Selling my book collection

Due to my wife's "request" that I "voluntarily" turn my book room into a guest bedroom, I am selling off about 170 books. It's a diverse collection with books from the U.S., Britain, Australia, France, Canada, South Africa, etc.

These need to go quickly, so I'm selling them for one-third of the cover price. Most are new, in excellent condition and are hardcover unless otherwise noted. Contact me at skyfall55@yahoo.com

World War II – Land Warfare

Operation Pike: Britain Versus the Soviet Union, 1939-41 by Patrick Osborne [the bizarre Anglo-French plan to bomb Russian oil fields] (274 pp., Praeger, 2000) - $21

Neville Chamberlain and British Rearmament: Pride, Prejudice and Politics by John Ruggiero (251 pp., Praeger, 1999) - $20

No Small Achievement: Special Operations Executive and the Danish Resistance (594 pp., Univ. of Southern Denmark, 2002) - $10

Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944 by Walter S. Dunn (250 pp., Lynne Rienner, 2000) - $8

The Sky Men: A Parachute Rifle Company’s Story of the Battle of the Bulge and the Jump Across the Rhine by Kirk Ross (462 pp., Schiffer, 2000) - $12

Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelmann [memoirs of a German tank driver in Russia] (205 pp., Casemate, 2001) - $10

Invaders: British and American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-45 by Colin Bruce (286 pp., U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1999) - $12

The 7-volume Australian Centenary History of Defense (Oxford, 2002) - $25 apiece or $125 for the set (the atlas alone is impressive)
Volume I – The Australian Army
Volume II – The Royal Australian Air Force
Volume III – The Royal Australian Navy
Volume IV – Making the Australian Defense Force
Volume V – The Department of Defence
Volume VI – Australian Defence Force Sources and Statistics
Volume VII – The Atlas of Australia’s Wars


By Tank into Normandy by Stuart Hills [a British tank commander’s memoirs] (255 pp., Sterling, 2002) – $10

The Great World War 1914-45 Volume I: Lightning Strikes Twice (softcover, 543 pp., Harper Collins UK, 2000) - $13

The Great World War 1914-45 Volume II: Who Won? Who Lost (softcover, 543 pp., Harper Collins UK, 2000) - $13

Art of War: Eyewitness U.S. Combat Art from the Revolution to the 20th Century by H. Avery Chenoweth (384 pp., Friedman/Fairfax, 2003) - $15

After D-Day: Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout by James Carafano (294 pp., Lynne Rienner, 2000) - $10

Dieppe Revisited: A Documentary Investigation (247 pp., Frank Cass, 1993) - $13

Into the Shadows Furious: The Brutal Battle for New Georgia by Brian Altobello (softcover, 406 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $9

Edson’s Raiders: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion in World War II by Joseph Alexander (softcover, 352 pp., U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2000) - $14

Lost Battalions: Going for Broke in the Vosges, Autumn 1944 by Franz Steidl (softcover, 226 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $9

Between Tedium and Terror: A Soldier’s World War II Diary, 1939-45 by Sy Kahn [ A Jewish GI’s experiences in the Pacific] (softcover, 363 pp., Univ. of Illinois, 2000) – $10

Bloody Ridge: The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal by Michael Smith (264 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10

Vinegar Joe’s War: Stillwell’s Campaigns in Burma by Nather Prefer (312 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10

The Nuclear Axis: Germany, Japan, and the Atom Bomb Race 1939-45 by Phillip Henshall (230 pp, Sutton, 2000) - $15

German Army Handbook 1939-45 by James Lucas (216 pp., Sutton, 1998) - $10

Japanese Army Handbook 1939-45 by Geroge Forty (266 pp., Sutton, 1999) - $10

Hell in the Pacific by Jonathan Lewis (288 pp, Channel 4 Books, 2002) - $10

The Reich’s Last Gamble: The Ardennes Offensive, 1944 by George Forty (352 pp., Cassell, 2000) - $12

The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War by Jack Gallaway (softcover, 271 pp., University of Queensland, 2000) - $11

A Peculiar Crusade: Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre [the lawyer who fought to free Peiper] (257 pp., New York University, 2000) - $10

Commando: The Elite Fighting Forces of World War II by Sally Dugan (304 pp., Channel 4 Books, 2001) - $10

Walking Away from the Third Reich: A Teenager in Hitler’s Army by Claus Sellier (softcover, 296 pp., Hellgate, 1999) - $6

