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SWAMP SAILORS: RIVERINE WARFARE IN THE EVERGLADES 1835-1842.

By: Buker, George E.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Gainsville, University of Florida: 1975

Seller ID: 18818

ISBN: 0813003520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

152 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w illustrations. "Until the Second Seminole War the United States Navy had generally employed the Federalist doctrine (cruiser-commerce-raiding), but the uniqueness of this Indian conflict caused the navy to adopt a new offensive strategy. For the first time in history the American Navy was pitted against a nonmaritime foe. There were no single merchantmen to attack; there were no cruisers to engage in single-ship combat; there were no enemy fleets to be repelled from the nation's harbors. Instead, there were Indians practicing guerilla t...
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WEEKEND WARRIORS.

By: Cooper, Paul L.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Manhattan, Kansas, Sunflower University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 23069

ISBN: 089745202X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

248 pp, 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs. "(Paul Cooper) was called to active naval service in 1950 and served as an enlisted man aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier 'Princeton' (CV-37) during the Korean War." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edgewear, small sticker pull on front cover.
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THE US ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE: A CENTENNIAL HISTORY.

By: Dastrup, Boyd L.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Leavenworth / Manhattan, Kansas, J.H. Johnston III / Sunflower University Press: 1982

Seller ID: 17066

ISBN: 0897450337

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

157 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Contents: Commander in Chief's Congratulations (President Ronald Reagan); Foreword (Lieutenant General William R. Richardson); Introduction; The Beginnings; Reviving Leavenworth's Sagging Image; An Era of Reform; Growing Up in the Twenties and Thirties; War and Change; Leavenworth and the Cold War: 1945-1960; Vietnam and After; Epilogue; Bibliography; Appendixes; Index. Minor wrinkling at bottom of spine, minor edge wear. Dust jacket has one tiny tear (archivally taped), very light edge wrinkling, light wrinkl...
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MARINE! THE LIFE OF LT. GEN. LEWIS B. (CHESTY) PULLER, USMC (Ret.).

By: Davis, Burke.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Bantam: 1977

Seller ID: 25847

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good -

369 pp. "Chesty Puller, the roughest, toughest Marine of them all, had one simple, brutal rule: 'Kill or be killed!'. The greatest fighting man ever to pull on Marine boots enlisted in the Corps in 1918. He loved to fight, fought over a hundred combats in the Banana Wars, commanded the Horse Marines in Peking in the '30s, battled his way from island to bloody island in the Pacific in World War II, and bulled his way through the savage Korean War. Finally, as the most praised and cursed and controversial figure in the Marines, he was forced to retire at age 57." "The only Marin...
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: SOLDIER OF DEMOCRACY.

By: Davis, Kenneth S.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Konecky & Konecky:

Seller ID: 29210

ISBN: 156852059X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

566 pp, 9 1/2" H. Undated reprint of the 1945 edition, c1999. A volume in the "Leaders of Our Time" series. "On June 6, 1944, a decisive day in the history of the Western World, the radio had been blaring reports of the progress of American troops on the Normandy beachhead since long before dawn. The man whose portrait is examined in this book had reached the supreme moment of his career. This work is a first hand account of Dwight D. Eisenhower from his early years in Texas through his military service in World War II. It documents his training at West Point, his tour of...
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SAGA OF THE AMERICAN FLAG: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: DeBarr, Candice M. and Bonkowske, Jack A. Flag illustrations by Barbara Schiefer. Scenic illustrations by Antonio Castro.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Tucsan, Harbinger: 1990

Seller ID: 25820

ISBN: 0943173655

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

84 pp, 10 3/4" H. Color illustrations. Contents: Introduction; The History of Flags; Early American Flags; The Stars and Stripes; Legends Surrounding the First Official Flags; The Star-Spangled Banner; Pre-Civil War Fl ags; Civil War to Present; Honoring the Stars and Stripes; Constitutional Right or Disrespect?; Historical Dates Pertaining to the Flag and Its Country; Admittance of States into the Union by Date and Flag Design; Flag Codes and Rules; Glossary; Suggested Reading; Index. Interior - previous owner's place, date and signature on first page; very tiny crease at top corner of...
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CURSE NOT HIS CURLS.

By: Ege, Robert J. Introduction by Lawrence A. Frost. Illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Old Army Press, (Fort Collins, Colorado, 1974).:

Seller ID: 16836

152 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Here is told the complete story of Custer's desperate 'Last Stand' at the Little Big Horn, in words, photos, maps, and the incomparable art of Lorence Bjorklund." Previous owners small stamp on f ront endpapers, a few tiny foxing marks and a tiny ink speck on bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, a few small closed tears - one archivally taped, light rubbing a few tiny scuffs. VG+/VG
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INFANTRY REGIMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HISTORY, DECORATIONS, HONORS AND COLORS OF EACH INFANTRY REGIMENT IN THE REGULAR ARMY.

