History / War

New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. You Americans don't understand. You are making beggars of our children, prostitutes of our women, and Communists of our men!" These words were uttered by a young Vietnamese teacher. They were directed at an American G. I. in Hue, South Vietnam, who had been passing out candy to a group of youngsters. The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, had been making every effort that it could to end the fighting in Vietnam. As part of this effort, a working party was appointed to search for alternatives to military force. This resulting report provides by no means the only answer, but does point out paths of action we can follow to halt war's expansion and to bring the destruction of property and human life to an end. (From the back cover) 112 pages, including 4 appendices and a selected bibliography. There is a minor crease on the front cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Ayers tells his complex story with a master's touch, shifting smoothly between North and South, and between the . . . worlds of his two counties and the wider events of the war that changed them both utterly." - Publishers Weekly. This story gives us the Civil War on an intimate scale, as a story of individuals and families, civilians and soldiers, slaves, free blacks and whites, women and men. It upends what has become the standard view of the Civil War. By taking a ground-level view of the war, Ayers shows that this was not an inevitable clash destined to rage for four years at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. The reassuring story of national unification and the destruction of slavery that we have come to embrace does not do justice to the experiences of the people who lived the Civil War. In recovering the experiences of the people who lived the Civil War, Ayers restores the nuances to events, the mix of emotions, partial knowledge, and belief on which people acted. 471 pages including notes and an extensive index, maps and a few photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Ware, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999. No Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs and Drawings. Corelli Barnett, an outstanding military historian, seeks to bring to life, through this volume, the heroic figure behind the age of Blenheim. The emphasis of the narrative lies throughout on the character and personality of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, rather than on the general historical events of his life. The course of Marlborough's war leadership is narrated with clarity, color, pace, and immediacy, rendering his talents and achievement explicable in terms of the military art of his time. He emerges as the greatest soldier of his age, and in the forefront of commanders of all time. Originally published in 1974, this edition is fully illustrated in black & white. 288 pages including a bibliography and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Stackpole Books, 2002. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. Originally printed in 1907, this volume is part of the Frontier Classics Series, and has a new introduction by Peter Cozzens, author of several acclaimed books on the Civil War and Western history. Ellen Mcgowan Biddle was the wife of James Biddle, a U.S. Army officer who saw wide service on the frontier. This book is a collection of her articulate, astute observations about life in the Army. From Macon, Georgia, where she first went to join her husband, to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, where then-Colonel Biddle commanded the 9th Cavalry, Ellen McGowan Biddle followed her husband throughout his career, up until his retirement from active service in 1896. Throughout her reminiscences, she relates not only the day to day events of her life as an Army wife, but also the excitement, uncertainty, and sacrifice of life on the frontier. Fascinating reading! 257 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Alexandria, VA, U.S.A.: International Media Corp. for and on behalf of The International Strategic Studies Association, 1995. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. This book discusses the origins of this war, the local roots and the Bosnian Jihad, manipulating Washington, relations between Belgrade and Zagreb, and also between Moscow and Berlin. The author posits what he expects to happen next and includes a chapter on the former Yugoslavia. There is considerable information in this book that the average person is probably not aware of, and so makes interesting reading. 115 pages including a bibliography and a short biography about the author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.: Westview Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. The violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and the war in Kosovo have highlighted the importance of a detailed understanding of the Balkan region. The political outlook and behavior of the Serbs and Serbian elites has been particularly bewildering to Western citizens and decision-makers. This book provides an analysis of Serbian politics from 1987 to 2000 that centers on an examination of Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power and his pattern of rule up to and including the recent war in Kosovo. Examined is his shrewd admixture of Serbian nationalism and socialism, utilization of the media, and employment of the educational system as a vehicle for political socialization. 438 pages including an extensive index and 32 pages of photographs and drawings. The binding is black cloth; the jacket has some rub marks on the front and back. