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Rip Van Winkle Railroads (1970) Canajoharie - Catskill Mountain - Tannersville

Lot #49 (Sale Order 6 of 119)

Good condition, some wear and light spotting. First edition. The Canajoharie & Catskill Rail Road, the Catskill Mountain Railway, the Catskill & Tannersville Railway, and the Otis Elevating Railway, were all narrow gauge railroads in the Catskill Mountains of New York State carrying passengers to the large vacation hotels and ubiquitous rooming houses. 146 pages of text, maps, rare photographs, and rosters.

WW2: Witness: Magnum Photographs from the Front Line of World War II

Lot #90 (Sale Order 7 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "A vivid reminder of World War II, this collection attests to the suffering caused by war and the acts of courage that arose from the ashes. Taken from Magnum’s archives, these images—by the greatest photographers of the era—bear witness to the world-changing events of the war, immortalized in moments of daring and honor, and to the devastation it left behind across the conflict zones in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Organized chronologically, each photograph delivers dramatic impact through its powerful aesthetic quality and documentary importance, and is accompanied by a succinct text explaining its historical context. Includes Magnum photographers Werner Bischof, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erich Hartmann, Erich Lessing, Herbert List, Wayne Miller, George Rodger, David Seymour, W. Eugene Smith, Kryn Taconis, the Soviet Group, and Wu Yinxian."

WW2: World War II - Large Pictorial Hardcover

Lot #91 (Sale Order 8 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover.

WW2: That Night at Surigao: Life on a Battleship at War

Lot #92 (Sale Order 9 of 119)

Very good condition, softcover. That Night at Surigao is a blend of thousands of pages of primary source documentation from records of three battleships, a 3-year long diary kept by a Navy Lieutenant, and memoirs. It collates ships’ records with diary and memoir to create a ‘diary-within-a-diary’, matching the history of the battleships with the history of several individuals. It reduces the naval war in the Pacific to the level of the individual and gives the reader a close idea of what life was like aboard a battleship at war. It follows all the major battles from Tarawa to Okinawa. Also included in the back of the book is the book "USS Virginia Crosses the Equator Again."

WW2: The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II - LARGE HARDCOVER

Lot #93 (Sale Order 10 of 119)

Very good condition. "The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II is an easy-to-read illustrated compendium of the military hardware – from air, sea or land – which was used in engagements around the globe from 1939 to 1945. It includes more than 1500 pieces of equipment from handguns to aircraft carriers. Each weapon system is illustrated with a detailed profile artwork and a photograph showing the weapons system in service. Accompanying the illustrative material is detailed text that lists each weapon’s service history, the numbers built, and its variants, as well as full specifications."

WW2: U.S.S. HOLT (DE-706) Destroyer Escort

Lot #94 (Sale Order 11 of 119)

Very good condition, softcover. "This is the true story of the men aboard the destroyer escort U.S.S. HOLT (DE-706) during World War II. The HOLT story begins with the ship's construction in 1943, launching in 1944, continues through its missions in the Pacific, and concludes with its decommissioning after the war in 1946. Major missions included Leyte Gulf Landings, a slow-tow convoy to Mindoro, the Lingayen Gulf Campaign, and the Legaspi Operation. The HOLT was one of twenty-two Rudderow class destroyer escorts built during WWII. The HOLT and five other destroyer escorts became part of Escort Division 74 and participated in various task groups and units in the Philippine area. Enjoy learning about the ship's missions and the crew with their many stories as they served their country with valor."

WW2: Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

Lot #95 (Sale Order 12 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals the terrible human cost that this battle exacted."

WW2: Sea Wolf: The Daring Exploits of Navy Legend John D. Bulkeley

Lot #96 (Sale Order 13 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Traces the life and career of Admiral Bulkeley, and describes his role in World War II and as commander of the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay; Cuba"

WW2: Victory at Guadalcanal

Lot #97 (Sale Order 14 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "A detailed study of the Battle of Guadalcanal describes the entire campaign from the first defect to the final victory, a crucial triumph that marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific"

