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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,reprint.[Originally published by same publisher, 1983. This example a reprint - the first,1986.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicates an export edition,believed to precede UK trade issue/ distribution.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,xiipp-2-238pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters,a postscript,an appendix,a bibliography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list/table, quotation (Duke of Wellington),acknowledgements,a preface and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book. According to the official records of the British Army a total of 346 officers and men were summarily executed at dawn following their convictions by courts martial in the field between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of March 1920.The details of their trials and executions have been closed to the public ever since,but during the last decade there has arisen a sense of profound uneasiness regarding the circumstances surrounding their deaths.In the preparation of this book Anthony Babington has made use of a great deal of new evidence which has only recently come to light and which has enabled a full and accurate account of these matters to be written for the very first time.It is now apparent that although the majority of the executed men were guilty, or technically guilty,of the charges that had been laid against them,many of them were treated with considerable injustice and considerable inhumanity.They were usually tried by comparatively junior officers; their defences,such as they were,were seldom adequately presented; after the trials had finished the papers were passed for review to a succession of senior commanders who were kept in total ignorance of the mitigating circumstances which should have influenced their decisions; the condemned were informed of their impending executions either on the evening before,or on the actual morning that they were to be taken out and shot; and there was no proper procedure by which they could appeal.There can be little doubt that a not insubstantial proportion of them had been suffering from emotional shock or nervous exhaustion at the time they had commtted their 'offences'. Few of those who shared the responsibility for the executions will emerge with credit from these revelations,be they senior officers,doctors,or government,ministers.This is a grim,at times horrifying story.But most people will feel that it is a story which should no longer remain untold. There is a postscript to the book by Major-General Frank Richardson in which he explains the attitudes of the medical profession which prevailed at the time,particularly their failure to acknowledge the existence of shell-shock. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.LEO COOPER in Association with SECKER & WARBURG,1986., 5, Tight, clean and unmarked- 1st American Edition-" 311 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & illustration by Chin-Yee Lai. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Second in Parry's praised Civil War series (after Faded Coat of Blue), this uncommonly engaging historical drama, the second to feature AbelJones-Union officer, reluctant detective, and loyal confidential agent for president Lincoln-stirs the imagination with its vivid color, gripping suspense, and wartime historical accuracy. In the winter of 1862, MajorJones, an immigrant Welshman now in the Union Army, is sent to northern NewYork to investigate rumors of an Irish insurrection among those who oppose the war. Two federal undercover agents have already been brutally murdered and Jones knows this will be a delicate and dangerous mission. He boldly sets out for the prosperous town of Penn Yan, N.Y., with no disguise or cover story, proclaiming to all that he is there to investigate the murders and the rumors of rebellion. His presence is at once feared and welcomed and he naturally becomes the target of the Irish troublemakers, members of a group called White boys. The Irish insurrection, however, is only the front for a larger operation, and Jones soon finds himself in even deeper personal and professional danger. Aided by beautiful Nellie Kildare, who is either a madwoman or a mystic, and thwarted by the manipulative man who passes as her father, Jones and his thieving and conniving friend, Jimmy Molloy, uncovers a plot that threatens to cripple the North. Jones is an endearing literary character who should gracefully weather further sequels. He is a war hero who hates war almost as much as he hates horses, admits he does not understand women and thinks the ancient Greeks were a bad sort. Bright but not brilliant, flawed but not troubled, Jones is an ordinary man with an extraordinary sense of duty. Parry has created a thoroughly likable and believable character and engages him here in a riveting adventure. ", William Morrow, 2000, 5, Vij Books India Pvt. Ltd, 2013. Hardcover. New. Today, the vicious battles fought between 4 Kumaon and Pak Army in Kashmir in 1965, are almost a forgotten saga of great chivalry by soldiers of both sides. In this book, these actions have been recounted in detail, including examples of incredible bravery displayed by the combatants. It was indeed traumatic for the troops when areas that had been captured by the unit in Bugina Bulge (POK), after incredible sufferings and heavy casualties, were returned to Pakistan. Our troops withdrew to the areas where they are located today. The heart-breaking orders to withdraw were dutifully followed despite our genuine claims to the captured areas. Similar withdrawals were also conducted in strategic areas of Hajipir Pass and Kargil Heights.Today, terrorists regularly infiltrate from Pakistan to India from these areas. Printed Pages: 180., Vij Books India Pvt. Ltd, 2013, 6, Vij Books India Pvt. Ltd, 2013. Hardcover. New. Today, the vicious battles fought between 4 Kumaon and Pak Army in Kashmir in 1965, are almost a forgotten saga of