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HOW GREAT GENERALS WIN.

By: Alexander, Bevin.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Avon: 1995

Seller ID: 24258

ISBN: 0380724367

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

320 pp, 7 7/8" H. B&w photographs, maps. "Undaunted by Hannibal's elephants, Scipio Africanus ordered his outnumbered cavlary to charge directly toward the massive beasts - and, by doing so, saved Rome. Stonewall Jackson struck like lightning throughout the Shenandoah Valley, with occasional feints toward Washington - and so frustrated a numerically superior Union Army. Despite few resouces and even less support from the German High Command, The 'Desert Fox', Erwin Rommel, conducted one of the most spectacular and successful campaigns in military history. In wars throughout the centur...
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RED-TAPE AND PIGEON-HOLE GENERALS: ANDREW A. HUMPHREYS IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

By: Arner, Frederick B., commentary. (William H. Armstrong.) Foreword by Charles T. Joyce.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Charlottesville, Virginia, Rockbridge: 1999

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24961

ISBN: 1883522153

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

378 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "Regarded as anonymously written fiction when it was originally published in 1864, this rollicking story of the way it was in the Union 's Army of the Potomac is a thinly disguised tale of truth. It is, in fact, a scathing attack on the character and military ability of Gen. Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. The author, Lt. Col. William H. Armstrong of the 129th Pennyslvania Volunteer Infantry, risked a libel action to send his message, yet he recognized that abuses within the system could not be addressed without first bei...
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ARMY FLYER.

By: Arnold, H.H., Lieutenant General and Eaker, Ira C., Brigadier General.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1942

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28969

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

299 pp, 8 3/8" H. B&w frontispiece. Contents: Foreword; Orientation (Outline of an Army Air Career / A Model Military Air Career - From Cadet, to General, to Retirement / The Keystone of a Military Career - Reputation and the Efficiency Report); Career Details (The Early Years / The Middle Years / The Waning Years / Specialities for the Junior Airman); Air Warfare (The Flyer in Combat / Winning Air Tactics and Strategy). Very light wrinkling to fore-edge of frontispiece, light browning to edges of text block, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, 4-5" light rub mark down spine.
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1812: NAPOLEON IN MOSCOW.

By: Austin, Paul Britten.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Greenhill: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24849

ISBN: 1853671959

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

264 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w plates, maps. "Napoleon's Grand Armee waits at the gates of Moscow, preparing to enter in triumphal procession. But it finds a city abandoned by its inhabitants - save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incediary fuzes hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burns, while looters dodge the fires to plunder and pillage. And so beings '1812: Napoleon in Moscow', Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric 'word-film' presented through the testimony of more than 100 of the people who witnessed and took pa...
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THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

By: Baker, Kenneth, ed. (Wilfred Owen, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Parker, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Joy Corfield, Herman Melville, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16641

ISBN: 0571174531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

598 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "Where previous war anthologies have confined themselves to particular periods or ideological outlooks, Kenneth Baker's takes a catholic view and benefits from a wider exploration of material, classical and modern, English and foreign-language. He has given preference to poems with a strong documentary or psychological realism, and the entire book is divided into sections dealing with such matters as 'The Patriotic Imperative', 'Recruitment', 'Weapons', 'Leadership', 'Civilian Victims', 'Conscientious Objection', 'Views of Death', and 'Gallantry and Her...
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THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29093

ISBN: 0571174531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

THE CORAL ISLAND.

By: Ballantyne, R.M.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins Clear-Type Press:

Seller ID: 30212

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

444 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), thin burgundy leather over card covers/spine - gold lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt - in slipcase. Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone illustrations, including frontispiece, decorated title page, integral ribbon bookmark. After a shipwreck, three boys are marooned on an island in the South Pacific. They experience a 'Robinson Crusoe'-like existence - forging shelter and the necessities of life from a few salvaged items and the natural resources surrounding them, encountering native Polynesians, British pirates and Christian missionaries before returning...
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THE DESERT GENERALS.

