Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. 322, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, some wear and small tears along top and bottom edges of DJ. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. 322, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, some wear and small tears along top and bottom edges of DJ. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Book Club Edition. 272, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, some wear and small tears along top and bottom edges of DJ, DJ somewhat scuffed. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 322 pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Maps. List of Contributors. Index. John Walter Lord Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, A Night to Remember. Lord wrote, or edited and annotated 11 bestselling books on such diverse subjects as the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy, 1957), the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory, 1967), the Battle of the Alamo (A Time to Stand, 1961), the Battle of Baltimore (The Dawn's Early Light, 1972), Arctic exploration (Peary to the Pole, 1963), pre-World War I America (The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War, 1960), Coastwatchers (Lonely Vigil, 1977), the Dunkirk evacuation (The Miracle of Dunkirk, 1982), and the civil rights struggle (The Past That Would Not Die, 1965). Lord published The Fremantle Diary, edited and annotated from the journals of the British officer and Confederate sympathizer, Arthur Fremantle, who toured the South for three months in 1863. It became a mild, but surprising, success in 1954, as Lord was well into completing A Night to Remember, which would win him much acclaim. A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, became a bestseller in 1955. The historian tracked down 63 Titanic survivors and wrote a dramatic, minute-by-minute account of the ocean liner's sinking during her maiden voyage. Lord's knowledge of the Titanic catastrophe achieved considerable renown, and he frequently lectured at meetings of the Titanic Historical Society. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. xxii, [2], 658, [10] pages. List of Photographs. List of Maps. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Special Terms. Task Organizations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. John B. Lundstrom, curator emeritus of History at the Milwaukee Public Museum has authored several books on the Pacific War, including Black Shoe Carrier Admiral and The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign. He is the recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award by the National Aviation Museum. Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, is not a biography of Admiral Fletcher. It could best be described as an operational history of Fletcher’s command from December 1941 through September 1942. It is also a spirited defense of an admiral who has been much maligned by historians of the Second World War in the Pacific. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 355, illus., library stamp inside rear endpaper, some wear and scuffing to DJ, esecially at edges The publication of From Here to Eternity in 1951 brought Jones into prominence. An account of a talented and controversial writer's career. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. First Edition. 401, illus., maps, endpaper maps, rough spots ins bds where DJ flaps were pasted down (DJ not present), rough spots ins 2nd rear flyl. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1987. Second Dell Edition. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 460, wraps, illus., maps, chronology, pages have darkened. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. First Edition. 401, illus., maps, endpaper maps, DJ flaps creased, ink notation inside front flyleaf, some foxing to edges. More
Chartwell Books, Inc., 2001. First printing of this edition [stated]. Hardcover. 164 p. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. More
New York, N.Y. Avon Books, 1968. First Avon Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 498, [6] pages. Maps. Illustrations Cover has wear, creasing and soiling. Some page soiling. Includes Author's Note and Acknowledgments, as well as chapters on Home Front, The Beginning, England, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany, The Pacific, Epilogue, and Maps of the Western Mediterranean Theatre, Pacific Theatre, and Western European Theatre. This is not the war of the officers of of grand strategy. This is the war of the men who fought it--The Enlisted Men. It is a book that brings vividly to life the experience of the Fighting Men of World War II. This book concerns itself completely with the American enlisted man in World War II. The G.I. experience of World War 2 in words, photographs, drawings, and cartoons. Ralph G. Martin (March 4, 1920 – January 9, 2013) was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books, including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, Jennie, a two-volume (1969 and 1971) study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller. Other successful tomes focused on British royal romance (Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1974, as well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1985) and on the Kennedy family (John F. Kennedy in 1983 and Joseph P. Kennedy in 1995). In the aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin enlisted in the Army and spent the war as a combat correspondent for the Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and the Army weekly magazine, Yank. In 1945, Martin began working as editor for Newsweek and The New Republic. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 333, [3] pages. The author enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 and served with the 4th Raider Battalion in the Pacific through 1945. After the war he earned his Ph.D. and taught at the University of Alabama. While this is his first novel, he has published numerous articles in a variety of periodicals. The Marine Raiders were originally elite units established by the United States Marine Corps during World War II to conduct special amphibious light infantry warfare, particularly in landing in rubber boats and operating behind the lines. On 1 February 1944, the 1st Raider Regiment was redesignated the 4th Marine Regiment, thus assuming the lineage of the regiment that had garrisoned Shanghai in the interwar years and fought so gallantly on Bataan and Corregidor. The 1st, 3rd, and 4th Raider Battalions became respectively the 1st, 3rd, and 2nd Battalions of the 4th Marines. More
New York: Orion Books, 1990. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 453, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (mostly in color). Art Collections. Sources. Artist Index. Subject Index. Foreword by John Hersey. Format is approximately 9.75 inches by 11.75 inches. DJ has spine tear and some wear and soiling. Kenneth Dale McCormick, who joined Doubleday in 1930, became a major figure in American book publishing. Mr. McCormick's skilled performance as editor-in-chief has been called ''legendary'' by Publishers Weekly. He began reading manuscripts for Doubleday in 1935 and was promoted to editor-in-chief only seven years later. When in 1971 that he stepped down from that post, the three best-selling novels in the country were ''QB VII,'' ''Passions of the Mind'' and ''Throne of Saturn'' and had been edited by Mr. McCormick. From 1971 to 1987, he continued at Doubleday, as senior consulting editor. Mr. McCormick was the co-editor of ''Images of War: The Artist's Vision of World War II,'' which Herbert Mitgang of The New York Times called ''a highly original and historic work, which provides a rare worldwide portrait of the home and war fronts.''. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009. Fourth Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11 inches. xvi, 405, [9] pages. Foreword by Senator John H. Glenn. Preface to the Fourth Edition. Appendix A and B. List of Acronyms. Notes. Recommended Reading. Index. Slightly cocked. Peter Mersky graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and was commission through the Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School in 1968. He served in various assignments on active duty and in the Naval Reserve, retiring as a commander in 1992. He worked in the Washington, DC area as an artist for a government agency for 13 years. He then worked as assistant editor and editor of Approach, the Navy and Marine Corps aviation safety magazine, for 16 years. He has been the book review editor for Naval Aviation News, the Navy’s oldest periodical, since 1982, reviewing more than 700 books. His reviews also appear in The Hook, Wings of Gold, and other magazines. More
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 255, [1] page. Oversize volume, measuring 9 inches by 11-1/2 inches. Approximately 200 maps, which have color. Charles Messenger served for twenty years as an officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before becoming a full-time military historian and defense analyst. He is the author of nearly forty books, He was educated at Marlborough College, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and at Exeter College, Oxford. He won the Murray Naval History Prize. He was also Editor of the magazine World War II Investigator. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. xviii, 413 pages., maps (some fold-out), charts, footnotes, appendices, bibliographic note, index. This work contains 15 black and white maps in the text, 21 color maps in inverse order inside the back cover, and 78 black and white illustrations in the text. Topics covered include The Strategic Decision; Plans for Invasion; The Invasion; Consolidating the Beachhead; Increasing Air and Ground Action; The October Counteroffensive; Decision at Sea; Advances Toward Kokumbona; The Situation in December; The December Offensive; XIV Corps' First January Offensive; the West Front; XIV Corps' First January Offensive; The South Flank; Fighting on Guadalcanal; XIV Corps' Second January Offensive; Final Operations on Guadalcanal; Epilogue: Occupation of the Russells. Epilogue: Occupation of the Russells. Also contains Appendix A. Letter from General Harmon to Admiral Chormley, 6 October 1942; Appendix B. General Patch's Letter of Instructions to General Collins, 5 January 1943; Appendix C. XIV Corps Field Order No 1, 16 January 1943; Appendix D. A Japanese Analysis of American combat Methods on Guadalcanal; Appendix E. U.S. Army Battle Participation List for Guadalcanal; Guide to Footnotes; Bibliographical Note; and Index; Also includes three charts (on Organization of South Pacific Forces at the Inception of Task One; Organization of Forces for Task One; and Organization of Landing Force for Task One. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1989. Reprint Edition. 413, illus., maps (some fold-out), charts, footnotes, appendices, biblio note, index, library stamps on fore-edge & rear flyleaf. More
