hall commander (43 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good; some chipping and tears. First U.S. Edition. Hardback. DJ torn slightly. Title page has â3-87 / 308p / 22.95â We ship promptly. Book is in stock.

Cloth Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. John Batchelor Ilustrador. First Edition. Original owner's small name and address label and a "Fly the Flag (U.S.) 2000" sticker on the interior of the front cover, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy in a Mylar Protective Cover. "The Underwater War" takes a fresh and authoritative look at submarines during World War Two. No other book has dealt as internationally and intimately with the way submariners lived and fought during the years 1939-1945." 160 pages. "The Underwater War" is illustrated with some 280 black and white photographs, covering all aspects of submarines and the submariner's life. Drawn from exclusive archives in several countries, very few have previously been published and many are very rare." GE1.

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), xii, 308 pp. Photos. Near-Fine, in a chipped dust jacket. Maritime, Submarine, Naval, Warship.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN . B007PS5QCC Hardback. Third printing. Slight wear to corners and edges; slight browning and dustsoiling throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Good to Very Good condition. Dustjacket with minor browning to spine and top half of back; slight wear to corners and edges; 18/- net original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket; Good condition. No Signature.

Paperback. Condición: Good+. First. 12mo. A nice copy with some foxing to cover. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Price-clipped Else Near Fine. First Edition. 144 pages, copiously illustrated in black and white. The first of what was expected to be (but apparently wasn't) an annual digest, taking an intimate and world-wide look into the lives of submariners past and present, with a glimpse of the future.

Condición: Good. 1959. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full black cloth binding with gilt spine title, no inscriptions and price-clipped DJ. A clean, tight copy of 308pp. incl. b/w photos.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper ( priceclipped ), pp. xii, 308. Illustrated. Written as the Trident programme was just about to be launched, the book assesses the capabilities of the Soviet Union and NATO. Wrapper price clipped, clean and bright but with some light creasing to rear cover. Binding and contents very bright and sound but covers just very slightly bowed. VG / VG.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. ix, 245 pages, illustrated throughout with archive, black and white photographs with detailed captions. A graphic view of life in British submarines. Foreword by Rear Admiral J. F. Perowne OBE, Flag Officer Submarines.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. John Batchelor Ilustrador. Reprint. A fresh and authoritative look at submarines during World War Two. Nearly all the material is drawn from original sources and life on operational duty is described in detail. Emphasis is placed on the impact of submarines in all theatres of war including the American campaign against the Japanese, the role of the British Submarine in the allied victory in North Africa and the success of British and Italian midget submarines and human torpedoes. 280 rare b&w photos. 160 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Military; Military & Warfare; Nautical::Naval. ISBN: 0713711310. ISBN/EAN: 9780713711318. Inventory No: 260440.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Undated edition. Landscape size, 8.1 inches long.

Condición: Very good. small red printed card covers, stapled, very good.

Condición: Good. New edition. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Book has slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FINE/NEAR-FINE First Edition, 1st UK Printing. Collector's quality: crisp, clean, no wear to boards, binding or pages, unmarked. DJ has two 1/2" tears along top edge, otherwise as-new. - At the height of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, British Commander Sir Stephen King-Hall proposed a controversial new nuclear weapons policy for Great Britain with this book. It was a policy he said could save mankind and restore Britain's status of power and influence in the world. Includes material on Soviet World Domination and Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 8vo, 252pp, plans, page tips a little age foxed, a vg tight copy in dustwrapper which is a bit edge chipped and aged and bit foxed to back but near complete.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A lovely sound, clean copy with no inscriptions and clean pages throughout, albeit with a little browning and foxing to the end papers and page block edge. Fresh looking clean green cloth boards with black title lettering on the spine. Minor knocking and wear at the corner tips and spine ends. The odd speck here and there. Splendid copy. No date of publication printed but circa 1936.

