Military Studies/War from Gargoyle Books

J. P. Lippincott Company, 1939. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Before he was a renowned screenwriter & member of the infamous Hollywood Ten for his alleged communist activities, Trumbo wrote a few novels. This was his third, which won the National Book Award. Strongly anti-war, it was also named "Most Original… Read more about this item

Palos Verdes Estates, California: TW Publishing, 1972. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/VG-. Autobiographical account of how the author escaped from Russian-occupied Austria during World War Two, where, as a teenager, she had seen her parents imprisoned (& her father die) for their political activism & for helping refugees escape Hitler. Seeing signs of the same… Read more about this item

Munich, Germany: Comite International de Dachau, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. Catalogue designed to guide visitors through the Dachau Memorial Museum, opened in 1965 in Bavaria to commemorate the victims of the atrocities perpetrated at the concentration camp of that same name, 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945, when the camp was liberated. A… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois : Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., 1943. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. A staple in the kitchen of every early-mid-20th-century homemaker, first published in 1938. This is the special "Victory Binding" of the Wartime Edition from 1943, in 816 pages + a special section on Wartime Cookery unique to this edition, which showed how to create… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA/Baltimore, MD: Charles DeSilver/Cushings & Bailey, 1861. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. As the stirrings of the Civil War (which began 12 April 1861) rumbled in the background, this manual was created to educate the "citizen soldiery" who might suddenly find themselves called into service. Also written for "the student of military art or science & the… Read more about this item

Atlanta, Georgia: H. C. Hudgins & Co., 1897. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Collection of glowing essays on the leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War that includes a history of the Lee family, a military biography, & "splendid tributes by the most distinguished military critics in American and Europe..." Dedicated to the… Read more about this item

Routledge, 2003. First Trade Paperback Edition 4th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good+. A university professor/journalists explores the forgotten history of people of African descent as Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany. The portrayal of Blacks in Nazi propaganda, the Afro-German resistance movement, & the treatment of blacks in concentration camps are examined, drawing implications for present-day race… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Goldsmith Publishing Co., 1941. First Edition . Hardcover. Poor/Good. Sheffer, Glen. Another is the series of hundreds of books for young people by this prolific early-20th-century author (1878-1959). This was a stand-alone novel designed to appeal to English boys in the midst of World War II, complete with battles against Nazis, gun battles with German… Read more about this item

Buenos: Editorial Americano, 1954. Soft cover. Fair. IN SPANISH, translated from the 1946 English-languge original, This softcover edition from Argentina was published in 1954, in 254 pages + iIndex in rear. Well-researched & thoroughly documented portrait of Adolf Hitler's downfall, capturing his inner & outer turmoil in the days leading up to his suicide in his Berlin bunker… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First, Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Much beloved tale -- twice made into a movie-- of the events of Nov. 18, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate those brave men who had given their lives in the just-ended Civil War. According to legend,… Read more about this item

Pantheon Books, 1988. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Exhaustively researched, this book offers a noted historian's perspective on when & how the "final solution" which resulted in the genocidal extermination of millions of Jewish people became part of Adolf Hitler's & the Nazi's agenda in the years before & during WWII. A FIRST EDITION,… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: The L. W. Walter Company, 1887. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued. By a member of Company D, First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry, who describes this book as "a graphic recital of personal experiences through the entire Civil War, in which the author was actually engaged in twenty-five battles and skirmishes, was… Read more about this item

London, England: Coronet/Hodder Paperbacks Ltd., 1975. First Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. The true story of how a young man cheated death in the most harrowing of Nazi campts"--Auschwitz, in 1944. First-person account documents his arrest as a Jew living in France, his kidnap, torture, imprisonment, & miraculous escape after being hanged. Orig. published in French in… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Posthumously published collection of 12 original, never-before-published essays on the author's most cherished subjects: war & peace. In 233 pages with the author's humorous & colorful artwork scattered throughout text. Introduction by Vonnegut's son, Mark. , collected here for the… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1944. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. True account by U. S. Army Captain & pilot who participated in the 1942 Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, Japan, in WWII, crashed over the Chinese coast, lost a leg, & was saved during a daring rescue. In 221 pages with 16 pages of black-and-white… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1947. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. VG-/No DJ. Well-researched & thoroughly documented portrait of Adolf Hitler's downfall, capturing his inner & outer turmoil in the days leading up to his suicide in his Berlin bunker in April 1945. In 254 pages with Index, Notes, Appendix, map endpapers, illustrations of bunker… Read more about this item

London, England: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. First, Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Jullian, Philippe. Reflections on a memorable year in an unchanging rural England,'' based on the author's personal diary that she kept from Autumn 1939-Autumn 1940, impacted by the war, but steeped in the quiet resilience of the countryside. 85 pp. Orig. published in the… Read more about this item

New York, New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1966. First Paperback . Soft cover. Good. Exposes the "tactics of terror'' used by the Viet Cong in the "Other War" against the Vietnamese people, including beheadings, bombings, & other crimes against innocent civilians. Orig. published in hardcover in 1966, this is the First Mass Market Paperback Edition,… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, Inc., 1967. First English Language Edition 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. VG-/G+. A primer for Marxist insurrection in Latin America,'' the author, a young French professor, was sentenced to 30 years in a Bolivian prison for his allege activities with Che Guevara & his guerrillas. Translated from the original French &… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-/G+. Winner of both the Nobel & Pulitzer prizes, this "crowning achievement" of the author's career was 9 years in the writing. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, in the first state DJ ($4.75 price, 8/54 at bottom front flap), this hardcover 8vo has… Read more about this item