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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….
JAPAN’S AMERICAN INTERLUDE
The political, economic, cultural, etc. impact of the U.S. post-war occupation. A very good copy, without dust jacket (257p., notes, biblio., index)….
TRUXTUN OF THE CONSTELLATION
The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S. Navy 1755-1822
The first full length biography pf Truxtun, who was privateersman in the Revolution and fought in the Quasi-War with France. Facsimile reprint of the 1956 first edition. A near fine…
PEARL HARBOR
A good overview of the aims, planning and execution of the attack, by a prominent historian of the Pacific war. A very good copy, spine head & tail slightly bumped,…
GARBO
The Spy who Save D-Day
…dust jacket. An account of the wartime activities of the first major double agent in the history of espionage, Juan Pujol, with an introduction on British intelligence during the war….
THE DUKE OF CORNWALL’S OWN RIFLES: A Regimental History of the Forty-Third Regiment, Active Militia of Canada
-Signed and Inscribed Presentation Copy-
…a faint damp-spot on front cover. Contents fine and include period advertisements from Ottawa-area businesses. The Forty-Third Regiment served in the Fenian Raids, the Northwest Rebellion and the Boer War….
FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON
A Polish novelist, journalist, explorer and professor, Ossendowski was a chemist cooperating with the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. After the 1905 revolution he was briefly president of the…
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…
COMMON DESTINY
Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Comparing the structure and dynamics in the two countries. Also has a fair amount on the Italian Army at war, 1940-43. A very good copy, without dust jacket (262p., notes,…
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…
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.
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…