Condición: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 224pp. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. Light bumping to the lower corners of the boards, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good plus condition (some chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. Signed by Stephen King-Hall on the front free endpaper.

hardcover. Condición: very good. 8vo, Bookplate.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fine-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine-. 224 pages. "This is a controversial book that sets out to overthrow many long-accepted and cherished dogmas on the nature of power-politics today. More importantly, the author has constructive and thought-provoking theories to put in their place. Commander King-Hall deals with the most perplexing and vitually significant problem which man has ever been called upon to solve- and solve it he must, for the penalty of failure will probably be the extinction of the human race add certainly the disappearance of civilization as we know it today." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET, signed by the author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condición: Near Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Very Good. Fascinating account of service in the Royal Navy 1906 - 29. Liberally seasoned with Adventures and extremely amusing stories. Illustrated with 8 BN&W photos. Blue cloth cover with Gilt lettering on spine. 287 p.pages, 9" Tall, 430g. No inscriptions. Some brownming to endpapers.Slight edge wear to jacket. Unclipped, original price18s.

Wraps. Condición: Fair. Pages xxiii, 1356-1588, [1-46]. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tabular Data. The issue has moisture damage and the spine is torn with pieces missing at top and bottom. Cover has other wear and soiling. An unappealing looking item whose value remains its content. This professional journal was published For The Advancement of Professional, Literary And Scientific Knowledge In The Navy. Among the topics covered are The Founding of the Naval Academy by Bancroft and Buchanan, Colonial Government of Maryland, a Description of the United States Naval Academy, Entrance Requirements, Officers and Gentlemen in the Making, Athletic Training, A Midshipman's Day, Plebe Summer, and Annapolis, Mother of Navy Men. Among the authors was Arthur Ageton. Proceedings is a 96-page monthly magazine published by the U.S. Naval Institute. Launched in 1874, it is one of the oldest continuously published magazines in the United States. Proceedings covers topics concerning global security and includes articles from military professionals and civilian experts, historical essays, book reviews, full-color photography, and reader commentary. Roughly a third are written by active-duty personnel, a third by retired military, and a third by civilians. Proceedings also frequently carries feature articles by Secretaries of Defense, Secretaries of the Navy, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and top leaders of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Over the decades many notable names have contributed articles to Proceedings either early in their careers or when they reached the upper echelons of leadership, and in many cases, both: Tom Clancy, best-selling author of techno-thrillers such as The Hunt for Red October; George Dewey, only officer in U.S. history to attain the rank of Admiral of the Navy; Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II; Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S. Navy flag officer, geostrategist and historian; Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States; James G. Stavridis, NATO's 16th Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Yates Stirling Jr., U.S. Navy flag officer, author, submarine pioneer and first commander of Naval Submarine Base New London and Submarine School. Ninetieth Anniversary Issue presumed first printing thus.

Soft Cover. Condición: Good. 108, xii pages clean and tight. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. 8vo, owner's bookplate.

Condición: Sehr gut. Uncorrected Proof. 21 x 14 cm. 224 pages. Paperback proof copy with title on front board. In original unclipped yellow dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling throughout. Some edge wear to dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Dust jacket front and title page are stamped 'UNCORRECTED'. With a typed letter to Field Marshal Alanbrooke, signed by the author. The author also added typed paper sections stapled to various pages and containing corrections made between the proof phase and printing phase. Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall (21 January 1893 - 2 June 1966), was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright. The son of Admiral Sir George Fowler King-Hall and Olga Felicia Ker; theirs was an artistic Naval family. He was educated at Lausanne in Switzerland and at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He fought in the First World War between 1914 and 1918, with the Grand Fleet, serving on HMS Southampton and 11th Submarine Flotilla. He gained the rank of commander in the service of the Royal Navy in 1928, before resigning in 1929. He wrote several plays between 1924 and 1940, including Posterity accepted by Leonard Woolf for the Hogarth Essays. He joined the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1929, having previously been awarded their Gold Medal for his 1920 thesis on submarine warfare. He entered the House of Commons in 1939 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ormskirk unopposed, standing as the National Labour candidate. He later changed his affiliation and continued to stand as an Independent, subsequently losing the seat to future Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1945 general election. During the Second World War, he served in the Ministry of Aircraft Production under Beaverbrook as Director of the Factory Defence Section. In 1944 he founded and chaired the Hansard Society to promote parliamentary democracy. He presented a programme for children on current affairs on both BBC radio and television. He was invested as a Knight Bachelor in 1954 and was created Baron King-Hall, of Headley in the County of Hampshire (Life Peer) on 15 January 1966. He lived at Hartfield House, Headley until his death on 2 June 1966.