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Fine in Very Good dust jacket. The book is in Very Fine condition, tight, clean and crisp, with a touch of light shelf wear to dustjacket with a small chip to top of spine, otherwise an excellent copy now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library.; 8vo; 293 pages.
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Good. No dust jacket. Word stamped in ink inside front and back cover. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge wear. viii, 295 p. 24 cm. Illustrations, Map. Abbreviations. Naval Vessel and craft Nomenclature. Ranks and Grades in the Armed Forces. References. Gaynor was also the editor of the Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy. Described as the first comprehensive and up-to-date, for the period of the Korean War, definitive glossary covering all branches of the armed forces. Contains over 7000 terms, including missiles, rocketry, atomic & radioactive weapons, chemical & biological warfare, radar, sonar, loran, etc. This is an especially important reference work for understanding the state of knowledge, and to an extent the state of practice, of military equipment, technology, planning, and tactics that incorporated many of the lessons of the Second World War and served as a baseline for the Korean War era.