‎Guerre‎

‎War Area Service Corps‎

‎Information pamphlet on Peiping Peking cover title‎

‎Peking Beijing: War Area Service Corps 1946. Second edition 8vo pp. 2 28; folding map; printed paper wrappers; toned else fine. A visitor's guide prepared by the Kuomintang government for the benefit of visiting American soldiers. Included is a list of points of interest as well as a directory for WASC offices hostels churches entertainment and restaurants. One restaurant Tien Fu T'ang includes a short menu all specialty duck dishes. The WASC was a branch of the KMT's military assigned to engage with and support foreign militaries during the war beginning in 1942. Peking was taken by the Japanese in 1937 and only relinquished with that country's surrender at the end of WWII. The KMT would subsequently retreat from the capital at the effective end of the Chinese Civil war in 1949 giving this pamphlet a brief 4 years of relevance. War Area Service Corps unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 71421

‎CHINESE CIVIL WAR‎

‎Collection of press photographs taken during the 1927 Northern Expedition.‎

‎London: Sport & General Press Agency 1927. The images show a National Revolution Army artillery team during February's advance on Shanghai General Sun Chuanfang's retreating soldiers by Jessfield Railway Bridge and Zhejiang troops. Four photographs concern American Dutch and British forces part of the international coalition deployed to protect expatriate residents and businesses in Shanghai and a fifth captures a Chinese man addressing a street crowd. Also present are two photographs captioned "Chinese types" showing labourers as well as a vernacular shot of a female Westerner serving coffee and biscuits to some Dutch marines. 12 gelatin silver photographs most x. 155 x 210 mm 4 of smaller sizes all but one press photographs with usual agency labels wet stamps and typed and handwritten captions. Usual creasing and nicking prints lightly faded 3 more so but all still clear odd old paperclip mark: a very good collection. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 189090

‎GULF WAR‎

‎Tadm r ab r al-naft f al-wath i'q al-'ir q ah al-'adr r al-bi' ah wa-l-iqtis d ah wa-l-juh d al-k wa t ah f al-muh fazhah 'ala al-thar ah al-naft ah.‎

‎Kuwait: Markaz al-buhuth wa-al-dirasat al-Kuwaytiyah 1995. First edition of this well-illustrated study on the environmental impact of the destruction of oil wells in Kuwait based on government documents issued by the Iraqi government during the Gulf War. The work presents this damage substantiated by copious data as a main goal of the Iraqi war strategy of delayed sabotage. An appendix lists names of Iraqi officers accused of being "environmental criminals" as they took part in the identification of targets and methods and the execution of the plan - phases which are carefully described in the first part. The second part discusses subsequent damages to the economy public health and the environment including air and water pollution and their impact on living organisms. The third part describes the strategies employed to limit the damage such as the efforts of firefighters in extinguishing burning oil wells. Quarto. With facsimiles of documents colour illustrations and maps. Text in Arabic. Original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Pencilled Arabic word at head of last verso. Extremities a trifle rubbed or creased contents clean: a very good copy. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 182920

‎PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR‎

‎Purnell's History of the First World War. Volume 6. THIS VOLUME ONLY. Issues 81-96 inclusive. Edited by Barrie Pitt. PURNELL'S FIRST WORLD WAR: VOLUME 6 COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDER‎

‎Purnell for BPC Publishing 1969. 16 weekly parts in 1 vol. roy. 8vo. First Edition profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED a very good bright clean set loose in publisher's branded binder binder wire brackets missing. Purnell's mammoth endeavour together with its counterpart History of WWII 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. COMPLETE VOLUMES IN BINDERS ARE SCARCE. Please note that additional postage will be required for shipping outside the UK. Purnell [for BPC Publishing], unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 51491

‎PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR‎

‎Purnell's History of the Second World War. First Edition. Volume 4. Issues 1-16. THIS VOLUME ONLY. Edited by Barrie Pitt. PURNELL'S SECOND WORLD WAR: VOLUME 4 COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDER‎

‎Purnell for BPC Publishing 1966. 16 parts in 1 vol. roy. 8vo. First Edition profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all very good bright clean copies in publisher's branded binder. Please note that additional postage will be required for shipping outside the UK. Purnell [for BPC Publishing], unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 51500