WW2: Bloody Ridge: The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal

Lot #98 (Sale Order 15 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "September 1942: American forces landed on the island of Guadalcanal, engaging the entrenched Japanese in what would be remembered as some of the worst fighting of World War II. The key to victory lay in controlling the ridge overlooking Henderson Field, a vital airfield and the prize of the Guadalcanal campaign. This was the site of a savage, three-day clash that would test the mettle of both sides. Launching a series of vicious attacks on successive nights, a vastly superior force of battle-hardened Japanese somehow lost to a mongrel battalion of Col. "Red Mike" Edson's malnourished, sickly Marines in what became known as the Battle of Bloody Ridge. The surprising victory marked the first significant Japanese defeat in the war, saved the airfield, and gave the small, under-supplied American force time to receive supplies and reinforcements. This is the true story of that harrowing battle, when the fate of the war in the Pacific would rest with those who were tough enough to take Bloody Ridge."

WW2: Guadalcanal by Edwin P. Hoyt

Lot #99 (Sale Order 16 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Detailed and personal information about the famous World War II battle in the Pacific Ocean."

WW2: Way It Was: Pearl Harbor : The Original Photographs

Lot #100 (Sale Order 17 of 119)

Very good condition, softcover. "Presents a pictorial history of the attack on Pearl Harbor, with hundreds of previously-unpublished photographs and personal stories of combatants from both sides"

WW2: One More River: The Rhine Crossings of 1945

Lot #101 (Sale Order 18 of 119)

Very good condition hardcover. "This book reappraises the closing months of the war in Europe emphasizing the action in the Rhineland"

WW2: Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II

Lot #102 (Sale Order 19 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "As American tanks raced across France, one fact became immediately clear: One-on-one, the Sherman tank with its 75 mm main gun was no match for the more heavily armored and heavily-gunned German tanks that it faced across the battlefield."

WW2: Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

Lot #103 (Sale Order 20 of 119)

Very good condition in good+ dust jacket. "The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come"

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

Lot #104 (Sale Order 21 of 119)

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 most famous living naval man in the world. He had jumped from the obscure pages of the “Navy 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..."

WW2: Yankee R.N by Commodore A. H. Cherry (1953)

Lot #105 (Sale Order 22 of 119)

Very good condition. "An excellent, well written, book by A. H. Cherry, an American from Buffalo, New York, who ditched his job as a Wall Street banker and volunteered to serve with the Royal Navy during World War 2."

WW2: A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944

Lot #106 (Sale Order 23 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "As Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, members of the local French Resistance in the small town of Saint-Amand-Montrond embarked on an ill-fated attempt to liberate their town. Based on noble but politically questionable motives, and failing to inspire broader support, the incident quickly devolved from confrontation to a stand-off and ultimately to a tragedy. Resistance forces took and subsequently executed hostages; their opponents, the milice - collaborationist French police - and German soldiers rounded up 70 Jewish adults and children in retaliation and put many to a horrible death. Eminent literary and cultural critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the episode as history but also as a moral paradigm. Finding similar failures on both sides, he also cites "a qualitative difference between the two, an irreducible asymmetry, which resides in their ideals, in totalitarianism versus democracy." Suspenseful, compelling, and uncompromisingly honest, A French Tragedy goes beyond the events themselves to ponder the nature of sacrifice, of suffering, and of individual responsibility in a world where civil war still thrives."

WW2: A Fighting General: Biography of General Holland M. Smith

Lot #107 (Sale Order 24 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. erved in Philippines & Dominica, WWI in France. In WWII commanded 5th Amphibious Corps operations, including Makin, Tarawa, Marshalls, Marianas, Saipan, Tinian, Guam & Iwo Jima.

WW2: MacArthur's Navy: The Seventh Fleet and the Battle for the Phillipines

Lot #108 (Sale Order 25 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Examines the role of the Seventh Fleet in Douglas MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines and defeat of the Japanese"

WW2: MacArthur: The Life of a General (1963)

Lot #109 (Sale Order 26 of 119)

Very good condition in good dust jacket.

WW2: MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign

Lot #110 (Sale Order 27 of 119)

Very good condition. Hardcover. "MacArthur's Jungle War examines the campaign's strategic background and individual operations, describing the enormous challenges posed by 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."

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

Lot #111 (Sale Order 28 of 119)

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 Philippines 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."

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

Lot #112 (Sale Order 29 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Drawing on years of interviews and research, Shelton re-creates the ski troops' lively, extensive, and sometimes experimental training and 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."

