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The Greatest War Stories Ever Told
by Lamar Underwood
From the blood-drenched cornfields of Antietam to the darkest jungles of Vietnam, The Greatest War Stories Ever Told features some of the world’s greatest writers describing the horrors of combat. These gripping accounts of soldiers under fire will inspire readers everywhere. They serve as a memorial to those who fought and died in battle.Twenty-four important soldiers and writers chronicle the madness and glory of battle in this unique collection. The Greatest War Stories Ever Told includes:--...
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The Life-Giving Sword
by Yagyu Munenori
William Scott Wilson is the foremost translator into English of traditional Japanese texts on samurai culture. His best-selling translations include Hagakure and The Book of Five Rings.
Secret War In Shanghai
by Wasserstein Bernard
Shanghai during World War II was a killing field of brutal competition, ideological struggle, and murderous political intrigue. China's largest and most cosmopolitan city, the intelligence capital of the Far East, was a magnet for a corrupt and bizarrely colorful group of men and women drawn to the "Paris of the East" for its seductive promise of high living and easy money. Political and sexual loyalties were for sale to the highest bidder. Allied and Axis agents, criminal gangs, and paramilitary units...
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Military Science Books & Ephemera
88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary
by Grenier, Robert L
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fifth Printing. Hard cover in very good condition - appears new & unread. Dark mustard colored boards with black spine cloth containing gilt spine lettering.Interior text block clean & tight; no markings. Dust jacket likewise in fine condition; not price clipped ($28.00.) From the front jacket flap, ""88 Days in Kandahar is the improbable, true story of America's first wa in Afghanistan. Robert Grenier's...
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€15.63
American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq
by Warren, James A
U.S.A.: Free Press, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition. Black boards with gold colored spine lettering. Text block clean & tight with no writing, underlining, or marks noted. Dust jacket in very good condition. Bright, crisp, and shiny with barely a ghost of shelf wear. 375 numbered pages.Concludes with an Epilogue, Notes to the Chapters, a Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and a comprehensive Index.
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€11.84
DAM BUSTERS, with a foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force, The Lord Tedder, G.C.B, The.
by Brickhill, Paul
New York: Ballantine Books, [April 1955]. Stated First American edition. H-101. (c.1951 Great Britain). Limp green boards. Globe 8vo. pp. 185, [1]. VG/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Overall page toning, small edge chips at folds. Flapology: "True story of the War's most daring raid by the author of The Great Escape". Squadron 617 formed in 1943 to breach the Moehne and Eder Dams in Germany. Scarce ..
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€189.50
Fighters: Volume Four
by Green, William
Macdonald, 1965 16mo cloth pp208 bw plates index VG+/VG- USA and Yugolavia. Dustwrapper attached to binding with old type clear plastic, a nice copy.
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€7.22
A Nation in Arms
by Roberts, FM Earl
London: John Murray, 1907 smaller 8vo pp xii+222 G+ Early 1900s speeches by the Field Marshal, proposing widespread military and marksmanship training. This was from his experience as a commander in the Anglo-Boer war. Light wear and foxing, name 'Codrington' written inside front. Contemporary Blackwell's Oxford bookshop label on front card binding. Rare. [ Possible extra airmail signed for postage overseas. ]
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€52.83
Siege of Paris, 1870-1871: A Political and Social History
by Kranzberg, Melvin
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. First 1971 hardcover Greenwood reprinting of Cornell University edition of 1950. 213pp., bibl., index. Library stamps to spine, page foredges, FFEP and title page. Library envelope/card on FFEP. Pastedowns yellowed and binding creased. Binding still tight in text but loose in pastedowns. Boards square and looks new except for adhesive residue at tail. Clean crisp text. Missing dust jacket (often not issued by Greenwood)
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€20.00
The Indian Army: The Garrison of British Imperial India 1822-1922
by Heathcote, T. A
David & Charles, 1974 smaller 4to cloth pp215 bw plates maps tables glossary bibliography index VG-/G+ East India Company and Imperial forces, with much social commentary. [ Larger book, so extra airmail postage overseas. ]
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€4.88
From upper cover: Belagerung von Strassburg 1870. 20 Blätter photographischer Aufnahmen der Breschen, Uebergänge, Thore und anderer militairisch bedeutender Ansichten...Aufgenommen in den Tagen vom 1 bis 3ten October 1870 unter Leitung des Ingenieur Majors Albrecht
by STRASBOURG, Siege of, 1870
Complete set of 20 original albumen photographs (image sizes: 170 x 250 mm. & 230 x 190 mm.) by Charles David Winter mounted on card boards (440 x 350 mm.). Folio, orig. portfolio with large printed title pasted on upper cover (cloth spine a little worn, some rubbing to boards), orig. cloth ties. Strasbourg: Winter Fassoli, 1870. A fine set of this extremely rare portfolio of 20 albumen photographs by the Strasbourg photographer Charles David Winter (1821-1904). These photographs reveal the devastation...
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€9,001.25
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas
by Limbu, Colour-Sergeant Kailash
Abacus, 2015 smaller 8vo pp340 colour plates map glossary index F- Gurkhas in Afghanistan, a personal account.
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€2.00
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
by O'Reilly, Bill & Dugard, Martin
New York: Henry Holt, 2014 larger 8vo cloth pp352 bw photos index F/F An investigation into the last days of General George Patton. Fine copy. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]
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€4.58
KG55: 'Greif' Geshwader
by Hall, Steven & Quinlan, Lionel
Red Kite, 2000 larger 4to pp96 bw plates colour drawings G Detailed illustrated account of the Luftwaffe He-111 unit. Many personnel and technical photographs.
