The Warmongers
New York: Books in Focus, Inc., 1981. Third Printing. 24 cm, 291, illus., footnotes, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Books in Focus, Inc., 1981. Third Printing. 24 cm, 291, illus., footnotes, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1986. Reprint. Third printing. Mass-market paperback. xiii, 336 oages, More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 326, frontis illus., usual lib markings, part DJ pasted fr endpaper, bds somewhat worn, soiled, & spine lettering faded, edges soiled. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1980. First Printing. 60, wraps, bibliography, slight soiling to covers. More
Washington DC: The Catholic University of America, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. x, 306. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Ink initials on front cover. pencil note on page x. Name of Harold D. Langley on title page. Harold David Langley (15 February 1925 – 29 July 2020) was an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969 to 1996. As a naval historian, he was a pioneer in exploring American naval social and medical history. Langley began his professional career at the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, in Washington, D.C., where he served as a manuscripts assistant in 1951-52, while a graduate student. Moving to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was a graduate student, he served as a manuscripts specialist, rare book collection, 1952-54. Returning to the Library of Congress in Washington, he was a manuscripts specialist, there in 1954-55. In 1955, Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania, appointed him assistant professor of history. He remained there until 1957, when he received an appointment as a diplomatic historian in the U.S. Department of State. In 1964, Catholic University of America appointed him associate professor, and in 1968 promoted him to full professor in 1968. In 1969, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., appointed him associate curator of naval history. While holding that position, he was an adjunct professor of American history at the Catholic University of America from 1971 to 2001. He received the 1995 John Lyman Book Awards in the category of Science and Technology for History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy. More
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1950. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [2], x, 335, [5] pages. Occasional footnotes. Index. DJ worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Book is slightly cocked. Some page discoloration and soiling. 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. He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. Arguing that frontal assault was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as proven in the First World War, he recommended the “indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armored formations. His pre-war publications are known to have influenced German World War II strategy. He worked as the military correspondent of The Times from 1935 to 1939. In the mid-to-late 1920s Liddell Hart wrote a series of histories of major military figures through which he advanced his ideas that the frontal assault was a strategy bound to fail at great cost in lives. He argued that the losses Britain suffered in the Great War were caused by its commanding officers not appreciating that fact of history. He believed the British decision in 1914 of intervening on the Continent with a great army was a mistake. He claimed that historically, "the British way in warfare" was to leave Continental land battles to her allies, intervening only through naval power, with the army fighting the enemy away from its principal front in a "limited liability" commitment. In his early writings on mechanized warfare, Liddell Hart had proposed that infantry be carried along with the fast-moving armored formations. More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1950. First Printing. 390, index, slight discolor ins bds, sm rough spots ins bds, bds & spine scuffed & worn, tears at spine, sm rough spot on spine. More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Format is 5 inches by 7.5 inches. viii, [2], 390 pages. 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 the First World War. He instead recommended the "indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armored formations. In his writings on mechanized warfare, Liddell Hart had proposed that infantry be carried along with the fast-moving armored formations. He described them as "tank marines" like the soldiers the Royal Navy carried with their ships. He proposed they be carried along in their own tracked vehicles and dismount to help take better-defended positions that otherwise would hold up the armored units. That contrasted with J.F.C. Fuller's ideas which put heavy emphasis on massed armored formations. Liddell Hart foresaw the need for a combined arms force with mobile infantry and artillery, which was similar but not identical to the make-up of the panzer divisions that Heinz Guderian developed in Germany. In 1954, Liddell Hart published his most influential work, Strategy. The book was largely devoted to a historical study of the indirect approach and in what ways various battles and campaigns could be analyzed using that concept. Still relevant, it was a factor in the development of the British maneuver warfare doctrine. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1968. Second Printing. 332, wraps, appendices, sources, scratch on fore-edge, some soiling and scuffing to covers and some edge wear. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. Limited numbered edition of 350, preceding First Trade Edition. Hardcover. viii, [2], 407, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Index. Stain on rear board, inscription on flyleaf, signed by author, no. 175 of limited edition of 350 copies. Peyton Conway March (December 27, 1864 – April 13, 1955) was a United States Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1918 until 1921. He is largely responsible for designing the powerful role of the Chief of Staff in the 20th century. March was assigned as the aide to Major General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. during the Philippine–American War. He participated as part of General Wheaton's expedition in battles at San Fabian, Buntayan Bridge and San Jacinto. He commanded the U.S. forces in the Battle of Tirad Pass, 2 December 1899, where General Gregorio del Pilar was killed, and received the surrender of General Venacio Concepción, Chief of Staff to Philippine President Aguinaldo, 5 December 1899. In March 1918, he became acting Army Chief of Staff and was made Army Chief of Staff on May 20, 1918. As Chief of Staff he reorganized the Army structure, and abolished the distinctions between the Regular Army, the Army Reserves, and the Army National Guard during wartime. He created new technical branches in the service including the United States Army Air Corps, Chemical Warfare Service, Transportation Corps, and Tank Corps. He also centralized control over supply. He supervised the demobilization of the Army. March was a highly efficient and capable administrator who did much to modernize the American Army and prepare it for combat in the First World War. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1932. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, [2], 407, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Index. DJ worn & repaired with tape, review pasted inside fr flylf, some foxing to text, bookplate inside front board. Some wear noted. Peyton Conway March (December 27, 1864 – April 13, 1955) was a United States Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1918 until 1921. He is largely responsible for designing the powerful role of the Chief of Staff in the 20th century. March was assigned as the aide to Major General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. during the Philippine–American War. He participated as part of General Wheaton's expedition in battles at San Fabian, Buntayan Bridge and San Jacinto. He commanded the U.S. forces in the Battle of Tirad Pass, 2 December 1899, where General Gregorio del Pilar was killed, and received the surrender of General Venacio Concepción, Chief of Staff to Philippine President Aguinaldo, 5 December 1899. In March 1918, he became acting Army Chief of Staff and was made Army Chief of Staff on May 20, 1918. As Chief of Staff he reorganized the Army structure, and abolished the distinctions between the Regular Army, the Army Reserves, and the Army National Guard during wartime. He created new technical branches in the service including the United States Army Air Corps, Chemical Warfare Service, Transportation Corps, and Tank Corps. He centralized control over supply. He supervised the demobilization of the Army. March was a highly efficient, capable administrator who did much to modernize the American Army and prepare it for combat in the First World War. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus [There was a signed, limited edition of 350 copies]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 407, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Index. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Soiling to boards and spine. Small tears to top and bottom spine edges. Peyton Conway March (December 27, 1864 – April 13, 1955) was a United States Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1918 until 1921. He is largely responsible for designing the powerful role of the Chief of Staff in the 20th century. March was assigned as the aide to Major General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. during the Philippine–American War. He participated as part of General Wheaton's expedition in battles at San Fabian, Buntayan Bridge and San Jacinto. He commanded the U.S. forces in the Battle of Tirad Pass, 2 December 1899, where General Gregorio del Pilar was killed, and received the surrender of General Venacio Concepción, Chief of Staff to Philippine President Aguinaldo, 5 December 1899. In March 1918, he became acting Army Chief of Staff and was made Army Chief of Staff on May 20, 1918. As Chief of Staff he reorganized the Army structure, and abolished the distinctions between the Regular Army, the Army Reserves, and the Army National Guard during wartime. He created new technical branches in the service including the United States Army Air Corps, Chemical Warfare Service, Transportation Corps, and Tank Corps. He also centralized control over supply. He supervised the demobilization of the Army. March was a highly efficient and capable administrator who did much to modernize the American Army and prepare it for combat in the First World War. More
Washington DC: Friends Meeting of Washington, For the Peace Committee, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps, Staplebound. [2], 18 pages plus covers. Illustrated front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. This pamphlet was sponsored by Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace. This pamphlet offers brief selections illustrating the peace testimony of the Religious Society of Friends, from the 17th century onwards. Many of the selections are excerpts from statements on peace made by Quakers at various critical times. Others are arguments used to justify religious pacifism. Also included is a slight sampling of actions by Friends witnessing for peace. This was issued during a critical period in the Vietnam War. This pamphlet may help Friends who wish to review their own attitudes, in a world under threat of nuclear war. These selections may also speak to non-Friends who seek a firm unchanging ground for their commitment to peace. The pamphlet also includes materials for Further Reading. More