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. This story of American POWs at Berga - their suffering, their pain, their hope, their memories - has surprisingly been forgotten or inadequately recalled by historians. Roger Cohen is to be thanked for revealing to the public its profound human drama with talent, sensitivity, and a commitment to truth." - Elie Wiesel. In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during WW II. 303 pages with index and photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Herndon, VA: Brassey's, 1999. First Soft Cover Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. In this illustrated war volume, the authors show the battles, leaders, weapons, heroism, and pain of the Vietnam War, from its earliest beginnings to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Through more than 450 official and personal photographs (both U.S. and Vietnamese), they reveal the courage, the loneliness, and the fears of the three and a half million U.S. soldiers, Marines, airmen, and seamen who served in America's longest war. Here are the Marines battling house to house in Hue, river boats patrolling the Mekong, soldiers dodging sniper fire in elephant grass, fighter-bombers screaming over Hanoi and Haiphong, and "The Wall" listing some 58,000 names. We all have pictures of the Vietnam War in our minds. It was the war that shaped an entire generation, and its images are captured here. 179 pages including an index and bibliogrpahy. Fully illustrated with captions and text. Small remainder mark on bottom. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Arcturus Publishing, 2002. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. At the outset of 1918 Germany faced certain defeat as a result of Allied technical innovation in tanks and aircraft, and the American entry into the war. Victory could only be gained by the immediate application of overwhelming force in new tactical form; the 'fire-waltz' artillery barrage and the storm-trooper infantry attack. 1918 considers the plans, hopes and subsequent failures of the great German offensive of the year. Martin Marix Evans presents an evocative examination of a once powerful nation on the brink of defeat, and analyzes, through the useof original research, how the allies managed to achieve military dominance in the final year of the war. 240 pages with index; pictorial cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1968. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Photographs. John Gerassi traveled 2,000 miles through Vietnam and has combined North Vietnamese documents, personal letters, journals and diaries, and interviews with many North Vietnamese (including Ho Chi Minh and Pham Van Dong). Included are many startling photographs and his own observations, all to produce this shocking, overwhelming portrait of a nation at total war. 200 pages, including 24 pages of black & white photographs, 5 appendices and an index. There is also a map in the front showing the areas discussed. The top front corner is slightly bent, and a price sticker remains on the back. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. This penetrating moral inquiry into the Catholic Church's role in the Holocaust goes beyond anything previously written on the subject. The author cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust, transforming a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long-overdue investigation of the Church throughout Europe. He shows that the Church's and the Pope's complicity in the persecution of the Jews goes much deeper than has been previously understood. The Church's leaders were fully aware of the persecution, but did not speak out and urge resistence. Instead, they supported many aspects of it. Some clergy even took part in the mass murder. The author develops a precise way to assess the Church and its clergy's culpability, which was more extensive and varied than has been supposed. 362 pages including notes and an extensive index. The right top corner of the binding is bumped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Exeter Books, 1983. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Photographs. Based on the availability of weaponry now and scientific advances expected in the future, this book discusses what types of rockets and missiles may be available for the next large war. This is, in some sense, a history book. This volume covers 1) Missile Technology and History, 2) U.S. Strategic Missile Forces, 3) European and Chinese Forces, 4) Soviet Strategic Forces, 5) Anti-Aircraft Systems, 6) Land Tactical Systems, 7) Anti-Tank Missiles, 8) Anti-Ship Systems, and an index. There is a good amount of text to go along with the photographs. This is not just a coffee table book! The navy blue cloth binding has wear at the bottom corners and the bottom spine.The top edge has a small nick in it and there are a few tiny white spots on the cloth. 192 pages; no marks or tears. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Near Fine. Photographs. This is the untold human story behind the killing of Korean civilians by American soldiers in the early days of the Korean War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who uncovered it. In the summer of 1950, U.S. military forces opened fire on a group of South Korean refugees at a railroad trestle near the village of No Gun Ri. Suvivors said hundreds died, mostly women and children. Retreating U.S. commanders had issued orders to shoot approaching civilians to guard against North Korean infiltrations among refugee columns. In this book, the three journalists tell the larger, human story behind this dark chapter of the Korean War through the eyes of the people, both Korean and American, who lived through it. 313 pages including an extensive index and 16 pages of black & white photographs. The black remainder mark on the bottom is 1 1/2" long. