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HIGH NOON IN LINCOLN
Violence on the Western Frontier
The Lincoln County War, most popularly a platform for sensational depictions of Billy the Kid, is a case study in Western Frontier violence. “Utley recreates the West of the 1870s…
HUNTING LIEUTENANT CHADBOURNE
The author’s search for information on 2nd Lt. Theodore Chadbourne, U.S. Army, who was killed in the Mexican-American War at Resaca de la Palma, May 1846. As new, in like…
STARS IN BLUE
Movie Actors in America's Sea Services
This volume covers the period from WWI through the Vietnam War and features more than 50 actors, comedians and entertainers.
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…
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…
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN
The first novel in Zweig’s famous anti-war trilogy, followed by “The Case of Sergeant Grischa” and “The Crowning of a King”. Original German title: “Erziehung vor Verdun. Roman” (1935). Translated…
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…
THE FORGING OF A REBEL
…Campaign in Morocco); “The Clash” (head of the Foreign Press Bureau for the Republican Government in the Spanish Civil War.) A very good copy, in price-clipped, slightly worn dust jacket….
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…
THE ATOM SPY HOAX
Former ACLU Publicity Director examines the cases of Nuclear spying that occurred throughout the cold war and exposes the disparity between the headlines fueling national anxiety and the extent of…
ENGLAND, FRANCE AND CHRISTENDOM 1377-99
…tear on the front free endpaper; contents fine. A well researched account of the most intense phase of the Hundreds Years War and the diplomatic negotiations between England and France…
SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG
Volume III
The War against Japan. A very good copy, covers slightly soiled, 2 price tags removed from front cover, 1 from rear….