[nice tight clean book, showing no discernible wear; jacket has a few small nicks along the top edge (especially at top of spine, but with no significant paper loss), a little wrinkling at the top of the front panel, and a small tear at the bottom front hinge]. "This anonymous diary of a woman participant in the A.E.F. [American Expeditionary Force] is a peculiar human document that must stand with others of the great war. The writer who has woven her staccato series of ten years ago into a formal and continuous record will stir a thousand memories of Bordeaux, Tours, Paris, Le Mans, Malo, fo... View More...
[good sound copy, light shelfwear, bottom rear corner heavily bumped (which has affected many of the book's pages, giving them a soft diagonal crease at the bottom corner); jacket moderately edgeworn, slightly darkened along spine, a couple of tiny tears at top of front panel, very slight paper loss at spine ends, small chip at upper left corner of rear panel, soiling to rear panel]. The future Israeli Prime Minister's memoir of his role, as commander-in-chief of the underground army known as the Irgun Zvi Leumi, in the struggle to drive the British out of Palestine, which "opens in a Soviet ... View More...
[a reading/reference copy only; covers heavily edgeworn, rubbed, creased, etc., and the spine crudely tape-repaired; one-time owner's signature at top of half-title page]. Trade PB "The truth about the U.S. Occupation of Germany," by the radical journalist/editor who was awaiting his deportation hearing at the time he wrote the book. Following World War II, he "went into Germany with the first team under American command to clean up Hitler's mess in a key sector, the press. This is an account of what he and his associates did and of how their work began to be sabotaged before the end of th... View More...
(pictorial cover and spine; no dust jacket) [attractive copy, light surface wear to covers, moderate bumping and a bit of wear at spine ends, offsetting/discoloration to endpapers; there is a crack in the binding between pages 128 and 129, which has caused one of the illustration plates to become partially detached]. (8 B&W plates) Novel (I guess) about a young Englishman's service in World War I, as a member of the King's Own Eatonshire Regiment. (The author himself, per the title page, was "formerly of the London Irish Rifles.") Presumably autobiographical, it reads like a fictional narrat... View More...
[dog-earing and minor bending to top rear corner (cover and last few pages of book), otherwise a nice clean copy with no significant wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) History, both in narrative (written somewhat like a novel) and as a collection of reproduced source materials (mostly newspaper articles), of an "interesting but bizarre incident that had happened in 1915 in the Australian desert town of Broken Hill." Basically, a picnic train carrying 1,200 passengers was fired upon by two (two!) Turks, and because Turkey was an ally of Germany in World War I, this apparentl... View More...
[a little wear at spine ends, one-time owner's stamp on ffep and handwritten name on title page; jacket shows moderate surface wear, one tiny tear at top rear hinge, slight color-shift along left edge of front panel]. (color photographs, color renderings) Made possible by the author's tireless pursuit and acquisition of Kodachrome slides shot during World War II, this is an illustrated survey of wartime aircraft (mostly American) like no other: a depiction in full color of a subject and an era that most people alive today know only from black-and-white photographs and newsreel footage. Accor... View More...
[minor shelfwear, slight bumping to base of spine, spine a little turned; jacket shows some wrinkling at top of spine and along bottom edge of front panel, light soiling]. (B&W drawings) The stories of the heroism displayed by nine winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor, chosen from the ninety awarded to American servicemen during World War I. (There are actually eleven named individuals discussed, since one of the Medals was awarded jointly to three men.) The book's Foreword incorporates a complete list of all ninety of the WWI Medal winners, among them William J. Donovan ("Wild B... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [minor wear at extremties, faint soiling to top page edges, very shallow dent in top edge of front cover]. (B&W photographs) A history of nursing in the armed services during World War II. About half the book is devoted to chapters about each theater of the war: the Pacific Theater; the Mediterranean Theater; The European Theater; The China-Burma-India Theater; The United States and Western Atlantic Minor Theaters. There are also chapters devoted to such topics as "Life at Sea" and "Camaraderie and Romance." Bibliography, index. View More...
[light shelfwear, faint foxing to page edges, rusty paper-clip marks at top of copyright page and facing dedication page; jacket shows a little surface wear, a couple of diagonal creases at top corner of front flap]. First book (of only two) by this author (1927-2005), who was best known as a longtime columnist for the Washington Post's "Style" section, where he won praise for his versatility and his wry, understated prose style. (One-time Post editor Benjamin Bradlee described him as "a poet in newspaperman's clothing.") This book tells the true story of Tom Easton, a third-g... View More...
[minor shelfwear to book, one-time owner's address label on ffep; jacket is lightly soiled, with small tears at spine extremities and a couple more small closed tears at top of front panel (all somewhat amateurishly tape-repaired), and a long vertical crease in the lower left section of the front panel]. (B&W photos, facsimile documents, maps) SIGNED by both authors on the title page. World War II memoir by a survivor of the Bataan Death March. Signed by All Authors View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued; reddish-brown cloth (redder than it looks in the scanned image), gilt spine lettering and decoration) [heavily worn copy, with binding loss at both ends of spine, dampstaining to covers and endpapers, yet internally clean (pages NOT stained although some slight wrinkling throughout); the binding is solid, hinges not cracked or separated, making this an excellent (if not especially attractive reading/reference copy, and a good candidate for re-binding)] "An attempt has been made to present a connected and reliable account of the movements of the Thirty-Eighth Re... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, very slight bumping to a couple of corners; jacket shows light surface we Openly labeling the U.S. Army "an oppressive force," the intent of this book was to inform the ordinary GI "why the Army subjects him to the indignities, brutalities, and injustices that he used to associate only with totalitarian regimes." Toward this purpose, the author "has drawn upon an extensive array of factuall, legal, sociological and psychological materials, blended them with his own experiences in the Army, and produced in one volume both a clear and constructive sol... View More...
[light wear at edges and corners, minor soiling at fore-edge of a few pages]. Trade PB "There have been several academic studies of the plight of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War, but this is the first book to confront the issue squarely as a human reality. Prime Minister Lester Pearson called it a black mark in Canadian history. Few who read this book will fail to agree." View More...
[worn at spine ends and corners, light spotting/foxing to top edge of text block; jacket moderately soiled, browned and lightly stained along spine, a couple of tiny stains on front panel, bits of paper loss at spine ends]. Very scarce vanity press-issued account of the Vietnam War, by "one of the few female foreign correspondents allowed into this embattled country" -- and quite possibly the only one of that group who was African-American. A native of Kansas City, the author had been a nurse, a teacher, a real estate broker, and "the first and only black bondswoman in the State of Minnesota,... View More...
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