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Military History | - 35 items found in your search |
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Ballard, J. G. Empire of the Sun
NY: Simon & Schuster 1984 0-671-53051-8 / 9780671530518 First Edition Fine Fine
First edition. Autobiographical fiction based on the author's childhood experiences in a WWII Shanghai prison camp. Filmed by Steven Spielberg. Fine in fine (price-clipped) dust jacket.
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18.00 USD
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Boley, Henry Lexington In Old Virginia
Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie 1936 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Good
First printing. Illustrated with photographs; terrific photo endpapers. A near fine copy in a somewhat chipped dust jacket, still quite presentable and an uncommon title.
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75.00 USD
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Calhoun, Capt. C. Raymond Typhoon: The Other Enemy
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press 1981 0-87021-510-8 / 9780870215100 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good+
First Printing. The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944. The Commander of a ship that came close to destruction in the typhoon documents the tragedy that claimed 778 men, three destroyers, and more than 100 aircraft. A very good + copy in like dust jacket; some foxing to edges of text block.
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20.00 USD
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Clancy, Tom Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Berkley Pub Group 1995 0425149579 / 9780425149577 First Edition Trade Paperback Near Fine None Issued
First printing, issued in softcover only. Illustrated with photographs an diagrams. Includes detailed analyses of the Air Force's premier fighter planes, including the F-15 Eagle; an insider's look at the people behind the planes and weapons; combat strategies and training techniques used by the U.S. Air Force; and much more. Felt pen marking on the top corner of the FFEP, else a very near fine copy.
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10.00 USD
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Delderfield, R. Seven Men of Gascony
New York, NY, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1973 0-671-21794-1 / 9780671217945 First Edition Thus Hard Cover Fine Very Near Fine
Originally published in 1949. The great saga of Napoleon's armies by the author of "God is an Englishman." A fine copy in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket.
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10.00 USD
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Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt, and Grace Person Hayes The Campaigns on the Turkish Fronts (The Military History of World War I Series)
NY: Franklin Watts 1967 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Fully illustrated with photographs. Includes Turkish offensives in the Caucasus, Egypt, and the Persian Gulf, the naval effort at the Dardanelles, Gallipoli, the Mesopotamian Front, and many other campaigns. PO's small stamp to top of FFEP, else fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
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20.00 USD
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Fisher, David The War Magician
NY: Coward McCann 1983 0698111400 / 9780698111400 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good +
Hardcover, illustrated with photographs. The story of stage magician Jasper Maskelyne, who, with a hand-picked group of men known as The Magic Gang, secretly conducted one of the strangest campaigns in World War II: the use of the stage magic techniques to confound the Nazi forces with the most incredible array of illusions and special effects ever produced on a battlefield. A Near Fine copy in Very Good or better dust jacket.
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35.00 USD
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Fussell, Paul Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
Boston: Little, Brown 1996 0316297178 / 9780316297172 First Edition Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine
First printing. Illustrated with photographs. A memoir by the author of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award. "Late in the afternoon of March 15, 1945, in a small woods in southeastern France, Boy Fussell, aged 20, was ill treated by members of the German Wehrmacht... How a young person so innocent was damaged this way and what happened as a result is the subject of this book." Remainder mark, else a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
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10.00 USD
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Heaton, Colin D. German Anti-Partisan Warfare in Europe, 1939-1945
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2001 0764313959 / 9780764313950 First Edition Hard Cover As New As New Signed by Authors
First edition. Hardcover, illustrated with photographs. An AMAZING, AUTOGRAPH-FILLED COPY, not only SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page, but ALSO by interviewees Generalleutnant Gunther Rall, General Flieger-Ausbildung Wolfgang Falck (Kommodore of Nachtjagd [Night Fighters]) and Milovan Djilas (noted partisan then fighting under Stalinist Tito). Additionally, affixed to the front endpapers are paper slips bearing the AUTOGRAPHS OF FIFTEEN ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS collected by author Heaton during the many years spent researching the book. From Germany: Sturmbannfuehrer Rudolf Maximillian von Falkenhahn, Gruppenfuehrer Otto Kumm, Oberst Willi Fey, Generalmajor Hannes Trautloft, Generalmajor Deitrich Hrabak, Generalleutnant Adolf Galland, Oberfeldwebel Albert Kerscher, Oberleutnant Paul Egger, Generalleutnant Hans Baur (Hitler's personal pilot for 14 yrs), and Hans Hossfelder; from Greece: Panikos Panay and Harris Kirikakides; from Belgium: Oberfuehrer der Waffen SS Leon Degrelle; from Bessarabia: Lieutenant Colonel Prince Leonidas Damianov Maximciuc - USAF (Ret.); and from France: Pierre Deshayes. This book is in AS NEW condition, and includes laid in a sheet from Knight's Cross International listing the names of those participants whose autographs are included. A spectacular copy, one of a very small number issued thus.
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750.00 USD
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Howarth, David 1066: The Year of the Conquest
NY: Viking 1977 0670696013 / 9780670696017 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Illustrated. Brings alive the struggle for the English succession, won by the able and fated Harold, the separate invaion from Norway by raucous King Harald Hardrada and Tostig, the deposed Earl of Northumbria, brilliantly foiled by Harold at Stamford Bridge only days before William's landing, and vividly re-creates the invasion and battle themselves. PO's (small) name to top of FFEP, else fine in fine dust jacket.
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10.00 USD
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