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Lincolnwood: Publications International, Ltd. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Title Page Missing; Spine Broken; Handwriting Impressions in Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped (Portions of Backstrip Missing); Edges Moderately Soiled. 32 Pages in Full Color. Stealth Fighter-Bomber; Scud & Patriot Missiles; M-1A1 Tank; Nimitz-class Aircraft Carriers; Chemical & Biological Weapons & More. BOOK NUMBER: XE 2230. CONTENTS: Introduction: Prelude to Desert Storm; Air Weaponry; Fighter Planes; Attack Planes; Bombers; Recon Planes; Helicopters; Missiles; Color Section I: Air Weaponry; Land Weaponry; Tanks; Armored Fighting Vehicles; Artillery; Color Section II: Land Weaponry; Sea Weaponry; Missiles; Chemical Weapons; Sea Weaponry; Aircraft Carriers; Battleships; Cruisers; Destroyers; Frigates; Missiles. SYNOPSIS: Weapons of Desert Storm profiles more than 50 air, land, and sea weapons fielded by the United… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books - Random House, Inc., 1986. BOOK: With Review Card Laid In; Previous Owner Markings; Corners Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Surviving the First Century of the Nuclear Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: This volume is an expansion of the Sanford Lectures delivered by Robert S. McNamara at Duke University in October 1986. The Lectures are sponsored by the William R. Kenan, Jr., Charitable Trust Endowment Fund in honor of Terry Sanford and arranged by the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs of the University. Portions of this book first appeared, in slightly different form, in The Military Role of Nuclear Weapons: Perceptions and Misperceptions, by Robert S. McNamara, in Foreign Affairs, Fall 1983, copyright 1983 by Robert S. McNamara; and in Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War, by Robert S. McNamara and Dr.… Read More

Oakville: The John Wilkes Press Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover. CONTENTS: Why Peace Research Institutes; Difficulties: Real and Imaginary; Lessons From Radar; The Plan of Action; The Critical Few; Some Likely Projects; References. SYNOPSIS: Peace research is essential now because there is no longer any effective protection for anyone against today's weapons of war. The causes of war must be found as a basis for finding ways to prevent it. Since the first printing of this booklet, the Canadian Peace Research Institute has been established as a result of widespread interest in the content of these pages. The Canadian Peace Research Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan institute incorporated under federal charter for the purpose of conducting research into the causes and prevention of war. The Institute is independent of government but will work in cooperation with it, looking to government and to the Canadian… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons - Penguin Putnam Inc., 1997. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Into the Storm A Study in Command is the first in an extraordinary series of non-fiction books by Tom Clancy - a look deep into the operational art of war as seen through the eyes of some of America's outstanding commanders. For more than a dozen years, Clancy has explored the military and security issues of our time in a brilliant series of novels. Now he takes us into the hearts and minds of four remarkable American military leaders to show us the nature of war and command from the inside. Based on the story of the greatest American military triumph since World War II - the victory over Iraq in the Gulf War - these books are also much more: they are studies in command and responsibility; of how leaders learn and grow; of how they forge people, elements, and… Read More

Agincourt: Methuen Publications BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired (By Previous Owner); Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Nuclear Facts provides a highly illustrated and comprehensive sourcebook for a wider understanding of the great issue of our time - the awesome threat of nuclear war. It presents in clear and understandable language, key information on the world's nuclear armouries - what the weapons are, how they work and what the plans are for their use. Detailed chapters explain just why there are so many nuclear weapons in the world and why the nuclear powers have plans to develop and deploy more and more. Special features include - The US strategic modernisation plan; Cruise, Pershing II and the SS-20, the facts behind the new missile line-up in Europe; Tactical nuclear weapons - is there a way out? The… Read More

London: Sphere Books Ltd - Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd, 1990. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction PART I: THE FRONT LINES 1 The Home Defenders 2 West Faces East 3 Not Quite East of Suez 4 Furthest Outposts 5 The One and Only Regiment 6 Women and Wives PART II: BEHIND THE LINES 7 The Bunker and Beyond 8 The RAF Plc? 9 Three-Dimensional Chess 10 The US Connection PART III: WAYS OF ADVANCEMENT 11 All Classes Welcome 12 The Real Classes (I): The Officers 13 The Real Classes (2): The Airmen 14 A Closed Circle? PART IV: PUBLIC CONTACTS 15 Pilots at Sixteen 16 The Rescuers 17 Civilians-Plus 18 On Public Show; In Conclusion. SYNOPSIS: Fifty years after the Second World War, in which the vital importance of the Royal Air Force in modern warfare became increasingly obvious, the RAF continues to perform a crucial role in the defence of Britain and the West.… Read More

