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Condizione: New. 2020 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1958). SB. xvii + 541pp with 35 maps and sketches in colour, and numerous contemporary photos.Published Price £453 This, the second of the five books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war against Japan, examines the high tide of Japanâs success, when her all-conquering armies threatened India itself - the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. The book opens with the British scrambling to defend Burma, gateway to India, after Japanâs onslaught on Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya and Singapore. Within weeks of Japan attacking Burma in December 1941, its capital, Rangoon, was lost and Britain was forced to look to Indiaâs defences. Despite a punishing monsoon climate and inhospitable jungle terrain, the British grimly held on to north-east India after the loss of Burma, and even made plans to hit back. The book looks at the controversial early campaigns of the Chindits, the guerrilla force conceived by the maverick and eccentric General Orde Wingate, a favourite oif Churchillâs, and features two more conventional Generals who fell foul of the Prime Minister - Archibald Wavell and Claude Auchinleck. Supported by 33 appendices, 15 main maps and 20 sketch maps; the book is illustrated by 35 photographs.

Condizione: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1961). SB. xvx + 559pp with 25 maps and sketches in colour and numerous contemporary photos.Published Price £45 This third volume in the series of five in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War which recount the war against Japan, has, in the words of its authors â a brighter tale to tellâ than the previous two - which narrated the disastrous losses of Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya, Singapore and Burma. By late 1943 the tide of war in the Far East was turning, and the Allied High Command in the theatre under Lord Louis Mountbatten, began detailed plans to reverse Japanâs conquests. At sea, from bases in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) the Royal Navy mounted raids on Java and Sumatra. In the air, flying from bases in India, the RAF challenged Japanâs air supremacy. Above all, on the ground Allied armies stemmed Japanâs attacks on Arakan and Assam, and decisively defeated them at the battles of Kohima and Imphal. The conventional Allied armies were supported by the celebrated âChinditâ special forces trained by the colourful General Orde Wingate to operate behind Japanese lines, though the authors play down their achievement and criticise their campaigns as âwastefulâ. The book also describes parallel military developments in China and the Pacific which affected the campaigns in India and Burma. There are 30 appendices with details of the forces and logistics involved, and the book is illustrated with 15 main maps, 20 sketch maps, and 57 photographs.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1961). Hardback xvx + 559pp with 25 maps and sketches in colour and numerous contemporary photos. This third volume in the series of five in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War which recount the war against Japan, has, in the words of its authors â a brighter tale to tellâ than the previous two - which narrated the disastrous losses of Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya, Singapore and Burma. By late 1943 the tide of war in the Far East was turning, and the Allied High Command in the theatre under Lord Louis Mountbatten, began detailed plans to reverse Japanâs conquests. At sea, from bases in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) the Royal Navy mounted raids on Java and Sumatra. In the air, flying from bases in India, the RAF challenged Japanâs air supremacy. Above all, on the ground Allied armies stemmed Japanâs attacks on Arakan and Assam, and decisively defeated them at the battles of Kohima and Imphal. The conventional Allied armies were supported by the celebrated âChinditâ special forces trained by the colourful General Orde Wingate to operate behind Japanese lines, though the authors play down their achievement and criticise their campaigns as âwastefulâ. The book also describes parallel military developments in China and the Pacific which affected the campaigns in India and Burma. There are 30 appendices with details of the forces and logistics involved, and the book is illustrated with 15 main maps, 20 sketch maps, and 57 photographs.

