Yorkshire - Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Maritime, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first part of this book covers from Pearl Harbor to Midway and the second part is pn the long and bloody campaign in the southwest Pacific. Illustrated throughout with photographs, charts and drawings. Slightly oversized. Glossary and abbreviations. Includes a list of warships. vii, 157 pp plus 1 p selected bibliography. ISBN: 978-1399098984.

Boston: Little Brown, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First person accounts by twenty women who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, with brief introductions to each chapter by Marshall. Bibliography, glossary. viii, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-316547077.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Well-researched account of the story of Johnson Whittaker,who born a slave became the 3rd African American to enter West Point (where he encounter the same hazing and ostracization as his predecessors), and of his court martial in 1881. Photographs, notes, index. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-684-128446.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Well-researched account of the story of Johnson Whittaker,who born a slave became the 3rd African American to enter West Point (where he encounter the same hazing and ostracization as his predecessors), and of his court martial in 1881. Photographs, notes, index. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-684-128446.

New York: Basic Books, 2017. First edition - A veteran war correspondent, Matloff journeyed to eight "remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights. Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. . . . Traveling to conflict zones across the world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers involved in ancient blood feuds; Mexican peasants hunting down violent poppy growers; and Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainside affect us all." Bibliographic essay, 238 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-7432-26712.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-7432-26712.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, dj. Hardcover - A comparison between the two most important military forces of the Confederacy: Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. Map. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-807818194.

Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, (1980.). First edition - Biography of this Brigadier General who first enlisted in the Texas militia in 1916 to fight Pancho Villa. Frontispiece, photographs. Notes, bibliography, index 192 pp. ISBN: 0-929398122.

New York: Norton, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the blackest day in British military history - on that date, the mostly volunteer British Army went over the top and into the German trenches and had 60,000 casualties in just one day. With the deaths went a loss of innocence and a confidence that the war could be won. Photographs, maps, Index. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-39305442X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Agent 110 was Allen Dulles, a new spy from an eminent family. From his townhouse in Bern, and in clandestine meetings in restaurants, he "met with and facilitated the plots of Germans who were trying to destroy the countrys leadership. Their underground network exposed Dulles to the political maneuverings of the Soviets, who were already competing for domination of Germany, and all of Europe, in the post-war period." While his negotiations fell short during the war, in the 1950s he was placed in charge of the CIA. Photographs. Notes, index. xxii, 342 pp. ISBN: 978-1451693386.

New York: Stein & Day, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of this decisive World War II campaign, waged in North Africa in 1941-1942, based on Rommel's letters and papers and accounts of his subordinates. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-8128-27848.

New York & London: Addison-Wesley, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of eight Cold War conflicts in which air power played a decisive role, from the Suez Crisis of 1956 to Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, the Falklands war of 1982, and the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. Ilustrated with over 240 photographs and maps, in both full color and black and white. Foreword by Itamar Neuner, a Mirage pilot. Glossary, bibliography, index. Oversized wide format, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-1472853578.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of one of the best known figures in British history, based in part on previously unpublished diaries and other materials. This covers his life from boyhood adventures in the Arctic, to being a captain in Nicaraguan jungle, his first love affair with a married woman, to his scandalous relationship with Emma Hamilton and his death at Trafalgar at the height of his fame. Maps, 55 illustrations, chronology, bibliography, notes on sources and Nelsonian sites. xx, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570561.

Asheville, NC: Moonshine Cove Publishing, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A story of a young woman's coming of age in the years leading up to World War II, and her years in the WACs, where she wound up in the Philippines in a secret unit of code-breakers. Based on her mother's life, and using actual letters and documents, this is a slightly fictionalized, but thoroughly researched book about a facet of the war that few are familiar with - partly because the emphasis on secrecy during the war itself continued afterwords. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Author's note. 248 pp. . ISBN: 978-1937327767.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which uses the naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805 "to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic.. . This was a battle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by the emerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as 'the arrogant usurper of the freedom of the seas'." Includes a section of full color illustrations, bibliography and index. xxiv, 341 pp. Uncommon wraparound dust jacket features oversized double foldouts on both the front and rear flaps to show a panoramic image of the famous battle. ISBN: 0-060753617.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1885.). Hardcover - A detailed first hand account of the campaigns of the East in the summer of 1962. Frontispiece of Burnside, with tissue guard. Maps. Index. Bound in the original quarter leather over marble boards, marbled endpapers. Spine lettered and decorated in gold, top edge gilt. x, 228 pp.

New York: Vintage Books, (1988.). Palmer recounts the stories behind the letters and poems left at the Vietnam Memorial during its first 5 years - the stories of the families who lost someone in Vietnam and of those who died there. Photographs. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394-759885.

New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - In 1967, as a young Army Lieutenant, the author was attached as an advisor to units of the ARVN ((Army of the Republic of Vietnam). He saw the South Vietnamese Army in action against the Viet Cong and he served as a Battalion advisor and later with a Reconnaissance Company. This book describes his conclusions that despite adverse conditions, and poor equipment and training, the ARVN fought bravely and professionally. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs and 7 maps. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-312-054033.

Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing Co, (c 1998). One of the first accounts of this select platoon of Marines known as the Navajo Code Talkers, written almost entirely from primary sources. During World War II, the Navajo Code Talkers employed a secret code using their native tongue, one which the Japanese were not able to break. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-805945903.

London: Oneworld Publications, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In late 1950, the US-led invasion of North Korea failed, and for the next three years ,the United States relentlessly bombed the Norths cities, towns and villages. Pyongyang has been determined to develop a credible nuclear deterrent ever since. The Korean War was the first of Americas unsuccessful military interventions post-World War II and its first modern conflict with China. It established the pattern for the next sixty years and marked the true beginning of the American century - opening the door to ever-increasing defense expenditure." Notes, sources, documents, index. xxi, 346 pp. ISBN: 978-1786074737.

New York: Ives Washburn, (1970.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the campaigns of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, black soldiers with white officers - called by the Indians "Buffalo Soldiers" - between 1867 to 1891, written for young adults. Bibliography, index. 151 pp.

Beverly Hill, CA: Dove Books, (1995.). First edition - Book written when it seemed like General Colin Powell might actually become the first black president of the US, and an attempt to understand this 'reluctant hero.'. Introduction by Roy Innis, conclusion by Jeanne V. Bell. Timeline, bibliography. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-787109363.

Arlington, TX: The Summit Publishing Group, (1996) dj. Hardcover - Still tormented by memories of the Vietnam war, twenty years later, Reed discovers the papers of a fallen North Vietnamese officer in an old footlocker, and sets off on a journey to return the writings to the officer's family only to find out that the officer is still alive. Foreword by General William C. Westmoreland, Photographs, English translations of the officer's letters, xv, 198 pp plus map. ISBN: 1-56530-2052.

New York: Dutton, 2015. First edition - The author's first novel - "A former Army Captain's gripping portrait of a ragged fighting division holding the most remote and dangerous outpost in Afghanistan." 433 pp.

By the author, nd (ca 2017). SIGNED first edition - As a young boy, growing up on a farm outside Stockton, California, Bill Reynolds was fascinated by the pilots he saw training there, and, as soon as he could - in 1941 - he enlisted. He went on to be a pilot and served throughout the war. Illustrated with several photographs and maps, some in color, and many black of white photos of the various types of planes he flew, from the Ryan PT 22 to the Curtiss G-46 Commando and many others. SIGNED on the first page by the co-author, James Inman. 122 pp.