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: 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
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
Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Paperback. Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses—including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties—within the first ten days of..... More
New York: Award Books, 1967. First Printing. Paperback. Award Books no. A 226 X K. 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
New York: Grove Press / Grove Atlantic, 2003. Paperback. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan “freedom fighters” who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. The congressman became passionate about their cause..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1997. M. Kuwata (jacket design). First Edition. Thirty-fourth printing. Hardcover. The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of..... More
London: Bantam Press, 2006. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover (cloth). More
New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2017. Rainer J. Hanshe (tr.), Stuart Kendall (intro.). First Edition. Paperback. Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel's Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra Mundum Press is proud..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2015. Raquel Leis Allion (binding design and illustration). First Folio Society Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Heavy item; note additional shipping cost. With a new introduction by Bernard Cornwell Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Published in association with Women and War, a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London. More
New York: The New Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Nothing will be the same after September 11th. This is the wisdom, offered and widely received since the announcement of the war on terrorism: a permanent war declared on both an unknown enemy and an abstract noun. But in..... More
New York: Time Incorporated, 1965. Jerome Martin (cover design). Time Reading Program Special Edition. Softcover. With an introduction by Captain Edward L. Beach Delilah is a novel by Marcus Goodrich first published in 1941. It revolves around the activities of the fictional American destroyer, the USS Delilah, and her..... More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1943. First Pocket Book Edition. Paperback. Pocket Books No. 206. More
London: Atlantic Books, 2006. First UK Edition. Trade Paperback. From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America’s first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2002. Second Printing. Paperback. A tour de force of investigative journalism - Killing Pablo is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of global Communism. On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town..... More
London: Picador, 2008. First UK Edition. Hardcover. In Standard Operating Procedure, Philip Gourevitch (author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families ) and Errol Morris (director of The Fog of War) have produced the first full reckoning of what actually took place..... More
London: Constable and Company, 1994. Reprint. Trade Paperback. First published in 1970 by Constable and Company Ltd. More
New York: The Free Press, 1985. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Part of the Macmillan Wars of the United States series. General editor Louis Morton. More
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