Fifty Military History Works

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Nov 1, 2021 - Nov 10, 2021

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An intimate sale featuring a single-owner collection of mostly modern first edition books, many signed, including literature, fiction, and nonfiction works. This auction has something for everyone! Bonhams Skinner bidsquare@bonhamsskinner.com

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  Fifty Military History Works, Applebaum, Anne, Gulag: A History. Doubleday, 2003, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Arnold, James R., The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913. Bloomsbury Press, 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ball, Philip, Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler. University of Chicago Press, 2014, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Beevor, Antony, Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble. Viking, 2015, first edition signed hardcover, first published, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Beevor, Antony, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. Viking, 2009, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Beevor, Antony, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943. Viking, 1998, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Beevor, Antony, The Fall of Berlin, 1945. Viking, 2002, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Beevor, Antony, The Second World War. Little, Brown, & Co., 2012, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bernstein, Richard, China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Billings, John D., Illustrated by Charles W. Reed, Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life. George M. Smith & Co., 1888, hardcover, (condition: good, dust jacket condition: good); Blatman, Daniel, Translated by Chaya Galai, The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide. Belknap Harvard, 2011, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bloch, Marc, Translated by Gerard Hopkins, Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1949, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Blum, Howard, Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America. Harper Collins, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Bobbitt, Philip, Terror & Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Boot, Max, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present. W.W. Norton, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Budiansky, Stephen, Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers & the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Burleigh, Michael, Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II. Harper, 2011, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Burleigh, Michael, The Third Reich: A New History. Hill and Wang, 2000, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Caddick-Adams, Peter, Snow & Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45. Oxford University Press, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Chamberlain, Joshua L., Edited by Thomas Desjardin, Joshua L. Chamberlain: A Life in Letters: The Previously Unpublished Letters of the Civil War. Osprey Publishing, 2012, first edition, first published U.K. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Churchill, Winston S., Blood, Sweat and Tears. GP PutnamÆs Sons, 1941, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Conquest, Robert, Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps. Viking, 1978, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Conquest, Robert, The Great Terror : A Reassessment. Oxford Uni Press, 1990, first edition hardcover, signed, (condition: as New); Conquest, Robert, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. MacMillan, 1968, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: good); Cornwell, Bernard, Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles. William Collins, 2014, first publication GB hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacked condition: as new); Cox, Rachel S., Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army. NAL Caliber, 2012, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition, as new); Crosswell, D.K.R., The Chief of Staff: The Military Career of General Walter Bedell Smith. Greenwood Press, 1991, first published hardcover, (condition: near fine, no dust jacket); Delattre, Lucas, Translated by George Holoch Jr., A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Dietrich-Berryman, Eric; Hammond, Charlotte; White, R.E., Passport Not Required: US Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941. Naval Institute Press, 2010, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Douglas, R.M., Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. Yale University Press, 2012, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition, as new); Draper, Theodore et al., Defending America: Toward a New Role in the Post-D?tente World. Basic Books, 1977, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Dutch, Oswald, HitlerÆs 12 Apostles. Robert M. McBride,1940, first edition hardcover, (condition: good, dust jacket condition, good); Elbaradei, Mohamed, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. Bloomsbury, 2011, first edition GB hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Estes, Kenneth, A European Anabasis: Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS, 1940-45. Helion & Co., 2015, hardcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Feigel, Lara, The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich. Bloomsbury, 2016, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition, as new); Findlay, Jean, Chasing Lost Time: The Life of CK Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator. Chatto & Windus, 2014, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Flood, Charles Bracelen, First to Fly: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, The American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Freeman, Douglas, Lee's Lieutenants Vol. I, Vol II, Vol III. Charles ScribnerÆs Sons, 1945, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press, 1977, twenty-fourth print U.S. softcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ganz, A. Harding, Ghost Division: The 11th "Gespenster" Panzer Division and the German Armored Force in World War II. Stackpole Books, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Gellhorn, Martha, The Face of War. Simon & Schuster, 1959, first printing hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Gerwarth, Robert, Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. Yale University Press, 2011, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Gildea, Robert, Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance. Belknap Press Harvard University, 2015, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Guelzo, Allen C., Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Hanson, Victor Davis, The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars that were Lost - from Ancient Greece to Iraq. Bloomsbury Press, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Hindus, Maurice, The Great Offensive. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Hitler, Adolf, translated by Ralph Manheim, Mein Kampf. Houghton Mifflin, 1943, hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Horne, Alistair, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916. MacMillan, 1962, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Hornfischer, James D., Neptune's Inferno: The US Navy at Guadalcanal. Bantam Books, 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Andrews, Avery DeLano, My Friend And Classmate John J Pershing. The military service publishing company, 1939, hardcover, (condition: poor, dust jacket condition: poor).

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