Four 10 by 8-inch US Military Photos. World War II Era
Two of the photos show Troop Transportation ; One of Marksmanship Training; One of Sergeants Checking a target.
“No one would deny that all wars and battles are regrettable acts of human folly, causing unjustifiable agony and distress to combatants and non-combatants alike-but these considerations should not preclude their serious study, if only to avoid the mistakes of the past which make such tragedies inevitable.”
― David G. Chandler, A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe
Two of the photos show Troop Transportation ; One of Marksmanship Training; One of Sergeants Checking a target.
New York: Harper’s Weekly, 1869. Background Information:In 1868 the first war of Cuban independence, also known as the Ten Years' War, begins. It lasts until 1878.The Ten Years' War (Guerra de los Diez Años), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of.....
Madrid: Photoengranving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898. Background Information:La Ilustración Española y Americana was a weekly Spanish magazine that was published from 1869 to 1921. The Cuban War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia cubana), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba.....
London: Alabaster, Passmore & Sons, 1918. 1st Edition. A Very Good Soft cover. An anonymous narrative of the situation, treatment and numerous persons are named.
USA: Wollaston Press, 2005. Hardcover. Using a collective biography approach, Baggett profiles 742 white southerners who supported Congressional Reconstruction and the Republican Party. He then compares and contrasts the scalawags with 666 redeemer-Democrats who opposed and eventually replaced them.This is the first Southwide study of the scalawags, its scope and.....
U.S.A. Stein and Day, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, was a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various militias acting from within Lebanon. The.....
New York: Warner Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Interweaving mythology, history, science, and mystical cultures, an archaeologist offers a feminine approach to the study of world history, examining an array of female warriors, leaders, and heroines who have been left out of.....
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Drawing on newly discovered diaries and a rich trove of contemporary accounts, Blackman has fashioned a thrilling, intimate narrative that reads like a novel. Wild Rose is an unforgettable rendering of an astonishing woman.....
Routledge, 1999. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. A detailed study of the material culture of the Frankish settlers in Israel, Cyprus, Syria and Jordan, comprehensive coverage of the key topics connected to crusader archaeology, including an examination of urban and rural settlements, agriculture, industry, the military, the church.....
Richmond, VA: Jones Brothers & Co., 1867. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. "A collection of anecdotes and sketches, many of which have humor and doubtful authenticity" Nevins I, p.97James D. McCabe, An American writer was educated at the Virginia Military Institute, served in the confederate War Department.....
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated cloth. Ellison Capers (1837-1908), a Charleston native, was elected major of a regiment at the beginning of the war, but advanced quickly, being promoted to colonel during the Atlanta campaign, and to Brigadier General in the aftermath of.....
1973. Soft cover.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. Samuel H. Bryant. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A classic work of military history follows the enigmatic commander in chief of the Union forces through the last year and a half of the Civil War. It is both a revelatory portrait of.....
USA: Osprey Publishing, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Soft cover. In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley. This book tells the complete story.....
New York: The New Press, 2004. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A history of Civil War newspaper reporting on all sides of the conflict shares specific perspectives as they were published at the time in dozens of period newspapers, from the Harrisburg Telegraph to the New Orleans Bee.....
New York: Viking Adult, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Describes how German scientists under Hitler knowingly broke international agreements in order to build deadly weapons prior to World War I, discussing German innovation and breakthroughs that paved the way to the discovery of.....
Gloucester, Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press, 2009. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A Global Survey of Modern Warfare, from the First Fervid Days of the French Revolution of 1789 to the Bloody Stalemate that Ended the Iran-Iraq War in 1988 In the modern era, warfare entered a new phase.....
New York: Stein and Day, 1984. Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. This work chronicles the virtual destruction of an American division in one of World War II's most costly and useless attacks. First-hand testimony from both German and American survivors as well as recently declassified.....
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. "An original and fast-paced interpretive history of one of the Confederacy's most successful and controversial commerce raiders. Drawing upon new sources, and revisiting an arsenal of old ones, Curry dissects the CSS Shenandoah's rich history."The.....
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1918. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. An account of World War I showing the differences between the German and Americans.
New York: Harcourt, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A rich canvas of a time of despair and defeat that is exciting and highly readable, a charged tale full of physical adventure and political battle that sweeps from the marble halls of Richmond to.....
New York: Free Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A comprehensive history of the Confederacy moves beyond military events to examine legal structures, politics, social structures, and the economy of the South during the Civil War.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Berkley Press: University of California Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. James Delgado is one of the world's preeminent marine archaeolgists; he's also a terrific writer, and Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet is a fascinating adventure tale packed with insights into a maritime empire.....