Military Books & Vintage Records #387

Military Books & Vintage Records #387

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South Boston Books


(978) 331-0895
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WW2: MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign

Lot # 110      

Very good condition. Hardcover. "MacArthur's Jungle War examines the campaign's strategic background and individual operations, describing the enormous challenges posed b...morey jungle and amphibious warfare. Perhaps more important, it offers a balanced assessment of MacArthur's leadership and limitations, revealing his reliance on familiar battle plans and showing the vital role that subordinates played in his victory. Taaffe tells how MacArthur played the difficulties of the New Guinea campaign by maintaining his undivided attention on reaching the Philippines. He also discloses how MacArthur frequently deceived both his superiors and the public in order to promote his own agenda, and examines errors the general would later repeat on a larger scale up through the Korean War."

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WW2: Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of WWII's 10th Mountain Division

Lot # 112      

Very good condition, hardcover. "Drawing on years of interviews and research, Shelton re-creates the ski troops' lively, extensive, and sometimes experimental training an...mored their journey from boot camp to the Italian Apennines. There, scaling a 1,500-foot "unclimbable" cliff face in the dead of night, they stunned their enemy and began the eventual rout of the German armies from northern Italy."

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RARE Lapham's Raiders: Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942–1945 SIGNED BY LAPHAM

Lot # 111      

Good+ condition hardcover with a slightly cracked hinge SIGNED BY ROBERT LAPHAM. Robert Lapham was a reserve lieutenant in the US Army in World War II. He served in the P...morehilippines attached to the 45th Infantry evaded capture in the spring of 1942, and organized and led one of the largest and most successful guerrilla armies on the central plains of the northern island of Luzon. He was promoted to major by war's end, age 28, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Douglas MacArthur." Lapham’s Raiders sheds light on the clandestine activities of the LGAF and other guerrilla operations, assess the damages of war to the Filipino people, and discuss the United States' postwar treatment of the newly independent Philippine nation. It also examines Japan's wartime failures in the Philippines and elsewhere, and of America's postwar failure to fully realize opportunities there."

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WW2: Admiral Halsey's Story (1947) First Edition

Lot # 104      

Very good condition in good dust jacket. "By the time of the reception, five years later, he had become not only the most famous man in the United States Navy but the mos...moret famous living naval man in the world. He had jumped from the obscure pages of the β€œNavy Register” to the front pages of the world’s newspapers, and from there into the pages of history.He had been promoted two grades, his signal number was 7, and his five decorations had increased to twenty-four..."

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WW2: Mustang: A Combat Marine (1987)

Lot # 113      

Very good condition, hardcover. The author recounts his experiences in the Fleet Marine Force of the Marine Corps during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War...more, as a "mustang," an officer who is commissioned from the ranks of the enlisted men.

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WW2: Between Tedium and Terror: A Soldier's World War II Diary, 1943-45

Lot # 114      

Very good condition, hardcover. "The diary of a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Pacific during World War II records both the daily tedium and the immediacy of danger as ...morehe traveled to Australia, New Guinea, and other faraway locations."

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WW2: US Airborne in Action - Combat Troops No. 10

Lot # 115      

Very good condition, softcover. From their early beginnings through campaigns of WW II. US Paratroops and glider troops saw action in all major battles in Europe as well ...moreas landings in the Philippines & Burma. Over 100 photos, 40 detail drawings, 16 color paintings. 50 pages

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WW2: USS Massachusetts (BB 59) Ship Data

Lot # 118      

Very good condition, softcover....more

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WW2: KC-135 Stratotanker in Action

Lot # 119      

(this may not be WW2 era) Very good condition, softcover....more

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WW2: The Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich

Lot # 117      

Very good condition, hardcover. "Recounts the assassination of the feared Reichsprotektor of Czechoslovakia by two Czech resistance fighters aided by British Secret Servi...morece and others, examining the ruthlessness and brutality for which Heydrich was known"

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WW2: B-29 Superfortress In Action

Lot # 122      

Very good condition, softcover. "The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced production aircraft in the world when it took to the air for the first time in Septem...moreber 1942. While most often remembered as the type of aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb, and for its extensive use in bombing Japan during the latter stages of World War II, the B-29 also saw plenty of combat during the Korean War."

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WW2: Edson's Raiders: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion in World War II

Lot # 123      

Very good condition, hardcover. "They were desperate, bloody affairs against some of the most experienced jungle fighters in the Japanese empire. Twenty-four Raiders serv...moreed with such valor that the U.S. Navy named ships in their honor - all but one designated posthumously."