great chivalry by soldiers of both sides. In this book, these actions have been recounted in detail, including examples of incredible bravery displayed by the combatants. It was indeed traumatic for the troops when areas that had been captured by the unit in Bugina Bulge (POK), after incredible sufferings and heavy casualties, were returned to Pakistan. Our troops withdrew to the areas where they are located today. The heart-breaking orders to withdraw were dutifully followed despite our genuine claims to the captured areas. Similar withdrawals were also conducted in strategic areas of Hajipir Pass and Kargil Heights.Today, terrorists regularly infiltrate from Pakistan to India from these areas. Printed Pages: 180., Vij Books India Pvt. Ltd, 2013, 6, Vij Books India Pvt. Ltd, 2013. Hardcover. New. Today, the vicious battles fought between 4 Kumaon and Pak Army in Kashmir in 1965, are almost a forgotten saga of great chivalry by soldiers of both sides. In this book, these actions have been recounted in detail, including examples of incredible bravery displayed by the combatants. It was indeed traumatic for the troops when areas that had been captured by the unit in Bugina Bulge (POK), after incredible sufferings and heavy casualties, were returned to Pakistan. Our troops withdrew to the areas where they are located today. The heart-breaking orders to withdraw were dutifully followed despite our genuine claims to the captured areas. Similar withdrawals were also conducted in strategic areas of Hajipir Pass and Kargil Heights.Today, terrorists regularly infiltrate from Pakistan to India from these areas. Printed Pages: 180. NA, Vij Books India Pvt. Ltd, 2013, 6, Studio: Unidisc Music, 2006. Audio Book (DVD). As New/As New. MADACY's FRIGHT FEST: NIGHTMARE IN A BOX features ten public domain horror movies on five double-sided DVDs. All are stored in a sturdy folding case that's packed within a nicely decorative tin box- THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI-- Hunchbacked Dr. Caligari's sleepwalker predicts deaths hours before they occur. German Expressionist cinema at its finest. The use of pioneering camera techniques, distorted buildings, an eerily atmospheric story and bizarre last reel plot twists make this one unforgettable! DEMENTIA 13-- Roger Corman's young assistant Francis Coppola was allowed to make this right after he finished 2nd unit work on Corman's latest film. It's the story of a tragedy-plagued family living in a creepy old Irish castle. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE-- Scientist creates a potion that frees his inner demon but is lost when the monster starts taking over at will. Nine decades later, this first full-length treatment of the famous R.L. Stevenson story remains one of the best. HORROR HOTEL-- British-made film about a co-ed doing occult research in New England who finds herself marked for sacrifice by a witch's coven. Nicely atmospheric b&w film. HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL-- A wealthy man and his wife invite five guests to spend the night in a mansion where several murders have already been committed; whoever survives will be rewarded $10,000. Julie Mitchell (Ruth Bridges) is Robert's sister. THE LAST MAN ON EARTH-- A virus has swept the planet, transforming all but one lone scientist into blood-seeking zombies. He spends the days harpooning these creatures, while nights pass in pure terror, as he barricades his home against a demonic onslaught. One of Vincent Price's strangest efforts. NIGHTMARE CASTLE-- Barbara Steele in a dual role. A jealous husband heinously murders his cheating wife and her lover, then takes up with his half-crazy sister-in-law. The spirits of his two victims return to exact revenge upon him. Color photography employed to good effect here. Soundtrack music by Ennio Morricone. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD-- Johnny and Barbara visit a rural Pennsylvania town to see their father's gravesite. While there, Johnny is attacked and killed, and Barbara flees to a nearby farmhouse where a group of terrified people are in hiding After dark, their supposedly safe haven is beseiged by an army of cannibalistic zombies. Director George Romero appears briefly as a Washington reporter. NOSFERATU-- An unauthorized retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Vampire Count Orlok makes victims of an unsuspecting realtor and his wife who are visiting the Count's creepy castle. (In the 1920s, Bram Stoker's heirs tried but failed to have all copies of Nosferatu seized and destroyed.) THE TERROR-- Roger Corman partly directed this nightmarish and somewhat confusing tale of a French Army officer who follows a beautiful woman to a creepy castle DISC ONE-- (6.8) Horror Hotel ("The City of the Dead") (UK-1960) - Venetia Stevenson/Patricia Jessel/Christopher Lee/Norman Macowan (6.8) House on Haunted Hill (1959) - Vincent Price/Carolyn Craig/Richard Long/Elisha Cook Jr./Carol Ohmart/Julie Mitchum DISC TWO-- (7.0) The Last Man on Earth (USA/Italy-1964) - Vincent Price/Emma Danieli/Giacomo Rossi-Stuart/Christi Courtland (8.0) Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Judith O'Day/Russell Streiner/Duane Jones/Karl Hardman/Marilyn Eastman/Charles Craig DISC THREE-- (5.6) Dementia 13 (1963) - William Campbell/Luana Anders/Bart Patton/Patrick Magee (5.3) Nightmare Castle (Italy-1965) - Barbara Steele/Paul Muller/Laurence Clift/Rik Battaglia DISC FOUR-- (4.8) The Terror (1963) - Jack Nicholson/Boris Karloff/Sandra Knight/Dick Miller/Jonathan Haze/Dorothy Neumann (7.1) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H DISC FIVE-- (8.2) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (silent-Germany-1920) - Werner Krauss/Conrad Veidt/Lil Dagover (8.1) Nosferatu (silent-Germany-1922) - Max Schreck/Gustav von Wangenheim/Greta Schröder, Studio: Unidisc Music, 2006, 5, Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2011. 