing campaign which culminated with the massive Soviet assault which over 300000 Red Army troops were killed or wounded. Includes 5 maps and several b/w photographs. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. S. Konecky hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003747 ISBN : 1568523335 9781568523330
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Chew, Allen F
The White Death: The Epic of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War
Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press 1971. 313pp/maps. the action of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 otherwise dnown as the Winter War of 1939-1940. This book is dedicated to the 23 000 Finns who died to ensure the freedom of their nation. It readily points out the reasons why the Finns were able to achieve the early success which they enjoyed and then the causes of their eventual defeat. Lessons about cold-weather operations are presented along with the thactical context in which they took place. Nice clean book. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Michigan State University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004092 ISBN : 0870131672 9780870131677
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Whiting, Charles
The Hunt for Martin Bormann: The Truth
Barnsley United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books Limited 1996. Book contains 222 pages with some b&w illustrations. Sized like a BCE but no markings as such. Light wear to edge of dj. Inside clean and tight! On the night of 1 May 1945 the most powerful man in Germany after Hitler Martin Bormann left the Fuhrerbunker beneath the ruined Chancellery building and scurried along the streets of a dying Nazi Berlin. He was running for his life groups of Russian soldiers were everywhere and Bormann was captured. He escaped and was never seen alive again. Revised Edition. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pen & Sword Books Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001479 ISBN : 0850525276 9780850525274
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Geiss, Josef
Obersalzberg
Berchtesgarden Germany: Verlag Josef Geiss 1980. 207pp/illus. Shows the way and change of the Obersalzberg from a summer resort to a preferred domicile of the rulers of the Third Realm. With a lot of historical pictures and sketches. . 1st Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Verlag Josef Geiss hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003089 ISBN : 3922590020 9783922590026
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Prien, Jochen; Rodeike, Peter
Messerschmitt BF 109 F/G/K/ Series : An Illustrated Study
Atglen PA U.S.A.: Schiffer Publishing Limited 1992. 208 pages 490 b/w and colour photos 50 line drawings. An illustrated history of the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Offers a concise overview of the later version of the 109 as well as the many variations used during World War II. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Schiffer Publishing, Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001988 ISBN : 0887404243 9780887404245
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Mandell, Richard D
The Nazi Olympics
New York NY: MacMillan 1971. 316pp index bw ilsl decorated endpapers. Or brown cloth. Prev owners name in red on ffep 2 small chips to jacket and tiny crease on front flap of jacket. Comprehensive examination of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the role they played in establishing and maintaining Hitler and Third Reich. As a propaganda exercise they were unequaled before and probably since. Price clipped on dj. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MacMillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002144
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Thomason, John W., Jr
Jeb Stuart
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1958. 512 pages. A detailed biography of this Confederate general and the battles he fought during the Civil War. Includes Index. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Scribner\'s Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002474 ISBN : 0803294247 9780803294240
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Reynolds, Michael
Steel Inferno : The 1st S.S. Panzer Corps in Normandy
New York: Sarpedon 1997. 314pp/illus/maps. This superbly written new work presents a detailed study of the operations of the lst SS Panzer Corps from the Allied invasion in Normandy June 6th 1944 thru August and the end of the Falaise Gap battles. The corps consisted of the lst SS Panzer division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and the 12th SS Panzer division Hitler Jugend. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sarpedon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002535 ISBN : 1885119445 9781885119445
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Stafford, David
Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe
New York: Little Brown 2003. 377pp/photos/maps. The story of the D-Day landings has been told many times but no one has revealed the part that fate human error political infighting deception and double agents played in the crucial ten days prior to D-Day. This is a day-by-day account of the untold. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Little, Brown hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003085 ISBN : 0316724777 9780316724777
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Breuer, William B
Geronimo : American Paratroopers in World War II
New York NY U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press 1989. xv 621pp. b/w pls. maps plans text ills. bibliog. index Based on the recollections of 562 former Paratroopers. Fine narrative history . 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. St. Martin\'s Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002613 ISBN : 0312033508 9780312033507
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Lodge, MAJ O. R,, USMC
The Recapture of Guam
Washington DC: Historical Branch G-3 HQ USMC 1954. Viii 214 Pgs Maps. Official USMC history of the Battle for Guam in 1944. Includes appendices with order of battle for the forces. The planning and fight to the recapture of Guam in 1944. Illus. with photographs and with a bibliography chronology list of the Command Staff and Landing Force and Ships used in the campaign and with a final small book attached to back cover of maps in both color and black & white. First Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Historical Branch, G-3, HQ, USMC hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002527
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Nolan, Alan T
Lee Considered : General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History
Chapel Hill NC U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press 1991. Book has 231 pages with 1 photographs as frontis. Clean and tight. Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate casue. The author explodes these and other assumptions about Lee. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of North Carolina Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000849 ISBN : 0807819565 9780807819562
