Chicago; 1942-1945: Philip Andrews Publishing. Quarto. Complete sets exist only in university libraries, here are 33 issues bound in 6 heavy duty bindings. These were, of course, the best unclassified works on military aviation and included enormous detail in the B-17, B-24 and B-25 issues. Articles by major generals and..... More
Dordmund; from June 2nd to June 29th, 1947: Gruwell. Octavo. German language. A catalog for the exhibition of the works created on the basis of the competition, "Dormund 1946" by Westphalian artists in the work physiological institute Dortmund, Rheinland damm 201. While Dortmund was one of the most heavily bombed..... More
1944. Edward Land began devising his Poloroid glasses just before World War II. As the Army Air Force needed to find ways to detect elevation, he helped them develop 3-D technology that first was used in bombing over Germany and then in the Pacific beginning with tests in the Aleutians..... More
4 leaves in folio, dedicated in gratitude to the officers of Panzer, Regiment 27. This item not only has a wonderful water color of panzers in battle formation but is signed by nine (presumably of those who survived as late as October 23, 1943). It is by Count Thilo von..... More
Of the 620 photos over 200 are either of the military in action (including with the Russian front), and several others of officers identified in German on the verso. Others show various German activities including some of women in auxiliary uniforms, another of a forced march showing what appear to..... More
Nursing Scrapbook from Hawaii in 1943 to the Government Hospital in Springfield, Missouri in the period just after World War II. There are 361 black-and-white photographs of which 147 are of nurses, others are nurses with their beaus, hospitals, other family. The key nurses are identified from the newspaper articles..... More
Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2001. Oblong Octavo. 176 pages, index. Issued only in paper wraps. Profusely illustrated with over 100 photographs including the uniforms and flags which are in color. It covers the early years (1891-1914) when they served in the Boer War up until World War I. The Second..... More
New York, (1962): Duell, Sloan and Pearce. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed presentation copy from the author "To Mrs. ...../In gratitude for the assistance from her daughter/Ada, whose imprint is/somewhere on each page/of this book. With all/good wishes/William S. Carlson/May 25, 1962/Toledo, Ohio" The author played a key role as scientist..... More
Michael Joseph, 1952. Cloth Hard Cover. Quarto. 504p. index. maps. photographs. Traces their preparation from the trouble in the Middle East in the early 1930's to when they face the Afrika Korps and El Alamein. Then, it moves to their roles both in Italy and the breakthrough in Belgium, Holland..... More
Norman; (1992): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 309pp., index. Black & white photographs. "After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a general fear of invasion swept North America, and particularly the West Coast; it seemed essential that immediate steps be taken to defend the Far Northwest. With the..... More
New York; (1943-1944): Dell Publishing. Quarto. 4 issues bound into one with 396 pages. These were the most detailed items on our aircraft that were allowed to be published during World War II. David C. Cooke was not only considered the best expert on military aviation but he was able..... More
Gretna: (1980): Pelican Publishing Company, Ocatvo. 463pp.,illustrated with 60 black & white photographs. The story of war and Chennault-a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve who downed 37 Japanese aircraft and developed revolutionary tactics for air-to-air combat. He later formed the famous Flying Tigers. Bound in yellow paper..... More
London: H.G. Bohn, 1847. 12mo. In three volumes, 528,522 and 592pp., each volume has the bookplate of Oskar Teichman, 1880- whose brother Sir Eric Teichman (1884-1944), a British diplomate, who caught two American soldiers with the US Army Air Force poaching on his estate. When he approached them they emptied..... More
(John Donohue Printing Co, Denver, Co.), 1986. Octavo. Inscribed by the author and inscribed by Commander of the Colorado Wing Civil Air Patrol Ben Jordan. The autobiography of Donohue describing his life, especially during the war with his buddies. 231pp., Bound in gree pictorial gilt cloth, spine gilt. A handsome..... More
Buenos Aires: J.A.E.L., 1939. Small Octavo. Unopened. 223 pages. Spanish text. Edelman had written on the hopes of democracy in Spain earlier but here he trace how fascism took over and by 1938 had solidified its control. He left for Buenos Aires to write this work in 1938. Bound in..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 550p., index, appendix, folding organizational chart, all four maps present in rear pocket. While the SOE in France were involved with intelligence, coordination of the French underground, and actual work to destroy key parts of the military infrastructure of..... More
Fort Belvoir: Office of History united States Army Corps of Engineers, 1992. Soft Cover. Ocatvo. Revised 529pp., index. Black & white photographs. Light wear to covers. More
Boston; (1966-1988): Houghton Mifflin. First American Editions. Thick Octavos. In 8 volumes. All are first American editions with the excepton of Vol. 1: 3rd printing, volume 2: 2nd printing.Gilbert came to the attention of Randolph Churchill, who was overseeing a team of historians researching his father's biography. The younger Mr..... More
Washingon, DC: United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1962. Octavo. Revised edition from the first 1957 edition. 730pp. Color frontispiece of Eniwetok fireball (world's first thermonuclear explosion). Detailed biological treatise on the effects of initial blast and radioactive fallout of nuclear weapons. Illustrated with photographs, charts and figures. Index. Pocket in..... More
New York; (1967): Pageant Books. First Edition. Octavo. . 331 pages, index, .photographic images. Inscribed: "Lee, I hope you enjoy the book. Howard". The wonderful photography, reviews of the book and the details of parachuting are noted with praise by the Army Times, the U.S. Parachute Association, Flying Magazine, and..... More
New York; (1985): Harper & Row. First American Edition. Thick Large Octavo. 880 pages. On its completion in 1960, this book was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later it was smuggled out of the Soveit Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic work is the battle of..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First US Edition. 374 pp. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper. 48 pages of color illustration with over 750 b&w illus. Inner front hinge slightly torn. Social history of Germany from 1918-1945. In dust jacket. More
He outlines his service in the Pacific Theatre in World War II in the 19th Naval Construction Battalion. After enlisting in March 1942 he was trained for the Construction Regiment, was released to go home but recalled to active duty in June 1942 where he was sent to Noumea, New..... More
Cambridge; 1962-1968: Cambridge University Press. First Editions. Octavo. Volume I: The Sanguine Years, 1870-1919, half-title, 618(1) pages, portrait frontispiece, folded maps (some in color), facsimiles. Volume II: The Fields of Force, 1919-1950. Half-title, xiii, 590 pages. index. Sir Keith Hancock established the Smuts archive and began this major history which..... More
2 three page letters (rectos only) Both letters were kept in original mailing envelope date stamped November 23, 1944 and written from the U.S.S. Rixey. Letter I is dated Nov. 12, 1944. It is addressed presumably to his wife and daugther. He answers her that, yes he had heard Tokyo..... More