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By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press:
Seller ID: 2272307
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
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1940
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 2280060
Sixth printing. No jacket, minor general wear. 1940 Small Hard Cover. 29 pp. The letter was written before a young British pilot left on his last flight; it was found after his death, among his possessions, was published in the London Times, and captured the imagination of everyone who read it. In no other way could the spirit of this war, and the sharp contrast with the last war, he better symbolized. View more info
By: A Soldier Doctor; H.M.G.; M.M.H.; Kendall, Frederick W.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200879
First edition. Partial cup ring stain on front board, edges toned and a bit rubbed. 1919 Hard Cover. 103 pp. Memoirs of a former American Civil War soldier, transcribed by an amanuensis during World War I. An interesting mix of spirit writing and military history. View more info
By: Accoce, Pierre; Quet, Pierre
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc.: 1967
Seller ID: 2205771
Ink stamp to front endpaper.Jacket lightly toned, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1967 Hard Cover. 250 pp. The most extraordinary story of Allied espionage yet to emerge from World War II. Is this man the master spy who turned Stalin into a military genius and laid the groundwork for Hitler's inevitable collapse?In World War II espionage, the Lucy spy ring was an anti-Nazi operation that was headquartered in Switzerland. It was run by Rudolf Roessler, a German refugee a... 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
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... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 2001
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2276366
A fine copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 299 pp. An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous missions during World War II details their courage, bravery, and determination. View more info
By: Andre, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Centennial Press: 1971
Seller ID: 2264223
Faint stains to jacket front and spine, top corner of jacket rear lightly bumped. Title page through page 32 beginning to loosen from binding. 1971 Hard Cover. 221 pp. John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing institution... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press: 1955
Seller ID: 2265931
Lacks jacket. Spine toned, pink stain and a few faint spots to boards, faint stain on page ridges, top page ridge faintly foxed. 1955 Hard Cover. x, 813 pp. Andrews presents the drama of the Civil War as seen through the eyes of reporters’ own diaries, dispatches, and printed news stories. View more info
By: Armstrong, Roger W.; Stone, Ken
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Quail House Pub. Co: 1991
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2198433
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 Trad... View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1874
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260977
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 fath... View more info
By: Beah, Ishmael
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books: 2007
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2029745
2007 Hard Cover. 229 pp. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have s... View more info
By: Bonapart, Napoleon; de Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet; Phipps, R.W.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1889
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2265359
Ink name on front endpaper, boards lightly rubbed. 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: Booth, Waller B.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Dorrance & Company: 1972
Edition: First American Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276901
First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('All best wishes to my old friend, Pete Street, Wally Booth, 25 June 1976'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., who went by Pete to differentiate himself from his father, the prominent author. Jacket toned. 1972 Hard Cover. 168 pp. 8vo. An account of clandestine operations during World War II, by the commander of Mission Marcel-Proust. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Longmeadow Press: 1992
Seller ID: 2179093
Light rubbing to jacket.Very Good. 1992 Large Hardcover. A biography of the famous general and U.S. president loaded with b&w photographs and illustrations. View more info
By: Bowers, John
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Avon Books: 1990
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2206473
2nd printing. Spine creased, ink name to half-title page, pages faintly toned. 1990 Trade Paperback. 367 pp. John Bowers brings to life this demanding commander and prickly made him a legend. He re-creates Jackson's service as Robert E. Lee's right arm and details Jackson's leadership of his foot cavalry. Includes 16 pages of photographs.Keywords: CIVIL WAR MILITARY HISTORY AMERICA AMERICAN STONEWALL JACKSON CONFEDERATE CONFEDERACY BIOGRAPHY View more info
![Image for The Life of General William T. [Tecumseh] Sherman](/assets/images/product/2266387.jpg)
By: Boyd, James P.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Publishers' Union: 1891
Seller ID: 2266387
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 ser... View more info
By: Bradford, Ernle
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions: 1999
Seller ID: 2202818
Top page ridge very lightly foxed, spine edges lightly rubbed. 1999 Trade Paperback. 368 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Horatio Nelson is considered by some to be one of the most inspiring and perplexing characters in history. In this biography of Horatio Nelson, Ernle Bradford discusses Nelson's own battles, but also looks at naval warfare of the period in general. The author describes the strategies, the tactics, the ponderous ship-to-ship bombardments, th... View more info
