‎Guerre‎

‎PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR‎

‎Purnell's History of the Second World War. First Edition. Edited by Barrie Pitt. First Edition PURNELL'S FIRST EDITION COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BRANDED BINDERS‎

‎Purnell in association with the Imperial War Museum 1966-68. 96 weekly parts in 6 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts housed in black rexine binders blocked in gilt a very good bright clean set. Purnell's mammoth endeavour is arguably the crowning achievement of the 'partwork' fashion of the late 60s. Produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum edited by Barrie Pitt and written by a host of eminent historians scholars and veterans the series is equally fortunate in having Liddell-Hart as editor-in-chief. Produced in 'magazine' format the work as a whole makes full use of its size and space to create a lucid vivid and valuable account of the conflict. The number choice and quality of the photographs illustrations and diagrams are worthy of special mention. THE FOLDING MAP ISSUED AS A LOOSE INSERT WITH THE FIRST NUMBER IS MISSING AS USUAL. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Please note that additional postage will be required for shipping outside the UK. Purnell [in association with the Imperial War Museum], unknown‎

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‎[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim‎

‎The Things They Carried.‎

‎Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a touch of sunning to the author's name on spine. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- ARMY AIR FORCE]. CRAVEN, Wesley Frank & CATE, James Lea (Eds); COBB, Col Garth C & SIMPSON, Albert F, [BOOM, Ka‎

‎The Army Air Forces in World War II. Volume Seven: services around the World. . . .‎

‎Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press 1958. Tall thick 8vo. lii 2 666 2 pp. With maps numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher’s cloth gilt badge lozenge on front cover gilt lettering on spine map-illustrated endpapers minor soiling edgewear rubbing w/ d.j. wraparound map cover art minor chipping edgewear some soiling slight foxing front cover still VG-/VG- copy. First edition of this informative final 7th Volume in the series devoted to the development of the Air Transport Command Army Airways Communications Systems and the Aviation Engineers. Of particular interest is the excellent chapter focused on “Women in the AAF†by Kathleen Boom. Univ. of Chicago Press, hardcover‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- ARMY AIR FORCE]. CRAVEN, Wesley Frank & CATE, James Lea (Eds); DAVIES, Brig Gen Clinton W & SIMPSOIN, Albert F‎

‎The Army Air Forces in World War II. Volume Six: men and planes. . . .‎

‎Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press 1955. Tall thick 8vo. lii 807 1 pp. Photo frontisp. with maps numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher’s cloth gilt badge lozenge on front cover gilt lettering on spine map-illustrated endpapers minor shelfwear dustsoiling w/ d.j. wraparound map cover art edgewear small closed tears still VG/VG copy. First edition of this informative 6th Volume in the series devoted to the development of an effective air organization building and distributing aircraft as well as recruitment and crucial training of air personnel. Of particular interest are the sections and challenges on recruiting and training African-American pilots during World War II with Army Air Force records revealing that African-Americans only filled less than 6.5% of personnel during the War and does include a specific chapter on the famed Tuskegee Flying School along with their programs. In addition there are also included sections on flying schools and recruitment of Women for ferrying services and air depot slots. Univ. of Chicago Press, hardcover‎

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‎[Civil War] Breihan, Carl W‎

‎Quantrill and His Civil War Guerrillas.‎

‎Denver:: Sage Books 1959. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with tape reinforced corners. This is a concise well-researched biography of one of the famous Civil War figures William Clarke Quantrill 1837-1865. The action takes place mostly around the Kansas-Missouri border dating from before the Civil War to just afterward. William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. As a young man Quantrill joined a group of bandits who roamed the Missouri and Kansas countryside apprehending escaped slaves. Later on this group became Confederate soldiers who were referred to as “Quantrill’s Raiders”. This group was a pro-Confederate partisan ranger outfit best known for their often brutal guerrilla tactics which made use of effective Native American field skills. Quantrill’s group included the young Jesse James 1847-1882 and his older brother Frank James 1843-1915 and portraits of both infamous outlaws are included in this engaging biography. Sage Books, unknown‎

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‎[Vietnam War Literature] Moore, Lt Gen Harold G (Ret) and Joseph L Galloway‎