New York, NY: Scribner, 1995. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 592 p. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Twelfth Printing. 307, illus., maps (incl. 2 fold-out), footnotes, index, some discoloration ins bds/flyleaves, small stamp inside fr flyleaf. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Ninth Printing. 463, v.6 only, illus., maps (incl. 1 fold-out), footnotes, index, stamp & raised stamp inside front flyleaf, slight foxing inside bds. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. First edition. First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 611 p. 24 cm. Maps (one folding). Frontis. Illustrations. More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 526, [4] pages. Illustrations. Appendix I and II. Sources. Bibliography. Index. Robert Jan "Bob" Mrazek (born November 6, 1945) is an American politician and former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 3rd congressional district on Long Island for most of the 1980s. Also an author, he has written works of military fiction and non-fiction, set in the time periods of the American Civil War and World War II. The Congressman, a film he wrote and co-directed, was released on April 29, 2016. A Dawn Like Thunder was named as a "Best Book of 2009 (American History)" by the Washington Post. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 471 pages + DVD, illus., endpaper map, timeline, glossary, index, minor sticker residue to front DJ. Inscribed by the author. Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator and television host, military historian, New York Times best-selling author, and former United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. North is primarily remembered for his term as a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. The scandal involved the illegal sale of weapons to Iran to encourage the release of U.S. hostages then held in Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan, which was to divert proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua, which had been specifically prohibited under the Boland Amendment. From 2001 to 2016, North hosted War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004. Signed Edition. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 471, [1] pages + DVD. Illustrations. Endpaper map Timeline. Glossary. Index, Sticker on front DJ says Free DVD Enclosed. Specially signed edition. Signed by North on signed edition page. Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. North has written several best-selling books including Under Fire, One More Mission, War Stories—Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mission Compromised, The Jericho Sanction, and The Assassins. His book American Heroes was released nationally in the United States on May 6, 2008. He writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column through Creators Syndicate. On November 5, 2013, North's American Heroes on the Homefront, was released. This is a nonfiction book that gives a firsthand account of the Americans who have volunteered to join the United States Army. The book was a collection from the dozen years North and the Fox News Channel have traveled the frontlines of the War on Terror. During those years North and his team have profiled hundreds of soldiers and chronicles what it means to be a hero. He continues the journey by following these soldiers from the battlefield back to the home front. From 2001 to 2016, North hosted War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel. This book is based on this highly acclaimed television series. Includes a DVD entitled "Heroism in the Pacific." The second in a series of books highlighting the most riveting stories of monumental battles in American history. More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1944]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 167, endpaper maps, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ quite worn, rear DJ torn. More
New York: Bantam Books [Bantam Air & Space Series], 1991. First Bantam Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. xix, [3], 374, [4] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Tabular Information. Slight wear to cover. Masatake Okumiya (July 27, 1909 – February 22, 2007) was a historian and lieutenant general in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Okumiya graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1930. He was commissioned an ensign in April 1932, received his wings in November 1933 as a naval aviator, and was promoted to sub-lieutenant in the same month. In 1937, he participated in the attack on the USS Panay. Promoted to lieutenant-commander in October 1941, Okumiya served throughout World War II, including on the aircraft carrier Ry j and with the 2nd Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During 1942–1943, he served as chief of staff of the 26th Naval Air Squadron, and was appointed to a staff post in August 1944. He was promoted to his final rank of commander in November 1944. At the end of the war, Okumiya was interrogated by Allied intelligence officers, after which he was demobilized. More