A Cold Corner of Hell: The Story of the Murmansk Convoys, 1941-45
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 268, illus., bibliography, boards damaged and worn, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 268, illus., bibliography, boards damaged and worn, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Washington DC: Combat Forces Book Service, c1960. Presumed First printing thus. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Sheet is approximately 9.5 inches by 6.75 inches, with a center fold, resulting in four panels. This has also been folded in half again, presumably to fit into a shirt pocket. Paper has some wear and soiling. Most of the fourth panel is an order form which could be cut out and sent back. There is also an offer of Book Dividend Coupons worth 15% of the cash remitted that would be used on future purchases up to the stamped expiration date. Among the types of books offered are: Notebooks, Guides, and Training Aids; Russia and World Communism; Atomic Weapons & Guided Missiles; Intelligence and Investigation; Fiction; Biography; Leadership & Psychology; The Staff and Logistics; America's War (11 subtopics listed); Korea; General Military History; Strategy & Principles of War; General History; Military Justice; The Army & Its Institutions; Military Weapons; Sporting Weapons; Hunting & Sports; Dictionaries, Atlases, Etc.; Practical Science; Guns, Stationery, Etc.; and Unit Histories. Some titles appear in more than one category. Date estimated by the inclusion of some of the titles in the list of available books. More
Arlington, VA: Aerospace Education Foundat. 1991. 62, wraps, illus., bibliography, Air Force Association press release laid in. More
London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1945. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 108 p. Includes maps. More
Omaha, NE: Ranger Publications, 1986. First Printing [Stated]. Pamphlet. [2], 24, [2] pages. Maps. Cover has some sunning and soiling. James Martin Davis is now a noted defense attorney practicing in Omaha, NE. He served in Vietnam (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) and was a Secret Service agent. This addresses Operation Downfall and Operation Coronet (a planned second invasion of Japan scheduled for March 1, 1946). These plan were never implemented due to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Empire after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More
Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1969. Second Edition, Revised. Trade paperback. xvi, 302 p. : 24 cm. Occasional Footnotes. Illustrations, Maps. Notes. Index. More
Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College Press, 2014. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. xi, [1], 56, [4] p. Illustrations. Endnotes. More
Forest Grove, OR: Normount Technical Publications, 1971. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. v, [1], 110, [4] pages. Reference Map and other Maps. This was originally published as MS T-21 'German Military Improvisations' and subsequently revised as 'German Military Improvisations During The Russian Campaign' (DA Pam 20-201). Includes chapters on Tactical Improvisations; The Defensive; Troop Movements; Combat Arms; Improvisations in the Fields of Supply and Transportation; Technical Improvisations; Organizational Improvisations; and Conclusions. This pamphlet was prepared for the Historical Division, European Command, by a group of former German generals and general staff officers. The reader is reminded that all publications in the GERMAN REPORT were written by Germans from the German point of view and that the procedures of the German Army differ considerably from those of the United States Army. Authorized German tables of organization and equipment, official German combat doctrine, or standard German staff methods form the basis for improvisations throughout this pamphlet. As prepared by the authors, this study consisted of a collection of 157 examples of improvisations which wee screened by the authors for pertinence, clarity, and interest to the American reader. Moreover, an attempt was made to establish common denominators for the great variety of examples. Although the manuscript was completely reorganized during this editorial process, every effort was made to retain the point of view, the expressions, and even the prejudices of the authors. More
Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Assoc. 1945]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 x 21 cm, 168, wraps, illus. (some in color), some pgs slightly creased & sl discolored, covers worn, soiled, & creased. Inscribed by author. More
Washington, DC: Council on American Affairs, 1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 67, wraps, map, footnotes, bibliography, corners of rear cover and several back pages creased, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington DC: Department of the Army, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. ix, [1], 164, [2] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Charts. Glossary. Index. In the 1960s and 1970s, General Dunn oversaw some of the biggest military construction projects, including the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, several nuclear missile installations and improvements to the Arkansas River. He also was in charge of all military construction during a period of major buildup in Vietnam in the mid-1960s. He was director of the Titan II missile system construction. At the Defense Nuclear Agency, he oversaw nuclear weapons testing and management of the nuclear stockpile. He was chairman of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. Base Development in South Vietnam describes the tasks, accomplishments, and problems of Army engineers in the construction of ports, airfields, storage areas, ammunition dumps, housing, bridges, roads, and other conventional facilities in Vietnam from 1965 to 1970. More
