Army Brigadier General (32 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Daniel Noce, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, May 27, 1943 (illustrator). Captain Ingersoll has written what he observed of the battle near El Guettar and the events both immediately before and after the battle make a living scene peopled by our own soldiers fighting against our principal enemies. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First edition. Map frontispiece, small drawings at the tail of each chapter. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated 11/16/'84 (in the year of publication) 306 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge red, plates, fold-out map at rear, vii, 356 pp. Good, with hinges starting. Contents: The Name "Yellowstone"; The Indian and the Yellowstone; The Trader and Trapper; John Colter; Early Knowledge of the Yellowstone; Bridger and His Stories; Renolds' Expedition; The Gold-seeker; Discovery; The National Park Idea -- Its Origin and Realization; Why So Long Unknown; Later Explorations; The Park Names; Administrative History of the Park; Hostile Indians in the Park; Experiences of the Radersburg Tourists; Experiences of the Helena Tourists; Lost in the Wilderness; Boundaries and Topography; Geological History of the Park; The Rocks of the Park; Geysers; Hot Springs and Kindred Features; The Climate of the Park; Fauna of the Yellowstone; Flora of the Yellowstone; Forests of the Yellowstone; The Flowers of the Yellowstone; The Park Road System; Administration of the Park; A Tour of the Park -- Preliminary; A Tour of the Park -- North Boundary to Mammoth Hot Springs; A Tour of the Park -- Norris Geyser Basin to Lower Geyser Basin; A Tour of the Park -- Lower Geyser Basin to Upper Geyser Basin; A Tour of the Park -- Upper Geyser Basin to Yellowstone Lake Hotel; A Tour of the Park -- Yellowstone Lake to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone; a Tour of the Park -- Grand Canyon to Tower Falls -- Mt. Washburn; A Tour of the Park -- Tower Falls to the Mammoth Hot Springs; Appendix: Mountain Ranges, Peaks, Buttes, Ridges, Hills; Mountain Passes; Lakes; Streams; Waterfalls; List of Prominent Geysers; Biographical Notes. Natural History, Yellowstone, National Park System, Americana, American History, U. S. History, United States History, Yellowstone National Park, Western Americana, American West. yslic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good inside and out. See pictures for further details, description.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 298 Pages Twenty-One page Comprehensive Index. March 1944 Edition. Taped spine to the stiff covers has three inch tear and is loosening. Sewn binding is holding strong and interior text is flawless. No marks or stamps. The far-sighted inventor-statesman Benjamin Franklin set forth in immortal lines his concept of the tragic consequences resulting from a neglectful consideration of trivial details. Fitting indeed were those words of warning, coming as they did at a time when, in the minds of his contemporaries, plans for the foundation and preservation of a great democracy were in the throes of their birth. But not even the visionary humorist-publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac could have foreseen the dangers that beclouded the horizons of this great nation's future in 1939. Again great plans were laid, this time to protect this democracy by constructing the greatest mechanized armed forces the world had ever seen. Once built, these mechanical legions must be maintained if they are to be ready for instant function when challenged. Thus, Franklin's words of warning might well be taken as a creed upon which to found an intelligent preventive maintenance program -- a program designed to guarantee the instantaneous function and continued preservation of the mechanized equipment upon which the future of this democracy may forever depend. Of such a program, correct lubrication procedure instantly appears as a small but vital part -- the horseshoe nail, indeed. In the days when the word dictator was synonymous with the name Napoleon, someone said, An army moves on its belly. Today, however, an army no longer travels on the legs of man and beast, but on mechanical equipment. Well, then, may it be said, that an army now moves on a film of oil, for this is the ara of mechanical warfare. - From the Introduction. Contents in Five Parts: Foreword, Petroleum, Eq;uipment and Materiel, The Behavior of Oil in Engines, and The Application of Petroleum Products to Ordnance Department Materiel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 242pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Shadow from tape removal on the boards else near fine in a fine dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 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.).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Entire issue, Volume XLI, No. 3, July, 1906, in original wraps, moderate general wear, tape repair noted at spine, front inner hinge separating, contents clean and bright. Article is 11 pages, printed in double columns, illustrated with 13 photographs, including a small portrait of the author, and a large folding photo view, sized 9 x 25-inches, showing on one side The Downtown District Of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill to Tar Flat, with various building identified, by Charles Weidner, 1905, and on the other side a Panorama of San Francisco Ruins from Second to Eighth Streets, with the remains of buildings identified, from a photograph taken for the Cosmopolitan from a captive balloon stationed above Folsom Street, between Fifth and Sixth Streets; insignificant, discrete archival repair noted at one fold of the photograph. From the publisher's preface, "How lucky it was for San Francisco that Gen. Frederick Funston threw himself and his men so boldly into the breach when the fire-fighters were waging their unequal combat with the flames caused by the great earthquake of April 18, has been remarked on every hand. The newspapers and weekly periodicals have covered the ground of the great catastrophe so far as general description goes, but the Cosmopolitan has been singularly fortunate in securing from General Funston the following original and spirited account of how he summoned his men from the Presidio, how they dashed down to the scene of the conflagration to help the firemen, to patrol the city, to save lives, to care for the wounded, and to feed the hungry, and of their subsequent deeds." Very scarce, complete issue, including the panorama view which is most often lacking.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Stitched wraps. 16 pages. Tiny pinholes on the left margins. Some of the stitching is missing. Light toning and edge wear. This is a Presidential campaign pamphlet for 1864. On page 16 is a list of officials of the Union Executive Congressional Committee and a list of 15 more documents to be circulated. This particular pamphlet attacks General McClellan's hesitancy and indecision not to engage in battle with the Rebels. Sabin 3483.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hardcover, blue cloth, gilt lettering, 98pp. Board edges worn, free corners of boards bumped, pages lightly browned, previous owner's name top left of front fep; a good copy. "The purpose of this treatise is to give some idea of the difficulties of provisioning troops in the field". Subjects covered include: base of operations and supply, plans for subsistence, character of subsistence supplies, rations carried by an army, renewal of supplies, utilising local resources, foraging etc.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. This is a 1918 edition. The autobiography of the man who drew the original map for El Paso and named the city. Covers betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Erstwhile owner's bookplate on front pastedown, errata slip on front endpaper; interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: fine in very good dust jacket. photo's (illustrator). 0891410562.

