Battle Stations: True Stories of Men in War
New York: Knopf, 1953. First Edition. Sixth Printing. 22 cm, 306, black mark inside front board, stamp inside rear board, edges soiled, decorative boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Knopf, 1953. First Edition. Sixth Printing. 22 cm, 306, black mark inside front board, stamp inside rear board, edges soiled, decorative boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1945. 21 cm, 228, boards quite worn, some page discoloration, stamp on title page. More
Washington, DC: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1992. Trade paperback. 52 p. Illustrations. Maps. Sources. More
Washington, DC: Combat Forces Press, 1952. First Edition. 496 pages, illus., color endpaper maps, appendices, index, spine soiled, pages have darkened with age. More
Washington, DC: Combat Forces Press, 1952. First Edition. 496, illus., maps, color endpaper maps, glossary, appendices, index, spine soiled, name written inside flyleaf, pages have darkened. More
Washington, DC: Combat Forces Press, 1952. First Edition. 496, illus., color endpaper maps, appendices, index, spine soiled, pgs darkened, ink name ins fr bd, bds weak, inscribed by author. More
Washington, DC: Combat Forces Press, 1952. First Edition. 496, illus., color endpaper maps, appendices, index, spine soiled, pages have darkened with age. More
Washington, DC: Combat Forces Press, 1952. First Edition. 496, illus., color endpaper maps, appendices, index, usual library markings, boards and spine somewhat soiled, pages darkened. More
San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1980. Second Edition. 496, illus., appendices, index, ISBN sticker inside front board. More
New York: The Free Press, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 589, [3] pages, Endpaper maps. Acknowledgments. Introduction Prelude. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Bibliographic Note. Index. This is one of the Macmillian Wars of the United States series. DJ has some wear and small tears to dust jacket. DJ is price clipped. Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He has been a Professor at the George Washington University. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the reserves. He was a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military history and taught at the University of Alabama. He was tasked to prepare a study of the Grenada operation. He has taught at the National War College and the U.S. Army War College. More
Place_Pub: New York: Random House, 1962. Third Printing. 499, illus., maps, chronology, appendices, bibliographical notes, index, ink notations inside front flyleaf, DJ quite worn & torn. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7 inches by 9.5 inches. 272 pages. Frontis Illustration. Notes on Unites of Measurement (and a Few Other Things). Illustrations. Appendix - Gun Calibres. Sources. Index. Robert C. Stern has published more than twenty books on military and naval subjects. His previous books were Destroyer Battles published in 2008, Fire from the Sky in 2010 and The US Navy and the War in Europe (2012). Mr. Stern, a retired software engineer and longtime naval history writer, is the author of nine books copublished by the Naval Institute Press. More
Gilsum, NH: Odysseus Books, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 392, [1] p. More
New York: F. Fell, Inc., 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 319, frontis illus., stamp on endpapers, pocket removed at rear, tape marks to DJ & bds, DJ worn, soiled, & small tears/chips. More
London, England: Osprey Aviation, 1997. Military Book Club Edition. Third printing. Hardcover. 96 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Appendices. This is one of the Aircraft of the Aces series. Poster (titled Aircraft of the Aces, Corsair Aces of World War 2) laid in. Poster measures 18 inches by 13 inches, and has been folded in quarters. Name of previous owner has been written in ink inside the front cover; his initials have been stamped inside the front free end paper. Mark Styling is better known to readers of the Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series as the profile artist for such titles as Hellcat Aces of World War 2, Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937–45 and P–61 Units of World War 2. He is a full-time commercial artist. More
New York: Scholastic Inc., 1991. Second Printing. 96, wraps, illus., chronology, further reading, index, covers and several pages creased at corners. More
New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1966. Later printing. Hardcover. Format is 8.75 inches by 11 inches. 640 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps (some color fold-out). Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (1912 – 1993) was a U.S. journalist, author, and a member of the family that owns the New York Times. During the 1950s/60s, he was that newspaper's lead foreign correspondent. Cy, as he was commonly called, joined the family paper in 1939 and was soon covering stories overseas as Europe edged toward World War II. Among the reporters who worked for him during the war were Drew Middleton and James Reston. He wrote two dozen books in his lifetime. Because of the circles he traveled in, he sometimes carried messages from one foreign leader to another; for U.S. President John F. Kennedy he conveyed a note to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. It is said that he was closest to President Charles de Gaulle. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 415 p. Occasional Footnotes. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 414, [3] p. Illustrations. Notes. bibliography. Index. More
Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, [1943]. 24 cm, 308, illus., some soiling, staining, and wear to boards. More
Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, [1943]. First Edition. 24 cm, 308, illus., endpaper maps, boards worn, soiled, and stained, discoloration inside hinges, address sticker ins front flyleaf. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976. Reprint. Third printing. Hardcover. x, 232 p. Endpaper map. Dauntless specifications. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. vii, 304 pages. Maps. Illustrations. I. More
New York: Random House, 1943. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 263, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Richard William Tregaskis (November 28, 1916 – August 15, 1973) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (1943), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September 1942) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. This was actually a six-month-long campaign. Tregaskis served as a war correspondent during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Shortly after the U.S. entered World War II, Tregaskis volunteered as a combat correspondent representing the International News Service. (In fact, Tregaskis was one of only two journalists on location at Guadalcanal.) Assigned to cover the war in the Pacific, Tregaskis spent part of August and most of September, 1942 reporting on Marines on Guadalcanal, a pivotal campaign in the war against Japan. He subsequently covered the war in Europe against Germany and Italy. Tregaskis' most renowned book, Guadalcanal Diary, recorded his experiences with the Marines on Guadalcanal. As the jacket of the book's first edition noted, "This is a new chapter in the story of the United States Marines. Because it was written by a crack newspaperman, who knew how to do his job. . . . Until the author's departure in a B-17 bomber on September 26th, he ate, slept, and sweated with our front-line units. His story is the straight day-by-day account of what he himself saw or learned from eyewitnesses during those seven weeks." As a testimony to the power of Tregaskis' writing, Guadalcanal Diary is still considered essential reading by present-day U.S. military personnel. More
New York: Random House, 1943. Later printing. Hardcover. [10], 263, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Small tear at top of spine. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. Front flyleaf nearly torn off. Half-title page separated and taped back in. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Richard William Tregaskis (November 28, 1916 – August 15, 1973) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (1943), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September 1942) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. This was actually a six-month-long campaign. Tregaskis served as a war correspondent during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Shortly after the U.S. entered World War II, Tregaskis volunteered as a combat correspondent representing the International News Service. (In fact, Tregaskis was one of only two journalists on location at Guadalcanal.) Assigned to cover the war in the Pacific, Tregaskis spent part of August and most of September, 1942 reporting on Marines on Guadalcanal. He later covered the war in Europe against Germany and Italy. Tregaskis' most renowned book, Guadalcanal Diary, recorded his experiences with the Marines on Guadalcanal. As the book jacket noted, "This is a new chapter in the story of the United States Marines. Because it was written by a crack newspaperman, who knew how to do his job. . . . Until the author's departure in a B-17 bomber on September 26th, he ate, slept, and sweated with our front-line units. His story is the straight day-by-day account of what he himself saw or learned from eyewitnesses. More