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The Guns of August

By: Tuchman, Barbara W.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1980

Seller ID: 001537

ISBN: 0553227734

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Covers a bit creased, corners bumped. Slight edge wear.

"Barbara Tuchman's great epic is the stunning masterpiece of WWI. Here are the unforgettable portraits of an era-and the disasters of leadership. Here is the big picture of war-the full shocking drama of August, 1914, an incredible month of bloody battles that changed the course of the world."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The March of the Mormon Battalion From Council Bluffs to California: Taken from the Journal of Henry Standage

By: Golder, Frank Alfred; Bailey, Thomas A.; Smith, J. Lyman

Price: $110.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1928

Seller ID: 007411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Dark blue cloth with gold lettering, xiii + 295 pp, index, bibliography, list of the members of the battalion, 8 full page b/w photos tipped in. Two tone map end papers showing the routes of the Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake City and the Mormon battalion to Los Angeles. Ex-library with typical markings stamps and stickers. Spine a bit cocked and sunned, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, small stain to front board that is likely a dampstain. Boards starting to separate from text block along the hinges, exposing some of the webbing. Pages slightly browned but text is clean and unmar...
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The Officer As a Leader

By: Marshall, S. L. A.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole Books: 1966

Seller ID: 9047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Red over gray cloth, gray lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, minor edge wear with a little chipping at top and base of spine, some scuffing to jacket. Overall a nice copy. ;
Bibliography, index. DD 95 memo laid in, discussing promotions, awards, and a letter Marshall was to prepare for an awards ceremony. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 288 pages;

"Gathers what man has learned from all of our wars - Revolution to Viet Nam - and from the behavioral sciences ... Digests the proven techniques for getting the self-discipline a...
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The Russian Convoys

By: Schofield, B. B.

Price: $6.25

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1967

Seller ID: 8950

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ;
16 pp. Of b/w photographs, maps, appendices on the Russian convoys, index. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 240 pages;

"The Murmansk Run, most dangerous of all sea routes in World War II, was the vital supply line that helped defeat Germany's armies in Russia.
"Here is the first full account of those merchant marine ships and crews. Attacked by land based Stuka dive bombers, trailed by submarine 'wolf packs,' these Allied seamen braved incredible risks in ice-choked no...
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The Sands of Dunkirk

By: Collier, Richard

Price: $7.25

Publisher: New York, Dell: 1962

Seller ID: 8877

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good

Top corner creased, a little edge wear and rubbing, light tanning. A nice copy. ;
Dell # 7604, 1st paperback printing. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 287 pages;

"Trapped between German armored forces and the sea, soldiers marched, ran and crawled through the blazing towns to the beaches; battled for hopeless positions; knelt praying in the sand, while German Stukas dive-bombed them. This was Dunkirk, France, 1940, when men fighting for freedom turned defeat into epic victory. "
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The Sino-Japanese Negotiations of 1915 Japanese and Chinese Documents and Chinese Official Statement

By: N/A

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: 1921

Seller ID: 9000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Reddish cloth over paper boards. Some edge wear and chipping, spine sunned, various library and other stamps. Front boards starting at half title page. Interior is in good condition and overall a solid copy. ;
Pamphlet No. 45 in a series of pamphlets for the 1921 Conference on the Limitation of Armament. A sheet 'With the compliments of the Carnegie Endowment' is glued onto the front free end paper. This copy has stamps indicating it was held by the Judge Advocate General's office and (in 1959) the American University Library. ; Ex-Library; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾" Tall; 76 pages;

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The Soviet Sea Challenge: The Struggle for Control of the World's Oceans

By: Eller, Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller, USN (Ret.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Chicago, Cowles Book Company, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 006174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

xiv + 315 pp., 16 pp. glossy black and white photographs tipped in, bibliography, maps, index. Red boards with white lettering. Spine somewhat slanted, corners a bit bumped, shallow indent along top back edge. DJ has two small chips along top edge, small closed tear along bottom edge, and 3" tear along back flap from the bottom. Overall a nice copy.