‎[WORLD WAR I -- OTTOMAN EMPIRE & MIDDLE EAST]. PYE, Ernest‎

‎Prisoner of War 31163 Bedros M. Sharian Bedros Kirkyasharian.‎

‎New York NY: Fleming H. Revell Co. 1938. 12mo. 202 pp. Photo frontisp. photo plates map printed letter facsimile. Dark green publisher’s cloth yellow lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. photo cover art of captured artillery minor scuffing couple very minor closed tears slight tear upper right corner still VG/VG- copy. First edition of this very uncommon World War account of an Armenian-American who was forced into the Ottoman Empire’s Army participated in the 10-month Gallipoli campaign at Aru Burnu against the Anzacs and as a medical orderly burying the 3000 Turkish dead during a nine-hour truce. Following the withdrawal of the British from the Dardanelles his 16th Division was transferred to Syria fights General Allenby at the capture of Jerusalem and was taken prisoner and interned in Egypt. Subsequently he served with the British as an interpreter for British Intelligence and then returned as a POW at Belbeis until July 12 1920 when discharged eventually immigrating to the U.S. attending and earning degrees before opening businesses in Georgia. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Fleming H. Revell Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63875

‎FIRST ANGLO-SIKH WAR - CLEVELAND, W, corporal H M 31st Regiment‎

‎Extracts from a Journal kept on Board the Ship "Madagascar" on her Passage from Calcutta to England‎

‎Deal: Printed by J. Deveson 1847. The battlefields of the Punjab seen from the ranks First and only contemporary edition of this brief but spirited and entirely unembroidered account in the authentic voice of an enlisted man. The 31st were one of the most heavily engaged units of the conflict seeing action at Mudki Ferozeshah Aliwal and Sobraon. Scarce with just two locations traced BL and Boston Public Library unrecorded at auction. Vivid vignettes from the battle front are set within the context of a diary account of an uneventful voyage back from Calcutta to Gravesend. Cleveland opens on 23 October 1846 "weather continues fine and the wind steady" reminiscing of Moodkee "the first battle in which I had even been engaged I have often since endeavoured to imagine what my feelings were on that occasion but the hurry and confusion of that Action prevented the exercise of thought". One thing remains clear in his memory "So confident were our Officers and men that the Sikh Army was composed of nothing but a rebel mob that they did not believe they would hazard an engagement. this entire ignorance of the Sikh Army it is wonderful that all were alike involved even the Governor and Commander in Chief each of whom it should fairly be supposed ought to have been possessed of correct information on so important a subject". Of Ferozeshah he recalls the "lurid flames" of the burning Sikh camp "gleaming through the darkness diffusing sufficient light to make the horrors of our situation more apparent" the shot from the Sikh guns falling "among us by far to thick and fast to be agreeable". The situation only saved by what Cleveland - along with Sikh commander Tej Singh - read as the Commander in Chief's order for the cavalry to make a "false charge" which was in fact the withdrawal of the Horse Artillery desperately short of ammunition to Ferozepur to resupply while under cavalry escort. At Aliwal the 31st were on the extreme right of the British line "When we had arrived within a short distance of the village under heavy fire from the enemy who were waving their swords and cutting a great variety of menacing capers in front of us General Smith galloped up and said 'take that village boys and carry it along with you' when the whole regiment broke into a rapid double which they did not abate until they had cleared the village captured the guns upon its left and caused the whole of the enemy's left flank to run for dear life. We now quietly took possession of the whole of their camp equipage ammunition and stores; and having amply supplied ourselves. we turned in for the night near the banks of the Sutlej". And so to Sobraon "At 9 A. M. the battle had reached its warmest point - shot and shell were then whizzing through the air in rapid succession. on their fearful missions of mischief. from the muzzles of 150 pieces of ordnance - about half past 9 a low rumbling sound was heard resembling distant thunder which was caused by the report of musquetry - as the infantry ad passed the Enemy's breastworks. thus concluded the most severe contest in the annals of Indian warfare and not a second to any fought in Europe with the exception of Waterloo". Following the ratification of the Treaty of Lahore the 31st marched to Calcutta and embarked for home Cleveland composing this very personal and telling NCO's witness to world-changing events while under weigh. Octavo. pp. 24. Original thin paper printed wrappers. Wraps rubbed and soiled with some minor chips and splits at the edges no loss of text creases to the corners; pale toning and some finger-soiling to the text; but a well preserved copy very good. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 189591

‎WORLD WAR II‎

‎Daily wartime diary of Captain Leonard Hammersley Bell naval assistant to Rear-Admiral Sir Tom Phillips Vice Chief of the Naval Staff.‎

