Military Mission to Europe
Washington, DC: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1857. Quarto, 360, illus., maps, fold-out color map, figures, errata, index, some foxing to text, small chips missing in margins of several pages. More
Washington, DC: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1857. Quarto, 360, illus., maps, fold-out color map, figures, errata, index, some foxing to text, small chips missing in margins of several pages. More
Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vii, [1], 195, [5] pages. Frontis illustration. DJ has large tear at front spine and scuffed flap. James R. McDonough is the former director of the Florida Office of Drug Control and the secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections from 2006 to 2008. He served in Vietnam. He rose to the rank of colonel before retiring and taking a series of national positions in drug law enforcement and security. He worked under the national drug czar before becoming the drug czar of Florida in 1999. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the United States Military Academy, McDonough concluded his extensive Army career with assignments in Africa and the Balkans. He was awarded three Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Service Medal, among others. He also served as an associate professor of political science and international affairs at the U.S. Military Academy, as an analyst with the Defense Nuclear Agency, and with the State Dept. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, [1986]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 70, wraps, illus., chronology, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom: New Orchard Editions, 1986. Reprint edition, presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 10 inches. 191, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Glossary. Index of Indian Regimental Names. Bibliography. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Boris Mollo was the Deputy Director and Keeper of Records at the National Army Museum, London. This book is primarily about the uniforms of the Indian Army. A Military Department was created within the Government of the East India Company at Kolkata in the year 1776. Its main function was to sift and record orders relating to the Army that were issued by various Departments of the East India Company for the territories under its control. With the Charter Act of 1833, the Secretariat of the Government of the East India Company was reorganized into four Departments, including a Military Department. The army in the Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras functioned as respective Presidency Armies until 1 April 1895 when they were unified into a single Indian Army. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1989. Reprint Edition. 626, illus., maps (some fold-out), footnotes, tables, index, usual library markings, some waviness to text, some wear board edges. More
Minnetonka, MN: National Historical Society, 1995. Commemorative Edition. 626, illus., maps, tables, footnotes, sources, appendix, index. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. Sixth Printing. 274, some soiling to fore-edge, boards somewhat scratched and scuffed, soiling to spine, binding slightly shaken. More
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1983. Fifth Printing. Pocket paperbk, 273, wraps, some creasing to spine, text somewhat darkened. More
New York: B. M. Whitlock, c. 1888? Oversized, c. 90 + plates, 2 vols., illus., rear flyleaf v.1 creased, small tears to v.2 portfolio, boards scuffed both vols. & some wear to spine edges. More
New York: George U. Harvey, 1917. Third Edition. Pocket-sized, 212, figures, tables, appendices, pencil name inside boards & rear flylf, some soiling ins bds & flylves, some wear to boards. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1918. 400, illus. (some fold-out), pencil name inside front board, boards creased, tears at spine, board and spine edges threadbare. More
Findlay, OH: ACP Books, 1993. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. [16], 269, [3] pages. Diana M. Montague, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Communications at the University of Findlay. This book, originally written as therapy by a foot soldier, graphically displays the reality of his experience in trying to heal himself in a world of aloneness. Without the unending, loving support of his wife, children, and fellow vets, the journey back would have been impossible. More
Arlington, VA: Naptime Publishing, 1997. 233, illus., map, family tree, bibliography. More
New York: M. & W. Ward, 1810. First American Edition. 24 cm, 56, illus., appendix, front board missing, front endpaper partially separated, title page clipped (for autograph? ), text complete. More
New York: Dover Publications, 1985. Reprint Edition. First Thus? Printing. 21 cm, 153, wraps, illus., small scuff at barcode on rear cover. More
New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1959. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. Frontis illustration. DJ in plastic. DJ has some wear and soiling. A personal account of the Civil War. "Being a narrative of personal adventures in the infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier, and hospital services, with an exhibition of the power, purposes, earnestness, military despotism, and demoralization of the South. This was intended to "stir the North to a profounder sense of the desperate and deadly struggles in which they are engaged than they have ever yet felt." When initially published the author's name did not appear on the title page. The author was identified as "an impressed New Yorker". The author did identify himself by name in the Preface. More
Richmond, VA: William Byrd Press, Inc., 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], 80 pages. Illustrations (color). Decorative cover. Cover has slight wear and some sticker residue. Harry Downing Temple attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute as a member of the Corps of Cadets from 1930 to 1934, and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering. Colonel Temple was a veteran of the United States Army and Civilian Conversation Corps. During the Second World War, he served in the Corps of Engineers. He took part in the Normandy Invasion. He also served during the Korean War. As Commanding Officer of The Institute of Heraldry, he designed coats of arms, seals, and banners for thirty-two Episcopal cathedrals and personally designed the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He served as a professional officer of the U.S. Army and participated in World War II and the Korean War, rising to the rank of Colonel. From 1961 to 1966 he headed the Army's Institute of Heraldry, and designed the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He retired from the Army in 1966. Temple began his research for a book about the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets in the mid- 1970s, and retired to Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1988 to be closer to the archival materials necessary for his research. More
Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, Inc., 1934. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, x, [2],386 pages. Illustrations. Maps Index of persons, organizations, and geographical. Boards somewhat worn and discolored, endpapers discolored, edges soiled. From the Foreword by Major General Croft, Chief of Infantry: "This volume was prepared by the Military History and Publications Section of The Infantry School. Major Edwin F. Harding planned the book and supervised in detail the preparation of the manuscript. Major Richard G. Tindall devised the sequence, performed most of the research, outlined the chapters and wrote most of them. Captain John A. Andrews and Lieutenant Charles T. Lanham assisted in the research and map preparation and contributed parts of certain Chapters. Lieutenant Lanham edited the book in full. Colonel George C. Marshall directed the project." Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (September 14, 1902 – July 20, 1978) was an author and professional soldier, winning 14 decorations in his career. After retiring from the military, he was active in corporate business. He is the model for one of Ernest Hemingway's heroes, and in life was a close friend of the author. He included among his many military adventures the command of the U.S. 22d Infantry Regiment in Normandy in July 1944, and was the first American officer to lead a break through the Siegfried Line on September 14, 1944 near Buchet. These developments were described by Hemingway in his article War in the Siegfried Line. He led a breakout in the Battle of the Bulge after surviving the ordeal in the Battle of Huertgen Forest. Lanham earned the Distinguished Service Cross in the Huertgen Forest. More
New York: Random House, [1945]. First Printing. 19 cm, 144, ink mark on half title page, boards worn and corners bumped. More
London: HMSO, 1914. Pocket-size, 265, illus., appendices, index, ink name ins fr bd, bds scuffed & soiled, bd & sp edges worn, pencil & colored pencil underlining. More
Fort Benning, GA: Army Infantry School, 1935. 107, wraps, figures, color fold-out map at rear of book, glossary, appendix, some wear to covers. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. Quarto, approx. 75, wraps, figures, tables (many fold-outs), covers soiled and some pencil scribbles. More
Fort Benning, GA: U.S. Army Infantry School, 1943. 17, wraps, maps, footnotes, text has darkened slightly, covers somewhat soiled, entire document slightly creased. More
Fort Benning, GA: U.S. Army Infantry School, 1967. Quarto, approx. 200, wraps, staple-bound, illus., figures, appendices, some wear to cover edges, front cover faded. More
Fort Benning, GA: The Infantry School, 1938. 310, illus., maps, 3 large maps & appendix in pocket at rear of volume, figures, tables, boards somewhat scuffed. More