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186930213New York: D. Van Nostrand 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 1 174 pages 6 pages publisher advertisements 1. Book includes service forms but no illustrations. Red pebble cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine. Light shelf wear and fading to red cloth. Toning to contents. Mild warping to pages in the back. A very good copy. On the front blank end sheet the previous owner Lieutenant O.H. Dockery Jr. 3rd U.S. Infantry stamped his name twice and wrote "Dont Steal this good book of O H Dockery 3rd Inf - USA." Dockery also wrote the same inscription on page 168. His name is stamped on the rear blank end sheet with some hand written "Rules of conduct". Dockery's name is also written on the rear paste down. Lt. Oliver Hart Dockery graduated from North Carolina in 1895 and served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War in 1898. D. Van Nostrand hardcover
1945225281945. Women History World War II WWII Women's Army Corps photo archive documenting women's military service during World War II and the expansion of women's logistical and technical roles within the United States Army. The photographs record daily activity surrounding Women's Army Corps personnel including ambulance operation vehicle maintenance military training environments and informal moments of rest and recreation. Established in 1943 Women's Army Corps enabled women to enter the Army in noncombat roles that were essential to wartime mobilization including clerical work communications mechanics and medical transport. The images document this institutional transformation through scenes of uniformed women working with military vehicles operating ambulances and participating in the broader infrastructure of wartime military camps. One photograph shows a WAC standing in full service uniform before a low administrative building while others depict women outdoors in wooded settings during moments of leisure illustrating both the disciplined and personal dimensions of wartime service.<br /> <br /> Archive of 20 gelatin photographs created during the 1940s depicting Women's Army Corps personnel military vehicles and associated Army training activities. Photographs measure approximately 3.5 x 5 inches. The photographs show WAC members in both uniform and off duty settings including outdoor portraits and camp scenes. Several images focus on military ambulances and transport vehicles bearing visible Army markings such as "U.S. ARMY 432621" and "AMB-34." Verso inscriptions provide firsthand commentary on military duties and equipment including one caption reading "This is my new AMBULANCE hope you like it sis. safe & OK" and another written beside an ambulance photograph noting "good old Baker 5 kept me from walking." Operational scenes include soldiers crouched behind sandbags with a handwritten note identifying personnel as "Eselinger Conrad Palmer Carvey Boss." Other photographs document the broader military environment surrounding WAC activity including a drill or parade ground and a large motor pool with rows of Army trucks one marked "U.S. Army 008909" positioned in front of a multi story barracks. Additional annotated images identify fellow servicemen and technical details of equipment including "Hines Gallop and myself. Gallop is a jeep driver from North Carolina" and another describing "my radio on right fender" while one photograph is labeled simply "motor pool."<br /> <br /> Women's Army Corps personnel served throughout the United States and overseas during World War II performing essential logistical and administrative work that supported Allied military operations. Ambulance drivers such as the woman referenced in the captions transported wounded soldiers during training exercises and operational deployments and were often responsible for maintaining their own vehicles in field conditions. WAC members later served across European theaters including England France and Italy after the Allied landings in 1944 contributing to the wartime medical evacuation system that moved casualties from combat zones to field hospitals and rear medical facilities. Light edge wear mild surface handling and faint silvering to some prints; overall very good condition. These photographs document both the operational infrastructure of wartime motor transport and the presence of women within that system illustrating how the mobilization of female personnel expanded the technical and logistical capacities of the U.S. Army during the global conflict. unknown
1940231951940. Women's wartime military mobilization photo archive documenting female military service across Allied wartime culture in the United States and southern France during the 1940s. Official press photographers commercial postcard publishers and private snapshot makers record women in uniform within military structures wartime publicity systems and informal social settings while the comic material makes clear that women's enlistment was also processed through satire about masculinization labor reversal and altered domestic authority. The August 22 1944 Army Radiotelephoto press photograph captioned "FRENCH WACS COME HOME" includes helmeted French women carrying rifles and duffel bags as they debark from landing craft "US 38" on the Riviera to join the liberation of their homeland placing women's military service directly within Allied invasion reporting and wartime news transmission.