The Marine Book: A Portrait of America's Military Elite
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1988. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 189, illus. (some in color), bibliography. More
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1988. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 189, illus. (some in color), bibliography. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: United States Army, Command and General Staff College, 1960. Wraps. 112, wraps, illus., maps, More
Washington, DC: The Leatherneck Association, 1965. 88, wraps, illus., mailing label on front cover, covers creased Contains articles on mountain warfare training; Exercise Silver Lance; a new rifle course at Camp Lejeune, NC; and Camp Butler in Kawasaki, Okinawa, among other topics. More
Place_Pub: Hong Kong: Heinemann Educational Books, 1977. First Edition. 226, wraps, illus., footnotes, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index, covers somewhat foxed, soiled, and worn. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1987. First Printing. 23 cm, 101, wraps, illus., bibliography, covers creased, covers somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper and half-title. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Second Printing. 171, illus., small stains on a few pages, boards scuffed and edges worn, small tears at spine. More
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xii, 315, [11] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix A "Arguing with Success". Appendix B "The Course of Postwar Army Doctrine". Index. DJ worn, tears and chips to DJ edges, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Robert R. Leonhard, Ph.D. is a game designer, retired army officer, author, researcher, chess player, and Bible teacher. He designed the game Hero of Weehawken and wrote the books The Art of Maneuver, Fighting by Minutes, and The Principles of War for the Information Age. He has been working at a research lab as a national security analyst at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He is a retired Army lieutenant colonel after 24 years in the U.S. Army mostly in the mechanized infantry. He obtained his Ph.D. in 19th-century U.S. history from West Virginia University. More
New York: Dutton, 1940. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 205, bibliography, index, boards worn and soiled. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. 317, illus., bibliography, minor wear and soiling to DJ, date stamped on top edge. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 317 pages. Illus., bibliography, slight creasing to DJ edges, small crease in front DJ flap. Signed by the author. More
Chicago: R. S. Peale & Company, 1887. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 706 pages. Color frontis illustration. Illustrations (all present). Appendices. Index. Decorative front cover and spine. Cover has some edge wear, rubbing, and corner bumping. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. Some rear board weakness noted--heavy book. Edges gilded. John Alexander Logan (February 9, 1826 – December 26, 1886) was an American soldier and politician. He served in the Mexican–American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a state Representative, a Congressman, and a U.S. Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States with James G. Blaine in 1884. As the 3rd Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, he is regarded as the most important figure in the movement to recognize Memorial Day as an official holiday. His likeness appears on a statue at the center of Logan Circle, Washington, D.C. Logan is one of only three people mentioned by name in the Illinois state song. Upon his death, he lay in state in the United States Capitol rotunda. U.S. Representative Logan fought at Bull Run as an unattached volunteer in a Michigan regiment, and then returned to Washington where, before he resigned his congressional seat on April 2, 1862, he entered the Union Army as Colonel of the 31st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which he organized. Before resigning his seat, Colonel Logan served in the army of Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater and was present at the Battle of Belmont on November 7, 1861 and at Fort Donelson, where he was wounded. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1977. Reprint Edition. 23 cm, 279, wraps, bibliographical references, underlining & some ink marks noted, ink name, slight weakness fr cover strengthened w/ glue. More
Da Capo Press, 2006. Advance Reading Copy - Not For Sale. Uncorrected page proofs. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 329, [17] pages. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. [Index is not present]. Date stamped on the bottom edge. Edward G. Longacre is an award-winning author of twenty books and more than 100 articles on the Civil War. His "Cavalry at Gettysburg" won the Fletcher Pratt Award. More
