Preston john contributor (12 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good. Ex-library book, with several stamps on to of book. Sides of covers have tape lamination, two bar code stickers blacked out with marker on back. Further stickers near bottom of spine. Pages have aged over time but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover is different from display image but edition is the same. Paperback. LW.…

paperback. Zustand: New.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Clean, unmarked text. Paperback with splatter marks on the fore-edge from a coffee spill.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. date written on title page.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 2nd special edition. 208 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. The format is approximately 8.625 inches by 12 inches. 255, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Index. Among the contributors are A. J. Barker, Ronald Heiferman, Ivan V. Hogg. John Grayson Kirk, William Koenig, and Antony Preston. Sydney L. Mayer was a British Publisher and historian. He was named to Chancellor's Court of Benefactors, University of Oxford, 1991; honorary fellow Oriel College, University of Oxford, 1993 and was a Fellow Royal Geography Society. Sydney L. Mayer was born on August 2, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He earned his Bachelor, University of Michigan, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1963; Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1986. He was a Lecturer in history, U. Maryland., London, England., 1966-1977; visiting assistant professor international relations, University of Southern California, London, 1969-1977; executive editor History of The Purnell's Second World War, First World War, British Printing Corporation, London, 1968-1969, 69-72; consultant editor, History of the Violent Century, Ballantine Books, London, 1969-1973; publisher, Bison Books, Ltd., London, 1974-1995; president, Brompton Books Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, since 1982; president, Twin Books Corporation, Greenwich, since 1985; director, Twin Books (United Kingdom) Ltd., London, 1987-1995; chairman, Mayer Music Company, since 1996; managing director, Marlborough Productions, since 1997. In 1868, Japan emerged from feudalism and civil conflict as a comparatively undeveloped industrial state in an age of European imperialism in East Asia. Within a generation, Japan had risen to the ranks of the foremost industrial and military powers in the Western Pacific. A generation later, Japan had become the paramount power in East Asia, and her naval and air forces spread Japanese power across the Pacific. The formidable weapon built in the name of the Emperor swept across China and Manchuria; her air forces pummeled Pearl Harbor and Darwin; her armies marched to Singapore and the gates of India. Her navies seized some Aleutian islands and strafed the California coast. By 1942 the world had come to know the power of the most devastating force in the Pacific - the Japanese War Machine. The force and power of the Japanese War Machine is told here by some of the world's leading experts in guns, tanks, planes, and ships of World War II. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. …

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Antony Preston (illustrator).

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.