Warfare from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: United States Government Printing Office, 1992. 779pp/numerous illus/maps. Has some highlighting pgs ii-xxvi. Text otherwise clean DJ has light wear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956. Translated by Colonel J.J. Graham. New and revised edition (6th impression) with introduction and notes by Colonel F.N. Maude, C.B. Volume 1 consists of Book I: On the Nature of War, Book II: On the Theory of War, Book III: Of Strategy in General, Book IV: The Combat. 314 pp Volume 2 consists of… Read more about this item

Miami, FL: University of Miami Press, 1969. Volume I: The Prussian Tradition 1740 - 1890; Volume II: The European Powers and the Wilhelminian Empire, 1890 - 1914; Volume III: The Tragedy of Statesmanship - Bethmann Hollweg as War Chancellor (1914 - 1917) ; Volume IV: The Reign of German Militarism and the Disaster of 1918. The dust jackets are clean… Read more about this item

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 698pp/maps. Describes and analyzes the military history of the six key Arab states—Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria—during the post–World War II era. He shows in detail how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the specific objectives set for it and within often… Read more about this item

Amherst, New York, U.S.A.: Prometheus Books, 2005. 759pp/color maps. Islamic Holy war. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1985. 318pp/illus/maps. Clean no markings.. 1st Edition. Cloth. As New/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Sprinfield, VA: DBM Press, LC, 2015. 416pp/illus. First book of its kind. A comprehensive encyclopedia of American citizens who fought as mercenaries or soldiers of fortune. Clean New. 1st Printing. Illustrated Boards. New/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Champaign, IL, U.S.A.: Book Jungle, 2008. 311pp. Clean no marks. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 287pp/illus. The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the Macedonian monarchy and divided the country into four independent republics. This was the crucial half-century of Rome's spectacular rise to imperial status, but Roman interest in its eastern… Read more about this item

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 698pp/maps. Describes and analyzes the military history of the six key Arab states—Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria—during the post–World War II era. He shows in detail how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the specific objectives set for it and within often… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1978. 604 pages with b&w photographs. Still shrink wrapped. Presents the first full history of the Algerian war, from the All-Saints'-Day rebellion of November 1, 1954, to the election of an independent Algerian government in July 1962. He masterfully weaves the complex strands of this story into a narrative of relentless fascination; the… Read more about this item

New York: Schocken, 1986. 315pp with 32 full color and 158 B&W illus., plus 12 line drgs & 4 maps, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliog, index. .From Achilles to Alexander, many of the great men of antiquity made their mark by military achievements. Inspired by the deeds of these exceptional figures, Greek and Latin historians recorded past and present conflicts and… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1905. 2 vols - 423pp/illus/maps some folding + 456pp/illus/maps some folding. Original blue gilt pictorial cloth. Previous owner bookplate inside front cover. Mahan demonstrates the considerable ties between naval warfare and the history of the modern world. He was one of the first historians ever to seriously examine this correlation. Spine and… Read more about this item

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: United States Naval Institute, 1939. 358pp/illus/maps (some fold-out). Seminal work on historical naval tactics. Clean no marks.. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Brookings Inst Pr, 1982. "Richard K Betts analyzes surprise attacks during the past forty years to illustrate his thesis: surprise attacks occur, not because intelligence services fail to warn, but because of the disbelief of political leaders. Previous owner name inside cover. Text Clean. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2003. 327pp/illus/maps. Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71, that violently changed the course of European history.The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 violently changed the course of European History. Digging into many European and American archives for the first time, Geoffrey Wawro's Franco-Prussian War describes the war that followed in thrilling detail, from political intrigues to the… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co., 1896. 2 vols - 357pp/illus/maps + 374pp/illus/maps. 46 illus and 30 maps. An account of the capture of Kinburn, the Monitor, Merrimac and Albemarle, action at Mobile Bay, the capture of Fort Fisher, the Battle of Lissa, the South American wars, naval events of the Franco-German War and the Russo-Turkish War, the… Read more about this item

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press, 1992. 223pp., b/w pls., text ills., plans, bibliog., index. This volume chronicles that challange to the power of artillery at sea, its political check with the inter-war naval treaties and its defeat at the hands of air power in the battles of WW11. By 1945 the aircraft carrier had become the acknowledged capital… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. 303pp/illus. Encyclopedia of Guerrilla Warfare covers the history of this topic from the late 18th century to the present, including topics such as wars, revolts, conflicts, movements, leaders, strategies, and concepts. Clean, no marks, like new. 1st Edition. Glossy Illustrated Boards. As New/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

United Kingdom: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, 1999. 636pp illustrated with line drawings. This book combines a vivid commentary on key aspects of each western and central European army with hundreds of detailed line drawings based on years of research into archeological evidence and an examination of the arts of the period. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo -… Read more about this item