New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Ninth Naval History Symposium, 18-20 October 1989
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. First Printing. 368, illus., maps, notes, board corners somewhat worn. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. First Printing. 368, illus., maps, notes, board corners somewhat worn. More
London, England: Conway, 2007. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 240 pages. Oversized book, measuring 12 inches by 10 inches. Minor sticker residue at back. Profusely illustrated with more than two-hundred black and white and some color photographs. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Picture Credits. Bibliography. Index. Stuart Robertson is a former staff editor for Conway Maritime Ltd. with a postgraduate degree from the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter. Books by Stuart Robertson include Conway's the War at Sea in Photographs, 1939-1945. Stephen Dent is the assistant editor of Conway's Warship annual. He also edited Conway's The War At Sea. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 17 x 22 cm, 386, maps, footnotes, slight wear and soiling to DJ, bookplate removed from inside front board. More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1978. First Printing. 237, illus., notes, bibliography, index, some soiling and foxing to fore-edge, DJ scuffed, somewhat soiled, and small edge tear. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Abridged Edition. Eighth Printing. Mass market paperback. Pocket paperbk, 449, wraps, illus., maps, tables, covers somewhat worn and creased, spine creased, text somewhat darkened. This was originally published as United States Submarine Operations in World War II. It was written from records prepared by Rear Admiral R. G. Voge, Captain W. J. Holmes, Commander W. H. Hazzard, Lieut. Comdr. D. S. Graham, Lieut. H. Kuehn and from submarine patrols reports and data from the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. Foreword by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; Introduction by Rear Admiral R. G. Voge who captained the USS Sealion and the USS Sailfish. Chapters include Submarines to War; The Fighting Defense; All-Out Attrition; Pacific Sweep; and Japanese Sunset. An Authorized Account Dedicated to the Valiant Submariners of the U.S. Navy Who Lost Their Lives in World War II. Theodore Roscoe dramatically tells the true story of the Pacific showdown, as the submariners themselves recall all the nerve-shattering, depth-charging action from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. This ‘standard’ in the study of submarine warfare. first published in 1949, abridged and repeatedly reprinted, remains the basic primer for those interested in the U.S. Navy's submarine war against the Axis in World War II. Based on war patrol reports, action reports, and other wartime (then) classified information. Enduring enough to be nicknamed ‘SUBOPS’, this well-regarded publication was commissioned by the Bureau of Naval Personnel and remains one of those books that are routinely listed as source material for almost any/all submarine works dealing with the WWII. More
Bantam Books, 1956. Fifth printing thus [stated]. Mass market paperback. xiii, [1], 450 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Foreword by Admiral Nimitz. Introduction by Admiral Voge This was originally published under the title United States Submarine Operations in World War II. This is an authorized abridgment. Cover is worn and soiled. Edge tear on first few pages. Stain at bottom edge, not affecting text. Book is curved a bit. Theodore Roscoe (1906 – 1992) was an American biographer and writer of adventure novels and stories. Roscoe wrote for newspapers and later pulp magazines. Roscoe traveled widely, included trips to Haiti and North Africa. During a visit to Casablanca, Roscoe befriended a member of the French Foreign Legion. Roscoe later used this man as a model for his fictional Foreign Legion narrator, Thibaut Corday. Roscoe also wrote non-fiction for The American Weekly. Roscoe's work was praised by H. L. Mencken in an 1929 profile in the Rochester Democrat Chronicle. Mencken said "Many of the so-called literati could learn a lot from Mr. Roscoe. He gets things down with amazing facility". Roscoe was commissioned by the United States Naval Institute to write the detailed and massive histories United States Submarine Operations in World War II (1949) and United States Destroyer Operations in World War II (1953), as well as a 737-page book detailing United States history with a focus on the role of the US Navy (titled This Is Your Navy (1950) and given to navy recruits at boot camp). He subsequently wrote several other books on naval history including The Trent Affair, November, 1861: U.S. detainment of a British ship nearly brings war with England (1972). More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1958. Seventh Printing. 577, illus., maps (some color fold-out), endpaper maps, appendices, index, some foxing/soiling to boards & spine. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 210, illus. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's, Inc., 1994. First Printing. 303, endpaper maps, figures, glossary, index. More
San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman, c1979. First Printing. 30 cm, 238, wraps, illus., covers somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on half-title. More
London: William Kimber, 1952. Third Edition. 207, illus., endpaper maps, some foxing to fore-edge and text, boards and spine somewhat soiled and stained. More
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 175, [5] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Index. Ink mark on fep. Inscribed by Thomte and Mitchell with the compliments of the Burdette & Company on title page. DJ worn, torn, chipped, and soiled. Message from Admiral Arleigh Burke. Two major events shaped the beginnings of the destroyer. The first was the advent of the torpedo boat. These swift craft were able to dash in close to larger ships, loose their torpedoes, and dash away. They proved their devastating effectiveness in the Chilean Civil War of 1894 and in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894. The U.S. Navy first faced a destroyer in the Spanish-American War. Our Navy, realizing that had these destroyers had better handling and could have inflicted serious damage, sent out orders to speed the American destroyer program, then in its infancy. The first U.S. destroyer was USS Bainbridge (DD 1), launched on August 27, 1901, and placed in full commission on December 23, 1903. During World War I, Bainbridge served on patrol and convoy duty in the Atlantic. More
Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 322, [2] pages. No DJ. Sticker inside front cover. Illustrations. Maps. List of Maps. Preface; The USS Wichita: Naval War in the North Atlantic; The USS Mackerel: The Gold Dolphins; The USS Scorpion: Tragedy in the Pacific; The USS Sterlet: Early Command?; The USS Atule: Minesweeper; The Demilitarization and Occupation of Japan; The Sorry Sasori; The USS Burrfish: Fast and Loose; The USS Pickerel: Dipsydoodling on Government Time; War under the United Nations Command; and Index. The author shares his war experiences, his role in the Japanese surrender, and his participation in the setting of a world's record for longest submerged voyage. Schratz, Paul R., Capt., USN (Ret.) (1915–1993) was an officer who distinguished himself as a submariner and as a writer and educator. After graduation from the Naval Academy in 1939, he served until late 1941 in the heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA-45 in the Atlantic. He served in the submarines USS Mackerel (SS-204), USS Scorpion (SS-278), USS Sterlet (SS-392), and USS Atule (SS-403). He commanded the submarine USS Pickerel (SS-524) during Korean War missions and a long submerged transit from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor. After duty in the political-military policy division of OpNav in the early 1950s, and was later Commander Submarine Division 52. He had duty from 1962 to 1964 on the Joint Staff, including service as a delegate to the 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva, Switzerland, then served in the Department of Defense. He was on the faculty of the National War College, 1966-68. More
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
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [c1942]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 252, illus., maps, erasure residue, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 416 pages. Illustrations. Chapter Notes. Appendix A, B. C, and F. List of Abbreviations. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips, and soiling. Tear inside front board. Some endpaper and page soiling noted. J. D. Scott was a trained historian who had worked for a number of years in the Cabinet Office on the Official History of the Second World War, specializing in the development and production of munitions. He was a co-author of The Administration of War Production and The Development of Weapons. This history was written at the invitation of the Board of Vickers, this history traces the rise of Vickers as a Sheffield steel firm in the nineteenth century, it's entry into the armament business in the 1880s, and its emergence in 1897 as the only company in Britain able to manufacture a battleship complete with armour, engines and guns. "Vickers" is both a company history and a contribution to national history. Well illustrated with contemporary photos. Among topics addressed are: Armaments, Shipbuilding, Warship, Imperial Defence, Aircraft Industry, Artillery, Naval Weapons, Submarines, Torpedoes, Ordnance, Airships, Armstrong Whitworth, Civil Aircraft, Rearmament, Tanks, Munitions, Wallis Weapons, Engineering, and Turbo-Jets. More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1934. 20 cm, 417, index, small tear at spine, ink notation on flyleaf. More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 11.5 inches by 9.75 inches. xix, [1], 121, [3] pages. Illustrations [most in color]. Map. Introduction by Richard Rhodes. Selected Readings and Resources. Paul Shambroom (born 1956) is an American photographer and graduate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design whose work explores power in its various forms. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Paul Shambroom is a photographer who explores American power and culture. For over twenty years he has documented subjects ranging from industrial and office environments, the U.S. nuclear arsenal, small town council meetings, and post-9/11 "Homeland Security" preparations. His recent work expands his practice beyond straight documentary practice, involving found images, text and performance. Paul's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center, and many others. His photographs were included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial and he has had solo exhibitions at many institutions including the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and galleries in NY, Chicago, San Francisco and London. His work has been published in four monographs: "Past Time: Troubled Visions of the Good Old Days" (2020), “Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power“ (2008), “Meetings“ (2004), and “Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War“ (2003). More
Coulsdon, Surrey, England: Jane's Information Group, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Hardcover. Quarto/Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.5 inches. 842 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Glossary. Index. Cover and pages have some wear, minor ding to rear board, and soiling. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Santa Clara, CA: Hamilton Burr Publishing Company, 1980. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Magazine. 28 cm, 68 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Mailing label on front cover. Some wear and soiling to covers. An electronic countermeasure (ECM) is an electrical or electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, sonar or other detection systems, like infrared (IR) or lasers. It may be used both offensively and defensively to deny targeting information to an enemy. The system may make many separate targets appear to the enemy, or make the real target appear to disappear or move about randomly. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, [c1917-20]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 2055 total, 5-vol. set, illus. (some color), maps (some color), index, bookplates, boards somewhat worn and soiled, some vols. shaken. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First American Edition. 303, illus., notes, sources, index, some foxing to 2nd fr flyleaf, DJ somewhat soiled and worn: small tears, small pieces missing. More
London: J. Murray, 1920. Second Printing. 23 cm, 352, illus., maps, index, some discoloration, p. xiii loose, some pencil notes on rear endpaper, very worn, borads frayed. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 410, frontis illustration. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Index. Rear hinge weak. Ink notation on fep. William Sowden Sims (October 15, 1858 – September 25, 1936) was an admiral in the United States Navy who fought during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to modernize the navy. During World War I he commanded all United States naval forces operating in Europe. He also served twice as president of the Naval War College. In March 1897, shortly after his promotion to lieutenant, Sims was assigned as the military attache to Paris and St. Petersburg. In this position he became aware of naval technology developments in Europe as well attaining familiarity with European politics which would assist him during WWI. Burton Hendrick won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Victory at Sea, which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, and the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The Training of An American. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964. First U.S. Edition. 155, illus., footnotes, note on sources, index, DJ somewhat soiled & scuffed, DJ spine faded, some wear & small tears to DJ edges. More