German Tanks at War by Bob Carruthers (197 pp., Sterling, 2000) - $10

The Normandy Campaign: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris by Victor Brooks (288 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $10

Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph Persico (564 pp., Random House, 2001) - $12

A Gallant Company: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan F. Vance (330 pp., Pacifica, 2000) - $7

The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union by Robert Thurston (275 pp., Univ. of Illinois, 2000) - $11

World War II – Air Warfare

In the Skies of Europe: Air Forces allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945 by Hans Werner Neulen (Crowood Press, 382 pp., 1998) - $15

Ghost Bombers – The Moonlight War of NSG 9 Luftwaffe night attack operations in Italy by Nick Beale (Classic Publications, 208 pp., 2001) - $13

Kiwi Spitfire Ace by Jack Rae (183 pp., Grub Street, 2001) - $9

Hurricanes over Tobruk by Brian Gull (224 pp., Grub Street, 1998) - $9

Fighter Pilot by Paul Richey [RAF pilot’s memoirs of the Battle of France] (175 pp., Cassell, 2001) - $10

Me-163 Rocket Interceptor Volume I by Stephen Ransom (Classic Publications, 218 pp., 2002) - $13

Fighter Command 1939-45: From the Battle of Britain to the Fall of Berlin by David Oliver (Trafalgar Square/Harper Collins, 240 pp., 2000) - $15

Aces Against Japan: The American Aces Speak, Vol. I by Eric Hammel (Pacifica, 315 pp., 1992) - $13

Pursuit Through Darkened Skies: An Ace Nightfighter Crew in World War II by Michael Allen (348 pp., Airlife, 2002) - $9

Battles with the Luftwaffe: The Bomber Campaign Against Germany by Theo Boiten and Martin Bowman (235 pp., Harper Collins, 2001) - $14

The Battle of Brtain: The Myth and Reality by Richard Overy (178 pp., Norton, 2000) - $11

Hitler’s Personal Pilot: The Life and Times of Hans Baur (336 pp, Brassey’s, 2000) - $12

The First Hellcat Ace by Commander Hamilton McWhorter (210 pp., Pacifica, 2000) - $12

Night Fighters: Hunters of the Reich by David Williams (224 pp., Tempus, 2001) - $10

The Dambusters by John Sweetman (192 pp., Time Warner, 2003) - $9

American Eagles: P-38 Lightning Units of the 8th and 9th Air Forces by Roger Freeman (softcover, 80 pp., Classic Publications, 2001) - $5

American Eagles: American Volunteers in the RAF 1937-43 by Tony Holmes (softcover, 128 pp., Classic Publications, 2001) - $5

Jagdwaffe: Battle of Britain, Phase Two by Eric Mombeek (softcover, 192 pp., Classic Publications, 2001) - $5

World War II – Naval Warfare

Unrestricted Warfare: How a New Breed of Naval Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II by James DeRose (310 pp., Wiley, 2000) - $13

Survivors: British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War by G.H. Bennett (288 pp., Hambledon, 1999) - $13

German Navy Handbook 1939-45 by Jak Mallmann-Showell [covers ships, weapons, camouflage, bases, etc.) (275 pp., Sutton, 1999) - $20

German Capital Ships of World War Two by M.J. Whitley (softcover, 224 pp., Cassell, 2000) - $10

Little Ships, Big War: The Saga of DE343 (a destroyer escort in the Pacific) by Edward Stafford (softcover, 336 pp., Naval Institute Press, 1984) - $6

Carrier Strike: The Battle for the Santa Cruz Islands October 1942 by Eric Hammel (Pacifica, 208 pp., 1999) - $12

World War I and Russo-Japanese War

The Hazy Red Hell: Fighting Experiences on the Western Front 1914-18 edited by Tom Donovan (230 pp., Spellmount, 1999) - $11

Devil Dogs: Fighting Marines of World War I by George Clark (softcover, 462 pp., Presidio, 1999) - $8

At the Front Line: Experience of Australian Soldiers in World War I by Mark Johnston (262 pp., Cambridge Univ., 1996) - $10

The Myth of the Great War: How the Germans Won the Battles and How the Americans Saved the Allies by John Mosier (383 pp., Harper Collins, 2001) - $12

A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918 by William S. Triplet (322 pp., Univ. of Missouri, 2000) - $10

