Hart History Of The First World War

Elstob, Peter. BASTOGNE: THE ROAD BLOCK. [Introduction By Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart]. [Ballantine's Illustrated History Of World War II, Battle Book No. 4]. [New York, NY]: [Ballantine Books Inc.] , 1972
8vo - over 7¾" - 9" 0-345-01844-3 Fourth printing (originally published in 1968). 8vo (5 1/2" x 8 1/4"). 160 pages. Red and black pictorial wrappers (trade paperback). Maps. Illustrated. Bibliography. Part of a wonderful collection of the Ballantine military history series which was recently acquired, all of which are in unusually nice, collectible condition (they all appear to have been carefully stored after initial purchase and never read). "It is the Battle of Bastogne on which Peter Elstob focusses [sic.] in his graphic book, after a brief account of the German plans for the Ardennes Offensive as a whole. He ably traces the dramatic features, and turning points, in the crucial struggle."- From the introduction by Sir Basil Liddell Hart. "...and sometimes they were very frightened. Some mastered their fear and some were mastered by it, some had no thought of giving up and some wanted to, some fought hard and with skill and others hung back: neither bullets nor shrapnel could distinguish between them - nor did death."- From back cover. Chapter titles: "Hitler Plans A New Blitzkrieg"; "The First Day"; "The Road To Bastogne"; "Panzer Corps At The Gates"; "The First Blows"; "Touch And Go At Bastogne"; "Ultimatum"; "Last Gasp"; "Bastogne Is Relieved And The Tables Are Turned." Ballantine's Illustrated History Of World War II, Battle Book No. 4..

Fourth Printing, Soft Cover, Fine Book, Clean and Bright

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Hughes, Robert: American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 1997
ISBN: 0375703659 Fine

ix, 635 pp., illus. (some col.); 26 cm. Stated "First Edition." AS NEW. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Opionated art criticism, based on TV series. Oversize! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America. The intense relationship between the American people and their surroundings has been the source of a rich artistic tradition. American Visions is a consistently revealing demonstration of the many ways in which artists have expressed this pervasive connection. In nine eloquent chapters, which span the whole range of events, movements, and personalities of more than three centuries, Robert Hughes shows us the myriad associations between the unique society that is America and the art it has produced: 'O My America, My New Founde Land' explores the churches, religious art, and artifacts of the Spanish invaders of the Southwest and the Puritans of New England; the austere esthetic of the Amish, the Quakers, and the Shakers; and the Anglophile culture of Virginia. 'The Republic of Virtue' sets forth the ideals of neo-classicism as interpreted in the paintings of Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and the Peale family, and in the public architecture of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Latrobe, and Charles Bulfinch. 'The Wilderness and the West' discusses the work of landscape painters such as Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, and the Luminists, who viewed the natural world as 'the fingerprint of God's creation,' and of those who recorded America's westward expansion--George Caleb Bingham, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Remington--and the accompanying shift in the perception of the Indian, from noble savage to outright demon. 'American Renaissance' describes the opulent era that followed the Civil War, a cultural flowering expressed in the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens; the paintings of John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Childe Hassam; the Newport cottages of the super-rich; and the beaux-arts buildings of Stanford White and his partners. 'The Gritty Cities' looks at the post-Civil War years from another perspective: cast-iron cityscapes, the architecture of Louis Henri Sullivan, and the new realism of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, the trompe-l'oeil painters, and the Ashcan School. 'Early Modernism' introduces the first American avant garde: the painters Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Stella, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O'Keeffe, and the premier architect of his time, Frank Lloyd Wright. 'Streamlines and Breadlines' surveys the boom years, when skyscrapers and Art Deco were all the rage...and the bust years that followed, when painters such as Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Thomas Hart Benton, Diego Rivera, and Jacob Lawrence showed Americans 'the way we live now.' 'The Empire of Signs' examines the American hegemony after World War II, when the Abstract Expressionists (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, et al.) ruled the artistic roost, until they were dethroned by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, the Pop artists, and Andy Warhol, while individualists such as David Smith and Joseph Cornell marched to their own music. 'The Age of Anxiety' considers recent events: the return of figurative art and the appearance of minimal and conceptual art; the speculative mania of the 1980s, which led to scandalous auction practices and inflated reputations; and the trends and issues of art in the 90s. Lavishly illustrated and packed with biographies, anecdotes, astute and stimulating critical commentary, and sharp social history, American Visions is published in association with a new eight-part PBS television series. Robert Hughes has called it 'a love letter to America.' This superb volume, which encompasses and enlarges upon the series, is an incomparably entertaining and insightful contemplation of its splendid subject. / Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. He has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. He has been art critic for TIME magazine for more than 25 years. His books include monographs on painters Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach, a history of Australian art, Heaven and Hell in Western Art (1969), The Shock of the New (1981), The Fatal Shore (1987), a book of social criticism entitled The Culture of Complaint (1995), Barcelona (1992), and a collection of reviews, Nothing If Not Critical (1990). Hughes is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes for his work, most recently an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters." - Publisher. First paperback edition Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

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Hart, B. H. Liddell. HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
First published in 1934, this is a classic of historical military writing, detailing the lead up to the First World War and the conflict itself.

1977. BCA. new edition first reprint. VG. dj good, edgewear, spine faded. 9.5x6.5. 635pp. 26 maps by Peter McClure.

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Hart, B. H. Liddell: The Real War 1914 -- 1918, London Faber & Faber 1930
Very Good -

539pp inc index, bibliography, 25 b+w maps including two fold-out ones - Sir Basil's comprehensive military history of WWI. Hart also authored <B><U>History of the Second World War</b></u>. <P>Covers (red cloth with faded gilt titles to spine) are soiled and worn with with bumped corners. Backstrip is lose. Textblock is lightly tanned with heavier tanning to EPs and inked prior owner's name and "July 6, 1946" to FEP. pages. Rough-trimmed page edges, slightly soiled. Small label on RPDP from "The Times Book Club". <B>A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost.</B> First Edition No Jacket Cloth 5.5 x 8.5"

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