New York: Truman Talley Books, Dutton, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [4], 706 pages. Illustrations. Maps (Russian and Middle East Fronts, December 6, 1941; The Pacific Rim, December 6, 1941; and the Pacific Expanse). Sources and Strategies. Index. Cover has some wear and discoloration. Some edge soiling. Chapters include The Day Before: December 6, 1941; Long Day's Journey; The Day After; and Curtain Call: Doomsday. This work presents a global analysis of the twenty-four hours that thrust the United States into World War II, featuring interviews with survivors and a detailed countdown of events that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The author has identified in notes for each chapter only those oral, manuscript, and documentary materials unique to this narrative. A few exceptions to the rule are limited-access publications not likely to be found in most research libraries. There is also a vast literature on Pearl Harbor itself, as well as on the vast arena of the war beyond Hawaii. Stanley Weintraub (April 17, 1929 – July 28, 2019) was an American historian and biographer. He served with the Eighth Army in Korea, receiving a Bronze Star. Except for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State for all of his career, attaining the rank of Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus status on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. More

Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan, Graduate School of Business Administration, Bureau of Industrial Relations, 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [12], 249, [27] pages. Some endpaper discoloration noted. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Preface, Bibliographical Note and Guide to Footnotes, Glossary of Abbreviations, and Appendixes. Chapters cover Civilians Become Soldiers; Who Should Make the Selection?; Size of the Army; Should Freshmen and Fathers Fight?; The Farmers Stay at Home; From Manpower Surplus to Manpower Shortage, 1940-1942; The Turning Point--1943; The Manpower Pinch--1944; The Last Approach--1945; Soldiers at Work on Farm and in Factory; Work-or-fight: The Use of the Draft as a Manpower Sanction; The Choice Today: Soldier or Civilian? The author was a Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations and Social Science, Michigan State University. This volume focused on a choice made during WWII between whether an individual should be drafted or deferred to work in industry and agriculture. It will look at the criteria used, and will pay attention to the War Department's views, since an understanding of the military's role is essential. The last chapter will discuss what perspectives these experiences during WWII ought to give us. The richest sources of information for this study were the files of the Adjutant General's Records Branch. The files of the Army Service Forces were extremely helpful. Besides the host of primary sources available at the various record centers, there were available monographs prepared either by historical officers or by actual participants, usually written immediately after the war. These studies often explained much that a perusal of memoranda would not have made clear. More

Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Collier Macmillan Canada Ltd., 1980. Presumed First Canadian Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 223, [1] pages. DJ has slight wear and soling and is price clipped. Includes Preface, Historical Notes, Select Bibliography, and Index, as well as a listing of 12 maps. Chapters cover A Lion is Born; A Gathering of Forces; The Taking of Western Europe; Britain Against the Wall; The Testing Time; Assumptions and Plans; Days of the Eagle; Assault from the Sky; Assault from the Sea; The Fight for the Bridgehead; Check and Counter-Check; The Trade-Off; The Crunch; The Battle of the GHQ Line; The Hinge of Destiny; and As It Happened. Also includes Historical Notes, Select Bibliography, and an index. The author of many books on the Second World War, Kenneth Macksey has investigated afresh the forces, resources, and options to each side in the summer of 1940. Providing it had been launched in July, he concludes, Operation "Sealion" could have been a feasible undertaking. Indeed, had Hitler accepted Kesselring's advice to invade Britain soon after Dunkirk (during the period considered by British Intelligence to be the most dangerous) the events described in this book might well have taken place. Kenneth John Macksey MC (1 July 1923 – 30 November 2005) was a British author and historian who specialized in military history and military biography, particularly of the WWII. Macksey was commissioned in the Royal Armoured Corps and served during WWII (earning a Military Cross). Macksey retired from the Army in 1968. Amongst many books, Macksey wrote a volume of alternate history, entitled Invasion, which dealt with a successful invasion of England by Germany in 1940. More

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 280, [4] pages. Index. Name [Chris Sterling] and date in ink on fep. Pencil erasure residue noted in a very few places. This is part of the Gale Information Guide Library. This is believed to have belonged to Christopher H. Sterling (born 1943 in Washington, D.C.) an American media historian. Sterling is professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) where he has taught since 1982. Author of numerous books on media and telecommunications plus a host of research and bibliographic articles. He was an acting chair in the early 1990s and served as associate dean for graduate studies in arts and sciences from 1994 to 2001. In 1969, he founded what is now Communication Booknotes Quarterly and serves on the editorial boards of several research journals (he edited what was then the Journal of Broadcasting for five years in the early 1970s). Sterling is the recipient of several awards, including being named IRTS Stanton Fellow and the Broadcast Education Association's Distinguished Scholar and Education Service awards. He served as BEA's president for two years in the 1980s. Sterling taught at Temple University through the 1970s, then moved to Washington to serve as a special assistant to FCC Commissioner Ann Jones from 1980 to 1982. Sterling has also published articles about several of his avocations, including Sir Winston Churchill, the development of commercial aviation (including Commercial Air Transport Books: An Annotated Bibliography [1996] and a Supplement [1998]), ocean liners, and the history of fortification. More

