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By: N/A
Price: $150.00
Publisher: H.M. Stationery Office / Samson Clark & Co., Ltd.: 1942
Seller ID: 2181996
Edges rubbed. 1942 Stapled Binding. Thirty issue non-continuous run, including: October 1942 - June 1943, August & September 1943, December 1943 - May 1944, July 1944 - July 1945. Black & white photographs of various military aircraft, as well as diagrams featuring various views, with specifications and sillographs (silhouettes). Released during World War II to aid military personnel in identifying enemy aircraft and differentiating them from friendly aircraft. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $75.00
Publisher: E.S. Mittler & Sohn: 1938
Seller ID: 2181998
Wrappers splitting along spine, ink 'File Copy' stamp on front wrapper, faint stain on fore-edge margin. 1938 Stapled Binding. [v], 216-258 pp. A photographic guide to various military aircraft. View more info
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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Juvenile Productions Ltd.:
Seller ID: 2182156
Wrappers foxed. 18, [2] pp. Color illustrations and general specifications of nine early 20th century airplanes, including: Short 'Sunderland' Long-Range Reconnaissance Flying-Boat; Short 'Empire' 'C' Class Flying-Boat; Supermarine 'Stranraer' Flying-Boat; Supekrmarine 'Walrus' Amphibian; Airspeed 'Envoy' Passenger or Freight Carrying Monoplane; Avro 'Anson' Reconnaissance Monoplane; Airspeed 'Oxford' Advanced Training Monoplane; Fairey 'Swordfish' Torpedo-Spotter-Reconn... View more info
By: Anderton, David A.; Batchelor, John
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish: 1975
Seller ID: 2201663
Front hinge starting. 1975 Large Softcover. 63, [1] pp. CONTENTS: The World's First Jet Fighter; Wartime Developments: Too Fast to Fight; Postwar Developments: The Sweep Towards Mach I; War in Korea: The First Jet Fighter Aces; Dead End Developments; The Sixties: Lessons from Small Wars; The Present: Soaring Cost and Complexity; The FUTURE: Where Do We Go From Here?; Ejector Seats; Fighter Armament: Choose Your Weapon. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1954
Seller ID: 2199250
Edges rubbed, general light wear, pages toned. 1954 Trade Paperback. ix, 679 pp. World War II era navy electrician's manual. CONTENTS: Chapter 1: Duties and responsibilities; Chapter 2: D-c and a-c circuit analysis; Chapter 3: Generators and voltage regulators; Chapter 4: D-c motors; Chapter 5: D-c windings; Chapter 6: A-c motors; Chapter 7: A-c windings; Chapter 8: Transformers; Chapter 9: Meters and instruments; Chapter 10: Batteries; Chapter 11: Electric power systems... View more info
By: Donald, David
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books: 1999
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2263712
One inch chip to jacket rear. 1999 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 929 pp. An exhaustive reference of 100 years of military and civil aircraft, profusely illustrated with color and black & white photographs, with detailed specifications. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263112
First edition. Jacket faintly toned. Ink note and date on front endpaper. 1961 Hard Cover. xiii, 160 pp. Beginning with a description of our present position in the Kilomegaton Age, Arthur T. Hadley outlines the prerequisites to nuclear control, such as making the deterrent more secure and providing an effective United States response to minor aggressions. He then goes on to the necessary moves to improve stability: agreement between ourselves and the Russians on what to... View more info
By: Hogg, Ian V.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1975
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2201701
First printing. Spine lightly creased, lightly rubbed. 1975 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 160 pp. An account of the use of chemical warfare during World Wars I and II, profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Part of Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, and one of the scarcer volumes in the series. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Stackpole Books: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2207167
First edition. 1990 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 180 pp. The Air Cavalry Troops who served in Vietnam were an unusually courageous and resourceful lot. Constantly facing death, they developed a bravado and camaraderie that made them a force to be reckoned with. Winged Sabers is a comprehensive, multi-faceted volume on the men, the machines, and the missions that shaped this unique group. Author Lawrence H. Johnson traces the development of the Air Cavalry concept from its tenuou... View more info
By: Kelsey, Benjamin S.; Doolittle, Jimmy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274381
First edition. A nice copy. 1982 Hard Cover. 148 pp. Explains how the U.S. was able to dramatically increase aircraft production over a short period of time to meet the military needs of World War II. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Brassey's Inc: 2003
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2273429
First printing. Remainder mark. 2003 Trade Paperback. x, 242 pp. Provides a comprehensive critical analysis of a vessel long neglected by naval scholars - Highlights the involvement that FDR, Douglas MacArthur, John F. Kennedy, and others had with the PT Hunters in the Shallows examines the development of the small torpedo boat in U.S. naval history from Lt. William Cushing's heroic Civil War attack on the Confederate ram Albemarle in 1864 in a forerunner of the PT to th... View more info
By: Nowarra, Heinz
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Jane's: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2194887
