Search Results: american military thought by millis walter editor

New York: Bobbs-Merrill. Good; ex library with markings. 1966. First Edition. Hardbound. 553 pages .

Bobbs-Merrill. Poor with no dust jacket. 1966. Paperback. Front cover detached. Paperback. .

Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. Very Good. Millis, Walter, editor. American Military Thought. Franklin, Benjamin; Washington, George; Hamilton, Alexander. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. 554pp. Indexed. 8vo. Beige cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges. Former owner's address label on front pastedown. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges and a few light spots. Spine and edges are subtly yellowed.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good plus condition: DJ yellowing/Dust Jacket. (1966). First Printing. 8vo., 554 pp. .

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1966. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. liii, [1], 554 pages. Occasional footnotes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. This is a volume in The American Heritage series. Walter Millis (March 16, 1899 - March 17, 1968) was an editorial and staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1954. Millis was a staff member of the Fund for the Republic from 1954 to 1968. He later became the director of the Fund for the Republic's study of demilitarization in 1954. Millis, widely recognized as a historical writer, wrote eight books including: Road to War: America 1914-1917, This is Pearl! The United States and Japan—1941, Why Europe Fights, Viewed Without Alarm: Europe Today, Arms and Men: A Study of American Military History, The Martial Spirit: A Study of Our War with Spain, and An End to Arms. He also edited The Forrestal Diaries and American Military Thought. Among the 47 extracts of documents in this… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. liii, 554pp. Fine/good plus. Large jacket chip at top of rear panel, a few other tiny edge chips and couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears. A tight and attractive first edition of this volume in "The American Heritage Series." This copy extra-illustrated with added frontispiece in the form of a Typed Note Signed from Millis, 1p, 8" X 10", New York, NY, 5 April 1941. Addressed to Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. Cordial note to an admirer -- in part: "To answer your two questions (a) though busy enough in other ways, I am not at work on any book now and (b) I do not in fact 'come' from Cleveland, although I lived there for some years as a boy." Boldly signed in full. Unusual anthology of military writings, ranging from Franklin, Washington and other founding fathers in the 18th century up through Ike, JFK, Robert S. McNamara and others in… Read More