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Times Books, Random House, 1996. Second Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. David Harris was the most famous draft resister of the Vietnam War. A former student body president of Stanford University, he refused to accept induction and be sent to Vietnam. As a consequence, he spent nearly two years in a federal prison. With his marriage to Joan Baez, he emerged as the leading moral voice of his generation. For the past two decades he has largely remained silent as the antiwar movement he led stood accused by critics and politicians of everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal to frivolity. Now, in Our War, he speaks out in defense of a generation torn by one of the most divisive wars in America's history. This book is a compelling, even fevered account of stalking the war's moral shadow through the decades since its ignominious end. It is a powerful rumination on the war, the protest movement, and America's need, even now, so many years later, for a reckoning. 191 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Florida, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Last printed by the Boston Herald in 1863, Corporal Zenas T. Haines's dispatches from the Civil War in eastern North Carolina provide a lively, detailed account of the history of a Massachusetts regiment operating in the hostile southern coastal lowlands during the winter of 1862-63. In reports originally prepared for the Herald, Haines follows the organization, training, occupation, and combat service of the 44th Massachusetts from recruitment to mustering out. Haines's reports are important for their on-the-spot history of the entire life span of a regiment of novitiate urban soldiers and their critical role in defeating the Confederate army's efforts to drive Union forces from eastern North Carolina. William C. Harris's' introduction places these reports in the broader context of the nine-month troops raised by the War Department and provides additional background on the individual men of this regiment, their purposes in joining, and the history of the war in eastern North Carolina. 215 pages including an extensive bibliography and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Photographs. This book is an account of what happened to the people and the institutions of a small American town as it went through an industrial boom during World War II. Seneca, Illinois, had a population of 1,235 in 1942; and a population of 6,600 two years later. The boom was due to the location of a shipyard on the bank of the Illinois River. The purpose of this survey was to study the adaptation of social instutions to rapid social change; study the people to new conditions of living; study the influence of a crisis on the long-term history of a community; and to make a record of one significant bit of American life during wartime. 356 pages with index; light wear to corners and spine ends. Cloth binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Novato, CA: Lyford Books, 1992. No Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Holden, Leavenworth. The Gulf War, contends Emeritus Professor Roger Hilsman of Columbia University, was brought on not by the clash of national interests, but by the intense personal rivalry between George Bush and Saddam Hussein. Hilsman portrays Saddam Hussein as a villain, but a villain who rose to power in a society of villains; a man driven by very real and human fears. George Bush is also a driven man. According to Hilsman, the president manipulated the press and news from the region while ignoring the counsel of many military and diplomatic experts during what some observers called his "headlong rush to war." This is an important study, expecially in the current climate, that allows the reader to consider carefully the validity of Bush's claim to be the "foreign policy president" based on his handling of the Persian Gulf crisis. The jacket has a few wrinkles in the front and a 1/2" tear at the bottom. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2001. First Printing. Soft Cover. New. The last time the Filipino tribal warriors actually hunted heads was when they were helping American soldiers during World War II. While assisting in gathering supplies, the Japanese came, and many heads were taken. This happened in 1943, the Filipino head hunter being interviewed told the author. He was 90 years old at this interview. Research in this book was completed over a century's time, from 1890 to the present, and includes information about several tribes, traveling among the head hunters, notes on the Ifugao religion, and the unity of religion, art, and medicine in the Kalinga tribe. 177 pages including common tribal words, a lexicon, and bibliography. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Press, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers - free and independent yeomen. Yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system - particularly with the Louisiana Purchase - squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts and eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. The author focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farms on the land they coveted, by enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. The pressures upon him, both psychological and economic, are detailed, as are the occasions on which decisions were made determining the future course of American history and the health of the land. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period. 350 pages with notes, bibliography, and an extensive index. Eight glossy pages of photographs and maps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Mark Klempner is a folklorist and oral historian. The son of an immigrant who barely escaped the Holocaust, he spent nearly a decade talking with and getting to know the Dutch rescuers. His articles have appeared in both mainstream and academic publications, and he has been featured as a commentator on NPR and other broadcast media. The book he has written is the result of his knowledge of the Dutch rescuers of Jewish children. He gives us great insight on how and why they made their courageous choices during the war, and what the rescuers have done with their lives since, and where their moral compasses point today. A fascinating book, the rescuers words resonate across generations, providing insightful guidance as to how people of conscience can navigate ethically in an increasingly complex world. The binding is cloth; 235 pages including notes and bibliography. Photographs are black & white. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Rigel Publications, 2004. No Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Photographs. The word "Kamikaze", meaning "Divine Wind", originated in the 13th century, but was used again in World War II by the Japanese to describe the suicide missions of Japanese pilots. Only the young and single men were accepted, usually no older than 20. Before their final mission, they took nail and hair clippings and placed them in a box for their funeral, and wrote a final statement. Although it lasted only 3 months, a shocking number of young, idealistic pilots volunteered and died in these missions. This is the story of the Kamikaze - the attacks, the horror and the truth behind the myth. 192 pages including a glossary, appendix, bibliography, and index. Sixteen pages of photographs included. The bottom front corner has a bit of wear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Stackpole Books, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. The Civil War surgeon faced a unique challenge: to answer to two very different authorities. On one hand, he was bound to uphold the principles of medical tradition, while on the other required to obey the regularions of the army. Not every doctor was able to rise to the challenge of these dual responsibilities and many Civil War surgeons ended up facing official sanctions for their alleged medical and/or procedural failures. Undoubtedly, some of these surgeons were guilty of negligence, perhaps even worse. But the great majority did their duty. Even those who fell short raise the question: Could we, with the same challenges and the same limited knowledge, have done better? 258 pages with appendices and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edison, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Castle Books, 2003. No Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Photographs. In this fascinating book, noted historian Kenneth Macksey shows how every high command involved in the Second World War suffered variously from unpreparedness, complacency, delay, over-confidence or plain ineptitude, among other sins. The sixteen specific examples featured here range from Hitler's failure to take Britain in 1940, the troubles in the Western Desert campign, the political interference in the air war over Germany, the Allied failure at Arnhem and the extraordinary Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. 252 pages including a bibliography, index, eight pages of photographs, and numerous maps throughout the book. The top edge of the jacket near the fold is a bit wavy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Hearst's International Library Co., Inc., 1915. Hard Bound, Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Maxim Hudson was an American inventor and chemist who invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder. His brother was Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun (which is often credited to Maxim). Prior to World War I Maxim wrote this book, in which he pointed out the inferiority of American weapons to those of European countries. As the inventor of smokeless cannon powder and maximite, a high explosive and a fuse adopted by the Army and the Navy, he wrote this book to present a "phalanx of facts upon the subject of the defenseless condition of this country, and to show what must be done, and done quickly, in order to avert the most dire calamity that can fall upon a people - that of merciless invasion by a foreign foe, with the horrors of which no pestilence can be compared." This passionately written books pleads with readers to help rectify this situation, and includes some charts showing US expenditures, armed services population, and other dated but intriguing information. Also included are portions of speeches and letters from General Leonard Wood (with portrait), Admiral Austin M. Knight (with portrait), and poetry that relates to war. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author. This is an American Library Edition, 318 pages including an index and six pages of ads for other books. All pages are secure; the spine has pulled away, causing the book to be cocked if not standing on a flat surface. The binding is dark green with only minor wear to the bottom corners. Both spine ends show very light wear. There are a few very small light spots on the spine, and one on the back. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Lee and Low Books, 1997. First Reprint Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Lee, Dom. In 1940, when Hiroki Sugihara was five, he and his family lived in Lithuania, where his father officially represented Japan as a diplomat. Their life in Lithuania was pleasant and carefree. Then one day in July, everything changed. A crowd of people had assembled outside the gates of their house. These were Jewish refugees from Poland, fleeing from the Nazis. They were seeking visas to travel safely through the Soviet Union to Japan. Mr. Sugihara, against his superior's orders, issued the large number of visas requested. He wrote thousands of visas, until the Sugihara family was sent to Berlin, and he no longer had the authority to issue visas. These visas saved thousands of lives. Narrated in the first person, the story is simple and powerful. Readers will grasp the dilemma faced by the Sugiharas and will appreciate the consequences of their courageous decision. Along with the book comes a 6-page teaching guide which includes teaching hints, across the curriculum activities, writing