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1965. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. BOOK NUMBER: 1278. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Cecil Woodham-Smith, author of Florence Nightingale, The Reason Why, and The Great Hunger, was born a FitzGerald of a well-known Irish family. She is married to a London solicitor, and they have two married children and six grandchildren. She has an army background: her father, Colonel James FitzGerald, after retiring from the Indian Army, was Deputy Commissioner for Berar, while her mother's family includes General Sir Thomas Picton who served under Wellington and was killed at Waterloo. Through these connexions she first became interested in the work Miss Nightingale did for the Army in the Crimea and in India. Mrs Woodham-Smith says, "On… Read More

New York: Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster Inc., 1989. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. The Epic Story of The 1st Marines in Korea. SUB-TITLE: We're Just Attacking in Another Direction. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. Cable 925 2. Operation Yo-Yo 3. A New Enemy 4. The Reservoir 5. Yudam-ni 6. North Ridge 7. Charlie Arrives 8. Retreat, Hell! 9. A Night of Fire 10. Hell Fire Valley 11. On to Koto-ri 12. The Sea and Safety; Postscript. SYNOPSIS: June 25, 1950: North Korean troops crossed the thirty-eighth parallel into South Korea. Within ninety days the U.S. had assembled the 1st Marine Division-for Korea and all-out war. Young kids and retreads from World War II, they stormed the beach at Inchon and pushed back the North Korean People's Army. One of history's great feats of arms had begun. Charged with seizing the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, they advanced through treacherous mountain… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Ex-Library); Repaired; Front, Rear Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover, Pocket; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Napoleon's deep penetration of Russia in 1812 was perhaps his biggest mistake. For the Allies, the campaign was the turning point of the war against him - both physically and morally - for Napoleon had shown himself to be not only not invincible, but capable of a colossal blunder. This study traces the whole campaign from its over-confident beginnings to its disastrous end. We see the veterans of the Grand Army advancing triumphantly into the heart of Russia, a country seemingly left undefended by her retreating armies - only to find, with their entry into a strangely silent Moscow,… Read More

Toronto: Veterans' Review Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Rear Cover, Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: A Collection of War Stories. CONTENTS: Board of Editors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Boer War 1899-1902; World War I 1914-1918; World War II 1939-1945; Korean War 1950-1953; Lady Veterans World War I; Lady Veterans World War II. EXCERPT: INTRODUCTION This book is a collection of personal war experiences of veterans of Sunnybrook Medical centre. It is not a book of heroes, although we have a few of those, but of the ordinary men and women who enlisted to serve their country and preserve freedom. Although most of our authors are elderly, and indeed a few have lived a hundred years and more, their stories relate to the years 1899 to 1953. Accordingly we have divided this book into sections relating to the major conflicts in which Canada played a role, but we have grouped the stories by service women separately. Many of our veterans served in two wars and you will find… Read More

New York: Villard Books - Random House, Inc., 1986. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. ELITE FORCES. SUB-TITLE: The British 22nd SAS Regiment. CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: Max Arthur, Brigadier Michael Calvert, Captain Derrick Harrison, Jonathan Reed, Major-General John Strawson, Paul Szuscikiewicz, Francis Toase, Ian Westwell. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION (The SAS in World War II); 1 BEATING THE BANDITS (The Malayan Emergency); 2 ASSAULT ON THE JEBEL AKHDAR (The SAS in Oman); 3 JUNGLE FIGHTERS (The SAS in Borneo); 4 THE SUPREME TEST (The Battle of Mirbat); 5 SAS SIEGEBREAKERS (The Iranian Embassy); 6 A NEW BATTLEFIELD (The Falklands War); 7 THE MODERN ROLE (SAS Troubleshooters); Chronology; Further Reading; Index. SERIES: Series Editor: Ashley Brown. SYNOPSIS: The British 22nd SAS Regiment excels in direct and covert action against violent insurgents at home and abroad. The SAS has a phenomenal history of success: cracking down on Communists in the… Read More