Search Results: History - Military from W. Fraser Sandercombe

New York: Presidio Press - Ballantine Books, 2003. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiv) 272 pp. Dark gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Opening Shots 1966; 1st Division Sniper School - Gunnery Sergeant Vernon D. Mitchell; 5th Marine Snipers - Chu Lai Vietnam - Corporal Ronald R. Willoughby; VC Sapper Attack - Marine Corps Base Chu Lai - Sergeant Tom Casey; Night Ambush Chu Lai - Tom Casey and Vaughn Nickell; Sniper Operation at An Hoa - Sergeants Tom Casey and Ron Willoughby; Operation Tuscaloosa - Ron Willoughby and Vaughn Nickell; Six O'clock Charlie Gets Zapped; Casey's Shooters Go into Battle; Storm Clouds Gather Over Go Noi Island; Searching for the Enemy; The Viet Cong Brace for Battle; The Snipers' Assault; Snipers Invade Antenna Valley - Fred Sanders and Dennis Toncar; Snipers Called into Arizona - Sergeant Tom… Read More

Carrollton, Texas: Squadron Signal Publications, 1995. Book. Illus. by Joe Sewell; Don Greer;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 50 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a small scuffed patch on the upper right of the front cover; no interior markings. Cover art by Don Greer; interiors by Joe Sewell. The Chapters are: Development; A-10A Thunderbolt II; A-10A N/AW; Desert Storm; Gulf Wrap-up; and The Future..

New York: Basic Books - Perseus Books Group, 2001. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xxiv) 232 pp. Quarter-bound in black on gray boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. This collection of essays contains: And Now This: Lessons from the Old Era for the New One by John Lewis Gaddis; Empowered through Violence: The Reinventing of Islamic Extremism by Abbas Amanat; Maintaning American Power: From Injury to Recovery by Paul Kennedy; A Herculean Task: The Myth and Reality of Arab Terrorism by Charles Hill; Clashing Civilizations or Mad Mullahs: The United States between Informal and Formal Empire by Niall Ferguson; Preserving American Values: The Challenge at Home and Abroad by Harold Hongju Koh; Rethinking the Unthinkable: New Priorities for New National Security by Paul Bracken; and The Challenge to Science: How to Mobilize American Ingenuity by… Read More

Port Perry, Ontario: Blake Books, 2005. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo. Signed by Lynn Philip Hodgson and Alan Paul Longfield on the title page. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; aside from the authors' signatures, no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs..

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Navy blue cloth decorated in silver on the spine; blue and white endpaper maps. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with small chips from the head and foot of the spine; price clipped; no interior markings..

New York: Dell Books, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. Dell Book 0286. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the covers and spine; no interior markings..

New York: Delta Books, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 82 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Laying Plans; On Waging War; The Sheathed Sword; Tactics; Energy; Weaks Points and Strong; Maneuvering; Variation of Tactics; The Army on the March; Terrain; The Nine Situations; Attack by Fire; and The Use of Spies..

University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xv) 209 pp. Green boards decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; blue endpapers. Some wear on the corners with a few nicks around the edges of the dustjacket; price intact. The Chapters are: Preface; Acknowledgements; PART ONE: What Happened; It Was Not War - It Was Murder; PART TWO: How It Happened; The Charge Decided the Victory; The Weapon of the Brave; The New Rifle Can Stop the Advance; A Change of Tactice Is Absolutley Necessary; Fieldworks Were Assaulted but Rarely Carried; Desperate Valor; Grandeur the South Could Not Afford; Beyond the Noise No Great Harm Was Done; The Cavalry Was Abruptly Checked; PART THREE: Why It Happened; We Dashed with Sword and Bayonet on the Foe; The Rebels Are Barbarians; followed by an Essay on Selected Sources; and an Index..

Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1989. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 63 pp. Trade paperback format. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Young Billy Bishop; the R.M.C. Cadet; Cavalry Officer; The Royal Flying Corps; Pilot; Hero; Carnival of Destruction; Businessman and Bon Vivant; Air Marshal W.A. Bishop, VC; and The Legacy..

Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 1988. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 227 pp. Blue boards lettered in white on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings..

