War, Military History & Militarism

Anderson, Robert Gordon. Not Taps, but Reveille. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918. 1st printing. Small 8vo (small book). 33 pages. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover with gilt title. #24395. $15
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Clamp, Arthur L. Exercises Tiger and Fabius: An Illustrated Account of the American Forces Assault Exercises Held at Slapton Sands in 1944 as a Rehearsal for Part of the D-Day Landings in France. Plymouth, England: Printed by P. D. S. Printers, 1976? 4to (large book). [32] pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #24809. $30
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Cutchins, John A., assisted by George Scott Stewart, Jr. History of the Twenty-Ninth Division, 'Blue and Gray,' 1917-1919. Foreword by Major General Charles G. Morton. Philadelphia: Press of MacCalla, 1921. xli, 493 pages. Photographs. 2 folding maps. Prepared pursuant to G. O. 2 Headquarters 29th Division A. E. F., January 10th, 1919, at the Request of the Division Historical Committee. Good hardcover, backstrip and spine ends slightly worn. #27599. $45
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Dudgeon, Tony, Air Vice-Marshal. Wings over North Africa: A Wartime Odyssey, 1940 to 1943. England: Airlife, 1987. 1st printing. 222 pages. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Very good cloth-covered hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0906393868. #18149. $27.50
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Edge, David, and John Miles Paddock. Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight: An Illustrated History of Weaponry in the Middle Ages. New York: Crescent Books, 1990. Reprint. 4to (large book). 189, [3] pages. Index. 150 color and 170 black-and-white illustrations. First published in 1988. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0517644681. #25692. $45
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European Resistance Movements. European Resistance Movements, 1939-1945. First International Conference on the History of the Resistance Movements held at Liege-Bruxelles-Breendonk 14-17 September 1958. Oxford, London, New York, Paris: Pergamon Press, 1960. 1st printing. xvii, 410 pages. Folding maps and plans. Good hardcover. Slight wear on lower edge of front cover. #19164. $25
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Ex-Service Men's Co-Operative League. A.E.F. Fun in France. Portraying in Cartoon and Verse the Lighter Scenes behind the Lines. New York: Ex-Service Men's Co-operative League, 1919. 32 pages. Illustrations. Copyrighted 1919 by E. R. Williams, N.Y. 'The objects of the league are: A Square Deal for all Ex-Service Men, $2,000 paid-up Insurance Policy to Secure Six Months' Pay To Help the Wounded.' - Title page. Fair pictorial stapled wrappers (soft cover); covers nearly detached. #27794. $45
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Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Field Artillery. Command and Staff Functions. (The equivalent of text no. 96). Book 221. 1933 edition. Fort Sill, Oklahoma: Printing Plant, the Field Artillery School, 1937. 3d printing. 178 pages. Illustrations. Folding plates. First published in 1933. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #24742. $20
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Fox, Roger P. Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1961-1973. Foreword by John W. Huston, Maj. Gen. USAF. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1979. 1st printing. ix. 278 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26127. $25
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Gillie, Mildred Hanson. Forging the Thunderbolt: A History of the Development of the Armored Force. Foreword by General Jacob L. Devers. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Military Service Publishing Company, 1947. 330 pages. Index. Bibliographical notes. Very good hardcover. Exlibrary: stamps on all edges, stamp on title page. #28445. $22.50
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Hamilton, Craig, and Louse Corbin, editors. Echoes from Over There, by the Men of the Army and Marine Corps Who Fought in France. New York: Soldier's Publishing Company, 1919. Small 8vo. iii, 248 pages. Photographs. Frontispiece. Good hardcover; covers slightly soiled and worn, part of lower spine rubbed and worn away. #27926. $27.50
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Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. Complete & Unabridged. Fully Annotated. xxxvi, 1003 pages. Index. Frontispiece map. Editorial Sponsors, who wrote the Introduction: John Chamberlain, Sidney B. Fay, John Gunther, Carlton J. H. Hayes, Graham Hutton, Alvin Johnson, William L. Langer, Walter Millis, Raoul de Roussy de Sales, George N. Shuster. Good maroon hardcover, spine title completely faded, covers slightly worn, some foxing on endpapers. #16255. $35
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Kohler, Mary R. The Screaming Eagle Guide to Protocol. Fort Campbell: 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell, 1985? 66 pages. Illustrations. 'This pamphlet is meant as a guide to the various personnel at Fort Campbell on matters relating to Protocol.' - Foreword. Very good pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #23684. $20
