Due to my wife's "request" that I "voluntarily" turn my book room into a guest bedroom, I am selling off about 170 books.
It's a diverse collection with books from the U.S., Britain, Australia, France, Canada, South Africa, etc.
These need to go quickly, so I'm selling them for one-third of the cover price. Most are new, in excellent condition and are hardcover unless otherwise noted. Contact me at
skyfall55@yahoo.com
World War II – Land Warfare
Operation Pike: Britain Versus the Soviet Union, 1939-41 by Patrick Osborne [the bizarre Anglo-French plan to bomb Russian oil fields] (274 pp., Praeger, 2000) - $21
Neville Chamberlain and British Rearmament: Pride, Prejudice and Politics by John Ruggiero (251 pp., Praeger, 1999) - $20
No Small Achievement: Special Operations Executive and the Danish Resistance (594 pp., Univ. of Southern Denmark, 2002) - $10
Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944 by Walter S. Dunn (250 pp., Lynne Rienner, 2000) - $8
The Sky Men: A Parachute Rifle Company’s Story of the Battle of the Bulge and the Jump Across the Rhine by Kirk Ross (462 pp., Schiffer, 2000) - $12
Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelmann [memoirs of a German tank driver in Russia] (205 pp., Casemate, 2001) - $10
Invaders: British and American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-45 by Colin Bruce (286 pp., U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1999) - $12
The 7-volume Australian Centenary History of Defense (Oxford, 2002) - $25 apiece or $125 for the set (the atlas alone is impressive)
Volume I – The Australian Army
Volume II – The Royal Australian Air Force
Volume III – The Royal Australian Navy
Volume IV – Making the Australian Defense Force
Volume V – The Department of Defence
Volume VI – Australian Defence Force Sources and Statistics
Volume VII – The Atlas of Australia’s Wars
By Tank into Normandy by Stuart Hills [a British tank commander’s memoirs] (255 pp., Sterling, 2002) – $10
The Great World War 1914-45 Volume I: Lightning Strikes Twice (softcover, 543 pp., Harper Collins UK, 2000) - $13
The Great World War 1914-45 Volume II: Who Won? Who Lost (softcover, 543 pp., Harper Collins UK, 2000) - $13
Art of War: Eyewitness U.S. Combat Art from the Revolution to the 20th Century by H. Avery Chenoweth (384 pp., Friedman/Fairfax, 2003) - $15
After D-Day: Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout by James Carafano (294 pp., Lynne Rienner, 2000) - $10
Dieppe Revisited: A Documentary Investigation (247 pp., Frank Cass, 1993) - $13
Into the Shadows Furious: The Brutal Battle for New Georgia by Brian Altobello (softcover, 406 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $9
Edson’s Raiders: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion in World War II by Joseph Alexander (softcover, 352 pp., U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2000) - $14
Lost Battalions: Going for Broke in the Vosges, Autumn 1944 by Franz Steidl (softcover, 226 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $9
Between Tedium and Terror: A Soldier’s World War II Diary, 1939-45 by Sy Kahn [ A Jewish GI’s experiences in the Pacific] (softcover, 363 pp., Univ. of Illinois, 2000) – $10
Bloody Ridge: The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal by Michael Smith (264 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10
Vinegar Joe’s War: Stillwell’s Campaigns in Burma by Nather Prefer (312 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10
The Nuclear Axis: Germany, Japan, and the Atom Bomb Race 1939-45 by Phillip Henshall (230 pp, Sutton, 2000) - $15
German Army Handbook 1939-45 by James Lucas (216 pp., Sutton, 1998) - $10
Japanese Army Handbook 1939-45 by Geroge Forty (266 pp., Sutton, 1999) - $10
Hell in the Pacific by Jonathan Lewis (288 pp, Channel 4 Books, 2002) - $10
The Reich’s Last Gamble: The Ardennes Offensive, 1944 by George Forty (352 pp., Cassell, 2000) - $12
The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War by Jack Gallaway (softcover, 271 pp., University of Queensland, 2000) - $11
A Peculiar Crusade: Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre [the lawyer who fought to free Peiper] (257 pp., New York University, 2000) - $10
