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George Armstrong Custer and His 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 (Montana Heritage Series, Number Seven)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montana, Montana Historical Society Press:

Seller ID: 2272307

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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V.C. [The Victoria Cross]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: England, Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283084

Binding: Stapled Binding

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...
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The Most Extraordinary Adventures of Major Robert Stobo

By: Alberts, Robert C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1965

Seller ID: 2305888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. A few faint spots on page ridges, ink gift note on half-title page. 1965 Hard Cover. x, 423 pp. Major Robert Stobo (1726/17271770) was an 18th-century Scottish-born colonial American frontiersman and soldier. Stobo was an officer in the Virginia militia who, during the French and Indian War, acted as a spy while a prisoner-of-war at Fort Duquesne. He was later convicted as a spy in Quebec and, while a prisoner there, was able to gain invaluable knowledge of the local area which was later used by British forces during the capture of Quebec.--Wikipedia
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Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative

By: Alexander, E. P.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, The Archive Society: 1995

Seller ID: 2300254

Binding: Hard Cover

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 Souths defeat. Alexander was willing to objectively evaluate and criticize prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed asses...
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None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam

By: Allen, George W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ivan R. Dee: 2001

Seller ID: 2307996

ISBN: 1566633877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2001 Hard Cover. xiv, 296 pp. From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to understand the nature of the fierce Communist-led struggle to create a unified, independent Vietnam. American intelligence played a key role in gathering information on the political and military situation in Vietnam and on the strengths and weaknesses of both sides. But as George Allen shows in this eye-popping memoir, intelligence appraisals were consistently ignore...
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Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies

By: Allen, Martin

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, New York, M. Evans and Co., Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 2285405

ISBN: 0871319934

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The War Diary of the Emperor Frederick III, 1870-1871

By: Allinson, A. R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company:

Seller ID: 2303019

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Eisenhower: Volume I: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952; Volume II: The President

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1985

Seller ID: 2281563

Binding: Trade Paperback

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'...
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Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1983

Seller ID: 2306459

ISBN: 0671440691

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine faded, jacket lightly toned. 1983 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 637 pp. Dwight Eisenhower was not exactly born into poverty, but the family's circumstances were at least austere. He was one of seven children; his father, a railway worker. But the family was strong and unified, the youngsters energetic and ambitious. Ike made it to West Point, where he excelled in sports. He was a natural leader. But it was at Leavenworth years later, as a student at the war college, that his intellectual talent showed itself. He graduated first in his cla...
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Battle-Fields of the South, From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: An English Combatant

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Time Life Books: 1984

Seller ID: 2301060

ISBN: 0809443910

Binding: Full-Leather

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.
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Terezin, 1941-1945

By: Ancerl, Karel; Berman, Karel; Bic, Milos; Bor, Josef; Diamant, Jiri; Ehrmann, Frantisek; Feder, Richard; Fleischmann, Karel; Flusser, Jindrich; Franke, Rudolf; Freyova-Ledererova, Anny; Fritta, Bedrich; Fryd, Norbert; Fuchs, Frantisek; Haas, Leo; Haas, P

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Prague, The Council of Jewish Communities in the Czech Lands: 1965

Seller ID: 2307692

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

One inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed, jacket laminate peeling. Bookplate on half-title page. 1965 Large Hardcover. 327 pp. Color fold-outs, tipped in color frontispiece and plates, black-and-white plates from drawings. Includes 45 record in sleeve. On October 16, the first Jewish Transport left for Lodz. On October 19, the Terezin ghetto was established as a transit station on the road to death. On November 11, Hitler instructed Himmler to have the Jews exterminated. On November 25, the first transport left for Terezin. Here is the history.
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The Generals: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

By: Anderson, Nancy Scott

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 1988

Seller ID: 2309171

ISBN: 0394521064

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Faint stain on jacket spine base. 1988 Hard Cover. 523 pp. Traces the careers of Grant and Lee from West Point and the Mexican War, through the war between the states, to their first face-to-face meeting at Appomattox,
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1812: The Great Retreat, Told by the Survivors

By: Austin, Paul Britten

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Greenhill Book: 1996

Seller ID: 2305545

ISBN: 1853672467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine head lightly bumped. Smudge on page ridge. 1996 Hard Cover. 464 pp. 1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting out on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River. Using ...
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Selections from the Letters and Diaries of Brevet-Brigadier General Willoughby Babcock of the Seventy-Fifth New York Volunteers: A Study of Camp Life in the Union Armies during the Civil War (War of the Rebellion Series, Bulletin 2)

By: Babcock, Willoughby M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The University of the State of New York: 1922

Seller ID: 2304082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Front corner creased, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1922 Trade Paperback. 110 pp. A history of the NY 75th during the American Civil War, written by a brevet-brigadier. Photographic frontispiece of the author and several noncommissioned officers, black-and-white plates.
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The First American and Other Sunday Evening Studies in Biography

By: Baldwin, Charles J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Granville, Ohio, First Baptist Church of Granville, Ohio: 1911

Seller ID: 2308670

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1911 Hard Cover. 291 pp. Illustrated with plates of figures. CONTENTS: The First American; The Real Washington; Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Paine; Benedict Arnold; Aaron Bur and Alexander Hamilton; Ulysses S. Grant; Savonarola; Joan of Arc; John Wiclif; Luther and Erasmus; John Knox and Mary Queen of Scots.
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Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army (The Lakeside Classics, Vol. 84)

