Devils Brigade, First Edition (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy; history of the First Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian group;

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition (stated). Illustrated. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. BX43.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Stiff unmarked book in bright covers; 7 X 1 X 10 inches; 408 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Devil's Brigade by Robert H. Adleman and George Walton. Published by Chilton Books, Philadelphia & New York, 1966 ? Stated First Edition. Book Condition / Dust Jacket Condition: Book: Very Good + to Near Fine -; Brown cloth boards with dark brown spine lettering clean and well preserved. Binding tight and square. Very light bumping at upper corners and faint handling wear. Corners sharp. Interior pages clean and well preserved with light, even toning typical of mid-1960s paper stock. No ownership inscriptions, underlining, or markings observed. Dust Jacket: None (see photos) The Devil's Brigade recounts the remarkable story of the First Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian commando unit that fought in some of the toughest campaigns of World War II. Written by journalist Robert H. Adleman with Colonel George Walton, the book documents the unit's specialized mountain warfare training and daring operations in Italy and southern France. The unit's exploits later inspired the 1968 film adaptation of the same name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B001OXQ3A8 Hardback with Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some wear, rubblng, browning, and slight staining to cover. Small chip off edge of back Dust Jacket. Some browning to interior front and back covers. Some browning to edges of interior pages. Otherwise Tight, sound, unmarked in Very Good condition in Fair condition Dust Jacket. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 176pp. Twelve illustrations and two fold-out maps plus one map illustrated on front pastedown. Tape offsetting left on endpapers, corners bumped, spine sunned, about very good lacking the dust jacket. The story of Naval Brigade at Lucknow from the letters of Edmund Hope Verney and other papers concerning the Enterprise of the Ship's Company of H. M. S. Shannon in the Campaign in India, 1857-58.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy in a protected jacket. Includes an account of Minnie Dean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Price-clipped. Published by Chilton Books, 1966. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Shelf/Edgewear. Dust jacket is very good.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. light stain on front fep otherwise very nice copy in a very good + jacket with very light edge wear. Collectible copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Account of the Naval Brigade that was employed during the Indian Mutiny. Includes 12*b/w illustrations and 3*maps. 176pp. Rubbing and creasing to the upper DJ edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three cm. tear to top front of dust jacket. Edges of dust jacket toned.(Now in mylar).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 176 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ moderately soiled w/ edge wear. Approx. 1" wide x 3/4" long piece missing from bottom edge of front panel. Illust. w/ b/w plates and maps. Contents nice.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, 1966, first printing. 8vo., xii+259pp., illus. b/w photographs. Brown cloth with black titles. Light foxing on top edge of page block. Very good, clean, bright in very good, price clipped dust jacket.

