Mobilization
The Lamps Went Out In Europe
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1955. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 310 pages. Front flyleaf has been cut out. Pencil erasure residue on half-title page. Scuff inside front cover. Some cover wear. Includes Chronological Table, Selective Bibliography, and Index. 22 black and white photographs follow page 152. Ludwig Reiners (born January 21, 1896 in Ratibor; † August 10, 1957 in Munich) was a German businessman and writer. Reiners was the son of a cigar manufacturer. He passed his Abitur in 1914 at the high school in Ratibor. Then he took part in the First World War. He studied law and economics. In 1920 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the economic measures of the Munich Soviet Republic and was entitled Dr. jur. Dr. rer. pole. Then he began a career as a businessman in the position of stock exchange representative of Deutsche Bank, became an assistant director in heavy industry at Deutsche Werke AG, a timber trader in the Balkans as an authorized signatory of a Swiss timber company. Reiners was a member of the NSDAP during the Third Reich . During the Second World War and after the was a sales director of Richard Jung's yarn factory in Munich. In 1957 he died after a short, serious illness. Reiners grew up under the spell of Prussia as well as the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its atmosphere, which he describes in his description of the prehistory and course of the First World War In The Lamps Went Out in Europe. More
2004 National Defense Report Republic of China
Taiwan: Republic of China, Ministry of National Defense, 2004. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Trade paperback. xxii, 318, [6] pages. Illustrations. Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China is a cabinet-level agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China responsible for all defense and military affairs of Republic of China. The MND was originally established as Ministry of War in 1912 at the creation of the Republic of China. It was changed to the Ministry of National Defense in 1946. The Law of National Defense and the Organic Law of the ministry were officially promulgated for implementation on 1 March 2002. On 8 December 2014, the ministry moved out from its building from the previous one at Boai Building in Zhongzheng District to the current one in Dazhi area at Zhongshan District, where it houses the Air Force Command Headquarters, Navy Command Headquarters and Hengshan Military Command Center. The headquarters building is located in Dazhi area of Zhongshan District in Taipei. The 8-story main building was constructed at a cost of NT$15.8 billion, spreading over 19.5 hectares of area, which houses office buildings, dormitories and other facilities, such as post office, barbershop, sports center, conference hall and sport center to accommodate its 3,000 military personnel stationed there. It also includes several annex buildings around. Security features include fingerprint and eye scanners that restrict access to certain areas, sensors that can detect vehicles in the unauthorized areas and that may carry explosives and bollards on the compound to block unauthorized vehicles. More
Prelude to Victory
New York: Pocket Books Inc., 1942. 1st Pocket Bk Printing. Paperback. pocket paperbk, 221 pages. Wraps. Index. Name of previous owner present. The author was one of the giants of 20th-century journalism, and was both a London and a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. More
Labour-Management Co-operation in United States War Production: A Study of Methods and Procedure
Montreal: International Labour Office, 1948. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, wraps, footnotes, tables, fold-out chart, appendices, usual lib markings, covers worn, creased, & soiled, spine discolored. More
The Quartermaster Corps
Washington, DC: GPO, 1953, 1955. First Edition. 26 cm, 418 & 433, 2-vol. set, illus., maps, charts, bibliographical note, index, ink name inside fr board v.2, some wear to board and spine edges. More
United States Army in World War II: The Technical Services. The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services
Washington, DC: GPO, 1970, 1978. Reprint Edition. 26 cm, 418 & 433, 2-vol. set, illus., tables, charts, bibliographical note, index, slight wear to spine edges. More
Peace Through Strength: Bernard Baruch and a Blueprint for Security
Washington, DC: American Surveys, 1953. Second Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 325 pages. Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. Inscribed by the author. More
I Want You!; The evolution of the All-Volunteer Force
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 by 10.25 inches. xxxi, [1], 800 pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. References. Index. DVD inside the back cover. Bernard Daniel Rostker (born February 1, 1944) has served in the public and private sectors. In 1970 he joined RAND as a research economist, becoming Program Director of the Manpower Personnel and Training Program, a program sponsored by the U. S. Air Force. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) from 1977 to 1979 and was Director of the United States Selective Service System from 1979 to 1981. He returned to RAND in 1984 to help establish the Arroyo Center, the Army's federally funded research and development center for studies and analysis. He was Program Director of the Force Development and Employment Program and Associate Director of the Center. In January 1990, he shifted to RAND's National Defense Research Institute as Director of the Defense Manpower Research Center. He was Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) from 1994 to 1998; Under Secretary of the Army from 1998 to 2000; and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in 2000-2001. From 1996 to 2001, he also served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses. Upon leaving government service, Rostker returned to RAND and his research there has focused on managing the recruitment, retention, and performance of police officers in large city departments; managing the volunteer military; and reforming the military by lengthening military careers. More
Nikudan (Human Bullets): A Soldier's Story of Port Arthur
Tokyo: Daitoa Shuppan Kabushiki, c. 1906. 232, wraps, front cover missing, pages have darkened, small tears along edges of front flyleaf. More
Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of Port Arthur
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. Hardcover. 270 pages. Color frontis illus., appendices, some wear spine edges, slight scuffing rear bd. Signed by the translator in English & Japanese. More
