Clawson, Robert W. and Alireza Alavi

East-West Rivalry in the Third World: Security Issues and Regional Perspectives

Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources Inc, 1986. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; tan dj with burgundy lettering; mylar cover; xxv, 348 pp. "The 15 papers in (this volume), presented at the 1984 conference of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies at Kent State University, provide an overview of U.S.-Soviet competition in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The contributors examine how this rivalry affects the security of Third World states and how involvement in these states affects the superpowers and their alliances. They also focus on the regional reactions in the Third World to East-West confrontation in general and to particular alliance policies. With the Third World's potential for instability reminiscent of the Balkans before 1914, the issues addressed in these essays deserve greater attention from both policymakers and the informed public."- dj Includes bibliographical references and index. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards, block, and dj. Pages are otherwise clean and binding is tight.) .

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Book number: 184611

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; Military Relations; Military Relations ; ;

Dupin, Charles

Voyages Dans la Grande-Bretagne, Entrepris Relativement Aux Services Publics de la Guerre, de la Marine, Et Des Ponts Et Chaussees, En 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, Et 1820. III. & IV Deuxieme Partie. Force Naval de la Grande-Bretagne

Paris, Bachelier, 1821. Hardcover. Bound in original publisher's blue paper boards; XVI, 280, 284 (4) pp; no illustrations. Text is in French. Travels in Great Britain Undertaken in Relation to the War, Naval, and Ponts et Chaussees Public Services, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. III. & IV Part II. Great Britain Naval Force. As-Is (shelfwear to boards, blue spine missing, front cover loose, age toning as expected, light foxing spots throughout) .

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Book number: 189764

Catalogue: History; Military History

Keywords: History; Military History ; Military History; Great Britain History ; ;

Eckstein, Arthur M.

Senate and General: Individual Decision-Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B.C.

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; bw dj with white lettering, mylar cover; xxii, 381 pp, bw illustrations. "An examination of the period emphasizing the crucial role often played by Rome's generals in the field." dj excerpt. Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-363). VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light soiling to upper block. Pages are otherwise very clean. Binding tight.) .

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Book number: 184627

Catalogue: Military History; Foreign Relations

Keywords: Military History; Foreign Relations ; Rome Political Activity ; ;

Haber, L.F.

The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War

Oxford/ New York, Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; olive dust jacket, illustrated, mylar cover; xiv, 415 pp; illustrated in bw throughout. "The introduction of chemical warfare during the First World War was a major event in the history of military technology. It not only posed an unusual challenge to military thinking of the day, which was largely conventional and wholly unfamiliar with science; it also created a heated moral controversy surrounding the new weapon that did not discriminate between soldiers and civilians. This study explores the military role of chemical warfare as well as its effects on people, industries and administration on both sides." - publisher's description. Contents: Personal introduction -- Forerunners in fact and fiction -- The chlorine cloud -- The Allied reaction -- Phosgene -- Chemists at war -- The organization of chemical warfare -- New weapons, new tactics -- 1918, reality and imagination -- Gas casualties -- Was gas a failure? Appendix: statistical note on gas shells and casualties in the BEF -- The aftermath. Appendix: articles 169-172 of the Treaty of Versailles. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Binding is tight.) .

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Book number: 184492

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; Chemical Warfare; World War ; ;

Harlow, Louis K.

Army Memories

New York, Wilson & Ellis, 1887. Hardcover. Oversized white paper over boards portfolio with aqua felt corners and spine, silver, raised decorative design with title on front cover; aqua silk interior flaps; front page is cardboard descriptive index in red and blue lettering. 12 mounted color plates with descriptive guard sheets. Most of the illustrations are signed: Louis K. Harlow. Contents: pl. no. 1. Taps have sounded, the last drum is ungirded, and the tented field is about to enjoy its well-earned repose -- pl. no. 2. Farewell: the soldier's departure -- pl. no. 3. General Grant at Vicksburg, with Generals Sherman, Logan and McPherson -- pl. no. 4. Topographical engineer -- pl. no. 5. Defense of the colors -- pl. no. 6. The Zouave: le beau Zouzou -- pl. no. 7. General Sherman: now for a march to the sea, since Atlanta is no more -- pl. no. 8. A spirited dash: a battery of artillery is dashing up the hill to take position -- pl. no. 9. In battery: the commanding officer checks the advance of the batteries -- pl. no. 10. General Sheridan: the Shenandoah valley, Sheridan's ride from Winchester to Cedar Creek -- pl. no. 11. The outpost -- pl. no. 12. Welcome home: the soldier's return. VG/Fair (Plates are very clean and clear. Protective sheet for plate 1 is torn in half. Protective sheet for plate 3 is missing. Portfolio flaps are torn off and/or loose. Heavy wear and soiling to portfolio.) .

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Book number: 186373

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; United States History ; ;

Holmes, Robert L.

