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Time-Line Vietnam: The Tiger That Ate the Firebase

By: Bows, Master Sergeant Ray, US Army Retired, with Pia Problemi

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ormond Beach, Florida, Bow & Company Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 05887

ISBN: 0929973038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A US Army staff sergeant's memoir of 14 months serving in Vietnam with the 4th Transportation Command's 3d Movements Region, through the streets of Saigon, on the Long Bihn Highway, and with the 25th Infantry Division on convoys from Cu Chi to Tay Ninh. He also pays tribute to two fallen servicemen from Indiana. 159 pages, with Glossary, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with black & white photos. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Dean, It was great meeting you in D.C. My very best wishes, Ray Bows." Preface by Brigadier General Joseph Stringham, US Army, Retired.
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The Town That Started the Civil War

By: Brandt, Nat

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 10908

ISBN: 081560243x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

315 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated. Discusses the rescue of a kidnapped slave in 1858 by the residents of Oberlin, Ohio, and the repercussions.
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Secret Channel To Berlin: The Masson-Schellenberg Connection And Swiss Intelligence In World War II

By: Braunschweig, Pierre

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, Casemate: 2004

Seller ID: 09361

ISBN: 1932033394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A clean, sharp copy. 522 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the dust jacket: This book is the first comprehensive history of Swiss Intelligence and its astounding secret connections in World War II. It tells the fascinating story of the most controversial Swiss intelligence operation of the war: the covert interaction between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the head of German SS Foreign Intelligence, General Walter Schellenberg.
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Outrage at Sea: Naval Atrocities in the First World War

By: Bridgland, Tony

Price: $10.00

Publisher: South Yorkshire, England, Leo Cooper / Pen & Sword Books Ltd: 2002

Seller ID: 08788

ISBN: 0850528771

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

208 pages with Bibliography and Index. Black and white photos.
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Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington

By: Broughton, Jack; Foreword by Tom Wolfe

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New South Wales, Australia, Orion Books, Crown Publishers: 1988

Seller ID: 09880

ISBN: 0517567385

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Association copy signed from the author to fellow Vietnam War combat pilot, Fred Platt (see more below). 294 pages, near fine with barely a trace of wear. There's an old sticky note on the first page with a gift inscription to Platt (can't make out who signed it - not Broughton). Broughton (1925-2014) served as a United States Air Force fighter pilot in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He retired a highly-decorated colonel in 1968 with numerous awards and the highest Air Force service decoration for heroism, the presidentially-awarded Air Force Cross. In the 1950s, he led the Air Force...
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JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe

By: Caldwell, Donald L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Orion Books: 1991

Seller ID: 08743

ISBN: 0517570394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The epic saga of Germany's greatest fighter wing. 440 pages with Glossaries, Appendixes, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photos and endpaper maps of Europe.
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The ROA Story: a History of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States

By: Carlton, John T. And Slinkman, John F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Reserve Officers Association of the United States: 1982

Seller ID: 00679

ISBN: 0960952802

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear, dust jacket chipped.
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Blockade: The Civil War at Sea

By: Carse, Robert

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc.: 1958

Seller ID: 10877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear to boards and jacket. The dust jacket is also price-clipped an now protected in a Mylar archival sleeve. Light green paper with explanation on the last page: "This edition is printed on Impact Book Paper with the colors of paper and ink styled by Faber Birren for better human vision (Whiteford Paper Company, NY)." 279 pages with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with historical photographs and print images.
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Wings for Victory - The University of Texas, Ragsdale Flying Service, Browning Aerial Service - World War II Flight Training

By: Carter, William J. (Editor)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, The University of Texas Press:

Seller ID: 10611

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to the spine and short tears at the spine ends. Stapled booklet, 8.5 X 11 inches. No date indicated, but 1942-43 (World War II). University of Texas CAA-WTS publication offering a brief review of the government-sponsored flight training effort between the university and civilian flight operators to train pilots and ground personnel for service in World War II. CAA was Civil Aeronautics Authority (predecessor to the FAA) and WTS was War Training Service. Unpaginated, but 24 pages with numerous photographs of personnel from the university and flying services and students engaged in th...
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Above It All

