Germany and NATO
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1987. First Printing. 23 cm, 265, wraps, illus., bibliography, index, some wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1987. First Printing. 23 cm, 265, wraps, illus., bibliography, index, some wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
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
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1986. First Printing. 61, wraps, map, figures, tables, endnotes, bibliography, slight soiling to rear cover. More
Geneva: Genf, Verlag Interavia, Auslieferung: Europa-Verlag, 1945. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 304 pages. Maps. Charts. Foxing to text & fore-edge. Text has darkened. DJ worn & soiled: small tears and small pieces missing. DJ in plastic sleeve. Ink notation on rep. This memoir by Lieutenant General Rieckhoff covers the development of the German Luftwaffe in World War I, the interwar years, and World War II (the West, the Balkans, and the East). Text is in German. Herbert Joachim Rieckhoff (25 December 1898 – 30 November 1948) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. This is part of the series Reihe internationaler Dokumente zum Luftkrieg. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1939. 358, illus., maps, appendix, index, boards somewhat scuffed, top and bottom edges of spine and corners of boards worn. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xxx, 545, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Maps (incl. 2 fold-out). Appendices. Index. Tape stains on boards & flyleaves. Ex-library with usual library markings. Pencil comment on page 10. Ink notation on rep. Rear board has some weakness. Includes content by Manfred Rommel also. Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German field marshal during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany. Rommel was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Pour le Mérite for his actions on the Italian Front. In 1937, he published his classic book on military tactics, Infantry Attacks, drawing on his experiences in that war. In World War II, he commanded the 7th Panzer Division during the 1940 invasion of France. His leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign established his reputation as one of the ablest tank commanders of the war. He later commanded the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion of Normandy in June 1944. In 1944, Rommel was implicated in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Because of Rommel's status as a national hero, Rommel was given a choice between committing suicide, in return for assurances that his reputation would remain intact and that his family would not be persecuted following his death, or facing a trial that would result in his disgrace and execution; he chose a cyanide pill. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1962. New Revised Edition. 414, wraps, footnotes, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled: sticker residue From the Renaissance to the Cold War, the definitive survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare returns to print in a new paperback edition. Topics covered include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and war; and the First and Second World Wars and their aftermath. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1962. New Revised Edition. 414, wraps, footnotes, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled: sticker residue From the Renaissance to the Cold War, the definitive survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare returns to print in a new paperback edition. Topics covered include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and war; and the First and Second World Wars and their aftermath. More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1959. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1],400 pages. , Endpaper illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Theodore Ropp (born 22 May 1911 - died 2 December 2000) was a professor at Duke University. Theodore Ropp's first teaching position was at Harvard University in 1937-38. In 1938, Duke University appointed him instructor in history. He was appointed professor in 1959 and professor emeritus in 1980. Ropp first became well known through his contribution to Edward Mead Earle's acclaimed book Makers of Modern Strategy. Ropp's expertise was in wide demand as one of the few American civilian academics working in military and naval history. He served as the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College from 1962 to 1963. He was professor at the U.S. Army War College in 1972-73; visiting professor of military history U.S. Military Academy, 1976–77. In 1991, he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement given by the Society for Military History. More
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1903. 23 cm, 384, some foxing, boards scuffed, soiled, and somewhat worn, corners bumped, ink notation inside front board. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19, wraps, illus., endnotes, covers somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on title page. More
Washington DC: Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, 2012. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, 218, [4] pages. Ink marks noted. Notes. Appendix. Index. Contributors. Dr. Lora Saalman is a Senior Researcher within SIPRI?s Armament and Disarmament and Conflict, Peace and Security research areas. She also serves as a Member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) and as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center (EWC). Her research focuses on China?s cyber, nuclear and advanced conventional weapon developments in relation to India, Russia and the United States. Formerly she served as vice president of the Asia-Pacific Program at the EastWest Institute and as director of the China and Global Security Programme at SIPRI. She has also worked at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Tsinghua University, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, Observer Research Foundation, and Center for Nonproliferation Studies from which she earned a one-year fellowship at the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr. Saalman was among the first batch of recipients of the Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship. She earned her bachelor?s degree with honors from the University of Chicago, her master?s degree with a certificate in nonproliferation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and her Ph.D. with an outstanding graduate student award and dissertation award from Tsinghua University, where she was the first American to earn a doctorate from its Department of International Relations, completing all of her coursework in Chinese. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. Later printing. Trade Paperback. viii, [2], 293,[5] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Index. Ink mark noted on page vii. Topics covered include the diplomacy of violence, the art of commitment, the manipulation of risk, the idiom of military action, the diplomacy of ultimate survival, the dynamics of mutual alarm, and the dialogue of competitive armament. This was written under the auspices of the Harvard Center for International Affairs. Part comes from the Henry L. Stimson Lectures at Yale University. Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." More
New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc, 1975. 72, wraps, annotated bibliography of over 160 books, footnotes, sticker residue on cover Strategy project No. 26. This was prepared by the National Strategy Information Center, Inc. This book identifies and discusses Soviet military political spokesmen and their writings on military doctrine and strategy. It analyzes those Soviet publications wihich present basic tenets of Soviet military thought, as well as those intended for study by specific services within the Soviet Armed Forces. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xi, [1], 136 pages plus covers. Map. Tables. Figures. Notes. Section about the Contributors. Cover has some wear and soiling. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. The author had a Ph.D., was a retired USAF General, and was the Director of the Air Force Research Institute. Among the contributors are: Anthony C. Cain, Larry D. Carter, John L. Conway, Karen w. Currie, Chad Dacus, Steve Hagel, Daly Hayden, Jeffrey Hukill, David "Scott" Johnson, Adam B. Lowther, and Martin R. Stytz. More
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
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
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1954. First Edition. 180, footnotes, DJ soiled and edges worn: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1964. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 120, front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear and soiling to DJ, ink notation on table of contents. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1992. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 15, wraps, endnotes, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1961. 268, references, bibliography, index, foxing inside boards and flyleaves and to fore-edge, lower board corners stained white. More
New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc, 1975. Third Edition. 494, notes, bibliography, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ worn, tears and pieces missing along DJ edges. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1997. First Printing. 23 cm, 311, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 159, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, large piece of DJ missing. More
London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1927. Hardcover. 319 pages. Boards a bit scuffed, soiled, and worn at corners, some discoloration. Signed by the author. More