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'44 in Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes


Whiting, Charles

Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of early confidence turning to disillusion during the waning days of WWII. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chipping to dust jacket lower spine. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Occasional pencil marking throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450087


Price: $15.00 

Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at AntietamJohnson, Curt

Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam


Johnson, Curt

softcover. College Station, TX, Texas a & M Univ Pr, 2nd, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, light wrapper curl up on front, otherwise good condition

Record # 469897


Price: $13.00 

 

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy


Richard M. McMurry

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2000, 229 pages. Hardcover. Great Campaigns of the Civil War series. B/w illustrations. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Looks nearly new and barely read. In great shape. McMurry examines the Atlanta campaign as a political and military unity in the context of the greater struggle of the war itself.

Record # 31795


Price: $25.00 

 

Battle from the Start, A: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest


Wills, Brian Steel

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Tan cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Decorated endpapers. In great shape. The biography of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Record # 31796


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Bosworth, The


Bennett, Michael

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1985, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. 75 black and white illustrations and three maps. Detailed reconstruction of the battle that claimed the life of Richard III and ended the Plantagenet line. Wrinkle in dust jacket laminate.

Record # 512292


Price: $8.00 

Battle Report, Pacific War: Middle PhaseKarig, Walter

Battle Report, Pacific War: Middle Phase


Karig, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Rinehart & Company , 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading/discoloration to spine and upper covers. Old library code painted to lower front cover corner. Inscription in pen on front end papers, "August 1951". Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230920


Price: $23.00 

 

Battle Tactics of the Civil War


Griffith, Paddy

Hardcover. New Haven, CT , Yale University Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price sticker to dust jacket rear. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to dust jacket edges. Tight copy.

Record # 471190


Price: $15.00 

 

Battles of the Malta Striking Forces, The


Smith, Peter

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Co-authored by Edwin Walker. Sea Battles in Close-Up series #11. Bookseller's bookplate on front flyleaf. B/W photographs. Dust jacket faded otherwise clean.

Record # 802166


Price: $13.00 

 

Black Night Off Finisterre: The Tragic Tale of an Early British Ironclad


Hawkey, Arthur

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1999, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages.12 black and white diagrams and photographs. Definitive account of the sinking of the HMS Captain. Contains information suppressed at the court martial of the 18 survivors. Appendix 1,2,3.

Record # 512280


Price: $10.00 

 

Boys Book of Border Battles


Sabin, Edwin L.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 349 Pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge cracked with cloth holding. Gilt titles on cover and spine still bright with full color paste down intact. Majority of dust jacket sealed within a clear plastic Brodart cover. Text clean, and unmarked.

Record # 608748


Price: $35.00 

 

Campaigns of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and of Forrest's Cavalry, The (New introduction by Albert Castel


Jordan, General Thomas, J.P. Pryor

Softcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st Paperback, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 704 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks barely read and nearly new. "This Da Capo Press paperback edition of (this book) is an unabridged republication of the edition first published in New Orleans and New York in 1868, with the addition of a new introduction by Albert Castel."

Record # 31805


Price: $15.00 

Civil War, The - State by StateHearn, Chester G.

Civil War, The - State by State


Hearn, Chester G.

Hardcover. Devon, BlueRed Press, 2nd Printing, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with printed map to cover boards. Profusely illustrated. Full page, full color & black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only marginal wear. Clean & unmarked. A nice copy.

Record # 750489


Price: $38.00 

Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of WarCohen, Eliot A.

Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War


Cohen, Eliot A.

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 405 pages. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. In great shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "In Conquered into Liberty, Cohen describes how five peoples -- the British, French, Americans, Canadians, and Indians -- fought over the key to the north American continent: the corridor running from Albany to Montreal dominated by the Champlain valley and known to Native Americans as the 'Great Warpath'. Through a vivid narration of a series of fights -- woodland skirmishes and massacres, bloody frontal assaults and fleet actions, rear-guard battles and shadowy covert actions -- Cohen explores how a distinctively American approach to war developed along the Great Warpath."