WW2: Mustang: A Combat Marine (1987)

Lot #113 (Sale Order 30 of 119)

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, as a "mustang," an officer who is commissioned from the ranks of the enlisted men.

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

Lot #114 (Sale Order 31 of 119)

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 he traveled to Australia, New Guinea, and other faraway locations."

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

Lot #115 (Sale Order 32 of 119)

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 as landings in the Philippines & Burma. Over 100 photos, 40 detail drawings, 16 color paintings. 50 pages

WW2: Great Battles of World War II by David Miller

Lot #116 (Sale Order 33 of 119)

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, includes background facts, commentary, quotes from the major participants, and more than two hundred color and duotone photographs."

WW2: The Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich

Lot #117 (Sale Order 34 of 119)

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

WW2: USS Massachusetts (BB 59) Ship Data

Lot #118 (Sale Order 35 of 119)

Very good condition, softcover.

WW2: KC-135 Stratotanker in Action

Lot #119 (Sale Order 36 of 119)

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

WW2: Pride of America: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Army Airborne Forces

Lot #120 (Sale Order 37 of 119)

Very good condition, softcover.

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

Lot #121 (Sale Order 38 of 119)

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

WW2: B-29 Superfortress In Action

Lot #122 (Sale Order 39 of 119)

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 September 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."

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

Lot #123 (Sale Order 40 of 119)

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

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

Lot #124 (Sale Order 41 of 119)

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 of 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."

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

Lot #125 (Sale Order 42 of 119)

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, in which nearly seven hundred lives were lost"

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

Lot #126 (Sale Order 43 of 119)

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 Pacific during World War II. "

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

Lot #130 (Sale Order 44 of 119)

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 reader 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."

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

Lot #131 (Sale Order 45 of 119)

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 of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as “the first modern general.” Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character."

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

Lot #132 (Sale Order 46 of 119)

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 campaign of terror waged by the Confederacy, which may have manufactured the incident to justify its actions."

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

Lot #133 (Sale Order 47 of 119)

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 Plotted 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."

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

Lot #134 (Sale Order 48 of 119)

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 crisis. 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.""

CIVIL WAR: Guardian of Savannah: Fort Mcallister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond

Lot #135 (Sale Order 49 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Durham's harrowing account of life and combat at Fort McAllister, and of the subsequent restoration, is augmented by twelve maps and sixty photographs?including rare images of Sherman's troops at the end of the March to the Sea and of early preservation initiatives."

CIVIL WAR: Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President

Lot #136 (Sale Order 50 of 119)

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 Sherman, "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."

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

Lot #138 (Sale Order 51 of 119)

Very good condition hardcover. "As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama, 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."

CIVIL WAR: My Brave Boys: To War with Colonel Cross and the Fighting Fifth

Lot #139 (Sale Order 52 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Using letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, the author sheds light on the Civil War exploits of one of the most courageous, war-battered, and little-known regiments in the Union Army, the "Fighting Fifth" of New Hampshire."

CIVIL WAR: Sherman: A Soldier's Life

Lot #140 (Sale Order 53 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "In the crowded battlefield of Civil War commanders, William Tecumseh Sherman stands apart. Others are often summed up in a few words: the stubborn, taciturn Grant; the gentlemanly, gifted Lee; the stomping, cursing Sheridan; and the flamboyant, boyish Stuart. But the enigmatic Sherman still manages to elude us. Probably no other figure of his day divides historians so deeply-leading some to praise him as a genius, others to condemn him as a savage. Now, in Sherman, Lee Kennett offers a brilliant new interpretation of the general's life and career, one that embraces his erratic, contradictory nature. Here we see the making of a true soldier, beginning with a colorful view of Sherman's rich family tradition, his formative years at West Point, and the critical period leading up to the Civil War, during which Sherman served in the small frustrated peacetime army and saw service in the South and California, and in the Mexican War Trying to advance himself, Sherman resigned from the army and he soon began to distinguish hiniself as a general known for his tenacity, vision, and mercurial temper. Throughout the spirited Battles of Bull Run and Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg, and ultimately the famous march to the sea through Georgia, no one displayed the same intensity as did Sherman"

CIVIL WAR: Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought

Lot #141 (Sale Order 54 of 119)

Very good condition hardcover. "Crucible of Command is both a gripping narrative of the final year of the war and a fresh, revealing portrait of these two great commanders as they took each other's measure across the battlefield with the aid of millions of men."