‎London: 2 September 1939 - 26 July 1941. Had he been a great man Winston would have accepted the blame himself A thorough and honest narrative by an Admiralty insider well-placed to document the onset of total war and the attitudes - in his view sometimes misguided - that shaped the navy's decision-making. In October 1939 Bell b. 1892 transferred from the Plans Division to Phillips's staff. The diary opens a month earlier one day before the declaration of war and during its two-year span Bell writes with a candour only possible in private. In the war's early months he handled "stupid questions from our ambassadors" 11 October 1939 and viewed British defensive preparations for a German invasion as "nonsense" 29 October 1939. By 1940 amid air-raid warnings there was far too much to do each day Bell like Phillips working late and more and more "dining at his desk". Pervading the account is a scepticism common to mid-ranking officers towards high-level decision makers "Admiralty suggested an attack now and then at the last moment and God knows why called off the operation" 8 April 1940. Not even Churchill is immune especially when the prime minister tries to blame the Royal Navy for decisions he took himself: "Had he been a great man Winston would have accepted the blame himself - since it lies on him squarely" 8 October 1940. In October 1941 Bell became Captain of the Fleet Eastern Fleet serving under Phillips onboard HMS Prince of Wales. After the disastrous sinking of the ship and Phillips's death Bell remained with the Eastern Fleet until the end of hostilities assuming the post of Director of Service Conditions at the Admiralty in peacetime. A note on the front endpaper of the final volume records that Bell left these volumes in London when he joined Prince of Wales. A further volume kept at sea went down with the ship. 6 vols quarto. Each vol. 240 pp. filled in neat manuscript or with tipped-in manuscript sheets rear pastedown of first vol. with affixed duplicated-typescript letter from Bell to Rear-Admiral H. C. Allen summarizing Bell's naval career. Original light brown cloth marbled edges. Slight rubbing to spines ends generally internally clean and fresh; a well-preserved diary. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 144403

‎WORLD WAR II‎

‎Handbook for Unit Commanders Germany.‎

‎Likely Versailles or Rheims: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force 15 February 1945. Revised edition issued near the end of the war for unit commanders engaged in the occupation of Germany. The handbook sets out guidance on military government civil administration and the early processes of denazification. It includes maps of "Greater Germany" and of the "Gaue of the NSDAP" illustrating the Nazi administrative divisions. Provenance: Ink inscription to the front wrapper "Copy for: Civil Affairs Division" the SHAEF branch charged with restoring local administration and public order in occupied Germany. A further inscription to the rear wrapper "The Adjutant General Washington D.C." together with the stamp "SHAEF AG M & D" links the copy to the Manpower & Demobilization division responsible for personnel administration and demobilization - Stephen C. Massey. Small octavo. With 2 folding maps. Wire-stitched in original brown wrappers front wrapper lettered in black. Two staples to head of front cover with rust marks to facing page one wire stitch detached but holding couple of marks to rear cover. A very good copy. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 181162

‎[WORLD WAR II POSTER -- WAR BONDS]. [GUINNELL, Vic (Artist).]‎

‎To have and to hold! War bonds. No. 0-576074. WFD 891-A.‎

‎Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944. One elephant folio colour-lithograph poster sized 28 x 40 in. minor age-toning couple very minor closed tears at fold creases still a VG bright copy folded as issued. First edition of this large version of the To Have and to Hold! War Bonds poster issued during the sixth War Loan Campaign which was launched in November 1944 by the US Treasury to raise $ 16 billion dollars. The campaign issued this painting by Vic Guinnell depicting a US soldier unrolling the US flag across the field of the image and blocking out the dark stormy sky behind. The same campaign also issued a much more common poster featuring a cherubic blue-eyed baby girl. Guinnell is perhaps best remembered for his U.S. Marines posters “Smack ‘em Down!†and “Let’s go get’em!†Worldcat locates 2 copies of large version DLC Pritzker Military Lib. U.S. Government Printing Office, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64075

‎[WORLD WAR II POSTER -- US NAVY & PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD]. [CORNWELL, Dean (Artist).]‎

‎Helping the Navy launch victory -- part of our wartime job!‎

‎Philadelphia PA: Pennsylvania Railroad 1943. One elephant folio colour-printed poster sized 25 x 40 in. very slight age toning slight creasing shelfwear at fore-edges still a NF copy w/ bright colours. First edition of this exceptional wartime home front Savings Bonds drive poster for the Pennsylvania Railroad featuring the famed Raymond Loewy designed streamliner steam locomotive PRR S1 “The Big Engine†which premiered at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and whose 6-4-4-6 expanded duplex configuration made it the largest passenger locomotive ever built. For a short time the locomotive hauled the Manhattan Limited. Cornwell’s 1892-1960 powerful propaganda posters offered essential visual support for War Bonds fundraising during the War. Pennsylvania Railroad, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64074

