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Last updated January 9, 2012


1. Camp Gordon, Georgia. THE SHAVETAIL. 5th Battalion, Central Officers Training School. Atlanta, Georgia: Blosser-Williams Company, 1918. Oblong green cloth with embossed illustration of an army mule and 5th Battalion insignia on the front cover. Shelf wear to the spine edges. The corners are bumped. The binding is tight and conference complete. Very scarce unit history from right around 1918. This was the officer candidate training school, so all of the enlistees were officers in training. $75.00

2. Hayes, Carlton J.H. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.. New York: Macmillan, 1922. 461 pages. Ex-library copy, with ink marks on the spine. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Some fading to covers. Binding is tight. $10.00

3. Hundleby, Maxwell & Rainer Strasheim. THE GERMAN A SEVEN V TANK AND THE CAPTURED BRITISH MARK IV TANKS OF WORLD WAR I.. Somerset, England: Haynes Publishing Group, 1990. 240 pages. Near new condition, both book and dust jacket. $125.00

4. Kennedy, J.M. THE WAR LORD: THE CHARACTER STUDY OF KAISER WILLIAM II, BY MEANS OF HIS SPEECHES, LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS.. New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. Shelf wear, else near VG in dust jacket with a couple of chips missing & tears to edges. Jacket also has soiling. $22.50

5. Milano, Vincent & Elisabeth Milano. GERMAN ARMY ORDER OF BATTLE, 1918.. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Great War Militaria, 1991. 101 pages. Softbound covers with stable binding. There is slight shelf wear to the edges. $29.50

6. Miller, Kelly. KELLY MILLER'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.. [n.p.]: Austin Jenkins, 1919. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Corners bumped. $25.00

7. Naval & Military Press. HISTORIES OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE (251) DIVISIONS OF THE GERMAN ARMY WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR, 1914-18.. London: Naval & Military Press, 1989. 749 pages. Scarce title. Excellent research and reference book. $215.00

8. Patten, Simon Nelson. CULTURE AND WAR.. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. Some wear and fading to spine, else G+. Some soiling to binding. Very scarce title in first edition hardback. $22.50

9. Slattery, Margaret. THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE: A PLEA FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OF TOMORROW.. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1918. Shelf wear, else near VG in edge-worn dust jacket with stains and soiling Dust jacket has soiling and spill stains. $6.50

10. Stroppa-Quaglia, R.-editor. THE EUROPEAN WAR: THE POWERS.. New York: Editions D'Art, 1914. Shelf wear to spine and corners. Slight fading to the covers. $8.95

11. Wheeler, George T. SEITENGEWEHR:. Mountain View, California: R James Bender Pub, 1999. 328 pages. Slight shelf wear to the spine edges and corners. A clean and tightly bound copy. $175.00

12. Woolley, Charles. UNIFORMS & EQUIPMENT OF THE IMPERIAL GERMAN ARMY, 1900-1918:. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1999. 375 pages. Near new condition, both book and dust jacket. $38.00

13. Wright, Richardson. LETTERS TO THE MOTHER OF A SOLDIER.. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1918. Slight shelf wear. Scarce dust jacket. There is a piece of the dust jacket missing at top of spine, about 2 inches. $3.00

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