Eighth Army (79 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Second Edition.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Report of the Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army on the Leyte-Samar Operation (Including Clearance of the Visayan Passages): 26 December 1944 - 8 Ma. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light wear to cloth on top board. Previous owner name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. William Arthur Patrick (illustrator). No date of publication is given. The cover has brown cloth with dark brown lettering and decorative beige lines. The first entries are short biographies and full-page, color portraits of General Douglas Macarthur and Lt. General Robert L. Eichelberger.The first page of the history states, "The Eighth Army. from Memphis, Tennessee.began its role in the Pacific War on the 7th of September, 1944." The photos are browntone. The hand drawn illustrations are in color. The front pastedown is wavy along the bottom edge, and the back pastedown is wavy along the top edge, apparently as left by the binder. The pages have light cigarette odor. The DJ's folds and top and bottom edges have chips, up to 1 1/4 in., and closed tears, up to 4 in. Scans e-mailed upon request. Priority or international shipping will require extra shipping cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . First Edition 12mo, hardcover. Vg+ condition in vg dj. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 51 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. "8-4 Second Edition K-T;" 51 p., clean and unmarked anywhere, with opened pages. 51 p., clean and unmarked anywhere except for faint stray mark on front end page near lower margin;; binding firm; in absence of d.j.the beige boards have faint stains, lightly bumped corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good+/Good. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. Good+/Good. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 8vo., 51pp., dust jacket shelf wear, soiling, crease on front fold-over, price clipped on front fold-over, light fading at edges, otherwise good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise quite good; light foxing on edges of text block, pencil note on rear pastedown, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

First Australian edition. 46 pp. Very good plus in full cloth, lacking dust jacket. Foreword by Gen. Sir. Bernard Montgomery.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 5pp. Interior in very nice clean condition. At the end of the Second World War The British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS) and other Agency personnel inspected Japanese factories, laboratories, industries, etc, to scrutinise documents and interrogate or interview the directors, scientists, engineers, etc to obtain technical information that might be of value to the allies. The resulting reports were published in very limited quantities for those that might find them useful. Interior good and clean, REDUCED COMBINED POSTAGE available on multiple orders. See my other listings for the similar Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee CIOS on Germany, Field Information Agency, Technical, ( F.I.A.T.) reports, etc.

Condition: very good. 4" x 9", 1 sheet, wraps (brochure/flyer approx. 4" x 9"), figure of a airman in uniform on the front.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 46 pages. An anthology of poetry written by member sof the British eighth army. A clean and sound book with evidence of previous ownership at the head of the front free end paper. The remains of the dust wrapper are now held together with a clear protector. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. 6"x9".

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stapled Printed Grey Wraps; 42 Clean, Unmarked Pages; Small Smudge In Index.

hardback about very good condition in blue cloth (some rubbing).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. "Poems, written by fighting men in the heat of desert battle, that vividly record their emotions and their essential spirit." Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery to this stated Second Edition, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover exemplar of moving poetry from members of the Eighth Army in the British military force in the Second World War. Clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Printed dust jacket, lightly worn, a bit sunned, slight chip missing to spine head. 51 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. "Poems, written by fighting men in the heat of desert battle, that vividly record their emotions and their essential spirit." Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery to this stated Second Edition, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover exemplar of moving poetry from members of the Eighth Army in the British military force in the Second World War. Clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Printed dust jacket, moderately worn, a bit sunned, chip missing to spine head. A fetching gift inscription at first free endpaper, "To 'Bennie', from Mom and Pop, 1945." 51 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good (age toning along the spine) dust jacket. ; 51 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Hardcover in beige cloth boards with imprinted black lettering and white design on front. No dust jacket. 4to. First printing. 1947. Water stains on front and back boards and the edges of some interior pages. (No musty smell at all. ) Binding is a little wobbly--front and rear hinges are cracked. Facsimile signatures of generals Douglas MacArthur and Robert Eichelberger appear on comments by them. Photos throughout. 127 pp.

Grey Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Grey Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 51 pages; a foreword by Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery; from the dj: "These 27 poems by officers and soldiers of the British Eighth Army were all written under fire in the midst of one of the greatest campaigns of this war--while Rommell was retreating across the Western Desert. They express completely the thoughts of these men--thoughts of battle,.of love and of home." and from the foreword by Gen. Montgomery: "Perhaps, it is not too fanciful to see in the poems that follow something of the greatness of mind and spirit with which this valiant Army has been fired, and to which so many of its finest achievements can be attributed." Book condition: a bookplate is on the front fly leaf; there is foxing in the area of both endpaper hinges, darker in the rear; the blue dj spine is a bit faded, otherwise, book and dj are very nice indeed, for a wartime book.

Condition: NEW.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARRAP 1944 1ST EDITION. EX LIBRARY.GOOD OVERALL CONDITION . NO D/J. BOARDS HAVE SOME MARKS .SENT NEXT WORKING DAY FROM THE U/K 1ST CLASS 0.0.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. In polypropylene bag. (military history, veterans, periodicals) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full navy cloth. 46 pp. Light bruising to spine ends. Dust jacket lightly soiled and edge worn. A collection of twenty-seven poems (one anonymous) of battle, of love, of home, written during the fighting in Libya and submitted for competition to their won newspaper Crusader, by the officers and men of the gallant Eighth Army during the great campaign that drove Rommel back across Africa.