‎We Were Soldiers Once.and Young. Ia Drang--The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.‎

‎New York:: Random House 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14 1965 the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos. Random House, unknown‎

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‎[RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR -- HIBIYA RIOTS]. [YANO FUMIO (Ed) & KUNIKIDA DOPPO].‎

‎Tokyo Senji Gaho. The Japanese Graphic No. 66. . . .‎

‎Tokyo: Kinji Gaho Company Recent Events Graphic Co. Sept. 18th 1905. Folio. 36 pp. Numerous photo illustrations illustrated plates woodcut-block text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers vivid cover art of rioters and burning fires across Tokyo minor chipping & wear to spine rusting to staples at gutter margin minor edgewear still a VG copy. First edition of this special issue of the Senji Gaho Wartime Graphic magazine a lavish and popular Japanese illustrated magazine which captured the violent protests against the peace treaty terms for the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese populace had been fed a steady diet of propagandistic victories celebrating Japan’s newfound military prowess and had expected Russia to pay a large indemnity to recover the tremendous costs imposing rationing and taxes on all manner of goods in Japan at the cost of over 80000 casualties. However due to rising wartime costs Japanese negotiators settled for a free hand in dominating Korea as a protectorate and leasehold in Southern Manchuria. Anti-peace riots broke out after a large rally in Hibiya Park Sept. 5 1905 and quickly spread for three days with 17 killed 311 arrested and 70 percent of Tokyo’s police boxes substations destroyed along with 15 streetcars. Worldcat locates 1 copy Nat. Library Australia; See: Andrew Gordon Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905 Asia Pacific Journal Vol. 12 Issue 29 No. 3 July 20 2014. Kinji Gaho Company [Recent Events Graphic Co.], paperback‎

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‎[WORLD WAR I -- PANORAMIC PHOTO]. CLEMENTS, [Rell Sam & Albert Bennie (Photographers).]‎

‎A.E.F. arriving Newport News VA June 4 1919. #1366. One large panoramic photograph depicting the 88th Infantry Division thronging the decks of the USS Koningin Der Nederlanden ID-2708 entering port and being assisted by the tug Britannia before disembarking following World War I.‎

‎Washington D.C. & Newport News VA: United States Army American Expeditionary Force Clements 619 - F Street NW 1919. Oblong atlas folio. One large sepia-tinted panoramic photograph sized 35 x 8 in. w/ photographer’s imprint & caption w/in the negative at lower fore-edge slightly over-exposed minor tidemark to upper right blank corner preserved in the original silvered decorative wooden frame w/ archival foam core backing still a VG- image with bright contrast. One large original and striking panoramic photograph capturing the 88th Infantry Division or the “Cloverleaf Division†upon their return to the United States following World War I on board seized troopship the USS Koningin Der Nederlanden ID 2708. The 88th Infantry Division commanded by Major General Edward H. Plummer was formed at Camp Dodge in Sept. 1917 in Iowa and fought in the trenches during the Alsace Campaign aiding the French Army regain Alsace and Lorraine both of which had been lost 43 years earlier in the Franco-Prussian War suffering 590 casualties during the War. The photo documents them arriving June 4 1919 and by June 10 1919 they were demobilized at Camp Dodge IA and would remain inactive until called up during World War II in 1942. The USS Koningin Der Nederlanden had been built and launched as a Dutch Passenger steamship for the Netherland Line in 1911 running between Amsterdam and Indonesia but was seized by the United States under orders by President Wilson in San Francisco CA in 1918. She traversed the Panama Canal and embarked more than 2200 troops of the AEF to France and on her 3rd trip she reached Brest two days before the Armistice. She would later repatriate more than 10000 troops and after delivering the 88th was decommissioned and returned to the Dutch Shipping line. Clements commercial photographic firm was operated by brothers Rells 1883-1963 and Albert 1899-1968 who operated their studio on F Street in Washington D.C. and specialized in panoramic photos. During the 1920’s they became especially well known for their U.S. Naval airship photographs at Lakehurst. [United States Army], American Expeditionary Force, Clements, 619 - F Street NW, unknown‎