By: Ballentine, George; Goetzmann, William H.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2306269

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Blue smudge on bottom page ridge. 1986 Hard Cover. LXXXIV, 354 pp. The text is the autobiography of George Ballentine, a Soctsman, who emigrates to America expecting to use his skill as a weaver. Unable to find work in New York City, he enlists in the United States Army and in less than two years becomes part of General Winfield Scott's invasion force that lands at Vera Cruz and fights its way to the Mexican capital and war's end.--publisher's preface
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Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army (The Lakeside Classics, Vol. 84)

By: Ballentine, George; Goetzmann, William H.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2306270

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First thus. A fine copy. 1986 Hard Cover. LXXXIV, 354 pp. The text is the autobiography of George Ballentine, a Soctsman, who emigrates to America expecting to use his skill as a weaver. Unable to find work in New York City, he enlists in the United States Army and in less than two years becomes part of General Winfield Scott's invasion force that lands at Vera Cruz and fights its way to the Mexican capital and war's end.--publisher's preface
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A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission

By: Banks, Joseph; Borrowman, Jerry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Utah, Covenant Communications: 2001

Seller ID: 2309727

ISBN: 1577349059

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Eighth printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2001 Hard Cover. 147 pp. Europe, 1944-World War II Initially, air-service crews were required to complete twenty-five missions before returning to the United States. By the time we arrived, the number of missions had increased to fifty. The mortality rate was so high that they just couldn't bring in new crews fast enough . . . Fifty missions is an unbelievable worth calculating. This is the remarkable true story of Joseph Banks, a young Latter-day Saint and lone survivor of his plane that was shot down during a dangerous bombing run over Germany o...
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Bauer, K. Jack

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1997

Seller ID: 2305457

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Still in original plastic wrap. 1997 Full-Leather. xxiv, [2], 348 pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of the twelfth President of the United States of America, who died after just over a year in office. He had previously distinguished himself as an officer during the Mexican-American War. Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor was and rem...
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The Life of George Dashiell Bayard, Late Captain, U.S.A., and Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Killed in the Battle of Independence, Dec. 1862.

By: Bayard, Samuel J.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1874

Seller ID: 2260977

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

By: Beatty, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Time Life Books: 1983

Seller ID: 2301050

ISBN: 0809442582

Binding: Full-Leather

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.
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Napoleon: A Concise Biography

By: Bell, David A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2015

Seller ID: 2308423

ISBN: 0190262710

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2015 Hard Cover. x, 139 pp. This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe's most powerful country. In his early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting...
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Nelson and His Times

By: Beresford, Charles; Wilson, H.W.; Fitchew, Edward H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode / Harmsworth Brothers: 1900

Seller ID: 2308213

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Tissue guard loose but included, minor general wear. 1900 Large Hardcover. viii, 232 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, page ridges gilt. With many illustrations mostly from contemporary sketches, selected, arranged, and annotated by Edward H. Fitchew. A look at the life of Admiral Horatio Nelson. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bront, KB (29 September 1758 21 October 1805), also known simply as Admiral Nelson, was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. His inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics b...
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Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945

By: Blumenson, Martin

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 1985

Seller ID: 2308513

ISBN: 068806082X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine faded. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. An incisive study of General George Patton probes the sensitivity, emotionality, and insecurities that were concealed behind the public facade of a macho military man and that also produced one of the world's greatest generals.
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Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution

By: Bowers, Claude G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2294644

Binding: Hard Cover

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. We have more books available by this author!. 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 th...
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Ghost Ship of the Confederacy: The Story of the Alabama and Her Captain, Raphael Semmes

By: Boykin, Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls: 1957

Seller ID: 2304915

ISBN: 1131494067

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia. 1957 Hard Cover. xi, 404 pp. Raphael Semmes (September 27, 1809 August 30, 1877) was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Until then, he had been a serving officer in the US Navy from 1826 to 1860. During the American Civil War, Semmes was captain of the cruiser CSS Alabama, the most successful commerce raider in maritime history, taking 65 prizes. Late in the war, he was promoted to rear admiral and also acted briefly as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. His appointment or arrangement to ...
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A General's Life: An Autobiography

By: Bradley, Omar N.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Touchstone: 1984

Seller ID: 2307828

ISBN: 0671410245

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Faint edge wear. 1984 Trade Paperback. Draws on Bradley's diaries and papers to recount his experiences as American commander at Normandy, as ground-war strategist in Europe, and as first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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An Impartial Account of Lieut. Col. Bradstreet's Expedition to Fort Frontenac: To Which are Added, a Few Reflections on the Conduct of That Enterprize, and the Advantages Resulting From Its Success

By: Bradstreet, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Forgotten Books: 2018

Seller ID: 2303506

ISBN: 0265401410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

2018 print on demand facsimile of 1759 original. The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 2628, 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 mil...
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Six War Years, 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad

By: Broadfoot, Barry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Doubleday Canada Limited: 1974

Seller ID: 2205791

ISBN: 0385058144

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero

By: Brown, Anthony Cave

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Times Books: 1982

Seller ID: 2308512

ISBN: 0812910214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Remainder mark, jacket spine faded. 1982 Hard Cover. Drawing on Donovan's personal papers and secret archives and on his wife's diaries, this profile depicts the remarkable man who was the most decorated figure in United States history and was the founder of the OSS, and focuses on his role in the WWII allied victory.
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