Washington DC: United States Department of the Army, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. ix,[1], 164, [2] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Charts. Glossary. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The United States Army has met an unusually complex challenge in Southeast Asia. In conjunction with the other services, the Army has fought in support of a national policy of assisting an emerging nation to develop governmental processes of its own choosing, free of outside coercion. In addition to the usual problems of waging armed conflict, the assignment in Southeast Asia has required superimposing the immensely sophisticated tasks of a modern army upon an underdeveloped environment and adapting them to demands covering a wide spectrum. These involved helping to fulfill the basic needs of an agrarian population, dealing with the frustrations of antiguerrilla operations, and conducting conventional campaigns against well-trained and determined regular units. While cognizant that history never repeats itself exactly and that no army ever profited from trying to meet a new challenge in terms of the old one, the Army nevertheless stands to benefit immensely from a study of its experience, its shortcomings no less than its achievements. At the request of the Chief of Staff, a group of senior officers who served in important posts in Vietnam and who still carry a heavy burden of day-to-day responsibilities has prepared a series of monographs. All monographs in the series are based primarily on official records, with additional material from published and unpublished secondary works, from debriefing reports and interviews with key participants, and from the personal experience of the author. More
New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1991. First Printing. Pocket paperbk, 202, wraps, maps, diagrams, bibliography, index. More
McLean, VA: Hero Books, 1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 165, wraps, illus. More
McLean, Va: Hero Books, 1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 165, wraps, illus., some wear to covers, some page corners turned/dinged. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 26 cm, 432 pages. Illus., large color map laid in pocket at rear, tables, chart, chronology, appendix, bibliographical note, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1974. Reprint Edition. 26 cm, 432, illus., large color map laid in at rear (but no rear pocket), tables, chronology, index. More
Washington DC: Department of the Navy, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps, 1989. First Edition thus [stated]. Trade paperback. xviii, 347, [1] pages. Bibliography. Index. Cover states FMFRP 12-14. Originally published in 1959. Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication (FMFRP) 12-14 was published to ensure the retention and dissemination of useful information which is not intended to become doctrine or to be published in Fleet Marine Force manuals. FMFRPs in the 12 Series are a special category of publications: reprints of historical works which were published commercially and are no longer in print. This reference publication was originally written by a leader with a tremendous amount of experience in the field of logistics. It was written to provide a concise document for logistical theory and practice and to eliminate existing deficiencies in this area in the post World War II era. Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of military forces. More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1943. Fourth Printing. 248, illus., diagrams, glossary, front flyleaf removed, pencil erasure on title page. More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1942. First Printing. 248, illus., diagrams, glossary, top section of front flyleaf cut off, text somewhat darkened, some wear to bds & spine. More
London: Collins, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Endpaper maps. 319, [1] pages. Illustrations (all listed are present). Cover has some wear and soiling. Corners somewhat bumped. Some spine fading. Commander Kenneth Edwards was a distinguished naval historian. As a young man he was awarded the DSC in April 1917 for ‘Performing good service at the landing and at the evacuation of Helles. Set a fine example to his men whilst assisting at salvage operations on Monitor M.30 under fire from enemy's guns.’ He wrote numerous books of which his best-selling book was based on life in a Royal Navy submarine, We Dive at Dawn. From an oil-pipeline laid across the English Channel sea-bed to the huge concrete Mulberry Harbors towed across to France, Operation Neptune was a logistical exercise without precedence. Following the Normandy landings of June 1944, huge amounts of matériel needed to be transported to the fighting armies. Neptune was a complex undertaking of unheard of complexity. Its importance is usually overlooked. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 16 pages. Illustrations. References. Cover has some wear and soiling. Beverly Follis worked in the History Office of the Air Force Systems Command from 1982 through 1992 as an Individual Mobilization Augmentee. Her work involved various projects involving research and writing. Some projects were very extensive requiring months of research and writing. Research was accomplished through interviews, reading current material such as newspapers and periodicals, scanning files of data and library research. She became a full time Command Historian about a year before the Command closed at Andrews AFB, Washington, D.C., to merge into the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Her duties were to supervise the completion of the final annual history of Air Force Systems Command; to supervise the transfer of 6 tons of the archives (to include classified documents) from Washington, D.C. to Dayton, OH. More
Boston, MA: Harvard School of Business, 1979. Sixth Printing. 484, figures, tables, chapter notes, index, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, highlighting on one text page. More
Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House, 1993. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 297 p. Map. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Service Record. Reference. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Combat Studies Institute, 1997. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. vii, [1], 25, [3] p. Maps. Figues. Tables. Illustrations. Bibliography. More