British Air Ministry,
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FORCES IN THE FIELD, OCTOBER 1918.
NEW copy, hardcover issued without dustjacket. Battery Press, 1994; reprint of the original 1918
edition.
225 pages.
~~~
An exact reprint of the Order of Battle of the Austro-Hungarian Army as of October 1918 as
prepared by British Army Intelligence. It gives a complete breakdown of the High Command,
Armies & Corps along with a complete Divisional List, showing all component brigades,
regiments, batteries & smaller units. It then presents a complete list of all regiments &
batteries, showing much detail on what unit it was a part of, plus information on foprtress
commanders, lists of commanders & commands, titular names of regiments and field post numbers.
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British General Staff,
GERMAN FORCES IN THE FIELD, 11 NOVEMBER 1918.
NEW copy. Battery Press, 1995. Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
Photographs, map, 272 pages.
~~~ Originally prepared & issued by the British War Office in a
very limited edition of 300 copies marked Confidential in 1920. It presents a very detailed
ORDER OF BATTLE of all German combat units on the Western Front as of the Armistice on
Nov.11th, 1918. This reference work describes active & reserve divisions, Landwehr,
Mobile Ersatz & Landsturm units in each Army Corps. It shows the order of battle for
each unit named to include divisions, Naval Corps, Alpine Corps, Provisional Formations,
Cycylist Brigades & Jaeger divisions. Researchers will appreciate having Field Post numbers
for all units, plus tables of Headquarters & Depots for combat units. There are reproductions
of 2 captured maps in a rear pocket which show the distribution of the German Army as of Oct.
30th and Nov. 9th, l9l8.
$40.00
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British General Staff,
GERMAN MILITARY TERMS, 1918.
NEW copy. Battery Press, 1995. Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
Photographs, map, 212 pages.
~~~ Originally published by the Intelligence Branch of the British
General Staff during the Great War. It is a most important work as it is not only a normal
dictionary, but rather a compendium of German Military Terms and abbreviations as used by the
German Army in the Great War. It was published to enable British officers to interpret captured
documents, maps & equipment. It contains numerous references to words that were only used during
WW One and is therefore a most valuable reference work for any WW I German collector, student
or historian.
$19.95
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British General Staff,
HANDBOOK OF THE GERMAN ARMY, 1914.
NEW copy. Battery Press. Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
345 pages.
~~~
This is the British General Staff's intelligence manual for the German Army at the beginning of
World War 1. Originally printed in 1912 and amended to August 1914, this reference volume has
chapters on the conditions of service, organization and numbers available in peace and war,
administration of the Army and General Staff, infantry, cavalry, artillery, technical troops,
supply and medicial services, tactics, signalling and colonial troops. Also included are
appendices giving military pay, military terms, topographical signs and abbreviations and
much more
$19.95
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British General Staff,
HANDBOOK OF THE GERMAN ARMY AT WAR, APRIL 1918.
NEW copy. Battery Press, 1996. Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
17 photographs/drawings, 217 pages.
~~~ Originally prepared by the British General
Staff's Intelligence Branch, this is the last reference book on the German Army produced
by the British before the end of World War I.
$19.95
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Christensen, Christen,
BLOCKADE AND JUNGLE.
NEW copy. Battery Press, 2003. Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
Photographs, map, 270 pages.
~~~
The story of a German sailor who participated in the German East Africa campaign under General
Lettow-Vorbeck.
$24.95
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von Falkenhayn, General Erich,
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 1914-1916 AND ITS CRITICAL DECISIONS
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NEW copy. Battery Press. Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
Maps, 312 pages.
~~~
General von Falkenhayn was appointed Chief of the General Staff in September 1914 and held the
post until September 1916 when he was replaced at the urging of Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
Although he later successfully led German armies in the East, this book concentrates on
operations under his direction in the first two years of the war. There are chapters on
the general military situation at the beginning of September 1914, the initial period of
trench warfare, operations at Garlice-Tarnaw in the East, attempts to gain a breakthrough
in the in the West in 1915 and the campaigns of 1916.
$19.95
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G E R M A N
AIR SERVICE
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German General Staff.
YPRES, 1914. Constable & Co, London, 1919., NF/G. First Edition.
Head & toe of
dust jacket spine chipped. About 1/5th (lower left corner) of front
panel of DJ missing. DJ in mylar protector. Book itself nearly
immaculate, tight & bright. Clean inside & out. 5.5x8.
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AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE GERMAN GENERAL STAFF, With Introduction
and Notes by the Historical Section (Military Branch), Committee of
Imperial Defence. Translation into English by "G.C.W." Maps,
extensive
notes, appendices, index, 136 pp. Table of contents as follows:
Introduction; German Preface; Preliminary Remarks; The Theatre of
Operations; The Advance of the Fourth Army; The Operations of the
Fourth Army, 20th-31st October 1914; The Attempt to Break through
South of Ypres; The Operations of the Fourth Army from the End of
October to the 9th November 1914; The Last Phase; Conclusion.