CIVIL WAR: While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War

Lot #142 (Sale Order 55 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "During the four years of the American Civil War, over 400,000 soldiers -- one in every seven who served in the Union and Confederate armies -- became prisoners of war. In northern and southern prisons alike, inmates suffered horrific treatment. Even healthy young soldiers often sickened and died within weeks of entering the stockades. In all, nearly 56,000 prisoners succumbed to overcrowding, exposure, poor sanitation, inadequate medical care, and starvation. Historians have generally blamed prison conditions and mortality rates on factors beyond the control of Union and Confederate command, but Charles W. Sanders, Jr., boldly challenges the conventional view and demonstrates that leaders on both sides deliberately and systematically ordered the mistreatment of captives.Sanders shows how policies developed during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War shaped the management of Civil War prisons. He examines the establishment of the major camps as well as the political motivations and rationale behind the operation of the prisons, focusing especially on Camp Douglas, Elmira, Camp Chase, and Rock Island in the North and Andersonville, Cahaba, Florence, and Danville in the South. Beyond a doubt, he proves that the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis purposely formulated and carried out retaliatory practices designed to harm prisoners of war, with each assuming harsher attitudes as the conflict wore on.Sanders cites official and personal correspondence from high-level civilian and military leaders who knew about the intolerable conditions but often refused to respond or even issued orders that made matters far worse. From such documents emerges a chilling chronicle of how prisoners came to be regarded not as men but as pawns to be used and then callously discarded in pursuit of national objectives. Yet even before the guns fell silent, Sanders reveals, both North and South were hard at work constructing elaborate justifications for their actions.While in the Hands of the Enemy offers a groundbreaking revisionist interpretation of the Civil War military prison system, challenging historians to rethink their understanding of nineteenth-century warfare."

CIVIL WAR: Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of STONEWALL JACKSON

Lot #143 (Sale Order 56 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero."

CIVIL WAR: Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

Lot #144 (Sale Order 57 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy"

CIVIL WAR: Grant by Ron Chernow

Lot #145 (Sale Order 58 of 119)

Very good condition. "Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant."

CIVIL WAR: Andersonville: The Last Depot

Lot #146 (Sale Order 59 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. According to William Marvel, virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other necessities combined to create a crisis beyond the captors' control. He also argues that the tragedy was aggravated by the Union decision to suspend prisoner exchanges, which meant that many men who might have returned home were instead left to sicken and die in captivity."

CIVIL WAR: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

Lot #147 (Sale Order 60 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role. "

Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala

Lot #148 (Sale Order 61 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Bitter Fruit" recounts in telling detail the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic, a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship.

The Complete Machine-Gun: 1885 to the Present

Lot #149 (Sale Order 62 of 119)

Very good condition, large hardcover.

Turncoat: BENEDICT ARNOLD and the Crisis of American Liberty

Lot #190 (Sale Order 63 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "This work traces Arnold's journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Brumwell's research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold's mystifying betrayal was driven by a staunch conviction that America's best interests would be served by halting the bloodshed and reuniting the fractured British Empire."

HENRY KNOX: Visionary General of the American Revolution

Lot #191 (Sale Order 64 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Here is a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general whose skills as an engineer and artilleryman played a key role in all of George Washington's battles including the Siege of Boston (where his use of cannons at Dorchester Heights won back the city) and the Battle of Trenton (where he was in charge of Washington's crossing of the Delaware River). Knox became an major advocate of the U.S. Constitution and served as the nation's first Secretary of War. He was co-founder of the U.S. Navy, laid the foundations for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and negotiated treaties and set policy with Native Americans.With nail-biting battle scenes, patriotism and deep understanding of his subject, Mark Puls breathes new life into the American Revolution and firmly assigns Knox to his deserved place in history."

THOMAS PAINE: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations

Lot #192 (Sale Order 65 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "A profile of the United States and French Republic founder describes him as a controversial figure who helped shape the revolutionary age, in an account that provides coverage of his unlikely rise to fame and prominence, his best-selling books, and his relationships with his contemporaries."