Commando: The Elite Fighting Forces of World War II by Sally Dugan (304 pp., Channel 4 Books, 2001) - $10
Walking Away from the Third Reich: A Teenager in Hitler’s Army by Claus Sellier (softcover, 296 pp., Hellgate, 1999) - $6
German Tanks at War by Bob Carruthers (197 pp., Sterling, 2000) - $10
The Normandy Campaign: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris by Victor Brooks (288 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $10
Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph Persico (564 pp., Random House, 2001) - $12
A Gallant Company: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan F. Vance (330 pp., Pacifica, 2000) - $7
The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union by Robert Thurston (275 pp., Univ. of Illinois, 2000) - $11
World War II – Air Warfare
In the Skies of Europe: Air Forces allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945 by Hans Werner Neulen (Crowood Press, 382 pp., 1998) - $15
Ghost Bombers – The Moonlight War of NSG 9 Luftwaffe night attack operations in Italy by Nick Beale (Classic Publications, 208 pp., 2001) - $13
Kiwi Spitfire Ace by Jack Rae (183 pp., Grub Street, 2001) - $9
Hurricanes over Tobruk by Brian Gull (224 pp., Grub Street, 1998) - $9
Fighter Pilot by Paul Richey [RAF pilot’s memoirs of the Battle of France] (175 pp., Cassell, 2001) - $10
Me-163 Rocket Interceptor Volume I by Stephen Ransom (Classic Publications, 218 pp., 2002) - $13
Fighter Command 1939-45: From the Battle of Britain to the Fall of Berlin by David Oliver (Trafalgar Square/Harper Collins, 240 pp., 2000) - $15
Aces Against Japan: The American Aces Speak, Vol. I by Eric Hammel (Pacifica, 315 pp., 1992) - $13
Pursuit Through Darkened Skies: An Ace Nightfighter Crew in World War II by Michael Allen (348 pp., Airlife, 2002) - $9
Battles with the Luftwaffe: The Bomber Campaign Against Germany by Theo Boiten and Martin Bowman (235 pp., Harper Collins, 2001) - $14
The Battle of Brtain: The Myth and Reality by Richard Overy (178 pp., Norton, 2000) - $11
Hitler’s Personal Pilot: The Life and Times of Hans Baur (336 pp, Brassey’s, 2000) - $12
The First Hellcat Ace by Commander Hamilton McWhorter (210 pp., Pacifica, 2000) - $12
Night Fighters: Hunters of the Reich by David Williams (224 pp., Tempus, 2001) - $10
The Dambusters by John Sweetman (192 pp., Time Warner, 2003) - $9
American Eagles: P-38 Lightning Units of the 8th and 9th Air Forces by Roger Freeman (softcover, 80 pp., Classic Publications, 2001) - $5
American Eagles: American Volunteers in the RAF 1937-43 by Tony Holmes (softcover, 128 pp., Classic Publications, 2001) - $5
Jagdwaffe: Battle of Britain, Phase Two by Eric Mombeek (softcover, 192 pp., Classic Publications, 2001) - $5
World War II – Naval Warfare
Unrestricted Warfare: How a New Breed of Naval Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II by James DeRose (310 pp., Wiley, 2000) - $13
Survivors: British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War by G.H. Bennett (288 pp., Hambledon, 1999) - $13
German Navy Handbook 1939-45 by Jak Mallmann-Showell [covers ships, weapons, camouflage, bases, etc.) (275 pp., Sutton, 1999) - $20
German Capital Ships of World War Two by M.J. Whitley (softcover, 224 pp., Cassell, 2000) - $10
Little Ships, Big War: The Saga of DE343 (a destroyer escort in the Pacific) by Edward Stafford (softcover, 336 pp., Naval Institute Press, 1984) - $6
Carrier Strike: The Battle for the Santa Cruz Islands October 1942 by Eric Hammel (Pacifica, 208 pp., 1999) - $12
World War I and Russo-Japanese War
The Hazy Red Hell: Fighting Experiences on the Western Front 1914-18 edited by Tom Donovan (230 pp., Spellmount, 1999) - $11
Devil Dogs: Fighting Marines of World War I by George Clark (softcover, 462 pp., Presidio, 1999) - $8
At the Front Line: Experience of Australian Soldiers in World War I by Mark Johnston (262 pp., Cambridge Univ., 1996) - $10
The Myth of the Great War: How the Germans Won the Battles and How the Americans Saved the Allies by John Mosier (383 pp., Harper Collins, 2001) - $12
A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918 by William S. Triplet (322 pp., Univ. of Missouri, 2000) - $10
Reflections on the Battlefield: From Infantryman to Chaplain, 1914-19 by Robert Rider (147 pp., Liverpool Univ. Press, 2001) - $13