‎[WORLD WAR II -- FRENCH POSTER]. GASTON RY [ROSTAGNY, Rene (Artist).]‎

‎Pour la France emprunt Africain. Souscrivez c’est votre devoir tous les Francais doivent forger la Victoire. Nos soldats donnent leur sang. Pretez votre argent. C’es votre interet. . . .‎

‎Algiers Algeria: Imp. Baconnier ca. 1943. One large elephant folio colour-lithograph poster sized 24 x 35.5 in. fold creases as issued lithographed on very thin wartime paper stock minor creasing a couple other minor closed tears at folds moderate toning still a VG copy. First edition of this original large propaganda poster issued from Henri Baconnier’s printing and poster imprint during World War II employing another of his noted artists who has centered the appeal to invest into French Relief Fund War Bonds A & B overlain on a map of France with field of the French flag. Gaston Ry 1902-1978 traveled between France Barcelona and Algeria worked as an illustrator author and journalist and was satirical artist for the Le Canard Sauvage from 1943-1946. Imp. Baconnier, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64079

‎[CHINA -- CHINESE CIVIL WAR & MISSION BUILDING]. [GEBHARDT, Arnold; SIMON, Gertrude (Photographers); MUELLER, Reinhold "RJ" (Pho‎

‎Enshih formerly Shihnan picture album. Building Committee. . . ; Description of pictures by numbers. . . An outstanding photo album filled with numbered photographs together with descriptive list and introduction by Rev. Mueller assembled following the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod missionaries return to Shihnan station in the aftermath of the Communist-Nationalist Civil War 1927-1930.‎

‎Enshih Shihnan Hubei China: R.J. Mueller Rev. Gebhardt Miss Simon LCMS ca. 1930-1937. Two vols. 1st - Oblong folio. 11.25 x 15 in. 48 pp unpaginated. thick black paper stock w/ 103 original silver gelatin photographs sized 2.75 x 3.5 in. all neatly numbered in ink MS at corners affixed to the leaves. Contemporary black flexible board post-binder punch-sewn & glued at spine in black paper paper title label partially torn on front cover Building Committee title label affixed to first page minor chipping edgewear to fore-edges some scuffing tidemark to fore-edges still a VG- exemplar w/ all images with bright strong contrast; 2nd - 4to. 8 leaves carbon copy typescript on onion-skin ruled paper some ink annotations corrections 1 pencil MS annotated correction still VG signed by R.J. Mueller on first leaf dated April 24 1937 from the library of David G. Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. A remarkable photo album with images shot by three different Lutheran Church Missouri Synod LCMS missionaries in China along with the descriptive contents list compiled by Rev. R.J. Mueller detailing the purpose and composition. He writes that the Enshih Shihnan Mission had prepared three albums “one for the Mission Board one for the Building Committee of General Conference and one at the Enshih Station. The numbers all agree. However not all pictures listed appear in all books.†This “Building Committee†album was intended to focus primary on the structures homes chapels of the mission as well as surrounding areas and was intended to aid in speeding up communications for fundraising and building affairs issues as correspondents could then merely refer to the master list of numbers held by all three parties. Enshih China was one of the final mission stations established by the LCMS far from their other missions and when Gebhardt returned to Enshih following the Civil War in 1928 there was significant damage to the mission structures to be repaired. Looting by bandits and marauding soldiers had caused over $ 2000 in damage but was encouraged to find that the Lutheran evangelist Shen had continued the mission chapel school orphanage. He would later be joined by Mueller and others although primarily composed of Chinese Staff. These photos in the album includes views of Mueller’s residence windows frames and gutters looted; screens torn doors boarded up as well as views of the native house and threshing floor adapted into an orphanage at Yao Wan after 1930. Several others show the extent of the protective walls built around the properties farm houses the gates as well as farms bridges and nearby fields at Enshih. Landmarks such as rocks shaped like Elephants in the river and Big and Little Hog creek below farmland. A very nice series of photos depict the Ts’i Ts-ung-fu funeral the blind deaf and other orphans about 1931 as well as textiles drying in the sun. Other photos capture the Ch’i-li-ping market fortune teller temple noodle stand and the T’ai shan shrine at Ch’i-li-p’ing. More photos depict Hu Ping-chih the orphanage secretary Yuen Ye-chih cashier in 1934 Hsieh T’i-ya seminary student who died later in 1937; along with the mission pulpit nearby streets and the rear view of the Yao Wan houses.Of additional interest are the images of the rugged roads to Liang Shui-chin the temple and steep steps drying opium in Kuan-p’e which was a small town between the East Gate and Yao Wan before opium raising was banned in 1934; along with the nearby Ch’ing-Ching Clear River at the high water stage the front of the True Light Chapel in 1934 as well as the gravestone of Mr. & Mrs. Wang Japanese-Lutherans who had died in 1930. The final photo No. 169 again shows the Clear River below the city. Mueller 1905-1998 graduated from seminary in 1929 and left for China with his wife Dorothy for the Evangelical Lutheran Foreign Mission Board returned briefly to the U.S. from 1937-1940 spent 1939-1942 teaching at a Lutheran seminary in China while being bombed by the Japanese and also served in Shanghai where he would supervise the Lutheran Hour and Lutheran Hour offices. Although he and his wife briefly returned to the United States in 1946 following World War II they subsequently served again in Shanghai China into the early years of Communist rule by Mao tse-tung before returning again to the U.S. See: David Kohl Lutherans on the Yangtze: A Hundred Year History of the Missouri Synod in China 2014 pp. 103 124 131 132 166 174 99-131. R.J. Mueller, Rev. Gebhardt, Miss Simon, LCMS, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64035

