Category: War & Military

The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Lincolnwood, Illinois, Legacy Publishing : 2007

Seller ID: 06110

ISBN-13: 9780785329633

Condition: Near Fine-

Minor bumping to book and jacket. Clean copy. 765 pages, including Appendices (statistics on deaths, death camps, concentration camps, ghettos, Jews killed by country, Jewish Resistance Organizations, and Jewish immigration to Palestine), Further Reading, Glossary, and Index. Numerous photos, including those of a horrific and disturbing nature (photo credits at back of book, following the Index). The book is organized into chapters by year, from 1933 to 1946, plus an Epilogue (The Aftermath). Oversized, heavy book, which may require extra postage for expedited or international delivery.
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The Complete Encyclopedia of Warships 1798 to the Present: Steam, Turbine, Diesel, Nuclear

By: Batchelor, John; Chant, Christopher

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edison, New Jersey, Chartwell Books : 2007

Seller ID: 07312

ISBN-13: 9789036617192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

320 pages with Individual Ship Sections and Index. Numerous illustrations in boith color and black and white.
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A Diary from Dixie

By: Chesnut, Mary Boykin; Edited by Ben Ames Williams

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1949

Seller ID: 011810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Mild shelf wear, light abrasions to the edges of the page block. Binding tight and square. The dust jacket has edge wear, chipping, and rubbing. In a Mylar sleeve now. 572 pages with Index. No illustrations except for a frontispiece portrait of Mary Boykin Chesnut. Originally published in 1904 in a censored, abbreviated form, this second printing from 1949 restores what was deleted. Hailed by the publisher at the time as perhaps "the most realistic portrait of Southern society during the war that has ever appeared between covers."
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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-13: 9780297811510

Binding: Hardcover

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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Don Troiani's Soldiers in America 1754-1865

By: Don Troiani; James L. Kochan; Earl J. Coates

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Mechanicsberg, Pennsylvania, Stackpole Books : 1998

Seller ID: 08662

ISBN-13: 9780811705196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Mild wear top-edge of dust jacket. No tears or chips. Nice, clean copy. 242 pages. Illustrated with nearly 200 photographs of rare equipment and uniforms from Troiani's collection and with reproductions of Troiani's paintings. Foreword by Brian Pohanka. Additional contributors: Rene Chartrand, Charles Cureton, Fred Gaede, and Erik Goldstein.
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Jane's World Armoured Fighting Vehicles

By: Foss, Christopher

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1977

Seller ID: 06534

ISBN-13: 9780312440473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Very light wear to book; jacket shows wear at spine ends and corners. 437 pages with Index and illustrated with more than 480 black and white photos.
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American War Narratives 1917-1918: A Study and Bibliography

By: Genthe, Charles V.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, David Lewis : 1969

Seller ID: 05399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very faint spotting to bottom-edge. 192 pages with Index, Notes, and an Annotated Bibliography.
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Okinawa 1945: Gateway to Japan

By: Gow, Ian

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday : 1985

Seller ID: 03989

ISBN-13: 9780385199186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

jacket has a few small edge tears. 224 pages with Index, photos.
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The Starvation Blockades: Naval Blockades of WW1

By: Hawkins, Nigel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Leo Cooper : 2002

Seller ID: 06256

ISBN-13: 9780850529081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Small nick at the top corner of the jacket's front panel. Protected now in a new Mylar cover. 262 pages, with Bibliography and Index and a section of black and white photos.
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The Years of Napoleon

By: Hunt, C.J. and G.A. Embleton

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Almark Publications : 1972

Seller ID: 06428

ISBN-13: 9780855241056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear and previous owner name to front free endpaper. Jacket rubbed and discolored on the rear panel. Protected now in a new Mylar cover. 88 pages with Appendixes for chronology of events and further reading. Not intened as a biography, but rather "a basis for study of Napoleon's life and career set against the events he directly influenced."
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One Patriot's Saga: An Enlisted Man's Story of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam

By: Mehring, James A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Raleigh, North Carolina, Pentland Press, Inc. : 1993

Seller ID: 09882

ISBN-13: 9781571970398

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

177 pages with Appendix and Epilogue. Black and white photos. Publisher's press release for the book tucked inside the rear cover. The author recounts 30 years of service in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army Air Force, and the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He also writes about his service in "The Company," the C.I.A., during the Vietnam War. Mehring has signed the book to fellow Vietnam War veteran and China Post 1 commander, Fred Platt, who was a combat pilot with the Ravens, a covert operation in conjunction with the C.I.A. The inscription reads: "Fred Platt China Post 1...
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The Jewish War Veterans Story

By: Mosesson, Gloria R.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Jewish War Veterans of the United States : 1971

Seller ID: 11228

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Mild shelf wear and darkened area on the front pastedown where it appears a bookplate was removed. The dust jacket has several short edge tears and is protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve.
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To Be As Brave: A WWII Veteran's Story

By: Murray, Joe B. (as Told to Brenda Murray Weir)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Fort Worth, Texas, Brenda Weir Advertising/Public Relations : 2001

