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 The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiersby: Cobbs, Elizabeth

The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
by: Cobbs, Elizabeth

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 370 pages with index. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. "This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary forces, demanded female 'wire experts' when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops under fire. Without communications for even an hour, the army would collapse". Clean copy.

Record # 397614

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A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Armyby: Kimball, Maria Brace

A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Army
by: Kimball, Maria Brace

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and red, white and blue decoration to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 192 pages including index, frontis. portrait plus b&w pales including onr fold-out. Dr. Kimball was on the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 with Generals Stanley and Custer and became quite a good friend of Custer. It was Dr. Kimball who attended to Lieutenant Charles Braden and may have saved his life, after Braden was shot through the left leg by Indians on August 4, 1873. The Battle of the Little Big Horn is also covered. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 383747

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Agent Of Destiny: The Life And Times Of General Winfield Scottby: John Eisenhower

Agent Of Destiny: The Life And Times Of General Winfield Scott
by: John Eisenhower

Hardcover. NY, Free Press , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 464 pages, b&w illustrations. A great but frequently overlooked figure in America during the early decades of the 19th century now gets his due. Military historian Eisenhower (son of the late president) describes a natural leader of imposing stature, overweening pride, exceptional courage, and wide learning, who possessed considerable organizational and diplomatic skills along with outstanding martial instincts. As the nation's youngest general, Scott distinguished himself in the War of 1812, and he was a hero of the Mexican War in the 1840s. After a brilliant campaign fought entirely on foreign soil, he stormed and captured Mexico City despite considerable political maneuvering on the battlefield and the homefront by a variety of influential enemies. In peacetime, he served successfully as a diplomat to the Canadians, the British, the Seminoles, and the Cherokees. Clean copy.

Record # 381235

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Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 - April 1944 - Volume 7 in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War IIby: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 - April 1944 - Volume 7 in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, 369 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386584

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All American Aircraftby: Gann, Ernest K.

All American Aircraft
by: Gann, Ernest K.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 Pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Author's scarce 2nd book. Blue fabric covered, no fraying, intact, no rips or tears. Some foxing on boards and endpapers. Pages yellowed from age and a small bit of water damage at very bottom of fore edge, does not affect text or illustrations. Original owner's signature on front flyleaf dated 1941. Picture of author glued on front flyleaf. An overview of American aircrafts up to 1941, both commercial and military.

Record # 30431

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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacyby: Fukuyama, Francis

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy
by: Fukuyama, Francis

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "...in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American Foreign policy." Clean copy.

Record # 30165

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American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines With an Army Nurse in Vietnam by: Smith, Winnie

American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines With an Army Nurse in Vietnam
by: Smith, Winnie

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , BC Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 pages with b&w photos. Winnie Smith's story of being a 21-year-old student nurse joining the Army "to see the world" and being sent to Vietnam. American Daughter Gone to War is the extraordinary story of how she was transformed from a romantic young nurse into a thoughtful, battle-scarred adult. It is a mirror for how our country dealt with the shattering experience and aftermath of the war. Copyright page states First Edition but no price on dj flap, so assumed book club. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 396757

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American Military Biography; containing the Lives, Characters, and  Anecdotes of the Officers of the Revolution, who were most Distinguished in Achieving our National Independence. - Also, The Life of Gilbert Motier La Fayette, Major

American Military Biography; containing the Lives, Characters, and Anecdotes of the Officers of the Revolution, who were most Distinguished in Achieving our National Independence. - Also, The Life of Gilbert Motier La Fayette, Major

Hardcover. NA, By Subscription, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Brown leather covers. Spine with chipping and creases to gilt decoration. Black & white illustrations, including 1 fold-out. Previous owners name stamped on preliminary page. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Front cover detached.