By: Barnett, Correlli.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, William Kimber: 1960

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 24194

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "The first portrait is of Sir Richard O'Connor, who won the fantastic victories over Graziani's Italians in 1940. The author shows that the credit for the daring and unorthodox planning is due to O'Connor and not to Wavell; he puts forward a convincing argument to show that Tripoli could have been taken - and the North African campaign ended - in February, 1941, if the Prime Minister had not diverted forces to Greece. Of Sir Alan Cunningham, first commander of 8th Army, there is a picture of imaginative i...
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BOMBER BARONS.

By: Bowyer, Chaz.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Leo Cooper: 2001

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27030

ISBN: 085052802X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

222 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs. "By the end of the Second World War, a grim total of 55,000 air crew of Bomber Command has lost their lives. This figure comprised no less than seventy per cent of RAF fatalities. Yet, unlike their more glamorous fighter pilot colleagues, very few bomber pilots or crewmen were familiar household names to the general public. However, within the ranks of the RAF itself, some individuals stood out gaining high reputations for their courage and leadership, a respect achieved regardless of the decorations they had won or the number of sor...
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THE 10th ROYAL HUSSARS (PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Brander, Michael. Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Leo Cooper, London, 1969, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21689

137 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Brigadier Humphrey Gore, who raised the 10th Dragoons in 1715, and General Sir David Dawney, Colonel in 1969, each had a son in the regiment, as also did many of t he Colonels between them, including King Edward VII, for such close family relationships at all levels were a feature in the Tenth, with the same names appearing generation after generation. Hence in a very intimate way the regiment has al w a y s b e e n 'Proud of Their Man'. The Tenth has also always been notable for the Cavalry Spiri...
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SHAKER COMMUNITIES, SHAKER LIVES.

By: Brewer, Priscilla J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Hanover, NH, University Press of New England: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27296

ISBN: 0874513626

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

273 pp, large 8vo (89 1/4" H). B&w photographs, tables. "Athough we know much about Shaker furniture, dance, textiles, and various artifacts, few books tell us about the Shakers as real people and the inner social workings of their sect. Who were the Shakers? What were their social, economic, and religious backgrounds? Why did they join this celibate, communal sect, and why did some leave while others stayed? What did they think of life inside the communities and the rapidly changing world outside? And, perhaps most important, when and why did the sect begin to decline, and how ...
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THE INSUBORDINATE AND THE NONCOMPLIANT: CASE STUDIES OF CANADIAN MUTINY AND DISOBEDIENCE, 1920 TO PRESENT.

By: Coombs, Howard G., ed. Foreword by Major-General P.R. Hussey. Preface by Colonel Bernd Horn. (Richard J. Walker, Allan English, Daniel Bercuson, Dean C. Black, Rachel Lea Heide, Michael Whitby, Richard O. Mayne, Robert H. Caldwell, et al.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Kingston, Canadian Defence Academy Press: 2007

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24534

ISBN: 1550027646

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

448 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs. "Military leadership has both formal and informal dimensions. The formal leadership of any organization must always ensure that it minimizes the divergence between institutional aims and the actions of informal leaders. When this separation occurs, the result is sometimes mutiny. These incidents of insubordination and noncompliance represent a form of dialogue between military personnel and their leadership. (This book) offers a perspective on the Canadian experience with military mutiny in the twentieth century in an effort to provide releva...
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FATAL DECISION: ANZIO AND THE BATTLE FOR ROME.

By: D'Este, Carlo.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: HarperCollins, New York, 1991, book club edition.:

Seller ID: 17547

566 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "By taking advantage of Allied command of the sea and air to effect complete surprise, infantry and armored forces landing at Anzio on January 22 were expected to secure a beachhead and then push inland to cut the two main highways and railroads supplying the German armies to the south, either trapping and annihilating them or forcing them to withdraw north and opening the way to R o m e . S u c h was the plan. What really happened, brilliantly told by Carlo D'Este, was a near dis...
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SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE: THE FIRST ARCTIC LAND EXPEDITION, 1819-1822.

By: Davis, Richard C., editor. (Sir John Franklin.)

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Champlain Society: 1995

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 28049

ISBN: 0969342543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

cix, 463 pp, (xxiii), large 8vo (9 1/2" H), red cloth with gold lettering/banding/emblem on spine (no dust jacket - as issued). Top edge gilt. Limited edition of 1250 copies, this copy unnumbered. B&w illustrations, 3 maps (2 double-page). "This volume contains nearly complete transcriptions of the extant journals kept by John Franklin during his expedition to the unknown northern coast of the North American continent in the years 1819 to 1822. Only a few abstracts and tables of observations from the extant journal books have been excluded, and they, for the most part, are availab...
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THE MOUCHOTTE DIARIES, 1940-1943.