New York: Galahad Books (published by arrangement with Thomas Y. Crowell Company), 1975. Presumed First edition this publisher, First Printing thus. Hardcover. x, [6], 336 pages. Illustrations. Maps, Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Adolph August Hoehling (1914-2004) was a writer and military historian. A. A. Hoehling graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. He was a reporter for the Washington Star in the late 1930s. He worked as an editor, journalist, and author. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II aboard minesweepers and blimps and was an armed guard for merchant vessels. It was his experience there as a lieutenant commander of the Armed Guard on merchant vessels that provided inspiration for his memoir, "The Fighting Liberty Ships." After the war was a journalist for the Portland telegram. Was a freelance writer of articles and stories with maritime and naval history themes. He published at least thirty titles of historical nonfiction, focusing on the Civil War, the Great War, and World War II. Some of these books include "The Great War at Sea", "Who Destroyed the Hindenburg?," "Last Train from Atlanta," and "Vicksburg: 47 Days of Siege." More

New York, N.Y. Simon and Schuster, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 455, [3] pages. DJ has some wear and soiling. Includes Acknowledgments, List of Illustrations, Introduction, Illustrations. Notes to Chapters, Sources, and Index. Chapters cover A Bloodless Triumph; War in the West?; Viorel Virgil Tilea; Making a Stand; "A Long, Solid and Durable Front"; Enter the Russians; Danzig or Poland?; The "Menacing Silence"; Appeasement Cremated; Moscow Morass; Exit the Russians; Crisis; The Coming of the German-Polish War; The Hours to World War; Also includes Notes to Chapters, Sources, and Index. Illustrated with 30 black and white photographs following page 114. Sidney Aster is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Historical Studies Department, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He completed his Ph.D. in international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He became a principal research assistant to Sir Martin Gilbert, who was the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. Aster collaborated with V. V. Tilea, Romanian Minister to London, 1938-1940, Sir William Seeds, British Ambassador to Moscow, 1938-1941, and the British industrialist, A.P. Young, on the latter’s involvement with the German resistance. For several years he also met with Arthur Salter to discuss the latter’s multi-faceted career as an international civil servant, MP, cabinet minister, journalist and author. He published three books in four years: 1939, The Making of the Second World War, Anthony Eden: A Biography, and The “X” Documents, The Secret History of Foreign Office Contacts with the German Resistance. More

Springfield, MA: Loring-Axtell Company, 1926. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], xi,[1], 3-40, [2]8 pages. Illustrations. Large, 4 panel fold-out group photo between pages vi and vii. Foreword by Franklin H. Martin. Roster. Several instance of yellow highlighting to next noted. Some minor soiling inside boards and flyleaves. Some wear and edge rubbing to cover and edges. From an article in JAMA from 1908--After a struggle of four years on the part of the Surgeon General of the Army, backed by the medical profession, Congress at its last session was induced to give much needed relief to the Army Medical Corps, by an Act, approved last April, entitled "A bill to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the Army." Conditions in the Army prior to this were deplorable, so far as the organization of the Medical Department was concerned, as apparently no thought had been given to requirements for war. In fact, officers were far too few to perform the ordinary duties of peace times. To be capable of ready expansion in war time. the act authorized the Medical Reserve Corps, a peacetime pool of trained civilian physicians. This represented the first United States Army volunteer reserve and proved the forerunner for the entire Army Reserve system. The Medical Reserve Corps had grown to 1,757 officers, plus 146 on active duty, compared to 443 Regular Army medical officers at the time. By 30 June 1917, less than three months after the declaration of war, this had grown to 9,223 officers in the Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Officers' Reserve Corps, most recently enrolled. More

Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1996. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 148 pages. Frontis illustrations. Illustrations (maps, photographs, diagrams). Includes Foreword by Henry F. Schorreck; Preface; Acknowledgments; and an Introduction by Ernest H. Hinrichs, Jr. This work includes 12 chapters and 7 Appendices, along with an Epilogue, Endnotes. Selected Bibliography, and Index. Some combat service support troops in World War I were apparently sent overseas with very little training in warfare. The fact that World War I was primarily thought of as trench warfare, with little of the fluidity of World War II, many have been one reason for this. History has shown that the first week of July 1918 was the turning point of the war. All through the spring, the Germans had exerted tremendous pressure against the Allied lines, and the power of their repeated thrusts had produced a critical situation. As a draftee in World War I, the author was assigned to the new radio intelligence work because of his fluency in German and his engineering background. His small unit was attached to the French Army after training in wireless telegraphy. This book is a result of that assignment. Knowledgeable in communications engineering and fluent in German as a result of his upbringing, Hinrichs has written a history that reads like fiction, but is true. This book is both a valuable contribution to the history of American intelligence, and an unusual account of an enlisted man working with the French in a secret war. Henry Forbush Schorreck, a former National Security Administration historian. He began his career as an NSA historian at Fort Meade in 1965. He retired in 1993. More

