Coletta Paolo E Compiler (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 452 pages, 4,882 entries, index, Very good in soft covers. Some foxing of page ends.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. Soft covers. xviii,453pp. Ex naval lib. with remains of label on bfep. & usual stamps. VG. 4882 entries.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xiii, [1], 417, [1] pages. Abbreviations. Author Index. Subject Index. Stamp on top edge. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Born in 1916, Paolo Enrico Coletta graduated from the University of Missouri in 1938 with a B.S. in Education, and undertook graduate studies at the same institution. He completed his Masters degree in 1939, and his Ph.D. in 1942. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he taught at the United States Naval Academy as a Professor in the Department of English, History, and Government. "An extremely interesting and important subject, Marine Corps history should not be studied or portrayed in a vacuum. Therefore, in addition to strictly Marine Corps matters, attention herein has been given, where necessary and appropriate, to diplomatic, maritime, naval, military, aviation, geographical, political, economic, social, intellectual, scientific, technological, organizational, administrative, and personal history"--Explanatory notes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xi, [13], 523, [3] pages. Corners bumped. Minor wear and soiling to cover. Pencil notations on reps and inside the back cover. Red ink and pencil additions to the index noted on several pages. No marks to the main text observed. Includes Explanatory Notes. Pertinent Periodicals, Fruitful Browsing, Abbreviations. Selected Bibliographic Aids and Reference Works and then 28 numbered sections and Special Topics from A to V, followed by Appendix 1: Secretaries of the Navy and Appendix 2: Chiefs of Naval Operations. Then completing the volume is an Author Index and a Subject Index. There was apparently an earlier/First edition of this work that was copyrighted by the U.S. Naval Institute. This version is noted as "Revised edition of A Bibliography of American Naval History" that was copyrighted in 1981. This work seeks to update the original edition published by the Naval Institute Press in 1981, by providing new titles in military literature that have appeared since the end of 1979. It differs most from the original edition by providing twenty-three special topics, ranging from Amphibious Operations to women in the Navy, as well as titles in chapters that proceed in chronological order. This edition will greatly reduce titles on Marine Corps History but includes what are considered classic accounts about the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard. As in the first edition, titles are listed under books, documents, dissertations or theses, articles in periodicals or essays in books, transcripts of oral interviews, fiction, and still or moving film. Provides a listing of the secretaries of the Navy and Chiefs of Naval Operations to date, and both an author and subject index. Second/Revised Edition, Presumed First printing thus.…