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
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: 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
London: Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the..... 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
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
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: 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
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969. Paul Bacon (jacket design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died. For twenty-five years..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1967. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. # NZ3650. After eighteen months of intensive effort, Harrison E. Salisbury succeeded in becoming the first American correspondent to report the war from Hanoi. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's firsthand reports of how the Vietnamese war looks from the other side..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Darrren Haggar (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction. "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." ―San Francisco Chronicle The planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics―on both..... More
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