German Tank Maintenance in World War II
Washington, DC: GPO, 1988. Facsimile Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 44, wraps, illus., 1 map, bookplate, covers somewhat worn and soiled, More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1988. Facsimile Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 44, wraps, illus., 1 map, bookplate, covers somewhat worn and soiled, More
New York: Arco Pub. Co., [1968]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 14 x 22 cm, 96, wraps, illus., ink notation and pencil erasure on title page. More
New York: Arco Publishing Co., Inc., 1970. 475, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, DJ worn: several tears, several pieces missing. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. First Printing. 21 cm, 160, wraps, illus., bookplate, covers worn and scuffed, some page waviness with damp staining, but pages separate and clear. More
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 247, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 425 pages. Front endpaper map Rear endpaper illustration. Maps. Footnotes. Tabular data. Appendices. DJ is in a plastic sleeve with substantial wear, tears, soiling and portions missing. Gift inscription, not from author, on half-title verso. George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. Patton entered combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition of 1916, the United States' first military action using motor vehicles. He fought in World War I as part of the new United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces. Patton became a central figure in the development of the army's armored warfare doctrine. At the start of the Western Allied invasion of France, Patton was given command of the Third Army, which conducted a highly successful rapid armored drive across France. Under his decisive leadership, the Third Army took the lead in relieving beleaguered American troops at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, after which his forces drove deep into Nazi Germany by the end of the war. His emphasis on rapid and aggressive offensive action proved effective, and he was regarded highly by his opponents in the German High Command. An award-winning biographical film released in 1970, Patton, helped popularize his image. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1980. 11th Printing. Pocket Paperback. Pocket paperback. xvi, 400 pages Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices. Creases to spine. Annotated by Colonel Paul D. Harkins. Text has darkened somewhat. Introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following D-Day: the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, taking part in America's first military action using motor vehicles. As part of the newly formed United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces he saw action in World War I. His strong emphasis on rapid and aggressive offensive action proved effective, and he was regarded highly by his opponents in the German High Command. More
Wellingborough, England: P. Stephens, 1988. First Printing. 25 cm, 224, illus., index, bookplate, mark on bottom edge. Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Carver. More
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 210, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
Hicksville, NY: Marshall Cavendish USA, 1974. Second Edition. Wraps. 1737-1764 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Some illustrations in color. More
New York: Mayflower Books, c1979. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 168, illus., corners bumped, boards faded and somewhat discolored. More
New York, N.Y. Bantam Books, Inc., 1977. 11th Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 215, [9] pages. Bookseller's stamp inside front cover. Includes chapters on The Long Armistice; The Opening Guns; Appeasement in Our Time; the Battle Joined; Japan at the Brink; Blitzkrieg in the West; Appeasement in our Times; The Shame of Munich; The Nazi-Soviet Pact; The Battle Joined; Sitzkrieg: The Phony War; The War at Sea; Finland: The Winter War; "Exercise Weser"; The Seizure of Norway; and Blitzkrieg in the West. 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
New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. First Printing. 21 cm, 160, wraps, illus., maps, bookplate, some wear and soiling to covers. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. More
Alexandria Bay, NY: Museum Restoration Service, c1988. 25 cm, 48, wraps, illus., folding plate, diagrams, tables, notes, some wear and soiling to covers. More
[Dumfries, VA]: Centaur Publications, 1977-c1978. First Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 1281 total, 2-vol. set, illus., tables, charts, pencil erasure fr endpprs, some wear and soiling to DJ's, small tear rear DJ flap v.1. More