By: Dezarrois, Andre, editor. Translated from the French by Philip John Stead. (Rene Mouchotte.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Staples Press: 1956

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 28626

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

221 pp, 8 3/4" H. Frontispiece. "This is the famous Rene who was transformed by three years of war from an unknown pilot of the Reserve into one of the great leaders of Free France in the air, Pierre Clostermann's hero and commanding officer. In 1940 Rene made his daring escape from Oran in an unserviceable plane seized from under the very noses of the authorities. This was a flight not away from danger, but into the thick of the Battle of Britain. He fought with the R.A.F. in Hurricanes and Spitfires, attacking enemy shipping, sweeping over France, giving air-cover to the Dieppe ...
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THE WARS OF EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE. 2ND EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED.

By: Ekedahl, Carolyn McGiffert and Goodman, Melvin A. (Eduard Shevardnadze.)

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Brassey's, Washington, D.C., (2001), 2nd edition, revised and updated, Ist printing.:

Seller ID: 12730

333 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. B&w photos, maps. "A penetrating analysis of the remarkable political career of the man who transformed Soviet foreign policy. Together with Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev, Eduard Shevardnadze led the dramatic Soviet about-face in the 1980s that ended the Cold War and transformed the international political climate. While Gorbachev and Yakovlev focused on domestic reform, Shevardnadze redirected foreign policy. This major book is the first to take a critical look at the many battles Shevardnadze has fought at home and abroad throughout hi...
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McGILL UNIVERSITY AT WAR. 1914-1918, 1939-1945.

By: Fetherstonhaugh, R.C. Epilogue by F. Cyril James.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill University: 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28510

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

437 pp, 9 3/8" H. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold crest on front board. Tissue-covered colour frontispiece, b&w photographs. Contents (1914-1918): The Shadow of War; Canada's Military Effort; Army Recruiting; Valour and Sacrifice; No. 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill); Service on Many Fronts; Wartime Research; University Leadership and Civilian Achievement; The Aftermath of War. (1939-1945): The Second Great War; McGill's Service Record, 1939-'45; The Challenge of 1940; Marshalling the McGill Effort, 1941; Development of the War Effort, 1942; The Peak of Training, 1943;...
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THE COMMANDOS AT DIEPPE: REHEARSAL FOR D-DAY. OPERATION CAULDRON, NO 4 COMMANDO ATTACK ON THE HESS BATTERY, AUGUST 19TH, 1942.

By: Fowler, Will.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16435

ISBN: 0007111258

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256 pp, large 8vo, (9 3/8" H). B&w maps, photographs. "History's overriding view of the Dieppe raid in 1942 is that of a catastrophic disaster, with thousands of Canadian and British troops killed or captured. Often overlooked is No 4 Commando's successful supporting element of the raid to disable the heavy German guns that threatened the supporting ships at sea. No 4 Commando's training and preparation for their part in the raid was an excellent example of operational planning, its leadership was superb and its luck held. Quite apart from this first use of Commando's, this raid w...
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THE COMMANDOS AT DIEPPE: REHEARSAL FOR D-DAY. OPERATION CAULDRON, NO 4 COMMANDO ATTACK ON THE HESS BATTERY, AUGUST 19TH, 1942.

By: Fowler, Will.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29841

ISBN: 0007111258

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

KNIGHT'S CROSS: A LIFE OF FIELD MARSHAL ERWIN ROMMEL.

By: Fraser, David.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1993

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 24122

ISBN: 0060182229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

601 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "(S)hows how inspiringly spontaneous and superficially haphazard Rommel's style of leadership could be: 'Rommel believed that war is a reckless, untidy business, and that the habits of mind of a methodical manager are alien to what is required'. Instead, his hallmarks were boldness of manoeuvre, ferocity of attack, and tenacity in pursuit. These were the qualities he displayed in his great battles in the North African desert; they were, David Fraser demonstrates, evident from his earliest battles in the First World War ...
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Keyword: Leadership