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THE GIG SHEET 42-A, KELLY FIELD, TEXAS
San Antonio: Newsfoto Publishing Co., (1942). Illus. with photos & cartoons. Small 4to. Decorative blue fabrikoid, stamped in gilt. Unpaginated . Occasional ink notes next to trainees' names ("killed in the line of duty," etc.), highlighting of names on three pages, previous owner's name on endpaper; else very good.

Price: $60.00

This copy belonged to Lt. Ernest J. Toselli whose photo appears in the book. It is SIGNED by 40 of the trainees

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Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
WOHLSTETTER, Roberta
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, (1974, © 1962). 8vo. Cloth. xvi, 426 p . Initials on half-title; else fine in lightly worn d.w.

Price: $17.50

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Les Cosaques de Pannwitz / Pannwitz Cossacks 1942-1945
LANNOY, François de
Bayeux: Heimdal, (2000). Illus. with photos. 4to. Pictorial boards . 1st ed. Upper corner of rear cover is bumped; else fine.

Price: $45.00

French & English bilingual edition. Extra shipping for this heavy book

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Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45
CLARK, Alan
New York: Morrow, 1965. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Cloth. xxii, 521 p . 1st American ed. Fine in d.w. with several small chips & edge tears.

Price: $27.50

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Kharkov
POLEVOI, Boris, et al
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1943. Illus. with photos. 12mo. Wraps. 26 p . Very good.

Price: $25.00

Battle fought in August, 1943 in which the Red Army defeated the Germans

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A CAMERA TRIP THROUGH MARCH FIELD: A PICTURE BOOK OF THE FIELD AND ITS ACTIVITIES
Brooklyn: The Ullman Company, ca. mid-1940s. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. Unpaginated . Very good.

Price: $30.00

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The Surrender of King Leopold
KENNEDY, Joseph P. and James M. Landis
Mew York: Self-published, 1950. With an Appendix Containing the Keyes-Gort Correspondence. Small 4to. Wraps. 61 p. + folding maps . 1st ed. About fine.

Price: $30.00

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Plava Grobnica: Herojski Podvizi Nasih Pomoraca u Drugom Svjetskom Rato
KOSUTIC, Ivo
Zagreb: Novinarsko Izdavacko Poduzece, 1957. Vanjska oprema i crtezi Antun Zunic. 12mo. Cloth-backed boards. 220 p . 1st ed. Fine in d.w. with chipping at top of spine, a stain at base of spine & a few short edge tears.

Price: $45.00

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A General's Story
STOCKTON, Brig. Gen M. L., USA (Ret.)
New York: Vantage Press, (1965). 8vo. Boards. 248 p . 1st ed. INSCRIBED & SIGNED "Stocky." Fine in lightly worn, price clipped d.w.

Price: $30.00

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Men of Poseidon: Life at Sea aboard the USS Rall
GRAVES, Richard W
Nevada City, Calif.: Willow Valley Press, (1998). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. xii, 228 p . 1st ed. Very good.

Price: $15.00

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Recalled to Service: The Memoirs of General Maxime Weygand of the Académie Française
WEYGAND, General Maxime
London: Heinemann, (1952). Trans. by E. W. Dickes. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. xiii, 454 p . 1st edition in English. A bit of foxing at edges; else fine in d.w. which is fine save for some foxing at spine + original wraparound band (with a couple of short tears).

Price: $17.50

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PUTNAM, George Palamer
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1943. 8vo. Cloth. 213 p . 1st ed. Fine in d.w. with some wear at extremities & foxing.

Price: $37.50

Novel which is a "very human story of life on the Washington front and of the men too old for combat service - 'the retreads' who are fighting this war behind desks"

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Japan's Decision to Surrender
BUTOW, Robert J. C
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, (1966, © 1954). Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. xi, 259 p . 2nd printing. Very good.

Price: $22.50

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Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic
RAYNER, Commander D. A
London: William Kimber, (1955). Ed. by Captain S. W. Roskill. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. 250 p. + ads . 2nd printing. Some foxing at edges, upper corners a bit bumped; else fine in d.w. with some internal foxing & minor edge wear.

Price: $15.00

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Struggle for the Heartland: The Civil War along the Mississippi Corridor
FOULKE, Joseph W
Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co., (2001). Illus. with maps. Small 4to. Wraps. 302 p . 1st ed. Review copy, with slip laid in. Fine.

Price: $22.50

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Global Mission
ARNOLD, H.H., General of the Air Force
New York: Harper, (1949). Illus. with photos. 8vo. xii, 626 p . About fine in lightly worn d.w. with a couple of short edge tears.

Price: $15.00

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Line of Communication: Railway to Victory in the East
THOMAS, John
London: The Locomotive Publishing Co. Ltd., 1947. Illus. with photos & maps. 8vo. Wraps. 86 p . 1st ed. Staples rusty; else very good.

Price: $22.50

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Education in Violence: The Life of George H. Thomas and the History of the Army of the Cumberland
McKINNEY, Francis F
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1961. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Cloth. xiv, 530 p . 1st ed. Very good.