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Leonard, Lawrence C, and Lloyd J. Kirtland. Catalogue of the United States Military Academy Museum. West Point, New York: United States Military Academy Printing Office, 1944. vii, 398 pages. Index. Illustrations. Chapters on ammunition; artillery; bombs, grenades and torpedoes; flags; machine guns; medals and coins; pictures and statues; pistols, revolvers and automatics; pole arms; relics and souvenirs; rifles, muskets, carbines and shotguns; swords, knives and battle-axes; uniforms and equipment; Trophies outside the Museum. Very good hardcover; loose-leaf pages in a heavy-duty expandable binder with a metal clasp. Former owner's name on blank front flyleaf. #28454. $200
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Liddell Hart, Basil. The Liddell Hart Memoirs. Volume I: 1895-1938. Volume II: The Later Years. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. 1st American edition. 2 volumes (432, 334 pages). Index. Photographs. Very good hardcover books in very good dust jackets. #28442. $30
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MacDonald, Charles B. The Siegfried Line Campaign. United States Army in World War II. Foreword by James A. Norell. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1963. xxi, 670 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Maps. The European Theater of Operations, 7. Good hardcover; exlibrary, rebound in library cloth with spine markings, stamps, markings and pockets inside; some soiling and tape repair to pages. #28081. $40
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MacIsaac, David. The Military and Society: The Proceedings of the Fifth Military History Symposium, United States Air Force Academy, 5-6 October 1972. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972. 164 pages. Index. A conference sponsored by the Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, and United States Air Force Academy. Good pictorial softcover, covers slightly soiled. #21482. $12.50
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Meyer, Edward C., and R. Manning Ancell, with Jane Mahaffey. Who Will Lead? Senior Leadership in the United States Army. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1995. 1st printing. viii, 268 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. 'Who Will Lead? evolved from the haunting question posed just prior to Desert Storm: Do we have leaders in the military like those we had in World War II?' - Preface. A study of four-star generals. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0275950417. #25734. $85
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Murawski, Erich. Der deutsche Wehrmachtbericht, 1939-1945. Ein Beitrag zur Untersuchungen der geistigen Kriegfuhrung. Mit einer Dokumentation der Wehrmachtberichte vom 1.7.1944 zum 9.5.1945. Vorwort von Dr. Bruchmann. Boppard am Rhein: Harald Boldt Verlag, 1952. 2. (durchgesehene) Auflage. ix, 768 pages. Schriften des Bundesarchivs, 9. Text in German. Good hardcover. Exlibrary, bound in library buckram: spine title and call number, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover, on Vorwort page; stamp and pocket inside rear cover; small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #25897. $40
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Nance, Ellwood C. Faith of Our Fighters. St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1944. 304 pages. Photographs. Long inscription, dated and signed by the author in 1946. A compilation of stories of faith compiled by an army chaplain, describing the religious programs of the Army and Navy in operation during World War II. Good hardcover, covers rubbed and worn. #25326. $15
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Nogales y Mendez, Rafael de. Four Years beneath the Crescent, by Rafael de Nogales. Translated from the Spanish by Muna Lee. Introduction by Lt.-Colonel Edward Davis. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 1st edition. xviii, [1], 416 pages. Index. Photographs. Frontispiece. Endpaper maps. World War I campaigns in Turkey and the Middle East. Good hardcover, spine and covers slightly sunned. Former owner's name on half-title page. Foxing on frontispiece and title page. #25595. $250
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Parris Island, South Carolina. Recruit Depot. Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, 1969, Platoon 203. Doraville, Georgia: Albert Love Enterprises, 1969. No pagination. Color and black-and-white photographs. Decorative endpapers. Very good hardcover; red raised buckram with gilt image of the Iwo Jima Memorial and title and date on front cover. #28430. $25
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Riedel, Hermann. Ausweglos! Letzter Akt des Krieges im Schwarzwald, in der Ostbaar und an der oberen Donau Ende April 1945. Stadt Villingen-Schwenningen und Stadt Bad Durrheim: Albert Wetzel KG., Buch- und Offsetdruck, 1974. viii, 403 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Folding map inside rear cover sleeve. Signed by the author. Text in German. Very good hardcover. #26435. $125
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Roberts, John M. (Jack). Escape!!! The True Story of a World War II P.O.W. the Germans Couldn't Hold. Binghamton, New York: Brundage Publishing, 2003. 1st edition. viii, 237 pages. Photographs. Signed by the author. Author's handwritten note tipped in on title page. The author trained with the Army's 106th Infantry Division and was a member of a Forward Observer Group with his Artillery Battery. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 1892451115. #26119. $20