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‎[AVIATION -- WORLD WAR I ZEPPELINS]. HEARNE, RP R P‎

‎Zeppelins and super-Zeppelins. . . .‎

‎London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1916. 8vo. xviii 2 158 2 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Burgudy-coloured publisher’s cloth white lettering front cover & spine minor chipping & rubbing to lettering slight bowing to covers light shelfwear still VG copy w/ former ownership markings at gutter margin and bookseller’s stamp on front pastedown. Second edition of this informative work detailing the importance impact and details on construction and military capabilities of the 72 Imperial German Zeppelins in World War I. The author questions the decision by the French to not engage in building airships and degraded capabilities on the battlefield and in this edition specifically details the casualties and impact of the early German Zeppelin raids on England in 1916. Only 14 of the aircraft survived the War only to be destroyed afterwards or turned over to the Allies. John Lane, The Bodley Head, hardcover‎

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‎[SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR -- PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION]. [GILBERT, William S (Chaplain).]‎

‎Oregon in the Philippines 2nd Division 8th Army Corps. Second Regiment Oregon Volunteer Infantry in two wars.‎

‎San Francisco CA: William S. Gilbert August 1899. 12mo. 2 33 1 pp. Self-printed blue-tinted colour-illustrated softcovers lettering & flag in red & blue on front & back covers minor sunning to fore-edges toning still VG copy. First edition of this scarce regimental history of the Second Regiment which was mustered in April 1898 and served through August 1899 in the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. The 2nd Regiment fought in all five campaigns 42 battles engagements and skirmishes through 1899 and the Chaplain Gilbert has listed biographical specifics on all including those who mustered out and remained to work in The Philippines. William S. Gilbert], paperback‎

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‎WORLD WAR II - MILITARY INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SECTION‎

‎Handbook of the Organisation Todt.‎

‎London: 1945. OT is indispensable in any protracted resistance the Nazis may offer A confidential Anglo-American intelligence report on the Organization Todt produced in the final few months of the war in Europe highlighting its central role in the Nazi war effort and the threat it could pose as a force of last resistance. The Military Intelligence Research Section MIRS was a joint Anglo-American intelligence agency established in 1943 to analyse and exploit captured Axis documents. MIRS produced a series of handbooks on Nazi military and paramilitary organizations for Allied intelligence officers and military officials. This report charts the history of the organization from its founding in 1933 through to the war where it assumed under the control of Albert Speer vast control over engineering and wartime infrastructure. It includes details on the organization's activities uniforms and insignia. There is respect for the organization - "It has carried out in the space of a little over five years the most impressive building programme since Roman times. It has developed methods of standardisation and rationalisation in construction to an extent and on a scale heretofore unattempted". However "OT is indispensable in any protracted resistance the Nazis may offer. Its officials are with few exceptions not only early and ardent Nazis belonging to either the SS or SA but have been leaders of men for many years. Their connections with high officials of the SS and SA are both intimate and of long standing. Above all their standing in the Party combined with their technical qualifications will earn them the confidence of Nazi leaders in any plans for a last-ditch resistance". Provenance: Evgenii Semenovich Mollo 1904-1985 a military historian specializing in uniforms and insignia with his "Mollo Collection" bookplate to the front pastedown. Folio. With 7 plates of which 4 coloured 11 folding plates folding map. Original dark blue quarter cloth cream boards printed in blue string tied. Very minor wear at extremities slight soiling to boards short closed tear to title page contents a little toned. A very good copy. hardcover‎

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‎[AFRICA -- WORLD WAR II]. WELLS, Carveth‎

‎Introducing Africa.‎

‎New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1944. 8vo. xi 1 243 1 pp. Map illust. on title. Beige publisher’s cloth Africa map in green & black lettering on front cover map endpapers minor dustsoiling edgewear w/ d.j. cover art of Africa outline map red lettering chipping & soiling head & foot of spine edgewear creasing minor spotting still VG/G- copy signed by Wells w/ small elephant illustration by the author on half-title. First edition of this informative handbook written and prepared by Wells from his successful preparation lectures for Allied Armed forces moving into North Africa and West Africa during World War II. In addition he makes specific references to the strategic materials and human resources available across Africa’s vast size and large population during the War and forecasting future possibilities. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover‎

