Manual of Field Operations. Adapted for the Use of Officers of the Army
London: John Murray, 1852. 428, tables, footnotes, pencil & ink underlining & check marks on a few pgs, sm rough spots ins fr flylf, endpapers & flylves soiled. More
London: John Murray, 1852. 428, tables, footnotes, pencil & ink underlining & check marks on a few pgs, sm rough spots ins fr flylf, endpapers & flylves soiled. More
New York, N.Y. Ivy Books, 1991. First Edition, Stated, Presumed First Printing. Mass market paperback. [10], 243, [3] pages. Cover has some wear, soiling, chips, and creases. Includes Acknowledgments, two black and white maps of South Vietnam, and Prologue. This presents an infantry soldier's perspective. You didn't get into the Rangers without volunteering, and you didn't stay on point unless you liked it. But after watching most of his buddies die in a firefight when his LRRP team was overrun by the NVA, Kregg Jorgenson volunteered to serve on a Blue Team in the Air Cavalry, racing to the aid of soldiers who faced the same dangers he had barely survived. Whether enduring NVA sapper attacks, surviving "friendly" fire, or landing in hot LZs, Jorgenson discovered that in Vietnam you never knew whether you were paranoid or just painfully aware of the possibilities. In just ten months in Vietnam, he was overrun, shot up, but not underworked--he survived fifty-four missions as point man. He has one hell of a story to tell. More
New York: Twelve, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 287 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, most famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary films Restrepo (2010), Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010). The visits from June 2007 to June 2008 to eastern Afghanistan to the Korengal Valley with Tim Hetherington resulted not only in their reports and pictures published in Vanity Fair in 2008 and the film Restrepo (2010), but also in Junger's best-selling book War (2010), which rewrites and expands upon his Vanity Fair dispatches. Junger in War, tells the story of Staff Sergent Sal Giunta. His actions during the fighting in the Korengal Valley made him the first soldier to still be alive when receiving the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Time magazine named War a "Top Ten Non-fiction Book" of 2010. Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of infantry combat. He covered the War in Afghanistan for more than a decade. The book War was drawn from his field reporting for Vanity Fair, that also served as the background for the documentary film Restrepo which received the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Junger's works explore themes such as brotherhood, trauma, and the relationship of the individual to society as told from the human experience. More
London: Penguin Books, 1978. Fifteenth Printing. 365, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, index, text slightly darkened, some wear to cover edgesA study and reassessment of the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo, and The Somme. More
New York: Military Heritage Press, 1986. Reprint Edition. Fourth Printing. 355, illus., maps, bibliography, index. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. 404, illus., tables, glossary, index, fr bd weak, some soiling ins bds & flylves, pencil name ins fr bd, bds & spine scuffed & worn. More
Mechanicsburg, Pa: Stackpole Books, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. 262, illus., appendix, notes, bibliography, index. More
Munchen: Verlagsanstalt fur Kunst, 1888. Second Edition. Appears to be single volume edition of the 2-vol. set, title pg & rear endpaper missing, covers worn & soiled, number on spine. More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1888. Limited Edition. 623, illus., errata, pencil & red pencil marks on a few pages, text somewhat darkened, paper clip marks top margin of several pages. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1985. Second Printing. 318, illus., maps, charts, index, slight soiling to rear DJ, slight wear to DJ edges. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. 318, illus., maps, charts, index, slight soiling to rear DJ, foxing to fore-edge, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing, 1951. Fifth, Rev. Edition. 82, stiff fabric covers, illus., figures, music, index, bookplate, some darkening to text. More
Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 480, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Biographical Notes. Index. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist. In the 1920s and later he wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. He argued that frontal assault was a strategy that was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as happened in 1914–1918. He instead recommended the "indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armored formations. The experiences he suffered on the Western Front profoundly affected him for the rest of his life. He worked as the military correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 1925 to 1935, and of The Times from 1935 to 1939. As Prime Minister in 1937, Chamberlain placed Liddell Hart in a position of influence behind British grand strategy of the late thirties. n 1954, Liddell Hart published his most influential work, Strategy. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American Edition. 480, illus., maps, index, slight discolor ins bds, some foxing to fore-edge, ink name & date ins fr bd, DJ somewhat scuffed & soil. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American Edition. 480, illus., maps, index, usual library markings, binding cracked at p. 454, boards quite scuffed & worn. More