ETHAN ALLEN: His Life and Times

Lot #193 (Sale Order 66 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison."

The Life and Times of GENERAL ANDREW PICKENS: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder

Lot #194 (Sale Order 67 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the Patriot cause, and struggles over Indian territorial boundaries on the southern frontier. Combining insights from military and social history, Andrew argues that while Pickens's actions consistently reaffirmed the authority of white men, he was also determined to help found the new republic based on broader principles of morality and justice."

JOHN PAUL JONES - Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy

Lot #195 (Sale Order 68 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." He never flinched or turned back. Evan Thomas's minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones's Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel."

The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785

Lot #196 (Sale Order 69 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "In The Long Fuse, Don Cook investigates the American Revolution from the British side, throwing new light on this colorful age and its players. He draws from a multitude of primary sources, including personal correspondence and political memoranda, to show how Britain, at the height of her power but suffering from internal political strife, made one mistake after another, culminating in the loss of her prized colonies. "

KOREAN WAR: Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the Life of a General

Lot #197 (Sale Order 70 of 119)

Very good condition hardcover. "Traces the life and career of Vandenberg who served as Air Force Chief of Staff from 1948 to 1953 and discusses his role in the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War"

NAPOLEON: Waterloo: The Aftermath

Lot #198 (Sale Order 71 of 119)

Very good condition hardcover. "In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot."

The Last Stand: CUSTER, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Lot #199 (Sale Order 72 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand. Bringing a wealth of new information to his subject, as well as his characteristic literary flair, Philbrick details the collision between two American icons- George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull-that both parties wished to avoid, and brilliantly explains how the battle that ensued has been shaped and reshaped by national myth."

The Sound of Wings: The Life of AMELIA EARHART

Lot #200 (Sale Order 73 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "A revealing profile depicts Earhart's tomboy childhood in Kansas, her close relationship with her alcoholic father, and her meeting and subsequent married life with publisher G.P. Putnam"

AMELIA EARHART: The Mystery Solved

Lot #201 (Sale Order 74 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "A re-creation of Amelia Earhart's final flight draws on a recently rediscovered report and lost radio logs of her last transmissions to explain what really happened when Earhart's plane vanished during her around-the-world flight"

SIGNED Dictator: A Novel (Ancient Rome Trilogy)

Lot #202 (Sale Order 75 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "At the age of forty-eight, Cicero—the greatest orator of his time—is in exile, separated from his wife and children, tormented by his sense of failure, his great power sacrificed on the altar of his principles. And yet, in the words of one of his most famous aphorisms, “While there is life, there is hope.”

Allen: The Biography of an Army Officer, 1859 - 1930

Lot #203 (Sale Order 76 of 119)

Very good condition hardcover. "Winner of the 1971 Allan Nevins prize for sound scholarship and literary excellence, this distinguished biography redeems from neglect a gifted and lively figure in post-Civil War American history. Henry Tureman Allen’s life spanned a period in which the United States was transformed from a nation still struggling along an Indian frontier into a world power with great international responsibilities. During that period Allen was a part of nearly every major move in which the United States Army was involved. He was actively engaged in the Spanish-American War (and for a week he even served as “mayor” of the Cuban town of El Caney), in putting down the Philippine insurrection, in the 1916 invasion of Mexico, and in World War I. Many of Allen’s assignments, which were more diverse than those of any of his army-officer contemporaries, were in the ill-defined area of civil military relations, where he frequently had to make up his own rules - a practice by no means unsuited to his temperament. His first major assignment was a twenty-five-hundred-mile exploration and mapping of the Copper River in the scarcely explored wilderness that Alaska then was. Later, he spent most of the last decade of the century as a military attaché abroad, first in St. Petersburg and then in Berlin."

VIETNAM: Operation Tuscaloosa

Lot #204 (Sale Order 77 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "In 1967, Operation Tuscaloosa sent 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines into the hostile Song Thu Bon valley. Their mission: to exterminate the Viet Cong. But a sandbar island in the river quickly became an island of death for the Marines who lay trapped there, pinned under merciless enemy fire. Seventeen would die. And that was just the beginning"

VIETNAM: Giai Phong! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon

Lot #205 (Sale Order 78 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "Written by what has to have been a European Communist, this English translation gives us a view of those days after the fall of Saigon in April of 1975."

Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from Urban Combat

Lot #206 (Sale Order 79 of 119)

Very good condition, softcover. "An examination of the difficulties faced by the Russian military in planning and carrying out urban operations in Chechnya. Russian and rebel military forces fought to control the Chechen city ofGrozny in the winters of 1994-1995 and 1999-2000, as well as clashing insmaller towns and villages. The author examines both Russian and rebeltactics and operations in those battles, focusing on how and why thecombatants' approaches changed over time. The study concludes that while the Russian military was able to significantly improve its ability to carryout a number of key tasks in the five-year interval between the wars, other important missions--particularly in the urban realm--were ignored, largely in the belief that the urban mission could be avoided. This conscious decision not to prepare for a most stressful battlefield met with devastating results, a lesson the United States would be well served tos tudy."

Firepower in Limited War by Robert H. Scales

Lot #207 (Sale Order 80 of 119)

Very good condition, hardcover. "urveys the French Indochina War, the Vietnam War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Falklands campaign, and the Persian Gulf War, and examines the strategic use of artillery, helicopter gunships, and tactical airpower"

White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian

Lot #208 (Sale Order 81 of 119)

Very good condition, softcover. "Tells the story of one of Canada's warship corvettes that served during World War II and brought its crew home every time they went out. It was the last Canadian ship to be attacked by the U.S. Navy, and it was eventually sunk, along with most of its crew, by a German submarine"

Rabuka: No Other Way; His Own Story of the Fijian Coup

Lot #209 (Sale Order 82 of 119)

Good condition, softcover.

ANITA BAKER - RAPTURE LP (1986)

Lot #210 (Sale Order 83 of 119)

Very good condition album in good cover. "Winning her two Grammys and selling over 5 million copies, the album is a timeless quiet storm classic that would go on to influence generations of R&B singers."

Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto (1964) Getz / Gilberto JAZZ

Lot #211 (Sale Order 84 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover. "Getz/Gilberto is considered the record that popularized bossa nova worldwide and is one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time"

Soul II Soul (1989) Keep On Movin LP

Lot #212 (Sale Order 85 of 119)

Very good condition in very good cover.

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967) LP ALBUM

Lot #213 (Sale Order 86 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born in the USA (1984)

Lot #214 (Sale Order 87 of 119)

Very good condition, in good album cover.

WILLIE NELSON'S Greatest Hits (1981) LP ALBUM

Lot #215 (Sale Order 88 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover with minor tear.

Foreigner – 4 (1981) LP ALBUM

Lot #216 (Sale Order 89 of 119)

Very good condition in generally very good album cover. 4, also known as Foreigner 4, is the fourth studio album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on July 3, 1981, on Atlantic Records. Several singles from the album were hits, including "Urgent", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "Juke Box Hero".

TWO ALABAMA RECORDS

Lot #217 (Sale Order 90 of 119)

"Just Us" and "Alabama Live" both in very good condition.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run (1981)

Lot #218 (Sale Order 91 of 119)

Born to Run is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on August 25, 1975, by Columbia Records.

BOSTON (1976) LP ALBUM

Lot #219 (Sale Order 92 of 119)

Very good ALBUM in fair/good cover with wear. The album was released by Epic in August 1976 and broke sales records, becoming the best-selling debut LP in the US at the time, and winning the RIAA Century Award as best selling debut album.[7] The album's singles, "More Than a Feeling", "Peace of Mind" and "Foreplay/Long Time", were major AM and FM hits, and nearly the entire album receives constant airplay on classic rock radio.

CULTURE CLUB (1983) Colour by Numbers LP ALBUM

Lot #220 (Sale Order 93 of 119)

Very good condition in very good cover. Colour by Numbers is the second album by the British new wave group Culture Club, released in October 1983. Preceded by the hit single "Karma Chameleon", which reached number one in several countries, the album reached number one in the UK and has sold 10 million copies on 80s.

DIRE STRAITS (1985) Brother in Arms LP ALBUM

Lot #221 (Sale Order 94 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover. Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985[1] through Vertigo Records internationally and through Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It is credited with being the first album in recorded history to sell over one million copies in a CD format.