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2006. First Da Capo Press Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 338 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Gift inscription, not from author, on fep. Edward Longacre (born December 22, 1946) is an American historian and writer. He specializes in American Civil War historiography. He is famous for his numerous biographies of Civil War generals. He has received multiple awards including the Moncado Prize in 1981, the Fletcher Pratt Award in 1986, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award in 2004, and the Dr. James I. Robertson Jr. Literary Prize for in 2015. In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G. Longacre, examines Grant's early life and his military career for insights into his great battlefield successes as well as his personal misfortunes. Longacre concentrates on Grant's boyhood and early married life; his moral, ethical, and religious views; his troubled military career; his strained relationships with wartime superiors; and, especially, his weakness for alcohol, which exerted a major influence on both his military and civilian careers. Longacre, to a degree that no other historian has done before, investigates Grant's alcoholism in light of his devout religious affiliations, and the role these sometimes conflicting forces had on his military career and conduct. Longacre's conclusions present a new and surprising perspective on the ever-fascinating life of General Grant. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1959. 23 cm, 283, illus., footnotes, note on methods and sources, statistical appendix, ink name on flyleaf. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. First Printing. 21 cm, 159, wraps, illus., plans, bookplate, some wear and soiling to covers. Introduction by Anthony Farrar-Hockley. More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 192 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Appendices. Listing of SAS Operations of World War II, Falklands Casualties, SAS Specializations, and Bibliography. Inscription to Gotabaya Rajapaksa is signed by Lionel Balasuriya, near an address label pasted on fep. From 22 March 1991 - 21 August 2007 Lionel Balasuriya worked as a Director in Kenworth Corporation (U.K.) Limited. Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, RWP, RSP, psc, GR (born 20 June 1949) is a retired officer of the Sri Lanka Army, a former Secretary to Ministry of Defence and Urban Development of Sri Lanka. After serving through the early parts of the country's civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels, he retired from the army in 1992 and emigrated to the US. With the election of his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was appointed Defence Secretary in November 2005. Rajapaksa played a key role towards the successes achieved by the Sri Lankan Military in defeating the Tamil Tigers and ending Sri Lanka's 26-year-long civil war. Investigations on assassinations, abductions and assaults on journalist revealed that Gotabhaya directed a death squad to attack journalists that was outside the Army command structure during this time 17 journalists and media workers were killed and others were either assaulted or abducted. DJ has some wear and edge tears. More
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1960. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [8], 69, [3] pages. Footnotes. Tabular information. Cover has some wear, fading and soiling. This is one of the University of Florida Monographs in their Social Science series, No. 6, Spring, 1960. This has become quite a rare item. John K. Mahon received his BA from Swarthmore College in 1934 graduating Phi Beta Kappa. After serving in World War II and working for his family he later returned to his studies and earned his Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 1950. From 1951 to 1954, he served as Civilian Military Historian in the Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington D.C. In 1954 Mahon accepted a teaching position in the history department at the University of Florida. His interest in Military history and the Seminoles led to his three books, as well as numerous articles for encyclopedias and historical journals. His work "History of the Second Seminole War" is considered by some as the authoritative modern reference on the little-known but regional and nationally important last great war of Indian Removal east of the Mississippi. Mahon documents the American, Seminole and Black cultures, leaders, and tactics of the war. He served as the chairman of the History Department at the University of Florida from 1965 to 1973. After retiring in 1982, Mahon continued to pursue his interest in history. He held leadership positions in the Florida Historical Society, and the Seminole Wars Historic Foundation. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, 1989. 87, wraps, illus., index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. Includes a four page-addendum dated 4 May 1989. More
Columbus, OH: The Edward T. Miller Company, 1913. Third Edition. 195, illus., diagrams, 4 folding maps (in pocket), boards somewhat worn/soiled, slightly cocked, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, 1950. Third Printing. 215, index, pencil underlining & notes on several pgs, discoloration ins bds, flylves, & pp. 158-159, ink name & sm rough spot tit pg. More
Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1978. Reprint Edition. 215, index, light pencil underlining on several pgs, raised stamp on title page, small sticker residue on rear board. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. First Printing. 21 cm, 157, wraps, illus., facsims., maps, bookplate. Introduction by Charles Newman. More
Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing, 1895. 303, text has darkened, front board quite weak, front endpaper torn, weakness to rear board, library call number. More
New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. First Printing. 325, illus., appendix, reading list. Foreword by Lt. Gen. James Edmundson. More