A vivid account of the most bloody land battles of the
Vietnam War. On May 10th, 1969 the US Army 101st Airborne
Division, the 9th US Marine Regiment and the 3rd
Regiment ARVN, moved into the A Shau Valley in the Central
Highlands. The valley was a major terminus of the Ho Chi
Minh Trail and had been used by the North Vietnamese Army
as a staging post for their 1968 attack on Hue during the
Tet Offensive. The next day the 3rd Battalion, US 187th
Infantry assaulted the lower reaches of Hill 937, Ap Bia
Mountain, otherwise known as Hamburger Hill.
Good in d/w - 328pp, 25 photos,
12 maps, bibliography, index
A pictorial history of United States Army Bands,
1866-1900. Contemporary photos illustrate the uniforms,
locations, and instruments of the Bands of the Frontier
Army. Fourteen pages of text precede the photos.
THE
PANZERKAMPFWAGEN III & IV SERIES AND THEIR DERIVATIVES
by P Chamberlain & H L Doyle
A study of the tanks that formed the backbone of the
German Panzer force of WWII, with hundreds of photographs,
diagrams and detail views. The book also covers Command,
Flakpanzer, Assaultgun, Panzerjager, and artillery
variants of the basic design.
Fine in pictorial boards - 128pp, 200
photos and drawings, large format
A study on the development of warfare, from the
earliest times to the present. Looks at the rise of the
mass army and the impact of technology and the supposition
that it is no longer a realistic option for a modern
industrial nation to resolve political conflicts by war.
Near fine in d/w (spine may be faded) -
xii + 272pp, 135 photos, maps, index
The Bodley Head/Guild Publishing, 1986
ISBN 0370307283
A study of the special techniques and skills needed for
mountain warfare, from Alexander to Afghanistan. Includes
the Austrian and Balkan fronts in WWI, the Winter War,
Norway 1940, Arctic operations, Greece, Yugoslavia, Crete,
the Italian Front in World War II, and Post WWII in the
Balkans, Korea, and the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Chinese
conflicts.
