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Stackpole Books. Very Good. 1996. Paperback. Crease on front cover lower corner. . 721 pages. 47th ed .

College Station, TX: TAMU Press. Near Fine. 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's stamp on inside of both covers. 144 pages. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, unleashed a conflict that had both diplomatic and military fronts. Using contemporary accounts and recently released military documents, Col. Arthur H. Blair, USA (Ret.), traces both fronts as they developed day by day. Efforts to avoid war, coalition formation, mobilization of public support, military build-up in a foreign desert--all of these aspects of Desert Shield are presented in clear detail. Then, from the beginning of the air war through the final ground assault, Blair recounts troop movements, tactics, munitions, and casualties leading to the unconditional surrender of Saddam Hussein on February 28, 1991.With military maps of principal troop movements and photographs of many of the stunningly accurate aircraft and tanks involved, this chronology puts into sequence and perspective the… Read More

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 512 pages. A candid exploration of warfare from the perspectives of soldiers and civilians is drawn from previously unpublished letters as collected by the author during his country-wide tour in search of wartime correspondences, in a tribute that features the writings of soldiers from every major American conflict. .

Dorset, ENG: Firebird Books. Very Good. 1988. Paperback. Ink page reference on index page and ink mark on that page . Color Illustrations. 48 pages. Heroes and Warriors. Relates the battles and exploits of Queen Boadicea following the death of her husband, King Prasutagus, against the historical and cultural background of the period .

New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003.. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pale green boards with dark spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 491 pages. More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age. .

Oxford: Osprey Publishing. Near Fine. 2000. Reprint. Paperback. 96 pages. Osprey Trade Editions. General Joseph Hooker's attack was calculated to take his army to Richmond and end the war. Faced with an army twice the size of his own, Robert E. Lee split his forces, leaving Early to fend off Hooker's Fredericksburg attack, whilst ‘Stonewall’ Johnson was sent to take the Federal right flank by surprise. .

New York: Oxford University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue boards with tan spine imprinted with title and author in gold. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 239 pages. When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the largest American naval force evergathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and for all.Drawing upon numerous ship logs, journals, love letters, and government documents, Frederick C. Leiner paints a vivid picture of the world of naval officers and diplomats in the early nineteenth century, as he recreates a remarkable and little known episode from the early American republic.Leiner first describes Madison's initial efforts… Read More

New York: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom of text block; slight shelfwear to d j . 448 pages. The summer of 1940 was supposed to be the beginning of the end of Britain. Europe had fallen to Hitler's storm troops with terrifying speed, and once the Royal Air Force was destroyed, Britain was next. But that was precisely where the Nazis stumbled. For 123 days, while Herman Goering sent wave after wave of Luftwaffe fighters to rain down fire on Britain, three thousand young RAF airmen fought back with a ferocity and agility that stunned the world. Now in this riveting book, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop presents the first account of this critical campaign told from the perspective of the pilots themselves. <br><br> Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never seen before, Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this… Read More

New York: The Penguin Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 400 pages. Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. Since early 2007 a new military order has directed American strategy. Some top U.S. officials now in Iraq actually opposed the 2003 invasion, and almost all are severely critical of how the war was fought from then through 2006. At the core of the story is General David Petraeus, a military intellectual who has gathered around him an unprecedented number of officers with both combat experience and Ph.D.s. Underscoring his new and unorthodox approach, three of his key advisers are quirky foreigners—an Australian infantryman-turned-… Read More

New York: NYU Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 311 pages. In December of 1814, American forces led by Major General Andrew Jackson moved into the city of New Orleans. For the next six weeks, Jackson’s ragtag troops of militiamen, free blacks, Indians, and pirates furiously defended the city against Britain’s elite army, led by Lieutenant General Sir Edward Pakenham. In the bloody confrontation of the two armies, the American underdog army decisively defeated Sir Edward Pakenham’s British troops. <P>The Generals tells the dramatic story of the battle between Andrew Jackson and Sir Edward Pakenham for the "booty and beauty" of New Orleans in the winter of 1814–1815. The Battle of New Orleans was the last battle in the War of 1812, which cost Pakenham his life and propelled Andrew Jackson into the national prominence that would eventually lead to his presidency. The Generals provides a detailed and intimate look at both… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 315 pages. At the height of his power, Napoleon was unstoppable. But the tiny typhus microbe would test Napoleon to his limit. This work tells the tale of these two unstoppable historical forces meeting on the road to Moscow in a clash of killer pathogen and peerless army .

Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books Inc.. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 256 pages. Unlike Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman, whose controversial Civil War-era reputations persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan has been largely untouched by controversy. In <I>Little Phil</I>, historian Eric J. Wittenberg reassesses the war record of a man long considered one of the Union Army’s greatest generals. From his earliest days at West Point, Phil Sheridan refused to play by the rules. He was fortunate to receive merely a suspension, rather than expulsion, when as a cadet he charged a superior officer with a bayonet. Although he achieved fame as a cavalryman late in the Civil War, Sheridan actually began the conflict as an infantry commander and initially knew little of the mounted service. In his first effort as a cavalry commander with the Army of the Potomac in the spring of 1864, he gave a performance that Wittenberg argues has long been overrated.… Read More

Chicago: Imprint Publications. Near Fine. 1993. Trade Paperback. 265 pages. Military History Symposium Series, vol. 2 .

New York: St. Martin's Griffin. As New. 2006. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Index.. 288 pages. Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridgelines and mountains to sound taps for a generation. In the spring of 2003, Brady flew in Black Hawk choppers and trekked the Demilitarized Zone, interviewing four-star generals and bunking in with tough U.S. recon troops. He recalls that first time on bloody Hill 749, the men who died there, what happened to those who survived, and experiences yet again the emotional pull of a lifelong love affair with the Corps. The result is uplifting, inspiring, often heartbreaking, and this new memoir proves as powerful as his first. .

London: Osprey Publishing. Near Fine. 1984. Paperback. 48 pages. Men at Arms Series, 151. On 28 September 1066 William of Normandy landed near Hastings and prepared to meet the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold Godwinson. On 10 October 1066 the two armies met; and after six hours of fighting what became known as the Battle of Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon army was crushed and their king slain. The Normans set up castles to control the native population, and four-fifths of all England's land changed ownership. However, despite initial Norman success, it was fully two centuries before the Anglo-Norman kings managed to penetrate the wild interiors of Wales and Scotland, and many more centuries before the countries of Scotland, Wales and England were united under one crown. Wonderfully illustrated in color and black and white .