‎[WORLD WAR II POSTER -- WAR BONDS]. [PERLIN, Bernard (Artist).]‎

‎Let’em have it: buy extra bonds. We bought extra War Bonds 4th War Loan. No. O-563183. WFD 879-A.‎

‎Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1943. One atlas folio colour-lithograph poster sized 20 x 27.75 in. minor age-toning couple very minor closed tears at fold creases still a VG bright copy folded as issued. First edition of this large version of famed poster issued during the 4th War Loan Campaign which ran from January 18-Feb. 15 1944 by the US Treasury to funds for the War Effort. The campaign issued this painting by Perlin depicting a US soldier preparing to hurl a grenade across the smoke-filled battlefield of the image. Perlin 1918-2014 was a gay Jewish-American born in Richmond VA studied in Poland before the War and while traveling personally witnessed the rising Nazi racist tide and discrimination against Jews. Although banned from serving in the US military due to his homosexuality he designed several propaganda posters for the war effort and would later work as war correspondent for Life and Fortune magazines. U.S. Government Printing Office, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64077

‎[WORLD WAR II -- PICTORIAL MAPS]. MANNING, FE F E‎

‎Target Berlin: Newsmap Monday October 25 1943. . . 215th week of the War - 97th Week of U.S. Participation Volume II No. 27. . . 536110.‎

‎Washington D.C.: Prepared and distributed by Army Orientation Course Special Service Division 1943. One double-sided double-atlas folio colour map sized 35 x 47 in. 6.25 x 12 in. when folded as issued colour lithographic hemispherican map on recto 4 inset 2-colour maps on verso text in blue & black w/ photo illustrations as well original fold creases slight age toning very minor shelfwear folds w/ minor rubbing still a VG bright copy. First edition of this remarkable World War II propaganda pictorial map featuring Berlin Germany situated at the center of concentric bulls-eye circles and the artist has wonderfully detailed how they created this simulated 3-dimensional image as well as a detachable scale to be cut-off and used by the educational viewer. Within days of this map’s publications Allied bombers directed by British Air Marshall Arthur “bomber†Harris directed destructive air raids against the city lasting until March 1944 which also demonstrated the ineffectiveness of bombing population centers in order to alter the course of a War. The Newsmap portion detailing the course of the War in the 215th Week includes the inset maps of Bridgeheads across the Dnepr River as the Soviet forces began pushing German Army units back along the Eastern Front stretching from Leningrad to the Sea of Azov; the New Britain campaigns in the South Pacific; Operations in Burma including pushes over the Burma Road against the Japanese and bombing routes into Italy Germany and central Europe. Manning fl. 1940-1945 was a cartographer with the Chicago Sun and during World War II produced a number of propaganda maps for the Army Orientation Course of the Special Service Division Army Service Forces as part of the United States War Department. Prepared and distributed by Army Orientation Course, Special Service Division, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64219

‎[WORLD WAR I]. ALLEN, George H; WHITEHEAD, Henry C; CHADWICK, Admiral FE; SIMS, William Snowden; McANDREW, James W; & WILEY, Edw‎

‎The Great War. First volume: causes of and motives for. . . with an introduction by William Howard Taft; Second volume: the mobilization of the moral and physical forces; Third volume: the original German plan and its culmination; Fourth volume: the wavering balance of forces; Fifth volume: the triumph of democracy.‎