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 13 silver gelatin and colored real photo postcards ranging from 10 x 8 inch press photos to smaller 3 x 2.5 inches vernacular photos United States and southern France circa 1940s. The grouping joins official press photography commercially printed comic postcards and private snapshots: women serving in uniform within military structures news agencies translating that service into public wartime narrative and vernacular photographs framing servicewomen through friendship memory and off-duty self-presentation. One large press photograph includes a WAC marching unit in tight alignment behind a guidon for a unit attached to a Naval Operating Air Station the elevated viewpoint emphasizing drill uniformity and command structure rather than individual identity. The Radiotelephoto print retains its typed verso caption identifying French WACs coming ashore in southern France. Four color comic postcards published by Beals in Des Moines turn women's enlistment into wartime humor through slogans including "WE'RE GIVING 'EM A BIG WAAC . . . " "I'M BRINGING HOME THE BACON!" "I'M GETTING A BIG BANG OUT OF THIS ARMY LIFE" and "MY HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED." The most pointed of these "I'M BRINGING HOME THE BACON!" has a uniformed woman dragging a defeated male figure on a rope recasting military service as a comic transfer of masculine power and economic authority to women. "MY HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED" extends that logic by imagining a man in an apron cooking and sweeping at home making domestic reversal itself the joke. The remaining cards similarly convert women's service into exaggerated spectacle through a rolling-pin attack on a caricatured Axis figure and a smiling servicewoman posed between oversized cannons. Seven small vernacular snapshots shift to individualized presence: one is signed "Love Sherry" two versos identify "Hazel" one verso reads "Golden Gate Park" and the images include women in uniform seated on an urban balustrade standing along city streets posed in landscaped parks visiting a pagoda-like garden site and appearing together outdoors in a paired portrait.<br /> <br /> Women's military service during World War II expanded through the WAAC WAC and related Allied formations while press agencies commercial print culture and snapshot photography assigned that service different public meanings; this archive preserves those overlapping channels in a single grouping. The postcards register wartime unease and fascination around women entering socially masculine roles turning military participation into jokes about strength breadwinning authority and domestic displacement. Minor corner and edge wear to the larger photographs one crease and caption wear to the Radiotelephoto print light rubbing and handling wear to the postcards and general wear curling and minor soiling to the vernacular snapshots; overall very good condition. The grouping preserves women's wartime military presence as it moved between official documentation commercial gender satire and private snapshot culture. unknown
1980097916U.S.A.: Presidio Press 1980. Hardback. First Edition. Puerto Rico's Fighting 65th U.S. Infantry. From San Juan to Chorwan. Previous owners name and address stamped to inside cover. Wear and a couple to tears to edge of D/J. Slight browning to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. In the second week of June 1951 the heights overlooking the village of Chorwan Korea - the centre of the Iron Triangle - were taken by the all-Puerto Rican 65th U.S. Infantry Regiment. The Chinese withdrew to the North and from that point on the war wound down to the peace table. This was the final combat action of the hard-fighting 65th a regiment given little recognition outside of the Puerto Rican press. Nevertheless one hundred and twenty-five of their number were awarded the Silver Star; four the Distinguished Service Cross. Their commander General Harris reaped praise and commendations from the highest sources for the action of his troops. Certainly no one is more qualified to tell their story. And this he does with verve wit and enthusiasm. When first assigned to the 65th General Harris thought he was being relegated to the boondocks. From the start of training in San Juan however he rapidly changed his mind. In the Vieques maneuvers his men distinguished themselves against the experienced men of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division. In combat they were fearless. All Korean veterans remember the bitter cold of the winters. To those used to warm climates it was particularly gruelling but the Puerto Ricans stood their ground. Here is a book to make every Puerto Rican proud. It is also an important eyewitness account of action in a war that has not been written about popularly but whose fighters certainly deserve as much recognition as soldiers in any war. Illustrated. 220 pp. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions Reference books and all types of Academic Literature. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback. Presidio Press Hardcover
1943287782Harmondsworth Middlessex: Penguin Books 1943 Red/White Cover Serial Number 439 126 Pgs Spine Slight Wrinkled.126 Pgs Ads Front/Rear Map. Rare Copy. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Owner's Name. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Penguin Books paperback