Appendices as follows: Order of Battle of the Fourth Army; Order
of
Battle of the Army Group Fabeck; Order of Battle of the Group
Gerok;
Order of Battle of the Army Group Linsingen; INDEX.
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German General Staff.
YPRES 1914: AN OFFICIAL GERMAN ACCOUNT, THE GENERAL STAFF
. NEW copy, Battery Press, 1994.
Hardcover issued without dustjacket. 160 pages.
~~~ This is a reprint of the rare English
translation of this Official Account written by the German General Staff in 1920. It describes
in great detail the German Offensive at Ypres in Flanders during October & November 1914. This
attack was against British & Canadian troops. In addition, there is an introduction by the
British Historical Section which places the campaign in the context of British plans &
operations.
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GENERAL
PAUL von
HINDENBURG
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[Hindenburg] John Lee,
WARLORDS:
Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
NEW copy: hardcover with dust jacket.
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005).
224 pages.
~~~ Hindenburg and Ludendorff were
two of the greatest generals of the First
World War. At Tannenberg in 1914 their
brilliance on the battlefield annihilated
one Russian army completely, and drove a
second from German territory in disarray.
~~~ They repeated these feats time and
again on the Eastern Front, and when Falkenhayn
resigned as Chief of the Great General Staff
in 1916 (partly through the pair's intriguing
against him), Hindenburg was the natural
choice to take over. Very soon they became two
of the most powerful men in Germany.
~~~
In a country where literally everything was
geared towards helping the war effort, their
influence reached into all parts of German
life: not only the army but the economy,
industry, the transport systems, and the
production and distribution of food. Their
power was such that they were able to force
the resignation of three successive
Chancellors and several government ministers.
~~~ They meddled in foreign policy and
affairs of state with such frequency that it
was impossible for anyone of note to hold
office without their approval. By the end of
the First World War, Germany was effectively a
military dictatorship.
~~~ This is the
inside story of the German war machine during
the Great War. In his concise but incredibly
comprehensive history of the war, John Lee
shows how Hindenburg and Ludendorff rose to
power, and how their iron grip on the nation
very soon brought Germany to the brink of
starvation, with riots and industrial strikes
reaching epidemic proportions. He also shows
how their Prussian values not only contributed
to Germany's downfall, but paved the way for an
even more devastating war 20 years later.
Currently in print at $27.50.
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Hoffman, General Max,
THE WAR OF LOST OPPORTUNITIES.
NEW copy, Battery Press, 1999. Originally published in 1925. 246 pages.
~~~ A World War I memoir by this exceptional German officer, who served almost exclusively on
the Russian front during WW 1. In August 1914 he was Operations Officer in East Prussia, and was
primarily his plans which were used to win the battle of Tannenberg. He was also responsible for
the highly successful winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes in Feb. 1915, where 100,000 Russian
soldiers were captured. In July 1917 he directed the successful German response to the Russian
Brusilov offensive. He ended his career on the eastern front as Hindenburg & Ludendorff's
representative at the Brest-Litovsk peace talks. He ends the book with his comments on what
Germany could have done to win the war.
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Hurd, Archibald and Henry Castle. GERMAN
SEA-POWER:
ITS RISE, PROGRESS AND ECONOMIC BASIS, WITH MAPS AND APPENDICES
GIVING
THE FLEET LAWS, ETC. Charles
Scriber's Sons, 1914.
Good+. Ex-library, with white library numbers on spine, rear card
pocket, and bookplate. Other markings minimal. Some rippling,
apparently from water damage, to spine, which is rippled, but
otherwise sound. Some discoloration to back cover. Edge of spine
worn
through in one place (about ½ inch flaw) between spine and front
cover,
also one top corner of spine worn through, and one nick at top of
spine. Otherwise covers show almost no edgewear, and no chipping.
This title currently in print (reprint edition) at $39.95.
Appendices,
tables, two fold-out maps, index.
For more information.
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Kellogg, Vernon.
HEADQUARTERS NIGHTS: A RECORD OF CONVERSATIONS
& EXPERIENCES AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE GERMAN ARMY IN FRANCE
& BELGIUM.
The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1917., NF/VG. 2nd
printing. Minor chipping to spine ends & corners of dust jacket
which is in mylar protector. Book itself looks almost new,
bright & tight. A very nice copy. "A Record of Conversations
and Experiences at the Headquarters of the German Ar my in
France and Belgium." A small, attractive book, 4.75 x 7.75,
printed on heavy paper. Uncommon to find in this condition and
with dust jacket. 116 pp.
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Lefebure, Victor,
THE RIDDLE OF THE RHINE: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War. (New York:
The Chemical Foundation, Inc., 1923). VG/G. Jacket chipped & crumpled at top of spine; one-inch-square piece
missing from back panel. Jacket in mylar. Book itself in tight, bright condition, except for soiling
on top edge of pages. Interior clean. First Edition. Preface by Marshal Foch; Introduction by Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson. Photographs, index, 282 pages.