Record # 30521


Price: $15.00 

 

Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic


Krick, Robert K.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co. , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 594 pages. Hardcover. First printing, full number line on copyright page. Laid in by publisher, complete with letter of explanation, are corrected maps that replace incomplete ones (corrected in later printings) - makes this first edition unique. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped,no price on flap, dj excellent. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Like nearly new, looks barely read. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, private diaries, and intimate letters, this fascinating work takes the reader minute-by-minute through two significant Civil War battles.

Record # 31803


Price: $19.00 

 

Currier & Ives: Pictorial History of American Battle


Freeman, G. L.

Hardcover. Watkins Glen, New York, Century House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages. White cover with blue & red illustrations to cover, numerous full page b&w plates with accompanying description. Light wear to cover; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 805264


Price: $16.00 

Custer's Chief of Scouts: The Reminiscences of Charles A. VarnumVarnum, Charles A.

Custer's Chief of Scouts: The Reminiscences of Charles A. Varnum


Varnum, Charles A.

Softcover. Lincoln, NE, Bison Books, 2nd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Clean, bright copy throughout. Adhesive sticker on rear wrapper.

Record # 470459


Price: $23.00 

Fields of Battle: The Wars for North AmericaKeegan, John

Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America


Keegan, John

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471021


Price: $19.00 

 

Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby


Ramage, James A.

Hardcover. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 428 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Gray cover boards, black title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. The biography of Col. John Singleton Mosby. Looks at his life inside and outside the American Civil War.

Record # 31797


Price: $31.00 

 

Incidents and Anecdotes of the War: with Narratives of Great Battles, Great Marches, Great Events, and the Record of Heroic Deeds and Daring Personal Achievements, Which Characterized the Great Conflict for the Union.


Victor, Orvill

Hardcover. New York, James D. Torrey, Publisher, First Edition, 1866, Book: Very Good, 495 pages. Hardcover. Copyright 1866. B/w illustrations throughout. Patterned boards with half leather trims. Some moisture damage to first couple preliminary pages. Gilt title with raised bands on spine. Binding tight, no pages missing & tender first signature. Spine straight. Pages and edges have tanning from age, but clean and unmarked. This book was published at the end of the American Civil War. The stories told within are with a fresh perspective of the time, some told for the first time. Beautiful marbled endpapers.

Record # 31905


Price: $50.00 

Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the BulgeNeill, George W.

Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge


Neill, George W.

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear and rubbing to cover boards, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 471867


Price: $15.00 

 

Jubal: The Life and Times of General Jubal A. Early, CSA, Defender of the Lost Cause


Osbourne, Charles C.

Softcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st Paperback, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 560 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. In great shape. "A major contribution to the Civil War bookshelf that finally brings this enigmatic figure vividly to life."-Chicago Tribune

Record # 31815


Price: $19.00 

Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's DefeatMichno, Gregory F

Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat


Michno, Gregory F

Softcover. Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 5th, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 470463


Price: $13.00 

Last Full Measure, The: How Soldiers Die in BattleStephenson, Michael

Last Full Measure, The: How Soldiers Die in Battle


Stephenson, Michael

Hardcover. US, Crown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469809


Price: $13.00 

 

Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865


Longacre, Edward G.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st (stated on copyright page), 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, no price on flap, dj excellent. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. In great shape, looks barely read and nearly new.

Record # 31804


Price: $25.00 

Little Big Horn, 1876, The: The Official Communications, Documents and ReportsII, Loyd J. Overfield (EDITOR)

Little Big Horn, 1876, The: The Official Communications, Documents and Reports


II, Loyd J. Overfield (EDITOR)

Softcover. Lincoln. NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 page. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Light abrasion to front wrapper, otherwise, clean, bright copy.

Record # 470465


Price: $15.00 

 

More Generals in Gray


Allardice, Bruce S.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A Companion Volume to Generals in Gray. This book is about the Confederacy's "other" generals, the men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment, and who have been virtually lost to history as a consequence.

