School of the Battery Commander: 75 m/m Gun. "Confidential"
n.p. Field Artillery School, 1917. Approx. 250, wraps, figures, appendices, errata, text darkened, covers worn and discolored, small pieces of spine missing, tears at spine. More
n.p. Field Artillery School, 1917. Approx. 250, wraps, figures, appendices, errata, text darkened, covers worn and discolored, small pieces of spine missing, tears at spine. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. 82 pages. Illustrations (most in color). Cover has some wear and soiling. Complimentary copy sticker on front. This is one of the issues from their 75th Anniversary year. Aviation Week & Space Technology, often abbreviated Aviation Week or AW&ST, is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aerospace, defense and aviation industries, with a core focus on aerospace technology. It has reputation for its contacts inside the United States military and industry organizations. The publication is sometimes informally called "Aviation Leak and Space Mythology" in defense circles. The magazine was first published in August 1916 and changed to its current title in January 1960. Other titles the magazine has held include Aviation & Aircraft Journal (1920–1921), Aviation (1922–1947), Aviation Week (1947–1958), Aviation Week Including Space Technology (1958–1959). More
Fort Belvoir, VA: History Office, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), 1994. Hardcover. ix, [3], 155 p. : chiefly ill. (some col. ); 29 cm. More
New York, N.Y. Ivy Books, 1993. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Mass market paperback. x, [2], 274, [2] pages. Slightly cocked. Some page browning. Includes Preface, Prologue, 33 chapters, and an Epilogue. Includes black and white map of South Vietnam, Prologue, and 15 black and white photographs of soldiers. Also includes Appendix A (Activity Board, 22 November 1967 to 23 January 1969); and Appendix B (Company F, Long Range Patrol, 51st Infantry (Airborne). When Gary Ford volunteered in October of 1967 for a new LRP company being formed, all he knew was that he wanted to leave the grunts in Vietnam behind. But Company F, Long Range Patrol, 51st Infantry (Airborne) would demand qualities and courage that tested him to his limit. During forty-four patrols in the seventeen months F/51 was in existence, first as a team member and then as the leader of team 4/4, Ford discovered the real meaning of warfare--nights torn apart by screaming mortars, the cries of wounded men, the blood and death and exhaustion, and, worst of all, being left in enemy territory after your position has been compromised. The grit and guts, heroism and horror, of one man's war in Vietnam 4/4: A LRP'S NARRATIVE is a chronicle of survival and indomitable courage in the face of inhuman odds. In the hell of combat, Ford reveals what warriors are really made of. More
Springfield, VA: NTIS, 1979. quarto, 108, wraps, small rust stains on covers, some wear to front cover edge This report contains information on the Soviet military and civil defense establishments, leadership, doctrine, policy, planning, political affairs, organization, and equipment. Contains articles on civil defense training and related activities, Soviet wartime strategic leadership, and ground reconnaissance in difficult terrain, among other topics. More
New York: Collier Books, a Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. First Collier Books Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Pocket Paperback. 12 x 19 cm. 208 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Bookplate. Abbreviations. Index. Covers worn, soiled, and some edge fraying. Some page soiling, plastic covering over covers. More
Pisgah, OH: Nafziger Collection, Inc., 1995. First Edition. Quarto, 106, wraps, figures, glossary, bibliography, appendices. More
Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 115, [3] pages. Illustrations. This is a translation of The Submarine Commander's Handbook ("U.Kdt.Hdb.") Incorporated in the Secret Archives under Heading IV, No. 4, Command 32, Submarine Flotilla, New Edition 1943 (comprising Amendments Nos. 1-11). The Submarine Commander's Handbook, ("U.Kdt.Hdb."), 1943 describes the submarine U-boat tactics of Nazi Germany. Note that this edition is from 1943 during which the Allies had effectively countered these tactics and the battle of the Atlantic turned in the Allies favor. More
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 383, [1] pages. Illustrations (photographs, Tables, and Figures). Maps. References. Index. This is one of the Elsevier Oceanography Series Number 17. Included is a signed letter from Harold Palmer, Ph.D. to a senior Environmental Protection Agency official dated 5 January 1975 requesting information for a chapter he was preparing for this book. This is Chapter 11: Submersibles: Geological Tools in the Study of Submarine Canyons. Name of previous owner stamped on fep. The Editor spent four years as an exploration geophysicist and geologist with Standard Oil; he spent four years with the Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy; he spent a year as senior field instructor at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; he spent three years as senior research geophysicist with Humble Oil & Refining Co. Then he received his doctorate and continued full time as head of Humble's Oceanography Section. He then became chief geophysicist of the Gravity Department at Geophysical Service, Inc. and then technical director of oceanography for Texas Instruments. In 1966, Geyer became head of the Department of Oceanography at Texas A & M University. In 1974 his contributions there were recognized by his being made a full professor. More
Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 29, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. This is a documented briefing. It presents alternatives to continuing 'business as usual'. It is a product of ongoing work by RAND Arroyo Urban Operations Team to find ways to accomplish missions in urban areas at reduced loss of friendly force and noncombatant life and with less damage to city infrastructures. This new approach is an alternative to today's 'close combat' urban operations paradigm that requires commitment of large numbers of soldiers to urban actions. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition. 415, illus., footnotes, index, small stains on edges, some wear & small edge tears to top & bottom DJ edges. More
London: Combined Service Publication, 1984-1985. Fifteenth Edition. First? Printing. 1795 total, 3-vol. set, illus., index, some wear to board edges, board corners bumped, minor scuffing to boards. More
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 160, wraps, illus., bookplate. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1967,c1966]. 13 x 20 cm, 212, v.2 only of the 2-vol. set, illus., index, bookplate, shaken. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 78, [2] p. Illustrations. Tables. More
Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. xiv, 505, [7] pages. Illustrations. Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations. Appendix B: Selected Bibliography. Index. Mike Gruntman is a physicist, space engineer, and author. He is professor of astronautics and aerospace engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC). Gruntman has authored two books on history of rocketry and space technology, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Blazing the Trail. The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry, published in 2004, received the 2006 Luigi G. Napolitano Award from the International Academy of Astronautics. Intercept 1961: The Birth of Soviet Missile Defense (2015) covers the history of the Soviet air defense and missile defense. He also published a book about pioneers of space Robert Esnault-Pelterie and Ary Sternfeld and the words astronautics and cosmonautics which they had respectively introduced in the language of science and engineering. Gruntman is also the author of "Enemy Amongst Trojans: A Soviet Spy at USC" detailing a Soviet espionage operation in the United States when GRU officer Ignacy Witczak (Litvin) operated under a cover of a student and then instructor at the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1940s. More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1962. 29 cm, 352, illus., diagrams, index, bookplate, DJ worn, torn, and soiled, boards and edges somewhat worn, somewhat shaken. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1917. Pocket-sized, 142, wraps, figures, name stamped inside front flyleaf, covers partially detached, some soiling to a few pgs & corners creased. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1917. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Pocket-sized (4.75 inches by 6.25 inches), 142, [2] Pages. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Corners of some pages bumped. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The authors were Inspector Instructors in the U. S. Army Field Artillery. One of the authors rose to the rank of Major General in the United States Army. Dawson was Chief Signal Officer during the major portion of World War II, and presided over a momentous buildup of the Signal Corps. With a budget that grew from nine million in 1941, to more than five billion in 1943, Olmstead turned to both the Signal Corps laboratories and the private sector to meet the demands of total war. With the assistance of an advisory council of reserve officers and a civilian advisory board comprised of key figures in the communications industry, Olmstead brought the Signal Corps to wartime footing. Accomplishments included activating hundreds of Signal units and training thousands of officers and enlisted personnel in a reorganized Signal School. Olmstead's illustrious career blossomed in the 1920s and flourished during the depression years of the 1930s. However, it was during World War II that Olmstead's talent and vision won him the Distinguished Service Medal. His colleague may have been the John Hammond who also rose to the rank of General and became the owner of the New York Rangers. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 32 cm. 264 pages. Illustrations (most in color). Maps (including a fold-out). Ink notation inside front cover has been blacked out. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Some rear board weakness. This has more than 330 photographs (most in full color), and a panoramic eight-page fold-out containing full color maps. This provides a detailed survey of 125 air forces including all major types of military aircraft then in service throughout the world. This work provides details about their role, composition, deployment, and potential effectiveness. This is a fascinating snapshot in time from the end of the Vietnam War to about the time of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and includes the period of a number of smaller, regional conflicts. More
Kettering: T. B. Hart, 1917? 22 cm, 40, wraps, library stamp on front cover, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Scribner, c1979. First Printing. 25 cm, 286, illus. More
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976. First Printing. 212, appendix, raised stamp on 2nd front flyleaf, some wear and tears along DJ edges, small pieces missing to DJ. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1997. Third Edition. 25 cm, 222, wraps, footnotes. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1983, c1953. Reprint Edition. 25 cm, 222, slight wear and soiling to boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Special Studies/Office of Air Force History. More