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MEDAL OF HONOR
Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present
Provides the biographies of eleven recipients, from all branches of the military, in the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam. A very good copy, spine head & tail…
THE HIGH ROAD TO TOKYO BAY
The AAF in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
One of the “U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II” commemerative series. A very good copy (34p., 17 illus., 4 maps, biblio)….
THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS
…who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II and went on to build modern America.” A fine copy in like dust jacket (237 pages, illustrations, index…
TOBACCO CARD: “Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, MP.”
World War I-era tobacco card, Number 6 of 50 manufactured for W.D. & H.O. Wills Ltd.’s “Britain’s Defenders” series. Issued in 1915, before Churchill’s resignation as First Lord of the…
SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG
Volume V
Focusing on the post-World War II party. A very good copy, covers slightly soiled, price tag remove from front cover….
THE QUALITY OF MERCY
Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience
Post Viet Nam War famine & devastation, and world reaction. A very good copy, in dust jacket (464 pages, tables, bibliography, index, map endpapers)….
AEROLOGY: Navy Training Courses, Edition of 1944
World War II U.S. Navy training for the Aerologist’s Mate; what is today called meteorology. A very good set, covers a bit rubbed, some edge wear, volume 2 spine mostly…
EVERY OTHER DAY
Letters From the Pacific
Aboard the U.S.S. Tern, a Minesweeper converted to ocean tug, in World War II. The author changed all names except his and his wife’s. A very good copy, spine slightly…
WATERHOUSE-FROST
The Making of a Military Man
The autobiography of Raymond F. Frost, who allegedly joined the army in response to the question “How’d you like free vacation?” and served as an MP officer in World War…
SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO
January 1943-June 1944
Volume IX of Morison’s monumental “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II.” A very good copy, covers a bit scuffed and slightly scraped, light wear to corners,…
INTO THE RISING SUN
In Their Own Words, World War II’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. In their own words, World War II’s Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat.
FROM FIJI THROUGH THE PHILIPPINES WITH THE THIRTEENTH AIR FORCE
The marvelous pictorial and history of “The Jungle Air Force” in World War II, in combat from January, 1943 to the end. A good copy, covers somewhat soiled, corners frayed,…