By: Gallagher, Kenneth S. and Pigeon, Robert L., editors.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Military Press: 1986

Seller ID: 25336

ISBN: 0517614944

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

351 pp, 4to (11 1/14" H). "This book traces the distinguished history of America's Infantry Regiments as well as listing the honors and decorations that were earned during each regiments' campaigns. Each regiment is covered in comprehensive detail, including a complete historical lineage of each regiment and the individual battalions that were assigned to each of the parent regiments over the years, a complete list of campaigns - including Vietnam - in which each unit participated, and a list of all the decorations and honors given to each regiment. In addition, each regimental coat of...
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OLD FORTS OF THE SOUTHWEST.

By: Hart, Herbert M. Drawings by Paul J. Hartle.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Bonanza, New York, (1964).:

Seller ID: 11781

192 pp, small 4to (0ver 10 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs, maps, drawings, plans. A look at the history of forts located in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas and A rkansas, between 1850 and 1890. Very light edge wear to boards, light wrinkle at top of spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, light browning along top edge, light rubbing. VG/VG
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Image for NATIONAL SERVICE LIBRARY. 5 VOLUME SET. ONE: UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING. TWO: MILITARY STRENGTH AND RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. THREE: PRINCIPLES OF MILITARY TRAINING. FOUR: RUDIMENTS OF DRILL MOBILE ARMY TROOPS. FIVE: WARFARE OF THE FUTURE.

NATIONAL SERVICE LIBRARY. 5 VOLUME SET. ONE: UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING. TWO: MILITARY STRENGTH AND RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. THREE: PRINCIPLES OF MILITARY TRAINING. FOUR: RUDIMENTS OF DRILL MOBILE ARMY TROOPS. FIVE: WARFARE OF THE FUTURE.

By: Kilbourne, Charles E., Major, Editor-in-chief. Major General Leonard Wood, Lieut. Col. Dwight E. Aultman, Major Frank R. McCoy, Captain William T. Carpenter, Lieut. Col. Henry Jervey.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son: 1917

Seller ID: 29115

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good-

382 pp, 384 pp, 381 pp, 512 pp, 384 pp, 6 3/4" H. Bound in khaki cloth with maroon leather title labels on spine, gold lettering. Each volume has color pictorial endpapers and a color frontispiece - volumes 4 & 5 contain b&w drawings. Volume One Contents: Preparedness; A Glance at Our Military History; Arbitration and Avoidance of War - Some Effects of War; Time Necessary to Train Men; Duties of Parents; Boy Scouts; Volunteers and Militia; Universal Military Service; Changes in Organization Resulting From the Present War; Special Training and Additional Training; General Staff Corps; Th...
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AMERICANS IN BATTLE.

By: Laffin, John.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent: 1973

Seller ID: 16349

ISBN: 0460039849

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

213 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w plates. "This study of the American fighting man, of all ranks and in all services ranges from the War of Independence to Vietnam to Pinkville. Part One provides graphic accounts of all the major and many of the minor conflicts in American history, with close-ups of the man in the line of battle - from the victory over the British at New Orleans in 1814, the American Civil War, the gruelling battles with the Indians, to World War I and World War II. Part Two studies the psychology of the American fighting man and points out the strange contrasts and contrad...
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OPERATION ELVIS.

By: Levy, Alan. Illustrated by Dedini.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 1960

Seller ID: 23024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

117 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w cartoons. "A book as outrageously comic as the phenomenon it explores, 'Operation Elvis' offers a trenchant view of a modern cultural diaster: the mass hysteria that all but thwarted the transformation of a million-dollar idol into an $83.20-a-month GI. On March 24, 1958, the United State Army undertook a mission as hazardous as Valley Forge, as complex as a D-Day invasion. The objective: to convert a controversial millionaire (nomenclature: Elvis 'The Pelvis' Presley) into an army private and treat him 'just like everyone else'. Operation Elvis was staged ...
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LOOK AT THE ARMY.