1992080949Valladolid: Servicio Histórico Militar - Simancas Ediciones 1992. Tapa dura. Good. 417 pp. 215 x 28 cm. Edición limitada de 1000 ejemplares y numerada. Lomo con algo de pérdida de color. Servicio Histórico Militar - Simancas Ediciones hardcover
195178957Washington DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology June 1951. Reprinted from the Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 36 No. 6 June 1952. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 6.75 inches by 10 inches. Pages 1444-1458 1 pages. Stamp and Ink notations on first page. This was presented at the Thirty-second Annual Session of the American College of Physicians St. Louis Mo. April 10 1951. Topics covered include Thermal Radiation Effects and Nuclear Radiation Effects. This document includes footnotes 11 black and white photographs a summary and a bibliography. On the day of the bombing the outstanding symptoms of the Japanese exposed to radiation were nausea and vomiting followed soon by fever leukopenia and diarrhea. Epilation purpura and oropharyngeal lesions appears about two weeks after exposure. Epilation was the surest external sign of exposure to ionizing radiation. This work reported that blast injuries and burns accounted for approximately 85 per cent of the casualties from an atomic bomb explosion high in the air. Studies in Japan indicated that 90 per cent of all persons who needed medical care in the first week had burns and that 60 to 85 per cent of all patients were burned. The ionizing radiation from an explosion of the Hiroshima or Nagasaki type is delivered in about 90 seconds and 50 per cent of the total is delivered in the first second. Clinically significant amounts of radioactivity are not left in the target area following detonations of this type. Because ionizing radiation injuries are unique effects of the atomic bomb these phenomena sometimes provoke emphasis out of proportion to the actual danger and thus create new psychologic hazards. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology paperback
197610885Watertown MA: Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center 1976. Hardcover. Publication Number AMMRP SP 78-2. 27-29 January 1976 the Holiday Inn Cascade Akron Ohio. No statement of edition. viii 132 pp. Fine hardcover book no markings / No dust jacket as issued. A clean fresh copy. <br/><br/> Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center hardcover
26996Middle East 1919-1926. 1.69 Envelopes "On His Majesty's Service" 13 x 10cm 1919 each containing at least one negative. Dowson writes the subject and place usually Iraq agricultural with other information. SEE IMAGE of composite photo.2.62 envelopes as above mainly "Basrah-Cairo Airmail" and "On His Majesty's Service" 13 x 10cm contents as 1.3.C.30 Glass negatives c.16 x 12.5cm incl. people eg. An apparent Sheikh- see Image.4.Small Box 11 x 17 x 3cm containing 10 glass plates labelled "Old Goerz. New Series 65-83 1926" and "Old Goertz Plates 1925 494-501". N.B. Goertz was manufacturer of photograph related items. See Wikipedia "Goertz Company".5.10 Envelopes 15.5 x 10cm containing multiple negatives dated 1926-7 one labelled "America Spring 1926" another "Pompei and Florence" another "factor"6.4 Envelopes 15.5 x 10cm containing multiple negative dated 1928-9 labelled C.P.F. in Construction China Petrol Store Ranjan "Wreckage from my Canberra wheat in Potatoes in ridge".7.Notebook Cover title "Army Book Correspondence Book FIELD SERVICE" poor condition interleaved with negatives people and scenes title on front cover "Negatives Old Goertz 519-562 Kut unreadable."8."Army Book Correspondence Book 152 FIELD SERVICE" so Notebook poor condition interleaved with negatives people and scenes title on cover "Negatives 393-518 Old Goertz 1923-4". Pencil note in different hand says "60 negs".9.Ibid. title front cover "Old Goertz 143-200 N.A. & Bd 1922". Additional note says "FROM 1918" and other title-notes. Notes in Dowson's hand obscured by adhering negatives but extensive agricultural notes dating from 1918. See Image reporting from 5/6/18 "Jinub" 10.Kodak Cardboard Box 15 x 10 x 5cm glass plates entitled ""Old Goertz. 1923 384-398 1924 399-413".11.Tin Box 18 x 125 x 8cms glass plates entitled "Old Goertz. 1923 384-398 1924 399-413.12.Notebook poor condition interleaved with negatives No annotation Cover/Spine Entitled "Negatives Old Goertz 1 to 142".13.Five loose glass plates first entitled "New Series 1926".14.Eight negatives 12 x 7cm WITH 10 negatives 14 x 10cms subjects plants people and scenes.15.Four envelopes "On His Majesty's Service" all "Amara" with one or more negatives labelled as follows: Battery of Pumpsat Dairy Farm; Servants dependents etc. of Shaikh Salim playing at Rowa; Young Sindi Stock Dairy Farm; Babaol sown March 19 Dairy Farm.16.Six Photographs 11 x 5.5cm mainly of people mainly in farmwork environment. See Image combined with 17. Below.17.Eleven Photographs 14.5 x 10.5cms plant orientated. See Image combined with 16.18.Five loose negatives people and plants.Sample subjects from Item One 1919 - mainly date related: Nursery; Donkey and foal; Minaret Bagdad; Koran Support; Cathedral Baghdad; Officer on Horseback; Ploughing BarleyKut - place appears many times; Boom landed for Kuwait; Well Cultivated Garden; Chibchab Tamar dates; Dates available in Baghdad market; Cotton.Item 2: Gardens in the Bank of the Husaini; small Japan ground nuts; 4 bunches dates in 10 year old Halawi; Araq factory Basra several; Kuwait photos/Abdar Rojah at Amir etc; view from water tower; factory construction; Ahwaz; Buch of Tmar Khadrhrawi on twelve year old palm many similar shots; Sindi Working bullocks Dairy Farm several = Amara; Servants dependents etc. of Shaikh playing Nowa; fish cooked; The ruined Mosque of Shabashia; From Notebook interleaved with negatives "Old Goerz 143-200" 1922 commences with manuscript notes by Dowson heavily annotated throughout see photographs even listing photos to be taken and interleaved with negatives. Middle East, [1919-1926] unknown