activities and more. The book is unpaginated but fully illustrated in color. On the back is a picture of the actual people discussed in the book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Lee and Low Books, 1997. First Reprint Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Lee, Dom. In 1940, when Hiroki Sugihara was five, he and his family lived in Lithuania, where his father officially represented Japan as a diplomat. Their life in Lithuania was pleasant and carefree. Then one day in July, everything changed. A crowd of people had assembled outside the gates of their house. These were Jewish refugees from Poland, fleeing from the Nazis. They were seeking visas to travel safely through the Soviet Union to Japan. Mr. Sugihara, against his superior's orders, issued the large number of visas requested. He wrote thousands of visas, until the Sugihara family was sent to Berlin, and he no longer had the authority to issue visas. These visas saved thousands of lives. Narrated in the first person, the story is simple and powerful. Readers will grasp the dilemma faced by the Sugiharas and will appreciate the consequences of their courageous decision. Along with the book comes a 6-page teaching guide which includes teaching hints, across the curriculum activities, writing activities and more. The book is unpaginated but fully illustrated in color. On the back is a picture of the actual people discussed in the book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Schocken Books, 2005. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. After her father died, Sharona Muir learned by chance that he had invented Israel's first rocket. Amazed by this discovery, Muir traveled to Israel to meet her father's colleagues, a group of idealists - many of them refugees from Europe - who had been summoned by David Ben-Gurion to create weapons for a new nation. With the equivalent of $3,000, these young scientists set up shop in a rooftop shed in Tel Aviv, working day and night, falling asleep at their desks while still holding pencils. Through the memories they share, Muir comes to know the brilliant, impassioned, and creative young Itzhak Bentov, her father. She weaves her own memories of him into their stories. As the truths she seeks emerge, Muir elegantly evokes the hubbub of Jerusalem streets, the uncommon lives of her hosts, and the land and skyskapes of the Negev. The result - a story of invention and self-invention, of Israel's founding generation, and of a deep, abiding love between father and daughter - is an incandescent memoir. 275 pages including notes and 8 pages of photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.: Turner Company, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a book for high-school-age students and anyone interested in the history of Texas. The background of Texas history involves a review of the colonial systems of three great European nations, as well as the development of the United States prior to 1821. During the period of the Republic, Texas was an international bone of contention in the relations of England, France, Mexico, and the United States. This is a wonderful book about Texas from Spanish occupation to rule under Mexico, on to the Americanization of Texas, the winning of independence, the return to the Union and the last chapter discusses Texas and Texans in the Decade of World War II. Several maps are included. 516 pages including an index. Blue cloth cover with light wear at the corners and spine ends. Prior owner's name written on the inside cover, and there is a sticker ghost on the ffep. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hill and Wang, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Photographs. This book begins with the First World War, when poison gas killed or maimed one and a half million men in the mud of Flanders. It tells of the Japanese use of mustard gas and biological weapons in the 1930s, the Nazis' discovery of nerve gas in 1937, and the huge arsenal of chemical weapons which Hitler, who used gas to kill millions in concentration camps, several times came close to using in battle. It tells of horrifying secret experiments with anthrax in the 1940s, the development of the plague bacillus, and futuristic attempts to tinker with the genetic code. The horrors of biological bombs, anti-crop agents used in German and Japan, causing widespread starvation, and tons of chemical defoliants in Vietnam are covered. The Russians also may have used chemical warfare in Laos, Afghanistan, and Eritrea. A fascinating and frightening story, since these agents have been used in recent times and may continue to be used. 274 pages, including notes and an index. The binding is cloth, and is slightly turned over at the spine end. The jacket has light chipping at both spine ends. There are a few light spots on the vertical edge of the paper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom: Bramley Books, 1998. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs and Maps. The story of the Claudian Conquest of Britain was only partly recorded by ancient historians. Much of this missing knowledge has been recaptured by archeological research. As a result, we have a better understanding of the tribal society which then existed in Britain, and this can help us to appreciate the courses of military action open to Aulus Plautius, the commanding Roman general. There are important, if infrequently considered, military factors which would have affected Plautius' choice of options: Logistical, geographical, and political. In this innovative and much acclaimed study John Peddie argues that the organization and supply problems of a task force of 40,000 and several thousand animals would broadly have dictated Roman tactics. He discusses what these may have been, examines the reasons for Vespasian's seemingly isolated foray into the West Country, and suggests that Caratacus' guerilla campaign (AD 43-52) denied the Romans of their hope of a speedy conquest. 