![Item #51257] Les Chasseurs d'Afrique (Series Title: Encyclopédie de L'Armée Francaise). Jacques...](/pictures/medium/51257.jpg?v=1641872629)
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 1999. First Edition. Edition of 4000 copies. Quarto; pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 182pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy in barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Preface by Jacques Chirac. In series Encyclopédie de L'Armée Francaise. Text is in French. More
![Item #50768] The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History. Pat SOUTHERN](/pictures/medium/50768.jpg?v=1641872615)
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006. First Edition. Large Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards; x, 383pp. Trivial shelf wear to spine of boards, else tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Fine. More
![Item #48002] Military Superiority -- A Dangerous Obsession. SOVIET UNION](/pictures/medium/48002.jpg?v=1641872525)
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1983. First English Language Edition. 12mo (ca. 17cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 39pp.; graphs in text. Some brief ink underlining, else Fine. OCLC locates one copy in United States as of March, 2020, at Kent State. More
![Item #47339] Movie Lot to Beachhead: The Motion Picture Goes to War and Prepares for the Future....](/pictures/medium/47339.jpg?v=1641872508)
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. First Edition. Small quarto (25cm); off-white cloth, calico grain and stamped in dark brown, in b/w pictorial dustwrapper, with b/w photo-illustrated endpapers; 291pp. Trivial soiling and wear to boards. Dustwrapper toned, especially along spine; creases, chips and minor tears, with some material loss..... More
![Item #52575] A Military History of Africa, Volume Two. Colonial Period: From the Scramble for...](/pictures/medium/52575.jpg?v=1641872685)
Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; pictorial pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); xii,336pp; maps. Includes selected bibliography. Fine and unmarked; an apparently unread copy. More
![Item #43449] Press On! Selected Works of General Donn A. Starry. Donn A. STARRY, ed Lewis Sorley](/pictures/medium/43449.jpg?v=1641872423)
Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2009. First Edition. First printings. Inscribed by Starry in Volume 1: "For G---- / with a multitude of thanks for your share in this great adventure. All the best," signed "Donn" and dated in year of publication. Two large quarto volumes; tan cloth boards..... More
![Item #10734] Mothers of the Revolution: The War Experiences of Thirty Zimbabwean Women. Irene...](/pictures/medium/010734.jpg?v=1641872051)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. First American edition. Octavo. Tan cloth boards; 306p. Tight, unmarked copy, about Fine; no jacket (possibly as issued). More
![Item #50579] The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War: New Edition. Hew STRACHAN, ed](/pictures/medium/50579.jpg?v=1641872610)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Second Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xiii,379pp. illus. in black & white. Some mild spotting to top edge of text block, else tight, clean and unmarked. Dustwrapper mildly sunned to top edge. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. More
![Item #50987] The Military History of the Third World Since 1945: A Reference Guide. Claude C....](/pictures/medium/50987.jpg?v=1641872621)
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards titled in gilt on front cover and spine; xiii, 237pp. Mild foxing to top edge of textblock. Trivial dust soiling to boards, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine. More
![Item #38672] Operace modré barety. Stanislav SUJA](/pictures/medium/38672.jpg?v=1641872362)
Praha (Prague): Mladá fronta, 1982. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 199pp; illus. Mild external wear, else Near Fine. Account of Czech "Blue Berets," members of the United Nations peacekeeping forces, written by then Czech Ambassador to the U.S. Stankslave Suja. With a lengthy ink inscription (in Czech) on front..... More
![Item #41667] Sun Zi: The Art of War, with commentaries. SUN ZI, annotations Xie Guoliang, trans...](/pictures/medium/41667.jpg?v=1641872392)
[Beijing: Panda Books, 1995]. First Thus. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's pale yellow pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; [4],327pp. Light wear, else Very Good or better. Bilingual text in English and Chinese. More
![Item #54067] Iron Arm: the Mechanization of Mussolini's Army, 1920-1940. John Joseph Timothy SWEET](/pictures/medium/54067.jpg?v=1641872775)
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (22cm). Tan cloth (hardcover); 217pp; illus. Tight, unmarked, and fine; no dustjacket (as issued?). Issued as "Contributions in Military History" no. 23. More
![Item #28153] Press Agents of the Pentagon. John M. SWOMLEY, Jr](/pictures/medium/28153.jpg?v=1641872241)
Washington DC: National Council Against Conscription, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in blue and tan; 60pp.; illus., text in double columns. Wrappers a bit foxed, rear cover dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. "A study of the publicity methods of the department of defense"..... More
