New York: Brassey's / Macmillan, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A professional soldier's heartfelt story: Lt. Col. Bussey's personal account of racism and prejudice in the Korean War. He is a former Tuskegee airman, World War II combat fighter pilot and aims in this book to set the record straight about the performance of African American troops at Yechon. Illustrated with 16 black-and-white photographs. 264 pp. Map of Korean Peninsula and of the Pusan Perimeter on the front endpapers. ISBN: 0-080374484.

London: Mainstream Publishing, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj flap: Carew, the first western agent to link up with the Mujahideen (during the Soviet-Afghan War), led a series of daring initiatives inside Afghanistan. Covers in detail combat action against the Soviet Spetsnaz and Afghan mercenaries; reconnaissance missions leading up to the installation of the first Western-sponsored training camp for Mujahideen in Pakistan; and Carew's attempt to hijack an aircraft during a covert arms-buying mission. Full color photographs, 282pp. ISBN: 1-84018-3268.

Washington, DC, Reserve Officer Association of the United States, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs, appendices. 622 pp. ISBN: 0-960952802.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1917). Hardcover - An account by a British ace in the the Royal Flying Corps of the work done in aerial observation and reconnaissance by members of the Umpty Squadron during the First World War. introduction by Major-General W.S. Branckner. Frontispiece. xxii, 266 pp.

Philadelphia & Newbury, UK: Casemate, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "This is a rarely detailed 'you are there' account of World War II combat [by the grandson of one of the American officers involved in the battle], describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research - drawing from interviews, primary documents, and visits to the battlefield. [this] transports the reader into the ranks of L Company, 15th Regiment, Third Infantry Division, and its supporting M4s of the 756th Tank Battalion as they grapple head-on with the Wehrmacht. " Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, appendices, index. xxv, 365 pp. ISBN: 978-1932033700.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed account of the famous Civil War battle at sea between the Union's "Monitor" and the Confederacy's Virginia, the redesigned and rebuilt U.S.S. Merrimack. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Documentation, sources, index. x, 201 pp. ISBN: 0-385-098685.

New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover - When the Kentucky Legislature voted to remain with the Union in 1861, the newly formed First Kentucky Brigade decided to fight on the side of the Confederacy. From the dustjacket: "it marked a four-year separation from their beloved homeland. Fiercely independent to the end, these men would fight for the cause of the South. With their first march into battle, they became outcasts from their mother state - orphans in the raging strife of Civil War.... Drawing from a weallth of documents, memoirs, personal letters, and journals, David brings to life the fascinating history of the Civil War's 'Orphan Brigade. Notes, index, map endpapers. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-385148933.

New York: Bantam, 1982. First edition - The author's carefully researched novel that follows the 101st Airborne in an operation based on an actual campaign in the summer of1970 (although the actual battalion in this book is fictitious. This is a novel which combines both historical accuracy and sometimes poetic writing. Laid in is both a map of the area and a very personal letter from the editor to a San Francisco reviewer. In this letter he states that 'only once in a while does a really great book come through an editor's career and I really believe this is it.' Certainly this was a significant debut.

Cumberland PA: Department of the Army (1984). A general bulletin featuring petroleum and chemical supply. 8.5x11 inches, in stiff illustrated wrappers. 44 pp.

New York: Dutton / Caliber, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the French Resistance in Paris, and of the Allied liberation of Paris from the Nazis during World War II. Photographs, maps, notes, index. xi, 385 pp. ISBN: 978-0593183090.

Sussex, UK: The Harvester Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "philosopher and feminist demonstrates that the old myths - flattering to both men and women-will not do. They are defined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, and undermined by ambiguous issues-from the role of women in combat to the moral imperatives of just wars." Photographs, notes, index. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-7108-12388.

New York: Putnam, 1917. Hardcover - An American's account of serving in the British Army in World War I before the United States got involved, of fighting in the trenches, light-hearted hi-jinks and of being seriously wounded. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 13 inserted plates of photographs and graphs (some doublepage). x, 315 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The Real Story of the War in Iraq - Reporting From Beyond the Green Zone . . . a street-level account of the war and turbulent postwar period as seen through the eyes of [a] young independent journalist . . Enders opened the only English-language newspaper completely written, printed, and distributed there during the war" - that is, from May 2003 to June 2004. Unlike other journalists, Enders was not embedded with the occupation forces, but talked with, and lived with, Iraqui citizens. SIGNED on the title page. Frontispiece. xiii, 179 pp. Errata slip laid in. ISBN: 0-472114697.

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover - The author served four tours in Vietnam, although this book focuses on his third tour as company commander in the 1st Cavalry Division "Comanche Six" - it tells the story of young American infantrymen caught up in a war that could not be won, how in the process young boys became fighters and leaders - but he does not hesitate to report on the horrors of war, "of infantrymen cut in half by enemy fire, of a firefight in a sector littered with two-week-old decaying corpses, of leeches in every rice paddy." Glossary. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-89141410X.

West Point, NY: United States Military Academy, 1921. Hardcover first edition - Corrections (errata) slip pasted inside the back cover with carbontype pasted over a small part correcting corrections. Errata slips tipped in at pages; 27; 32-33 and another at 34-35. 272 pp

Boston: W. A. Butterfield, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Edith Cavell was a British nurse who had established a training school for nurses in Belgium; after the War broke out, she saved the lives of those from both sides without discrimination, but she also helped 200 allied soldiers escape from Belgium - and for that she was convicted of treason and executed by the Germans in 1915. Massachusetts established a fund to recruit a nurse to serve in the War in the memory of Cavell - the nurse selected was Alice Fitzgerald, and this little book includes both some comments from her on her service and an account of Cavell's imprisonment. Illustrated with photographs. xv, 95 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1885.). Hardcover - Frontispiece of Buell, 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. vii, 204 pp.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which traces the history of the United States as a military power from the end of World War II to today by a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. It "is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between Americas foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Photographs, notes, index. 313 pp. ISBN: 978-1978800915.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which traces the history of the United States as a military power from the end of World War II to today by a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. It "is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between Americas foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements." SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, notes, index. 313 pp. ISBN: 978-1978800915.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive history of Hitler's infamous personal army, the military wing of Himmler's SS, which acquired a reputation for military excellence and also for atrocities against soldiers and civilians alike. Photographs, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography and index x, 496 pp. ISBN: 978-0306824654.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the almost unbelievable destruction along the Missouri-Kansas border from 1861-1865 and the greatest atrocities of the Civil War, including the massacres at Lawrence, Baxter Springs, & Centralia, based on contemporary documents - diaries, letters, and firsthand newspaper accounts. Illustrated, bibliography, index. 172 pp. ISBN: 9780253213037.

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - "On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. . . . The attack began at dawn. When it was over, more than 150 townsmen were dead and most of the settlement burned to the ground." Illustrated with 3 maps and 24 black and white photographs and illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-87338-4423.

New York: Penguin, 2019. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The astonishing story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day." Photographs, maps, notes, index. xvii, 252 pp. ISBN: 978-0735225206.

New York: Orion Books (1989.) dj. Hardcover - "Turning the Tide Against Japan in the South Pacific" - an account of one of the United States first sustained offensive actions against Japan in World War II, an action which began in June 1943. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Appendices, bibliography, index. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-517569728.