1st edition. Nice Copy. quarto. softback with french flaps vii + 278pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, index, ÔAlmost a century after the Australian Light Horse cavalry and infantry fought a series of epic and bloody battles against the Turkish Army across the deserts of the Middle East, Bowers (photographer) and Daley (journalist) retrace the steps of the men and boys who fought there. From the enemy trenches where they charged the Turks on horseback, to the narrow mountain passes, where, exhausted, they slept in their saddles in retreat; this account journeys to the hostile and lonely places where soldiers lost and buried their matesÕ, Miegunyah Press, 2011, 0, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good (). 381, [3] pages. Some wear and soiling to dust jacket. Some edge soiling. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (January 26, 1939 - December 29, 2018) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of 18 and wrote many novels under such pen names as "Frank Wynne" and "'Brian Wynne" before gaining prominence when his book Hopscotch (1975) won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He is best known for his 1972 novel Death Wish, which was adapted for the 1974 film of the same title, followed by four sequels, and the 2018 remake. His follow-up 1975 sequel to Death Wish, Death Sentence, was very loosely adapted into the 2007 film of the same name; it had an entirely different storyline, but with the novel's same look on vigilantism. Garfield is also the author of The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. Garfield's last book, published in 2007, is Meinertzhagen, the biography of controversial British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen. The hero of this narrative was a real person, who was in his fifties when the book was written. In 1940, Winston Churchill recruited this person, who was then a 15-year- old schoolboy, to become a secret agent who would report to him personally. Throughout World War II, this boy was ordered on many highly dangerous missions conducted in utmost secrecy. His code name was Christopher Robin, and he was Churchill's paladin---his person warrior. The Paladin is a 1979 historical novel by Brian Garfield. Supposedly based on a true story, it is about a young boy "Christopher Creighton" who befriends Winston Churchill in the mid 1930s and then goes on to take an active role in a number of World War II operations including: informing Churchill in advance of the surrender of Belgium leading to the Dunkirk evacuation, stopping the Americans from being warned of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by sinking a submarine, and misleading the Germans about the Normandy invasion. A starred review in Kirkus Reviews of The Paladin wrote "Still, veteran Garfield punches it all out with assured panache: larger-than-life Churchill, exploit after exploit, horror upon horror. So, believe it or not, this is a ripping good yarn--with food for all sorts of WW II-history speculation." The International Churchill Society wrote "His novel is splendid entertainment for the highly committed Churchillian, and you should definitely add a copy to your library of tall tales." Derived from the above referenced Kirkus review: A remarkable adventure ostensibly based on fact and written in collaboration with its real-life hero, "Christopher Creighton." While a ten-year-old schoolboy, Creighton accidentally knocked over a fresh brick wall being put up by his fat, cigar-smoking country neighbor, Winston Churchill, who then took a liking to the lad. Over the next five years they became quite friendly, and when Winston was made Prime Minister, he called the boy for a secret visit and asked him to be a spy for England--by visiting school friend Prince Paul in Belgium and discovering the dispositions of the Belgian army. Christopher is magnificently successful, meets Von Ribbentrop, overhears and reports back the vital information that Belgium will capitulate to Hitler without a shot. . . and so the British decide to retreat to Dunkirk and evacuate rather than stay and fight a hopeless cause. Soon Christopher is Winston's personal secret agent, his teenage paladin: he goes through horrid training exercises in which he actually kills German prisoners; he is himself beaten nearly to death for training purposes; and he is later sent to implant time bombs in a Dutch submarine's torpedoes and destroy the sub with all aboard. Why? Because the Admiralty does not want Roosevelt to receive Dutch intelligence about the planned attack on Pearl Harbor, intelligence that might be used to keep the U.S. out of the war. And after three more assassinations of innocent soldiers, Christopher's last job is to pass himself off as a double agent and give the Germans false information about the Normandy landing--but only after unendurable torture and an attempt at suicide using a hollow cyanide tooth. . . . How much of this is true, how much fiction? One has to assume that if all or most of it were verifiable, this would have been non-fiction, not a novel. Still, veteran Garfield punches it all out with assured panache: larger-than-life Churchill, exploit after exploit, horror upon horror. So, believe it or not, this is a ripping good yarn--with food for all sorts of WW II-history speculation., Simon and Schuster, 1979, 2.75, Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1954 Book. Very Good + +. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Volume I: pp. 1-402, b&w frontis, acknowledgments, foreword, lists of illustrations and battle maps for vols. I &II, 1. England Again; 2. The War Hawks; 3. Orders and Edicts; 4. "Canada!, Canada!, Canada!"; 5. Madison Yields; 6. Impressments; 7. Tecumseh and the Seventeen Fires; 8. Florida Filibusters; 9. Mob Rule in Baltimore; 10. Hull Surrenders; 11. The Frigates Meet; 12. Niagara Fiascoes; 13. Decatur's Victory; 14. Indian Surge; 15. A Capitol Is Burned; 16. Lawrence Challenged; 17. Anonymous Penman; 18. Despoilers of the Chesapeake; 19. Battle of Lake Erie; 20. Passing of Tecumseh; notes. Volume II: pp. 403-812, 21. "Mist-Taking Canada"; 22. A War on Credit; 23. The Creek War; 24. An "Ally" Falls; 25. Hostages Exchanged; 26. British Invasion Plans; 27. Washington Threatened; 28. Defeat at Bladensburg; 29. Redcoats on the Avenues; 30. Birth of a Song; 31. "Don't Give Up the Soil; 32. Honor at Niagara; 33. Northern Invasion; 34. Cleaning the Gulf Coast; 35. The Hartford Convention; 36. Peace That Lasted; 37. The Battle of New Orleans; notes, index. First Edition, 1954. "Throughout these volumes I have made an effort to discern the thuoughts and feelings of the people whose actions wove the variegated pattern of the war. Often sketches of vivid personalities or central figures have been interpolated. These sketches, and certain topics like the causes of the war, sometimes embrace events falling before or after the years during which the battles were waged. While the interuption of chronological order may be a little confusing, the reader's interest will, I hope, be enhanced by these additions. While the notes to these volumes indicate sources, for the reader's convenience, they also contain sidelights to the main action, for the reader's curiosity. Personal detail and anecdote, such as form the core of this work, are rarely found in studied official documents, statistics and historical accounts written with the dispassion of long perspective. Individuals and episodes emerge more clearly in narratives by writers who had stories of their won to tell or who had heard the stories of others. Likewise, the contemporary neewspapers, lively with personal as well as party opinion, provide a rich source of information on the 'home front's' reaction to what was going on in government, Army and Navy. Therefore, it is largely from newspapers, and early diaries, memoirs and histories, that I have collated the anecdotes and facts on whch this work is based." from the Foreword. Owner's ex libris plate on front pastedowns. Slightly faded spines with a dustline to top edges and only the slightlest age-toning to text block edges, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and red title-plate with gilt lettering to spine.., The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1954, 3, Ex-Library with typical library markings and minor soiling, good reading copy- DJ protected in Brodart-" Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower's policies caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in American and French internment camps through disease, starvation, and exposure from 1944 to 1949, as a direct result of the policies of the western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949. An attempted book-length disputation of Other Losses, was published in 1992, featuring essays by British, American, and German revisionist historians (Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood, edited by Ambrose & Günter). However, that same year Bacque flew to Moscow to examine the newly-opened KGB archives, where he found meticulously and exhaustively documented new proof that almost one million German POWs had indeed died in those Western camps. One of the historians who support Bacque's work is Colonel Ernest F. Fisher, 101st Airborne Division, who in 1945 took part in investigations into allegations of misconduct by U.S. troops in Germany and later became a senior historian with the United States Army. In the foreword to the book he states: Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated about one million [German] men, most of them in American camps Eisenhowers hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the ­horror of death camps unequaled by anything in American military ­history- How did this enormous war crime come to light? The first clues were uncovered in 1986 by the author James Bacque and his ­assistant., Stoddart Pub, 1989, 2.5, New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1936. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1936. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Illustrated. 233 pages. Good+. Tight binding; clean pages; contemporary name on front endpaper; light wear; small R in one corner of rear cover; no jacket. Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 - May 27, 1831), was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the North American, West, and the Southwest during the early 19th century. After 75 years of obscurity following his death, Smith was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile (32 km)-wide South Pass as the dominant point of crossing the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail. Coming from modest family background, Smith traveled to St. Louis and joined William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry's fur trading company in 1822. Smith led the first documented exploration from the Salt Lake frontier to the Colorado River. From there, Smith's party became the first United States citizens to cross the Mojave Desert into what is now the state of California but which at that time was part of Mexico. On the return journey, Smith and his companions were likewise the first U.S. citizens to explore and cross the Sierra Nevada and the treacherous Great Basin Desert. In the following year, Smith and his companions were the first U. S. explorers to travel north from California (on land) to reach the Oregon Country. Surviving three Native American massacres and one bear mauling, Jedediah Smith's explorations and documented travels were important resources to later American westward expansion. In March 1831, while in St. Louis, Smith requested of Secretary of War John H. Eaton a federally funded exploration of the West, but to no avail. Smith informed Eaton that he was completing a map of the West derived from his own journeys. In May, Smith and his partners launched a planned paramilitary trading party to Santa Fe. On May 27, while searching for water in present-day southwest Kansas, Smith went missing. It was learned some weeks later that he had been killed during an encounter with the Comanche - his body was never recovered. After his death, Smith's memory and his accomplishments were mostly forgotten by Americans. At the beginning of the 20th century, scholars and historians made efforts to recognize and study his achievements. In 1918, a book by Harrison Clifford Dale was published covering Ashley-Smith's western explorations. In 1935, Smith's summary autobiography was finally listed in a biographical dictionary. Smith's first comprehensive biography by Maurice S. Sullivan was published in 1936. A popular Smith biography by Dale Morgan, published in 1953, established Smith as an authentic national hero. Smith's map of the West in 1831 was used by the U.S. Army, including western explorer John C. Frémont during the early 1840s.