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€8.40
The strategists
by Smith, Hugh – Editor
Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra, A.C.T, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. There is some occasional pencil notations and pencil underlining, essentially a clean book. No damage otherwise to note. Most of these essays were first presented in a series of public lectures at University College, University of New South Wales, at the Australian Defence Force Academy in 1998. All the presentations have been revised and updated for this publication. They are intended to provide the...
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€15.81
Aux postes de plongée
by Maurice Guierre
Gallimard, 1959. Soft cover. Fair. Binding weakened by spine creases, one large tear in front cover at tail of spine (see photo), mildly yellowed text. 6th printing. 477 pages. Etat correct. Couverture défraîchie avec une dechirure. Papier bruni mais pas de rousseurs. Marque de lecture au dos.
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€15.00
Rethinking Military Politics Brazil and the Southern Cone
by Stepan, Alfred C
Princeton University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1988. Trade Paperback. 0691022747 . Trade Paperback in As New condition. "In Rethinking Military Politics the author takes a new look at themes raised in his earlier work on the state, the breakdown of democracy, and the military. The reader of this book will gain a fresh understanding of new democracies and democratic movements throughout the world and their attempts to understand and control to military. An earlier version of this...
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€10.35
Operation Millennium: Bomber Harris's Raid on Cologne, May 1942
by Taylor, Eric
Spellmount, 2004 large 8vo cloth pp218 bw plates references index F/VG Originally published in 1987, with much eyewitness testimony. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]
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€7.22
From War to War: the Arab-Israeli Confrontation, 1948-1967 : a study of the conflict from the perspective of coercion in the context of inter-Arab and big power relations
by Safran, Nadav
New York: Pegasus, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings noted. Side text block edges show light age toning/dust dulling. Wraps solid but show shelf & edge wear, rubbing. Large one inch dent / chip at top of spine but area is solid from original spine glue or former owners repair. 464 numbered pages.Concludes with three detailed Appendices: Sources, Methods, Comments, The Armed Forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and...
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€9.95
Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE
by Thomas, Gordon; Lewis, Greg
Amberley Publishing, 2016 large 8vo cloth pp xx+280 bw plates F/VG- Account of SOE and OSS operations, also with NKVD joint operations. One small knock into the jacket, Fine copy book. [ Larger book, so extra airmal postage overseas. ]
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€7.22
Extracts Relating to the Origins of the American Navy.
by Waite, Henry E. (Edward), compiled by
Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1890. Illustrated by b&w frontis ("Hannah") and Broughton Family plate with 3 ports. First thus edition. Stapled wraps with illustrated card cover. Imperial 8vo (27.5cm). pp. [iv], 34. Very Good. Small cover chip and light soil, archival spine reinforcement added, staples rusted. Interesting compilation of letters from books, periodicals and past issues of NEHG Register including Waite's article "Broughton. A Sketch of the...
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€23.69
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism 1860-1925
by John Higham
Atheneum, 1974. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. College edition corrected and with a new Preface. 17th printing. Stained page edges, worn corners, curled creased wraps, clean bright text, tight square binding. Illustrated.
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€20.00
Once an Arafat Man: The True Story of How a PLO Sniper Found a New Life
by Saada, Tass & Merrill, Dean
Tyndale House, 2008 larger 8vo boards pp xvii+233 VG-/G Memoir of a 1960s PLO guerrilla fighter who later became an American Christian. Some details of training and operations, including the Karameh battle. Edge staining inside dust jacket, a nice copy.
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€6.05
Hovering Angels. The Record of the Royal Navy's Helicopters
by Turner, John Frayn
London: George G. Harrap, 1957 8vo cloth pp170+publisher adverts bw plates VG+/VG- A detailed overview of 1950s RN helicopter operations, from Antarctica to Malaya. Minor liquid paper to front blank endpaper, Fine text and plates. Dust wrapper has a small corner tear and some apparent former liquid marking on reverse, yet is near Fine otherwise.
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€4.58
La Rome des Borgia
by Guillaume Apollinaire
Bibliotheque des Curieux, 1913. Half-Leather. Good. [8] prelims including forntispiece + 301 pages + [4] publisher's catalog. Rebound in half leather with marbled boards, gilt top page edges and gilt lettering with 5 raised bands on spine. A few rub marks on spine but still looks nice. Marbled boards have sunned margins and rubbed through on edges. Binding is tight but stress lines on leather spine hinges reveal some fragility in the gutters. Marbled endpapers, ribbon, original paper wraps not...
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€40.00
RAF Liberator over the Eastern Front: A Bomb Aimer's Second World War and Cold War Story
by Auton, Jim
Pen & Sword Aviation, 2008 large 8vo cloth pp216 bw plates index F-/VG Personal account of wartime RAF training and operations. The author dropped supplies to Polish Resistance and Yugoslav partisans, and post-war became a businessman trading with Communist China and Eastern Europe. [ Possible extra postage overseas. ]
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€7.22
Swords And Covenants. Essays in Honour of the Centennial of the Royal Military College of Canada 1876-1976
by Preston, Adrian & Dennis, Peter [ editors ]
Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littefield, 1976 larger 8vo cloth pp254 notes index F/F- Military academic essays. Mainly covering Canadian history, also Wolseley in Sudan, post-ww1 British Territorials, and Horthy-era Hungary. A Fine copy. [ Possible extra tracked postage airmail overseas. ]
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€17.61