Sewn Signatures, Excised. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 1-255. Removed extract, binding intact. Leaves crisp and bright, edges a touch dust-soiled and minimally age-toned. Report of Brevet Brigadier General B. P. Runkle, chairman of a board of army officers investigating claims of fraud in collection and payment of bounties to colored soldiers, including record of the fifty days of proceedings at Nashville with testimony and correspondence. General O. O. Howard and Secretary of War William W. Belknap were engaged in the proceedings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 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.

First Edition. First edition. Edited by C. H. Claudy. Illustrated with frontis photos of Mills and wife Hannah as well as a number of photos, drawings, and maps in the text. Bound in original imitation leather over flexible boards with gilt-stamped cover; all edges gilt. Errata slip affixed to front free endpaper. Ownership signature of "Chas. H. L. Johnston/ July 14, 1930," presumably being that of Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (1877 - 1943), who wrote a number of books about military history. Very good or better with rubbing to black paper pastedowns, shallow chip at head of spine, and frays to upper corners.

Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. Reprint. orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, vi,49 pp., A facsimile reprint of the 1953 edition.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Published by authority of Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War. Includes "Directions for Taking Meteorological Observations", geographical position and altitude above the sea of each station, brief topographical description of each military post, charts of distribution of temperature and of rain, observations on the barometer and attached thermometer from 51 stations, hourly observations at the equinoxes and solstices, etc. 766 pages of texts, data, and charts/graphs. Binding has moderate edge wear, inner hinges cracked tho binding is tight; else minor marks/wear. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Wraps over stapled binding. Covers shows some general soiling. Interior is clean and unmarked. 73 pages. 9.5 x 6.6 inches. Placed in archival mylar wraps. Rare. Two copies located on OCLC, including what may be a copy of the 1907 edition (Hamilton College, NY) and one later edition from 1908 (NYPL). A roster and directory of the U.S. Army occupying Cuba in 1907. This garrisoning of troops occurred during the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasted from fall 1906 through the spring of 1909. Includes: a full list of the various regiments & corps noting their place of station and their date of arrival in Cuba; a table describing method of travel and schedules between Havana and each garrison station; a schedule of ships leaving from Newport News, Virginia, to Havana between June 7 and October 22; the list of commanding officers and companies (e.g. Company G, 5th Infantry) stationed at each of the 32 garrisons; descriptive points about each of the garrisons (geographic location, identity of troops and dates, physical description of the barracks, water supply, steamship landing, post office and mail schedule, railway station, and telegraph office); lineal, relative rank, and alphabetical lists of all officers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4th Edition. - 1909- Fourth Edition, Rewritten and Greatly Enlarged- John Wiley and Sons- HARDCOVER, GOOD+; light wear. Contents include: the NATURE and IMPORTANCE of MILITARY HYGIENE, REQUIREMENTS for SERVICE, MILITIA, VOLUNTEERS, and CONSCRIPTS, MILITARY AGE, SELECTION of RECRUITS, PHYSICAL ORGANIZATION and CARE of NEW ARMIES, MILITARY CLOTHING, FOOD: CONSTITUTION, NATURE and MANAGEMENT of the RATION, BARRACKS and QUARTERS: CONSTRUCTION, PREVENTABLE DISEASE, JAPANESE TRAINING in SANITATION. 384 pp. with INDEX. ILLUSTRATED.