![Item #60602] Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler. Lowell THOMAS](/pictures/medium/60602.jpg?v=1674522144)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First Edition. First printing, with the publisher's colophon logo on copyright page. Octavo (23cm). Blue-grey cloth stamped in black; pictorial endpapers; [x],310pp; list of titles on half-title verso; frontispiece, 7 black and white plates, and additional in-text illustrations. Inscribed by Butler to Walter H...... More
![Item #60634] This Side of Hell: Dan Edwards, Adventurer [Inscribed by Edwards]. Lowell THOMAS](/pictures/medium/60634.jpg?v=1674777908)
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "For Andrew M. Feser / Here's wishing you luck - This Side of Hell," signed by Edwards, dated 1932. First printing. Octavo; navy blue cloth, titled in red on spine, Medal of Honor motif blind-embossed..... More
![Item #60480] I Was Churchill's Shadow. W. H. THOMPSON, Walter Henry](/pictures/medium/60480.jpg?v=1673998868)
London: Christopher Johnson, 1951. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 200pp. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Faint dampstaining to cloth on front board; moderate foxing within; Good only. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s net at base of front flap), bit foxed and soiled..... More
![Item #41753] But Not In Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor [Inscribed to Cartha DeLoach]....](/pictures/medium/41753.jpg?v=1641872393)
New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Attractive copy of Toland's history of the critical months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Cartha De Loach was head of the FBI's Criminal Records Division and a close confidant of Hoover's. He would eventually rise to the position of Deputy Associate..... More
![Item #50572] The AEF & Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918. David E. TRASK](/pictures/medium/50572.jpg?v=1641872610)
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xi,235pp. Some spotting to top edge of text block, else tight, clean and unmarked with mildly sunning on spine and top edge of dustjacket. Some minor shelf wear, otherwise Near Fine. More
![Item #49136] Effects of Nuclear Weapons for Use in Readiness Planning. EDUCATION UNITED STATES...](/pictures/medium/49136.jpg?v=1641872558)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1959. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm.); three-hole-punched card wrappers, disbound as issued; [2],25pp.; text printed from typescript. Minor wear from handling, extremities toned, evidence of previously neatly removed side-staple, else Very Good. Several "Secret" labels throughout, including upper cover. Issued as Emergency Manual Guide No. HEW-1..... More
![Item #35370] Notes for Task Force Commands in Pacific Theaters [cover title]. UNITED STATES WAR...](/pictures/medium/35370.jpg?v=1641872326)
[Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan printed card wrappers; iii,[1],100pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit shelf-worn, wrappers unevenly toned, textblock additionally browned from poor paper stock, contemporary mimeographed action sheet accomplished in manuscript stapled inside upper cover. About Very Good overall. Jungle..... More
![Item #27453] A Program for National Security, May 29, 1947: Report [cover title: You Don't Want...](/pictures/medium/27453.jpg?v=1641872232)
[Washington? 1947]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original white staplebound wrappers printed in red and black; [2],v,[1],95pp.; illus. Uniformly dust-soiled with some wear from handling, else About Very Good. Report prepared for President Truman. "The full story about universal military training in America--and what it means to you" - upper cover..... More
![Item #34136] The Military Attaché [Inscribed]. Alfred VAGTS](/pictures/medium/34136.jpg?v=1641872306)
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; xiv,408pp. Jacket extremities chipped with rather messy closed tear at top edge of upper cover, additional wear to top edge of rear panel, spine rather sunned, corners bumped else Near Fine in Good or..... More
![Item #48846] La Défense de Centre-Europe. VALLUY, Jean Étienne](/pictures/medium/48846.jpg?v=1641872549)
Paris? "Les Essais" 1960. Offprint. Octavo (26cm.); disbound self-wrappers as issued; 8pp. Light wear and a hint of toning, else Fine. "Chronique sur la politique parue dans la revue 'Les Essais' janvier-février 1960." More
![Item #61343] Notes on a Half-Century of United States Naval Ordnance, 1880-1930. Wilbur R. VAN AUKEN](/pictures/medium/61343.jpg?v=1679356445)
Washington DC: Privately published, 1939. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: "To Lucy and Frank / hoping that we may see you up here soon - with the author's best!," signed "Van," datemarked 20 June 1939. Small, slim octavo; blue cloth hardcover, 56pp. Tight and straight, with..... More
![Item #61526] Black Jack: the Life and Times of John J. Pershing (2 vols). Frank E. VANDIVER](/pictures/medium/61526.jpg?v=1680213306)
College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1977. First Edition. First printing of v.1; stated second printing of v.2. Two octavo volumes. Gray-brown cloth hardcovers; dustjackets; 1178pp; illus. Lengthy gift inscription (non-authorial) to front endpaper of first volume, else a fine, unmarked set in lightly rubbed dustwrappers, Near Fine. More