Record # 610525

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American Military History; Army Historical Seriesby: Matloff, Maurice (edited)

American Military History; Army Historical Series
by: Matloff, Maurice (edited)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt eagle seal at top front, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with selections from the Department Of Defense files . Forty-seven maps by B. C. Mossman . This is a team effort by a number of the nation's leading scholars including Matloff , Kent Greenfield , Richard Leighton , and other leaders of the Army Historical Series. The volume covers through the Vietnam war. Small name blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397529

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An Answer to War In Disguise, or, Remarks Upon the New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Tradeby: King)(Rufus

An Answer to War In Disguise, or, Remarks Upon the New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Trade
by: King)(Rufus

Softcover. New York, I. Riley & Co./Hopkins and Seymour, 1st, 1806, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages, original marbled paper wrappers with blue title label on cover. Second signature is bound upside-down (pages 9-16), but all there. Marbled pattern on outer wraps faded in spots. Mild foxing to pages, edgewear with light loss of paper to bottom corner.

Record # 403673

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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 1943 Volume One of the Liberation Trilogyby: Atkinson, Rick

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942 1943 Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
by: Atkinson, Rick

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Illustrations. 18 maps. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of miscalculation and incomparable courage, of calamity and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson focuses on 1942 and 1943, showing how central the great drama that unfolded in North Africa was to the ultimate victory of the Allied powers and to America's understanding of itself.Opening with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algiers, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia.

Record # 381238

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An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps by: Sylvia J. Bugbee (Ed.)

An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps
by: Sylvia J. Bugbee (Ed.)

Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Softcover, 222 pages. From 1942 to 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Betty Bandel (retired) served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later WAC, the Women's Army Corps), eventually heading the WAC Division of the Army Air Force. During these years she wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends tracing her growth from an enthusiastic recruit, agog in the presence of public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt (code named Rover), to a seasoned officer and leader. Bandel was one of the Corps' most influential senior officers. Her letters are rich with detail about the WAC's contribution to the war effort and the inner workings of the first large, non-nurse contingent of American military women. In addition, her letters offer a revealing look at the wartime emergence of professional women. Perhaps for the first time, women oversaw and directed hundreds of thousands of personnel, acquired professional and personal experiences, and built networks that would guide and influence them well past their war years.

Record # 387523

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Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763 by: Leach, Douglas Edward

Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763
by: Leach, Douglas Edward

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, 566 pages, b&w illustrations, map endpapers. The story of warfare in North America in the 156 years between the founding of Jamestown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The first conflicts were between white colonists and Native Americans. Then came conflicts between competing European colonies, as with King William's War and Queen Anne's War and culminating with the French and Indian Wars. Well researched in original sources. Includes a good bibliography and glossary of period naval and military terms. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397523

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Army Life in a Black Regiment (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Army Life in a Black Regiment (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of New England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas.

Record # 372364

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Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writingsby: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings
by: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas. Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author's near escape from cannon fire, to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands. This edition also features a selection of Higginson's essays, including "Nat Turner's Insurrection" and "Emily Dickinson's Letters." Clean copy.

Record # 381600

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Army Memoirs (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Barber, Lucius W.

Army Memoirs (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Barber, Lucius W.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372368

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Barbary General: The Life of William H. Eatonby: Edwards, Samuel

Barbary General: The Life of William H. Eaton
by: Edwards, Samuel

Hardcover. New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket that's lightly soiled and spine faded, 277 pages. Eaton (b. 1764) was a flamboyant hero who was America's "Lawrence of Arabia" and defeated the Barbary Pirates at Derna. Front fly leaf with bookseller's old price in red pencil, otherwise clean.

Record # 387273

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Battle Field and Prison Pen, or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel Dungeonsby: Urban, John W.

Battle Field and Prison Pen, or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel Dungeons
by: Urban, John W.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Hubbard Brothers, 1st Edition, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard--see image). Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's stamp of ownership on two preliminary pages. Cover boards bound in brown mustard cloth, gilt title and decorations on spine and front cover board (see image). Cover boards have a touch of age wear. Pages and edges have some tanning from age. Loose gutter at top of title page (see image), otherwise binding tight. "A graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the whole period of the late war for the Union--during which the author was actively engaged in 25 Battles and Skirmishes, was three times taken prisoner..."

