Persian Gulf Command, Used (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dj. Sharpie writing along bottom edge. Small indent on cover along edge. Very clean, sturdy, unmarked copy. JP.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations, map. Fine in fine DJ. Pages: xiv, 420.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. GDW Command Post Quarterly #6 "The 1991 Persian Gulf War Part 3" (VG+)Manufacturer: GDWProduct Line: Command Post QuarterlyType: MagazineCopyright Date: 1994Page Count: 64Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:Issue #6 of Command Post Quarterly Magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy of the first edition.

Clean, firm hinges, sharp corners, clean boards. DJ has touch of wear to top front corner o/w in NF+ condition. BP/WWII.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. GDW Command Post Quarterly #5 "The 1991 Persian Gulf War Part 2" (VG+)Manufacturer: GDWProduct Line: Command Post QuarterlyType: MagazineCopyright Date: 1994Page Count: 64Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:Issue #5 of Command Post Quarterly Magazine.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth covered boards with red/white lettering front and spine with red/white shield to front. This copy is NEAR FINE in a VG , unclipped ($2.00) DJ, illustrated by Bruce Mitchell. Review copy with review slip laid in. Exterior is rich, clean, and with very minimal rubbing to extremities. Inside is unmarked, crisp, and tight. Illustrated. Preface by James Thurber. DJ has obverse small tape repairs at spine bottom and back top. Other modest edge chips. Back has two stray green marks and is modestly sunned.

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Magazine. Condition: Good. GDW Command Post Quarterly #4 "The 1991 Persian Gulf War Part 1" (VG)Manufacturer: GDWProduct Line: Command Post QuarterlyType: MagazineCopyright Date: 1994Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:Issue #4 of Command Post Quarterly Magazine.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. First Edition. 170p. Blue cloth. Fine copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Circa 1945 thin paperback photo book of life in the Persian gulf states. With many large black and white photos. No dates are given, from the accompanying text they appear to be contempory photos from the 1940's but it is uncertain. Wear along edge and age spotting at top and bottom edge. Aside from minor creasing at upper right, all interior pages including photo pages are crisp and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Originally pieces written for The New Yorker, here for first time consolidated, VG/G as dj has many chips, 1st edn, signed by author on frp, ill, 140pps, small 8vo. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bruce Mitchell (illustrator). First Edition. Account of the vital work done by the PGC in getting military supplies through Iran to Russian forces fighting Germany, akin, says the author (who spent nearly a year in Iran), to trying to supply all of Greater New York using the Coney Island scenic railway. Stated first printing (first edition). Small hardcover, full green cloth, red & white titling. Light wear to book, small spot to top edges of boards; jacket shows light rubbing, rear panel a bit grubby, spine faded, minor edgewear. Text clean; xvi, 140 pages; b/w illustrations. Size: Duodecimo.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xvi, 170 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. During Desert Shield, the Air Force built a very complicated organizational architecture to control large numbers of air sorties. Horner, the Joint Force Air Component Commander, knew the details of what was happening in the air campaign or how well the campaign was going.

Random House (NY) 1945, first printing, 140 pp, photos, very good with torn/repaired photo page, hardcover, no DJ,

Yale (New Haven) 2018, first edition, first printing, 420 pp, photos, very good, DJ,

