London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years. Through a detailed comparative analysis of English and Japanese history it explores..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. In this innovative book, Alfred W. McCoy takes a new approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of graduates from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)—the classes of 1940 and 1971—McCoy uncovers fundamental..... More
London: Abacus, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone..... More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2000. First Printing. Trade Paperback. With a foreword by Tom Brokaw My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney’s World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion..... More
New York: Verso, 2017. Trade Paperback. More than a hundred years ago, French troops fired the first tear gas grenades at the German enemy. Designed to force people out from cover, tear gas causes tearing and gagging, burning the eyes and skin. Its use has ended in miscarriages, permanent injuries..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Gun Larson (jacket design). First Edition (stated), Second Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus (7 Sept 1990): A collection of 12 essays on ""the background, origins, character, and legacy"" of the American Revolution, filled with the grace and insight that has made Bailyn (Adams University..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II - Weapons Book No 19. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. Second Printing. Softcover. Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, battle book, No 9. More
Perth: Mannwest Pty Ltd / Hesperian Press, 2002. First Edition (presumed). Paperback. From the publisher: Written to commemorate WG Manners & Co’s 100 years in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields, this book is a grand sweep of Australiana and life in Australia’s outback. It charts the Manners’ family history from 1895..... More
London: Osprey Publishing Limited, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, battle book, No 17. More
Vietnam: ARTBOOK, 2010. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The Vietnam War is long over, but many of its wounds still cannot be healed. As war raged for decades throughout Vietnam, it transformed the lives of all its people, in the countryside and in the cities, from the soldiers in the battlefields..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. Jeff Cosloy (jacket design). First Edition (presumed), Fifth Printing. Hardcover. The British opium trade along China’s seacoast has come to symbolize China’s century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narrative, opium is the primary medium through which China encountered..... More
London: Verso, 2018. Trade Paperback. Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement It doesn’t take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of pain compliance or rough ride. Police: A Field Guide is an illustrated handbook to the methods, mythologies..... More
London: William Collins, 1944. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
New York: Award Books, 1967. First Printing. Paperback. Award Books no. A 226 X K. More
London: Putnam & Co, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Virginia: Howell Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. When American bombers began crashing under no hostile action over New Guinea during WWII, Imparato and six others were asked to investigate - - in a region inhabited by cannibals. More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. Reprint of 1962 original edition. Hardcover. More
New York: A Touchstone Book/Simon and Schuster, 1998. Second Printing. Paperback. Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers, and Look. As fledgling reporter, war correspondent, and seasoned journalist, Hemingway provides access..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Capt. A.C. Neilson RHKR(V) (cover design). Republished Edition. Hardcover. On the same day as the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Among the colony’s garrison were regiments from Britain, Canada and India as well as men..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2001. Jean-Paul Sartre (preface), Constance Farrington (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century Translated from the French by Constance Farrington, with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre..... More
London: Coronet Books, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. The author's memoir of life in a small Worcestershire village during World War II. More
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2013. Christopher King (cover design and illustration). Trade Paperback. “There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.” —Hannah Arendt In these interviews—including her final interview given in October 1973, in the midst of Watergate and the Yom Kippur..... More
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