Harmondsworth, U.K. Penguin Books, 1967. pocket paperbk, 363, wraps, bibliography, index, covers worn, sticker residue on cover The important social changes which took place in Britain while the war was being waged: the rise of the working class, of women, of youth, and new attitudes to sex, religion, arts, and fashion. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. xviii, 694, xxxii, [2] p. Tables. Figures. Maps (including endpapers). Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. More
Austin Jenkins Co., 1919. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 6.25 inches by 8.25 inches. 712, [30] pages. Decorative front cover. Illustrations. Condensed Chronology of the War. No dust jacket present. Previous owner's [Rev. Wm. Schiebel] in several places. A small piece at the bottom of page 425/426 missing with minor loss of text on page 425 Frontispiece of the author. Cover states the title as Kelly Miller's Authentic History of the Negro in the World War. It is fair to the Negro. Kelly Miller (July 18, 1863 – December 29, 1939) was an American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century. He was known as "the Bard of the Potomac". Appointed professor of mathematics at Howard in 1890, Miller introduced sociology into the curriculum in 1895, serving as professor of sociology from 1895 to 1934. Miller graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1903. In 1907, Miller was appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His deanship lasted twelve years, and in that time, the college changed significantly. The old classical curriculum was modernized and new courses in the natural sciences and the social sciences were added. Miller was an avid supporter of Howard University and actively recruited students to the school. In 1914, he planned a Negro-American Museum and Library. He persuaded Jesse E. Moorland to donate his large private library on blacks in Africa and the United States to Howard University and it became the foundation for his Negro-Americana Museum and Library center. More
n.p. n.p., 1919. 608, illus., chronology, flylf & title pg missing, text separated from bds, pencil notes ins fr bd, bds scuffed & worn, foxing. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [5], 367, [3] pages. Footnotes. Index. Some cover wear and page soiling noted. The first thirteen chapters of this volume were presented for a Doctor's dissertation at the University of Chicago. Albert Burton Moore (1887-1967) in his 45-year teaching career was the embodiment of a Southern scholar-gentleman. Born and raised in Alabama, he was a descendant of Confederate veterans, and he wrote and taught at a time when many of them were yet alive. His teaching career, except for four years in Iowa, was entirely in the South. In his old age Moore served as executive director of the Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission and director of the Confederate States Centennial Conference as well as the Jefferson Davis Foundation. He served two terms as president of the NCAA. Moore's book is still valued by historians for both parts of its title. The 1996 introduction to the University of South Carolina edition rightly praises the book as still the fundamental introduction to Confederate conscription, as well as a groundbreaking exploration of internal divisions in the CSA, a topic which had been given short shrift by the Lost Cause version of the Civil War which prevailed in America at that time. More
New York: Basic Books, c1996. First Edition. 24 cm, 198. More
Place_Pub: New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Printing. 286, wraps, notes, select bibliography, index, usual library markings, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 298, [4] pages. Author's Notes. Introduction, Sixteen Chapters. Postscript. Notes. About the Author. Index. Andrew Peter Napolitano (born June 6, 1950) is an American syndicated columnist. He was an analyst for Fox News. He has written nine books on legal and political subjects. Napolitano subscribes to a natural law jurisprudence. Napolitano's philosophy generally leans towards strong originalism while not accepting the limitations of the type of originalism espoused by Justice Antonin Scalia with respect to the Constitution's open-ended provisions like the Ninth Amendment. He finds such limitations too restricting on a judge's ability to apply the natural law to decide cases where the liberty of the individual is at stake. He argues that Lochner v. New York was overruled in error, as the Contracts Clause and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process clauses protect a sphere of personal economic liberty. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, c. 1975. 450, wraps, figures, tables, endnotes, index, title page missing, library stamps and barcode, rough spot front cover covers somewhat soiled and some edge wear. Contains chapters on individual military manpower, obligated service (selective service, draft registration, conscription, compulsory national service), and alternative approaches (reserve volunteer force, medical manpower, ready reserve). There are six index references to the Spanish-American War as a dramatic illustration of the glaring deficiencies in U.S. military preparedness. More
New York: Pageant Press, [1953]. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 131, ink name on front endpaper and inside front board, DJ quite soiled and somewhat worn. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Book Club Edition. 24 cm, 278, references, index. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Second Printing. 25 cm, 214, illus., notes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, sticker residue on front DJ. More