Record # 367815

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Battle Fields of the South - From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; With Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by:

Battle Fields of the South - From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; With Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
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Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 517 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372362

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Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Franks, Norman

Battle of the Airfields, The - Operation Bodenplatte - 1st January 1945 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Franks, Norman

Hardcover. London, Grub Street, First Edition , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. 50th Anniversary Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket, bright & in very good condition. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 750680

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Benedict Arnold: Military Racketeerby: Sullivan, Edward Dean

Benedict Arnold: Military Racketeer
by: Sullivan, Edward Dean

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Some age wear to covers. Bound in gray fabric. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Deckled edges. Some age yellowing to pages and edges. In good condition for its age.

Record # 31011

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Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampmentby: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment
by: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Softcover. Harrisburg PA, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 145 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397486

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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by: Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
by: Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio

Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 330 pages. A comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

Record # 381706

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Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by: Schlesinger, Stephen E., Kinzer, Stephen

Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
by: Schlesinger, Stephen E., Kinzer, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The story of the CIA overthrow of the Central America country on behalf of the United Fruit Company and engineered by the Dulles brothers.Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. 320 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 396339

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Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sailby: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
by: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages, b&w illustrations. Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together-even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart-but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.

Record # 381743

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Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 6) by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 6)
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 463 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386582

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Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography by: Gerald Howson

Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography
by: Gerald Howson

Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that shows fading, 360 pages, b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American War of Independence. During the Saratoga campaign he surrendered his army of 5,000 men to the American troops on October 17, 1777. Appointed to command a force designated to capture Albany and end the rebellion, Burgoyne advanced from Canada but soon found himself surrounded and outnumbered. He fought two battles at Saratoga, but was forced to open negotiations with Horatio Gates. Although he agreed to a convention, on 17 October 1777, which would allow his troops to return home, this was subsequently revoked and his men were made prisoners. Burgoyne faced criticism when he returned to Britain, and never held another active command. Clean copy.

Record # 397483

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Burnsideby: Marvel, William

Burnside
by: Marvel, William

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 514 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Biography of Union general Ambrose Burnside, reassessing his reputation as an "incompetent leader" by viewing his entire career as a soldier during the war: along the Carolina coast, at Antietam, and his capture of Knoxville in East Tennessee, while still recognizing the debacle at Fredericksburg.

Record # 359131

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Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Lifeby: King, Captain Charles

Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life
by: King, Captain Charles

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design, 295 pages, frontispiece portrait of author. The Indian War of 1876 in the Big Horn and Yellowstone campaigns. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light fraying to bottom of spine otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 412182

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Campaigning with Grant (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Porte, Horace

Campaigning with Grant (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Porte, Horace

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 546 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.In 1863 Horace Porter, then a captain, met Ulysses S. Grant as Grant commenced the campaign that would break the Confederate siege at Chattanooga. After a brief stint in Washington, Porter rejoined Grant, who was now in command of all Union forces, and served with him as a staff aide until the end of the war. Porter was at Appomattox as a brevet brigadier general, and this work, written from notes taken in the field, is his eyewitness account of the great struggle between Lee and Grant that led to the defeat of the Confederacy.

Record # 372365

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Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Townsend, George Alfred

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Townsend, George Alfred

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. Facsimilie reprint of the 1866 edition.

Record # 372356

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Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Forkby: Chalfant, William Y.

Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork
by: Chalfant, William Y.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press (, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket, creases to front flap. Light soiling to edges. Else a clean, tight copy. The first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place on the south fork of the Solomon River in present-day northwest Kansas. In this stirring account, William Y. Chalfant recreates the human dimensions of what was probably the only large-unit sabre charge against the Plains tribes, in a battle that was as much a clash of cultures as of cavalry and Cheyenne warriors.