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‎WORLD WAR II‎

‎Flight Engineer's Notes for "Lancaster" Aircraft: Avro Type '683' Mk. I & III;‎

‎Manchester: A. V. Roe & Co. Limited May 1943. Owned by two active pilots Presumed first editions number 911 of an unknown distribution. They were issued to Sergeant Desmond Howard Hughes 1923-1943 of 115 Squadron RAFVR on 26 July 1943 and have his signature and annotations. Just four months later he was lost with his Lancaster Mk II DS782 KO-K while on a raid the largest so far sent to Berlin. Following Hughes's death these copies passed to Flying Officer Alfred Paul Mellows 1922-1997 of 169 Squadron RAFVR with his signature to both front wrappers. Mellows flew over 50 operations during the war while piloting a Mosquito and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 20 March 1945. According to the citation shared with Flight Lieutenant Leonard Drew "these officers have completed a large number of sorties in the capacity of navigator and pilot of aircraft respectively. They have also shot down 2 enemy aircraft. The second of these was destroyed one night in Feb. 1945. On this occasion the attack was pressed home from such close range that when the enemy aircraft exploded in the air their own aircraft was damaged. Nevertheless Flight Lieutenant Mellows flew it back to base. Both he and his fellow crew have always displayed the greatest keenness for operations" London Gazette p. 1595. He was part of the crew that won a rowing silver in the 1948 Olympic Games. We have traced just four copies of the main volume at the Australian War Memorial the Ingenium Library the British Library and the National Aerospace Library. We have traced no copies of the supplementary volume. 2 works octavo. Half-tone photographic plate with captioned overlay 19 folding diagrams and tables diagrams and tables in text; Notes interleaved with blanks as issued. Original purple paper wrappers wire-stitched as issued Notes glued into wrappers wrappers lettered in blue front wrappers stamped with Avro logo in blue. Light abrasions to wrappers creased and nicked at edges a little toning and foxing to contents small stub tears to some folding diagrams Supplementary Figure 7 tipped in: a very good set. "Supplement to the London Gazette 23 March 1945" The London Gazette. unknown‎

