700 French Terms for American Field Artillerymen
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918. Second Revised Edition. Pocket-size, 66, some wear along edges of spine. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918. Second Revised Edition. Pocket-size, 66, some wear along edges of spine. More
Washington DC: Naval Historical Center, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. iii, [5], 107, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Inscribed on the title page To Tom--Another hardware type and "prop & mainstay" of the canoe club. Inscribed by the author. as John R. Cover had become partially separated and was reglued in place. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Acknowledgments, Foreword, Part I--Early Ordnance; Its History and Use. Part II--A Walking Tour of Willard Park; Characteristics and Performance of Early Ordnance. Among the topics addressed are Introduction of Cannon; Artillery Goes to Sea; Types of Ordnance; Iron and Bronze; Casting Ordnance; Early Ordnance; Development of Rationalization; Gun Carriages; Gunpowder; Ammunition; Handling Gunpowder; Loading and Firing; and Performance. John C. Reilly Jr. was a Navy historian and author who retired in 2001 as director of the Naval Historical Center’s ship history branch. Mr. Reilly joined the Naval Historical Center in the mid-1960s and became branch head in the mid-1980s. During his time at the center, he was the author or co-writer of several books, including “United States Navy Destroyers of World War II in Action” (1985). After his retirement, he worked at the Naval Historical Foundation and helped establish a book donation program for the Navy Department Library. He served in the Navy from 1954 to 1957 and received a master’s degree in library science from Catholic University in 1968. More
Secaucus, N. J. The Citadel Press, 1975. First American Edition [stated], Presumed 1st Printing. Trade paperback. 230, [6] pages. Illustrations. References. Index. Cover as some wear and soiling. Originally published in the United Kingdom as Artillery Through the Ages. Colonel Hugh Cuthbert Basset Rogers OBE was born in 1905 at Wylam-on-Tyne, often referred to as the birth place of the steam locomotive. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst he was commissioned in The King's Own Royal Regiment in 1924. Seconded to the Indian Signal Corps in 1926, transferred to the Royal Signals in 1930 and drove a train part of the way through the Khyber Pass. The OBE was awarded for operations in France and Belgium in 1940 and at the end of the war he became Chief Signal Officer in South Iraq and Persia, responsible for telecommunications in the area. His last military appointment was as a on the Staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe. He wrote on both military history and on railway history, and in particular, on artillery. More
Bicester, Oxon: Thorsons Publishing Group, 1986. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. Includes Introduction; The two sides and their sources of supply; Pistols and sub-machine-guns; Rifles and carbines; Grenades and rifle grenades; Machine-guns; Anti-armour weapons, Mortars and artillery guns; Armored fighting vehicles; Antiaircraft weapons, Conclusion, Glossary, and Index. About one quarter of the front free endpaper has been cut off. DJ has tears and chips missing. David Rosser-Owen studies History, American Colonial Government of the Southern Philippines 1898-1946, and Politics and Government of South East Asia. A former officer of the British Regular Army, academic of south-east asian studies, and journalist. This book contains a comprehensive survey of all the ground weapons used by both sides during the Vietnam war, complete with notes on their development, specifications, design variations and special applications in combat, as well as eight pages in full color. Includes arms of American, Soviet, Chinese, Czech, Swedish, and French origin. More
London: Royal Artillery Institution, 1958. 71, wraps, illus., maps, footnotes, covers scratched and small rust stains. More
London: Royal Artillery Institution, 1958. 71, wraps, illus., footnotes, small rust stains on covers, covers creased and scratched. More
New York: J. Wiley, 1916. Second Edition. 24 cm, 259, illus., diagrams, stamp, pp. 139-142 separated and cropped, shaken and boards weak. More
Boston, MA: The Cornhill Company, 1919. 50, illus., rear board somewhat soiled, some wear to edges of spine. More
Paris: A.E.F., 1918. 293, v.2 only, wraps (stiff card covers), figures, tables, some darkening to text, covers worn/soiled, sm chips at spine & edges. More
Richmond, Surrey, England: The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., 1971. Republication of the Third Edition, Revised of 1858. Hardcover. [14], 306 pages., Footnotes. Illustrations. John Scoffern (1814-1882) was an English surgeon and popular science writer. He attended University College, London and Aldersgate Medical School. Scoffern was lecturer at Aldersgate Medical School in 1840, and graduated M.B. at the University of London in 1843. He lectured also at the medical school in Charlotte Street. He went on to a prolific career in scientific and other writing. During the Franco-Prussian War, Scoffern was a newspaper correspondent. He was in the Château de Saint-Cloud, occupied by the Prussian forces, when it was shelled by French guns in October 1870. He tended the sick and wounded in Paris, and was awarded the Iron Cross in 1871 for bravery and his medical work. This work on projectile weapons went through several editions during the author's lifetime. 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 182, illus., maps, index, slight wear to DJ edges. More
Richmond, VA: William Byrd Press, Inc., 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], 80 pages. Illustrations (color). Decorative cover. Cover has slight wear and some sticker residue. Harry Downing Temple attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute as a member of the Corps of Cadets from 1930 to 1934, and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering. Colonel Temple was a veteran of the United States Army and Civilian Conversation Corps. During the Second World War, he served in the Corps of Engineers. He took part in the Normandy Invasion. He also served during the Korean War. As Commanding Officer of The Institute of Heraldry, he designed coats of arms, seals, and banners for thirty-two Episcopal cathedrals and personally designed the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He served as a professional officer of the U.S. Army and participated in World War II and the Korean War, rising to the rank of Colonel. From 1961 to 1966 he headed the Army's Institute of Heraldry, and designed the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He retired from the Army in 1966. Temple began his research for a book about the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets in the mid- 1970s, and retired to Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1988 to be closer to the archival materials necessary for his research. More
New York: Norton, 1999. First Printing. More
New York: Harper, 1928. First Edition. 21 cm, 24, boards soiled, uncut. More
Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co, [1954]. First Edition. First? Printing. 31 cm, 152, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, DJ very worn and torn: pieces missing. More
London: U.K. War Office, 1942. 34, wraps, some soiling to covers. More
London: HMSO, 1941. 48, wraps, profusely illus., covers soiled, marked "Not to be Published" More
London: HMSO, 1941. 33, wraps, profusely illus., covers soiled, blue pencil initials on front cover. More
n.p. U.S. Army, c. 1920. 25" x 19", 1 sheet, single sheet folded in eighths (closed size 6.5" x 10"), illus., some wear along folds, small edge tears/chips. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1945. First? Edition. First? Printing. Oversized, 281, Book IV only, endpaper maps, many fold-out maps, tables, charts, rear board scuffed, wax paper coating on front board. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1945. First? Edition. First? Printing. Oversized, 281, Book V only, endpaper maps, many fold-out maps & charts, tables, charts, bds scuffed, sm red stains to bd edges & corners. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1957. 672 total, illus., map, address on rear cover of each issue, slight foxing, some wear to board and spine edges. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: General Service Schools, 1925. 14 + map, wraps, large map in pocket at rear, some pencil & blue pencil notations & underlining, some soiling to front cover. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Army War College, 1918. Wraps. Pocket-sized, 70 pages. Wraps, illus., diagrams, fold-out plate, footnotes. Name of previous owner written at top of front cover. More