Oxford University Press, December 1986. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. If anecdotes are marginal notes on the pages of history, these will delight any reader who has ever been moved or entertained by the condition of the soldier. Few fields of human endeavor have inspired so many memorable anecdotes.....
Grove Press, November 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A gut-clenching and meticulously detailed (USA Today) account from the Korean War and how Captain William Barber led 246 courageous Marines of the Seventh Marine Regiment in the perilous defense of Fox Hill. November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 1985. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a......
Frontline Books, May 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Frederick the Great is one of history's most controversial leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new.....
Da Capo Press, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War in 1756; outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian armies aligned against him; and established Prussia as a major power, thereby decisively influencing the next two.....
Berkley, November 2007. Trade Paperback. Good in wrappers (paperback).
Delacorte Press, March 1983. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Here is a seminal work on the philosophy of successful leadership that is as applicable to contemporary business as it is to war. James Clavell has taken a 1910 translation and clarified it for the.....
Random House Inc, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Remainder Copy - like new. Previous translations of The Art of War have presented Sun Tzu's classic from the point of view of military strategy, Chinese history, or Taoist philosophy. This translation--accompanied by the translators' in-depth essays and illuminating line-by-line commentary--offers a fresh.....
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.....
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.
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.
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.....
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.