Condition: good. 19 cm, 140, illus., some discoloration to endpapers, corners bumped. Preface by James Thurber.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Sg - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - A new history of the long-overlooked WWII theater in Iran and Iraq, its unrecognized significance, and its impact on local society and politicsThis dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more important to the Allied forces' war operations than has ever been acknowledged, historian Ashley Jackson investigates the grand strategy of the Allies and their operations in the region and the continuing legacy of Western intervention in the Middle East.Iran and Iraq served as the first WWII theater in which the U.S., the U.K., and the U.S.S.R. fought alongside each other. Jackson charts the intense Allied military activity in Iran and Iraq and reveals how deeply the war impacted common people's lives. He also provides revelations about the true nature of Anglo-American relations in the region, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the continuing corrosive legacy of Western influence in these lands.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated staple-bound wraps 22 x 30cm. 36pp incl wraps with full-page map of motor transport and rail routes, and many photos, some full-page. Wraps very good with light rubbing and scuffing. Pages mostly very good with minor loss to a couple of edges. Souvenir album containing b/w photos of Persian landscapes, people, bazaars, mosques, ancient and traditional buildings and townscapes. The photographers named as Blohm, Covello, Miller, Arkus, Marthey, Peters, Kohl, Campbell and Mitchell. Extremely rare (OCLC 15271264 is described as having 32pp with similar dimensions, for which 2 locations given - none on Copac).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. VHS video cassette in case with removable b/w illustrated title insert 12x21x3cm. The case and insert are fine. The cassette appears superficially fine, but is in NTSC format compatible with US players, so could not be checked on a UK PAL player. "The Great Power Politics of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill played out in the daily lives of the men and women of the Persian Gulf Command, In the years following WW II they called themselves the 'Forgotten Bastards of Iran'. The story of the efforts to get lend-lease supplies from Persian Gulf ports, North to Russia went untold as wartime allies became cold-war adversaries!" (cover blurb). Robert Burgener (1945-2022) was a Psychology Professor specialising in cross-cultural communication. He served in the US Army in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Operation Allied Force, and Iraq, and made films drawing on personal narratives (ref. Library of Congress, Robert Drexel Burgener Collection; "Bridge to Victory", The Iranian, 3 Nov 1997).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Original staple-bound printed wraps 18x25cm. (39)pp illustrated with woodcut illustrations throughout. Covers fair, foxed with old tape repairs to spine. Interiors generally good with chips to a couple of leaves not affecting text. This reprints an article Sayre wrote for The New Yorker (1945), and additionally includes an extract from an article by Gault MacGowan for the New York Sun, a presentation and analysis of statistics, List of Units in the Command since April 1944, and sheet music with lyrics for the song "Men of the Persian Gulf Command". Very rare, with Worldcat recording 4 institutions only (OCLC 15729259: Library of Congress, Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center, Southern Methodist University, UC Davis). Worldcat also records a related publication reprinting a different set of articles from the New Yorker, crediting Sayre. Not recorded on Library Hub.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Original printed staple-bound wraps 15x22cm. (2), 32pp including full-page map of "The Royal City of the Safavid Kings". Good, foxed, with hard vertical crease to the middle, and a slightly musty scent. Very rare with 3 locations on Worldcat (OCLC 34936030: Harvard, NYPL, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library). A later edition seen names Brigadier General Donald Booth rather than Connolly to the front, and adds b/w photos absent here. This was prepared by Second Lieutenant, AUS (Army of the United States), John C. Greene, Director of Tours at Isfahan Tent Camp, with input from Donald Wilber, Assistant Director of the Iranian Institute of New York, whose "cooperation and thorough knowledge of Isfahan" made this possible (opening page). The principal author was the science historian John Colton Greene (1917-2008), who had been drafted and trained as an officer in 1942, sent to Iran during the Tehran Conference, then appointed Connolly's ADC. He wrote this and a companion volume "A Sketch of Iranian History" (undated but