New York, N.Y. Basic Books, 2003. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 543, [3] pages. Map. Illustrations. Includes Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Chapters include War Week; Big Lies, Greed, and Other Hoary Animals; Enlisting Volunteers and Other Unlikely Events; Creeling and Other Activities That Make Philip Dru Unhappy; Seeds of the Apocalypse; The Women of No-Man's-Land; Politics is Adjourned, Ha-Ha-Ha; Fights to the Finish; Peace That Surpasses Understanding; Peace That Surpasses Understanding II; Chilling the Heart of the World; Illusions End; and A Covenant with Power. Thomas James Fleming (July 5, 1927 – July 23, 2017) was an American historian and writer and the author of over forty nonfiction and fiction titles. His work reflects a particular interest on the American Revolution, with titles such as Liberty! The American Revolution And The Future Of America, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the History of America and Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge. Fleming served as president of the Society of American Historians and the PEN American Center. Fleming also spent ten years as chairman of the New York American Revolution Round Table and was an Honorary Member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati since 1975. Fleming published books about various events and figures of the Revolutionary era. He also wrote about other periods of American history, and wrote over a dozen well-received novels set against various historical backgrounds. He said, "I never wanted to be an Irish-American writer, my whole idea was to get across that bridge and be an American writer" More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1949. Sixteenth Impression [stated]. Hardcover. 554, [2] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Abbreviations. Index. DJ worn. Sticker with name of previous owner on fep. Rear board weak and restrengthened with glue. Frontis illustration. Includes Preface. Also includes chapters on The Countryman; The Cavalry Commander; The King-Breaker; The Lord General; and The Prince. The author has been sparing in his notes, confining his documentation to points which are still dubious, or on which the author's view differs from that generally held. He has, however, been careful to give full references for all Oliver's own written and spoken words. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL ( 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He wrote propaganda for the British war effort during World War I. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan as Governor General of Canada. He occupied the post until his death. Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the U. K. More

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 523, [5] pages. DJ worn, torn, soiled, chipped with front corner missing. 29 b/w Illustrations. 4 appendices. Index. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, Inscription reads: 3-11-82. To Robert "Buck" Bartley, with all good wishes, Pieter Ruether. 3-11-82. P.S. Your own "populist" background will make many of these pages come to life. This is believed to have been given to the founder of the Bartley Company, a construction firm that was noted for its commitment to safety and its employees. Includes Foreword. Chapters include In Search of Freedom; Farm Hand to Industrial Unionist; Winning and Losing; Wetzel Street to Bethlehem Hill; Awakening; Gathering Forces; Into the Nazi Whirlpool; Crisscrossing; Tooling at Gorky; Anomalies; Eastern Passage; Digging In; Sit-Down in Flint; Anderson Rejoins the U.S.A.; Infighting; River Rough; A Letter from Gorky; War on Two Fronts; Perils of Peace; "Teamwork in the Leadership, Solidarity in the Ranks"; An Unholy Alliance; Justice Aborted; New Dimensions for the UAW; Postwar European Labor; Merger; Labor for Peace Around the World; International Solidarity and Subversion; Under Five Presidents; and Servus. This is the story of the four Reuther brothers--Walter, Roy, Ted, and Victor. The Reuthers grew up in West Virginia, the sons of a poor immigrant who was himself a staunch union man. The author recalls the battles the Reuthers and the UAW fought with Communists and the underworld--and how both Walter and Victor were nearly killed by would-be assassins, murder attempts which J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was reluctant to investigate. More

New York, N.Y. Beaufort Books, 2011. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xx, 204 pages. Footnotes. Best Seller sticker on front of DJ. Includes Foreword by Mark Cuban, Preface, Conclusion, Acknowledgments, and Bibliography. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: 2/11 To Mark, Thanks for all you do to keep us informed, educated, and entertained! Gary Shapiro. Chapters include America's Decline; Why Innovation?; Innovation: The Jobs Engine; Innovation Requires Immigration; The U.S. Constitution and the Fire of Genius; All the World's a Market: Innovation Requires Free Trade; Innovation Requires Good Schools; Innovation Requires Competitive Broadband; Government Spending: Imperiling Innovation and More; Government Spending: Modest Proposals to Restore Sanity; Private Enterprise: Restoring Our Foundation for Growth; Innovation Requires Support of U.S. Companies; Innovation Requires a National Energy Policy; An Innovation Lesson in Health Care. In this book, Gary Shapiro shows us how to return innovation to its rightful place at the center of America's economic policy. When our best and brightest have the encouragement and incentives to follow their entrepreneurial dreams, then the great American free market will lead the world once again. But it requires a clear strategy and sound policies that will reignite America's innovation engine. More