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By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press:
Seller ID: 2272307
Condition: Near Fine
Near Fine. 20 pp. Two original essays and a reproduction of one of the greatest of all the battlefield paintings, keyed to actual battlefield episodes. View more info
![Image for V.C. [The Victoria Cross]](/assets/images/product/2283084.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942
Seller ID: 2283084
Condition: Good
Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honou... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283122
Condition: Very Good
First edition - a paperback original. Wrapper edges lightly rubbed, smudge on front wrapper, ink stamp on half-title page. 1942 Soft Cover. 72 pp. Men of the R.A.F. describe their own experiences in their own words. These accounts of operations over Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Norway, Italy, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic give us the human stories behind the official communiques, and show us the great range and effectiveness of our Air Power. The narratives are selected from over 280 broadcasts, given anonymously by the R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. during 1941. View more info
By: Alexander, E. P.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Archive Society: 1995
Edition: Facsimile
Seller ID: 2300254
Condition: Near Fine
1995 facsimile of 1907 original. A very nice copy. 634 pp. Grey boards with gilt page ridges. Marbled endpapers. “First published in 1907, Military Memoirs of a Confederate is regarded by many historians as one of the most important and dispassionate first-hand general accounts of the American Civil War. Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander had no use for bitter “Lost Cause” theories to explain the South’s defeat. Alexander was willing to objectively evaluate and criticize prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clea... View more info
By: Allen, Martin
Price: $9.00
Publisher: M. Evans and Co., Inc.: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285405
ISBN: 0871319934
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Very minor tear on front jacket panel near spine. Faint smudge on top page ridge. 2000 Hard Cover. xxx, 312 pp. Many would have suspected the Duke of Windsor of treason but until recently proof has been suppressed. Now, drawing on a range of archival sources, Martin Allen offers the evidence in this reasoned indictment of the Duke's perfidy. View more info
By: Allen, Peter
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Robert Hale: 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2303015
ISBN: 0709012942
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. Light smudge on page ridge. 1983 Hard Cover. 271 pp. Speculation on the exact role of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War and his connection with Rudolf Hess and the Nazis has continued for more than forty years... Peter Allen's exhaustive research into the events of the 1930s and the early war years, using German documents not previously taken into account, has led him to new and startling conclusions. The dramatic narrative of this book progresses from the events leading to the abdication of Edwar VIII to the subsequent journey of the D... View more info
By: Allinson, A. R.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company:
Seller ID: 2303019
Condition: Very Good
No jacket. Page ridges lightly foxed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. xi, 355 pp. The Crown Prince of Germany, afterward the Emperor Frederick III, father of the ex-Kaiser, kept this diary during the Franco-Prussian War. He set down his daily impressions of the campaign, supplementing the diary later with extracts from his correspondence with his wife. View more info
![Image for Eisenhower, in Two Volumes: Volume One [I, 1]: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952; Volume Two [II, 2]: The President (The Library of the Presidents)](/assets/images/product/2274910.jpg)
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1987
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274910
Condition: Near Fine
Publisher's inserts and blank bookplate laid in. 1987 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 637, [3]; 750, [2] pp. Original brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Numerous photographs. The complete two-volume biography of the general who became the 34th President of the United States. Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1985
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2281563
Condition: Very Good
First paperback printings. Spine and back corner of volume 2 lightly creased. 1985 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 637, [3]; 750, [2] pp. Numerous photographs. The complete two-volume biography of the general who became the 34th President of the United States. Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower'... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Time Life Books: 1984
Seller ID: 2301060
ISBN: 0809443910
Condition: Near Fine
Ex Libris bookplate and publisher slip laid in. 1984 Full-Leather. xxvii, 517 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.: 1997
Seller ID: 2286203
ISBN: 0802135587
Condition: Very Good
Remainder mark, wrappers lightly rubbed. 1997 Large Softcover. 814 pp. This New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” is the definitive biography on Che Guevara, whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America through armed revolution. Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro’s government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle. View more info
By: Armstrong, Roger W.; Stone, Ken
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Quail House Pub. Co: 1991
