The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare
New York: Viking, 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 292, illus., maps, glossary, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Viking, 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 292, illus., maps, glossary, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Random House, 2013. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxvi, 436 pages. Includes Maps and Tables, Introduction, Footnotes, Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, Credits, and Index. Includes chapters on How to Get Convoys Safely Across the Atlantic, How to Win Command of the Air, How to Stop a Blitzkrieg, How to Seize an Enemy-Held Shore, How to Defeat the "Tyranny of Distance," and Conclusion: Problem Solving in History. Paul Michael Kennedy CBE FBA (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specializing in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles. He emphasizes the changing economic power base that undergirds military and naval strength, noting how declining economic power leads to reduced military and diplomatic weight. His most famous book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, assesses the interaction between economics and strategy over the past five centuries. The book was very well received by fellow historians, with A. J. P. Taylor labeling it "an encyclopedia in itself" and Sir Michael Howard crediting it as "a deeply humane book in the very best sense of the word." It has been translated into 23 languages. The author suggests a new and unique look at how World War II was won, in this fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Without the forgotten scientists, technicians, and logisticians who gave the allies the tactical edge, the Allies could not have achieved victory. More
New York: Hearst's International Lib. [1916]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 254, illus., boards soiled and worn, especially at ends of spine, corners bumped, front board weak and glued. Text is in German. More
New York: Random House, 2004. Third Printing. 375, illus. (many in color), diagram, note on sources, index. More
New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition. First Printing. 375, illus. (many in color), diagram, note on sources, index, front board slightly bowed, name whited out on front flyleaf. More
New York: Random House, 2004. Second Printing. Hardcover. 375 pages. Illus. (many in color), diagram, note on sources, index, slight wear to DJ edges. Signed by the author. More
New York: Random House, 2004. Fifth Printing. 375, illus. (many in color), diagram, note on sources, index, slight wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
London: W. Foulsham & CO. LTD, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 204 pages. DJ flap is price-clipped. Contents include Introduction; The Darkest Days; The Admiral's Daughter; A Ship Called Fritz; The Steaming Herd; The Luck of the Lakers; The First of the Hunters; The Wolves Gather; Don't Launch The Boats!; The Night Explodes; And Still the Slaughter; The Bottomless Bluebell; How Do You Feel, Captain?; The Second Assault; Last Ship to Die; Your Sixpenses, Please, followed by Acknowledgments and Index. Account of convoy SC-7 from Sydney, Canada, to England and the events that transpired when, in the middle of the night, it was attacked by a pack of five German U-Boats. During the course of the night, 20 of the 35 merchant ships were sunk - the single biggest shipping loss in naval history to that time. Ludlam, with Paul Lund, began a series of books that recount various stories of action in World War II. These include: PQ 17: Convoy to Hell (1968); Trawlers Go To War (1971); Night of the U-boats (1973); The War of the Landing Craft (1976); Out Sweeps! (1978); and Nightmare Convoy (1987). The series was very popular. Atlantic Jeopardy (1990) is a compilation of the first three volumes. In 2010-12 the six books were reissued in a series headed "I Was There" with the original titles sometimes slightly altered. Lund and Ludlam also tried their hand at military fiction of World War II, including novels The Fate of the 'Lady Emma' (1978); Hit the Beach (1979); and Icekill (1984). More
London: Evens Brothers Limited, 1965. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 174, [2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. DJ has some wear and soiling. The Pioneers; Ocean-going Submarines; Horton in the Baltic; Seawolf of the Atlantic; On the Enemy's Doorstep; Skagerrak and The Straits, Malta Flotilla; Cutting Rommel's Life-Line, More Mediterranean Exploits; Uncle Sam's Submariners; Medal of Honour; Success in Japanese Waters. When Submarines first became units of the fighting fleets of the world in the early years of this century they were unimpressive, unseaworthy craft equipped with unreliable, low performance weapons. Those who manned them were, like the early aviator, looked on as harmless cranks. Even at the outbreak of the First World War they had not entirely lived down that reputation but before it was over Britain, at that time the world's greatest naval power, had been brought to within sight of total defeat by the submarine in the hands of her enemies. Submariners had thus joined the front rank of fighting seamen and in doing so they had revolutionized naval warfare. In the Second World War they comprised one of the most effective arms of sea warfare. This is the story of the submarines and of the men who sailed in them from their invention until the end of the Second World War. This exciting volume, in Evans' "Fighting" series, is filled with stories of the greatest possible heroism in the lonely world of the submariner. More
Place_Pub: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Book Club Edition. 478, illus., maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled, worn along edges, and small tears. More
Place_Pub: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. 376, illus., maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, index, small chips to rear DJ, slight darkening to text, small scratches to top edge. More
