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No Place Stated: Veterans Book Project. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2010. Softcover. Light, overall marring to covers. Small area of light wrinkling to head of front cover.; In brief, first-person prose vignettes and free verse, author Nathan Lewis describes his combat experience as a US Army soldier in the ground war in Iraq. The descriptions of on-the-ground military life, combat encounters, suffering civilians, children enduring war, and every-day drudgery are succinct, direct, and poignant. Liberally illustrated with the author's color photographs of the Iraqi environment, people, and military, these non-professional snapshots are immediate, point-of-view documents of the author's experiences. The title page is signed and inscribed by the author : "This is my playlist. / Safe travels, always good times. / Much love Nathan Lewis" Now out of print, this is one of at least 53 titles produced by Veterans Book Project, most authored collaboratively with artist Monica… Read More

New York, NY: Library of America. Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. A 2-volume compilation of journalism related to reporting the events and personalities of World War II. Volumes I and II contain contemporary newspaper and magazine articles, editorial opinions, book excerpts, and radio transcripts to form an orderly view of war reporting. Both volumes cover reporting from the theaters of war and the home front. Most reporting is on the mainstream topics of the time, but includes often-neglected topics include the wartime issues and involvement of African-Americans and women. Volume I (Part I), 912 pages, spans 1938-1944, the work of 47 writers, and covers the buildup to war and the first years of fighting: the Munich crisis, Kristallnacht, the fall of Poland and France, Pearl Harbor and Bataan, Guadalcanal and Salerno. Volume II (Part II), 969 pages, spans 1944-1946, the work of 45 writers, and covers the campaigns in Italy and the Southwest Pacific, the Normandy invasion, the… Read More

Whittington, London: The Whittington Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. The original glue on the tipped in prospectus and frontispiece was acidic, had darkened, and bled through both pieces. Some wrinkling to the leaf where the frontis was reattached. Offsetting to title page from original glue of the frontis. Tiny dark spot to front endpaper. Small spotting to pages 24, 25, 55.; Largely a witty memoir of John St. John's time with the British Royal Marines in European theaters of World War II. His account of time in service highlights the ludicrous aspects of military life and the boring futility of tramping around Europe without enemy engagement. Evelyn Waugh was in the author's Royal Marines unit, was an occasional, conversational companion, and appears only sporadically in this ambitiously-titled memoir, mostly in incidents observed by the author. St. John also notes individuals and situations that were prototypes for what… Read More