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‎SECOND ANGLO-BOER WAR‎

‎Sketch book.‎

‎South Africa: 1899-1902. A unique snapshot of Boer War Cape Town A highly unusual accomplished series of pen-and-ink and watercolour sketches - landscapes and social and military subjects - covering many aspects of life both high and low in Cape Town during the conflict including depictions of indigenous people Malays and Boers. These attractive well-finished sketches in an unusual and flamboyant style seem professional and illustrative rather than "fine art" and captioned in a decorative and very well-formed hand. The artist may well have been a working illustrator: his captions are certainly in the manner used by such periodicals as the Black & White and The Graphic and the style is that employed for lightly "humoresque" reportage. However we have been unable to trace any published versions and of course he may have been simply an observant talented well-placed amateur. The captioning reveals him to be probably British but possibly American - he makes references to the British soldier as "Tommy" and refers to "Australian and Canadian" troops. The album opens with a bird's eye view of Cape Town from Leeuwen Street and is followed by three military subjects. "Poor Tommy passes in his check" shows a British soldier struck in the head by a bullet as fellow infantrymen take cover behind rocks. "Passed in his check" was a slang expression for dying used mainly in America where there was considerable sympathy for the Boer cause and the unsentimental rendering of a Tommy's death may indicate that the artist is indeed American. Similarly the following picture "An intercepted despatch" shows a mounted courier being picked off by a Boer marksman. This is followed by "Cronje's barkers at Green Point - captured at Paardeberg" with a British sentry guarding artillery and a Maxim gun taken at that hard-fought battle 18-27 February 1900. The camp at Green Point Common was established for British troops before being used to house Boer prisoners of war. Of the dozen appealing watercolours five are landscapes the remainder portraits except for "On the Terrace Dix's" which shows a well-to-do trio seated at a table at Dix's Café the place to be seen in fin de siècle Cape Town it's "leading café during the South African War. When the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York later King George V and Queen Mary visited Cape Town the Mayor's banquet was held at Dix's" Green. Particularly striking is the very nicely rendered full-length portrait of a young black woman entitled "The girl aint coloured she was born that way". This is much more of a likeness than a "type" and is echoed to some extent in the preceding image "Tommy's substitute for Maria" which shows a British soldier conversing with two well-dressed black women. These may well be "sly girls" a term for women who supplemented their income with occasional sex work. At home and among the higher echelons of the Army there was deep concern about the loose morals of troops in South Africa and "one problem was considered to be their preference for black prostitutes" Kuitenbrouwer p. 203. The artist's rendering of horses is particularly adept as illustrated by "Every man his own horse breaker - Buckjumbers sic from Argentina" a buckjumper is a horse that habitually bucks; many British cavalry mounts were imported from Argentina during the war and an untitled sketch showing a Yeomanry trooper on a prancing mount. Around nine subjects are military including Boer prisoners being escorted under guard at Green Point and soldiers carousing in a mule cart entitled "When the Canadians and Australians went home". Local scenes include several images of refugees from the fighting a nicely rendered portrait of a smartly dressed Indian trader drunks on Bree Street and "doppers" members of the Reformed Churches in South Africa. "Ricksha" is a spirited sketch showing a young Zulu rickshaw-puller fancifully dressed and adorned with horns and wings - an outfit intended to attract custom and often seen in tourist album photographs into the 20th century - pulling a fashionably dressed lady. The artist's eye for costume is also notable even when a little exaggerated for effect giving the images the hallmark of verisimilitude. The album closes on a humorous note with "Our friends the enemy: the mosquito the bug and the nimble flea the African horrors" showing a trio of anthropomorphized insects. Landscape octavo 145 x 245 mm. With 39 original pen-and-ink drawings and 12 watercolours of scenes and people. Contemporary dark brown hard-grain morocco gilt lettered "Sketch Book" on front cover and initialled "A.H." or "F.H." within border of gilt paired fillets gilt milled edge roll gold-veined Double Marble pattern endpapers. Custom brown quarter morocco solander box. Some abrasions to covers a few pale stains to back cover inner hinges cracked but firm expert repairs to edges of first 8 leaves general toning and finger soiling. Overall in very good condition. Lawrence Green Tavern of the Seas 1947; Vincent Kuitenbrouwer War of Words: Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War 1899-1902 2010. unknown‎

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‎WORLD WAR I - ADEN; DYCE, A G‎

