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SOLITARY STAR
A Biography of Sam Houston
A celebratory biography of Sam Houston, “potential squaw man, soldier in the War of 1812, impoverished school teacher, frontier lawyer, United States Congressman, [and] Governor of Texas … before he…
BLOODS
An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
A compilation of 19 first hand accounts of the Vietnam war by African American servicemen. The first major account of the complex and unique experience of black soldiers, at their…
TRIUMPH DER KRIEGSKUNST
Das Kriegsjahr 1940 in der Darstellung des Volkischen Beobachters
High ranking accounts of Norway and the Fall of France; contributors include Kesselring, Todt, Prentzel, Lutzow and others. A good ex-U.S. War Dept. Library copy, without dust jacket. Library label…
DARING TO WIN
Special Forces At War
Commando, post-war elite, low-level air, human torpedoes. A very good copy, in dust jacket….
FRONT RANK
Written for The North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission
A short history of North Carolina in the Civil War. Gift from the author to the Columbia University School of Journalism, with signed presentation on front free endpaper. A very…
DEFENSE OR DELUSION?
America's Military in the 1980s
Much on the growing pains of the all-volunteer force, especially the loss of experienced officers and low quality of recruits, by a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. A…
JAPAN’S AMERICAN INTERLUDE
A very good copy, without dust jacket. The political, economic, cultural impact of U.S. post-war occupation….
ROLL OF HONOR OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH U.S. FIELD ARTILLERY
Attached to the 3rd Infantry Div., using 75mm guns, including a (very) brief history of the unit in the war. In combat from May, 1918 on at the Marne, St….
OFFICERS AND MEN AT THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY
May 1, 1898
Spanish-American War. By members of the Orders and Medals Society of America. Number 108 of 2,000 copies, signed by Bell. Scarce. A very good copy, covers lightly worn….
EXPERIENCES OF A SIEGE
A Diary of the Siege of Kimberley, 21 September 1899 to 16 February 1900
Moffat, an adventurous Scottish lady, arrived from the Klondike on 20 September, 1899; the Boer War began 11 October and Kimberley was besieged by the Boers three days later. Limited…
IN THE CLOUDS ABOVE BAGHDAD
Being a Record of an Air Commander
One of the few accounts of the air war in Mesopotamia 1916-1918 along with much detail of ground action. (Facsimile reprint of 1920 edition.) A very good copy, printed without…
THE CAPTURE OF CETYWAYO
By the commander of the detached squadron of King’s Dragoon Guards that captured the Zulu king at the end of the Zulu War, Ngome forest, 1879. The original 1879 printing…