First English edition. A nice copy. 1980 Large Hardcover. 256 pp. Translated from the 'German Die He 111: Vom Verkehrsflugzeug zum Bomber'. A 'complete history of this remarkable warplane from its origins in 1935 as an airliner, baptism of fire in Spain, right through the war years and beyond. Packed with photographs, tables and documents, it provides for the first time a complete history of one of the most important aircraft of the Second World War.' View more info
By: Pretty, R.T.; Archer, D.H.R.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Jane's Yearbooks / Sampson Low Marston: 1972
Seller ID: 1765025
Former library copy. 1972 Large Hardcover. An extensive photographic catalog of various military equipment, including missiles, weapon platforms (armored vehicles, ships, aircraft, and submarines), ordnance, electronic and optical equipment, with tables assessing comparative military strength of countries at that time. View more info
By: Rhodes, Richard
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Vintage Books: 2008
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2265110
Third printing. A fine copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. 386 pp. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative n... View more info
By: Sandys, Duncan; British Information Services - An Agency of the British Government
Price: $40.00
Publisher: British Information Services - An Agency of the British Government: 1944
Seller ID: 2180760
Lightly toned, minor wear along edges, 1/2 inch tear to spine head & foot. 1944 Stapled Binding. 14, [2] pp. Self wrappers. A verbatim report of a press conference held at the Ministry of Information, London, September 7, 1944, prepared by the Chairman of the Committee on Operational Measures Against the Flying Bombs, set up by the British War Cabinet. View more info
By: Scahill, Jeremy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Nation Books: 2007
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2265356
A nice copy. 2007 Hard Cover. xxvii, 452 pp. On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled “Baghdad's Bloody Sunday,” was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide. This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago ... View more info
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Rogers & Sherwood: 1887
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2187992
First edition. Appears to have been recased using the original boards and backstrip, which were likely trimmed at that point (they are flush with the page edges). A few light creases and spots to backstrip, minor loss from board corners. 1887 Hard Cover. x, 824 pp. 8vo. Original drab boards, paper spine label. A history of naval warfare during the American Civil War, by a former Confederate officer, who was among the first American historians to use newspapers as an auth... View more info
By: Sweetman, Bill
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Crown Publishers: 1988
Seller ID: 2187717
Sticker remnant on front endpaper. 1988 Large Hardcover. 56 pp. This is the workhorse of the RAF night campaign against Germany. Successor to ill-fated Manchester, it was like other British heavies in having one very large bomb bay, enclosed by two doors. This allowed a wide variety of loads: 250, 500, 1000, 4000, 8000 lb, all the way up to 22,000 lb 'Grand Slam' bomb (not to forget the Dam-buster bombs). Even the B-29 Superfortress used two separate bays. (See bay sidev... View more info
![Image for Text-Book of Ordnance and Gunnery [Textbook]](/assets/images/product/2262561.jpg)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262561
First edition. Former library copy, rebound in library buckram, usual library marks. Boards rubbed, corners exposed,. 1917 Hard Cover. x, 705 pp. 8vo. Chapters include: Properties, Manufacture, Care and Use of Explosives; Theory of Explosives; Measurements of Velocities and Pressures; Interior Ballistics; Metals Used in Ordnance Construction; Guns; Recoil and Recoil Brakes; Artillery; Exterior Ballistics; Projectiles; Primers and Fuses; Aiming Devices; Fire-Control Instr... View more info
By: Vassilliere, Tony; Cave, Lucien
Price: $250.00
Publisher: E. Desfosses-Neogravure, Paris: 1942
Seller ID: 2182004
Wrappers rubbed & lightly toned, crease down front wrapper of volume 1, volume 6 wrappers lightly foxed. 1942 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. Six-issue continuous run, nos. 1-6. French text. Black & white photographs, drawings, and specifications of various military aircraft, published during World War II and designed to aid in the identification of planes in flight. View more info
By: Vassilliere, Tony; Cave, Lucien
Price: $35.00
Publisher: E. Desfosses-Neogravure: 1944
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2182023
Second edition. Wrappers & pages toned, 2 inch tear to spine head. 1944 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 35 pp. French text. Black & white photographs, drawings, and specifications of various military aircraft, published during World War II and designed to aid in the identification of planes in flight. View more info
By: Vassilliere, Tony; Cave, Lucien
Price: $35.00
Publisher: E. Desfosses-Neogravure: 1945
Seller ID: 2182025
Front wrapper loose but included, edges rubbed, 1/2 inch chip from back corner, 2 inch tears to spine head & foot. 1945 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 34 pp. French text. Black & white photographs, drawings, and specifications of various military aircraft, published during World War II and designed to aid in the identification of planes in flight. View more info
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By: War Records Committee of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Price: $12.00
Publisher: War Records Committee of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / The Murray Printing Company: 1920
Seller ID: 1775907
Hinges beginning to weaken, corners lightly rubbed. 1920 Large Hardcover. ix, 747 pp. 4to. A history of MIT's role in World War I, with a complete honor roll of those killed in action; list of decorations and citations; and lists of soldiers and civilians divided by place of service. View more info