Henri Mathias Berthelot: Soldier of France, Defender of Romania by Glenn Tarrey (399 pp., Center for Romanian Studies, 2001) - $15
Flawed Victory: Jutland 1916 by Keith Yates (314 pp., U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2000) - $12
The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget by Tony Stephens (softcover, 108 pp., Freemantle Arts Centre, 1996) - $10
Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York’s Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg by Stephen Harris (374 pp., Brassey’s, 2001) - $12
Tannenberg 1914 by John Sweetman (232 pp., Cassell, 2002) - $8
The Great War by Correlli Barnett (softcover, 224 pp., BBC, 2003) - $6
The Tsar’s Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima by Constantine Pleshakov (392 pp., Basic Books, 2002) - $10
Korean War
Mig Alley: Sabres vs. Migs over Korea by Walter Thompson (180 pp., Specialty Press, 2002) - $12
The Dragon Strikes: China and the Korean War June-December 1950 by Patrick C. Roe (432 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10
Vietnam War
Vietnam Air Losses by Chris Hobson [brief accounts of the circumstances behind every U.S. fixed-wing aircraft lost in Southeast Asia] (softcover, 284 pp., Midland, 2001) - $15
Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970 (softcover, 447 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10
The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War by Ralph Westerhann (385 pp., Carroll and Graf, 2001) - $10
The Arab-Israeli Wars
The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in 1967 and 1973 by George Gawrych (281 pp., Praeger, 2000) - $16
The Falklands and Afghanistan
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap by Mohammad Yousaf [military history of the Mujahideen] (243 pp., Casemate, 2001) - $10
Memories of the Falklands by Iain Dale (244 pp., Politico’s Publishing, 2002) - $10
Afghanistan: A Military History by Stephen Tanner (softcover, 351 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $7
Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan by Tom Carew [ex-SAS soldier working with Mujahideen] (282 pp., Mainstream Publishing, 2000) - $10
American Civil War
Shanks: The Life and Wars of General Nathan G. Evans, CSA by Jason Silverman (216 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $9
Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General W.H.F. “Rooney” Lee by Mary Daughtry (376 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $10
Glory Enough for All: Sheridan’s Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station by Eric Wittenberg (392 pp., Brassey’s, 2001) - $10
From the Flame of Battle to the Fiery Cross: The 3rd Tennessee Volunteer Regiment by James Van Eldik (400 pp., Yucca Free Press, 2001) - $9
19th Century Warfare
Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War by Angel Velesco Shaw (softcover, 468 pp., New York Univ., 2002) - $12
Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting by J.P. Riley (479 pp., Frank Cass, 2000) - $25
Napoleon’s Cavalry and its Leaders by David Johnson (192 pp., Spellmount, 1999) - $7
The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War by John Laband (201 pp., Univ. of Natal, 2000) - $9
The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars: 1883-1888 by John Laband (140 pp., Univ. of Natal, 2001) - $13
Afghan Wars: And the North-West Frontier 1839-1947 by Michael Barthorp (softcover, 184 pp., Cassell, 2002) - $8
Wars of Empire by Douglas Porch (224 pp., Sterling, 2000) - $10
Christian de Wet: The Boer Pimpernel by Fransjohan Pretorius (240 pp., Univ. of Natal, 2001) - $10
Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico and the Struggle over Texas bu Richard Winders (softcover, 172 pp., SR Books, 2002) - $6
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier by Robert Utley (softcover, Univ. of Oklahoma, 2001) - $10
They Died With Custer: Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Douglas Scott (softcover, 432 pp., Univ. of Oklahoma, 1998) - $10
Pre-19th Century Warfare
Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem by Stanley Lane-Pool (288 pp., Greenhill, 2002) - $13
Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War 1592-1598 by Stephen Turnbull (256 pp. Sterling, 2002) - $10
The Book of the Samurai by Stephen Turnbull (192 pp., PRC, 2000) - $6
Mongols, Huns and Vikings by Hugh Kennedy (224 pp., Cassell, 2002) - $10
Ancient Warfare
Cannae by Adrian Goldsworthy (200 pp., Sterling, 2001) - $11
Xenophon’s March by John Prevas (228 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $11
Special Forces Operations
Fighting Dirty: The Inside Story of Covert Operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden by Peter Harclerode (520 pp., Sterling, 2001) - $10
Secret Soldiers: Special Forces in the War Against Terrorism by Peter Harclerode (620 pp., Sterling, 2000) – $15
Air Warfare
Air Power History: Turning Points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo by Sebastian Cox (softcover, 362 pp., Cass, 2002) - $10
McDonnnell F-4 Phantom by Jon Lake (softcover, 270 pp., Airtime, 2002) - $11
Book of Flight: From the Flying Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci to the Conquest of Space by R. Niccoli (304 pp., Sterling, 2002) - $13
The Warriors by Bob Ross [memoirs of a test and Vietnam fighter pilot] (296 pp., Yucca, 2002) - $10
Shadow Flights: America’s Secret Air War Against the Soviet Union (322 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10
Yakovlev Yak-25/-26-27-28: Yakovlev’s Tactical Twinjets by Yefim Gordon (softcover, 128 pp., Aerofax, 2002) - $9
Flankers: The New Generation by Yefim Gordon (128 pp., Midland, 2001) - $9
Naval Warfare
We Come Unseen: The Untold Story of Britain’s Cold War Submarines by Jim Ring (270 pp., John Murray, 2001) - $12
Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815 by Nathan Miller (388 pp., Wiley, 2000) - $10
Cochrane: Britania’s Sea Wolf by Donald Thomas (373 pp., Cassell, 2000) - $13
Jane Austen and the Navy by Brian Southam (382 pp., Hambledon & London, 2000) - $12
Lost Subs: From the Hunley to the Kursk – the Greatest Submarines Lost and Found by Spencer Dunmore (176 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $12
Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire Aboard the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It by Gregory Freeman (298 pp., Morrow, 2002) - $10
Miscellaneous/Eclectic
The 7-volume Australian Centenary History of Defense (Oxford, 2002) - $125
Volume I – The Australian Army Volume II – The Royal Australian Air Force Volume III – The Royal Australian Navy Volume IV – Making the Australian Defense Force Volume V – The Department of Defence Volume VI – Australian Defence Force Sources and Statistics Volume VII – The Atlas of Australia’s Wars
Heroes of the Hour: Brief Moments of Military Glory by Bryan Perrett (224 pp, Sterling, 2001) - $12
The Armed Forces of Pakistan by Pervas Iqbal Cheema (220 pp., New York Univ., 2001)- $12
Wartime Nurse: One Hundred Years from the Crimea to Korea by Eric Taylor (221 pp., Robert Hale, 2001) - $10
Bloodsong by Jim Hooper [Executive Outcomes mercenaries in Angola 1993-95] (240 pp., Harper Collins, 2002) - $12
The Right to Fight: A History of African-Americans in the Military by Gerald Astor (softcover, 529 pp., Da Capo, 1998) - $10
The Templars by Piers Paul Read (softcover, 350 pp., Da Capo, 1999) - $10
Lock & Load: Weapons of the U.S. Military by Angus Konstam (256 pp., Sterling, 2003) - $10
Wars of National Liberation by Daniel Moran (224 pp., Cassell, 2001) - $10
British Battles: Amazing Views by Getmapping. com [battle dispositions superimposed on aerial photos] (126 pp, Harper Collins, 2002) - $8
Changing Direction: British Military Planning for Post-War Strategic Defense 1942-47 by Julian Lewis (476 pp., Cass, 2003) - $14
Non-State Threats and Future Wars by Robert Bunker (208 pp., Cass, 2003) - $9
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War by Tammy Proctor (204 pp., New York Univ, 2003) - $8
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America by Ji-Yeon Yuh (284 pp., New York Univ, 2002) - $8
The Hitler/Hess Deception by Martin Allen (324 pp., Harper Collins, 2003) - $10
)... and regretted it ever after. I've just spent the last nine years replacing what I sold, and adding to it as well... but prices have moved on a lot.
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