214 pages including an index of places and a general index. Illustrated in black & white. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2004. Unknown. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs and Maps. On May 8, 1944, the B17 climbed and joined other bombers in the cloudy skies over England. It had been a smooth takeoff. Thomas L. Thomas adjusted his navigator's seat in the plane's nose section and glanced out toward the clouds that quickly enveloped the ground beneath the plane. In one sense, he felt somewhat sheltered when the plane joined other planes, 25,000 feet above the English Channel. He imagined that the layer of clouds hid the Flying Fortresses from the flak of enemy fire. However, he knew it was a false sense of security. This is the story of Thomas's experiences in WWII, including his time as a prisoner of war, his arrival at Nuremberg and, finally, his journey home and subsequent life. 204 pages including photographs and a bibliography. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Random House, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. DJ is near fine; 1 chip and a few marks on the spine. Binding is fine and attractive. Book spans the years 1903-1945. 528 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom: Wrens Park Publishing, 2000. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Illustrations and Documents. King Harold Godwineson (c. 1022-66) is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman victory. In reality, he deserves to be recalled as one of England's greatest rulers. This volume sets out to correct this distorted image by presenting Harold's life in its proper context, offering the first full-length critical study of his career in the years leading up to 1066. Ian Walker presents a carefully research critique of the sources for our knowledge of Harold, reconciling the distortions in the divergent "English" and "Norman" accounts available to modern commentators, allowing the reader to make a realistic assessment of Harold and his rival William of Normandy, and in the process enhancing our view of both. 258 pages including a section on The Monk Aethelric, the English Earldoms under King Edward, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and an index. Illustrated throughout, including 8 pages in color. The binding is a glossy pictorial matching the jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000. No Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs and Drawings. Dervish is the story of the rise and fall of an African Empire. It began in the Sudan in the 1880s with a localized 'Holy War' fought against 'decadent' Turkish/Egyptian overlords. It was led by Mohammed Ahmed Ibn Al-Sayid Abdullah - the Mahdi - and was soon to engulf a million square miles of arid territory. It forced the hand of a recultant British Liberal Government, which was then approaching the zenith of its imperial power, and led to the disaster of the infamous Hicks expedition and the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Using first hand accounts and diaries of participants, the author brilliantly describes the growth of the Mahdist movement and the extraordinary devotion and discipline of the Dervish troops. The Dervish Empire survived the death of the Mahdi by 13 years, ending at the Battle of Omdurman and Kitchners reconquest of the Sudan. 235 pages including an index. Fascinating! 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. With 16 pages of never-before-seen photos, Rising Tide recounts successful Soviet operations, including top-secret exercises off the American coast, and espionage coups, such s the spy-ship that monitored American missile tests off the Florida coast and collected the debrise in full view of the US Navy. All too common were the near-misses, heroic rescues, and deadly catastrophes that plagued Soviet submarines over the years, and still do, including the horrific nuclear accident on board the ill-fated K-19, later nicknamed the "Hiroshima"; the internal fire that sank the K-8 in 1970 with 22 sailors on board, and the dramatic escape of crew members from the Komsomolets in 1989, as narrated by a survivor. Russian submarines fought two battles in the Cold War: One against their American opponents, and another against the cruel Soviet leadership that knowlingly put their lives at risk and caused so many needless deaths. Includes the tragic sinking of the Kursk in 2000. 354 pages, including an index, notes, and two appendices. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. This stunning book tells the complete story of the last military contest of the Vietnam War. Ranging from fierce firefights on a Cambodian island to a surreal black-tie dinner in the White House, the entire story about the hijacking of the U. S. merchant ship, S.S. Mayaguez, untold until now, is revealing in a riveting narrative of combat, courage, and governmental blunders that serves as a metaphor of the entire war. 384 pages, including appendices, notes, an index, and many pages of photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press, 2002. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. This book was a winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations. "What did Pope Pius XII, his advisors, and his assistants at the Vatican do to help the Jews of Italy during World War II? This meticulously researched and balanced book finds that, despite the persistent myth that the pope worked from behind the scenes to help the Jews, he and those around him actually did very little." "An authoritative, balanced and, in the end, devastating indictment of moral failure on the part of the Church as an institution." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 408 pages including an index and notes. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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