Hong Kong: Airphoto International Lt. 2008. Reprints of 1998 edition published by Odyssey Publications Ltd. Trade paperback. 32 pages. Color Illustrations. Map inside folding front cover. Chronology. Ex-Library with usual library markings. Reference Chinese Text provided by Guo Baofa. Englishman William Lindesay studied geography and geology at Liverpool University and in 1987 made what China's official Xinhua News Agency described as "the most successful foreign exploration of the Great Wall" in a 2,470 km solo adventure. In 1974, near Xi'an in central China, villagers chanced upon what has become one of the world's most astonishing archaeological finds--an 8,000-man army in battle-ready formation, each warrior a life-size figure in pottery made over 2,200 years ago. The incredible army comes to life in photographs, diagrams and lucid text. Who commissioned this massive military tableau? What was its purpose? How many people worked on it and for how long? The answers are all here in this book—the amazing story behind. More
Munchen [Munich]: J. F. Lehmanns, 1958. 2. start uberarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage [English Translation: 2nd revised and expanded edition]. Hardcover. 239, [1] pages. With 76 illustrations. Text is in German. DJ has some wear and tear. Slightly cocked. It has sections on Infantry Weapons, Artillery, Panzers, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Special Weapons, and information on important research areas in Germany. This work contains information and drawings of the V-1 and V-2 weapons and is famous for a short discussion of Flying Saucer research. Mr. Lusar served was a major in the German Army during World War II. His engineering career took him to many foreign countries, including the Soviet Union. Since 1945 he has devoted himself to the study and analysis of German naval history and kindred subjects. Wunderwaffe is German for "wonder-weapon" and was a term assigned during World War II by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry to some revolutionary "superweapons". Most of these weapons however remained prototypes, which either never reached the combat theater, or if they did, were too late or in too insignificant numbers to have a military effect. The advanced weapons under development generally required lengthy periods of design work and testing, and there was no realistic prospect of the German military being able to field them before the end of the war. When some advanced designs, such as the Panther tank and Type XXI submarine, were rushed into production, their performance proved disappointing to the German military and leadership due to inadequate pre-production testing or poorly planned construction processes. However, a few weapons proved to be successful and have had a large influence in post-war designs. More
Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1947. First Edition. 278, boards and fore-edge foxed, some soiling to boards, ink name inside front flyleaf, foxing inside boards. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Revised Edition. Fourth Printing. Pocket paperbk, 311, wraps, small chips missing to cover edges & to front flyleaf, corners turned on several pages, covers creased and worn. More
New York: Bantam, 1978. First Bantam Edition, presumed first printing thus. Mass market paperback. vii, [3], 370, [4] pages. Drawings. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Slightly cocked. The Classic Account of Infantry Combat in World War II (Specially Illustrated Edition). Includes Preface, Book One: Company 1: Meet Company 1; Into the Lines; Eleven Men in a Pillbox; Shooting War; One Round at a Time; "It's Too Damned Serious"; Nine Long Days; Rain and Showers; Quiet Area; Digging In; We Run Like Hell; "Nice Work, Mac''; We almost Have a Baby; Attack!; Purple Heart. Book Two: Company G, Meet Company G; "IT has Been Hard for Us''; Rear-Echelon Bastards; Across the Weser; "Thank Adolf!"; "Across the Weser; "Thank Adolf!'; G Company Leading; "Schkopau by Morning''; Seventy-Five Cents per Day; Whitman Shells Himself; "Want to Capture Leipzig?"; I do not Capture Liepzig; Two Thousand Cases of Champagne; Czechoslovakia--and Peace. Also includes Epilogue. This story of a young infantry captain leading men in battle in World War II is one of the most brutally honest accounts of combat ever written. Charles MacDonald was twenty-one years old when he was given command of Company I, 23rd Infantry. His men had fought their way ashore at Normandy on D plus one, had battled their way through St. Lo, and stormed the ring of pillboxes at Brest. MacDonald had never been in battle. Dirty, tired, frightened, constantly under fire, MacDonald knew that he was responsible for other men's lives--and that any mistake by him could mean their death. More
Philadelphia, PA: Running Press Book Publishers, 1997. Reprint. Second printing. Trade paperback. 128 p. Illustrations. Fold-out map at front. More
San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1979. Third Edition [Fully Revised]. Trade paperback. 157, [3] pages. Illustrations. Tables. This was first published as Weapons Technology 1975 with a second edition under that title in 1978. Includes Introduction, as well as sections on Naval Weapons, Army Weapons, Air Force Weapons, and General (including information on the US/USSR Strategic Nuclear Position, Electronic Warfare, Military Communications, and Future Trends. This book concentrates on modern, current systems. The aim is to give the reader sufficient information to enable understanding of the subject, but with the minimum of highly technical jargon. However, performance details are included whenever appropriate, and lists of both NATO and Soviet missiles in use will be found in their appropriate sections. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1961. Third Printing. 280, illus., maps, appendices, chronology, index, small stains ins boards & flyleaves, DJ quite worn: tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1958. First? Printing. 280, illus., maps, appendices, chronology, index, name stamped inside front flyleaf, edges stained, some wear to boards. More