‎Photograph album of service with the Aden Field Force 1916-1919.‎

‎Aden: 1916-19. The First World War in south Arabia A fine personal album of unique images of the AFF in the field taken and compiled by Captain A. G. Dyce 1886-1959 deputy assistant director Supply and Transport Corps. It includes photographs of infantry cavalry and artillery units the use of balloons and the signal contribution of ship-launched aircraft under the command of Charles Rumney Samson. On the outbreak of war Ottoman forces advanced into the Western Aden Protectorate from Yemen forcing the British to withdraw from Lahej and part of the Aden settlement. While Turkish encouragement of jihad fell on deaf ears in central Arabia "it found resonance in Yemen. Ali Said Pasha the skilful Turkish commander was so successful in radicalising the tribes for the Ottoman cause that he was able to push British forces into the enclave of Aden. The tactic that defeated Ali Said Pasha was the use of Imam Yahya who argued that Yemen was not for the British or Ottomans but the Arabs. Arab nationalism eroded Said Pasha's … influence and saw England supporting a treaty with Imam Yahya as monarch of Yemen which concluded in 1920" Infantry p. 43. Born in India and educated at Wellington College Alan George Dyce 1886-1959 son of Brigadier-General G.H.C. Dyce Indian Staff Corps joined the Indian Army in 1906 serving initially with 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry. He was a keen photographer appearing in an issue of Amateur Photographer for 1917 and mountaineer being on the committee of the Himalayan Club. Despite being taken in the field while on active service Dyce exhibits a good eye and composes his pictures with care. There are many shots of the combined arms operating with the AFF: No. 13 Kite Balloon Section of the Royal Navy Air Service five images the Mountain Battery of the Malay States Guides lancers of what are presumed to be the 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry and medical facilities including a cavalry field ambulance at Sheikh Othman an advance dressing station a camel ambulance tonga a two-wheel vehicle common in India and camels with cacolets cradle-like structures mounted either side of the camel's hump. One image signed by Dyce in pencil on the verso is captioned: "The GOC Aden F.F. leaving the dais with the Sultan after the installation ceremony" and shows 'Abd al-Karim II ibn al-Fadl al-'Abdali Sultan of Lahej reigned 1915-1947 being handed down from the dais by Brigadier-General William Crawford Walton. There is a sequence of six images covering the "Fight at Jabir" 7 December 1916 described in General Sir Charles Monro's despatch as having had "a demoralising effect on the Turkish Arab auxiliaries and to have produced the intended result viz. preventing the withdrawal towards the Yemen of Turkish troops from Lahej". One panoramic shot shows British officers observing the shelling of Turkish positions and three others the sighting positioning and firing of what appears to be a six-inch naval gun. Three wide-angle shots show the mountain battery and its camel team hauling 15-pounder mountain guns. A trio of crisp sepia-toned prints depict Indian Army troops of the "water column" perhaps the 66th Punjabis who are named elsewhere: "filling water carts with condensed water sent from Aden" "filling canvas tanks" and "water column moving out". Commander Samson 1883-1931 features in one image "Seaplane: Cmdr. Sampson sic" which shows a huddle of figures around the cockpit of what appears to be a Short 184 its wings detached and apparently undergoing repairs. This accompanies "Signalling to plane with lamp and canvas strips" another excellent wide-angle shot taken from a high position that encompasses a rail track steamroller and men laying out a triangular canvas-strip indicator. Most intriguing is a small snapshot of a manned seaplane suspended from a derrick over the side of a ship probably HMS Ben-my-Chree. The pilot may be Samson and the plane a Short 184 that he modified by adjustments to the wings and tail fin and christened the "Short Cut". Captured Turkish prisoners feature in eight images including their commander Said Pasha; two are captioned "Turks marching in to surrender" and "Turks going in by train" while a series of five is titled "Turkish prisoners and guns" including a touching image of two Turkish soldiers under escort their eyes bandaged one holding the other's coat tails. Landscape folio album 240 x 280 mm. 49 ff. some blank. With 92 photographs from 40 x 65 to 170 x 270 mm portrait and landscape format mounted on rectos only on brown leaves including a panorama in two parts joined with tape some images loose one hand-coloured many captioned in pencil on verso or in white on mounts. Commercial Kodak album of black morocco-grain faux leather. Spine ends a little worn many images loose but clean and unfaded: very good. Infantry Volume 97 Number 1 2008. hardcover‎

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‎[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim‎

‎The Things They Carried.‎

‎Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown‎

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‎[CIVIL WAR -- GRANT]. GRANT, Ulysses S; SIMON, John Y[ounker (Editor).]; BRIDGES, Roger D, ALEXANDER, Thomas G; (Asst Ed); HOFF‎

‎The papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 1: 1837-1861; Volume 2: April - September 1861; Volume 3: October 1 1861 - January 7 1862; Volume 4: January 8 - March 31 1862; Volume 5: April 1 - August 31 1862; Volume 6: September 1 - December 8 1862; Volume 7: December 9 1862 - March 31 1863; Volume 8: April 1 - July 6 1863; Volume 9: July 7 - December 31 1863; Volume 10: January 1 - May 31 1864L Volume 11 June 1 - August 15 1864; Volume 12: August 16 - November 15 1864; Volume 13: November 16 1864 - February 20 1865; Volume 14: February 21 - April 30 1865; Volume 15: May 1 - December 31 1865; Volume 16: 1866; Volume 17: January 1 - September 30 1867; . . . Edited by. . . .‎