By: Chapman, Don W.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Houston, Texas, Halcyon Press: 2004

Seller ID: 09500

ISBN: 1931823189

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A collection of interviews relating the wartime experiences of men and women prior to and during World War II. xii, 229 pages : black and white photographs.
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Journey Through Shadow: 839 Days in Hell: A POW's Survival in North Korea

By: Clarke, Conley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gaffney, South Carolina, Self Published: 1988

Seller ID: 10905

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Rubbing wear to the jacket, but no tears or chips. The book is tight and square, and clean throughout. 419 pages. No photos.
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Terrible Innocence: General Sherman at War

By: Coburn, Mark

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Hippocrene Books: 1993

Seller ID: 08556

ISBN: 0781801567

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Overview of Sherman's life with a focus on one critical year--May 1864 to May 1865, which includes his march to Atlanta, chasing Hood's Confederate army, march to the sea, and a post-Christmas march of some 425 miles through the Carolinas to help end the war. 248 pages. Suggested Reading, Index, maps.
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Medal of Honor Recipients 1863-1978, Senate Committee Print No. 3, 96th Congress, 1st session)

By: Committee on veterans' Affairs, United States Senate

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 1979

Seller ID: 08306

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Edge and spine wear to covers. Smalll tear at the tail of the spine. A bit of curl to the corners of several pages. 1113 pages. PART I: Historical Background. PART II: Citations of Awards of the Medal of Honor by War, Campaign, Conflict, or Era. PART III: Medal of Honor Recipients by State. PART IV: Foreign Born Medal of Honor Recipients. PART V: Medal of Honor Alphabetical Index. PART VI: Documentary Background on the Medal of Honor.
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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

By: Cortada, James W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Westport Connecticut, Greenwood Press: 1982

Seller ID: 09119

ISBN: 0313220549

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

571 pages with Index, preceded by five Appendixes: A) A Chronology of the Spanish Civil War: 1930-1939; B) A Military History of the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939; C) Civil War Governments; D) A Select Compendium of Archives and Libraries on the Spanish Civil War; and E) A Select Bibliography of Bibliographies on the Spanish Civil War. Oversized book that will require extra postage for expedited or international delivery.
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Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy

By: Current, Richard Nelson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Northeastern University Press: 1992

Seller ID: 06709

ISBN: 1555531245

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

253 pages, with Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated endpapers--Confederacy map.
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Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea 1950-1953

By: D. Clayton James

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Free Press: 1993

Seller ID: 10875

ISBN: 0029160014

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

282 pages with Notes and Index and black and white photos. "Examines the Korean War, the paradigm of America's conflicts with communism, arguing that, like so many wars, it was fought broadly along the lines of World War II. The book shows, however, that the potential consequences of this error were limited by the State Department."
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Final Letters

By: Dafni, Reuven and Yehudit Kleiman (Selected by)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1991

Seller ID: 00791

ISBN: 0297811517

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

A collection of letters, from the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem, written by Jews under Nazi oppression. Most offer the last signs of life for these Holocaust victims. Illustrated with 59 black and white photographs of selected correspondence; 128 pages.
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Gettysburg, July 1

By: David G. Martin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania, Combined Publishing: 1996

Seller ID: 08560

ISBN: 0938289810

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust jacket has a tear and chipping at the tail of the spine and light wear at the head of the spine. Also has a crease along the spine. 736 pages, with Appendices, Notes, Abbreviations, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with 20 maps.
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The Urge to Persecute

By: Davies, A. Powell

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, The Beacon Press: 1953

Seller ID: 04833

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Browning to front endpapers from old newspaper articles. Jacket has vertical creases, front and back, and edge wear. Protected now in a new archival Mylar cover. Davies, the Unitarian minister of All Souls Church in Washington, D.C. (1944-57), delves into social and political issues during the Cold War with this book, an attempt to understand tyranny and persecutions from historical, psychological, and moral contexts. 219 pages, Index.
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The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home

By: Davis, William C

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company: 1980

Seller ID: 10913

ISBN: 0385148933

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear to the boards. Edge wear to dust jacket and a crease to its rear panel. 318 pages with Bibliography and Index. Illustrations, including endpaper maps.
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Category: War & Military