Reflections on the Battlefield: From Infantryman to Chaplain, 1914-19 by Robert Rider (147 pp., Liverpool Univ. Press, 2001) - $13

Henri Mathias Berthelot: Soldier of France, Defender of Romania by Glenn Tarrey (399 pp., Center for Romanian Studies, 2001) - $15

Flawed Victory: Jutland 1916 by Keith Yates (314 pp., U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2000) - $12

The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget by Tony Stephens (softcover, 108 pp., Freemantle Arts Centre, 1996) - $10

Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York’s Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg by Stephen Harris (374 pp., Brassey’s, 2001) - $12

Tannenberg 1914 by John Sweetman (232 pp., Cassell, 2002) - $8

The Great War by Correlli Barnett (softcover, 224 pp., BBC, 2003) - $6

The Tsar’s Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima by Constantine Pleshakov (392 pp., Basic Books, 2002) - $10

Korean War

Mig Alley: Sabres vs. Migs over Korea by Walter Thompson (180 pp., Specialty Press, 2002) - $12

The Dragon Strikes: China and the Korean War June-December 1950 by Patrick C. Roe (432 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10

Vietnam War

Vietnam Air Losses by Chris Hobson [brief accounts of the circumstances behind every U.S. fixed-wing aircraft lost in Southeast Asia] (softcover, 284 pp., Midland, 2001) - $15

Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970 (softcover, 447 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10

The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War by Ralph Westerhann (385 pp., Carroll and Graf, 2001) - $10

The Arab-Israeli Wars

The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in 1967 and 1973 by George Gawrych (281 pp., Praeger, 2000) - $16

The Falklands and Afghanistan

Afghanistan: The Bear Trap by Mohammad Yousaf [military history of the Mujahideen] (243 pp., Casemate, 2001) - $10

Memories of the Falklands by Iain Dale (244 pp., Politico’s Publishing, 2002) - $10

Afghanistan: A Military History by Stephen Tanner (softcover, 351 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $7

Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan by Tom Carew [ex-SAS soldier working with Mujahideen] (282 pp., Mainstream Publishing, 2000) - $10

American Civil War

Shanks: The Life and Wars of General Nathan G. Evans, CSA by Jason Silverman (216 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $9

Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General W.H.F. “Rooney” Lee by Mary Daughtry (376 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $10

Glory Enough for All: Sheridan’s Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station by Eric Wittenberg (392 pp., Brassey’s, 2001) - $10

From the Flame of Battle to the Fiery Cross: The 3rd Tennessee Volunteer Regiment by James Van Eldik (400 pp., Yucca Free Press, 2001) - $9

19th Century Warfare

Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War by Angel Velesco Shaw (softcover, 468 pp., New York Univ., 2002) - $12

Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting by J.P. Riley (479 pp., Frank Cass, 2000) - $25

Napoleon’s Cavalry and its Leaders by David Johnson (192 pp., Spellmount, 1999) - $7

The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War by John Laband (201 pp., Univ. of Natal, 2000) - $9

The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars: 1883-1888 by John Laband (140 pp., Univ. of Natal, 2001) - $13

Afghan Wars: And the North-West Frontier 1839-1947 by Michael Barthorp (softcover, 184 pp., Cassell, 2002) - $8

Wars of Empire by Douglas Porch (224 pp., Sterling, 2000) - $10

Christian de Wet: The Boer Pimpernel by Fransjohan Pretorius (240 pp., Univ. of Natal, 2001) - $10

Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico and the Struggle over Texas bu Richard Winders (softcover, 172 pp., SR Books, 2002) - $6

Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier by Robert Utley (softcover, Univ. of Oklahoma, 2001) - $10

They Died With Custer: Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Douglas Scott (softcover, 432 pp., Univ. of Oklahoma, 1998) - $10

Pre-19th Century Warfare

Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem by Stanley Lane-Pool (288 pp., Greenhill, 2002) - $13

Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War 1592-1598 by Stephen Turnbull (256 pp. Sterling, 2002) - $10

The Book of the Samurai by Stephen Turnbull (192 pp., PRC, 2000) - $6

Mongols, Huns and Vikings by Hugh Kennedy (224 pp., Cassell, 2002) - $10

Ancient Warfare

Cannae by Adrian Goldsworthy (200 pp., Sterling, 2001) - $11

Xenophon’s March by John Prevas (228 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $11