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First American Edition. Has the author's presentation bookplate on flyleaf, SIGNED underneath it by the author's wife, and dated. 162 page genealogy bok on the Davis family, "designed to show one lie of the DAVIS FAMILY (DOLOR DAVIS, 1593-1683), and the relationship to that line" to several individuals. Has a hand-typed "errata" paper included (at the back of the book). Very minor wear. SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. very good condition hard cover no good dust jacket as published gently read clean pages This book is inscribed to Holdridge I assume from the publisher of the book as that is the only situation I have seen in the past where a book is inscribed to the author 172 pages.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With included provenance, this copy of this report was prepared by the Grandfather of the poet of the same name - Stephen Vincent Benet who wrote John Brown's Body and The Devil and Daniel Webster. The book is amazingly well-preserved for its age and is protected in a Book Saver polyethylene cover. Covers bumped and rubbed and have some stains but are very good with one closed tear at the tail. Pages are toned but tightly bound, and the book contains 154 plates showing guns, canon, test results, facilities and other important information. A very good copy and a testament to the former owners' care and attention. Receipt for last sale in 2000 is included. Incredibly collectable. Hardcover in red lacquered cloth, original US Government Binding stated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo. [1], 315 pages, [1]. Frontispiece photograph portrait of the author. Gray cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. Front hinge has a very light crack. Light scattered foxing to the front and rear end sheets and to the foredge. Text is mostly clean. Interesting pencil inscription written on the right front flyleaf - "The narrative of your boyhood comrade and school boy friend will while away some tedious hours [signed J R Saussy] J. R. Saussy 24/5/06". Below his inscription is a short note in pencil - "Return to H. D. Weed 206 E. Gaston St." (Savannah, Georgia address) DeRenne Georgia catalog vol. 3 pages 1032. 1033; Krick 466; Howes S 767; Nevins I page 161 - "Incisive memoirs by the cultured, mild-mannered chief of staff for Gen. James Longstreet; contains much on the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia.'. This copy has some Savannah Georgia connections. The author, Gen. Sorrel, was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1838. He died in Roanoke, Virginia and was buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah 1901. The inscription written in the hand on the right front flyleaf is from Joachim Radcliffe Saussy, Jr. He was born in Effingham County, Georgia 1835 and died in Savannah 1912. The note beneath the inscription is written in the hand of Henry D. Weed son of prominent Savannah business man Henry Davis Weed. The elder Weed purchased the Sorrel house in Savannah.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Rare - Signed letter. [Washington], April 21, 1978. + 2 original large photos Size : 20x25 cm (photos). Provenance : Claude Chauveau collection. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

See his entries in the Oxford DNB and History of Parliament, the former of which notes his 'high reputation for courage' and his presence 'at Neerwinden and Landen in 1693, covering the retreat on 19 July, and saving William III from capture by the enemy'. 1p, 8vo. On aged and worn paper, with chipping to edges and pitting along a horizontal central line, but with both signatures clear and unblemished. The customary printed document, completed in manuscript. Records in a secretarial hand, the receipt of £25 by 'Hen: Lumley Esqr. attor to the Rt. Honble Rd Lord Lumley Rd Hill & John Wiseman'. Signed towards bottom right 'H Lumley', and towards bottom left 'Witness / John Letton'. See Image.