Record # 451434

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Cities and Camps of the Confederate Statesby: Fitzgerald Ross, Editor: Richard Barksdale Harwell

Cities and Camps of the Confederate States
by: Fitzgerald Ross, Editor: Richard Barksdale Harwell

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 262 pages, b&w illustrations. A studied volume by an English military man and on-site witness to many of the events of the American Civil War enhanced with 16 pages of contemporary B&W photographs and drawings. The book was originally published in the 1860s and is one of the finest and most informative of the few records left by outside observers of the Confederacy in its own time. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397522

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Citizen-Soldier, The; Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Beatty, John

Citizen-Soldier, The; Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Beatty, John

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 401 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This is one of the more impressive (and unfortunately little known) records of the American Civil War. John Beatty was a lawyer from Ohio who joined the Union Army when the South seceded. He started his service in western Virginia under General George B. McClellan. Although McClellan would later become one of the most well-known generals of the war, it was here that he first achieved the prominence that would lead to Lincoln promoting him to head Union forces on two separate occasions. Beatty, however, was clearly not enamored of McClellan. His journal opens with a description of arriving in one of the local railroad communities and subsequent entries describe the minutiae of camp life. Beatty is relatively unique among memoirists in that his book is largely a transcription of his original diary. As a result, his recollections are of recent events and have a degree of candor not present in many post-bellum narratives.

Record # 372370

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Civil War Diaries of Major John M. Deane: 1861-1865by: John Milton Deane

Civil War Diaries of Major John M. Deane: 1861-1865
by: John Milton Deane

Softcover. Freetown MA, Freetown Historical Society, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers, 327 pages. John Milton Deane (January 8, 1840 - September 2, 1914), was an American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and a major in the United States Army. Deane was born in Assonet, Massachusetts to John and Lydia (Andros) Deane. The diary he kept is here type-written out in chronological order. B&w photo of Deane as a Lieutenant in 1863. Clean, like new.

Record # 374034

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Civil War: A Narrative - 3 Volumes, Theby: Foote, Shelby

Civil War: A Narrative - 3 Volumes, The
by: Foote, Shelby

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 1 - 840 pages. Dust jacket shows light wear, with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 988 pages. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - 1106 pages. Clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 608420

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Cole's Cavalry; or, Three Years in the Saddle in the Shenandoah Valleyby: Newcomer, C. Armour

Cole's Cavalry; or, Three Years in the Saddle in the Shenandoah Valley
by: Newcomer, C. Armour

Hardcover. Freeport, NY, Books for Libraries Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. Blue cloth cover, very light wear to corners and edges, bottom edge slightly bumped. Some foxing and shadowing on front and rear endpages, otherwise inside is bright and clean. Three pages have light markings by previous owner, otherwise inside in unmarked. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 853263

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Colonel The: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson 1867 -  1950 by: Hodgson, Godfrey

Colonel The: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson 1867 - 1950
by: Hodgson, Godfrey

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 402 pages, b&w illustrations. The biography of a seminal figure in American public life, whose active career spanned the years from Theodore Roosevelt through the early Cold War. Stimson was an intimate friend of Theodore Roosevelt's, and was the crucial figure linking Roosevelt's imperialist expansionism to the world of Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

Record # 359020

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Colonial Riflemen in the American Revolutionby: Huddleston, Joe D.

Colonial Riflemen in the American Revolution
by: Huddleston, Joe D.

Hardcover. York, George Shumway, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 71 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Stain along dust jacket spine and edge of front and rear dust jacket cover. No slipcase. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611411

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Commodore Paul Jonesby: Brady, Cyrus Townsend

Commodore Paul Jones
by: Brady, Cyrus Townsend

Hardcover. New York, Appleton & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt and b&w decoration, 480 pages. Top edge gilt. Front and rear hinges tender. Cloth covers rubbed at corners and along edges. Clean copy.

Record # 354091

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Confederate Operations in Canada and New York (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Headley, John W.

Confederate Operations in Canada and New York (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Headley, John W.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. A well written and well thought out story of the Confederate Secret Service. Headley tells the little known and forgotten story of Confederate operations in Canada.

Record # 372353

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Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist and Solider of the Confederacyby: Bassham, Ben

Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist and Solider of the Confederacy
by: Bassham, Ben

Hardcover. Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Conrad Wise Chapman (1842-1910) is unique among Civil War artists: he painted and sketched while on duty as a Confederate soldier who served in three theaters of the war. Chapman's first-hand knowledge is evident in his work. Ben Bassham has written both a critical study of Chapman's art and a biography, incorporating Chapman's correspondence and Civil War memoirs.