Sechs Schwere Jahre
Berlin, Germany: Verlag fur Kulturpolitik, 1927. 385, footnotes, some foxing to fore-edge and text, boards somewhat soiled, some scratches to rear board. Text is in German. More
Switzerland Under Siege 1939-1945: A Neutral Nation's Struggle for Survival
Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 2000. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xx, 247 p. Footnotes. Illustrations/Maps. Bibliography. Index. Signed by author. Inscribed on fep by the Editor. Date stamped on top edge. World War Two meant mortal danger for Switzerland. By the mid-1940s that nation situated in the heart of Western Europe was wholly surrounded by the Axis Powers which hoped to destroy it. This book features some aspects of the Swiss nation's struggle for survival as a country devoted to democracy, neutrality, and the promotion of peace. More
Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Volume III: Der Mittelmeerraum und Sudosteuropa
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1984. 25 cm, 733, v.3 only of the 10-vol. set, illus., maps, color fold-out maps, color endpaper maps, index, usual library markings. More
Military Service in the United States
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982. First Printing. 226, tables, chapter notes, index, DJ somewhat soiled and some edge wear worn, small tears to front DJ. More
Modern Warfare
New York: Roy Publishers, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 23 cm. xxiii, [1], 288 pages. Frontis illustraton. Footnotes. Some foxing and pencil underlining to text. Note by General George C. Marshall. W adys aw Eugeniusz Sikorski (20 May 1881 – 4 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of the independence of Poland from the Russian Empire. He fought with distinction in the Polish Legions during the First World War, and later in the newly created Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919 to 1921. He played a prominent role in the decisive Battle of Warsaw (1920). In the Second Polish Republic, Sikorski held government posts, including serving as Prime Minister (1922 to 1923) and as Minister of Military Affairs (1923 to 1924). Following Józef Pi sudski's May Coup of 1926 and the installation of the Sanation government, he fell out of favor. During the Second World War, Sikorski became Prime Minister of the Polish government- in-exile, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, and an advocate of the Polish cause in the diplomatic sphere. He supported the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Soviet Union—however, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin broke off Soviet-Polish diplomatic relations in April 1943. In July 1943, a plane carrying Sikorski crashed after takeoff from Gibraltar, killing all on board except the pilot. Sikorski had been a prestigious leader of the Polish exiles, and his death was a setback for the Polish cause. More
Modern Warfare; With a Note by General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
New York, N.Y. Roy Publishers, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 288 pages. Cover stained. Publisher's Note, Biographical Preface, and Introduction. First Part covers Under the Threat of a New War; Second Part covers Modern Warfare and the Problems of National Defence. W adys aw Eugeniusz Sikorski (20 May 1881 – 4 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of the independence of Poland from the Russian Empire. He fought with distinction in the Polish Legions during the First World War, and later in the newly created Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919 to 1921. He played a prominent role in the decisive Battle of Warsaw (1920). In the Second Polish Republic, Sikorski held government posts, including serving as Prime Minister (1922 to 1923) and as Minister of Military Affairs (1923 to 1924). Following Józef Pi sudski's May Coup of 1926 and the installation of the Sanation government, he fell out of favor. During the Second World War, Sikorski became Prime Minister of the Polish government- in-exile, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, and an advocate of the Polish cause in the diplomatic sphere. He supported the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Soviet Union—however, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin broke off Soviet-Polish diplomatic relations in April 1943. In July 1943, a plane carrying Sikorski crashed after takeoff from Gibraltar, killing all on board except the pilot. Sikorski had been a prestigious leader of the Polish exiles, and his death was a setback for the Polish cause. More
Programming for Defense Production: Historical Reports on Defense Production, Report No. 15
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1953. 115, wraps, stamp on front cover, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
NATO-Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1988. First Printing. 563, wraps, maps, figures, tables, endnotes, index, top corner missing rear cover, slight wear to cover edges. More
The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862
Baton Rouge, LA: LA State University Press, 1995. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 458 pages, illus. More
Strike Zion!; Extra! A Special Section by Leon Uris
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
Service with Fighting Men: An Account of the Work of the American Young Men's Christian Associations in the World War
New York: Association Press, 1922. 25 cm, 636 & 664, 2-vol. set, maps & charts (some fold-out, some color), appendices, index, foxing to text, bds stained, binding shaken. More
Military Review, Volume LIV, Number 10, October 1974
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1974. 112, wraps, illus., tables, covers soiled, slightly discolored/foxed. More
Parameters: The Journal of the Army War College, Volume II, Number 1, Spring - Summer 1972
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1972. quarto, 82, wraps, illus., notes, some soiling to covers and some wear to edges Contains an article by Colonel Jack R. Butler on "The All-Volunteer Armed Force--Its Feasibility and Implications," and one by Lieutenant Colonel John D. Bruen on "Repercussions from the Vietnam Mobilization Decision." Also contains an article by F. Gunther Eyck on "Secretary Stimson and the European War, 1940-1941." More
The Senior R.O.T.C. Manual, for Use in Senior Division R.O.T.C. Units
Washington, DC: GPO, 1950. Revised Edition. 845, illus., fold-out color maps, figures, charts, index, ink & pencil notes ins fr bd, stamp ins fr flylf, bds & sp quite worn. More