--wikipedia. ., New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1936, 2.5, Penguin Press, 2020. New. From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWIIIn May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation Millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators in flight from the Red Army overwhelmed Germany, a nation in ruins British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate refugees and attempted to repatriate them But after exhaustive efforts, there remained more than a million displaced persons left behind in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to The Last Million would spend the next three to five years in displaced persons camps, temporary homelands in exile, divided by nationality, with their own police forces, churches and synagogues, schools, newspapers, theaters, and infirmariesThe international community could not agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of debate and inaction, the International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages But no nations were willing to accept the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany In 1948, the United States, among the last countries to accept refugees for resettlement, finally passed a displaced persons bill With Cold War fears supplanting memories of World War II atrocities, the bill granted the vast majority of visas to those who were reliably anti-Communist, including thousands of former Nazi collaborators and war criminals, while severely limiting the entry of Jews, who were suspected of being Communist sympathizers or agents because they had been recent residents of Soviet-dominated Poland Only after the controversial partition of Palestine and Israel's declaration of independence were the remaining Jewish survivors able to leave their displaced persons camps in GermanyA masterwork from acclaimed historian David Nasaw, The Last Million tells the gripping yet until now largely hidden story of postwar displacement and statelessness By 1952, the Last Million were scattered around the world As they crossed from their broken past into an unknowable future, they carried with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets Here for the first time, Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and, with profound contemporary resonance, shows us that it is our history as well, Penguin Press, 2020, 6, General Sir David Fraser had two careers: as a distinguished British soldier and as a leading military biographer. His childhood was passed in grand houses in London and Scotland, but he was the son of anything but conventional parents, who Fraser sketches out in this book in all their bizarre and entertaining individuality. He then provides an account of becoming a soldier, the life of his regiment and his role as an officer in World War II. After the war he rose through the hierarchy (the acuteness of his mind earned him the nickname Fraser the Razor) until he became GOC of the British Army of the Rhine and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.328 pages, including 16 pages of photographs. Unclipped dust jacket. This book does not appear to have been read, but there is a tiny dog-ear and a small mark on page 279. Minor shelfwear to the jacket.Otherwise perfect condition., Penguin Books, 2002, 4, Publisher: Short Books Ltd. Utg. 2013. Mass Market Paperback. 208 p. This book is brand new. Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: "In the summer of 1940, lying in the sun, I saw a family of redstarts, unconcerned in the affairs of our skeletal multitude, going about their ways in cherry and chestnut trees.." Soon after his arrival at Warburg PoW camp, British army officer John Buxton found an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment. Passing his days covertly watching birds, he was unaware that he, too, was being watched. Peter Conder, also a passionate ornithologist, had noticed Buxton gazing skywards. He approached him and, with two other prisoners, they founded a secret birdwatching society. This is the untold story of an obsessive quest behind barbed wire. Through their shared love of birds, the four PoWs overcame hunger, hardship, fear and stultifying boredom. Their quest would draw in not only their fellow prisoners, but also some of the German guards, at great risk to them all. Derek Niemann draws on original diaries, letters and drawings, to show how Conder, Barrett, Waterston and Buxton were forged by their wartime experience into the giants of postwar wildlife conservation. Their legacy lives on. We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 6, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. Utg. 2014. Mass Market Paperback. 860 p. This book is brand new. Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Harry Potter is furious that he is stuck at the Dursleys' house for the summer, when he suspects that Voldemort is gathering an army, and the wizarding authorities seem unwilling to do anything. Harry's so-called friends are trying to keep him in the dark. But he knows that Voldemort's forces can find him wherever he is; he could be attacked at any moment. Harry is finally rescued from Privet Drive by members of the Order of the Phoenix - a secret society first formed years ago to fight Voldemort - and discovers that maybe he is not alone in this battle after all. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON . We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 6, NY: Luna Press, 1974. Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune was an action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that started Sunday, June 11, 1933 and was discontinued in 1988. Originally Captain Easy was a supporting character in the series Wash Tubbs, which focused on the adventures of the zany Washington Tubbs II. On May 6, 1929 Crane introduced taciturn toughguy Captain Easy, who soon took over the strip. In 1933 Crane created Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune as a Sunday page starring Easy. Captain Easy was a chivalrous Southern adventurer in the classic adventure-hero mold. After a series of globe-trotting adventures, Easy enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, afterwards becoming a private detective. The Sunday adventures were initially unconnected to those of the Wash Tubbs strip and dealt with Easy's adventures prior to meeting Tubbs. They are considered a tour-de-force by Crane, who crafted layouts intended to be seen as a coherent whole rather than a disparate collection of panels. Unfortunately, in 1937 the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which employed Crane and owned the strip, introduced the modern policy which requires Sunday pages to be designed as panels that can be rearranged for different formats. Crane then turned the Sunday pages over to Les Turner, his assistant, to concentrate on the daily strip. The Tubbs and Easy characters were owned by the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate and creator Roy Crane abandoned the strips in 1943 to begin Buz Sawyer, a strip he would own outright. After Crane’s departure, control of the strips passed to Turner, who turned the Sunday pages over to his assistant, Walt Scott. Easy was in the Army by that time, and with Tubbs an increasingly unimportant character, Turner officially renamed the daily and Sunday strips Captain Easy in 1949. Scott drew Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune through the 1940s and 1950s. Mel Graff began ghosting it in 1960. When Turner retired in 1969, control of the strips passed to his assistant, Bill Crooks and Jim Lawrence. Mick Casale came aboard in 1982 and lasted until the series was discontinued in 1988. Wash Tubbs also appeared as a topper, or subsidiary strip, from 1927 to 1933 above J.R. Williams's Sunday comic Out Our Way. Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy were also featured in Big Little Books during the 1930s, and in a short run of Dell Comics during the 1940s. The entire 1924-1943 run of Crane’s strip was reprinted in Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, an 18-volume series featuring biographical and historical commentary by Bill Blackbeard. With production, design and strip restoration by Bhob Stewart, this series was published by NBM Publishing (Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine) on a quarterly schedule from 1987 to 1992. A couple of very minor creases on cover, otherwise in very nice condition.. Not Indicated. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Illus. by b/w Illustrations., Luna Press, 1974, 3, Istanbul: Everest Yayinlari, 2018. Hardcover. New. 8vo. To Kill a Sultan, Ahmet Ümit, Everest Yayinlari, 8vo, (14 x 23.5 cm), 646, in English, Hardcover, Istanbul, 2018. Müstak Serhazin, last scion of the Serhazin clan. A man who has been waiting for years for one woman, his life wasted on one grandiose love. On his love for an ambitious, indomitable woman who has dedicated her life to the study of Ottoman history... A professor with an outstanding career, one studded with triumphs and achievements, found dead, stabbed with a letter-opener featuring an engraving of the seal of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror... Is it a crime of passion or a murder with roots that stretch back to the suspicious death of the great Sultan Mehmed himself? An epic journey back in time to the heady days of victory and betrayal when the Ottoman state became a global empire. And an ancient question haunting us throughout this exhilarating journey: is history the events of the past or is it what the historians tell us? Sultan Mehmed Han. Mehmed Han, son of Murad Han, son of Mehmed Han I. Lord of the two lands and the two seas, shadow of God on Earth, natural successor to the Roman Empire, the emperor who conquered Constantinople. And a man with a burning desire to create a completely new nation, embracing peoples of different faiths, languages and creeds. An army galloping across vast plains and the sound of swords, battle cries and shrieks of terror. Cities falling, castles captured and states crumbling into ruin one after the other. A ruler whose name was known throughout the known world by the age of forty-nine. And the eternal, unchanging hand of destiny, as day fades into night and man passes away into the next world. The suspicious death of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, and a state and a palace torn asunder as, unbeknownst to the people, the two princes vie for the throne. And, as the bloody battle rages on, in a forgotten chamber of the royal palace lies the lifeless body of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror..., Everest Yayinlari, 2018, 6, Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1965. Z3 - A stapled spine booklet SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition that has some scattered scratches, wrinkling and stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. National Park Service Handbook Series No. 38. 9"x6", 62 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Fort Davis National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in the unincorporated community of Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, Texas. Located within the Davis Mountains of West Texas, the historic site was established in 1961 to protect one of the best remaining examples of a United States Army fort in the southwestern United States. Established in October 1854 along the Limpia Creek at Painted Comanche Camp by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Persifor Frazer Smith, Fort Davis was named after Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. "Hoping to protect the garrison from winter northers, Smith tucked the fort into a canyon flanked on three sides by sheer rock walls." Commanding the post was 8th Infantry Regiment commander Lt. Col. Washington Seawell. Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Stockton, Richardson, Bliss, McKavett, Clark, McIntosh, Inge, and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. "Sub posts or intermediate stations" also were used, including Bothwick's Station on Salt Creek between Fort Richardson and Fort Belknap, Camp Wichita near Buffalo Springs between Fort Richardson and Red River Station, and Mountain Pass between Fort Concho and Fort Griffin. From 1854 to 1891, Fort Davis was strategically located to protect emigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons on the trans-Pecos portion of the San Antonio-El Paso Road and the Chihuahua Trail, and to control activities on the southern stem of the Great Comanche War Trail and Mescalero Apache war trails. The fort was evacuated in April 1861 under orders from General David E. Twiggs at the start of the Civil War. During John R. Baylor's invasion of New Mexico, only 20 Confederate States Army troops manned the fort. On the night of 4 August 1861, Mescalero Apaches raided a nearby cattle pen, and during the pursuit on 11 August, Lt. Reuben E. Mays and all but one of his 13-man patrol were killed in an ambush. This defeat convinced Baylor to staff the fort with three officers and 70 enlisted men. The Confederates evacuated the fort and all other posts west of Fort Clark in August 1862. Fort Davis is important in understanding the presence of African Americans in the West and in the frontier military because the 24th and 25th U.S. Infantry regiments and the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry regiments, all-black regiments (known as the buffalo soldiers), which were established after the Civil War, were stationed at the post. Lt. Col. Wesley Merritt led Troops C, F, H, and I of the 9th Cavalry in reoccupying the fort on 29 June 1867. They rebuilt the fort, using limestone and adobe, outside the canyon walls. . Signed by Author. Stapled Booklet. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., National Park Service, 1965, 3, Budapest, Hungary: Akademiai Kiado, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Very good. 18, [2] pages. Scarce. Contains Opening Address of Academician Gyorgy Hazai, General Director of Akademiai Kiado, Keynote lecture of Academician Bela Kopeczi, Editor in Chief of the three-volume work, and the brochure distributed among those present at the Press Conference. Nearly fifty years have passed since the last comprehensive history of Transylvania appeared in Hungary. This announced a long anticipated 3-volume work. This long overdue synthesis was undertaken by the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Headed by Academician Bela Kopeczi, a staff of outstanding scholars worked out the scientific approach that brought the present opus to fruition. Research into what ties Hungarian to world history is a major task of Hungarian historiography. The present work offers the first synthesis of the Transylvanian Reform Era, something long missed by the eminent Romanian historian, Victor Cherestesiu. Here, the authors relied on a large number of sources to discover the grounds for the variety of socio-political tensions from region to region, to show how a society steeped in inertia could still long for reform, and how the internal tensions determined the nature of the revolution that ensued. The chapter on the political history of the period between 1867 and 1918 concentrates on the most serious of the political problems, the nationalities issue. Transylvania had no independent political life at the time, and the source materials presently available are insufficient for a discussion of the local political issues of the various regions within Transylvania. Transylvania is a historical region which is located in central Romania. Bound on the east and south by its natural borders, the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended westward to the Apuseni Mountains. The term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also parts of the historical regions of Cri ana and Maramure , and occasionally the Romanian part of Banat. The region of Transylvania is known for the scenery of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history. It also contains major cities such as Cluj-Napoca, Bra ov, Sibiu, Târgu Mure , Alba Iulia, and Bistri a. The Anglosphere commonly associates Transylvania with vampires, thanks to the dominant influence of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and the many films the tale inspired. Transylvania has been dominated by several different peoples and countries throughout its history. It was once the nucleus of the Kingdom of Dacia (82 BC - 106 AD). In 106 AD the Roman Empire conquered the territory, systematically exploiting its resources. After the Roman legions withdrew in 271 AD, it was overrun by a succession of various tribes, bringing it under the control of the Carpi, Visigoths, Huns, Gepids, Avars, and Slavs. From 9th to 11th century Bulgarians ruled Transylvania. It is a subject of dispute whether elements of the mixed Daco-Roman population survived in Transylvania through the Post-classical Era (becoming the ancestors of modern Romanians) or the first Vlachs/Romanians appeared in the area in the 13th century after a northward migration from the Balkan Peninsula. There is an ongoing scholarly debate over the ethnicity of Transylvania's population before the Hungarian conquest (see Origin of the Romanians). The Magyars conquered much of Central Europe at the end of the 9th century. According to Gesta Hungarorum, the Vlach voivode Gelou ruled Transylvania before the Hungarians arrived. The Kingdom of Hungary established partial control over Transylvania in 1003, when King Stephen I, according to