[Dumfries, VA]: Centaur Publications, 1977. First Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 646, v.1 only of the 2-vol. set, illus., tables, charts, some wear to board corners. Inscribed by the author to Col. John Hill. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1994. Reprint Edition. Wraps. xiii, [3], 435, [5] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Maps (including fold-out). Chronology of Events. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Some wear and soiling to covers. Bookplate. The official U.S. Army account of the war in the Gulf. This book reveals and examines details about the conduct of the war and includes accounts by Iraqi soldiers. Robert Hinds "Bob" Scales Jr. (born August 5, 1944) is a retired United States Army major general and former commandant of the United States Army War College. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in Vietnam on June 14, 1969, when nearly a hundred North Vietnamese soldiers overran his base in a predawn assault. Despite explosions all around him, he rotated among his gun crews, firing at the enemy, helping his men, and radioing instructions to helicopter gunships. He was the Director of the Desert Storm Study Project. He now works as a military analyst, news commentator, and author. bookplate, some wear and soiling to covers. More
West Chester, PA: Schiffer Pub. c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 x 28 cm, 46, wraps, profusely illus., sticker residue on rear cover, covers somewhat worn and soiled Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of this superb tank family which also included command cars, recovery vehicles, and tank killers. More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1994. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 346, [6] pages. Illustrations. Oversized volume, measuring 10-3/4 inches by 7-3/4 inches. Ink name of previous owner written in ink inside the front board. DJ is price clipped. Decorative endpapers. Appendices include: Life Chronology, Villers-Bocage, Research Notes, and Additional Notes. The Appendices are followed by Bibliography & Sources and Index. Michael Wittmann, was not a man not at the top of the military pyramid, but at a lower level upon which the whole military structure depended. Unlike the high ranking German officers who commanded vast armies in the field through close coordination with their field commanders, and as such were usually removed from direct combat roles, Wittmann was placed in the heat of battle. His military exploits stand out from all of the rest, as his Sturmgeschutz III and Tiger I crews succeeded in destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 antitank guns and field artillery pieces. More
Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, [1968]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, approx. 50, wraps, profusely illus. (some color), bookplate, pencil erasure title pg, covers reglued at bottom, spine edges worn & sm tears. More
Warren, MI: Squadron/Signal Publications, c1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 80, wraps, profusely illus., diagrams, bookplate. More
New York, N.Y. Bantam Books, Inc., 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Mass market paperback. [8], 143, [1] pages. Small sticker residue on front dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Part 1, Prelude; Part 2, Struggle; Part 3, Survival; and The Third Temple, by Leon Uris. Captions and acknowledgments for photographs appear on page 143. Also includes map, and a 64-Page Portfolio of Photographs of the Israel-Arab war in 1967. William Stevenson was a British-born Canadian author and journalist. His 1976 book "A Man Called Intrepid" was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a bestseller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven and Stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book titled "Intrepid's Last Case." Stevenson set a record with another 1976 book, "90 Minutes at Entebbe." The book was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos secretly landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hijacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. The remarkable record in that pre-internet age is that Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described. Stevenson pioneered this approach in his rapid documentation of the 1967 Six-Day War, titled Strike Zion. More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Frontis illustration. Figures. Maps. illustrations. Includes chapters on Panzer Maneuver War on the Plains of the Western Soviet Union, 1941; Panzer Maneuver War in the North African Desert, 1941-1942; and Panzer Maneuver War in the Forests and Lakes of the Baltic, 1941. The acknowledged superiority of the German Army in battle fighting is exemplified by the offensives of 1939-1942. This book combines description and interpretation of the advances of nine German panzer divisions to reveal extraordinary details of the great victories. Based on primary source material, the book presents an authoritative and original interpretation of German success, and not the familiar synthesis of secondary sources. Russell H. S. Stolfi (1932-2012) was a Naval Postgraduate School professor emeritus and a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. He received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 1954, then served as an officer in the Marine Corps until 1963, when he transferred to the Marine Corps Reserve. He then returned to Stanford, earned a master’s degree in modern European history in 1964, and finally earned his Ph.D. in modern European history in 1966. After graduating, he joined the Naval Postgraduate School’s Department of National Security Affairs, where he remained for the remainder of his academic career. During his time at NPS, he returned to active duty in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1967, 1973-1974, and 1990. More
Place_Pub: Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. 272, illus., maps, tables, chart, notes, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn/soiled, edge tears at DJ spine. More