Der Seekrieg: The German Navy's Story, 1939-1945
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1957. 440, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, ink notation ins fr board, some discoloration ins bds, spine scuffed & some wear to edges. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1957. 440, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, ink notation ins fr board, some discoloration ins bds, spine scuffed & some wear to edges. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1957. 440, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, usual library markings, some discoloration ins bds, boards and spine scuffed. More
New York: Norton, 1953. First American Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 260, Introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. pocket paperbk, 148, wraps, covers somewhat soiled, some wear to cover and spine edges, text has darkened Introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat. The author rose from the rank of cadet in 1938 to command a German submarine during World War II. At the end of the war, to avoid the surrender ordered, he crossed the Atlantic, making for Argentina, hoping to find freedom there. 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: Peter Smith, 1934. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xiv, 375, [1] pages. Footnotes. Index. Some pages uncut. With a Portrait and 28 Plans (some folding). Naval Education Center stamp on fep but no library markings. Reinhard Scheer, (born Sept. 30, 1863, Obernkirchen, Hanover-died Nov. 26, 1928, Marktredwitz), admiral who commanded the German High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland (1916). Scheer entered the German navy in 1879 and by 1907 had become the captain of a battleship. He became chief of staff of the High Seas Fleet under Henning von Holtzendorff in 1910 and commander of a battle squadron in 1913. After the start of World War I, he advocated the use of submarines and gained fame as a submarine strategist. He planned subsurface raids, using surface units as bait with submarines lying in ambush for any British ships lured into the open sea. Scheer received command of the fleet in January 1916; he hoped to precipitate a strategic division of the British Grand Fleet and catch it at a disadvantage. A combination of both planning and chance resulted in the two fleets converging at the Battle of Jutland (May 31–June 1, 1916), the only major fleet action of World War I. Although the Grand Fleet was not successfully divided and the British outnumbered the Germans, Scheer’s maneuvering ultimately saved the High Seas Fleet. The battle itself proved indecisive. On Aug. 8, 1918, Scheer succeeded Holtzendorff as chief of the admiralty staff, serving for five months until he retired. Scheer’s account of the Battle of Jutland appears in his book Deutschlands Hochseeflotte im Weltkrieg (Germany’s High Seas Fleet in the World War). 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
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1962. 175, illus., index, pictorial section on the USS De Haven, boards somewhat worn/soiled, naval related ink notation on fr endpaper. More
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1962. Hardcover. 175, [5] illus., Index, 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: 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 York: Scribner, 2010. First Scribner Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. First edition. x, 353, [3] p. Illustration (after "about the author"). Bibliographical Note. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: J. Messner, [1960]. 24 cm, 579, illus., maps, appendices, reading list, glossary, index, fore-edge slightly soiled, ink notation inside front board. More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1960]. 24 cm, 579, illus., maps, appendices, reading list, glossary, index, usual lib markings, fore-edge soiled, bds & spine scuffed & edges worn. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. 384, illus., bibliographical notes, chronology, appendix, index, rear DJ somewhat soiled, DJ edges worn & scuffed: small tears. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1975. Fourteenth Printing. 24 cm, 276, illus., maps, index, some foxing to fore-edge. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1952. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 276 pages. Illus., maps, index, some foxing to rear DJ, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. Signed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1928. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vii, [3], 363, [1] and 10 pages [including pages reprinted from Lowell Thomas's Count Luckner]. Cover is worn, soiled, and has a tear and loss of material at lower spine. Some board weakness. Some page discoloration. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Louis MacBracken---Yours until we all go down to Davy Jones. Lowell Thomas. Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicizing T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system. In 1954, he led a group of New York City-based investors to buy majority control of Hudson Valley Broadcasting, which, in 1957, became Capital Cities Television Corporation. Thomas was a relentless self-promoter, and he persuaded railroads to give him free passage in exchange for articles extolling rail travel. When he visited Alaska, he hit upon the idea of the travelogue, movies about faraway places. When the United States entered World War I, President Wilson sent him and others to "compile a history of the conflict", but the mission was not academic. The war was not popular in the United States, and Thomas was sent to find material that would encourage the American people to support it. He did not want to merely write about the war, he wanted to film it. Thomas narrated Twentieth Century Fox's Movietone newsreels until 1952, when he teamed with Mike Todd and Merian C. Cooper to exploit Cinerama, a film format using three projectors and an enormous curved screen with surround sound. More
London: Icon, 2015. Presumed First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. xii, 302, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear with sticker residue on back. Barry Turner is a historian. His latest books are Beacon for Change about the 1951 Festival of Britain and Outpost of Occupation on the German occupation of the Channel Islands. He has just completed his seventeenth year as editor of Statesman’s Yearbook. He lives in London and south-west France. Among the military leaders of World War Two, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remains a deeply controversial figure. As chief of the German submarine fleet he earned Allied respect as a formidable enemy. But after he succeeded Adolf Hitle as head of the Third Reich, his name became associated with all that was most hated in the Nazi regime. Yet Doenitz deserves credit for ending the war quickly while trying to save his compatriots in the east. His Dunkirk-style operation across the Baltic rescued up to two million troops and civilian refugees. He was sentenced to ten years at Nuremberg—a penalty acknowledged as a blatant example of victor's justice—and after his release from Spandau kept well away from politics. Barry Turner's closely examined and even-handed portrait gives a fascinating new perspective on this complex figure, to whom history has not been kind. More
London: HMSO, 1946. Quarto, 38, illus. (some color), usual library markings, covers somewhat worn and soiled, bookplate, pencil marks inside front cover. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 2002. 59, wraps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 2003. First? Edition. First? Printing. 158, wraps, figures, tables. Serial No. 107-179. More
Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2015. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 256 pages. Illustrated endpapers Illustrations (many in color). Appendix I: US Navy Ship Force Levels, 1939-1945. Appendix II Preserved World War II Ships. Bibliography and Suggested Reading. Index. DJ has wear, tears and soiling. Nicholas A. Veronico is public affairs officer for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and its SOFIA program (NASA's airborne observatory). Author Nicholas A. Veronico comes from a family of pilots, both his mother and father held private tickets, and his brother is a commercial pilot who flies for a major airline. Veronico got his start in aviation journalism as a freelance journalist in 1984, then joined Pacific Flyer Aviation Newspapers. He then went on to serve as editor of In Flight USA, contributed extensively to FlyPast magazine, and in 1994 joined Airliners: The World's Airline Magazine. On a freelance basis, he has contributed to Air Classics, EAA Warbirds, Warbirds Worldwide, Airliner World, Classic Wings, and many others. His career path lead to the high-tech industry where he worked for an embedded systems-on-a-chip magazine, Silicon Strategies. Subsequently, he served as editor of "Gridpoints, the quarterly publication of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division," which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. He now works as a science and technology journalist. Veronico has collaborated with a number of today's best historians and authors and has written more than 30 books on a wide range of aviation and military topics, and local history subjects. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976. Revised edition. First printing thus. Hardcover. xiv, 367 p. 29 cm. Illustrations (more than 300 photographs). Maps. Diagrams. German Naval Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More