History of the Second World War

by Hart, B.H. Liddell

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 1st American Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has 768 pages. Binding creaks a little bit. Light wear to edge of dj-a few small chips. An incisive account of World War II by the foremost military analyst of our time. Read More

The Hunt for Martin Bormann: the Truth

by Whiting, Charles

Description: Very Good++ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good++/Very Good+. Revised Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book contains 222 pages with some b&w illustrations. Sized like a BCE but no markings as such. Light wear to edge of dj. Inside clean and tight! On the night of 1 May 1945, the most powerful man in Germany after Hitler, Martin Bormann, left the Fuhrerbunker beneath the ruined Chancellery building and scurried along the streets of a dying Nazi Berlin. He was ... Read More

Visions of Infamy: the Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor

by Honan, William H.

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 346 pages with some photos and end-paper maps. The story of Hector C. Bywater and his prophetic writings of the 1920s outlining a blueprint for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Read More

Nazi Gold-the Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions From Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors

by Bower, Tom

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has 381 pages with b&w photographs. DJ has tiny bit of wear to edge. Ths stunning and shocking expose of the fifty-year conspiracy by Swiss bankers to steal deposits by European Jews and hel German Nazis hide the money they looted from Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Read More

New Dimensions in Military History: an Anthology

by Weigley, Russell F. (Editor)

Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 419 pages, A collection of papers presented as part of the curriculum at the U.S. Army War College. Recognizing the dangers of over reliance on the past, the aim here is to encourage historical mindedness rather than to impart a specific body of knowledge. Bound in yellow cloth over boards with gilt stamped spine lettering and sword on upper board. Read More

The New Encyclopedia of the Opera

by Ewen, David

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book is thick containing 759 pages with illustrations. Corners are bumped. DJ has light wear and a few small chips. A vast, informative, and entertaining storehouse of operat facts. More than 5, 000 entries and approximately 400, 000 words in length. Read More

The Price of Folly: British Blunders in the War of American Independence 1775-1783

by Seymour, William, Watson, W. F. (Illustrator)

Description: Watson, W. F. (illustrator) Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has 271 pages with a few maps. DJ has a couple of chips that have been repaired with tape. This book examines conventional interpretations of the causes of the American revolution and the myths explaining the American victory. William Seymour contends that British approches to colonial grievances and later military strategies were encumbered at the ... Read More

The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the 21st Century

by Friedman, George; Friedman, Meredith

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has 464 pages. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. This books makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century will be the American century and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunpowder five hundred years ago. Read More

Saving Private Ryan: the Men, the Mission, the Movie (a Film By Steven Spielberg)

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Book has 96 heavily illustrated pages and goes along with the movie. It has extraordinary close-up photos and full cast list. DJ has light wear to edge and a few wrinkles. Read More

The Best of H.T. Webster-a Memorial Collection

by Sherwood, Robert E. (Preface)

Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Book contains 255 pages of illustrations with a few page biographical sketch. Book has wear to edges. Inside clean and tight. Read More

Macarthur's Undercover War: Spies, Saboteurs, Guerrillas and Secret Missions

by Breuer, William B.

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has 258 pages with a few illustrations. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. Looks like a Book Club Edition but no marks as such. The covert war General Douglas Mac Arthur waged against Japanese forces in the Pacific arena was the largest undercover operation ever undertaken. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the legendary exploits and heroism of the thousands of courageous individuals who foughts as spies, guerrillas, ... Read More

The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon

by Rothenberg, Gunther E.

Description: Near Fine. No Jacket-Wraps. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. 272 pages with several illustrations and diagrams. Detailed study of Napoleonic warfare. Clean. Read More

Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?

by Peters, Ralph

Description: Very Good++ in Very Good++ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good++/Very Good++. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book contains 210 pages. Around the world, American soldiers, American interests, and American citizens face violent men who do not play by the time-honored rules of warfare. These new enemies are warlords, terrorists, charismatic demagogues, international criminals-and the militaries of rogue states. Read More

1791: Mozart's Last Year

by Landon, H. C.

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 240 pages with several illustrations. Provides a detailed recostruction of Mozart's last year-1791. Investigates his musical works and the potential explanations of his death at the age of 35. Read More

Bold Dragoon: the Life of J.E.B. Stuart

by Thomas, Emory M.

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book contains 352 pages. Side edges of pages are slightly yellowed. Light wear to edge of dj. Follows Stuart's career from his childhood in western Virginia to his untimely death a year before Appomattox. Read More

Lifting the Fog of War

by Owens, William A.; Offley, Ed

Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 280 pages. The inner workings of the Defense Department and a blueprint for the transformation of the military. Read More

Iron Fist: Classic Armoured Warfare Case Studies

by Perrett, Bryan

Description: Very Good+ No Jacket-Wraps. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 222pp/illus/maps. The history of armored warfare takes us from Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings of tanks to the Guf War, with lots of photographs. Clean. Read More

The Origin and Legacy of Mexican Art

by Burchwood, Katharine Tyler

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 159pp/illus. "The legacy of Mexican art is rooted in mystery-in a people's unquenchable love of beauty. Across centuries of alternate torture and triumph, in a land both hospitable and cruel, the creative urge rose again and again over natural and human catastrophes which should have fractured its tradition permanantly. But each time, a new synthesis was formed, until in the flowering of the twentieth century native art combined the ... Read More

Highland Clans and Tartans

by Munro, R. W.

Description: Very Good(-) in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 128pp/illus. The story of the clans from their beginning to the present day activities of contemporary clan activities. A separate chapter is devoted to the story of tartan and its links with clans. Underlining on first page. Read More

Birth of the Bravest: a History of the New York Fire Department From 1609 to 1887

by Costello, A. E.

Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 476pp. A detailed history of New York City, the evolution of its fire department, and accounts of significant events, along with tales of the heroic men who served. Read More

Prints (Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques)

by Karshan, Donald

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 127pp, 30 color and 108 Black and White illus. Covers a four century span of the art of printmaking. Guide to the important techniques and the identification of same. Read More

Saber and Scapegoat: J.E.B. Stuart and the Gettysburg Controversy

by Nesbitt, Mark V.

Description: Very Good in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has 227 pages with a few illustrations/maps. Book and DJ has light shelfwear to edge. The author gives a detailed reconstruction of Stuart's actions during the Gettysburg campaign and presents the case that Stuart was not at fault for the loss: He was following orders to the best of his ability. Read More

Royal Occasions: Watercolours & Drawings

by Castle, John

Description: Castle, John. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Book has 174 pages with illustrations. DJ has some light wear to edge. In 1990 the artist was given permission by the Queen to go behind the scenes at most notable Royal Occasions in order to preserve them in his art. Read More

Defense Beat: the Dilemmas of Defense Coverage

by Thompson, Loren B. (Editor)

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. Atlas Folio-over 23"-25" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 1st Printing. Atlas Folio-over 23"-25" tall. Book has 197 pages. Remainder mark on bottom edge of pages. A detailed and incisive examination of how the relationship between the media and the military has evolved since the American Revolution and where this relationship stands today. Read More

The Makers of Florence-Dante Giotto Savonarola and Their City

by Mrs. Oliphant

Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Book has 422 pages with green cover with beautiful gilt work. Corners of cover are bumped and there is some light wear to edge of cover. Small amount of foxing. Previous owner names penned in front endpapers. There are sections on: Dante, The Cathedral Builders and the Monks of San Marco. Over 50 beautiful illustrations. Read More