‎Carbondale & Edwardsville IL: Southern Illinois University Press 1967- 1991. Eighteen vols. xxxix 1 458; xxxiii 1 399 1; xxv 1 479 1; xxv 1 520; xxv 1 458; xxiv 2 492; xxiv 588; xxiii 1 609 1; xxiv 700; xxv 1 618; xxvi 497 1; xxv 1 520; xxvi 599 1; xxvi 548; xxv 1 691 1; xxvi 635 1; xxiii 1 663 1; xxiii 1 661 1; xxiv 651 1 pp. With frontispiece’s photo illustrations facsimiles of letters maps. Uniformly bound in brick-red publisher’s cloth black & gilt spine labels minor bumping to upper right corner vol. 1 w/ d.j.’s from the Clark County Historical Society deaccessioning material. First editions of the first 18 volumes in this massive project encompassing Ulysses Grant’s letters and correspondence from his Prewar career through Reconstruction. Beginning with his 17-year-old cadet letters home at West Point and then service in Louisiana Texas the Mexican War and at Fort Vancouver entry into the Civil War the early campaigns of Fort Donelson Battles of Shiloh Corinth Vicksburg ascension to Lieutenant General the battles of Petersburg Cold Harbor & the Wilderness General Sherman’s March Appomattox assassination of President Lincoln the capture of Jefferson Davis and finally the disbanding of the immense Union Army. Simon d. 2008 drew upon a vast number of previously unpublished or unknown letters memorandum and writings of Grant and together with extensive notes and analysis offered an essential research tool for the study of American History the Civil War Reconstruction and the steps to the Grant Presidency. The set continues in production and Simon himself oversaw the first 31 annotated volumes. He also edited the memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. Southern Illinois University Press, hardcover‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- JAPAN].‎

‎In Japanese. æœæ—¥æ–°èžç¸®åˆ·ç‰ˆ. Asahi shinbun shukusatsuban. Asahi newspaper reduced-size edition.‎

‎Tokyo Japan: Nihon Tosho Senta July 1942. Folio. 11 x 14.75 in. 180 pp. Photo illustrations text illustrations advertisements throughout. Light-green printed softcovers minor chipping head & foot of spine age-toning to fore-edges some age toning to textblock still a VG copy from the library of Otto C. Winzen 1917-1979 pioneering German-American aeronautical engineer was interned during World War II and later significantly advanced material and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II. First edition thus of this reduced format illustrated supplement reproducing the historic newspaper first founded in 1879 in Osaka Japan by Kimura Noburu Murayama Ryohei and Tsuda Tei documenting the high tide of Japanese power in the 2nd Sino-Japanese War and World War II across Asia and the Pacific. Interestingly the Battle of Midway fought June 4-7 1942 receives very little mention or recognition of the forthcoming Guadalcanal campaign. Worldcat locates to copies U of Queensland Nat. Lib. of Australia. Nihon Tosho Senta, paperback‎

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‎[WORLD WAR II -- JAPANESE AVIATION].‎

‎Japanese aircraft: aircraft intelligence report. Restricted. . . .‎

‎Dayton OH: The Material Center Experimental Engineering Section Wright Field Aug. 1942. 4to. 40 pp. mimeograph typescript. With photo illustrations with text illustrations diagrams. Blue-tinted printed softcovers Rising Sun motif on front cover blue lettering minor age toning to fore-edges minor bumping to couple corners edgewear still VG copy from the library of Otto C. Winzen 1917-1979 pioneering German-American aeronautical engineer was interned during World War II and later significantly advanced material and construction of high-altitude balloons after World War II. First edition of this very rare original Restricted Wartime report on the flight and combat capabilities of the famed and innovative Japanese aircraft less just 9 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the US was able to secure a Mitsubishi A6M2 Type Zero which had crashed during the Aleutians campaign in Alaska in July 1942. This report focuses on the Mitsubishi Aichi Kawanishi and Nakajima bombers fighters reconnaissance aircraft torpedo bombers dive bombers flying boats and float planes. Worldcat locates 1 copy Defense Bibliothek NL. The Material Center, Experimental Engineering Section, Wright Field, paperback‎

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‎Lanada War Jack‎

‎Colonization Battlefield: A Native American Historical and Personal Account of Oppression Survival and Resistance‎

‎Donning Company Publishers. New. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped. Donning Company Publishers unknown‎

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‎The War History Compilation Committee‎

‎The History of the United Nations Forces in the Korean War Volume VI‎

‎Korea: The Ministry of National Defense 1977 A near fine copy in navy cloth binding pictorial end papers b&w photo illstns. The only defect is a small military library stamp in the front. A heavy book. The Ministry of National Defense hardcover‎