By: Broadfoot, Barry
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Doubleday Canada Limited: 1974
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2205791
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
![Image for A Colonel at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania [Joseph Newton Brown]](/assets/images/product/1826259.jpg)
By: Brown, Varina D.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Butternut and Blue: 1990
Seller ID: 1826259
Page ridges lightly foxed. 1990 Hard Cover. xvi, 333 pp. 1990 facsimile reprint of 1931 original. Includes several photographs and two maps (one fold-out). Comprises the correspondence and papers of Colonel Joseph Newton Brown, who fought with the South Carolinians at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania. View more info
By: Butler, Benj. F.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: A.M. Thayer & Co.: 1802
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2208195
First edition. Spine-head and spine-base lightly rubbed, front and rear hinges starting, pages lightly toned, pencil name. 1802 Hard Cover. 1154 pp. Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was a major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer and businessman from Massachusetts. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler is best known as a political major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, and for h... View more info
By: Canfield, Cass
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers: 1976
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2279082
Second printing. Jacket flaps taped down. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 140 pp. Offers a revaluation of Sam Adams's role in the American Revolution, portraying him as the untiring and leading proponent of independence during the eleven years preceding overt revolt. View more info
![Image for A Roumanian Diary [Romanian]](/assets/images/product/2201689.jpg)
By: Carossa, Hans; Scott, Agnes Neill (Translator)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201689
First American edition. Ink name mostly erased from front endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. 173 pp. 8vo. Black cloth spine, red cloth boards, gilt titles. Memoirs of a German military doctor who acted as a field surgeon during World War I, originally published as Rumanisches Tagebuch in 1928. Carossa also wrote novels and poems. View more info
By: Carroll, Andrew; Brinkley, Douglas
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Scribner: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2187041
First Edition. An exceptional copy. 2001 Hard Cover. 491 pp. In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, more than 50,000 war letters discovered in basements, attics, scrapbooks, and old trunks have poured in from around the country. The best of these letters are assembled in this extraordinary collection, offering unprecedented insight into t... View more info
![Image for Napoleon (The Library of Great Lives) [Bonaparte]](/assets/images/product/2274873.jpg)
By: Castelot, Andre; Daniels, Guy; Ross, Stephen T.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1991
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274873
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. An exceptional copy. 1991 Full-Leather. Original dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A reissue of the 1971 biography, with a new introduction by Stephen T. Ross. Translated from the original French by Guy Daniels. Color frontispiece of Napoleon by Chris Calle, black-and-white reproductions of historical illustrations. View more info
By: Catton, Bruce
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The New York Civil War Centennial Commission: 1961
Seller ID: 2267192
Spine slightly toned. 1961 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 16 pp. CONTENTS: Ely Samuel Parker... From Sachem to Brigadier General; Corning Glass; Remington Arms; Grant Statue; U.S. Grant 3rd... Honorary Chairman. View more info
By: Cecil, E.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company: 1929
Seller ID: 2208484
Pages lightly toned.Multiple chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket front lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. This book tells the fascinating life of the adventurous Marquis de Lafayette. It relates his exciting career as a volunteer during the days of the American Revolution and his stirring experiences during the early days of the French Revolution. His intimate association with the thrilling events in France during th... View more info
By: Christie, Thomas & William; Smith, Hampton (Editor)
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1874725
First edition (a paperback original). Minimal wear to corners. 2011 Trade Paperback. 330 pp. A collection of letters written by volunteers in the First Minnesota Light Artillery who worked as ‘cannoneers,’ The First Minnesota saw action in major battles at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, and Atlanta. View more info
![Image for All Cloudless Glory: The Life of George Washington Volume II [2]](/assets/images/product/2267990.jpg)
By: Clark, Harrison
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Regnery: 1996
Seller ID: 2267990
Ink marginalia. 1996 Hard Cover. This second volume of Clark's biography of Washington focuses on the future president coming into his own as politician and military leader. View more info
By: Cole, Juan
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271315
First edition. Minor ink marks on 15 pages only. 2007 Hard Cover. 279 pp. In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, inc... View more info
By: Coleman, Terry
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202821
First edition. Top page ridge very lightly foxed.Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. xix, 424 pp. Includes color and black-and-white illustrations. Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson, novelist Terry ... View more info