Price: $25.00

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La Guerre dans l'Antiquité
GARLAN, Yvon
Paris: Fernand Nathan, (1972). 8vo. Wraps. 223 p . 1st ed. Stamped "Specimen" on the title page; else about fine.

Price: $17.50

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The Philippine Scouts
THE PHILIPPINE SCOUTS HERITAGE SOCIETY, PREPARED BY
[Fort Sam Houston, Texas]: The Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, (1996). Illus. with photos. 4to. Wraps. 518 p . 1st ed. Name sticker inside front cover; else about fine.

Price: $100.00

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Invasion! They're Coming!: The German Account of the D-Day Landings and the 80 Days' Battle for France
CARELL, Paul
Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Military History, (1995). Trans. by David Johnston. Illus. with photos & maps. 8vo. Cloth. 292 p . Revised edition. Fine in fine d.w.

Price: $15.00

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I'm Off to War, Mother, But I'll Be Back: Reflections of a WWII Tail Gunner [cover title]
WHITING, Wayne B. and Jerry W. Whiting
Walnut Creek, Calif.: Tarnaby, (2001). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. vii, 178 p . 1st ed. Fine.

Price: $22.50

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The Hitler Diet: As Infliced on American P.O.W.'s in World War II
DAVIS, George J
Los Angeles: Military Literary Guild, (1990). 8vo. Wraps. vi, 118 p . 1st ed. SIGNED. Fine.

Price: $17.50

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The Hidden Years: Hong Kong 1941-1945
LUFF, John
Hong Kong: Self-published, (1967). Foreword by C. M. Maltby, Major-General, Late G.O.C. Hong Kong. Small 4to. Maroon fabrikoid, stamped in white. 234, ix p . 1st ed. Name stamps on front free endpaper & fore edge; else fine in lightly worn & soiled d.w. with a couple of chips & tears at top edge.

Price: $30.00

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Bellamy Park: Memoirs
CHYNOWETH, Bradford Grethen, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, (Ret.)
Hicksville, N.Y.: Exposition Press, (1975). 8vo. Boards. 301 p . 1st ed. Name on endpaper, small stain & "Reading Copy" stamp at fore edge of front cover; else very good in lightly rubbed d.w.

Price: $22.50

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The 479th Fighter Group in World War II: In Action over Europe with the P-38 and P-51
FAIRFIELD, Terry A
Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Military History, (2004). Illus. with photos. Small 4to. Pictorial boards. 502 p . 1st ed. SIGNED. Fine in near fine d.w.

Price: $60.00

SIGNED by H[erbert] R. Green, a crew chief on a P-51 whose picture appears on p. 206. Also SIGNED by Jim Frolking above his picture on p. 211 & SIGNED by Kyle L. Ridder above his picture on p. 233. Included is a commemorative baseball cap of the reunion of the 436th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force held in San Antonio in 2000

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Carmel and the Korean Death March
THE KOREAN CARMELITES
Flemington, N.J.: St. Teresa's Press, Carmelite Monastery, (1984). 8vo. Wraps. 140 p . 1st ed. A couple of small spots on cover; else fine.

Price: $15.00

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Duties and Pleasures on Board a United States Warship
MITCHELL, Edward H
San Francisco: Edw. H. Mitchell, 1908. Illus. with b/w photos. 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. Accordion folded with 2 photos each on rectos & versos making a total of 36 photos on nine panels . Very good.

Price: $50.00

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TRAINING OF NEW BRITISH ARMIES, 1914-1915
No place: Military Training Camps Association, ca. 1917. 8vo. Wraps. 29 p . Name on front cover; else very good.

Price: $25.00

Distributed as an aid to U.S. military preparedness. An enclosed slip from the Western Department, M.T.C.A. is dated April 30, 1917, just 24 days after the U.S. declared war on Germany

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TRAINING OF NEW BRITISH ARMIES, 1914-1915
No place: Military Training Camps Association, ca. 1917. 8vo. Wraps. 29 p . Very good.

Price: $30.00

Distributed as an aid to U.S. military preparedness. An enclosed slip from the Western Department, M.T.C.A. is dated April 30, 1917, just 24 days after the U.S. declared war on Germany

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Bitva pod Moskvoi: Razgrom Nemetsko-Fashistskikh Voisk zimoi 1941/42 goda
KARAEV, G
Moskva & Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury Ministerstvo Prosveshcheniya RFSFR, 1951. Illus. with photos & maps. 12mo. Wraps. 122 p . V Pomoshch' Shkol'niku. Very good.

Price: $30.00

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The Defence of Leningrad: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Siege
TIKHONOV, Nikolai, et al
London: Hutchinson, ca. 1942. Illus. with photos. 12mo. Pictorial wraps. 136 p . Short tear at fore edge of rear cover; else about fine.

Price: $15.00

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Lessons of Jutland Affecting Design of Turret Armor
MUSSER, Lieutenant Neil B., (CC), U.S.N
Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1925. 8vo. Wraps. [562]-571 p . Light cover wear, folded twice horizontally, separating two inches at base of spine; else very good.