‎Philadelphia PA: George Barrie’s Sons 1915-1921. Five volumes. Thick 8vo. 8 xxx 388; xxii 2 494; xx 500; xxii 508; xvii 1 498 pp. With tipped-in presentation leaf in red & black titles in red & black photogravure frontispieces maps some large folding tipped-in colour plates photo plates illustrations. Uniformly bound in Deluxe full dark-green publisher’s morocco gilt decorations & rulings on covers 5 raised bands on gilt decorated spines brown & gilt spine labels gilt inner dentelles t.e.g. minor shelfwear slight scuffing very minor bumping to head of spine vol. 5 still an excellent set from the library of Captain Alexander Henry Higginson 1876-1958 noted expert on foxhounds equitation and author on steeplechase and fox hunting who spent the war in the US Army Remount service training and securing vast amounts of horses for the Allied forces and training them and his wife Jeanne Calducci Higginson 1886-1925 former stage actress who married Higginson in 1907 w/ her Egyptian revival bookplates mounted on front pastedowns of all 5 volumes. A magnificent deluxe presentation edition of this monumental history of World War I written and issued contemporaneously by several of the participants and including introduction by former President Taft and later Supreme Court Justice. Included are photos personal & first-hand accounts of European military campaigns naval & air campaigns trench warfare along with technological and political upheavals. There are also extensive sections on the war in Africa Asia Palestine and the Middle East Submarine warfare the Armenian Massacre the Russian Revolution and finally the protracted problems of crafting a peace treaty. George Barrie’s Sons, hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64089

‎[WORLD WAR II -- ASIA & SOUTH PACIFIC].‎

‎The Far East and S.W. Pacific. Map.‎

‎N.P. Washington D.C.: N.P. Prepared and distributed by Army Orientation Course Special Service Division ca. 1940. One double-atlas folio colour map sized 38 x 41.75 in. colour lithograph on thick paper stock fold creases as issued minor age toning some minor edgewear slight weakening to fold creases at corners still a VG bright copy. First edition thus of this nicely executed map issued possibly printed by the Army Service Forces Orientation map series sometime during the Second Sino-Japanese War and possibly just prior to U.S. entry into World War II indicating much of the Pacific was still dominated by the Japanese Empire - Taiwan with Formosa Seoul Korea still indicated as Keijo Chosen as well as Port Arthur still indicated as Ryojun now Lushun China. The map features latitude and longitude lines but no coordinates with the Northeastern corner depicting the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Agattu Northwestern Corner Nepal & Tibet Southwestern corner ocean and Java & Sumatra while the Southeastern corner caputres the Coral Sea and tip of Australia coloured blue with white and brown. This has some similarities to the “waterproof†maps issued. No legend or printing information supplied. Worldcat locates 1 copy U of MT Mansfield Library also copy located at NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs- Holocaust- en Genocidestudies Netherlands No. 6101. N.P., Prepared and distributed by Army Orientation Course, Special Service Division?, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64220

‎World War II - Pacific Theatre‎

‎Guide to the Western Pacific for the use of the Army Navy and Marine Corps of the U.S.A. "Stepping stones to Japan‎

‎Pearl Harbor Oahu Hawaii: CinCPac--CinCPOA Bulletin no. 126-44 August 1944. 8vo pp. 124; 10 delightful maps in the text 1 double-page and tables in the text; very good in original pictorial blue wrappers printed in red and black. At the head of the title page: "Restricted. CinCPac--CinCPOA Bulletin no. 126-44, August unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 72872

‎[CHINA -- KOREAN WAR]. RIGG, Lt Col Robert B‎

‎Red China’s fighting hordes: a realistic account of the Chinese Communist Army by a U.S. Army officer who gained his intimate knowledge of this huge incongruous force the hard way.‎

‎Harrisburg PA: Military Service Publishing Co. 1952. 8vo. xiv 378 pp. Double-page title numerous photos maps text illustrations. Gold pictorial publisher’s cloth lettering & illustration in red & black minor rubbing edgewear w/ d.j. cover art repeated minor chipping & tears to spine old tape repair head of spine scuffing soiling still VG-/G- copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian Paul Elder’s Books label on rear pastedown. Second printing of this eye-witness account to the training and formation of the Chinese Communist Army following World War II while serving as an American observer with the Soviet Occupation forces in Manchuria. He offers detailed Army military intelligence how the army was organized training methods and more as the Chinese continued to be a growing threat during the Korean War. Military Service Publishing Co., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64247