On War and Morality

Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black and light blue dj with white lettering, mylar cover; xiii, 310 pp. " The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of "respectability" accorded to conventional war. In this radical and cogent argument for pacifism, Robert Holmes asserts that all war--not just nuclear war--has become morally impermissible in the modern world. Addressing a wide audience of informed and concerned readers, he raises dramatic questions about the concepts of "political realism" and nuclear deterrence, makes a number of persuasive suggestions for nonviolent alternatives to war, and presents a rich panorama of thinking about war from St. Augustine to Reinhold Niebuhr and Herman Kahn. Holmes's positions are compellingly presented and will provoke discussion both among convinced pacifists and among those whom he calls "militarists." "Militarists," we realize after reading this book, include the majority of us who live a friendly and peaceful personal life while supporting a system which, if Holmes is correct, guarantees war and risks eventual human extinction."- dust jacket. Contents: Violence and the perspective of morality -- Political realism -- Reason of state, military necessity, and domestic security -- St. Augustine on the justification of war -- Can war be morally justified? -- Killing of innocent persons in wartime -- Nuclear deterrence -- Alternative to war. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise very clean.) .

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Book number: 184509

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; Morality, War ; ;

Mitchell, W.F. (illustrator)

The Royal Navy, 1872-80: In a Series of Illustrations Lithographed in Colours

Portsmouth, Griffin & Co, 1881. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth boards, gilt illustration, lettering and bordering; 11 pp; 50 unnumbered leaves of plates (25 color illustrations, 25 leaves of descriptions of color plates). Cover title: The ships of the Royal Navy. Includes an introduction by a naval architect. Color lithographs from original drawings by W.F. Mitchell. Includes a list of all 25 color plates. Each plate is accompanied by a descriptive leaf. Fair (heavy shelfwear to boards, internal hinges completely worn with all pages loose but present. Age toning and foxing spots. Interior block along hinges is glue stained. Damp staining along top section mostly of beginning pages.) .

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Book number: 186651

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; Great Britain Royal Navy ; ;

Penkower, Monty Noam

Decision on Palestine Deferred: American, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945

London; Portland, OR, Frank Cass, 2002. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering; xvi, 384 pp. Contents include: 1939-42 -- To the Precipice -- The First Round -- 1941: The Turning Point -- Biltmore and Rommel -- Deliverance and Destruction -- 1943-45 -- Bermuda and Riyadh -- Plus ca change .. -- .. plus c'est la meme chose -- A Politics of Postponement -- 'Rejoice not, O Israel .. '. Also includes bibliographical references and index. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 184276

Catalogue: History - Military

Keywords: History - Military ; World War; Diplomatic History ; ;

Raa, F.J.G.; Jan Hoynck Van Papendrecht; W.C. Staring; and J.P. De Veer

De Uniformen Van de Nederlandsche Zee- En Landmacht, Hier Te Lande En in de Kolonien; Tekst

'S Gravenhage, Van Cleef, 1900. Hardcover. Oversized red cloth boards with gilt lettering; marble illustrated end papers; XIII, 31 pp, 235 pp; unpaginated color plates. This is the text volume only. Text in Dutch. The uniforms of the Dutch naval and land forces, here on land and in the colonies. Good (heavy wear and soiling to boards, tear to front cover, soiling to block, soiling and age toning to perimeters not affecting plates. Plates are otherwise clean.) .

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Book number: 187910

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; Military Uniforms ; ;

Society for Military History

The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Volumes 1-22

[New York, NY], MHQ, 2010. Hardcover. 83 Volume set, boards with color illustrations on front covers, each volume is over 100 pages, illustrated throughout in color and bw. Volumes 1-18 each have four numbered books. Volume 19 includes numbers 1, 2 and 4 (missing 3). volume 20 includes numbers 1,2, and 3. volume 21 includes numbers 2, 3, 4 (missing number 1). volume 22 includes numbers 1, 2. Each issue contains multiple articles and illustrations. VG .

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Book number: 179106

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; Military History ; ;

Wilson, R.L. and Sid Latham

Colt, an American Legend: The Official History of Colt Firearms from 1836 to the Present

New York, Artabras, 1985. Sesquicentennial Edition. Leather bound. Black leather boards with stamped gilt and silver lettering and design, five raised bands on spine with silver lettering, color illustrated flyleaves, ix, 406 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color illustrations throughout. This collector's edition has been specially bound in leather and signed by the author, R.L. Wilson. Title page: "The official history of Colt firearms from 1836 to the present with over 300 illustrations in full color." Photographs by Sid Latham. Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-393) and index. VG (corners lightly bumped and scuffed) .

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Book number: 180073

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; Colt Firearms ; ;

Yates, Lawrence A.

The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Operation Just Cause, December 1989 - January 1990

Washington, D. C. Center of Military History, 2014. Softcover. Red wraps with white spine lettering, bw and color illustration on front cover; xvi, 527 pp, bw and color illustrations and maps. Examines how American military power was employed during Operation Just Cause, including the planning process and joint efforts of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps during major combat operations. Also details post-combat stability and nation-building operations. Contents include: The Panama Crisis, June 1987-December 1989 -- Preparations and adjustments, 17-19 December 1989 -- Special operations at the outset of Just Cause -- Task Force Gator and the Comandancia -- Task Force Semper Fi and Task Force Black Devil -- Task Force Wildcat -- Task Force Black and Task Force Red-T -- The 82d Airborne Division on D-day -- Task Force Red-R at Rio Hato -- Task Force Atlantic : D-day in Area of Operations North -- Task Force Atlantic : D-day in Area of Operations South -- Loose ends, 20 December 1989-3 January 1990 -- The transition to stability operations and nation building, December 1989-January 1990 -- Follow-through and assessments. VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 184661

Catalogue: Military history

Keywords: Military History ; American Military Planning ; ;