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198433
ISBN: 0962916110
Condition: Very Good
Signed by author with inscription For--Reg Miner--A fellow Kriegie and hostage (of the Russians) at Barth (Stalag Luft I). My very best wishes, Roger W. Armstrong, 5-17-93, with signed and inscribed post-it note laid in: Hi--Reg: Sorry I haven't sent the book earlier--but we're back to our base--in England--for two weeks. It's still there and today houses the Queen's Division. Their claim to fame is the burning of the White House in War of 1812. Thanks, Roger.. 1991 Trade Paperback. 299 pp. The autobiography of Roger W. Armstrong, who enlisted in the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Program durin... View more info
By: Arnault, M.A.; Panckoucke, C.L.F.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Porter & Coates: 1890
Seller ID: 2287014
Condition: Very Good
No jacket. No publisher date (circa late 1800s), hinges starting. 1890 Hard Cover. 247; 251 pp. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, Bonaparte rose to prominence under the First French Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; ... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1874
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260977
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape, minor loss from spine head, boards rubbed, single page in appendix loosening. 1874 Hard Cover. ix, 337 pp. 8vo. A biography of a West Point graduate and career soldier who served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War. Bayard died from an injury sustained from Confederate artillery shrapnel during the Battle of Fredericksburg. This account of his early life, education, and military career was written by his father, who survived him. View more info
By: Beatty, John
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Time Life Books: 1983
Seller ID: 2301050
ISBN: 0809442582
Condition: Near Fine
Ex Libris bookplate laid in. 1983 Full-Leather. vii, 401 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. John Beatty (December 16, 1828 – December 4, 1914) was an American banker and statesman from Sandusky, Ohio. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. View more info
By: Belden, Thomas Graham and Marva Robins
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1956
Seller ID: 2295944
Condition: Very Good
Light stain on jacket rear panel, jacket rubbed. 1956 Hard Cover. 401 pp. The story of Chase, Lincoln's ambitious Chief Justice, his bold designing daughter, and the husband who could finance her plans. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Time Life Books: 1982
Seller ID: 2301047
ISBN: 0809442086
Condition: Fine
Ex Libris bookplate and publisher's slip laid in. 1982 Full-Leather. vi, 408 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with six elegant color plates; and over two hundred original sketches by Charles W. Reed. First published more than 100 years ago, Hardtack And Coffee is John Billings’ absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Billings attended a reunion of Civil War veterans in 1881 that brought together a group of survivors whose memories and stories of the war compelled h... View more info
By: Bonaparte, Napoleon; de Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet; Phipps, R.W.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1889
Seller ID: 2283702
Condition: Good
Bindings shaken with some repairs, ink gift note on front endpaper of each volume. 1889 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. xl, [2], 401, [3]; xiv, 408, [2]; xiii, [1], 397, [3]; viii, 434, [4] pp. The memoirs of French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Includes prefaces to the 1836 and 1885 editions. View more info
By: Bourgogne, Sergeant; Fortescue, J. W.; Cronin, Vincent
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1987
Seller ID: 2303569
Condition: Very Good
Light stain along bottom edge of slipcase. A near fine copy in a very good slipcase. 1987 Hard Cover. viii, 262 pp. In June 1812, Napoleon’s 680,000 strong Grande Armée crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia. When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained. Adrien Bourgogne’s Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. Bourgogne had been in the Napoleonic Army since the campaign of 1806 in Poland. He had taken part in the Battle of Essling, and ha... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2294644
Condition: Good
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, minor surface tears to jacket spine which do not obscure text, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor ink marginalia, ink notes on rear free endpaper,. 1950 Hard Cover. xiii, 535 pp. Rescued from obscurity in this the first English biography, Pierre Vergniaud, genius and orator, whose eloquence held the violence of the French Revolution in check from 1791-93, is here given his due. On the one hand he fought the excesses and inequities of the regime, on the other the terrorism of the Re... View more info
![Image for The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman](/assets/images/product/2266387.jpg)
By: Boyd, James P.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891
Seller ID: 2266387
Condition: Near Fine
Minimal wear to corners, minor loss of gilt from spine and front board, small light spot on rear board. 1891 Hard Cover. 608 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, black & gilt decorations, black titles, decorated endpapers. Frontispiece of Sherman, illustrations, including maps of Vicksburg & Port Hudson and Chattanooga & Vicinity, throughout text. William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outst... View more info
![Image for The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman](/assets/images/product/2290750.jpg)
By: Boyd, James P.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891