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Massie, Robert K
Castles Of Steel: Britain Germany And The Winning Of The Great War At Sea
New York: Random House Inc 2003. 865 pages maps notes bibliog index. In a work of extraordinary narrative power filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action Robert K. Massie the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great Nicholas and Alexandra and Dreadnought elevates to its proper-historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches barbed wire machine guns poison gas and slaughter. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004275 ISBN : 0679456716 9780679456711
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Glatthaar, Joseph T
Forged in Battle : The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
New York NY U.S.A.: Meridian 1991. 370 pages illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. The experiences of black troops commanded by white officers. . 1st Paperback Ed. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Meridian paperback
Bookseller reference : 001911 ISBN : 0452010683 9780452010680
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Fisher, David; Read, Anthony
Operation Lucy : The Most Secret Spy Ring of the Second World War
New York NY U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group The 1981. 254pp inc photos - The story of what many have called the most secret spy ring of WWII and arguably the master spy of all time refugee German publisher Rudolf Rossler. Marked only along top of pages and on spine. Otherwise clean tight book. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Putnam Publishing Group, The hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003026 ISBN : 069811079X 9780698110793
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Waller, Douglas C.; Harper Collins
A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nation
New York: HarperCollins 2004. 439pp/illus. Story of the court martial of BG Billy Mitchell. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004045 ISBN : 0060505478 9780060505479
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Horne, Alistair; Montgomery, David
Monty : The Lonely Leader 1944-1945 : A Biography of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
New York NY U.S.A.: HarperCollins 1994. Book has 381 pages with endpaper maps and a few illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj. Remainder mark on bottom edge of pages. The very corner of the last few pages are wrinkled. An intimate portrait of one of the most brilliant enigmatic and controversial generals of World War II. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000857 ISBN : 0060170824 9780060170820
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Barenblatt, Daniel
A Plague upon Humanity : The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation
New York NY U.S.A.: HarperTrade 2004. 260pp. index. bibliography. photographs. The history of a true "devil's pact" between Japan and the medical atrocities they committed during WW2 and the United States and it's exploitation of that data. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperTrade hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002720 ISBN : 0060186259 9780060186258
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Cutler, Thomas J
The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944
New York: HarperCollins 1994. 343 pages/illustrations. The full story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Ed. HarperCollins hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004157 ISBN : 0060169494 9780060169497
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Colvin, John
Giap - Volcano under Snow : The Genius General of Vietnam
New York NY U.S.A.: Soho Press Incorporated 1996. xii 336pp. b/w pls. maps appends. bibliog. index Excellent Military biography of Vo Nguyen Giap. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soho Press, Incorporated hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002694 ISBN : 1569470537 9781569470534
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Tarrant, VE
The Last Year of the Kriegsmarine May 1944 - May 1945
London: Arms & Armour Press 1994. Book has 256 pages. DJ has wear to edges. Corner of book is slightly bumped. This is the first time the story of the final 12 months has been told. The author revelas the increasing desperation as Allied industrial bombing surperiority at sea and German technical delays ensured that the new 'wonder' weapons never delivered their potential. Unable to prevent the Allied invasion of Europe the Kriegsmarine could only rely on small battle units E-boats the odd destroyer or U-boat and bizarre semi-suicide weapons - to attack the vast amount of invations of shipping off Normandy. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arms & Armour Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000172 ISBN : 185409176X 9781854091765
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Gallagher, Gary W. (editor)
The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond
Chapel Hill NC U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press 1994. Book contains 217 pages with a few illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj. The six essays in this volume testify to the enduring impact of the Civil War on our national consciousness. Covering subjects as diverse as tactics the uses of autobiography and the power of myth-making in the southern tradition they illustrate the rewards of imaginative scholarship - even for the most intensely studied battle in America's history. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of North Carolina Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001036 ISBN : 0807821551 9780807821558
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Katz, Robert
The Battle for Rome : The Germans the Allies the Partisans and the Pope September 1943-June 1944
New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 2004. 418pp/photos/maps. Vividly recreates the drama of the occupation offering new information from recently declassified documents to explain the complex intentions of the many factions. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003068 ISBN : 0743216423 9780743216425
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Gordon, Lesley J
General George E. Pickett in Life & Legend
Chapel Hill North Carolina U.S.A.: Univ of North Carolina Pr 1998. 269 pages/illustrations 5 maps notes bibliography index The man who gave his name to the greatest failed frontal attack in American military history George E. Pickett is among the most famous Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of North Carolina Pr hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003740 ISBN : 080782450X 9780807824504
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