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By: Bradley, James
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 2003
Seller ID: 27956
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers--Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there--were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U. S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers in Chich Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages; 27956 View more info
By: Breger, David
Price: $23.00
Publisher: Random house: 1944
Seller ID: 30876
Private Breger was a cartoonist in the war. This is a collection of his cartoons. Light soil, some spotting and edgewear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Unpaginated pages; 30876 View more info
By: Brennecke, Jochen (translated by R. H. Stevens)
Price: $21.00
Publisher: NY, W. W. Norton & Company: 1957
Edition: Stated 1st Edition
Seller ID: 24641
A dramatic German account of the U-boats of World War II -- their most celebrated commanders, their triumphs and terrors, their heroics and final defeat. 26 b/w pictures. DJ has minor edgewear, couple of closed tears. Previous owner's name; cataloging label neatly taped to price-clipped DJ spine which is faded. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; 24641 View more info
By: Breuer, William
Price: $17.01
Publisher: Presidio: 1995
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 24644
The PT boat was a class of motor torpedo boats used by the United States during the Second World War. Their agility and speed consistently bested even the most outlandish expectations. Against Japan, they figure prominently in some of the best-known feats of heroism of the entire war. Previous owner's cataloging label neatly taped to spine. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 229 pages; 24644 View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Scarborough House: 1985
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 24063
The Epic German Defeat in France--Rivaling Only Stalingrad. Hitler forbade retreat. The Allies denied escape. Although not a large print edition, the print is larger than in most books. Epilogue, bibliography and index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; 24063 View more info
By: Brinkley, Douglas (General editor)
Price: $21.00
Publisher: NY, Times Books, Henry Holt and Company: 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 30858
We have long relied on historians to sift through the debris of history and piece together narratives to shape our understanding of events. But it is in the letters, diaries, speeches, song lyrics, newspaper articles, and government papers that history comes alive. The New York Times Living History books reinvigorate history by presenting the actual documents and images of the day. ; The New York Times Living History Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 349 pages; 30... View more info
By: Brissaud, Andre (translated From The French by Milton Waldman)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: NY, W. W. Norton & Company: 1974
Edition: 1st US Edition
Seller ID: 25051
Translation of Histoire du service secret nazi. Includes bibliographical reference. Recounts the achievements of Heydrich's Secret Service up to 1940: the capture in 1934 of Sosnowski, the Polish spy with the glamorous helpmates, in a tragicomic climax to his farewell party in his Berlin flat, where the waiters turned out to be disguised S. S. men. the author, a free-lance journalist and television director, has devoted his life since 1945 to investigating aspects of the... View more info
By: Bristow, Gwen
Price: $17.01
Publisher: Chicago, Consolidated Book: 1944
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 28317
Special edition published exclusively for members of the People's Book Club. A wartime book. Wear at head of spine. Previous owner's name and address from 1944 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pages; 28317 View more info
By: British Information Services
Price: $13.00
Publisher: NY, British Information Services: 1945
Seller ID: 27012
Edgeworn, tanned; tear at heel of spine. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 127 pages; 27012 View more info
By: Brown, Ashley, and Jonathan Reed (Ed's)
Price: $23.00
Publisher: The National Historical Society: 1988
Seller ID: 17492
Dog-eared pages. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 174 pages; 17492 View more info
By: Bruce Catton; Director Of Research E.B. Long
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc: 1961
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 31494
Newspaper clipping about NAACP targeting Confederate flag plaque in Texas laid in at title page.. Previous owner's label on ffep, map endpapers. ; Vol. 1; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 565 pages; 31494 View more info
By: Bryant, Arthur
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1957
Edition: BOMC
Seller ID: 27971
A monumental, sweeping, firsthand account of mankind's bloodiest, most terrible war as it was fought by the men at the top -- the chieftains, the makers and shapers of history. It is a book that dramatically captures all the frightful necessities, the turnings of fate that govern men at war. Endpapers with pictures of those leaders. DJ chipped, holy, torn, in new mylar; top edge freckled. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 624 pages; 27971 View more info
By: Busch, Harald
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1955
Seller ID: 27660
Wear at heel of spine. No creases, dog-ears or writing. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 175 pages; 27660 View more info
By: Caidin, Martin
Price: $17.01
Publisher: NY, Hawthorn Books, Inc.: 1974
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 24621
The Greatest Single Land-And-Air Combat Engagement in Military History. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 243 pages; 24621 View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Motorbooks Intl: 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 31384
Previous owner's cataloging dots taped to lower spine edge. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 168 pages; 31384 View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Popular Culture Ink: 1990
Seller ID: 29284
Eyewitness History of the Civil War Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 29284 View more info
By: Caputo, Philip
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1977
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 31696
This is the story of men at war. It is about the things men do in war, and the things war does to them. A Viet Nam story. DJ is torn, edgeworn, chipped and in mylar book jacket cover. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Blakiston Company, Distributed By E. P. Dutton: 1943
Edition: 24th Printing
Seller ID: 21730
The Amazing Revelation of How Axis Agents & Other Enemies Within Are Now Plotting to Destroy the United States. Worn, rubbed, chipped DJ in mylar. Top edge freckled, small bump lower rear board ; Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 544 pages; 21730 View more info
By: Carver, Field Marshal Sir Michael
Price: $17.01
Publisher: Little, Brown: 1976
Edition: 1st US Edition
Seller ID: 18336
An engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of this century. Each figure--his character and strategy, his talents and eccentricities--is assessed both in the context of his own period and in the overall history of twentieth-century warfare. The list not only includes those commanders whose names remain household words, but also men whose military genius has earned them unquestionable distinction even if their sph... View more info
Price: $23.00
Publisher: Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 24370
A firsthand account of jungle warfare in New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II. In the enormous literature of the Second World War, there are surprisingly few accounts of fighting in the southwest Pacific, fewer still by common infantrymen. This memoir, written with a simple and direct honesty that is rare indeed, follows a foot soldier’s career from basic training to mustering out. It takes the reader into the jungles and caves of New Guinea and the Phili... View more info
