Secret Warfare: The Battle of Codes and Ciphers
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, [1973]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 187, illus., maps, index, DJ scuffed at flap, erasure on front endpaper. More
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, [1973]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 187, illus., maps, index, DJ scuffed at flap, erasure on front endpaper. More
Chula Vista, CA: Pateo Publishing Co, 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [2], vi, [1], vii-xiii, 199, [1] pages. Decorative front cover. Author photograph on back cover. Date received and previous owner's name (John M. Quesenberry) and address stamped on rear cover. Author inscription reads: "6/6/86 John Q: Thanks for your order. Hope you like the book. Elliott "Okie" See page 187".[mark on page--Quesenberry mentioned]. Dedication. Preface by the author. Foreword. Excerpts from "All Hands Magazine" October 1983. ORTG Memorial. The author, retired Lieutenant Commander, USN, had more than two decades of work in Naval intelligence. In 1928 the CNO announced the Navy’s intention to formally train enlisted sailors and Marines in RI operations. At the time of this announcement, Harry Kidder was not only the best operator in the fleet, he also was local. He had been transferred to the Navy’s main communications station in Washington, D.C., for regular radioman (RM) duties. Kidder was selected to teach the first RI training class to ten hand-selected RMs. A steel-reinforced concrete classroom was constructed on the roof of the sixth wing of Main Navy building as a classroom for the new RI training, giving these cryptologic pioneers their name. The classroom was designed to accommodate eight students and the radio intercept equipment necessary to conduct the training. The training began with an overview of RI concepts, followed by an introduction into the IJN organization, order of battle, and communications procedures. The students were taught the Japanese alphabet, both katakana and the westernized Romaji, as well as Japanese katakana telegraphic code. More
New York: Bantam Books [Bantam Air & Space Series], 1991. First Bantam Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. xix, [3], 374, [4] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Tabular Information. Slight wear to cover. Masatake Okumiya (July 27, 1909 – February 22, 2007) was a historian and lieutenant general in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Okumiya graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1930. He was commissioned an ensign in April 1932, received his wings in November 1933 as a naval aviator, and was promoted to sub-lieutenant in the same month. In 1937, he participated in the attack on the USS Panay. Promoted to lieutenant-commander in October 1941, Okumiya served throughout World War II, including on the aircraft carrier Ry j and with the 2nd Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During 1942–1943, he served as chief of staff of the 26th Naval Air Squadron, and was appointed to a staff post in August 1944. He was promoted to his final rank of commander in November 1944. At the end of the war, Okumiya was interrogated by Allied intelligence officers, after which he was demobilized. More
St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 336 pages. List of Maps. Illustrations. Appendices: The Crew. USS Dale World War II Battle Stars, Chronology: November 1941 to October 1945, and Task Force Assignments. Notes. Glossary of U.S. Navy Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Slang. Bibliography. Index. This book had gotten wet and there is mildew residue on DJ (outside and inside), covers, and some pages. Some page rippling. A completely readable copy, but far from a showpiece. Olson's Tales from a Tin Can: The U.S.S. Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, is an homage to his father, Robert "Pat" Olson, who served on the U.S.S. Dale for three years following the attack on Pearl Harbor. In researching the project, Olson intertwined material gleaned from a series of oral histories produced by crew members with information from the ship's log and other data he considered likely to give readers an accurate historical perspective. A reviewer for Publishers Weekly called Olson's effort "an impressive accomplishment, bringing vividly to life the actions of a single warship that fought across half the world." Booklist contributor Roland Green considered the book "a sound addition to World War II naval literature." When asked what first got him interested in writing, Olson told CA: "The desire to entertain and inform, which I saw, at a very early age, as a way of earning one's way in the world." Olson cited authors Ernest Hemingway and Robert A. Heinlein, NBC, and "all things ancient China," as influences on his work. He described his writing process as "The War of the Worlds: three a.m. to seven a.m." More
Leesburg, VA: PRIMEDIA Enthusiasts Group, 2001. Hardcover. 96 p. Includes: illustrations (many in color), maps. More
New York: Paperback Library [A Kinney Service Company], 1971. Second printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 351, [1] pages. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Somewhat cocked. Has some wear and soiling. John Deane Potter, born in Anglesey in Wales in October 1912, brought up in Liverpool, became a Fleet Street journalist, columnist and popular writer in the 1950s and 1960s. He died in Sidmouth on 19 March 1981, aged 68. He served in Burma and India during the Second world war as a newspaper correspondent. He was one of the first Western journalists to report from Hiroshima after the Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in 1945. His biography on Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese admiral and mastermind of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, was one of the earliest contemporary publications. Potter’s most successful books was "Admiral of the Pacific", published in 13 editions and Fiasco, had 23 editions. According to Worldcat, Potter published 37 works in 121 publications in five languages. More
New York: Paperback Library, 1971. Second Paperbk Printing. Pocket paperbk, 351, wraps, appendix, bibliography, index, text somewhat darkened, some pages creased, covers somewhat soiled and creased. More
New York: The Free Press, 1987. First Printing. 624, illus., notes, bibliography, index, usual library markings, rough spots ins bds where DJ has been pasted, ink name ins fr bd waviness to text (no pages stuck). In this biography of J. Edgar Hoover, the author assesses the devastating personal impact of Hoover's two great intelligence failures: Pearl Harbor and John F. Kennedy's assassination. More
New York: The Free Press, 1987. First Printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 624, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Slight soiling to fore-edge, rear DJ slightly soiled, some wear to DJ edges. Richard Gid Powers is a well-known author of historical and biographical studies: a New York Times front-page reviewed biography of J. Edgar Hoover, a history of the FBI, a history of the FBI in popular culture, and a history of American anticommunism. He is frequently featured in news commentary and documentaries on the FBI. His last book was a religious thriller The Mystery of the Trinity, a hunt for the murders of Bishop (now Saint) Oscar Romero in El Salvador, with chases through Mt. Athos (Greece), Paris, El Salvador, Miami, and in and under St. Patrick’s Cathedral. His next book is a thriller set in the world of art, Strangers in My Mind (where J. Edgar Hoover also makes an appearance). He taught at the City University Of New York, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center from 1971-2018, as a Professor of History and American Studies and director of Freshman CORE Program. His book Secrecy and Power was a Main Selection of the History Book Club and a Book-of-the-Month Club Dividend Selection. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. Seventh Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 873, [7] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Maps. Appendices (including Notes, Source Material, Selected Bibliography). Index. Gordon William Prange (July 16, 1910 – May 15, 1980) was the author of several World War II historical manuscripts which were published by his co-workers after his death in 1980. Prange was a professor of history at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1980 with a break of nine years (1942–1951) of military service in the United States Navy during World War II, and in the postwar military occupation of Japan, when he was the Chief Historian in General Douglas MacArthur's staff. It was during this time that Prange collected material from and interviewed many Japanese military officers, enlisted men, and civilians, with the information later being used in the writing of his books. Several became New York Times bestsellers, including At Dawn We Slept, The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor and Miracle at Midway. Prange's 1963 Tora! Tora! Tora!, published in the November and December issues of Reader's Digest, and later expanded into At Dawn We Slept, portrayed the attack on Pearl Harbor, and is credited as the basis for the screenplay of the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, which was produced in 1970, while Prange took a leave of absence from the University of Maryland to serve as the technical consultant during its filming. His extensive research into the attack on Pearl Harbor was the subject of a Public Broadcasting Service television program in 2000, Prange and Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession, and was acclaimed "a definitive book on the event" by The Washington Post. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. First Printing. 873, illus., maps, appendices, biblio., index, small tears to DJ, very good condition except large erased area to frontis. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Third Penguin Printing. 873, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, text has darkened, some soiling to covers. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986. First Printing. 699, illus., map, charts, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, slight soiling & small tears to DJ spine. More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959. First Edition. 459, illus., several ink corrections to text, slight weakness to bds, DJ quite worn & pieces missing. Inscribed by the author. More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959. First Edition. 459, illus., usual library markings, boards weak, DJ worn, scuffed, soiled, and creased, board and spine edges worn. More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959. First Edition. 459, illus., pencil notations inside rear flyleaf, some soiling to fore-edge, some wear to board & spine edges, rear bd scratched. More
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Leatherette. 175, [1] pages. Color endpapers. Maps. Illustrations (some with color). Bibliography. Index. Decorative front cover. This is one of The Epic of Flight series, edited by Jim Hicks. Clark G. Reynolds was the curator of the museum aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown at Patriots Point, South Carolina and had taught at the U.S. Naval Academy. Dr. Clark Gilbert Reynolds, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (December 11, 1939 – December 10, 2005) was an historian of naval warfare, with an interest in the development of U.S. naval aviation. He made contributions to the fields of world history, strategic history, and the history of maritime civilizations. Reynolds went on the Duke University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964. Reynolds began his career at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964–1968. He then went to the University of Maine. From 1976 to 1978, he was Professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point New York. For most of the decade between 1978 and 1988, he was an independent scholar, working as the curator and historian at the Patriot's Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1988, he was appointed professor of history and served as chairman of the History Department. In 1999, he was appointed Distinguished Professor and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2002. E. T. Wooldridge, Jr, the Curator for Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum was a consultant on this volume. He was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and was a fighter pilot aboard several aircraft carriers, including the U.S.S. Independence and the U. S. S. Enterprise. More
Place_Pub: Honolulu, HI: Pearl Harbor Story, 1967. Third Printing. 9" x 6", 48, wraps, profusely illus., map, ink underlining and notes on several pages The author was a retired USNR Captain; he discusses many individual U.S. warships. More
Place_Pub: Honolulu, HI: Swak, Inc., 1988. Reprint Edition. 48, wraps, profusely illus., pencil erasure on title page The author was a retired USNR Captain; he discusses many individual U.S. warships. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1927. Third Edition. 691, illus., figures, tables, index, photos pasted inside fr bd & flyleaf, ink notes inside fr bd & flyleaf, bd & spine edges worn. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. Trade paperback. vii, 312 p. Notes on COntributors. Select Bibliography. Index. More
New York: W. Funk, Inc., [1942]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 634, diagrams, endpapers discolored, some wear to boards, lettering on boards somewhat faded. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Abridged Edition. Eighth Printing. Mass market paperback. Pocket paperbk, 449, wraps, illus., maps, tables, covers somewhat worn and creased, spine creased, text somewhat darkened. This was originally published as United States Submarine Operations in World War II. It was written from records prepared by Rear Admiral R. G. Voge, Captain W. J. Holmes, Commander W. H. Hazzard, Lieut. Comdr. D. S. Graham, Lieut. H. Kuehn and from submarine patrols reports and data from the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. Foreword by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; Introduction by Rear Admiral R. G. Voge who captained the USS Sealion and the USS Sailfish. Chapters include Submarines to War; The Fighting Defense; All-Out Attrition; Pacific Sweep; and Japanese Sunset. An Authorized Account Dedicated to the Valiant Submariners of the U.S. Navy Who Lost Their Lives in World War II. Theodore Roscoe dramatically tells the true story of the Pacific showdown, as the submariners themselves recall all the nerve-shattering, depth-charging action from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. This ‘standard’ in the study of submarine warfare. first published in 1949, abridged and repeatedly reprinted, remains the basic primer for those interested in the U.S. Navy's submarine war against the Axis in World War II. Based on war patrol reports, action reports, and other wartime (then) classified information. Enduring enough to be nicknamed ‘SUBOPS’, this well-regarded publication was commissioned by the Bureau of Naval Personnel and remains one of those books that are routinely listed as source material for almost any/all submarine works dealing with the WWII. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1958. Seventh Printing. 577, illus., maps (some color fold-out), endpaper maps, appendices, index, some foxing/soiling to boards & spine. More
New York, N.Y. Bantam Books Inc., 1977. Tenth Printing [stated]. Mass Market Paperback. 215, [7] pages. Bookseller stamp inside the front cover. Some promotional text difficult to read on first page. Includes chapters on Their Finest Hour; Mediterranean Blitzkrieg; Drive Toward the East; and Days of Infamy. This second volume of the Eyewitness History of World War II opens with the dogged and courageous stand of the British against the ferocious onslaught of the Nazi war machine. It covers the War in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, the invasion of the Balkans and Greece, the harsh and brutal war in the North African desert, the suicidal German attack on Russia, and the fierce cruelty of the Winter War. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the string of Japanese victories in the far east conclude the volume. Mr. Rothberg received a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1947 and a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia in 1952. For the next seven years he was the editor of Free Europe Press, a division of Radio Free Europe. He was later a European correspondent for The National Observer and went on to teach at Hofstra, Columbia and St. John Fisher College in Rochester. More