Record # 31799


Price: $15.00 

 

Norway 1940


Ash, Bernard

Hardcover. London UK, Cassell, 1st UK, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An examination of the events and decisions in Norway during WWII. Rubbing and age toning to dust jacket. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 4450061


Price: $25.00 

ORIG VINTAGE COLOR PRINT/ NAUTICAL BATTLE SCENE FROM THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WARZogbaum (Illust.), Rufus F., Illust. by: Rufus  Zogbaum

ORIG VINTAGE COLOR PRINT/ NAUTICAL BATTLE SCENE FROM THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR


Zogbaum (Illust.), Rufus F., Illust. by: Rufus Zogbaum

1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The American battleship Constitution firing on the Spanish frigate Guerrere. Color art by Rufus Zogbaum.15 x 10", horizontal format. Very good.

Record # 415055


Price: $25.00 

 

Picture History of the U.S. Navy - From Old Navy to New, 1776 to 1897


Roscoe, Theodore/Fred Freeman

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings and paintings. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 219984


Price: $19.00 

 

Pipeline to Battle: Adventures of an Officer of Engineers with the British Eighth Army


Rainier, Major Peter W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Random House, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (maps) throughout. Dust jacket has some age wear, but still intact (see image). Cover boards bound in gray cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges and pages have some tanning from age, edges have a touch of foxing. In great shape for its age. Written and published before WW-II was over, eyewitness accounts. Perfect for the WW-II enthusiast.

Record # 31907


Price: $19.00 

 

Romance of The American Navy, The


Hill, Frederic Stanhope

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge paper cracked. Rubbing to corners and edges of cloth covers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608807


Price: $15.00 

 

Royal Marines, The


Moulton, Major-General J.L., Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks

Softcover. London, Leo Cooper LTD, 1st Paperback, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Softcover. Laid in: Errata in original type. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has some tanning and foxing to inside, otherwise no rips and very good. Pages also have tanning and a touch of foxing, doesn't affect text or illustrations. A complete telling of the story of the Royal Marines from the beginning.

Record # 31812


Price: $19.00 

 

Rules of Engagement, The


Bush, Catherine

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket, also w/ photograph of author. Brown and yellow cloth.

Record # 803532


Price: $10.00 

 

Sea Power: Captain Russell Grrenfell of the British Navy tells why England's fate depends on the control of the seas.


Grenfell, Captain Russell

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 244 pages, dust jacket. Chipping and wear to edges, corners, and spine of dust jacket, previous owner's signature on front endpaper and embossed stamp on title page. A tight copy of a fascinating book regarding WWII naval history.

Record # 603945


Price: $8.00 

Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of TrafalgarNicolson, Adam

Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar


Nicolson, Adam

Hardcover. New York, Harper-collins Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color photos in center. Adhesive residue on rear dust jacket.

Record # 470276


Price: $15.00 

 

The Atlantic Campaign: World War II's Great Struggle at Sea


van der Vat, Dan

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, b&w photographs and maps, illustrations of ships and submarines to scale on endpages, gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp to title page, light wear to dust jacket; a very tight and clean copy.

Record # 603946


Price: $8.00 

 

The Attack on Taranto


Schofield, B.B.

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 94 pages, b&w illustrations, gilt lettered spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Previous owner's book plate on front endpage; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 802256


Price: $13.00 

 

The Fighting Fleets: Five Months of Active Service with the American Destroyers and their Allies in the War Zone


Paine, Ralph D.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages, b&w photographs. Previous owners' signatures on front endpage. Embossed stamp on title page. Light foxing to front pages. General wear to corners and edges. Overall, a neat, tight copy.

Record # 802266


Price: $11.00 

 

The Soviets as Naval Opponents 1941-1945


Ruge, Friedrich

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages, b&w illustrations, dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket, previous owner's embossed stamp to title page, stain to bottom of front endpage, prelim pages, and title page; overall a tight, neat copy.

Record # 802270


Price: $10.00 

 

Trafalgar - An Eye-Witness Account of a Great Battle


Legg, Stuart

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows standard wear with small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608802


Price: $12.00 

 

Warships of the Great Lakes: 1754-1834


Malcomson, Robert

Hardcover. Edison, N.J., Knickerbocker Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, b&w and a few color illustrations, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801357


Price: $16.00 

 

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles


Cornwell, Bernard

Hardcover. London UK, William Collins, 1st UK, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulously researched history regarding the battle of Waterloo. Heavy scratching to dust jacket titling. Rubbing and edgewear to rear dust jacket flap. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952495


Price: $29.00