Search Results: Militaria from Ainsworth Books

Toronto, ON: Collier Macmillan Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0029976707 . Boards and DJ show light shelfwear, DJ has a couple of short tears and some creasing head of spine. ; DJ in Mylar, bright solid, book, square volume 10"x10" ; 184 pages; Foreword by HRH Prince Philip, Colonel in Chief of the Royal Canadian Regiment .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0743226712 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, previous owner's name on title page.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 386 pages; " tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper." .

Ottawa: Veterans Affairs Canada. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. Booklet. 066268723X . Only slight wear ; Booklet with card covers and colourful dustjacket (in mylar). 20 pages in English and 20 pages in French with a fold-out map, printed both sides in between ; Remembrance Series - Dieppe; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages; This is a commemorative booklet released in memory of those fought in the first action that Canadians experienced during WWII .

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771597967 . DJ shows shelf wear with chipping, short tears and creasing. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W photos and maps, map endpapers ; Canadian War Museum Historical Publications No.19; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.6 inches; 368 pages; "Drawing heavily on many unpublished and previously unavailable contemporary documents, including the war diaries of the units involved in the campaign, Dr. Roy reconstructs in vivid detail the strategies and actual operations that marked the day-by-day progress of the Canadians as they helped crush a German army and make the Allied victory inevitable." .

Burnstown ON: General Store Publishing House. Very Good+. 1990. First Edition. Softcover. 0919431410 . Previous owners name in ink on title page. Light edge wear to covers. ; A bright, solid book.; B&W Photographs; 8.90 X 6 X 0.50 inches; 142 pages; A powerful anthology of stories of young Canadian men and women who willingly participated when called upon by their country. .

Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. Very Good+. 1985. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0306812983 . Card covers show light shelf wear and shelf soil. ; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 635 pages; "The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to death, most in the six months from October 1941 to April 1942 when the temperature often stayed at 30 degrees below zero." .

New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0471246905 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.40 inches; 388 pages; "With his celebrated sense of drama and eye for colorful detail, acclaimed military historian Robert Leckie charts the long, savage conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy in pre-Revolutionary America. Packed with sharply etched profiles of all the major players-including George Washington, Samuel de Champlain, William Pitt, Edward Braddock, Count Frontenac, James Wolfe, Thomas Gage, and the nobly vanquished Marquis de Montcalm-this panoramic history chronicles the four great colonial wars: the War of the Grand Alliance (King William's War), the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War), the War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War), and the decisive French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War).… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2018. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393064441 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 576 pages; "Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled warfare, Accessory to War is a richly researched and provocative examination of the intersection of science, technology, industry, and power that will introduce Tyson’s millions of fans to yet another dimension of how the universe has shaped our lives and our world." .

Garden City: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1953. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Price clipped DJ has insect damage (book unaffected), some soiling, chipped head if spine ; Sepia plates of drawings by Wetherell, illustrated endpapers, DJ in Mylar, hinges intact; 379 pages; Autobiography of John Wetherell. Born in Whitby in 1780, Wetherell first joined the British merchant navy serving and trained and qualified as a ships's carpenter, before being impressed into the Royal Navy. He saw service on HMS Hussar, but after she went aground on the coast of France he was captured and made a prisoner-of-war and spent most of the next eleven years at Charlemont Givet Prison. .

Toronto: Canav Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0921022050 . Signed by Author; Very light shelf wear on DJ and boards. Gift inscription to previous owner on title page, next to author's inscription to previous owner. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Color Illustrations; 0.75 x 11 x 8.5 Inches; 191 pages .

London UK: Ian Allan. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner has made notations inside front board, dealer's stamp inside front board, price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W photos throughout. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 175 pages; "The war of 1914-18 was a remarkable and important epoch for many widely different reasons. Not least of these was that it represented the first widespread use of the aeroplane -- which many people thought would be of little military value -- as a major weapon of war. Such thinking was quickly disproved, and the aeroplanes described in this volume illustrate how the military aeroplane developed from the unarmed observation machines of 1914 to the highly effective specialized types that were in service by November 1918." .

Washington, DC: Department of the Air Force. Very Good+. 1955. 1st Thus. Post Binding. leatherette covers show light shelf wear. ; A tight solid book. ; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 172 pages .

New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc. Very Good-. 1966. 1st Thus. Softcover. Card covers show some shelf wear, creasing. ; A tight solid book. ; Famous Airmen Series; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 64 pages .

Calgary, AB: Comprint Publishing. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. Second Printing. Hardcover. Light edgewear to book and light creasing of dustjacket, previous owner's name on FFEP ; A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W and colour illustrations ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 252 pages; This is the history of Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) which served with distinction in South Africa 1900-01, WWI, WWII and Korea. .

Ottawa: Borealis Press. Very Good+. 2004. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0888872216 . Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book.; B&W and Colour Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 540 pages; A sequel to 'Once a Patricia' .

New York: Osprey Publishing. Near Fine. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1846034523 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book. C&W and color illustrations throughout ; Trade PB; Elite #171; 9.6 X 7.3 X 0.2 inches; 64 pages; "Osprey's study of the battles fought on America's railroads during the Civil War (1861-1865). The American Civil War was the world's first full-blown 'railroad war'. The well-developed network in the North was of great importance in serving the Union army's logistic needs over long distances, and the sparser resources of the South were proportionately even more important. Both sides invested great efforts in raiding and wrecking enemy railroads and defending and repairing their own, and battles often revolved around strategic rail junctions. Robert Hodges reveals the thrilling chases and pitched battles that made the railroad so dangerous and resulted in a surprisingly high casualty rate. He describes the equipment and… Read More

North Vietnam: Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Very Good. 1966. Softcover. Bottom fore corner bumped, short closed tear top back cover. ; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 55 + photos pages; A brief book in English condemning the American methods of conducting the war in Vietnam. .

New York: Harper. Very Good+. 2004. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0312335318 . Card covers show very light shelf wear, remainder mark bottom page edges.; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 465 pages; "Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh have long been exalted as two of the greatest American icons of the twentieth century. Now award-winning journalist Max Wallace uncovers groundbreaking and astonishing revelations about the poisonous effect these two so-called American heroes had on Western democracy and how the two of them---acting in league with the Nazis---almost brought democratic Europe to the verge of extinction." .

Gloucestershire: Bramley Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 1858337321 . DJ shows light shelf wear. Book dealer's stamp on inside front board, remainder mark on top page edges. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; War Correspondents; B&W Illustrations; 9.60 X 6.60 X 0.80 inches; 170 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. BOMC. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Book Club Edition; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 443 pages; This book, originally published in 1959, has been reprinted in 1988 in honor of the 400th Anniversary of the disastrous sailing of the Spanish Armada in 1588. .