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‎Dickens, Gordon‎

‎Never Late. The 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945‎

‎Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2005. Small Quarto Size approx 18x25cm. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Casualty list. Nominal Roll. Honours and Awards. Index. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 448 pages. Formed in November 1939 the 2/9th was the first battalion formed in Queensland and it fought in North Africa New Guinea and Borneo. As the successor to the 9th Bn of the First AIF it wore the rectangular black over blue patch with the border of grey signifying the 2nd AIF. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Australian Military History Publications hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : BIB207835 ISBN : 1876439475 9781876439477

‎ARABIC - BRITISH WAR OFFICE‎

‎Short Glossary of Arabic.‎

‎London: Geographical Section General Staff 1947. Arabic and military cartography Rare first and only edition of this Arabic glossary for use on foreign maps produced by the British War Office. It explains the use of Arabic terms on maps covering territories to the east of the Libyan-Egyptian border and was part of an extensive series published in the 1940s. The spelling and transliteration follow the RGS II System conventions devised by the Royal Geographical Society's Permanent Committee on Geographical Names in 1921 updating those used by the War Office and Admiralty after 1885. The introduction includes a survey of the history of the Arabic language its alphabet pronunciation and dialects in view of instructing soldiers pilots and surveyors on how to read and pronounce names on maps of the Middle East. "An Arabic word may appear on European maps in numerous transliterated forms each depending upon the national authority of the map and the principle of transliteration applied to the names on it" p. 2 due to the "considerable play" between a e and i and other such alternative renditions of specific letters and sounds. The four-column table provides abbreviations transliteration the Arabic-script version and the meaning of Arabic words commonly found on maps. For instance aqra' is rendered as "without vegetation" ashqar as "reddish" ghurd as "sand dune" and zallaq as "slippery place" specifying if a noun is a plural and/or in a different grammatical case. Words originating from other languages Berber Hebrew Greek Latin Turkish and Persian are also identified. Octavo 270 x 185 mm. pp. 28 2. Text in Arabic and English. Original printed brown paper wrappers three punch holes. Wrappers lightly waterstained along lower edge foot of spine rubbed traces of adhesive at foot of front wrapper contents toned but clean: a very good copy. unknown‎

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‎[JAPANESE-CANADIAN INTERNMENT -- WORLD WAR II]. TAKASHIMA, [Shizuye].‎

‎A child in prison camp.‎

‎New York: William Morrow & Co. 1974. 4to. 63 1 pp. With colour plates 1 map. Gold library cloth publisher’s binding black lettering on spine scuffing and offsetting from jacket Brodart being glued securely originally to pastedowns ex-lib markings on endpapers w/ d.j. cover art by Takashima minor edgewear slight creasing partially removed spine label for “Library Edition†still a G/VG copy. First U.S. edition of this searing and poignant illustrated memoir of the artist’s experiences being stripped of their Canadian Civil Rights herded into railcars and shipped to New Denver Internment Camp on Slocam Lake Canada for over 3 years during World War II. Her watercolour paintings earned a Gold Medal from the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and was the first major publication to examine the Japanese-Canadian experience of illegal internment by a Japanese-Canadian writer. Takashima 1928-2005 studied at the Ontario College of Art following the War later taught there from 1976 to retirement in 1994 and also spent extensive time traveling in Mexico India New York and Japan. William Morrow & Co., hardcover‎

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‎[CIVIL WAR]. McELROY, John‎

‎Andersonville: a story of rebel military prisons fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy. A private soldier’s experience in Richmond Andersonville Savannah Millen Blackshear and Florence.‎

‎Toledo OH: D.R. Locke 1879. Thick 8vo. xxx 31-654 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. text woodcut engravings plates tables diagrams. Publisher’s full speckled calf gilt & black spine label brown clay sized endpapers spine rebacked w/ original laid-back down repairs & head & foot still a sound VG- copy. First edition of this gripping personal narrative of the terrible conditions in Andersonville as prisoner during the Civil War by a soldier in the 16th Illionois Cavalry captured during a skirmish near Jonesville VA in January 1864 by Confederate troops commanded by William E. Jones. McElroy 1846-1929 was an apprentice printer before the war and after his release following the end of the Civil War eventually became a reporter and editor of the Toledo Blade in Toledo OH. By 1884 he became editor and cow-owner of the National Tribune in Washington D.C. and was active in the local G.A.R. D.R. Locke, unknown‎

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