c1943) to promote understanding of the Islamic world among GIs, and he also attempted to form discussion groups around the subject. His suspicions that his co-author was working for the Office of Strategic Services would prove correct. Donald Newton Wilber (1907-1997) was one of the two architects of the joint Anglo-US "Operation Boot" / "Operation Ajax", which overthrew Iran's democratically elected PM Mossadegh, and installed Shah Reza Pahlavi in 1953 in response to nationalisation of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. Isfahan was one of many posts along the Persian Corridor, created by Britain and the US to supply the USSR in WW2. This opens with a history, followed by descriptions incorporating early travel accounts. Locations covered include the Allah Verdi Khan Bridge and Chadar Bagh; the Meidan-i-Shah; Masjid-i-Shah and Masjid Sheikh Lutfullah; Ali Kapn and Chehel Sotun; Khaju Bridge and Madrasseh-i-Mader-i-Shah; New Julfa; Masjid-i-Juma; and the Zoroastrian Ateshgah. (Reference: Greene's obituary in Isis, Vol. 103, No. 1, March 2012: 144-148).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A rare handbook with unique Persian Gulf Command Military Railway Service provenance. Second Edition as stated to the Farsi title, undated c1943-45. Original brown cloth gilt-titled with the Iranian emblem 15x21cm. Printed in 3000 copies by Taban Printing Company. (1), 72pp English; (1), 75pp Farsi texts including b/w drawings and chits stating "The Rules contained in this book will take effect on and from a date to be advised". Covers good with several marks to one of the boards. Interiors near fine with the front endpapers filled with 15 names and addresses several stating their affiliations. This covers general rules, signals, block working, station working and shunting, duties of engine crews and guards, additional rules for working trains, and accidents. The ms entries are by US railroaders serving in the Military Railway Service (MRS) under the Persian Gulf Command. To name some: Leon Richter, St Cloud Mn identifies himself in English and Farsi as an engineer in the 711th Railway Operating Battalion ("Co.C - 711 Eng RR Op Bn" with Co.C possibly Company C. After WW2 he joined the Great Northern RR); James McClaskey of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Transportation Division ("P.R.R. P.T. Div"); Henry Hale of Crawfordville Ga, Georgia Railroad ("GaRR"); John Sacca of Palmyra NJ, the Pennsylvania and possibly New York Dock RRs ("P.R.R. N.Y.D."); James Taylor of Brownsville Maine, Canadian Pacific RR; and J.D. Stirke(?) of Chicago, Chicago and North Western Railroad ("C-N-W. R.R."). Others with no stated affiliation came from Texas, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Indiana. Experienced railroaders had been proving their worth in wartime since the First Battle of Bull Run. During WW1 the Corps of Engineers operated the MRS, led by Army Colonels and railroaders commissioned as Lieutenant Colonels. Between WW1 and WW2 it was reorganised along civilian lines into Railway Operating Battalions each with 3 or 4 Companies charged with managing and maintaining 90-150 miles of track, and if necessary destroying them. The Army recruited civilians through its Affiliation Plan under which US commercial railroads sponsored specific MRS units. The 711th was formed at Fort Belvoir Virginia in June 1941 without civilian company sponsorship (the first of its kind). Its personnel were drawn from 10 different US railroads, and the Engineer School Detachment and Engineer Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir. It moved to Camp Claiborne Louisiana for training, part of which involved a role in laying the C&P Railroad. When the US entered WW2 the Transportation Corps took command of the MRS with many new Battalions formed under the Affiliation Plan. The MRS served in every theatre that involved the Army. The 711th arrived at the river port of Khorramshahr north of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's refinery at Abadan in January 1943, where it made up trains and moved them out before taking over an especially long 388 mile section of track (later reduced to 258 miles). It was joined by the 730th (Pennsylvania Railroad), 754th (Southern Pacific Company), and 762d (American Locomotive Company, Baldwin Locomotive Company, Electro-Motive Corporation). Coordinated by the 702d Railway Grand Division (Union Pacific Railroad), these 4 Battalions operated the Iranian State Railway transferring significant Lend-Lease to the USSR. In total the MRS handled over 4M tons of freight, and transported 16,000 Iranian military, 14,000 Polish refugees, 40,000 British troops, 15,000 Russian ex-POWs, and 21,000 pilgrims during 1944's Nowruz festival. The railroaders left Iran by July 1945. Worldcat locates 2 copies at LoC and Stanford. (Ref: Army Historical Foundation, "Railroaders in Olive Drab: The Military Railway Service in WWII").

