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New York: Smithmark Publishers, Inc., 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A classic of military history and the American Civil War, originally published in 1910 and titled: "Chancelllorsville: A Strategic and Tactical Study." Developed from Bigelow's extensive and exhaustive research while was a professor of military history at MIT. First Smithmark edition, first printing thus, (with complete numberline). About 7… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Hardcover. About Very Good/Good Plus. This is a late novel from the award-winning Western genre writer, Lutz. It is the story of a war between the rich and powerful Rock Island Railroad and the people of Enid, OK, who refused to give up their independence and become a company town. It features Jason Keeler,… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1885. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good to Good Plus. Roe, a late 19th century Presbyterian clergyman, a chaplain during the Civil War, became a bestselling novelist after retiring from the ministry in 1874. His novels, with their strong moral and religious themes, were popular with the middle class in the U.S. and… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: G.W. Dillingham, Publisher, 1888. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. A prominent, bestselling Southern novelist both before and after the Civil War, Wilson wrote "Inez" in 1850, when she was fifteen and living with her parents in San Antonio shortly after the Mexican-American War. It was first published in 1855 and many times since by… Ler mais sobre este item

Greenwich, CN: Brompton Books Corp., 1990. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. The title of this oversized, lavishly-illustrated volume by Welsh, a noted military historian, might better have used "concise" rather than "complete." No single book of 176 pages could hope to be all-inclusive about a four-year war of the magnitude of the U.S.… Ler mais sobre este item

Washington-New York: Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1969. First Edition, Later Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Good Plus to Very Good. A history of the famed Irish Brigade of the North's Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Comprised largely of Irish volunteers serving in regiments raised in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, they were commanded… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Ballantine Books, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The fourth volume in Shaara's highly-praised quartet of novels about World War II and the only one to deal with the war's Pacific Theater. A master of military fiction, Shaara tells his story from the perspectives of the enlisted men in the bloody battle… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Poet and novelist Johnson's seventh novel won the National Book Award for fiction in 2007. Set during the Vietnam War, It is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA, engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong and the disasters that happen to… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Pyramid Books, 1966. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Vintage Paperback, Pyramid N1497. The classic day-by-day reconstruction of the 1954 battle that resulted in a catastrophic defeat for France, ended 80 years of colonial rule of North Vietnam, and set the stage for American involvement two years later in the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1943. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hungerford was a popular American history writer from about 1900 to 1950, contributing to many of the country's national magazines as well as writing numerous books, most with some connection to transportation, especially cars and trains. This book, an account of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1962. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine/No Jacket. Vintage Paperback: Fawcett Premier P664. Of the hundreds of books about the U.S. Civil War, this volume by Col. Mitchell most effectively charts the battle-by-battle progress of the war. With its series of 35 maps designed by… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Free Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An excellent account of the U.S.'s "Forgotten War" and a penetrating critique of Gen. MacArthur's handling of it by a well-known military historian. 385 pages, with black & white photos, bibliographical references and an index. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/About Very Good. Schaeffer's eighth novel is the story of three generations of a blue collar Italian family from Brooklyn but especially its third generation son, Pete Bravado, who, desperate to get away from a father and family that lacks understanding, enlists in the Army and is plunged… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Erdman combines history and fiction in this spy thriller set in Switzerland during World War II as U.S. spymaster, Allen Dulles, trying to block the withdrawal of Nazi gold from Swiss banks, sends a team of agents on a near-suicide mission into Bavaria.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The tenth novel from this acknowledged master of the historical spy novel features French military attache Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, assigned to his country's embassy in Warsaw in 1937 on the eve of World War II. He is drawn into a dangerous world of abduction… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Forge Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This sequel Coonts' bestselling "Combat," is a collection of ten new short novels of World War II warfare by some of the best current military fiction writers. Edited, and with an introduction by Coonts, and containing his novel, "The Sea Witch," the book also… Ler mais sobre este item

Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1976. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The book explores in detail an often overlooked aspect of modern military hardware -- how it all works. There are numerous books on what these weapons can do but very few provide an illustrated examination of "how." It should be noted that while technological improvements… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This book is something of a departure for Mystery Grand Master Block, who has only occasionally collaborated with other authors, but also because it is a spy thriller, set in 1940 with England and Germany at war. It features Ted Campbell, an American… Ler mais sobre este item

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. In Weber's first novel, the U.S. and the Soviet Union are on the brink of war when the economically desperate Soviets launch an equally desperate plan resulting in military clashes over Alaska, in the North Atlantic and in space leading inexorably, it seems, to… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Arch Cape Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection of over 250 full color photographs by some of the world's best aviation photographers attempting to capture the components of modern military air power. From the tactical jet fighters and strategic bombers to the spy planes, drones and ground support helicopters, to… Ler mais sobre este item