reports from OrcCon 2008.
NEWLY LISTED BOOKS - April 11, 2011
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Title: Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
Author Name: Sheridan, P.H. - Price = $195.00 USD
Binding Decorative Gilt Cloth Hardcover;
Edition: 1st Edition;
Publisher: New York; Charles L. Webster & Co.; 1888;
2-Volumes, 500 and 486 pages, illus., maps, fold-out maps. Covers and spinde show some rubbing; gilt image of mounted Sheridan at a gallop is bright.
Title: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman; 2 Volumes COMPLETE
Author Name: Sherman, W. T. - Price = $80.00 USD
2nd Ed. 8vo - 2-Volumes, 455 & 603 pages, illus., photos, tables, fold-out maps. Green cloth with green dj's.
UNIFORM BOOKS
Title Cavalry Uniforms & Infantry Uniforms - 3 vols
Author Name Wilkinson-Latham, Robert & Christopher - Price = $60.00 USD
Publisher: Blanford Press; 1972;
3 titles: 1) Infantry Uniforms, Including Artillery and Other Supporting Corps of Britain and the Commonwealth 1742-1855; 2) Infantry Uniforms, Including Artillery and Other Supporting Corps of Britain and the Commonwealth; and 3) Cavalry Uniforms of Britain and the Commonwealth Including Other Mounted Troops. 288 color plates.
Title: Uniforms of the Soldiers of Fortune
Author Name: Thompson, Leroy - Price = $18.00 USD
Publisher: Blandfod Press; 1985;
159 pages, color uniform plates @ narrative. 96 full color illustrations of the best known and most effective soldiers of fortune, ranging from the Varangian bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors through the condottieri and Foreign Legions to modern 'military advisers' in states ranging from Oman to Guatemala.
Title: Helicopters and Other Rotocraft Since 1907
Author name: Munson, Kenneth - Price = $22.00 USD
Publisher: The Macmillan Company; 1969;
178 pages, color plates with descriptors, pocket encyclopedia. Eighty-two representative rotorcraft developed by the U.S., Britain, France, the U.S.S.R., Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, West Germany, and Spain are displayed.
Title: Uniforms of the Civil War in Color
Author Name: Haythornthwaite, Philip - Price = $15.00 USD
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.; 1990;
192 pages, color illus. Civil War, uniforms. A great all around uniform book for The American Civil War.
Title: Naval Fast Strike Craft and Patrol Boats
Author Name McLeavy, Roy - Price = $18.00 USD
Publisher: Blandford Press; 1979;
176 pages, color illus., line drawings, tables, great detail. Examines a wide range of small warships - missile craft, fast patrol boats, torpedo-boats and fast gunboats - either in or about to enter service with world's navies. Provides both a recognition guide and the essential technical detail on these vessels and includes information on their powerplants, defensive weapons, surface-to-surface missiles and their guidance systems.
Title: Q-Ships and Their Story
Author Name: Chatterton, E. Keble - Price = $25.00 USD
Publisher: Naval Institute Press; 1972;
276 pages, charts, maps, line drawings, photos. Artfully disguised steamers and sailing ships were to become familiar in the harbors of Berehaven and Queenstown. Armament and crew were as varied as the ships themselves, the former consisting of 3pdr., 6pdr. and 12pdr, quick-firing guns, depth chargers, machineguns and rifles. The officers and men were representative of every type of seaman from the Royal Navy, both active and retired R.N.R, R.N.V.R., merchant seamen, fishermen and peacetime yachtsmen. First-hand account of Q-Ship operations. Dj chipped on top, bottom and spine.
Title: Fighters and Bombers of World War II
Author Name: Munson, Kenneth - Price = $28.00 USD
Binding hard cover, cloth;
Publisher U.S.; Blandford Press Ltd; 1969;
323 pages, 2 vols in 1, 3-view color plates @ narrative. The war brought advances in the fighter's speed and firepower, and in the range and payload of the bomber, hitherto undreamt of by aeronautical designers. By 1945 the introduction of the first jet- and rocket-powered interceptors was to change the nature of air combat forever by the tremendous speeds of which they were capable.
Title: Uniforms of the Elite Forces - Including the S.A.S. and American Special Forces
Author Name: Thompson, Leroy & Michael Chappell - Price = $20.00 USD
Publisher: Blandford Press; 1985;
121 pages, 32 color plates.