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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…
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 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….
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…
KOREA
The War Before Vietnam
A balanced account, examining the war’s origins and reprecussions. A very good copy, in mylar covered dust jacket….
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….
DARING TO WIN
Special Forces At War
Commando, post-war elite, low-level air, human torpedoes. A very good copy, in dust jacket….
THE NIGHTINGALE’S SONG
Tracing the political careers of Vietnam veterans John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane & John Poindexter, Timberg reveals the impact of unresolved conflicts over the war on the…
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…
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….