Search Results: Military history from The Owl at the Bridge

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1970]. Soft Cover. ix, 434 p.; 23 cm. Eight essays in 3 sections: Introduction: Reappraisal of American policy by Robert E. Osgood; Pt. 1. The Principals: The American outlook by Robert W. Tucker --The Soviet outlook by Herbert S. Dinerstein --pt. 2. The conditions: The domestic scene by Francis E. Rourke --The military issues by Robert E. Osgood --The economic constraints by Isaiah Frank --pt. 3. The arenas: Europe by Laurence W. Martin --The Third World by George Liska. ISBN(10) 0801811031. Stock#NEU195. Good+, used soft cover.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1981. Soft Cover. xiv, 618 p., illus.; 24 cm. "This should become a classic text, widely used in Universities." ISBN (10): 0801826411. Stock#NEU297. Very Good / soft cover.

Contents include: Some Anecdotes, Relating to the Life and Writings of Nicolas Machiavel, Collected From Various Authors, pages [287]-322; Hints Relative To Torpedo Warfare, By A Gentleman Of The State Of New-York [?Robert Fulton, 1765-1815?], pages 323-349 with ten diagrams. 349 pages, four folding plates; 24 cm. Four owner names on title-page (L.G. Arnold 1819; Cornelia E. Golda[?]; Arnold Green 1863; ?John Martin). Pages uniformly browned; title & pastedowns foxed, spotted. Bound in blue paper over boards; rebacked in faux vellum with printed paper spine label; Good+ in Very Good slipcase. stock#mcr26.

Revised and amplified from his 1961 work Japan Subdued. Although chapters were rewritten, Feis still believed that Japan would not have surrendered without the bombs. 213 pages, 21.5 cm. Stock#NEU420.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969. Sentry Edition.. Soft Cover. xxiii, 169 p., maps ; 20.5 cm. Originally published: Madison : Wisconsin History Commission, 1908. One of the war's best eyewitness accounts, Haskell recounts the officer's experiences in the bloody, three-day battle at Gettysburg in the summer of 1863. stock# 44,676. Vg / soft cover.

British and foreign military books. "Apart from the major portion of works on the military art, there are sections devoted to such allied subjects as topography, pyrotechnics, military law and the ordinances of chivalry, medicine, fortifications, fencing, exercises for musket and pike, cavalry and equitation, artillery, and castramentation." xl, 268 pages, index, 13 plates; 25 cm. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#ofc0161.

Boston, Boston Public Library, 1970. Facsimiles of 18 documents relating to the Boston Massacre, from the collections of the Boston Public Library, with an essay on the event by John Eliot Alden, the BPL Rare Books Librarian. Soft Cover. [32] pages, xviii facsimiles; 28 cm.; VG. Stock#32217b.

Philadelphia [Author], 1914; reprint Martino 1995. Hard Cover. "This is one of the most useful Civil War bibliographic tools... The Nicholson Collection was so great that the mere listing of titles in any order is of great use to students and collectors... Nicholson... indicated the number of copies printed... listed the many variant printings in this catalogue..." (Newman & Long, 'A Basic Civil War Library: A Bibliographic Essay', page 9). 7500 printed items fully described. Entries listed militarily, i.e. strictly alphabetically (including "The"!); "General Orders" and "Reunions" separate sections at end (pages 960-1012) plus "Addenda, June 1, 1914", pages 1013-1022. Sturdy octavo; 1022 pages, frontispiece (library room); 21.5 cm. Bound in dark blue binder's cloth; no dust jacket, as issued; new from publisher. Stock#28300x/house.

Boston, Massachusetts, 1816. Printed broadside: orders for annual training and exercise for the First Brigade of the First Division of Massachusetts Militia. Shows how highly organized were the citizen soldiers of the early Republic. Broadside, 32 x20 cm.; printed signature, "J. B. [Joseph Bradley] Varnum"; signed (in three places) in manuscript by Paques, "Brig. Maj. and Inspec." Dated: Dracutt [Massachusetts], July 30, 1816, and Charlestown [Massachusetts], Aug, 25, 1816. Three old folds; corners wrinkled, rubbed; manuscript docket title. Good. Stock#NSFlat005.

NY, Columbia University Press, 1979. Hard Cover. xi, 170 p.; 24 cm. Contents: The inherited foreign policy crisis --The insufficiency of military containment --Avoiding humiliation in Indochina --The Middle East and the reassertion of American competence abroad --The anachronism of conservative realpolitik --The Kissinger contribution. ISBN: (10) 0231042647. Stock#NEU189. Good+, some red ink marginal notes

Written and compiled by Colonel W. A. Graham United States Army, Retired Author "The Story of the Little Big Horn", and "The Colors of the Seventh at the Little Big Horn, Custer's Battle Flags"; author-compiler of "The Official Record of The Reno Court of Inquiry". Bibliography, pages 382-405. Hardcover; xxii, 413 pages, index, illus.; color pictorial dj worn, ends chipped; withal Good+. Stock#ofc0166.

Berlin, Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin, 1988. Series: Beiträge zum Widerstand 1933-1945, 32. Cover title. Anti-Nazi opposition in the German military. Periodical. 48 pages, 2 facsimiles; 21 cm. Vg/ paper. Stock#40399.

Chicago, Playboy Press [1980]. . Soft Cover. 271 p., maps, photos. 'Hitler's evil geniuses-- their shocking war secrets now told.' The blurb dramatises this study of the leading generals of the Wehrmacht--Guderian, Manstein, Model, Rommel, etc. Stock #101,030. Good+, bookplate/ pictorial wrappers. World War II, military history, Germany.

New York : Ballantine, [1992, c1991]. Soft Cover. xxxi, 1007 p., [32] p. of plates : illus., map, ports. ; 23 cm. a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, and many others. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tratedy in his powerful narrative. Stock# 45,156. Vg / soft cover.

NY, Viking Press [1976]. Hard Cover. 354 p., index, plates; 22 cm. Book club stamp. A broad view of battlefield experience that focuses on three battles that took place within a few miles of one another: Agincourt, 1415; Waterloo, 1815, and the Somme, 1916. Stock#46751. Vg, extensively underlined and annotated by a military historian / dj good+.

Ballantine Books, NY [1979]. Soft Cover. xxi, [iii], 311 p., index, maps, photos; 18 cm. The Battle of Britain pitted the Attacking Luftwaffe against the RAF in the summer of 1940. Stock# 31,067. Good+/color pictorial paper covers. World War II, military history.

Four numbers of this Bulletin; articles on the two Iwo Jima flags, Gulf War 3d MAW, Field Historian of 26th MEU's in Kosovo, Chief Historian Henry I. Shaw Jr.; Korean War; Pohang Guerrilla Hunt, World War II Combat Artist, Corkscrew and Blowtorch, Operation Enduring Freedom, Oral History. Four issues; illustrated; Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0316.

N.Y., Time Inc., 1961.. Periodical. 48 p. A slight grade up from a comic-book version of the Civil War, illustrated by commissioned paintings. Stock #100,752. Good+ /Magazine format. American History Civil War

Bertelli XVIII: 96. 304 pages, folding plate ("Figura che dimostra la forma dell'alloggiamento") crisp, unblemished; 18 cm. Bound in brown & blue marbled paper over boards; green leather spine stamped in gold. Two long scuffs on front cover paper; corners bumped; small hole in bottom spine panel; bookplate of Samuel J. Hough; Good+. Stock#mcr2.

x, 483 pages, index, illus. incl. color frontispiece; dust jacket; fine, gift quality. Stock#ofc0158.