Fifty-nine 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-nine Military History Works, Isaev, Aleksei & Kolomiets, Maksim, Translated by Stuart Britton, Tomb of the Panzerwaffe: The Defeat of the Sixth SS Panzer Army in Hungary 1945. Helion & Co., 2014, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Jacobsen, Annie, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. Little, Brown and Co., 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Keegan, John, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris. Penguin, 1994, first published softcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Keegan, John, The American Civil War: A Military History. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kershaw, Ian, The End: The Defiance & Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945. The Penguin Press, 2011, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kershaw, Ian, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949. Allen Lane, 2015, first published signed hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); King, Dean, Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival. Little, Brown & Co., 2010, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kipling, Rudyard, The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion Vol I. Spellmount, 1997, first edition, third printing hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition, fine); Kipling, Rudyard, The Irish Guards in the Great War: The Second Battalion Vol II. Spellmount, 1997, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Kotkin, Stephen, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 Vol I. Penguin Press, New York, 2014, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Krebs, Christopher B., A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich. W.W. Norton & Co., 2011, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Krepinevich, Andrew & Watts, Barry., The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall & the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy. Basic Books, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Liekis, Sarunas, 1939: The Year that Changed Everything in Lithuania's History. Rodopi Amsterdam New York, 2010, hardcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Longerich, Peter, Translated by Jeremy Noakes & Lesley Sharpe, Heinrich Himmler. Oxford University Press, U.S., 2012, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Ludewig, Joachim, R?ckzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944. University Press of Kentucky, 2012, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Lukacs, John, Five Days in London, May 1940. Folio Society, 2011, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: good); Luther, Craig, W.H., Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow, June-December 1941. Schiffer Publishing, 2013, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: as new); Manchester, William, Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Little, Brown & Co., 1980, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Manstein, Erich Von, Edited and Translated by Anthony G Powell, Lost Victories. Methuen & Co., 1958, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Martelli, Paul, On the Devil's Tail: In Combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54. Helion & Co., 2015, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); May, Ernest R., Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France. Hill and Wang, 2000, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); McClellan, George B., Report of Major-General George B. McClellan, upon the organization of the Army of the Potomac, and its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, from July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862. Washington Government Printing Office, 1864, hardcover, (condition: good, no dust jacket); McLynn, Frank, The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45. Yale University Press, 2010, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); McManus, John, The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach. NAL Caliber, 2014, first printing hardcover, condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new; McNamara, Kevin J., Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, & Remade the Map of Europe. Public Affairs, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust cover condition: as new); Mendelsohn, Daniel, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. Harper Collins, 2006, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Middlebrook, Martin, The First Day on the Somme. Allan Lane Penguin Press, 1971, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Milner, Marc, Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day. Kansas, 2017, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Milner, Marc, Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day. Kansas, 2017, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Mitter, Rana, Forgotten: China's World War II 1937-1945. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust cover condition: as new); Morris, Jan, Of War, Beauty and Irony: Battleship Yamato. Liveright Publishing, 2017, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Norman, Michael and Norman, Elizabeth M., Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition, as new); O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire. Yale University Press, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Overy, Richard, The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945. Viking, 2013, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Page, Thomas Nelson, Robert E. Lee: The Southerner. Charles ScribnerÆs Sons, 1908, first edition, first published, hardcover signed by Civil War Veteran Portrait of Lee, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Rhodes, Richard, Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made. Simon & Schuster, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Riebling, Mark, Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler. Basic Books, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Robinson, Joe, Francis Hendriks and Janet Robinson, The Last Great Cavalry Charge: The Battle of the Silver Helmets Halen 12 August 1914. Fonthill, 2015, first publication U.K., first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Rogan, Eugene, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East. Basic Books, 2015, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Salisbury, Harrison E., The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. The Easton Press, 1989, collectorÆs edition leatherbound, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Sanford, George, Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940: Truth, Justice & Memory. Routledge, 2009, softcover, (condition: as new, dust cover condition: as new); Schneider, Franz, translated by Gullans, Charles, Last Letters from Stalingrad. William Morrow, 1962, first edition English hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Snow, Dean, 1777 Tipping Point at Saratoga. Oxford University Press, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Snow, Richard, A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II. Scribner, 2010, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Sparrow, Bartholomew, The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft & the Call of National Security. Public Affairs, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Spotts, Frederic, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists & Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation. Yale University Press, 2008, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Stargardt, Nicholas, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945. Basic Books, 2015, first published GB, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Steinberg, Jonathan, Yesterday's Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet. MacMillan, 1965, hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Stevenson, David, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918. Belknap Harvard, 2011, first published U.K. hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Taylor, Frederick, Coventry November 14, 1940. Bloomsbury Press, 2015, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Todman, Daniel, Britain's War, 1937-1941: Into Battle. Oxford University Press, 2016, first published U.K., first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Tuchman, Barbara W., The Zimmermann Telegram. Viking, 1958, first published hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Twomey, Steve, Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack. Simon & Schuster, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Tzouliadis, Tim, The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope & Betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Little, Brown U.K., 2008, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: very good); Von Mellenthin, F.W., Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Second World War. University of Oklahoma Press, 1956, first edition U.S. hardcover, (condition: good, no dust jacket); Walden, Gregory A., Tigers in the Ardennes: The 501st Heavy SS Tank Battalion in the Battle of the Bulge. Schiffer Publishing, 2014, hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Wittman, Robert K. and David Kinney, The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg & the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich. Harper Collins, 2016, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Zaloga, Steven, The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day. Stackpole Books, 2013, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Zetterling, Niklas & Tamelander, Michael, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship. Casemate, 2009, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine).
  

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