Condizione: New. 2020 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1958). Hardback. xvii + 541pp with 35 maps and sketches in colour, and numerous contemporary photos. This, the second of the five books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the war against Japan, examines the high tide of Japanâs success, when her all-conquering armies threatened India itself - the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. The book opens with the British scrambling to defend Burma, gateway to India, after Japanâs onslaught on Hong Kong, Borneo, Malaya and Singapore. Within weeks of Japan attacking Burma in December 1941, its capital, Rangoon, was lost and Britain was forced to look to Indiaâs defences. Despite a punishing monsoon climate and inhospitable jungle terrain, the British grimly held on to north-east India after the loss of Burma, and even made plans to hit back. The book looks at the controversial early campaigns of the Chindits, the guerrilla force conceived by the maverick and eccentric General Orde Wingate, a favourite oif Churchillâs, and features two more conventional Generals who fell foul of the Prime Minister - Archibald Wavell and Claude Auchinleck. Supported by 33 appendices, 15 main maps and 20 sketch maps; the book is illustrated by 35 photographs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Part of the huge official history of the Second World War published for the British Government, though a set, each individual volume refers to a specific period or area of the War and provides a depth of analysis often missing from other works. Includes 15*maps, 20*sketches and 57*b/w photographs. xx, 559pp. DJ spine a little sunned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st edition. 204pp, small octavo, blue cloth, tight binding, frontispiece, map endpapers, clean throughout, worn boards, worn edges & corners, spine titles dulled but legible, mild spine lean.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. SOFTCOVER. Naval & Military Press Uckfield , East Sussex, England. Reprint edition 2004 Five Octavo volumes. 568, 541, 539, 568, 599 pages with maps and advertising at the end of each volume. Original light green card covers with photo image and white and yellow lettering to covers and spines. Some black and white photographs and maps throughout. All books in as new condition. See photographs. Book 4246 location.

2nd printing dust jacket As New octavo 207pp., ep maps, Author served as one of America's most decorated soldiers in the Vietnam War, blazing through two combat tours 1965-66 & 1968-69 as commander of the 118th Assault Helicopter Company's Bandit platoon and the 11th Armored Cavalry's Blackhorse Regiment's Air Cavalry Troop and 1st Armored Squadron.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Two contemporaneous WWII typed circular letters, December 1944. Two original wartime typed orders/ morale circulars, both issued during the Battle of the Bulge, addressed to troops defending Bastogne, one signed by Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, acting commander, 101st Airborne Division, and the other signed by /s/Roberts, praising the men of Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division. First letter: "Airborne - Merry Christmas", Headquarters 101st Airborne Division, Office of the Division Commander, 24 December 1944. A famous morale message recounting the German encirclement of Bastogne, reproducing verbatim the German surrender demand of 22 December 1944 and McAuliffe's legendary one-word reply - "NUTS!". The letter celebrates the stand of the 101st Airborne and attached units, frames the defense of Bastogne as a defining historical moment, and closes with McAuliffe's typed signature- "/s/McAuliffe, MCAULFFE, Commanding. Second letter: Commendation letter to the officers and men of CCB, 10th Armored Division, praising their role in stopping repeated German attacks in freezing conditions and noting the imminent relief of Bastogne. Typed signed "/s/ Roberts", with explicit referene to cooperation with the 101st Airborne Division. Both documents are typed on original WWII-era Myriad Onion Skin paper, a lightweight stock widely used by U.S. Army headquarters for field correspondence. The presence of this watermark is consistent with wartime examples. Wartime paper stock, stapled as issued, with expected age toning and handling wear but fully legible throughout. The two letters are period originals intended for unit circulation. Everything-paper, type, formatting, content and context- all aligns with a wartime unit-issued circular. The documents are historically significant. The defense of Bastogne and McAuliffe's "NUTS!" reply are among the most iconic episodes of the Second World War. Original wartime documents directly quoting or circulating the "NUTS!" message are scarce, especially when preserved in complete, readable form and accompanied by a related frontline commendation tying the 10th Armored Division to the relief effort. Condition: Very good overall; light toning, folds and staple marks consistent with field use. No losses; text crisp. Ships unmatted and unframed.