Seller ID: 05592

ISBN-13: 9780970845504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

World War II memoir of Texas soldier Joe B. Murray, who served in Europe, in Alsace, pushed across the Siegfried Line, and was among the liberators of tens of thousands at the Dachau concentration camp. Murray recounts what it was like to go to war and fight the battles in Europe as well as those battles within after returning home. 114 pages with References and Bibliography. Illustrated with photos from the author's collection as well as those from historical archives. Both the author and his daughter have signed a custom bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. A note from the author to...
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I'm No Hero

By: Plumb, Charlie; DeWerff, Glen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Independence, Missouri, Independence Press : 1973

Seller ID: 06660

ISBN-13: 9780830901111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Mild edge wear to jacket. 287 pages, illustrated with drawings. American POW Lt. Comdr. Joseph Charles Plumb was shot down May 19, 1967 during a combat mission over North Vietnam. He endured six years in prison, subjected to torture, and in 1970 was appointed chaplain of his prison unit. An inspring story of courage and faith.
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Uniformes Militares Historicos, Republica Argentina

By: Roux, Guillermo; Julio M. Luqui Lagleyze

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Republica Argentina, Círculo Militar : 1994

Seller ID: 11651

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Publication date not indicated, but OCLC WorldCat database states 1994. Portfolio of thirty-six illustrated loose leaves, preceded by 18 pages (numbered 5-17), as follows: Title page and Introduction by Osiris Guillermo Villegas, President of Círculo Militar (publisher), both of which are unnumbered, and the following numbered (5-17) pages: (about the artist) Guillermo Roux mas alla del tema, por Albino Dieguez Videla; and a section containing a history and description of each illustrated uniform-Historia y descripcion de los uniformes militares, por el Profesor Julio M. Luqui Lagleyze. Each ...
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Topography of Terror: Gestapo, SS and Reichssicherheitshauptamt on the "Prinz-Albrecht-Terrain:" A Documentation

By: Rurup, Reinhard (Editor); Translated from the German Edition by Werner T. Angress

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berlin, Germany, Willmuth Arenhovel : 2004

Seller ID: 011936

ISBN-13: 9783922912255

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

A clean, fine copy. 239 pages, illustrated. Documents a period of Berlin's history from 1933-1945 for an exhibition about the city's history at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, which opened on July 4th, 1987. Translation from the German is based on the 7th revised and enlarged German edition, 1989. Contents are organized under the following sections: Administrative Center of the SS-State: Addresses and Institutions; History of the City District and its Buildings; Institutions of Terror; Persecution, Extermination, Resistance; From Destruction to Rediscovery; and Appendix, which includes Bibliography an...
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The War Diaries of Kenneth Slessor: Official Australian Correspondent, 1940-1944

By: Slessor, Kenneth [Edited by Clement Semmler]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia, University of Queensland Press : 1985

Seller ID: 06133

ISBN-13: 9780702218798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Shelf wear to the boards. Couple of small stains to the front endpapers. Toning around the page edges. Jacket has light edge wear and faint crease to the spine. 623 pages, including Appendixes (A: Cairo1941-42, B: The Work of an Official War Correspondent, and C: Slessor's Resignation as Official Correspondent), List of Abbreviations and Service Rankings, General Notes, Biographical Notes, and Index. Illustrated with black and white photos, maps, tables and copies of correspondence. One of Australia's finest poets, Slessor was appointed the nation's official war correspondent during World War ...
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American Heritage New History of World War II

By: Sulzberger, C.L., Revised by Stephen E. Ambrose

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press : 1997

Seller ID: 06619

ISBN-13: 9780670874743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Originally published as Picture History of World War II in 1966 and became a standard reference on the war. Stephen Ambrose has revised and updated Sulzberger's original text with new material in the text, new chapters, and all new captions. More than 700 photographs accompany the text. Includes illustrations from cartoonists who portrayed the lighter side of the war, as well as new computer-generated color maps of important battles. Heavy book, will require additional postage for expedited or overseas delivery. 628 pages, with Selected Bibliography, Picture Credits, and Index.
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Urban's Boys

By: Uminski, Sigmund H.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Polish Publication Society of America, Inc. : 1970

Seller ID: 04909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Green cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner address label on front pastedown. Jacket has very light wear at the spine ends and corners and a few tiny edge tears. Protected now in a new archival Mylar cover. Released on the 25th anniversary of the end of World War II, this is a story of the Polish Underground resistance to the German invasion during World War II. It is based on the personal story of a participant related to the author. Fictitious names have been used. The author has inscribed this copy to a previous owner of the book and dated it December 23, 1971. A note to another reader ...
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Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History

By: Weinberg, Gerhard L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press : 1995

Seller ID: 06211

ISBN-13: 9780521474078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

347 pages, with Appendix and Index. A collection of essays on German and world history in the twentieth century, several of which have not been previously published in English. The emphasis is on misunderstood or misrepresented topics, such as the true impact of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 and Germany's relations with England, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
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Category: War & Military