U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Volume 102, Number 12, December 1976
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1976. Quarto, 112, wraps, illus., footnotes, some wear to cover edges, some soiling to covers, slight waviness to entire document. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1976. Quarto, 112, wraps, illus., footnotes, some wear to cover edges, some soiling to covers, slight waviness to entire document. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1979. Quarto, 128, wraps, illus., figures, footnotes, rough spot on rear cover, covers somewhat scuffed and stained, small tear at spine. More
Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1991. 23 cm, 152, wraps, illus., map, figures, notes, mailing label remnant on rear cover. More
Washington, DC: Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1970. 27 cm, 16, wraps, illus., pencil erasure on front cover. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 389, [1] pages followed by several fold-outs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Bookplate inside front board. Some minor damp stains to text (no pages stuck). Boards have some scuffs and stains. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theater of World War II. After publishing its report, the Survey members then turned their attention to the efforts against Imperial Japan during the Pacific War, including a separate section on the recent use of the atomic bombs. In total, the reports contained 208 volumes for Europe and another 108 for the Pacific, comprising thousands of pages. The reports called strategic bombing "decisive" More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Volume I, xv, [1], 1-286 pages. Volume II, 287-576 pages. 2 volumes. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Index. Boards scuffed, rough spots inside boards. Name in ink inside front board. Ex-Library with usual library markings, such as library stamp on fore-edges & page iii. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theater of World War II. After publishing its report, the Survey members then turned their attention to the efforts against Imperial Japan during the Pacific War, including a separate section on the recent use of the atomic bombs. In total, the reports contained 208 volumes for Europe and another 108 for the Pacific, comprising thousands of pages. The reports' called strategic bombing "decisive" More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Volume I, xv, [1], 1-286 pages. Volume II, 287-576 pages. 2 volumes. Illustrations (including fold-outs). Maps. Tables. Index. Cover has wear and lettering has fading. Corners bumped. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theater of World War II. After publishing its report, the Survey members then turned their attention to the efforts against Imperial Japan during the Pacific War, including a separate section on the recent use of the atomic bombs. In total, the reports contained 208 volumes for Europe and another 108 for the Pacific, comprising thousands of pages. The reports' called strategic bombing "decisive" More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. 599, illus., notes, index, usual library markings, slight soiling inside boards and flyleaves. More
Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2015. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 256 pages. Illustrated endpapers Illustrations (many in color). Appendix I: US Navy Ship Force Levels, 1939-1945. Appendix II Preserved World War II Ships. Bibliography and Suggested Reading. Index. DJ has wear, tears and soiling. Nicholas A. Veronico is public affairs officer for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and its SOFIA program (NASA's airborne observatory). Author Nicholas A. Veronico comes from a family of pilots, both his mother and father held private tickets, and his brother is a commercial pilot who flies for a major airline. Veronico got his start in aviation journalism as a freelance journalist in 1984, then joined Pacific Flyer Aviation Newspapers. He then went on to serve as editor of In Flight USA, contributed extensively to FlyPast magazine, and in 1994 joined Airliners: The World's Airline Magazine. On a freelance basis, he has contributed to Air Classics, EAA Warbirds, Warbirds Worldwide, Airliner World, Classic Wings, and many others. His career path lead to the high-tech industry where he worked for an embedded systems-on-a-chip magazine, Silicon Strategies. Subsequently, he served as editor of "Gridpoints, the quarterly publication of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division," which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. He now works as a science and technology journalist. Veronico has collaborated with a number of today's best historians and authors and has written more than 30 books on a wide range of aviation and military topics, and local history subjects. More
Washington, DC: Naval History Division, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 377, [3] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Ink notation on front endpaper. Foreword by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Homer Norman Wallin (December 6, 1893 – March 6, 1984) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1941, Captain Wallin became material officer for commander, Battle Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and was serving in that position when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was placed in charge of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Salvage Division. Through most of 1942, he directed the Pearl Harbor ship salvage effort, a huge task that enabled the navy to recover the use of three sunken battleships. Rear Admiral Wallin was supervisor of shipbuilding and inspector of ordnance at Seattle and commander of the naval station at Tacoma, Washington, beginning in October 1943. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1991. Reprint Edition. 551, illus., tables, fold-out charts, footnotes, bibliographical note, glossary, index, slight wear to boards. More
New York: Dutton, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [4], 706 pages. Some waviness to a few pages (from dampness?), boards somewhat worn and soiled, some edge soiling. Illustrations. Maps (Russian and Middle East Fronts, December 6, 1941; The Pacific Rim, December 6, 1941; and the Pacific Expanse). Sources and Strategies. Index. Cover has some wear and discoloration. Some edge soiling. Chapters include The Day Before: December 6, 1941; Long Day's Journey; The Day After; and Curtain Call: Doomsday. This work presents a global analysis of the twenty-four hours that thrust the United States into World War II, featuring interviews with survivors and a detailed countdown of events that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The author has identified in notes for each chapter only those oral, manuscript, and documentary materials unique to this narrative. A few exceptions to the rule are limited-access publications not likely to be found in most research libraries. There is also a vast literature on Pearl Harbor itself, as well as on the vast arena of the war beyond Hawaii. Stanley Weintraub (April 17, 1929 – July 28, 2019) was an American historian and biographer. He served with the Eighth Army in Korea, receiving a Bronze Star. Except for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State for all of his career, attaining the rank of Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus status on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. More