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good binding. The essay on the Military Prison, -- [14] 124 pp. -- is illustrated with portraits of Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr, Brigadier General W. D. Flagler, Major General John Pope; and with photographs of the U.S. Military Prison in 1876, the Main Yard of the Prison with Prisoners Turning out for Work, the U.S. Military Prison in 1910 and the Shoe Manufacturing Establishment at the Prison in 1890. With much on the rules and regulations of the Prison, as well as punishments.~~The essay on the Army Service Schools -- [10], 69, [1] -- covers The Army School of the Line, the General Service and Staff College; the Army Signal School, the Army Staff College, with notes on the Exemption of Graduates, the Library, etc. There are a number of photographic illustrations, including the Academic Building, a folding montage of cdv's of Staff, Instructors and Student Officers at the Infantry and Cavalry School in the 1880s, portraits of Elihu Root, Brig. Gen. William H. Carter, and others.~~With the signature of Charles D. Roberts who was Capt. 7th U.S. Inf. at Ft. Leavenworth at the time, dated Dec. 5, 1913 and with his elaborate bookplate bedecked with military insignia of many conflicts. Capt. Roberts was a life-long soldier rising to the rank of Brig. General. Among other notable incidents in his long service, he was present at the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 (and is in the famous photograph of that event) and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Makahambus Hill in the Spanish-American War. ~~Not found in commerce, and not especially common in institutional holdings. Very Good binding.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Tobey, Barney; Hawes, Charles; Fleischmann, Glen; Kling,Wendell; Lee, Robert J.; Brusstar, Gordon; Glanzman, Louis S.; (illustratore). First Edition. 82 pages. Articles: Terror/Crime in Our Cities - No. 1 - Detroit; University of North Carolina Football Coach Carl Grey Snavely - article with nice color photos; The Schary Script - M-G-M's Dore Schary is one of the busiest men in Hollywood; Clowns after Hours - The Minneapolis Aquatennial festival and its Aqua Jesters; My 4-Year War with the Reds; (part 3 of 5); So You Had a Virus?; Down with the Little Things; I Hate a Dumpy Woman; A Good Clean-Cut American Boy; Owl, He Crow For Midnight; Champion of Sonora; Valley of the Tyrant (part 2 fo 4); A Game of Skill. Includes these nice vintage ads: General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour image of Mrs. Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr.; B.V.D. shirts; Admiral tvs; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features full-page color photo portrait of author James Michener; Dodge Trucks; Pabst beer ad features photo of Sid Luckman; Plymouth cars; Puerto Rican Rum; General Motors; Bicycle playing cards; Nice full-page color Schenley Whiskey ad features Ed Sullivan; Camel cigarette ad on back cover includes Vic Scott, Albany to New York out-board racing champ. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, November 19, 1949 Terror/Crime in Our Cities - No. 1 - Detroit; University of North Carolina Football Coach Carl Grey Snavely - article with nice color photos; The Schary Script - M-G-M's Dore Schary is one of th.

Hardcover. 15th M revised. 192 p.; 15.5 cm. Very early printing [orig. 1876; Starr, A Baptist bibliography R2795 for 40th thousand 1882] Testimonials from 12 users (M.E. Bishop Thomas Bowman (while chaplain of U.S. Senate, warned Lincoln of John Wilkes Booth's 'prowling about') - T.M. Cooley, dean of Law School, Univ of Michigan - Alvah Hovey, Newton Theol Seminary - E.O Haven, chancellor of Syracuse Univ - Albert Pike, Confederate General and masonic author - 5 members of Independent Order of Odd Fellows) on front endpaper. Publisher's advertisements on rear endpaper. -- Tipped in are lists (undated, 1880s?) of members of a committee in Hancock County, Illinois. On rear pastedown: Central committee. J.D. Stevens, Ch'n, Carthage - Dr. J.R. Kelley, Augusta - J.H. Hungate, La Harpe - Dr. J.J. Reaburn, Denver - Geo. J. Rogers, Warsaw. -- On front pastedown: Auxiliary committee. B.D. Hewitt, Augusta - D. Aleshire, St. Marys - Marion Robinson, Ft. Green - Dr. Wm. Booz, Hancock - Geo. Coulson, La Harpe - W.T. Stratton, Chili - H.W. Shoup, Harmony - Dr. J.W. Carlton, Carthage - J.W. Lionberger, Pilot Grove - David Byler, Durham - Geo. Guthrie, St. Albans - John Gault, Bear Creek - James Anderson, Prairie - J.C. Booz, Rock Creek - J.F. Deitrick, Dallas City - John Deitrick, Pontoosuc - O.J. Reese, Walker - Harrison Shepherd, Wythe - W.L. Guthrie, Montebello - James Bolton, Sonora - Chas. C. Riter, Appanooce - John Exon, Rocky Run - Lemuel Mussetter, Wilcox - Leonard Hinch, Warsaw - J.N. Datin, Nauvoo. VG orig. cinnamon cloth. Pages lightly toned.