London: Secker and Warburg, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 362 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in silver on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates, drawings and maps. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a chip and a tear on the lower right of the front panel; a few nicks and short tears around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: 1864 - 1900: The Protestant Child; Road to Mandalay; The Silver Spoon; Ungilded Staff; No Bigger Than a Man's Hand; Engines of War; The Steamroller; Colenso; The Upper Tugela; Spion Kop to Ladysmith. 1901 - 1914: The New Era; Army Reform and the Entente Cordiale; The Peacemongers; The Ladder; The Sage of Camberley; Agadir; Frocks and Brasshats; Europe at Sunset; The Ulster Crisis; The Curragh Incident. 1914 - 1922: Armageddon; The Lost Opportunity; Mons Le Cateau Guise; The Marne; Deadlock; The Road to Berlin; Loos Champagne; The Wheel; The Butcher's Bill; The Giant Killer; Twilight on the Neva;… Read More

London: Futura Books, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 264 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and a small rubbed patch on the upper right of the front cover; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. Operation Market Garden, the Contents are: Foreword; Prelude to a Battle; The Battle of the Bridge; The Cauldron; and The Escape..

New York: Doubleday, 1974. Book. Illus. by Mike Codd;. Very Good. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. 160 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the front panel and spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; previous owner's name inside; lavender spray on the lower edge of the text block. Dj art by Mike Codd. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Chapters are: Parachute Commando; Training and Organisation; Insignia Clothing Weapons Equipment and Air Transport; Military Operations - The Red Devils; Military Operations - A Bridge Too Far; Appendices: The Special Air Service Regiment; The Chindits; Order of Battle - 1st and 6th Airborne Division; 44th Indian Airborne Division; Battle Honours of the Parachute Regiment; and Select Bibliography..

Old Saybrook, Connecticut: AquaDoc Publications, 2007. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. (xv) 779 pp. Personalized inscription by Ted MacNintch on the front free endpaper. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Contents are: A Time of Bonding; The Road to Armageddon; Into the Jaws of Mars; and A Separate Peace; followed by appendices..

Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1996. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xxvi) 309 pp. Brown boards lettered in gilt on the spine; beige endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Written by the son of Billy Bishop, the Contents are: Foreword by Hartland de M. Molson; Warring with the Indians; The Fall of Quebec; The Defeat of Detroit; Queenston Heights - A Battle Won - A General Lost; Les Voltigeurs en Victoire; Bloody Sunday and Majuba Dayu; An Event Unprecedented in This War; Disinfection; The Byng Boys; The Duck's Walk; The March to Mons; Unrepaid Sacrifice; The Bloodiest Hours; The Death Frenzy; The Normandy Conquest; The Miracle of the West; and Omega; followed by a bibliography and an index..

Toronto: CANAV Books, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. 256 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband; illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Night Fighters and Intruders; Bomber Command; Medium Bombers; Coastal Command; Air Transport Overseas; Awards and Decorations; and The War Artists; followed by a glossary and an index..

Toronto: Ontario Department of Education, 1918. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 91 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a chip from the upper right corners of the front cover; no interior markings..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company - Apollo Editions, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 194 pp. Pictorial boards matching the dustjacket. Chipping on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and chips around the edges; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings. The Contents are: On Shipment; We Just Came in Out of the Rain; Ready or Not; Point of Embarkation; Continental Limits; Convoy; Arrived Safely at Destination; Debarkation; Indeed a Strange Land; The Yanks Were Here; Somewhere in Australia; The Everlasting R--N; Bloody Resort Plice; Central Station; Member of the Service; Salvation; Spot of Tea; North to the Sunshine; Staging Area; First-Class Scout; and I Reckon It Is At That..

New York: Dell Books, 1963. Book. Illus. by Robert Shulz;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 384 pp. Dell Book 1381. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Robert Shulz. This anthology contains: Introduction by Herbert Mitgang; Dunkirk by David Divine; The Crisis of Fighter Command by Alexander McKee; Malta by Ian Cameron; Tobruk by Anthony Heckstall-Smith; The Raid at St Nazaire by C. E. Lucas Phillips; The Main Assault by R. W. Thompson; Sinking of the Scharnhorst by Fritz-Otto Busch; Montgomery's Mountain Goats by Farley Mowat; Target: Ploesti by Leon Wolff; Salerno by Samuel L. Morison;; Before St.-Lo by Glover S. Johns; The Roard to Arnhem by Chester Wilmot; and The Distant Drum Was Still by Laurence Critchell..

New York: Avon Books, 1962. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 384 pp. Avon Book V-2073. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; earlier price inside. The covers are illustrated with photographs from the war. The interior is illustrated with maps. The Contents are: The Shooting War; The Road Back; Stalemate; and The Talking War; followed by appendices and an index..