New York: Truman Talley Books, Dutton, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [4], 706 pages. Illustrations. Maps (Russian and Middle East Fronts, December 6, 1941; The Pacific Rim, December 6, 1941; and the Pacific Expanse). Sources and Strategies. Index. Cover has some wear and discoloration. Some edge soiling. Chapters include The Day Before: December 6, 1941; Long Day's Journey; The Day After; and Curtain Call: Doomsday. This work presents a global analysis of the twenty-four hours that thrust the United States into World War II, featuring interviews with survivors and a detailed countdown of events that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The author has identified in notes for each chapter only those oral, manuscript, and documentary materials unique to this narrative. A few exceptions to the rule are limited-access publications not likely to be found in most research libraries. There is also a vast literature on Pearl Harbor itself, as well as on the vast arena of the war beyond Hawaii. Stanley Weintraub (April 17, 1929 – July 28, 2019) was an American historian and biographer. He served with the Eighth Army in Korea, receiving a Bronze Star. Except for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State for all of his career, attaining the rank of Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus status on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 487, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Maps. Illustrations. Footnotes. Standardization of Names. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. H. P. Willmott, a member of the Royal Historical Society, has written more than a dozen books on modern naval and military subjects, including the final work in his trilogy, Grave of a Dozen Schemes, and the critically acclaimed history of the Second World War, The Great Crusade. He holds a doctorate from London University and has taught military history at institutions in both Great Britain and the United States. More
Honolulu, HI: Pacific Basin Enterprises, 1986. Third Revised Edition. Wraps. 66, [2] pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some color). Maps. Footnotes. Selected Bibliography. Ink mark on front cover. The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and commemorates the events of that day. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the island of Oahu led to the United States' direct involvement in World War II. The memorial, built in 1962, has been visited by more than two million people annually. It straddles the sunken hull of the battleship without touching it. Historical information about the attack, shuttle boats to and from the memorial, and general visitor services are available at the associated USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center, operated by the National Park Service. The battleship's sunken remains were declared a National Historic Landmark on May 5, 1989. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965. Fourth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 25 cm. xvi, [4], 426, [2] pages. Name in ink, obscured, on half-title page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Foreword by Thomas C. Schelling Note on Rank. Maps and Charts. Footnotes. Appendix, Abbreviations and Special Names. Bibliography. Index. Was the Pearl Harbor disaster a result of criminal negligence in the Pacific theater? It seems unlikely that a country could have so many warnings pointing to the danger, and yet be so unprepared for the event itself. American intelligence could read top-secret Japanese codes and the U.S. was therefore in a position to transmit vital information to American commanders throughout the world. As this carefully documented book shows, the outlines of danger look sharp today because the disaster has occurred, and an entirely different image emerges upon reconstructing in detail the intelligence picture as it looked to the participants before the event. In 1941 the pieces of the puzzle were dispersed in a number of government agencies. Some were lost in the noise of signals pointing in other directions, some were slowed by bureaucracy; and some were silenced by security requirements. No one had a complete picture. Roberta Mary Morgan, better known by her married name of Roberta Wohlstetter (August 22, 1912 - January 6, 2007), was one of America's most important historians of military intelligence. Her most influential work is Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Donald Rumsfeld, is said to have required that his aides read it. Wohlstetter worked for the RAND Corporation from 1948 to 1965 and consulted with them through 2002. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. First Trade Edition. 1039, historical notes, some soiling on fore-edge, DJ scratched and somewhat soiled. More
London: The Reader's Digest Association Limited, 1990. Reprinted with amendments [Preferred version]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.625 inches by 11.375 inches. 480 pages Illustrations (some in color). DJ has wear, tears, and some soiling. This is a large and heavy book and if sent outside of the United States would require additional shipping charges. Traces the history of the war from the rise of Hitler to the surrender of Japan and looks at the events that shaped the course of the war. Includes sections on The Reich Rampant, Japanese Juggernaut, The People's War; The Tide Turns; Sun Sets in the East, and Victory and Aftermath. Then follows a Reference Section which includes: World War II year by year; Human cost of the war; Glossary, and Index. Famed naval historian and defense expert Eric J. Grove was among those listed as "A Major Contributor" More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. First Printing. 187, illus., appendices, note on sources, index, small rough spot & red ink number inside front flyleaf, DJ worn along edges. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. Second Printing. 433, appendix, index, usual library markings, pages have darkened, DJ in plastic sleeve. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 433 pages. Appendix, index, pages somewhat darkened, DJ worn, stained, and creased: large piece missing at bottom of DJ spine. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. 433, appendix, index, few library markings, front board weak, binding cracked at p. 86, boards quite stained. More