Author commanded various units on the Western Front for two years, then was
assigned the task of developing the liaison between England and France in the
field of chemical warfare.
After Armistice he served on several Inter-Allied Missions to Germany and Alsace to examine the
chemical warfare activities of the Rhine Dye and Chemical Organic Factories.
His book presents a detailed history of the use of chemical warfare by English, French, German
and American forces.
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GENERAL
ERICH
LUDENDORFF
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[Ludendorff] D.J. Goodspeed,
LUDENDORFF:
Genius of World War I.
VG/VG. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
First Edition. Photographs, maps, 335 pages.
~~~ From mid-1916 until October 1918 General Erich Ludendorff was virtually military
dictator of Germany and the central figure of the tragedy, for he controlled a.
lmost single-handedly the war effort of the Central Powers. Colonel Goodspeed's
analysis of Ludendorff's character and actions is therefore an important
contribution to the understanding of the entire war....Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany,
with all its c. olor and energy, its heroism and its brutality, its towering
virtues and its debilitating prides and passions, comes alive again on these
pages....The book is filled with battles - in the swamps and pine forests of
East Prussia, in the flat Vistula . lowlands of Poland, along the sandy Baltic
Shore, and in the muddy desolation of the Western Front. The author describes
these with the professional soldier's penetrating eye for relevant detail, but
even more vivid than the battles are the portrai. ts of the men who directed
them, the brilliant strategists of the German General Staff who for more than
four years fought a dashing cut-and-thrust war against overwhelming odds.
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[Ludendorff] John Lee,
WARLORDS:
Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
NEW copy: hardcover with dust jacket.
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005).
224 pages.
~~~ Hindenburg and Ludendorff were
two of the greatest generals of the First
World War. At Tannenberg in 1914 their
brilliance on the battlefield annihilated
one Russian army completely, and drove a
second from German territory in disarray.
~~~ They repeated these feats time and
again on the Eastern Front, and when Falkenhayn
resigned as Chief of the Great General Staff
in 1916 (partly through the pair's intriguing
against him), Hindenburg was the natural
choice to take over. Very soon they became two
of the most powerful men in Germany.
~~~
In a country where literally everything was
geared towards helping the war effort, their
influence reached into all parts of German
life: not only the army but the economy,
industry, the transport systems, and the
production and distribution of food. Their
power was such that they were able to force
the resignation of three successive
Chancellors and several government ministers.
~~~ They meddled in foreign policy and
affairs of state with such frequency that it
was impossible for anyone of note to hold
office without their approval. By the end of
the First World War, Germany was effectively a
military dictatorship.
~~~ This is the
inside story of the German war machine during
the Great War. In his concise but incredibly
comprehensive history of the war, John Lee
shows how Hindenburg and Ludendorff rose to
power, and how their iron grip on the nation
very soon brought Germany to the brink of
starvation, with riots and industrial strikes
reaching epidemic proportions. He also shows
how their Prussian values not only contributed
to Germany's downfall, but paved the way for an
even more devastating war 20 years later.
Currently in print at $27.50.
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Mishark, John W.,
THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION: GERMAN MARXISM & WORLD WAR I ~ 1914-1919.
Moira Books, 1967. VG/VG. Some slight
chipping and a few closed tears to dust jacket. DJ in mylar
protector.
Notes, bibliography, index, 310 pp.
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Scheer, Admiral Reinhard,
GERMANY'S HIGH SEAS FLEET IN THE WORLD WAR.
NEW copy. Battery Press, 2002. Hardcover issued without dust jacket.
Maps, 376 pages.
~~~ The author commanded the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland."
$50.00
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Weintraub, Stanley,
SILENT NIGHT: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.
The Free Press, 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket, in new condition except for black
remainder mark on bottom edge of book. Drawings, engravings, photographs, 19-page essay on
Sources, index, 206 pages.
~~~ It was one of history's most powerful - yet forgotten - Christmas stories. It took
place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of
World War I. It began when German soldiers lit candles on small Christmas trees, and British,
French, Belgian and German troops serenaded each other on Christmas Eve. Soon they were gathering
and burying the dead, in an age-old custom of truces. But as the power of Christmas grew among
them, they broke bread, exchanged addresses and letters and expressed deep admiration for one
another. When angry superiors ordered them to recommence the shooting, many men aimed harmlessly
high overhead. Silent Night, by renowned military historian Stanley Weintraub, magically restores
the 1914 Christmas Truce to history.
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KAISER
WILHELM
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Wilson, Lawrence,
THE INCREDIBLE KAISER: A PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM II.
A.S. Barnes & Co, New York, 1963., NF/VG. First American Edition.
A
very nice copy in scuffed but untorn jacket. Jacket in mylar protector. Photographs, bibliography, index,
196 pp.
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