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WW2: LEFT TO DIE: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau

Lot # 125      

Very good condition, hardcover. "Examines the mystery and controversy surrounding a devastating tragedy in U.S. naval history--the sinking of the U.S.S. Juneau in 1942, i...moren which nearly seven hundred lives were lost"

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WW2: Yankee Samurai: The Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory

Lot # 126      

Very good condition, hardcover. "an informative and insightful history of the Nisei (Second-generation Japanese Americans), working for the U.S. armed forces in the Pacif...moreic during World War II. "

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WW2: South Pacific Destroyer: The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf

Lot # 124      

Very good condition, hardcover. "Retired navy US naval Captain Crenshaw shares his firsthand experience as the executive, officer of the USS Maury , along with research o...moref official US and Japanese records bearing on these crucial 1943 battles. Particularly noteworthy is his discussion of the impact of the then new technologies of radar and voice radio, and that of the Japanese supertorpedo. Includes a few photos and maps."

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CIVIL WAR: Ironclad: The Monitor & the Merrimack by Arthur Mokin (1991)

Lot # 130      

Very good condition, hardcover. "With a novelist's eye and the historian's devotion to research, Arthur Mokin recreates the early years of the Civil War, immersing the re...moreader in this place and time. Readers will witness the birth of technology that revolutionized navies around the world--proven in the historic battle of the Merrimack and the Monitor. Ironclad is immensely readable--popular history at its best."

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WW2: Great Battles of World War II by David Miller

Lot # 116      

Large hardcover, very good condition. "A collection of fifty accounts of the battles that changed the course of World War II, from Dunkirk to The Battle of Britain, inclu...moredes background facts, commentary, quotes from the major participants, and more than two hundred color and duotone photographs."

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WW2: Standard Guide to U.S. World War II Tanks & Artillery

Lot # 121      

Very good condition, softcover. "Step inside World War II machines -- from tanks, half-tracks, and armored cars to field artillery, ammunition, and antiaircraft weapons! ...moreKonrad Schreier Jr. describes the production of World War II tanks and artillery."

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CIVIL WAR: American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman

Lot # 131      

Very good condition, hardcover. "From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path ...moreof destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as β€œthe first modern general.” Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character."

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CIVIL WAR: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

Lot # 133      

Very good condition, hardcover. "Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war Plot...moreted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided?a time that still resonates in ours."

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CIVIL WAR: The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War

Lot # 132      

Very good condition, hardcover. "The first full-length analysis of a little-studied aspect of the Civil War demonstrates how a failed Yankee cavalry raid set off a campai...moregn of terror waged by the Confederacy, which may have manufactured the incident to justify its actions."

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CIVIL WAR: The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War

Lot # 134      

Very good condition, hardcover. "The Sacrificial Year is Walt Whitman's story of his involvement in the Civil War, and of his thoughts and feelings about this great crisi...mores. Whitman himself never kept a diary of his experiences--a fact he later regretted-- but he did write hundreds of letters, newspaper articles, and "memoranda.""

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CIVIL WAR: Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President

Lot # 136      

Very good condition, hardcover. "Not since Bruce Catton has there been such an absorbing and exciting biography of Ulysses S. Grant. "Grant is a mystery to me," said She...morerman, "and I believe he is a mystery to himself." Geoffrey Perret's account offers new insights into Grant the commander and Grant the president that would have astonished both his friends, such as Sherman, and his enemies."

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CIVIL WAR: Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War

Lot # 138      

Very good condition hardcover. "As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Ala...morebama, the Carolinas, and Virginia. General William T. Sherman's battle-hardened army conducted a punitive campaign against the seat of the Rebellion, South Carolina, while General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant sought to break the months-long siege at Petersburg, defended by Robert E. Lee's starving Army of Northern Virginia. In Richmond, Confederate President Jefferson Davis struggled to hold together his unraveling nation while simultaneously sanctioning diplomatic overtures to bid for peace. Meanwhile, President Abraham Lincoln took steps to end slavery in the United States forever. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one on the heels of another, from the battles ending the Petersburg siege and forcing Lee's surrender at Appomattox to the destruction of South Carolina's capital, the assassination of Lincoln, and the intensive manhunt for his killer. The fast-paced narrative braids the disparate events into a compelling account that includes powerful armies; leaders civil and military, flawed and splendid; and ordinary people, black and white, struggling to survive in the war's wreckage."

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