Search Results: Authors starting with P from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

New York: Arco Publishing, 1971. 127pp/illus. Details various Junker aircraft. Clean. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.: Northwestern University Press, 1972. 454pp/illus/maps. History of Malawi. DJ has lean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005. 467pp. This book is about the United States' course of changing the history of the Middle East and becoming ensnared in a guerilla war in Iraq. "It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate." Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005. 467pp. This book is about the United States' course of changing the history of the Middle East and becoming ensnared in a guerilla war in Iraq. "It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate." Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005. 467pp. This book is about the United States' course of changing the history of the Middle East and becoming ensnared in a guerilla war in Iraq. "It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate." Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ Pr, 1966. 431 pages, over 600 b/w photographs and drawings, 39 color photographs. DJ has light wear. Text clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: D. McKay Co, 1974. 382pp. Deadly competition in dreadnought battleships between Great Britain and Imperial Germany, fueled by Kaiser Wilhelm II and his dreams of imperial destiny. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mjf Books, 1990. 656pp/illus. A biography of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's Gestapo/SS Chief Commander of theEastern Death Camps, tasked to create the Aryan race. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: D. McKay Co, 1974. 382pp. Deadly competition in dreadnought battleships between Great Britain and Imperial Germany, fueled by Kaiser Wilhelm II and his dreams of imperial destiny. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hart-Davis, 1973. 192pp. Gloss laminated card covers, illustrated with line drawings/cartoons. With an introduction by Spike Milligan. The songs of the Second World War, written and sung by the Soldiers who fought it, Clean. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

St Thomas, VI: Aristographics Inc, 1987. ****Original privately published edition.**** 166pp/maps/illus. With graphic tales of other slave happenings on ships and plantations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dj. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Isador Paiewonsky, 1961. Approx 70pages/illus. Unpaginated. An account in documents of the destroying of the pirate ship La Trompeuse by the captain of the British frigate H.M.S. Francis, as told from the chronological writings of statesmen, governors, captains, observers & historians. Clean. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Privately Printed.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Enigma Books, 2003. 492pp/photos. The author was a French Resistance staff officer in charge of counterespionage during the war. The book is filled with exciting and dangerous case stories against the Germans who were occupying France- and against those French citizens who actively helped. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Pyne Pr, 1974. 583pp/illus. Biography of the Harper's Weekly cartoonist who invented the symbolic Democratic donkey and Republican elephant. with many of his cartoons/caricatures. Facsimile of 1904 edition. Clean. Facsimile. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1979. 269 + Plus color portrait frontis. Illustrated with striking color full page plates by Lynd Ward. Chapter heading illustrations in black and white. Pale purple silk moire endpapers. All edges gold. Original pale purple page ribbon. Original bookplate from the Easton Press, not filled in. 4to. Original full gray leather binding gold decorated in an over-all interlocking leaf design. Spine with same gold design and raised bands. Like new. 1st Edition. Leather. Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Pr, 1966. 179pp. The Nobles of France, Feudal Chivalry, Religious Chivalry, Courtly Love, Criticisms and Compromises. 'Chivalry has long interested me as a subject for both social history and the history of ideas.' Clean. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House , 1981. Fifty-two Chapters of Jewish Martyrology. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, (1981). Paintings by Dan Reisinger, translated by Shirley Kaufman with Dan Laor. Numerous color illustrations. Unpaginated. Text in English & Hebrew. Gift inscription inside front cover.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1979. Book has 718 pages with illustrations. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. Previous owner blind stamp in front endpapers. Story of the war declared by the Boers of South Africa on October 11, 1899. The war proved to be the longest (thirty-three months), the costliest (almost half a billion dollars), the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives), and most humiliating war that Great Britian fought between 1815 and 1914.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 239pp/illus/map. Examines how, in the face of the devastating firepower advantages that modern weapons offered the Germans, the British army developed the means to reclaim the offense and break the stalemate of the western front to defeat their enemy. Within this context, Albert Palazzo demonstrates the importance of gas warfare to Britain’s tactical success and argues that it was a much more efficient weapon than past historians have suggested. Despite British notions of tradition, gentlemanly conduct, and fair fighting, the high command realized that the war was to be won by employing new technologies and techniques to counteract the defensive advantages their well-fortified and entrenched opponent enjoyed on the western front. Clean like new.. 1st Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St Martins Press, 1984. 300pp/illus. Covers years 1797 to 1815. Contains a lot of information about Napoleon, his family and his marshalls. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.