‎[SPANISH CIVIL WAR -- AVIATION]. OLOFF DE WET, [Hugh William Arthur].‎

‎Cardboard crucifix: the story of a pilot in Spain. . . .‎

‎Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1938. 8vo. 4 343 1 pp. Orange cloth purple lettering front cover & spine minor dustsoiling minor darkening to head & foot of spine slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art of monoplane soaring into the sky above smoking ruins at the lower fore-edge minor creasing slight chipping to corners minor chipping head & foot of spine w/ old minor tape repairs to verso still VG/G copy. First edition second printing of Oloff de Wet’s memoir as a British volunteer pilot during the Spanish Civil War and considered one of the most descriptive and best accounts by a republican flier during the War. Oloff de Wet 1912-1975 was an RAF trained pilot who grounded out from an accident worked as journalist and pilot in the Second Italo-Ethipian War Second Italo-Abyssiann War and after fighting in the Spanish Civil War would later become a spy in Prague before World War II. He and his wife were captured and tortured by the Gestapo and his experiences would later be published as The Valley of the Shadow Death Row. After his release in April 1945 from a Nazi prison he returned to London where as a portrait sculpture he executed busts of Ezra Pound Edmund Blunden John Cowper Powys Dylan Thomas Robert Graves and others. Scarce in original dustjacket. William Blackwood & Sons, Ltd., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 56826

‎WORLD WAR II; WESTERN DESERT; WESSEL, Wilhelm (artist).‎

‎Group of three original artworks.‎

‎1942. Original artwork from the Western Desert executed by Rommel's Kriegsmaler Wilhelm Wessel Three fine studies by Wilhelm Wessel Rommel's war artist Kriegsmaler executed in the field while serving as an officer with the Afrikakorps. Wessel 1904-1971 studied briefly with Kandinsky at the Bauhaus and then with Kurt Schwitters in Berlin. In 1924 he began a four-year journey through Turkey Greece Palestine and Egypt. From 1927 to 1931 studied Sumerian and Byzantine archaeology at the University of Berlin at the same time studying under expressionist painter Karl Hofer whose work was later branded as degenerate by the Nazis and included in their entartete kunst exhibition. Between 1931 and 1939 he taught art in Berlin and Westphalia. He served throughout the Second World War in France Russia North Africa and Italy initially as an officer with a Panzergrenadier regiment. In 1941 he was severely wounded during the opening of Operation Barbarossa and after recuperating joined Rommel in North Africa as a Kriegsmaler. His book Mit Rommel in der Wüste With Rommel in the Desert was published at Essen in 1943. At the conclusion of hostilities he was briefly a prisoner of war before resuming his career as an artist. "As a promoter of abstract art Wessel organized the first post-war German art exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. and took part in a number of group exhibitions" from Venice to Tokyo and "had solo exhibitions in Berlin Wüppertal Wiesbaden Vienna Stuttgart Munich Paris and elsewhere" Benezit. He was the first chairman of the West German Artists' Federation and as such sponsored an early exhibition of American art in Düsseldorf in 1956. Some of his war prints were loaned to NATO in Brussels. Provenance: acquired in 1975 from the artist's widow Irmgard Wessel-Zumloh 1907-1980 herself an accomplished artist by an American army veteran J. William Keithan Jr. 1925-2010. Keithan served with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division and after the war had a long career as an executive with the Westin Hotel chain in charge of the design and construction of over 50 hotels around the world. He has provided a 3-page typed account of the acquisition of this group in which he says: "We talked of many things. Of how General Rommel and Wessel were good friends and how after World War II Frau Rommel and son Manfred were frequently visitors to her home in Iserlohn. She was adamant in her refusal to sell or contribute any of Wessel's work to the German people or the German government". Together with a substantial album comprising 39 photographs of Wessel's war images acquired from the Canadian War Museum and Archives of New Zealand. Auction records for Wessel's post-war work are plentiful but we have not found a single example of any of his original war art appearing at auction or being otherwise offered for sale. Charcoal pastel and pencil drawings. The group comprises: a Original black-and-white charcoal drawing on pale grey paper signed "Wih. Wessel 42" measuring 460 x 590 mm; inscribed lower left corner in pencil "Hinter den Stützpunkten bei Eluel El-Aggara" "Behind the bases at Eluel El-Aggara"; Al 'Aqqarah Libya lies some 100 km west of Tobruk. An attractive and atmospheric evocation of the Libyan desert at dusk: against a low horizon a column of German lorries negotiates hills and scrubby terrain plumes of smoke billow in the distance. Reproduced in Mit Rommel in der Wüste colour plate 15. b Original coloured pastel drawing unsigned and untitled; image: 330 x 465 mm mounted overall: 500 x 620 mm. A striking image of a desert dawn patrol by three German armoured vehicles two Sd. Kfz. 222 scout cars and a Sd. Kfz. 231 armoured car their wheels kicking up sand; the low horizon line rising sun and big sky with flaring white cloud make for a most dramatic picture. Not reproduced in Mit Rommel in der Wüste and presumably unpublished. c Original pencil drawing signed "Wessel 42" entitled "German Soldiers Talking" inscribed in pencil on mount; image: 235 x 350 mm mounted framed and glazed overall: 410 x 570 mm. Label on verso noting its purchase from Wessel's widow in 1975. Reproduced as a half-page illustration in Mit Rommel in der Wüste p. 45. All pieces in excellent condition. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 136644

