Naval Institute Press, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers on active duty. The men.....
University Press of Kentucky, July 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from.....
Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but.....
Lyons Press, May 2021. Hardcover. The ocean is one of the few untamed places on earth, unpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there. For this reason people remain fascinated by its tides, currents, and mysteries. Life and Death at Cape Disappointment is the author's first-hand account of life as.....
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 417 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Regnery History, April 2020. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). "Mr. Johnson has ... produced a technical history of destroyers as all-around naval weapons. Anyone interested in these ships will value his efforts." --The Wall Street Journal A "well-written" and "enjoyable history of destroyer class warships" filled with.....
Milkweed Editions, October 2003. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Born the year World War I began, acclaimed poet William Stafford (1914-1993) spent World War II in a camp for conscientious objectors. Throughout a century of conflict he remained convinced that wars simply don't work. In his writings.....
Army and Navy Publishing Company, 1947. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Black embossed front cover with eagle and inset red and yellow diamond with black lettering, 'arma virumque' in banner inside diamond. Minor spotting to back cover; coners bumped; else fine.
Military Division. American Yearbook Company, 1966. Hardcover. Unpaginated. White covers with embossed gold lettering and decorations in blue and gold on front cover. Covers mildly scuffed and dusty. Top of spine chipped. Corners bumped. Top edge offront and back cover dented. Small (2mm) shallow chip to front cover. Contents fine.....
Albert Love Enterprises, 1958. Hardcover. Commenced Training 11 September 1958. Completed Training 14 November 1958. Unpaginated. Dark blue covers with embossed ship hull with gold lettering and anchor on front cover. A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Cover edges bumped.
(Taylor Publishing), 1955. Hardcover. Small class of just 70 sailors. Illustrated commemorative yearbook. Near fine, hardcover.
The Patton Museum Foundation, n.d. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 40 pages. Near fine copy.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. 354 pages. 34 B/W illustrated plates. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth with gold decorations and lettering. Edge and corner wear. Spine darkened and gold is faded. No dust jacket.
Morris Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 511 and 248 pages. First editions (first printings). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Stackpole Books, 2005. Hardcover. 280 pages. B/W photgraphs of weapons used. Revised edition. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The war against terrorism continues. Hardly a day goes by without the report of a new outrage. Foremost in the struggle against terrorism are the Special Forces. Guns.....
E. A. Hall & Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 105 pages. 5-3/4 by 8 inches. Clark was an officer in the U. S. Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. First edition (first printing). In blue cloth with gold lettering on the cover. A near fine hardcover.....
D. Appleton and Co., 1917. Hardcover. 246 pages. B/W illustrations. Includes 15 pages of musical notation for 'Bugle Calls.' Later printing. A very good copy in flexible black cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover. Edge and corner wear.
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. Hardcover.
Metro Books, 1998. Hardcover. This authoritative book chronicles the evolution of the tank, as well as jeeps, trucks, personnel carriers, and other land-based military vehicles that play an integral role in modern combat. From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, Military Vehicles: World War I to Present provides a......
Dover Publications, September 1985. Trade Paperback. On February 23, 1778, Frederick William Baron von Steuben reported to General George Washington at the Continental Army's bleak winder encampment at Valley Forge. Speaking virtually no English and at an unexpected ebb in his professional fortunes, Steuben nevertheless brought a depth of military.....
Random House Inc, August 2002. Trade Paperback. Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes's conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and.....
Brassey's, (2000). Trade Paperback. A practical, readable reference for anyone interested in military history.
Citadel Press, January 2005. Hardcover.
Avery, August 2007. Trade Paperback. A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four revolutions in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air.....
University of Oklahoma Press, April 1975. Trade Paperback. The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were.....