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Single sheet printed both sides in blue, black and red 51x35cm, folding down to 9x18cm with illustrated title panel and text panel by Yank Staff Correspondent Sergeant Burtt Evans. Printed by Army Exchange Service and distributed by I&E Branch, OTI, Persian Gulf Command. Good or better with closed tears and tanning to outer panels. Undated but c1944-45 based on Evans' reference to the Battle of Anzio. Apparently prepared by "Yank - The Army Weekly", this was given to GIs joining "the most elaborate and worthwhile recreational project of the Persian Gulf Command". Subsidised by the US Army, this involved transporting thousands of soldiers from Khorramshahr to Basra by truck, on to Baghdad by Iraq State Railways, and finally by truck through the Syrian Desert to the Tel Litwinsky Leave Center in Tel Aviv. The 3,000 mile round trip took up to 6 days each way, with a few days to visit sites across the Holy Land. This was mainly for enlisted personnel with most officers travelling by air. Evans advises that "There's no question about it - it's a gruelling truck trip both ways for PGC GIs, but the week in Palestine is worth it. The Red Cross caters to every soldier's whim; and the Army does something better: it leaves you alone". He invites them to check in at the Leave Center from where "smartly planned, economical tours to Bethlehem, Jerusalem and places of Biblical interest in Palestine are conducted by the Red Cross". They may also want to enjoy Tel Aviv "the nearest thing to the States", modern with unlimited food and liquor, bathing beaches and bathing beauties etc. One side of the sheet presents a pictorial route map bounded by Tehran to the head of the Persian Gulf and "Neutral Territory" in the east, and the Palestine and Lebanon coasts in the west. Features include settlements, road and rail links, boundaries, and water features. The route is marked with flags for Tehran, Khorramshahr, Basra, Baghdad, Mafrak, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, with a train and truck convoy shown pictorially. This is bordered by several drawings including 5 ms-style daily diary entries. These give impressions of the journey and its stopping points including the British camp at Rutbah and its facilities, the availability of Tom Collins in Baghdad etc. The other side contains two detailed plans of Jerusalem and Jaffa-Tel Aviv. Labels cover cultural, recreational, religious, military, administrative, diplomatic and other locations. Both include "out of bounds" advice in red for the Old City, and a swathe of Tel Aviv coast. A table of distances from Tel Aviv suggests the tours available. There is also a b/w photo of Jerusalem seen from the Mount of Olives, and an advert for "Yank". A rare survivor. (Ref: Lt-Col Danny M. Johnson, "The Persian Gulf Command and the Lend-Lease Mission to the Soviet Union during World War II", Army Historical Foundation).

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Three colour (black, red and brown) printed paper map 46x66cm. Near fine, neatly folded. Geographical Section General Staff (GSGS) No. 3919 (Middle East) surveyed by the 2nd Indian Field Survey Company Dec 1942, compiled and reproduced by the 4th Indian Field Survey Company May 1943, printed for the US Army by the Persian Gulf Command's 83rd Replacement Group (83 Rep. Group) September 1943 and published by the US Army Map Service (AMS) 1943, later reprinted 3-56. This British Army map was repurposed by the US Army, apparently to assist the Persian Gulf Command in operating the Persian Corridor with the British Paiforce to channel lend lease supplies to the USSR. Coverage is bounded by Saveh (SSW) and Karaj (NE). Karaj was one of the main cities along the Persian Corridor, shown on the Iranian State Railways Northern Branch as a stop between Tehran and Kazvin (off-sheet) with a metalled road running parallel. Another major section of the Railway (indicated as connecting Tehran to Qum) is also shown. Details include administrative boundaries, various grades of road; railways; caravanserais; water wells; pasture; availability and quality of water, springs, mosques, forts, watch towers, deserted villages, police posts, telephone lines and offices, tombs, wadis etc, with descriptive notes about terrain in the image.