Special Forces Operations

Fighting Dirty: The Inside Story of Covert Operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden by Peter Harclerode (520 pp., Sterling, 2001) - $10

Secret Soldiers: Special Forces in the War Against Terrorism by Peter Harclerode (620 pp., Sterling, 2000) – $15

Air Warfare

Air Power History: Turning Points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo by Sebastian Cox (softcover, 362 pp., Cass, 2002) - $10

McDonnnell F-4 Phantom by Jon Lake (softcover, 270 pp., Airtime, 2002) - $11

Book of Flight: From the Flying Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci to the Conquest of Space by R. Niccoli (304 pp., Sterling, 2002) - $13

The Warriors by Bob Ross [memoirs of a test and Vietnam fighter pilot] (296 pp., Yucca, 2002) - $10

Shadow Flights: America’s Secret Air War Against the Soviet Union (322 pp., Presidio, 2000) - $10

Yakovlev Yak-25/-26-27-28: Yakovlev’s Tactical Twinjets by Yefim Gordon (softcover, 128 pp., Aerofax, 2002) - $9

Flankers: The New Generation by Yefim Gordon (128 pp., Midland, 2001) - $9

Naval Warfare

We Come Unseen: The Untold Story of Britain’s Cold War Submarines by Jim Ring (270 pp., John Murray, 2001) - $12

Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815 by Nathan Miller (388 pp., Wiley, 2000) - $10

Cochrane: Britania’s Sea Wolf by Donald Thomas (373 pp., Cassell, 2000) - $13

Jane Austen and the Navy by Brian Southam (382 pp., Hambledon & London, 2000) - $12

Lost Subs: From the Hunley to the Kursk – the Greatest Submarines Lost and Found by Spencer Dunmore (176 pp., Da Capo, 2002) - $12

Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire Aboard the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It by Gregory Freeman (298 pp., Morrow, 2002) - $10

Miscellaneous/Eclectic

The 7-volume Australian Centenary History of Defense (Oxford, 2002) - $125

Volume I – The Australian Army Volume II – The Royal Australian Air Force Volume III – The Royal Australian Navy Volume IV – Making the Australian Defense Force Volume V – The Department of Defence Volume VI – Australian Defence Force Sources and Statistics Volume VII – The Atlas of Australia’s Wars

Heroes of the Hour: Brief Moments of Military Glory by Bryan Perrett (224 pp, Sterling, 2001) - $12

The Armed Forces of Pakistan by Pervas Iqbal Cheema (220 pp., New York Univ., 2001)- $12

Wartime Nurse: One Hundred Years from the Crimea to Korea by Eric Taylor (221 pp., Robert Hale, 2001) - $10

Bloodsong by Jim Hooper [Executive Outcomes mercenaries in Angola 1993-95] (240 pp., Harper Collins, 2002) - $12

The Right to Fight: A History of African-Americans in the Military by Gerald Astor (softcover, 529 pp., Da Capo, 1998) - $10

The Templars by Piers Paul Read (softcover, 350 pp., Da Capo, 1999) - $10

Lock & Load: Weapons of the U.S. Military by Angus Konstam (256 pp., Sterling, 2003) - $10

Wars of National Liberation by Daniel Moran (224 pp., Cassell, 2001) - $10

British Battles: Amazing Views by Getmapping. com [battle dispositions superimposed on aerial photos] (126 pp, Harper Collins, 2002) - $8

Changing Direction: British Military Planning for Post-War Strategic Defense 1942-47 by Julian Lewis (476 pp., Cass, 2003) - $14

Non-State Threats and Future Wars by Robert Bunker (208 pp., Cass, 2003) - $9

Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War by Tammy Proctor (204 pp., New York Univ, 2003) - $8

Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America by Ji-Yeon Yuh (284 pp., New York Univ, 2002) - $8

The Hitler/Hess Deception by Martin Allen (324 pp., Harper Collins, 2003) - $10

 

You'll regret it.

You'll forever be looking back and scouring the bookshops for the same books.

You'll start to hate the wife.

Would it not be easier to just divorce her now and get it over with?

Or buy her a blow up tent for the garden and visitors.

 

Good old urqh !

How does the saying go ? 'Toe of my boot for the dog and a whip for the woman'....

 

Sell your wife.

 

Wow, what a bummer Skyfall. You must be really miffed having amassed such an expensive collection of high priced new books, only to have to part with them. Amazing your interest in the British yet there’s nothing on Churchill or Monty? Shame you can’t store the books in boxes for few days as on average you could get 3, 4 or even 5 times more selling them through ABE or Amazon? But I’m sure you’ve checked that out.

