Hans Delbrück & the German Military Establishment: War Images in Conflict [Inscribed & Signed to Alfred Vagts]

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [1985]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's grey cloth, spine lettered in black; xiv,191pp.; illus. Boards a bit rubbed with two small pressure points at bottom edge affecting first two leaves of textblock, brief faint pencil notes throughout (presumably Vagts's), else Near Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page: "For Dr. Alfred Vagts with thanks for comments on several drafts, for keeping me abreast of East German scholarship, but above all for inspiration and encouragement--from one who had already been there, that Delbrück was a worthwhile topic for work of this kind. / Arden Bucholz / 3.5.85." Vagts, the German-American military historian and poet, was the son-in-law of Charles A. Beard.