1968734951PN. New. 1968. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
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1997250104039Paladin Pr 1997-01-01. paperback. Good. 8x0x11. Clean text. Shelving code LSA HF Paladin Pr paperback
1999101705Paladin Press 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Collectable - Good Condition. VG- 1st ed 1999 Paladin Press paperback illustrated with many photos. Some spotting/flecking affecting rear cover as shown due to laminate breakdown. The SVD Dragunov is one of the most famous sniper rifles in history. Genuine technical operational manuals for it are scarce. James Gebhardt's English translations of official Soviet manuals are prized by military historians surplus firearm collectors and enthusiasts for their accurate terminology and high-quality breakdown diagrams. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2kg. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN: 1581600321. ISBN/EAN: 9781581600322. 84cxrarebooks is the trading name of Cambridge-based bookseller Marino Guida with 25 years experience in the trade. We guarantee the condition of all our books. Further images or a short video presentation of any book can be arranged on request. We send tax-free and tariff-free to EU US/Canada and Australia/NZ with insurance included for peace of mind. Inventory No: 101705. 9781581600322 Paladin Press paperback
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195431165Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Very Good. Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Quarto; stiff illustrated covers with hundreds of pages of reports bound in. Includes charts and graphs of Soviet governmental and military organization. Additional monographs laid in include Armed Forces Talk's four-part Communism Series and three issues of the U.S. Constabulary School's Department of Geopolitics series covering German History up to the rise of the Nazi Party the United Nations and International Relations. Staining to rear cover; pages toned but largely unmarked; a Very Good copy.<br /> <br /> Binder prepared by the United States Army for training Cold War-era officers and staff on USSR history ideology and military capabilities. The trove of documents here covers nearly everything an early Cold War American military or intelligence officer would need to know at the time: a history of Marxist ideology and its development in the 19th-century; details on the physical geography of the USSR; an ethnography of Central Asia detailing the Turkomen Kazakhs and Tatars; as well as extended analyses on who the power players in the Communist Party were and what the capabilities of their rifle and artillery division might be. <br /> <br /> Logistics psychological warfare and the role of Communism in the Middle East are also covered with detailed but succinct chapters on each. An impressive array of information highlighting the early Cold War Western perspective. No copies in retail and three holdings found in OCLC at the US Army War College Georgetown University and the University of Iowa. Intelligence and Military Police School unknown
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191846009Washington DC: GPO 1918. good. 52 wraps illus. two folding maps at rear covers somewhat worn and soiled. For Official Use Only. Edited and prepared at the Army War College Washington December 1917. War Department Document No. 716. GPO paperback
191715974Washington DC: GPO 1917. fair to good. 5-1/8" x 7-5/8" 39 wraps appendices covers foxed and stained p. 37 to rear cover top corner bent ink name & name stamp on front cover. GPO paperback
193050046Washington DC: GPO 1930. Seventh Edition. fair to good ex-lib. 1531 tables index text has darkened rear board weak ink notation inside front board some wear and soiling to boards and spine. One library stamp. War Department Document No. 22a. Includes tables for facilitating references to the Revised Statutes Statutes at Large and United States Code as well as a list of Acts Cited by Popular Names. GPO hardcover
193950042Washington DC: GPO 1939. Eighth Edition. good. 1223 tables index some wear and soiling to boards and spine. Includes tables for facilitating references to the Constitution Revised Statutes Statutes at Large and United States Code as well as a list of Acts Cited by Popular Names tables showing the National Defense Act as amended recurring provisions in appropriation acts citations of Executives orders and eliminations and transfers of matter contained in the 1929 edition. GPO hardcover
191744517Washington DC: GPO 1917. good. 5" x 8" 34 wraps illus. diagrams ink name on front cover covers somewhat soiled and some edge wear. GPO paperback