Folio, 3 pp. A printed form on three leaves, held together by the original pink ribbon. Docketed on the reverse of two of the leaves (with the army said to be 'At M Field'). In five columns: 'Date of Payment', 'Number of Voucher', 'To whom paid', 'On what account', and 'Amount' in 'Dollars' and 'Cts'. The first two columns left blank, and the last three completed in manuscript, comprising a numbered list of the names of sixty-five payees, reasons for payment and sums paid. The text is clear and complete, but the document is in fragile condition, on aged and chipped paper. 'Capt Charles M Walker' receives $7.50 for a 'Court Martial', 'Thos Calvin' receives $120 for being a 'Forage Master', 'LC Thos Kendall' receives $72.96 for 'Mileage', and 'James Anderson' receives '$17.14 for "Extra Duty'. The Colonel Andrew J. MacKay Letters and Papers, 1863-1865, are in the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville. According to the Library's catalogue entry Mackay's 'primary duty was to provide supplies to the cavalry soldiers in the region'. For more information about MacKay, see the on-line biography by Russ Dodge.

The three items are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. ONE. Autograph Letter Signed from Haldane to Potter. Head Quarters, VI Corp; 11 August 1916. 1p., 4to. In a difficult hand. He apologises for having to 'depart so hurriedly'. 'I want to thank you for the very loyal way you helped me when I was in command of the 3 Division and express my thanks through you to Buchanan and Prideaux and of your staff. You all spared no pains to bring about success and I am very grateful to you.' He hopes that 'Buchanan will get a brevet and Prideaux a suitable when you send in their names.' He is sending his recommendation 'to Collins'. TWO. Manuscript copy of address from the 'A. Haldane | Lieutenant General Commanding VI Corps', expressing 'his intence [sic] admiration for the unconquerable spirit and Spartan like valour which the 3rd. Division has displayed during the fierce fighting of the past nine days. [i.e. the start of the Spring Offensive]'. 30 March 1918. 3pp., 4to. THREE: 'SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY | by | Lieut-Colonel [last word amended in pencil to 'General'] Sir Aylmer-Haldane, KCB, DSO. | Commanding VI Corps'. 14 November 1918. 2pp., 8vo. Mimeographed in blue ink. At end: '(ed.) A. Haldane. | Lieutenant-General, | Commanding VI CORPS.' Begins: 'The acceptance by the enemy of the terms of the Armistice laid down by the Allies is a suitable moment at which to summarise the work of the VI Corps since the 21st of August 1918. | On that date the Guards, 2nd and 3rd Divisions assaulted the position where the enemy had been finally checked after his March offensive, and broke through it, the brunt of this attack falling on the 3rd and Guards Divsions. Two days later the 62nd Division joined the Corps. The enemy stubbornly opposed every year of our further advance eastward, but was forced back to the ST. QUENTIN CANAL, and the HINDENBURG Defence System.' Concludes: 'To all Ranks of the VI Corps I tender my sincere thanks. The work which they and their comrades have accomplished will live in the memory of the British Emp[i]re for all time.' From the Potter papers. An excessively scarce item, with no copy on COPAC or at the Imperial War Museum.

Dempsey's obituary in The Times, explains how 'In April, 1945, he was appointed Brigadier I/C Administration, East Africa Command', holding the position into the following year, and retiring in December 1947 on account of ill health. For a full account of Dempsey's military career, see his entry in Catholic Who's Who, vol.35 (1952). In an eight-line Autograph Note Signed at the end of Anderson's letter, Dempsey states that Anderson 'had been my personal & immediate superior as G.O.C. in C., East Africa Command, when I was his Brigadier I/C Administration. He became Governor of Gibraltar and has been dead some time now, having himself got a coronary thrombosis.' The present item is an Air Mail letter. 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium on blue paper. Addressed to 'Brigadier M. C. [sic] Demspey CBE | No 87 General Hospital | Nairobi | Kenya Colony'. (Anderson has confused Dempsey with the more illustrious General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey (1896-1969).)Anderson begins by condoling with Dempsey on 'a return of your thrombosis': 'it is no use going on kicking against the pricks, and you must I fear face the need for a quiet life'. He next describes the weather in Scotland ('our 21st day of hard frost & snow'). A report on his wife's trip to the metropolis turns into an attack on the postwar Labour government: 'Kathleen is in London trying to buy clothes by candle & torch light and shivering in her hotel. I fear this country is in for a very severe crisis, made worse by the theories & idealisms of the Govt, which fiddles while Rome does not burn.' After more domestic news he reports: 'I saw Brown and also Fisher while in London at the end of last month. The War Office continues hopeful about all their grand schemes for Kenya: but it will be a miracle if they get 1/10th of the present estimated cost. And, on the same lines, I dont see how the country can carry a large Army and 18 months conscription. We are so hard pressed economically that I think it is fanstastic to try & carry such a Burden.'.