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SUEZ
The Twice-Fought War; A History
…jacket. A NEW YORK TIMES correspondent examines the 1956 Suez War in exhaustive detail, and demonstrates that the 1967 Six Day War produced an almost identical situation regarding the canal….
THE WOUND WITHIN
America in the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974
Written on the premise that the Vietnam War was “not an idiosyncracy [but] rooted in history, habit and hauteur” this account regards the conflict in terms of American post war…
KOREA AND THE FALL OF MACARTHUR
A Precis in Limited War
Beginning with the Potsdam conference and following the course of the war through 1951, Higgins examines the specific nature of a war that was both limited in scope and popularity…
AMERICAN COMMISSAR
Author was a Hungarian communist in the U.S.; served as commissar and historian of an International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; disillusioned, he quit the Party and returned to…
IN RETROSPECT
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert McNamara’s reflections on a war that he came to reject and later regret. Drawn from documents only recently declassified and his experience as the Secretary of Defense for two…
THE LIFE AND WARS OF GIDEON J. PILLOW
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Pillow served with distinction in the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded…
MERCHANTS OF TREASON: America’s Secrets for Sale
A classically paranoid late cold war text claiming to be “the first comprehensive analysis of how and why we are losing so badly in the back-alley war of counter espionage.”…
BANNERS IN THE AIR
The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish-American War
A Civil War veteran and commander of the only regiment from Ohio to go to Cuba, Curtis V. Hard has written a personal and compelling account of the last days…
LETTERS FROM THE FRONTIERS
McCall served in the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars, and, though this memoir does not cover it, in the Civil War. A facsimile reprint of the 1868 first edition. A good…
SOLDIERS OF THE OLD ARMY
A memoir of the author’s service at Ft. Sam Houston in the 9th Inf. Regt., Co. A from 1934 to the eve of war in 1940. A fine copy in…
LET ME BE FREE
The Nez Perce Tragedy
An account of the conflict between the US Calvary and Chief Joseph’s Ned Perce Indians following the American Civil war in 1877. As new, in dust jacket with very slight…
IN MORTAL COMBAT
Korea, 1950-1953
Drawn largely from primary archival sources and interviews noted military historian John Toland offers a judicious account of the Korean War. A very good copy, in mylar covered dust jacket.