A World in Flames: A History of World War II
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. 356, maps, appendices, bibliography, index, some wear to DJ along top and bottom edges, bookplate inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. 356, maps, appendices, bibliography, index, some wear to DJ along top and bottom edges, bookplate inside front flyleaf. More
Washington, DC: AIPAC, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 33, wraps, footnotes, glossary. More
Philadelphia, PA: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. 23 cm, 515, v.1 only, index, bookplate, some foxing, binding worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper and a few other places. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. First Printing. 507, illus., footnotes, bibliography, index, library stamp inside front flyleaf (only library marking). More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1985. Reprint Edition. 507, wraps, illus., footnotes, bibliography, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. First Printing. 507, wraps, illus., footnotes, bibliography, appendices, index, sticker residue on front cover, some cover soiling. More
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 209, [3] pages. Includes Maps, Acknowledgments, Introduction, The Importance of Studying Military History. Topics covered include The War in Vietnam, The Home Front, Central America, Nuclear War and Deterrence, Prospects for Ballistic Missile Defense toward the Year 2000, and American Nuclear Weapons Programs and strategies during the 1980s: Comparative United States and Soviet Perspectives. Also includes Notes, Contributors, and Index. More
New York: Vintage Books, Random House, Inc., 2009. First Vintage Civil War Library Edition [stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xvi, 396, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. This is one of the Vintage Civil War Library. Includes List of Maps and Introduction, as well as Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters cover North and South divide; Will There Be a War?; Improvised Armies; Running the War; The Military Geography of the Civil War; The Life of the Soldier; Plans; McClellan Takes Command; The War in Middle America; Lee's war in the East, Grants's War in the West; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; Vicksburg; Cutting the Chattanooga--Atlanta Link; The Overland Campaign and the Fall of Richmond; Breaking into the South; The Battle off Cherbourg and the Civil war at Sea; Black Soldiers; The Home Fronts; Walt Whitman and Wounds; Civil War Generalship; Civil War Battle; Could the South have Survived?; and The End of the War. In this long-awaited history, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegan's knowledge of military history, The American Civil War provides a fascinating look at how command and the slow evolution of strategic logic influenced the course of the war. It gives an intriguing account of how the scope of the conflict combined with American geography present a uniquely complex and challenging battle space. Incisive in its analysis, this is an indispensable account of America's greatest conflict. Keegan's achievement is to bring an international perspective. As well as looking back on European influences, he looks forward to how the Civil War changed European warfare. More
London: Penguin Books, 1978. Fifteenth Printing. 365, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, index, text slightly darkened, some wear to cover edgesA study and reassessment of the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo, and The Somme. More
New York: Military Heritage Press, 1986. Reprint Edition. Fourth Printing. 355, illus., maps, bibliography, index. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. xvi, 432 pages. Illustrations. Maps. References. Bibliography. Index, DJ has some tears. Inscribed by the author to Bob Beckel. Robert Gilliland Beckel (born November 15, 1948) is an American political analyst and pundit, and a former political operative. Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle. Leaving the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1986, Keegan joined the Daily Telegraph as a defence correspondent and stayed as defence editor until his death. He also wrote for the American conservative National Review Online. In 1998 he wrote and presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, entitling them War in our World. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995. First Printing. 25 cm, 476, notes, index, waviness and damp stains to text (no pgs stuck together), extensive damp stains inside rear board & to rear DJ damp stains to fore-edge, small tears to DJ edges, rear board bowed, front DJ flap creased. Follows the U.S. military's rebirth after Vietnam byfocusing on the lives of Commanders in Desert Storm. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's, c1997. 2nd Softcover Printing. 25 cm, 476, wraps, notes, index Follows the U.S. military's rebirth after Vietnam by focusing on the lives of Commanders in Desert Storm. More
New York: Facts on File Publications, 1986. Third Printing. 586, chronology, index, some wear to top and bottom edges of DJ. More
New York: HarperCollins, 2013. Twenty-third Printing. pocket paperbk, 432, wraps, illus., mapFrom 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history. Following his combat deployments, he became chief instructor for training Naval Special Warfare Sniper and Counter-Sniper teams. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 2012. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. [14], 381, [3] pages. Endpaper illustrations. Map. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history. Following his combat deployments, he became chief instructor for training Naval Special Warfare Sniper and Counter-Sniper teams. Christopher Scott Kyle (April 8, 1974 February 2, 2013) was a United States Navy SEAL veteran and sniper. Kyle served four tours in the Iraq War and was awarded several commendations for acts of heroism and meritorious service in combat. He was awarded one Silver Star Medal, four Bronze Star Medals with "V" devices, a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and numerous other unit and personal awards. Kyle was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2009 and published, American Sniper, in 2012. An eponymous film adaptation of Kyle's book, directed by Clint Eastwood, was released two years later. On February 2, 2013, Kyle was murdered by Eddie Ray Routh at a shooting range near Chalk Mountain, Texas. A former Marine with PTSD, Routh was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Clint Eastwood's film American Sniper (2014) is based on Kyle's autobiography. Kyle is portrayed by Bradley Cooper, and his wife Taya Kyle is portrayed by Sienna Miller. Cooper received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and the film was nominated in five other categories. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 2013. Memorial Edition. First Edition [stated] thus, Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [12], 464, [4] pages. Endpaper illustrations. Map. Includes a Chris Kyle In Memoriam section. U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history. Following his combat deployments, he became chief instructor for training Naval Special Warfare Sniper and Counter-Sniper teams. Christopher Scott Kyle (April 8, 1974 February 2, 2013) was a United States Navy SEAL veteran and sniper. Kyle served four tours in the Iraq War and was awarded several commendations for acts of heroism and meritorious service in combat. He was awarded one Silver Star Medal, four Bronze Star Medals with "V" devices, a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and numerous other unit and personal awards. Kyle published, American Sniper, in 2012. An eponymous film adaptation of Kyle's book, directed by Clint Eastwood, was released two years later. On February 2, 2013, Kyle was murdered by Eddie Ray Routh at a shooting range near Chalk Mountain, Texas. A former Marine with PTSD, Clint Eastwood's film American Sniper (2014) is based on Kyle's autobiography. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1973. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 566 pages. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. Notes. DJ has wear, soiling, edge wear and small edge tears. Scuffs on endpaper. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 260, notes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. Fourth Printing. 382, illus., maps, index, rear board scratched, spine soiled. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. viii, [4], 316 pages. Illustrations. Maps (four fold-out). Front board weak. Some wear to edges of spine. Small tear at rear board, pages have darkened somewhat. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), known throughout f his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a soldier, historian and military theorist. Liddell Hart was placed on half-pay from 1924. He later retired from the Army in 1927. Two mild heart attacks in 1921 and 1922, probably the long-term effects of his gassing, precluded his further advancement. He spent his career as a theorist and writer. In 1924 he became a military correspondent for the Morning Post. He worked as the Military Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph from 1925 to 1935, and of The Times from 1935 to 1939. Liddell Hart wrote a series of histories through which he advanced his ideas that the frontal assault was a strategy that was bound to fail. He argued that the tremendous losses Britain suffered in the Great War were due to her commanding officers not appreciating this fact of history. . In his early writings on mechanized warfare Liddell Hart had proposed that infantry be carried along with the fast-moving armored formations. He described them as "tank marines" like the soldiers the Royal Navy carried with their ships. He proposed they be carried along in their own tracked vehicles and dismount to help take better-defended positions that otherwise would hold up the armored units. Liddell Hart foresaw the need for a combined arms force with mobile infantry and artillery, which was similar but not identical to the make-up of the panzer divisions that Guderian developed in Germany. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1947. 125, index, DJ somewhat scuffed & worn along edges, small tear to front DJ has been repaired with tape, pgs have darkened slightly. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxx, 545, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps (incl. 2 fold-out). Appendix. Index. Index to Editorial Notes by General Bayerlein. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. It has wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Embossed stamp of previous owner on title page. Contents include: Introduction, The Story of the Rommel Papers by Manfred Rommel, Editorial Note, Part One: France 1940; Part Two: The War in Africa--First Year; Part Three: The War in Africa--Second Year; Part Four: Italy; Part Five: Invasion. The Rommel Papers is the collected writings by the German World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel published in 1953. The book included Rommel's writings of the war, edited by the British strategist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart, the former Wehrmacht officer Fritz Bayerlein, who served on Rommel's staff in North Africa, and Rommel's widow and son. The volume contained an introduction and commentary by Liddell Hart. Liddell Hart had a personal interest in the work: by having coaxed Rommel's widow to include material favorable to himself, he could present Rommel as his "pupil" when it came to mobile armored warfare. Thus, Liddell Hart's "theory of indirect approach" became a precursor to the German blitzkrieg ("lightning war"). The controversy was described by the political scientist John Mearsheimer in his work The Weight of History, who concluded that, by "putting words in the mouths of German Generals and manipulating history", Liddell Hart was in a position to show that he had been at the root of the dramatic German successes in 1940. More
Paris: Administration, 1838-1844. 4958 total, 5-vol. set, illus., fold-out plates, diagrams, maps, some wear and peeling at spine, board edges worn, some foxing to text. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's, c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 275, references, appendix, index, slight wear, soiling, and sticker residue to boards. More