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Robinson, Willard B. American Forts: Architectural Form and Function. Urbana: Published for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth by the University of Illinois Press, 1977. 1st printing. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book). xiii, 229 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Exlibrary: Very good hardcover in good mylar-covered dust jacket with flaps pasted down; blacked-out call number on spine, stamp on dedication page, pocket on flyleaf. ISBN 0252005899. #28291. $70
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Scott, Emmett J. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War. A Complete and Authentic Narration, from Official Sources, of the Participation of American Soldiers of the Negro Race in the World War for Democracy. A full account of the War Work Organizations of colored men and women and other civilian activities, including the Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A. and the War Camp Community Service. With official summary of the Treaty of Peace and League of Nations Covenant. Prefaces by Newton D. Baker, Gen. John J. Pershing, and Theodore Roosevelt. No place: No publisher, 1919. 512 pages and 96 unnumbered pages of photographs and illustrations. Poor pictorial hardcover, covers worn and soiled, binding mostly detached from text block, some loose pages. #28381. $50
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Sheldon-Williams, Inglis, Painted by, and Described by Ralf Frederic Lardy Sheldon-Williams. The Canadian Front in France and Flanders. London: A. and C. Black, 1920. xiv, 208 pages. Index. Color illustrations. Frontispiece. Good hardcover, spine slightly darkened, small area cut out from title page, not affecting text. #27598. $22.50
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Strait, Newton A., compiler. Alphabetical List of Battles, 1754-1900, War of the Rebellion, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and all Old Wars with Dates. Summary of Events of the War of the Rebellion, 1860-1865; Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1900; Troubles in China, 1900; With Other Valuable Information in Regard to the Various Wars. Compiled from Official Records. Mattituck, New York & Bryan, Texas: J. M. Carroll & Company, 1984. Facsimile reprint. 252 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. First published in Washington, D.C., 1905. Very good hardcover. #23155. $12.50
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Unger, Frederic William. With Bobs and Kruger: Experiences and Observations of an American War Correspondent in the Field with Both Armies. Illustrated from Photographs Taken by the Author. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1901. 1st printing. 412 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. An account of the Boer War in South Africa. The author was Late Correspondent in South Africa for the Daily Express, London. Good pictorial hardcover, front hinge loose. #24536. $45
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United States Army. Department of the Army Field Manual. Armor Operations FM 17-1. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, October 1966. Small 4to (medium-large book). 424 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Folding maps. Armor includes tanks, mechanized infantry, artillery, engineers, armored cavalry, air cavalry, and Army aviation. Very good stiff wrappers. #21472. $17.50
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United States. Department of the Army. Infantry School. Hits Count. Special Text 23-5-1, The Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA, August 1954. Foreword by Carl F. Fritsche. Ft. Benning, Georgia?: United States Army, 1954. Small 4to. 69 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #28473. $20
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Vego, Milan N. Operational Warfare. Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College, 2000. Small 4to (medium-large book). xvii, 687 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Folding maps. NWC 1004. Includes 18 military and 14 geographic separately numbered folding maps. This publication is a collection of the author's articles and essays on selected aspects of operational warfare written in the forms of notes or drafts since the mid-1990's. The author's principal aim is to explain in some detail the most important theoretical and practical aspects of operational warfare conducted by multiservice and multinational forces in high-intensity conventional conflicts. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #27501. $85
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Vietnam Veterans International Reunion, Melbourne, 1988. The Tide is Turning. Vietnam Veterans' International Reunion, 12-15 October 1988, Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne: Reunion Committee, 1988. Small 4to (large book). 20 unnumbered pages. Photographs. Signed by the Treasurer, Doug Hogan. Souvenir Magazine. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #27704. $30
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Wood, Herbert Fairlie. Vimy! Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1967. 186 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. An examination of Canadian military forces during World War I on Vimy Ridge, near Arras, France. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #28435. $15
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