By: Lord, Beman.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Henry Z. Walck, New York, 1965, first edition.:

Seller ID: 17955

56 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w photograph, reproductions, map. "Do you know....how many wars our Army has fought? who Pancho Villa was? what 'Remember the Maine' means? why the Army once used camels? what 'the long gray line' is? (This) is the story of the United States Army, from the first band of men organized under Myles Standish for protection against the Indians, to the men in today's Ordnance Corps working on our satell i t e a n d m i ssile programs. Many men have distinguished themselves in the service of our country...
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BRIEF POINTS: AN ALMANAC FOR PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY MIDSHIPMEN. SECOND EDITION.

By: Mackenzie, Ross.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Naval Institute Prerss, Annapolis, Maryland, 1996, second edition.:

Seller ID: 19923

210 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H), soft cover. ISBN 1557505845 B&w photographs. "Provides a wealth of information about the Academy, with useful references to the Navy and Annapolis; Helps families and friends share in the midshipman experience; Answers qu estions most frequently asked by newcomers and outsiders; Includes a glossary of Academy acronyms, terms, and slang." Interior - small area of waviness due to dampness at top corner of approx. page 170 to end of book, otherwise clean and t i g h t w i t h no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear/curl at bottom corner of co...
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SPURS TO GLORY: THE STORY OF THE UNITED STATES CAVALRY.

By: Merrill, James M.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Rand McNally, Chicago, (1966), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 11791

302 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. Follows the history of the United States Cavalry, from its role of protecting settlers as they moved west across the contintent, to the acquisition of new territory in the south, through the Civil War and the Indian uprisings until "Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, General Pershing and the search for Pancho Villa - the final battles were fought. The job of the cavalry was done. The long road to glory was ended." Two small shallow bumps to top edge of front board, a few pages with d...
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NO MORE VIETNAMS.

By: Nixon, Richard. (Richard Milhous Nixon.)

Price: $200.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Arbor House: 1985

Seller ID: 29872

ISBN: 0877957266

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, 8 9/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, blindstamped signature on front board, top edge of textblock dark blue, fore edge untrimmed. Signed on front free endpaper: "Richard Nixon". In plain dark blue cloth-covered slipcase. Contents; The Myths of Vietnam; How the Vietnam War Began; Why and How We Went Into Vietnam; How We Won the War; How We Lost the Peace; Third World War; Author's Note. One very tiny scuff and two small faint rub marks on top of dark blue text block, two very tiny dark blue dye marks at top edge of page leaves 123/124 & 125/126. Slip...
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THE SWORD OF THE REPUBLIC: THE UNITED STATES ARMY ON THE FRONTIER, 1783-1846.

By: Prucha, Francis Paul.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan: 1969

Seller ID: 16327

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

442 pp, large 8vo (9 9/16" H). Map endpapers, b&w maps, plates. "(The) story of federal troops called up to enforce paper possession with physical occupation when treaty and purchase opened up the region from the Appalachians west to the Mississippi and the vast new frontiers in the Louisiana Territory. The duties of these soldiers were to protect the settlers and to establish a military presence that maintained American rights with honor in the face of Indian intransigence and British and Spanish scheming. These soldiers, in accomplishing their mission, became farmers, roadbuilders,...
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MILITARY FORCE AND AMERICAN SOCIETY.

By: Russett, Bruce M. and Stepan, Alfred, eds. (Major James S. Dickey, Clarence L. Abercrombie III, Major Raoul H. Alcala, Jong Ryool Lee, Wayne Moyer, Douglas H.Rosenberg.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, (1973).:

Seller ID: 15126

371 pp, 8vo (8" H), soft cover. Contents: Introduction - The Military in America: New Parameters, New Problems, New Approaches; Part 1. Politicization of the Military - A Personal Statement; The New Military Professionalism; Part 2. Militarization of the Polity - Changing National Priorities of the United States; House Voting on Defense: An Ideological Explanation; Arms and the American Way: The Ideological Dimension of Military Growth - The New Politics of National Security: A Selected and A nnotated Research Bibliography. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Ex...
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SMALL WARS MANUAL - UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS 1940.

By: Schaffer, Ronald, introduction.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Manhattan, Kansas, Sunflower University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 22959

ISBN: 0897451120

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8 1/2" H, b&w illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1940 edition, with introduction. Chapter headings: Introduction; Organization; Logistics; Training; Initial operations; Infantry patrols; Mounted detachments; Convoys and convoy escorts; Aviation; River operations; Disarmament of population; Armed native organizations; Military government; Supervision of elections; Withdrawal. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - spine lightly twisted, two small soft corner creases, minor edge wear.
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SMALL WARS MANUAL - UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS 1940.

By: Schaffer, Ronald, introduction.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Manhattan, Kansas, Sunflower University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 29833

ISBN: 0897451120

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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Category: Military - American: General