legend, defeated the prince named Gyula. Some historians assert Transylvania was settled by Hungarians in several stages between the 10th and 13th centuries, while others claim that it was already settled, since the earliest Hungarian artifacts found in the region are dated to the first half of the 10th century. The Habsburgs acquired the territory shortly after the Battle of Vienna in 1683. In 1687, the rulers of Transylvania recognized the suzerainty of the Habsburg emperor Leopold I, and the region was officially attached to the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburgs acknowledged Principality of Transylvania as one of the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, but the territory of principality was administratively separated from Habsburg Hungary and subjected to the direct rule of the emperor's governors. In 1699 the Turks legally acknowledged their loss of Transylvania in the Treaty of Karlowitz; however, some anti-Habsburg elements within the principality submitted to the emperor only in the 1711 Peace of Szatmár, and Habsburg control over Principality of Transylvania was consolidated. The Grand Principality of Transylvania was reintroduced 54 years later in 1765. The Hungarian revolution against the Habsburgs started in 1848. The revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary grew into a war for the total independence from the Habsburg dynasty. Julius Jacob von Haynau, the leader of the Austrian army was appointed plenipotentiary to restore order in Hungary after the conflict. He ordered the execution of The 13 Hungarian Martyrs of Arad and Prime Minister Batthyány was executed the same day in Pest. After a series of serious Austrian defeats in 1849, the empire came close to the brink of collapse. Thus, the new young emperor Franz Joseph I had to call for Russian help in the name of the Holy Alliance. Czar Nicholas I answered, and sent a 200,000 men strong army with 80,000 auxiliary forces. Finally, the joint army of Russian and Austrian forces defeated the Hungarian forces. After the restoration of Habsburg power, Hungary was placed under martial law. Following the Hungarian Army's surrender at Világos (now iria, Romania) in 1849, their revolutionary banners were taken to Russia by the Tsarist troops, and were kept there both under the Tsarist and Communist systems (in 1940 the Soviet Union offered the banners to the Horthy government). After the Ausgleich of 1867, the Principality of Transylvania was once again abolished. The territory was then turned into Transleithania, an addition to the newly established Austro-Hungarian Empire. Romanian intellectuals issued the Blaj Pronouncement in protest. The 1947 Treaty of Paris reaffirmed the borders between Romania and Hungary, as originally defined in the Treaty of Trianon, 27 years earlier, thus confirming the return of Northern Transylvania to Romania. From 1947 to 1989, Transylvania, along with the rest of Romania, was under a communist regime. The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mure occurred between ethnic Romanians and Hungarians in March 1990 after the fall of the communist regime and became most notable inter-ethnic incident in the post-communist era., Akademiai Kiado, 1987, 3, Niyogi Offset, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New. 23 x 29 cm. In Field Marshal KM Cariappa, Air Marshal KC Cariappa (retd), the airman-son presents the lesser-known face of a disciplinarian, yet loving father who tried to ensure that his son and daughter grew up well despite the absence of a mother; who wished his son to follow in his footsteps, before conceding that ‘The Air Force needs a few good chaps too!’ Fond of reading, sports and music, he was a great success with children and had deep admiration for the apostle of non-violence—Mahatma Gandhi. During Field Marshal KM Cariappa’s illustrious career in the Army spanning over three decades (1918-1953), he had a series of firsts to his credit: the first Kodava to join the first batch of Indian cadets at the Daly College, Indore, from where he was commissioned; the first Indian Officer to enter Staff College, Quetta; the first Indian Brigadier; among the first Indians to enter the Imperial Defence College, UK; the first Indian Major General in 1947; the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. After retiring from the Indian Army in 1953, he served as High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand till 1956. His love for the Jawan and his patriotism were legendary and won him the respect and admiration of his countrymen from all walks of life. In 1986, the Government of India conferred the rank of Field Marshal on this outstanding son of the soil. Field Marshal Cariappa passed away seven years later, on 15 May 1993. With a strong visual narrative comprising archival matter sourced from private and State-owned archives, Field Marshal KM Cariappa is a moving tribute from a son who regrets he was unable to spend more time with his father—the Father of the Indian Army. Printed Pages: 200., Niyogi Offset, 2007, 6, 2009 purple softcover in very good condition; some wear to covers, good binding, no marks inside. US media mail only for shipping. Various public schools, colleges, universities, and institutions hosted squadrons of cavalry and companies of infantry. They were to play a vital roll in the training and supply of the thousands of fresh officers required to meet the national emergency. Most progressed to the New Armies and Special Reserve of officers after receiving their commissions. 'This book lists over 13,000 men who passed through the Corps for officer training. A typical entry will give the full name, the date he joined (as an other rank), his number, unit and final rank within the Corps, where he was transferred to (e.g. Officer Cadet Battalion), the date and Regiment he was commissioned to and subsequent service with some detail. Reference is also made as to whether he was wounded, gassed or killed, as are his honours and awards. A veritable mine of information., Naval and Military Press, 2009, 3<