first edition 100pp ills.[b/w] VERY GOOD+ (brown cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.) in VERY GOOD dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to extrems).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 259 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Fair condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 259p. Maps & Photos. 1st Special Service Force: US & Canadian commandos in Italy & Southern France. Fine/Near Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good with cover edges lightly faded, spine ends bumped in very good dustwrapper with chips and tears to the edges. Twelve illustrations and two fold-out maps plus one map illustrated on front pastedown. The story of Naval Brigade at Lucknow from the letters of Edmund Hope Verney and other papers concerning the Enterprise of the Ship's Company of H. M. S. Shannon in the Campaign in India, 1857-58.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition brown cloth boards with blindstamped front cover decoration and black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Epilogue; Index and About the Authors. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates plus black-and-white maps interspersed throughout the volume. A vintage former owner bookplate is neatly affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper. All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). "The First Special Service Force was raised under joint United States and Canadian auspices, containing men of both nations, during the Second World War. Its degree of training, at full brigade strength, was equalled by few and surpassed by none. It fought continually, in the cruelest of terrain, against murderous opposition and under the eyes of highly skilled soldiers and observers, men (both Allied and Axis) trained in battle to gauge the worth of other fighting men. Their praise of its performance is unique in the annals of modern war. It was the direct ancestor of the Green Berets, today's front line warriors in Asia. Any military unit is a strange thing. Devotion to a particular leader, a special kind of training, a particular insignia, any of these will mark a body of men under discipline, setting them off from their kind and by extension, from the rest of the world. Nevertheless, an army (navy or air corps: there have been many crack naval and air units) exists to fight. The measure of esteem granted a unit by other professional soldiers rests on its ability to fight better, to outperform its enemies consistently, on any or all occasions. It makes no difference how many gallant songs it has, how many "skull-and-crossbones" insignia, or how gorgeously it appears on parade. Eventually, its real ability must be proved in battle. This has been so since the days of Thermopylae and the Tenth Legion, and its is as true today as when the English infantry destroyed the Old Guard at Waterloo. This book is the story of such a unit. The Force always took its objectives, despite obstacles or losses, and the losses were appalling. Further, and this is important, it often operated alone, without air or even artillery support. As a unit, it had no sentiment. There were no songs, no bravura and no flag-waving. The men, both American and Canadian, were trained killers, marchers and climbers of fantastic skill and endurance, without reverence for anybody or anything. In rear areas, they were apt to be a disaster and a disciplinary problem of the first magnitude. Their officers were picked men also, who led from in front, and were trusted by their men to an extraordinary degree. No gulf separated officers and men, from General Frederick down. One gave orders, the other accepted them and that was the only difference. The Force was raised under strange circumstances, originally conceived by men like Pyke, Mountbatten and Churchill, men not of common fiber, some civilian, some military. They also are part of its story . It is worth noting, too, that the Force was never used for its original and designed purpose and, in turn, that it never utilized the special vehicles which were constucted solely for its own use. This is the universal story of war, where nothing ever ends as it was planned. Finally, the Force was disbanded, its lesson apparently forgotten. But not quite. As the world grows dark with war and the rumor of war, more voices cry out for multi-national troops, highly trained to keep the peace. If the United Nations ever raise a body of men for this purpose, so urgently needed, an honorable precedent exists. This is the story of that experiment, and the reader can judge for himself its success or failure." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 405 pp. Index. Photos. Notes. Light edgewear, corners rubbed. A comprehensive account of this unique Allied combat formation. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 326 pages, with illustrations and map. Lightest wear only. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. A clean tight copyin light brown cloth with embossed arrow head on front. Jacket shows edge and corner wear, rubbing and chipping. FFEP appears to have been carefully removed.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition. Head of spine is torn. Minor wear/ tear along dust jacket edges. Pages are clean/intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated FIrst Edition. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles on spine. No DJ.

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. 176 p. 22 cm. Fold-out maps Illustrations. From Wikipedia: "Sir Edmund Hope Verney, 3rd Baronet (6 April 1838 8 May 1910) was a British naval officer, author and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1891. Verney was educated at Harrow School and entered the Royal Navy in 1851. He succeeded his father as baronet in 1894. Verney served in the Crimean War between 1854 and 1855l. Following his involvement in the Indian Mutiny between 1857 and 1858, where he was mentioned in dispatches and received the Indian Mutiny Medal with the Lucknow clasp, he was promoted to lieutenant. From 1862, he commanded HMS Grappler and in 1866 he was transferred as a commander to HMS Oberon. He entered the House of Commons in 1885, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham until the following year. He represented the constituency again from 1889 until 1891. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Anglesey and Buckinghamshire." Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Very Good/Good+. First Edition. 100pgs e-library, D/J wrapper.

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy octavo 176pp., frontis., b/w plates, fldg. maps, appends.,bibliog., index, No dust jacket o/w nice copy.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo 176pp., frontis., b/w plates, fldg. maps, appends.,bibliog., index, Little wear to cloth & front hinge tender o/w very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 259p. Maps. Photos. 1st Special Service Force: US & Canadian commandos in Italy & Southern France. Price clipped. Fine/Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st ed. 176p. Folding Maps. Photos. HMS Shannon in the Indian Campaign on 1857-58. About three pages with marginalia. Near Fine/Very Good Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st ed. 176p. Folding Maps. Photos. HMS Shannon in the Indian Campaign on 1857-58. FINE/VERY GOOD Copy. Book.