Seller ID: 2290750
Condition: Near Fine
Gilt on spine a bit faded. 1891 Hard Cover. 608 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, black & gilt decorations, black titles, decorated endpapers. Frontispiece of Sherman, illustrations, including maps of Vicksburg & Port Hudson and Chattanooga & Vicinity, throughout text. William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of... View more info
By: Bradstreet, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Forgotten Books: 2018
Seller ID: 2303506
ISBN: 0265401410
Condition: Fine
2018 print on demand facsimile of 1759 original. The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 26–28, 1758 during the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States) between France and Great Britain. The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac, a French fort and trading post which is located at the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario where it drains into the St. Lawrence River. British Lieutenant Colonel John Bradstreet led an army of over 3,000 men, of whom about 150 were regulars and the remainder were provincial ... View more info
By: Brands, H. W.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Anchor Books: 2013
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2302111
ISBN: 0307475158
Condition: Near Fine
Fifth printing. Spine lightly creased. 2013 Trade Paperback. 718 pp. Ulysses Grant emerges in this masterful biography as a genius in battle and a driven president to a divided country, who remained fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field who made the sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freed men in the South. He allowed the American Indians to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. In this sweeping and majestic narrative, bes... View more info
By: Broadfoot, Barry
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Doubleday Canada Limited: 1974
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2205791
ISBN: 0385058144
Condition: Near Fine
2nd printing. No jacket, page ridges lightly foxed. 1974 Hard Cover. xii, 417 pp. Ordinary Canadian women and men from the war and home fronts share with readers their experiences of the Second World War, which for them was the most exciting and terrifying event of their lives. View more info
By: Buckeridge, J.O.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Stackpole Company: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282746
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket, spine head and spine base lightly rubbed, ink stamp and pencil notes on front endpaper recto and verso, pencil notes on rear endpaper verso. 1956 Hard Cover. xviii, 254 pp. Herein, for the first time, is revealed the impact and scope of the basic repeating rifle in the Civil War. Well documented, and supported by exciting on-the-spot reports, the author presents convincing evidence that the Spencer seven-shooter was a major factor--possibly the major factor in winding up the war which cost far more American lives than World War II. Christopher Spencer, the inventor an... View more info
By: Buel, J. W.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: International Publishing Company: 1899
Seller ID: 2302843
Condition: Very Good
Board edges lightly rubbed, first couple pages loose but included, ink names on front free endpaper, bookplate. 1899 Large Hardcover. ix,503 pp. Page ridges marbled. Presented in special chapters by Admiral Dewey, General Miles, Lieutenant Hobson, General Shafter, Admiral Schley, General Merritt, Colonel Roosevelt, Captain Sigsbee, Admiral Sampson, General Otis, Captain Evans, General Wheeler, Commodore Philip, Lieutenant Wainwright, and many other noted authorities; to which are added many interesteing chapters by soldiers and sailors who were in the thickest of the conflict. Containing also ... View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1902
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2292849
Condition: Very Good
1902 printing. Spine and edges a bit rubbed. xv, [1], 328, [6]; vii, [1], 379, [5] pp. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece of Paul Jones in first volume, etched portrait frontispiece in second volume. Also includes a map of the British Isles, an outboard profile of the Bon Homme Richard, a plan of the battle of the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis, and a facsimile of an letter from Paul Jones to George Washington. View more info
By: Burr, Esther; Rankin, Jeremiah Eames
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Woodward & Lothrop: 1903
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2291933
Condition: Very Good
Third edition. Pencil name on front endpaper, corners lightly rubbed. 1903 Hard Cover. 100 pp. This little work is purported to be the authentic diary of Esther Edwards, the mother of Aaron Burr. No explanation was contained in the volume itself as to its authenticity. Dr. Rankin, formerly President of Howard University, had the original diary of Esther Burr in his possession, but was not allowed by the owners of the manuscript to use it. This Manuscript Diary is now in the possession of the Yale University Library. The above entitled work is entirely fictitious, with the exception of a few pa... View more info
By: Busch, Rainer; Roll, Hans-Joachim; Brooks, Geoffrey
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Greenhill Books / Naval Institute Press: 1999
Seller ID: 2303482
ISBN: 1853673668
Condition: Near Fine
Sticker on jacket spine, jacket edges lightly bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. 301 pp. Details the service records of some 1,400 officers of the German Kriegsmarine known to have commanded a U-boat between the commissioning of U-1 in June 1935, and the final surrender of U-977 to Argentina in August 1945. View more info
