Gettysburg, 1 July 1863. Confederate: Army of Northern Virginia
London: Osprey Publishing, Ltd., 1999. First Printing. 96, wraps, large fold-out map of battlefield, bibliography. More
London: Osprey Publishing, Ltd., 1999. First Printing. 96, wraps, large fold-out map of battlefield, bibliography. More
London: Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1907. Presumed First U.K. Edition in the English language, First printing. Hardcover. 255, [1] pages. Footnotes. Appendices (Bibliography of the Bohemian Campaign, "L'Espirit de la Guerre Moderne"; Note on Terminology; and Note on Organization. Maps in rear pocket (all XXI listed present). Pocket separated from rear board but present. In addition there is another folding map in the pocket, from the Hugh Rees, Ltd. publisher, designated Map No I and titled General Map to Illustrate the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. In it approximately 22 inches by 15 inches with color. This appears to have been included by the publisher. Cover is worn, soiled, with spine tears and chips. Some page discoloration noted. Pencil marks to text noted. Name of previous owner and date on fep. This is one of The Pall Mall Military Series. Guillaume Auguste Balthazar Eugène Henri Bonnal, born 1844 and died 1917, was a French general and military theorist. He invented and adopted the teaching method of cases from historical examples. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 340, illus., maps, appendix, bibliography, index, slight wear to cover edges. More
Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books [An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press], 2018. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xx, [2], 246, [4] pages. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Foreword by Stanley McCrystal. Notes. Contributors. Maximillian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American actor and author. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. He is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York. John Amble is the editorial director of the Modern War Institute at West Point and co-director of the Urban Warfare Project. He is also a military intelligence officer in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota and an MA in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London, and has conducted Ph.D. research within the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London. His work has appeared in academic journals and books published by the academic press. He is the co-editor of Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict. Lieutenant Colonel ML (Matt) Cavanaugh, Ph.D., is an active duty US Army Strategist with experience in 11 countries and assignments ranging from Iraq to the Pentagon and Korea to New Zealand. He has recently been named a Professor of Practice with the Arizona State University School of Politics & Global Studies, and is a co-founder of and a Senior Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point. Jaym Gates is an author and editor whose focus ranges from futurism consulting to disaster response. More
Moscow: Military Publisher of the Defense Ministry of the USSR, 1961-1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus (only 38,000 printed). Hardcover. Text in Russian. 3865 + maps, 6-vol. set (hardback) plus 1 map volume (15 color maps. 13 fold-out, and page 16 is text--key to the map symbols) in wraps laid in at back of 6th volume. Footnotes. Illustrations. (some color). Index. Ex-library with usual library markings. Some wear and soiling to boards, some discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, small tear at top of spine v.1, cloth wrinkled on spine v.2, rear board weak v.2 and v.5. Volume 1 front flyleaf scuffed. Ephemera laid in (sales receipt from Mezhdunarodnaja Kinga to a purchaser in New York City, a post card related to the purchase, and a small errata slip. Large volumes, beautifully illustrated (some in color), and many color maps and fold-out maps. Text is in Russian. More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1934. 416, illus., maps, bibliography, index, foxing ins bds & flylves & to fore-edge, foxing to a few pgs, ink name ins fr bd, bds scuff. More
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. Second Impression [stated]. Hardcover. xxxviii, 442,[2] pages. Frontis illustration. Footnotes. Complete with 4 fold-out maps. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some fading of lettering on the spine. Some page foxing and soiling. Boards weak and have been restrengthened with glue. With a Memoir of the author by Field Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C. Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson, CB (2 June 1854 – 5 March 1903) was a British soldier and military author. He was commissioned into the 84th Foot in 1878. In 1882 he went on active service to Egypt, fighting in the battles of Kassassin and Tel el-Kebir. He received numerous citations for bravery in combat. In 1889 appeared (anonymously) his first work, The Campaign of Fredericksburg. In 1889 he became Instructor in Tactics, Military Law and Administration at Sandhurst. From this post he proceeded as Professor of Military Art and History to the Staff College (1892–1899). In 1898 appeared his masterpiece: Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. In the Second Boer War, Henderson served with distinction on the staff of the Commander-in- Chief, Lord Roberts, as Director of Intelligence. In a dispatch dated 31 March 1900, Lord Roberts wrote that Henderson gave him "valuable and reliable information regarding the physical features of the country and the disposition of the enemy". But overwork and malaria broke his health, he died at Assuan on 5 March 1903. Various lectures and papers by Henderson were collected and published in 1905 by Captain Malcolm, D.S.O., under the title The Science of War; to this collection a memoir was contributed by Lord Roberts. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1977. First? Edition. First? Printing. 32 cm, 160, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, tear at top of DJ. More
Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, 1943. Fighting Force Edition. Mass market paperback. Pocket paperbk, 222, wraps, notes, text has darkened, some wear and creasing to covers. More
Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, Inc., 1987. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 310 pages. Illustration. Endpaper illustration. Maps. Index. Order of battle. Appendices. Ink name & date inside front board. Jay Luvaas was a scholar and teacher of military history for more than thirty years. He has taught at Allegheny College, the U.S. Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, and the U.S. Army War College, where he was the first Professor of Military History. "Napoleon on the Art of War" was the culmination of three decades of work. During his distinguished career, he served as the Director of the Flowers Collection of Southern Americana at Duke University Library, and as a long-time professor of history at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He was the first civilian to be appointed as Visiting Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy. He was honored in 1997 as a Distinguished Fellow of the Army War College. He twice received the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army for his many contributions to the educational mission of the U.S. Army. Jay Luvaas was one of America’s leading military historians and published many notable books during his career, including The Education of An Army, Frederick the Great on the Art of War, Dear Miss Em, and Napoleon on the Art of War. He contributed to many other books as well. He also co-edited the highly popular series of U.S. Army War College Guides to many Civil War battlefields, including Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, and Chancellorsville. More
Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, Inc., 1988. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xviii, 360, [4] pages. Minor DJ wear and soiling noted. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Diagrams. Maps, Appendices (include Order of Battle). General Index. Jay Luvaas (15 June 1927 – 9 January 2009) was an American military historian who was an expert on the American Civil War and the history of military theory. He was the first civilian to hold a visiting professorship of military history at West Point, and was a professor of military history at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was the founder of the modern military staff ride, and was a two-time recipient of the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal of the Department of the Army. Military historians consider Luvaas the founder of the modern staff ride. He visited the battlefields of the American Civil War annually, either on War College Staff Rides or with regular tours. Luvaas' and Nelson's volume the U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg (1986) is a feature in Civil War battlefield tours. With his friend Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson, Luvaas authored several volumes of the US Army War College Staff Ride Series on the Civil War: Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and co-authored another on the Battle of Shiloh and the Atlanta campaign. Luvaas the translated military writings of Napoleon and Frederick the Great, and edited volumes of the writings by George Henderson, and a book on the history of military theory in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1988. 1st Perennial Edition. Third Printing. 310, wraps, illus., maps, index, order of battle, appendices, slight wear to cover edges. More
Carlisle, PA: South Mountain Press, Inc., 1986. First Edition. 232, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, index, ink notation in top margin of p. 232. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1952. First Edition. 443, illus., ftnotes, maps, order of battle, bibliographical note, glossary, basic military map symbols, index, usual library marks. More
Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1946. First Edition. 261 pages. Illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendix, key to notes, foxing to edges, pp. 251-254 torn out. Signed by the author (Marshall). More
Knoxville, TN: University of TN Press, c1984. Second Printing. 24 cm, 217, illus., maps, notes, commentary on sources, appendices, index. More
New York: HarperPerennial, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Trade paperback. 483, wraps, illus., maps, appendix, chapter notes, bibliography, index, some wear to cover edges, some darkening to text. Harold Gregory Moore Jr. (February 13, 1922 – February 10, 2017) was a United States Army lieutenant general and author. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. military's second-highest decoration for valor, and was the first of his West Point class (1945) to be promoted to brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general. Moore is remembered as the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965, during the Vietnam War. The battle was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, co-authored by Moore and made into the film We Were Soldiers in 2002, which starred Mel Gibson as Moore; Moore was the "honorary colonel" of the regiment. Moore was awarded the Order of Saint Maurice by the National Infantry Association as well as the Distinguished Graduate Award by the West Point Association of Graduates. In June 2009, the 87-year-old Moore attended the formal opening of the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia. One of the featured exhibits of the museum is a life-size diorama of L.Z. X-Ray from the Battle of Ia Drang. More
New York: Random House, 1992. 5th Printing. Hardcover. xx, 412 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Edge and some page corner staining--no impact on text. Some DJ edgewear. Sticker with a quotation from General Schwarzkopf on front of DJ. Harold Gregory Moore Jr. (February 13, 1922 – February 10, 2017) was a United States Army lieutenant general and author. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. military's second-highest decoration for valor, and was the first of his West Point class (1945) to be promoted to brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general. Moore is remembered as the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965, during the Vietnam War. The battle was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, co-authored by Moore and made into the film We Were Soldiers in 2002, which starred Mel Gibson as Moore; Moore was the "honorary colonel" of the regiment. Moore was awarded the Order of Saint Maurice by the National Infantry Association as well as the Distinguished Graduate Award by the West Point Association of Graduates. In June 2009, the 87-year-old Moore attended the formal opening of the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia. One of the featured exhibits of the museum is a life-size diorama of L.Z. X-Ray from the Battle of Ia Drang. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982. First Printing. 469, illus., maps, appendix, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, slight soiling to rear DJ. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982. First Printing. 469, illus., maps, appendix, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, small stain to fore-edge, slight wear to top & bottom DJ edges. More
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1983. 469, illus., maps, appendix, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, pages have darkened, some soiling to covers. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1983. 469, wraps, illus., maps, appendix, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, text has darkened, corners of a few pages creased. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982. First Printing. 469, illus., maps, appendix, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, few library markings, spine creased. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. First U.S. Edition. 248, illus., maps, index, small stains on a few pgs, DJ worn and scuffed: several pieces missing. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. First U.S. Edition. 248, illus., maps, index, some soiling to DJ, some wear to DJ edges. More