Anyway, there’s a few hundred dollars worth I’m interested in. Only problem, I’m just a sh/t-kicker in England so my UK cheque drawn on a British bank probably won’t be acceptable to you? However, I do have many friends in America, in or travelling most States. Unfortunately you haven’t posted here before so I don’t know where you might be located. Equally, you only give your location as USA. If you would kindly give me your address, I’ll arrange for someone to call on you and pick-up my order for cash. Maybe other UK members would like to add to this?

Hope your bedroom project goes well.


No.9

ps. like the Skyfall title, same as the recent FBI directive about terrorists

[ 03. August 2003, 09:40 AM: Message edited by: No.9 ]

 

Listen to the others - you'll regret selling them, I assure you! Many moons ago, when I left home after Uni I sold all my WW2 books (to a chap who has now become a well known UK WW2 author )... and regretted it ever after. I've just spent the last nine years replacing what I sold, and adding to it as well... but prices have moved on a lot.

I'm also lucky that my better half is also a military history nut, so the only downside is fighting over books!

 

That's right.

Books published by such as Casemate, Frank Cass and Grub Street don't generally have huge print runs & you'll find them murder to replace in future......

 

Argh!

Definitely a moment I´ve seen nightmares about...

I think I´d go for buying a new flat with more rooms or something else but never let go of my dear books...that´d be like 25 years down the drain...

 

I e-mailed a request about three books on Sunday but have not gotton a reply. Has anyone else tried ? Perhaps he listened to you guys and got a new wife !!!!

 

Ta, I wropte him as well and have not received squat......in reply

~E

 

Ehhhh....hopefully the Forums next will not be sued for causing divorce...??



Actually I´m surprised ; if the other one knows how much things matter to you he/she doesn´t tell to you to send them to gargabe or like that.

Hope he got to keep the books.

 

I am with you Kai, I hope and trust the choice of me selling all my books (Knock on wood that will never happen) lies with myself and not some outside factor, whatever that may be...

These kind of posts fill me with mixed feelings of horror and excitement...Horror because of the agony and sorrow he must go through (boy can I imagine!); Excitement, because it is(might be) treasure-hunting time!

 

Uhhh - let me know first if you have to sell off yours, Stevin...!

 

Martin, I did not know you had that cruel side to you. English are supposed to eat their tea and crumpets and be civilized.

What are crumpets anyway ?

 

TA, AFAIK there are two different definitions for crumpets....

Martin, will keep that in mind. Although I intend to take them with me in my grave.

I am going to unload a number of books that I have twice or are not my (main) area of interest. Lot of cheapo paperbacks. Maybe they'lll fetch something on Ebay!

 

TA, just for your, two examples of ‘Crumpet’.



No.9

 

Thanks No 9 ! I don't think the tea will sell so well over in the states as tea is supposed to look brown, not grey. The crumpets look like bisquits to me. The second crumpet picture is anouther matter...Good to the very last bite

I still have not heard from the guy selling the books. Sure went to alot of trouble to type all that information for nothing !

 

Looks good but--you aint seen good crumpets untill you have seen them made by Grands--now THOSE are good crumpets/biscuits/rolls.

PS--if you ever manage to make it to Corpus Christi, Texas--do not--I repeat, DO NOT eat at a place called Poets they suck.

 

No, no, no. Fair comment there is some mixing up between crumpets and muffins, but not biscuits, rolls or Elmer Fudd’s underwear.


Now why people confuse muffins with crumpets I can’t say?


(of course there is a difference between muffin and crumpet, but that’s another matter)

A crumpet should be soft but firm, served just warm enough to melt butter and let it run into the holes so it can ouse out again when in your mouth and dibble down your chin.

TA, the tea was supposed to be grey, it’s Earl Grey Tea

Carl, aren’t some crumpet supposed to suck?

No.9

 

I would definately sell the wife instead... (in such case that Friedrich could have a wife...)

Are you going to take your books along to your grave when you die, Stevin? Or maybe Stevin died because the books shelters collapsed and he died crushed by one thousand WWII books...

(Or maybe that was Friedrich, or Martin, or Kai, or Carl, or Erich, or...)

Guys! We HAVE a little problem with BOOK-ADDICTION...