"Americans . . . are often unaware of a greater danger: the Russians' determined drive to become masters of the sea on which America's very life depends."
Eller traces the growth of American sea power from World War II (where...
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The Tangled Web

By: Ganier-Raymond, Philippe

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Warner Books: 1972

Seller ID: 001806

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine a bit creased, slanted, corners bumped. Some edge wear plus chipping to top of spine. Upper right corner of most pages has small stain. Text is clean and unmarked.

"In March, 1942, the Germans captured Hubertus Lauwers, a radioman in the Dutch section of British Special Operations who had parachuted into occupied Holland a year before. The German Abwehr then forced Lauwers to send false messages to Britain and in return receive valuable information for use by the Third Reich.
"The Tangled Web" follows step by step the fate of Lauwers, and reveals the shocking and my...
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The Tirpitz and the Battle for the North Atlantic

By: Woodward, David

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Berkley Books: 1953

Seller ID: 001534

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Covers a bit creased with some rubbing/darkening, corners bumped, slightly shelf-cocked. Some foxing.

"The massive battleship Tirpitz was the pride of the German Navy-the biggest warship in the Western Hemisphere. The very existence of the Tirpitz tied up an entire Allied fleet. It also required the constant vigilance of thousands of planes. This is the story of the desperate attempts to sink a ship that was a deadly danger to the entire war effort. Everything was tried: midget submarines, high-altitude bombers. And frogmen/ These attempts make one of the most fascinating chapters...
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The Washington Conference

By: Buell, Raymond Leslie

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1922

Seller ID: 9001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Black cloth with gold lettering, spine sunned, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in plastic protector, some edge wear and chipping, spine somewhat sunned, some neat tape repairs on the inside of the jacket to the top and bottom edges (not visible). An attractive copy. ;
xiii + 461 pp. Appendices, index. Maps tipped in after page 10. These are 'The Far East - Showing the holding of Foreign Powers in China, Japanese Occupations in Siberia, and the Far-Eastern Republic' and 'The Western Pacific - Showing Mandates, Cables, Strategic Islands.' ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; ...
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U-Boat Ace The Story of Wolfgang Luth

By: Vause, Jordan

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1991

Seller ID: 8762

ISBN: 0312926413

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good

Light edge wear and rubbing, a little chipping at top and base of spine. A fairly tight, attractive copy. ;
xxi + 266 pp. 8 pages of b/w photos, notes, bibliography, index. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 266 pages;

"In 1942, the U-boats took Hitler's blitzkrieg to the sea - until the Allies struck back!
" They were the 'wolves of the sea,' working in packs or alone, ripping apart Allied convoys, spreading terror, death, and destruction from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Now, a naval historian reveals what it was like to live, fight, and face death inside the cram...
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Vicksburg: A People at War 1860 - 1865

By: Walker, Peter F.

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Wilmington, NC, Broadfoot Publishing: 1987

Seller ID: 001172

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Almost As New condition. Reprint of the original 1960 title.

"At Vicksburg, said one of the city's inhabitants, Grant fought the Confederate army in part, but the city and its people mainly. This is the compelling story of these people and their city, caught in civil war. Here were a people who in the tumultuous months of 1860 hesitantly moved from peace to secession and were then caught in the stream of events which relentlessly moved from civil war to siege to final defeat."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Wake Island

By: Schultz, Duane

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Chicago, Playboy Press: 1979

Seller ID: 004047

ISBN: 087216571x

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine slightly slanted/creased, cover creased, corners somewhat bumped, cracked at p. 80. 16 pages of black and white photographs.

"It is December 1941. The devastation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor leaves behind the most humiliating defeat America has ever suffered. But one Pacific island holds on. the world holds its breath and watches as a tiny band of marines miraculously beats back massive enemy invasions by air, land and sea. From jungle to lagoon, beach to foxhole, they would fight in a terrifying inferno of machine gun bullets, blood and sand - surviving on guts a...
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War Under the Waves

By: Warshofsky, Fred

Price: $3.75

Publisher: New York, Pyramid Books: 1964

Seller ID: 005823

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Minor edgewear & bumping, small crease on front cover, PO name inside. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.

"From the stealthy, lethal attack to the ear-splitting Klaxon of an emergency crash dive, here is the history of the silent service - of brave, courageous men who dare to live and fight and die beneath the seven seas. Here are the true stories of the valiant crews and lethal ships that have made the record of the submarine service glow with glory!"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Category: Military History