D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 655 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
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Quelques Drapeaux Français Dessinés et Coloriés.
Arnoux, Guy. Paris: Devambez, 1917[?]. 10 plates and cover page with limitation page at verso. Elephant Folio. Title page and plates hand colored and depict French soldiers in various battles from the Crusades through World War I and including Joan of Arc. Original folio with some staining to front and rear, colored illustration on cover board of a French World War I helmet within a wreath, original ribbon ties in France's colors of red, white and blue in original condition and still bright.
Published in an edition of 500, this is #446. Illustrtations all by Guy Arnoux. More
What You Should Know About the Atomic Bomb: A Message from the Surgeon General Army Medical Department.
Washington DC: Army Medical Department, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 50 pp. 8vo. Wraps. Scuffing and wear to covers, tear at upper left corner of front panel which has resulted in multiple creases. Some soiling and abrasions.
Important early review of the basis of nuclear energy and the impact on humans, how it might be treated, and the extent of fallout should a bomb be detonated in a populated area. A sobering piece of infromation produced for the general public early in the atomic age. Good. More
American Women and the World War.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. Hardcover. First Edition. xix, 545, [2 ads] pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Very light wear. Clean within. Very Good. More
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 Volumes).
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Hard Cover. As. Later Printing. 4to. Black cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine and cover boards, each clean and crisp, light fading to spines. Freeman's monumental study of Lee's commanders and a follow up to his best known work, the R. E. Lee: A Biography. Very Good. More
Captain Sam Grant, Grant Moves South, Grant Takes Command.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, [nd]. Hardcover. As. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies with light spotting along edge of text block. Very clean within.
Lloyd Lewis' "Captain Sam Grant" and the remaining two by the popular Civil War historian, Bruce Catton. Very Good. More
George C. Marshall: Education of a General 1880-1939.
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing, 1982. xvii, 421 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has tiny closed tears at head of spine, very clean and sharp, now in mylar cover. Interior clean and crisp.
Volume I of Forrest Pogue's magisterial 4-volume biography of George C. Marshall. Fine / Very Good. More
Professional Military Education in the United States: A Historical Dictionary.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 391 pp. Green cloth boards, clean and crisp inside and out. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Gettysburg Then and Now.
Dayton, OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1983. Hard Cover. Facsimile Edition. Originally published by Vanderslice in 1897, 1899; this is a reproduction of that early edition. Clean, crisp copy with a National Park Service Gettysburg brochure and three color snapshots of the 1st Minnesota Monument and two others. Fine. More
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