Price: $30.00

Offprint from the United States Institute Proceedings

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Johnny Doughboy: Broadcast from the Bench over WAJR, October 7, 1943
WILSON, Minter L[owther], Circuit Judge, Morgantown, West Virginia
Morgantown: Self-published, 1943. 24mo. Wraps. [8 p.] . Fine.

Price: $25.00

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Programme of the Army Competitions, Rifle and Carbine, to Be Held at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Preliminary Practice Commences Septemrer [sic] 26th, 1892, Regular Practice Commences October 30, 1892
U.S. ARMY
No information given (issued ca. 1892). 32mo. Tan cloth, stamped in gilt. 62 p . 1st ed. Name sticker on paste-down, front hinge just starting; else very good.

Price: $50.00

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Service: The Story of the Signal Corps
ORIENTATION BRANCH, INFORMATION AND EDUCATION DIVISION, T.S.F.E.T
(Paris): Orientation Branch, Information & Education Division, TSFET, ca. 1945. Illus. with photos. 24mo. Wraps. 32 p . Ex-library. Light cover wear; else very good.

Price: $30.00

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Knights of the Sea (cover title: P.T. Boats - Knights of the Sea)
BENDALL, Katie, et al, editorial staff
Memphis, Tenn.: P.T. Boats, Inc., (1982). Illus. with photos. 4to. Blue pictorial fabrikoid, stamped in silver. 512 p . 1st ed. No. 716 of 2000 copies. Fine.

Price: $185.00

Extra shipping for this heavy book

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Ready Deck: Far Eastern Cruise, USS Ticonderoga (VCA-14), Air Task Group One, 1958-1959
SONGSTER, LTJG John H., editor-in-chief
No place: USS Ticonderoga, ca. 1959. Illus. with photos. 4to. Blue cloth, stamped in red & silver. 300 p . 1sted. Inscription on paste-down; else fine.

Price: $85.00

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The Mighty Eighth, Units, Men and Machines: (A History of the US 8th Army Air Force)
FREEMAN, Roger A
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, (1970). Illus. with color drawings by John B. Rabbets & with photos. 4to. Cloth. 311 p . 1st American ed. Fine in fine d.w.

Price: $30.00

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Aerial Reconnaissance: The 10th Photo Recon Group in World War II
IVIE, Tom
Fallbrook, Calif.: Aero Publishers, (1981). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. viii, 200 p . 1st ed. Fine.

Price: $15.00

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Silver Wings, Class 44-B
BACON, Henry R., Paulino Apodaca, Donald E. Haug and Noel E. Herndon, staff
Williams Field, Arizona: A.A.F., 1944. Illus. with photos. Small 4to. Maroon padded boards, with white embossed printing & mounted b/w photo. Unpaginated . A bit shaken, wear around edges of cover, ring stain on front cover; else very good.

Price: $45.00

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Follow Me!: The Story of the Second Marine Division in World War II
JOHNSTON, Richard W
New York: Random House, (1948). Illus. with photos. 4to. Cloth. xi, 305 p . Good.

Price: $30.00

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Cold Will: The Defense of Finland
RIES, Tomas
London: Brassey's Defence Publishers, (1988). Illus. with photos & maps. 8vo. Boards. xiii, 394 p . 1st ed. Fine in d.w. which is fine save for a couple of tears at bottom edge.

Price: $27.50

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The Chetniks: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945
TOMASEVICH, Jozo
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1975. 8vo. Wraps, d.w. x, 508 p . 1st edition (apparently an advanced reading copy). Fine in lightly worn d.w.

Price: $75.00

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Howl While You Heal
JAFFEE, S/Sgt. Abraham
New York: Army & Navy Department of the Young Men's Christian Associations, (1945). 24mo. Wraps. 32 p . 1st ed. Fine.

Price: $30.00

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Working with the Navy
PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DIVISION, COMP
Bremerton, Wash.: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 1948. Illus. with photos, drawings & maps. Foreword by E. W. Sylvester. 12mo. Pictorial wraps. 65, ii p . Revised edition. Fine.

Price: $35.00

Preceded by editions of 1942 & 1944

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Antitank Warfare
BIRYUKOV, Major-General (Artillery) G[rigorii Fedorovich] and Colonel G[rigorii Vul'fovich] Mel'nikov
Moscow: Progress Publishers, (1973). Illus. with drawings & maps. Trans. by David Myshne. 8vo. Wraps. 154 p. Very good.

Price: $17.50

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Make a Signal!
BROOME, Captain Jack, D.S.C., R.N
London: Putnam, (1956, © 1955). 8vo. Boards. 224 p . 3rd printing. Inscription & name stamp on endpaper; else very good in chipped, price clipped d.w.

Price: $27.50

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Through Japanese Barbed Wire
PRIESTWOOD, Gwen
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, (1943). 12mo. Cloth. 197 p . 2nd printing. Light fading at spine & edges; else about fine.

Price: $22.50

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