New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Often cited as the finest historian on the Revolutionary War, Richard M. Ketchum (1922-2012) was perhaps the most authoritative and well respected voice in Revolutionary War scholarship. Defined by a second-to-none level of academic rigor, Ketchum’s oeuvre contains such works as: “Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill” (1962), “The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton” (1973)..... More

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. “The 11th ‘Gespenster’ (‘Ghost’) Panzer Division was acknowledged as one of the best formations in the Wehrmacht by the Germans and the Allies alike. Formed in 1940, it adopted as its symbol a sword-wielding spectre atop a charging half-track, an image stenciled on all of its vehicles.” – Inside front cover of dust-jacket. The Nazi war machine was one of the most..... More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. “War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”--Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness In The West. The Guadalcanal campaign, known more commonly as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed “Operation Watchtower” by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on..... More

Chicago, IL: Allied Radio Corporation, 1945. Tenth Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Nelson Magor Cooke (28 November 1903 – 30 November 1965) was a leader in developing electronic schools of the United States Navy, the recipient of the Navy Commendation Medal and Medal for Humane Action, a post-war engineering entrepreneur, and an author of books on applied mathematics and basic electronics. Authoring and editing several books on technical engineering and electronics, Cooke..... More

Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz provides the definitive account of the everyday war of the German front soldier. The personal documents of these soldiers, most from the Russian front, where the majority of German infantrymen saw service, paint a...... More

Paris, France: L’Assiette au Beurre, 1901. First Printing. Illustrated Wrappers. “L'Assiette au Beurre (“The Butter Plate,” or, in its closer, English translation, “Pork Barrel”) was an illustrated French weekly satirical magazine with anarchist political leanings that was chiefly produced between 1901 and 1912. It was revived as a monthly for a time and ceased production in 1936. The magazine’s caricature and editorial cartoon content was drawn from a varied cadre..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "The appearance of this book has marked a new departure in publishing history. For the first time, a publisher and an author have collaborated to keep a book on current events as completely up-to-date as the events themselves. When Inside Europe first appeared, Edward VIII had just mounted the throne, the Spanish revolution was unheard of, the Front Populaire..... More

London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and desolate wastelands. In May 1945 Germany surrendered and Britain, America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding in their zones of occupation. Most urgent for the allies in this divided, defeated country were food, water and sanitation. However..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Rachel S. Cox. "In the spring of 1941, with Europe consumed by war and occupation, Britain stood alone against the Nazi menace. The United States remained wary of joining an increasingly costly and destructive conflict. But for five extraordinary young Americans, the global threat of fascism was too great to ignore. Six months before Pearl Harbor, these courageous idealists..... More

London, England: Geoffrey Cumberlege/ Oxford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "Marc Bloch, a world-renowned medieval historian who was read and valued by scholars far beyond the Sorbonne, of which he was a distinguished member, had many devoted friends in England. He fought in both World Wars, and in 1942, when fifty, became active in the French Resistance. Two years later he was caught by the Germans, tortured, and executed..... More

New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "As the war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic fighters on multiple fronts around the world. But this is not the first time the United States has battled such determined foes. Little remembered today, the Moro War, lasting from 1902 to 1913 in the islands of the southern Philippines, saw American soldiers..... More