‎[JAPAN -- WORLD WAR II]. HOFFMASTER, Paul R[ichard], WOLSKY, Milton L[aban], MacKENZIE, Warren, DONNELLY, Donald, COWEN, Ben J (‎

‎Japan today: a portfolio of sketches Tokyo-Yokohama area 1945-1946. Prepared under the direction of the Engineer Eighth U.S. Army. Original paintings by staff. . . .‎

‎Tokyo Japan: Eighth U.S. Army Printing Plant Boonjudo Printing Works 1946. Oblong folio. 15 x 10.75 in. 21 leaves unnumbered. with colour-illustrated title colour-illustrated preface and 24 illustrations several in colour tipped-in on 18 leaves all retaining tissue guards a couple w/ tears 1 w/ minor loss to tissue guard. Original blue boards white & black lettering on front cover punch-sewn in Japanese style at gutter margin w/ white silk braid minor scuffing edgewear very minor staining to lower front cover still VG- copy. First edition of this well-executed series of brush & ink paintings watercolours wash drawings and ink sketches of occupied Japan following World War II by American G.I. artists. While opening with a decidedly jingoistic preface no longer the slant-eyed many-headed yellow monster. . . bespectcacled buck-toothed enigma. . . the sketches reveal a quiet sympathy and influence of Japanese art techniques. The artists included Hoffmaster was a longtime commercial artist and illustrator for US News & World Report National Geographic and art instructor at the Corcoran School of Art who often contributed covers and illustrations to the Changing Times; MacKenzie 1924-2018 noted American craft potter who was heavily influenced by the aesthetic of Shoji Hamada and Korean ceramics often referred to as the “Mingei-sota style;†and Wolsky 1916-1981 noted commercial artist who later became noted illustrator with Woman’s Home Companion Collier’s McCall’s Redbook Esquire Time and Life and noted collector of Modernist art. Eighth U.S. Army Printing Plant, [Boonjudo Printing Works], hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 57171

‎CRIMEAN WAR‎

‎Seat of War in the Krimea.‎

‎London: Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty 1855. First edition of this highly impressive and scarce large-scale map centring on Sevastopol but also showing the country as far east as Albat giving British French and Russian dispositions fortifications and redoubts and the location of field batteries plus profile views of Sevastopol Balaclava and Eupatoria and inset maps of the Black Sea and Eupatoria Bay. It was compiled and drawn up by W. Lowrie and lithographed by Malby & Sons. Unsuprisingly at least three editions appeared in 1855 and all are very thinly represented among institutional libraries. Coloured lithographic map dissected into 36 panels and mounted on linen opening to 760 x 1230 mm folding down into the original green roan slipcase gilt-lettered on front "Krimea" 215 x 149 mm. Some marks and scuffs to slipcase the map in excellent condition. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 141218

‎[WORLD WAR I -- ESPIONAGE]. LANDAU, Captain Henry‎

‎The enemy within: the inside story of German sabotage in America. . . .‎

‎New York NY: G.P. Putnam’s sons 1937. Tall 8vo. x 323 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo illusts. Red cloth black lettering minor shelfwear light offset toning at gutter margin from binders glue w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art lettering & design by Politzer light shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition stated of this informative and well-illustrated work outlining the acts of sabotage such as the Black Tom Island explosion July 30 1916 which blew up 100’s of tons of muniotions and then the Jan. 11 1917 fire at the shell assembly plant of the Canadian Car & Foundry Co. near Kingsland NJ. G.P. Putnam’s sons, hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 57649

‎[WOMEN -- WORLD WAR II]. ELLIS, Jean M & DINGMAN, Isabel‎

‎Face powder and gunpowder. Illustrated by Jack Hambleton.‎

‎Toronto: S.J. Reginald Saunders & Co. Ltd. 1947. 8vo. 229 1 pp. Illust. title page numerous illustrations. Red cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Hambleton minor rubbing edgewear still NF/VG copy inscribed by the author to her husband Kenneth Osborne Wright 1911-2002 noted Canadian astrophysicist. First Canadian edition stated & inscribed of this memoir of serving with the Canadian Red Cross Corps during World War II. The writes about “dodging bombs in London or shells in Normandy; writing letters for wounded men or learning to bathe in a basin†all while caring for wounded soldiers in hospital wards and maintaining morale. S.J. Reginald Saunders & Co., Ltd., hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 57876