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Rustin Military Collection Richard Rustin Military Books Donated 3 October 2009 THE RUSTIN MILITARY COLLECTION The Rustin Military Collection consists of nearly a thousand military books and periodicals collected by Richard E. Rustin during his lifetime. His wife, Ginette Rustin, donated this collection from his estate to the Archive Center and Genealogy Department, Indian River County Main Library, in October 2009 – April 2010. Richard E. Rustin passed away July, 2008. His wife considered him a genius regarding military history. He was a brilliant writer, a former reporter, manager and assistant chief of the New York news bureau. He edited coverage at the heart of the Wall Street Journal’s financial and economic news operations. He served in the U. S. Navy as an officer from 1956 to 1959. The focus of his collection centered on World War I and World War II. The collection also includes books on the Revolutionary War, Civil War, Mexican War, Korean War, and Viet Nam War, among others. Regimental histories and books of detailed campaigns, military science, military equipment and biography predominate. The library is very fortunate to have such a magnificent research collection containing many rare, out of print and hard to find volumes. It should be of great interest to anyone exploring military history. To date, the complete collection has been processed and is available to the public in the Genealogy Department. Use the online catalog at http://www.irclibrary.org or browse the list below. Title Author Publ Date 106th Cavalry Group in Europe J. P. Himmer Co. 1945 10th Royal Hussars in the Second World War 1939-45 Dawnay, D., etc. 1948 115th Infantry Regiment in World War II Binkoski , Joseph /Arthur Plaut 1988 18th Division in the Great War Nichols, Capt. G.H.F. 1922 27th Infantry Division in World War II Love , Capt. Edmund G. 1949 29 Let’s Go! A History of the 29th Infantry Division in World War II Ewing , Joseph 1948 32nd Division in the World War 1917-1919 Joint War History Commission 1920 409th Infantry in World War II East , Sgt. William /Pvt. William F. 1986 Gleason 42nd (East Lancashire) Division (1914-1918) Gibbon, Frederick P. 1920 43rd Wessex Division at War (1944-1945) Essame, Maj. Gen. H. 1952 47th (London) Division (1914-19) Maude, