America's Race to Victory
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [c1919]. 21 cm, 211, diagrams, index, some wear to bds, top & bottom of spine worn, some page discoloration. Introduction by Gen. Peyton C. March. More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [c1919]. 21 cm, 211, diagrams, index, some wear to bds, top & bottom of spine worn, some page discoloration. Introduction by Gen. Peyton C. March. More
Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. Co., c1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 198, illus., map, references, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Scribner, 1997. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 320, illus., map. Story of book camp Platoon 3086. Thomas E. Ricks follows 63 recruits from their home towns to Parris Island, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps. He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). More
New York: Scribner, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 320, illus., map. Thomas E. Ricks follows 63 recruits from their home towns to Parris Island, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps. He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). More
New York: Scribner, 1997. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 320, illus., map, index. Inscribed by the author. Thomas E. Ricks follows 63 recruits from their home towns to Parris Island, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps. He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). More
New York: Scribner, 1997. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 25 c. 320 pages. Illustrations. Chain of Command. Map, A Note on Sources. Index. Signed by the author. Thomas E. Ricks follows 63 recruits from their home towns to Parris Island, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps. He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). More
New York: Scribner, 1997. First Printing. 25 cm, 320, illus., map, index, some wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author to Ron Suskind. More
New York: Scribner, 2007. 1st Trade Pbk Edition. Fifth Printing. Trade paperback. 25 cm, 335, wraps, illus., index, some wear and creasing to cover edges. Thomas E. Ricks follows 63 recruits from their home towns to Parris Island, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps. He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). More
New York: Scribner, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm, 320 pages. Illustrations. Map. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep.. Thomas E. Ricks follows 63 recruits from their home towns to Parris Island, through boot camp, and into their first year as Marines From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, the novel A Soldier's Duty, and Making the Corps. He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). More
Fort Worth, TX: Branch-Smith, Inc., 1978. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. vi, 210 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Maps. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: U.S. Army Cent/Military Hist, 1987. First Printing. 22 cm, 30, wraps, map, appendices, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 182, wraps, maps. More
New York: Clark Book Co., Inc., 1916. First Edition. 1st Thousand Printing. 17 cm, 224, illus. More
Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1920. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. xi, [1], 172 pages. Some cover wear and page soiling. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Frontis illustration is a fold-out overview of Camp Devens. Illustrations. Foreword by Major General Henry P. McCain, Commander of the Plymouth (12th) Division and later cantonment commander at Camp Devens. The author was the Boston Globe Corespondent at Camp Devens. In 1917 the United States Congress and the Department of the Army established the former Fort Devens in a predominantly rural section of the Worcester and Middlesex counties in Massachusetts. The Fort's sitting was due primarily to its location at a major hub of the rail network in New England. Since its establishment, the former Fort Devens has undergone various transformations to serve the needs of the Army. Camp Devens, Massachusetts, was named in honor of Brigadier General Charles Devens, served as a training camp for 76th Division (National Army), which occupied the cantonment, August 1917 to July 1918. A reception center for selectees following the end of World War I, the camp was designated a demobilization center. Camp Devens processed more than 100,000 selectees into the Army, and as a demobilization center, processed more than 150,000 men out of the Army. From 1922, through the summer of 1931, Camp Devens was utilized as a training camp for National Guard troops, Reserve Units, ROTC cadets and Citizens’ Military Training Camp (CMTC) candidates. In 1929, Robert Goddard, pioneer in rocketry, used the post for his rocket tests. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 146, frontis illus., front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Bantam Books, 2009. Book Club Edition (No price on DJ, no printing information on verso. Hardcover. 548, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. List of Maps. Dramatis Personae. Chronology. Introduction; Part I: New in a New World; Part II: Reinventing War; Part III: Ordeals of Empire; Part IV: Continental Visions; Part V: Patrons and Enemies; Part VI: Hard Choices; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1: Rogers' Rules of Ranging; Appendix 2--Saint-Francois Map of 1759; Appendix 3--The Hopkins Letter; Appendix 4--General Washington to the President of Congress. This is followed by Notes, Map Credits, A Note on Sources and Usage; Selected Bibliography, and Index. John F. Ross is an American historian and author. He is the recipient of the 2011 Fort Ticonderoga Award for Contributions to American History. The author of over 200 articles, Ross' works have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Outside Magazine, and the Washington Post. He has reported from Greenland, Siberia, Galapagos, Panama, Thailand, and Mexico.[In addition to his written work, Ross has been featured on more than fifty radio and television programs, including PBS's American Experience, NPR's On Point, Science Friday, C-SPAN, the Discovery Channel, the John Batchelor Show, and the Pritzker Military Presents. Ross was the former Executive Editor of American Heritage and has served on the Board of Editors at Smithsonian Magazine. He received the 2009 Harryman Dorsey Periodical Article Award from the Society of Colonial Wars for "Battle of Carillon" in American Heritage, Spring/Summer 2008. More
Washington DC: CreateSpace Independent Publisher, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. vi, 374, [2] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed on title page by Ed Rowny. This is a combination of his autobiography and a biography of his first boss John Elliott Wood. Wood was considered the best trainer in the Army. Wood gave him increasing responsibilities which resulted in his being promoted ahead of his contemporaries. Wood's examples of professionalism and character had a profound influence over his career. Highlights of this exciting story include: Why attending the 1936 Olympics changed the course of my life, His first assignment in the 41st Singing Engineers, How he became General Douglas MacArthur's spokesman, How Col. Wood's example of moral courage convinced me to retire in protest after the signing of the unverifiable SALT II Treaty It covers the story of an astonishingly varied career that includes service in the combat engineers, commander of an infantry division, pioneering in the new techniques of armed helicopters, and finally Military Representative to the SALT Treaty with the Russians. More
New York: M. Evans, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 610, illus., note on sources, appendix, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: M. Evans, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 610, illus., note on sources, appendix, index, some scratches to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1957. Book Club Edition. 333, illus., DJ worn: small tears, small pieces missing at spine The author served with the First Marine Division in Korea. More
Washington DC: Army Reserve Communications, 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus [Also known as History edition of Army Reserve at a Glance]. Spiral bound. Format is approximately 9.5 inches by 6.5 inches. 124 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some with color). Maps. Unit data. Slight wear. Includes sections on The U.S. Army Reserve: Vision and Mission; Letter from the Chief of Army Reserve; The Army Reserve Today; Army Reserve Commands--At a Glance; Then and Now--Army Reserve History; and Resources. Profusely illustrated in color. Topics covered include The U.S. Army Reserve: Vision and Mission; Letter from the Chief of Army Reserve; The Army Reserve Today; Army Reserve Commands--At a Glance; Then and Now--Army Reserve History; and Resources. Dr, John Boyd, Lt. Col. Frank Irwin, Jason Wetzel, Christopher Ruff, Jennifer Friend, and Ward E. Zischke were members of the Office of Army Reserve History Team. This work is an outreach tool produced by Army Reserve Communications. Portions of this work were published in previous versions of Army Reserve at a Glance and Warrior Citizen Magazine. More
Chicago, IL: Military Training Camps Assn, c1926. Quarto, 121, profusely illus., some damp stains, a few pages stuck together, and some damage as pages were separated. More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 225, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No DJ present. This is Greenwood's Contributions in Military Studies, Number 121. Martin secured his M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Military Studies from the University of Manchester. Having focused his energies on a career in the UK public service, he returned to his field of research in 2011, balancing writing with his role as a Strategic Director for a large English city council. The intention of this work is to make clear the foundations upon which the German tactics of the First World War were based and to contrast this with the British system. Such an analysis may provide a guide towards a deeper understanding of the current situation and may allow the British Army to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. More
Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1945. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 208, endpaper maps, boards somewhat worn and soiled, some edge bumping, pencil erasure on front flyleaf. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 353, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Preface by David Lloyd George. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper soiling. Some page foxing noted. Raymond Savage (1888-1964) was a literary agent and writer. Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was an English soldier and British Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. The British succeeded in capturing Beersheba, Jaffa, and Jerusalem from October to December 1917. His forces occupied the Jordan Valley during the summer of 1918, then went on to capture northern Palestine and defeat the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group's Eighth Army at the Battle of Megiddo, forcing the Fourth and Seventh Army to retreat towards Damascus. Subsequently, the EEF Pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps captured Damascus and advanced into northern Syria. During this pursuit, he commanded T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), whose campaign with Faisal's Arab Sherifial Forces assisted the EEF's capture of Ottoman Empire territory and fought the Battle of Aleppo, five days before the Armistice of Mudros ended the campaign on 30 October 1918. He continued to serve in the region as High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan from 1919 until 1925. More