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1988. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 252, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Kenneth John Macksey MC (1 July 1923 – 30 November 2005) was a British author and historian who specialized in military history and military biography, particularly of the Second World War. Macksey was commissioned in the Royal Armoured Corps and served during the Second World War (earning a Military Cross). Macksey later wrote the (authoritative) biography of Percy Hobart. Macksey reached the rank of major in 1957 and retired from the Army in 1968. Amongst many other books, Macksey wrote two volumes of alternate history, one, entitled Invasion, dealt with a successful invasion of England by Germany in 1940 and the other describing a NATO–Warsaw Pact clash in the late 1980s. The latter book, First Clash, was done under contract to the Canadian Forces and focuses on the Canadian role in such a conflict. He was an editor and contributor to Greenhill's Alternate Decisions series since 1995. More
New York: Fawcett Crest Book; Ballantine Books, 1986. First Ballantine Book Edition [stated]. Presumed 1st printing. Mass-market paperback. 346 pages. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 442, endpaper maps, index, usual library markings, part of DJ pasted to front endpaper. More
Annapolis: The Naval Institute Press, 2014. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. [10], vii- xxiv, 364, [16] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Index. Introduction by Barry Gough. Arthur Jacob Marder (8 March 1910 – 25 December 1980) was an American historian specializing in British naval history in the period 1880–1945. In 1941–42, he was a research analyst in the Office of Strategic Services, before becoming an associate professor of history at Hamilton College in 1943–44. In 1944, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Hawaii, where he remained for twenty years, becoming a full professor in 1951, then senior professor in 1958. In 1964, he was appointed professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, remaining there until he retired as professor emeritus in 1977. More
Annapolis: The Naval Institute Press, 2014. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. [20], vii- xxiii,416, [10] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Index. Introduction by Barry Gough. Arthur Jacob Marder (8 March 1910 – 25 December 1980) was an American historian specializing in British naval history in the period 1880–1945. In 1941–42, he was a research analyst in the Office of Strategic Services, before becoming an associate professor of history at Hamilton College in 1943–44. In 1944, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Hawaii, where he remained for twenty years, becoming a full professor in 1951, then senior professor in 1958. In 1964, he was appointed professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, remaining there until he retired as professor emeritus in 1977. More
New York: American Heritage, 1964. Quarto, 384, profusely illus. (some in color), maps, index, slight discolor inside boards and flyleaves, DJ somewhat worn and small tears. More
New York: Ballantine Books Inc., 1968. First Printing. 160, wraps, profusely illus., maps, biblio, edges of covers & spine quite worn, sm tears at spine, covers weak & partly separated. More
New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1968. First Printing. 160, wraps, illus., maps, some wear to covers, tear at spine. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1968. Third Printing. 21 cm, 160, wraps, illus., maps, bookplate, stamp on verso, covers worn and soiled. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. More
New York: Random House, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 865, [1] pages. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Front DJ flap price clipped. Some creasing to DJ edges and a scratch to rear DJ. Robert Kinloch Massie III (January 5, 1929 – December 2, 2019) was an American journalist and historian. He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Massie was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World. He also received awards for his book Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011). His book Nicholas and Alexandra (1967) was adapted as a British film by the same name that was released in 1971. It starred Laurence Olivier, Michael Jayston, and Janet Suzman. Massie worked as a journalist for Collier's and from 1959 to 1962 for Newsweek before taking a position at the Saturday Evening Post. He also taught at Princeton and Tulane universities. In 1967, after leaving the Saturday Evening Post to concentrate on his historical writing, Massie published his breakthrough book, Nicholas and Alexandra, an authoritative biography of Tsar Nicholas II (1868–1918, reigned 1894–1917) and Alexandra of Hesse (1872–1918), the last Emperor and Empress of Russia. His interest in the Russian imperial house had been inspired by the birth of his son, Robert Kinloch Massie IV, who was born with hemophilia. This hereditary disease also afflicted Nicholas's only son the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, heir apparent to the imperial throne. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1990. 23 cm, 206, wraps, maps, figures, tables, footnotes, note on sources, bibliography, index, minor wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1960]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 211, illus., index, edges soiled, boards soiled and somewhat worn. More
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. xvii, [3],, 438, [6] pages. Appendix. Notes. Abbreviations used in the text. General Index Name Index. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Donald Harvey McLachlan (25 September 1908 – 10 January 1971) was a Scottish journalist and author who was the founding editor of The Sunday Telegraph. Though initially a member of the British Army's Intelligence Corps during the Second World War, McLachlan was transferred to the Naval Intelligence Division early on by Admiral John Henry Godfrey, where he was given a variety of assignments. In 1941 he became head of the Naval Propaganda sub-section NID 17Z, which focused on propaganda efforts against the Kriegsmarine. He served in this capacity for the remainder of the conflict, and reached the rank of commander. Among his colleagues during the war was Ian Fleming, who would later go on to create the character of James Bond. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University Press: Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O... 1990. First edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xxiii, 269 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More