Record # 353129

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Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions: May 1942-August 1942 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War Ii, Volume 4)by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions: May 1942-August 1942 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War Ii, Volume 4)
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2nd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume IV in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 307 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386585

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Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, Theby: Davis, Richard Harding

Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, The
by: Davis, Richard Harding

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in blue and red, 360 pages. 116 b&w photos throughout, color maps in rear. In 1898 America intervened in the Cuban War of Independence, leading to conflict with Spain. This is a detailed account of this campaign, together with American military sea and land operations on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War. Cloth spine darkened otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412080

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Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States by: Kautz, August V.

Customs Of Service for Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States
by: Kautz, August V.<

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd Ed., 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 4" x 6 1/4", 303 pages including index. A detailed instructional guide for the Civil War era soldier. Copyright page states 1964, title page says 1865. Probably a second edition. Still scarce in this nice condition. A few pages with dog ears, previous owner's pencil signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 412231

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Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Pittenger, William

Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Pittenger, William

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Light scuffing to fore edge gilt. Otherwise, clean, tight copy. A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862, Embracing a Full and Accurate Account of the Secret Journey to the Heart of the Confederacy, the Capture of a Railway Train in a Confederate Camp, the Terrible Chase that Followed, and the Subsequent Fortunes of the Leader and His Party. Reprint of the 1877 edition.

Record # 372357

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Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Taylor, Richard

Destruction and Reconstruction - Personal experiences of the late war (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Taylor, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This memoir by Confederate General Richard Taylor is usually considered one of the best and least biased by a general officer. The work is full of considered analysis on both the strategy of the war and the personalities of his fellow officers. Taylor is always fair in his criticism and seems to have no real scores to settle. While he makes little mention of his own talents, his tactical brilliance and strategic insight does shine through. Many contemporaries said Richard Taylor was one of the best soldiers of the war, but he is comparatively little known due to his posting to peripheral theaters. While he was a man of his time, the work (with the exception of some of his Reconstruction writings) is much less tainted by Lost Cause polemics than most Confederate memoirs.

Record # 372374

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: McCarthy, Carlton

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: McCarthy, Carlton

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb because of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, etc.

Record # 372355

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Dewey and Other Naval Commandersby: Ellis, Edward S.

Dewey and Other Naval Commanders
by: Ellis, Edward S.

Hardcover. New York, Hovendon & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Blue cloth covers with bright gilt and 3-color design. Illustrated with black & white engravings and color plates. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 354245

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Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal by: Ewald, Johann Von

Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal
by: Ewald, Johann Von

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 467 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from the German and edited by Joseph P. Tustin. Johann Ewald was acknowledged by the British for whom and with whom he fought in the American Revolution as one of the best light infantry officers (termed outpost officers) in their service. A dedicated, trained professional from Hesse-Cassel, who was 'hired out' by his sovereign for the American War, he knew his job 'from muzzle to butt plate' and was an excellent leader of men, as well as a shrewd observer of what he saw. Fortunately for us, he also wrote all of it down. This book is one of the most valuable memoirs of the period. The petite guerre (little war), also called partisan warfare, of the period is of great importance in understanding the picture of the whole for the War of the Revolution. The jagers that Ewald commanded were also some of the most deadly light infantry in the world at the time, and they were greatly feared by their American opponents. Armed with short German hunting rifles and dressed in green and brown, they not only blended in with their surroundings, but they served in almost every action and battle of the war. Ewald's direct, observant prose paints a vivid picture of the war, his British comrades, and his American opponents. He respected the Americans, especially their officers' attempt at becoming more professional as the war progressed, exemplified by the military books and treatises they read, which Ewald saw from time to time as he came across captured officers' baggage. he was amazed at the American attempts, which he noted were sadly lacking in his brother British officers. He noted this with care. Ewald ended up in the surrender at Yorktown and was eventually sent home to Germany. Light fading to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 397482

Price: $80.00 
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