Soldat: The Ww II German Army Combat Uniform Collector's Handbook, Equipping the German Army Foot Soldier in Europe 1943: 002

History

Mason, Chris

Lee, Cyrus A.

Military

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.

Roar, Lions, Roar: Charleston High School, A Pictorial History

Education & Teaching

Cohen, Stan.

Schools & Teaching

Includes history of Airlines with many photographs of the planes and people who worked for Transocean Airlines

Folded Wings: A History of Transocean Air Lines

Szura, Arue

Business & Money

The American Dentist: A Pictorial History with a Presentation of Early Dental Photography in America

Stanley B. Burns, MD

Richard A. Glenner

Audrey B. Davis

Americas

Fort Drum on El Fraile Island in the Philippines is unique in the development of United States coastal fortifications. Fort Drum is part of a chain of forts built across the entrance of Manila Bay to defend the Bay from naval attack. The construction of Fort Drum began in 1909 by reducing tiny El Fraile Island to the low water mark. Over the next ten years a multi-deck concrete island was built to mount two twin 14-inch guns in superimposed Army designed armored turrets. The completed work rises 40 feet above sea level, it is 350 feet long and 144 across at its widest point. The exterior walls are up to 28 feet thick and the top deck attains a thickness of 20 feet of re-enforced concrete. The interior of the fort held a large engine room, powder and shell magazines, a mining casemate, storerooms and tankage, a accommodations for 300 personnel. The design of the fort followed a naval pattern with turrets, a cage mast, and secondary armament in side casemates. Due to these characteristics, Fort Drum became known as the "Concrete Battleship." When completed in 1918, Fort Drum was the most powerful defense work in Manila Bay, but the advances in military technology during World War I already began to make the fort obsolete. The post World War I reduction in military spending, the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, and economic depression of the 1930s resulted in Fort Drum being quickly reduced to caretaker status until the coming of World War II. Fort Drum became an important weapon during the Japanese siege of Corregidor and the other island forts during 1942 but only play a minor role during the American retaking of these islands in 1945. The battles of World War II would transform Fort Drum from an American-manned, fully operating fort to a burned-out hulk inhabited by lifeless Japanese sailors. This revised and enlarged 64 page softbound volume tells the story of The Concrete Battleship in words, diagrams, and photographs from its inception to the present day.

The Concrete Battleship: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay

Francis J. Allen

Terrance McGovern

The Birth of a Medical Center: A History of CAMC

Unknown, Author

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 270pp. Trans. from the German. A nice clean copy.

Top Secret Bird: The Luftwaffe's Me-163 Comet

Wolfgang Spate

Paperback Edition 224 pages; Published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Charleston WV. Taken from back cover; War in Western Virginia. In mountain warfare the learning of the books and strategists is of little use. In a country where it is impossible to find enough level land to muster a company of militia, there is very little scope for ingeniously studied military evolutions are consummately arranged plans of campaign on paper. It is impossible for the books to embrace the thousand topographical features of a wild region, where all nature seems drunk in the heels and mountains and high frolic. The only rule of warfare in such a region is to throw away all rule. The policy there is to fight and March, to march and fight. Ingenious ink and paper plans of campaign are about as useless in the region about the Big Sewell Mountain as a McCormick's reaper in a mountain wheat "field."

The Civil War in Fayette County, West Virginia

McKinney, Tim

Concorde: The Full Story of the Anglo-French SST 
 by Richard K. Schrader Concorde is the epitome of elegance. The flow of her sleek fuselage and graceful wings illustrates refinement and reveals the reason for her great speed. Her unique vertical stabilizer and rudder-sweeping back, and then forward-present a finishing touch that caps the aesthetic value of her being.

Concorde: The Full Story of the Anglo-French SST

Schrader, Richard K.

Europe

Book by A. Richard Guth, Stan Cohen

Red Skies of '88: The 1988 Forest Fire Season in the Northern Rockies, the Northern Great Plains, and the Greater Yellowstone Area

Stan Cohen

A. Richard Guth

World

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