Simon & Garfunkel (1970) Bridge Over Troubled Water

Lot #222 (Sale Order 95 of 119)

Very good condition in very good condition album cover. Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released in January 1970 on Columbia Records.

YOKO ONO It's Alright (1983) LP ALBUM

Lot #223 (Sale Order 96 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover.

DON HENLEY (1989) The End Of The Innocence LP ALBUM

Lot #224 (Sale Order 97 of 119)

Very good condition album in very good condition cover. The album is Henley's best selling release, selling over 6 million copies in the United States alone, peaking at No. 8. The album featured three Top 40 singles "The End of the Innocence", "The Heart of the Matter", and "The Last Worthless Evening".

ALICE COOPER (1976) Alice Cooper Goes To Hell

Lot #225 (Sale Order 98 of 119)

Very good condition album in good cover. Alice Cooper Goes to Hell is the second solo album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released in 1976. A continuation of Welcome to My Nightmare as it continues the story of Steven, the concept album was written by Cooper with guitar player Dick Wagner and producer Bob Ezrin.

U2 Rattle & Hum (1988) LP ALBUM

Lot #226 (Sale Order 99 of 119)

Very good condition double album in good- album cover with wear.

SIA 1000 Forms Of Fear (2014) LP ALBUM

Lot #227 (Sale Order 100 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover.

DOORS - LA WOMAN (1972) LP ALBUM

Lot #228 (Sale Order 101 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover. L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, by Elektra Records.

SEX PISTOLS (1988) Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols RE-ISSUE

Lot #229 (Sale Order 102 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover.

CAT STEVENS - Izitso (1977) LP ALBUM

Lot #230 (Sale Order 103 of 119)

Very good condition, in very good album cover.

MEN AT WORK (1981) Cargo LP ALBUM

Lot #231 (Sale Order 104 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover.

George Thorogood And The Destroyers (1979) Better Than The Rest LP ALBUM

Lot #232 (Sale Order 105 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover.

SURVIVOR – Eye Of The Tiger (1982) LP ALBUM

Lot #233 (Sale Order 106 of 119)

Very good condition in very good album cover.

MARVIN GAYE – Midnight Love (1981) LP ALBUM

Lot #234 (Sale Order 107 of 119)

Very good condition in very good cover.

JOE JACKSON – Body And Soul (1984) LP ALBUM

Lot #235 (Sale Order 108 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.

WARREN ZEVON - The Envoy (1982) LP ALBUM

Lot #236 (Sale Order 109 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover with wear.

DEVO – Freedom Of Choice (1981) LP ALBUM

Lot #237 (Sale Order 110 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.

THE CLASH – Sandinista! LP ALBUM

Lot #238 (Sale Order 111 of 119)

Double album in very good condition, in good cover.

ARLO GUTHRIE – Alice's Restaurant LP ALBUM

Lot #239 (Sale Order 112 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.

DON HENLEY – I Can't Stand Still LP ALBUM

Lot #240 (Sale Order 113 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.

FRANK ZAPPA – Hot Rats LP ALBUM

Lot #241 (Sale Order 114 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.

ZAPPA – Them Or Us LP ALBUM

Lot #242 (Sale Order 115 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.

FRANK ZAPPA – Tinseltown Rebellion LP ALBUM

Lot #243 (Sale Order 116 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.

THE BEATLES – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP ALBUM

Lot #244 (Sale Order 117 of 119)

Very good condition in good/vg cover.

THE BEATLES – The Beatles/1967-1970 LP ALBUM

Lot #245 (Sale Order 118 of 119)

Very good condition in good/vg cover.

Return To Forever Featuring CHICK COREA – Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy LP ALBUM

Lot #246 (Sale Order 119 of 119)

Very good condition in good album cover.


Military Books & Vintage Records #387
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Military Books & Vintage Records #387
by South Boston Books Event Begins: Wednesday, May 17, 1:45 PM Eastern First lots ends Sunday, May 21, 8:00 PM Eastern Last lot ends Sunday, May 21, 9:58 PM Eastern NO BUYERS PREMIUM and SHIPPING IS USA $5 FLAT - NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU BUY. Great lots of antiquarian, vintage books and ephemera! The invoice you receive in the email will be direct through Proxibid.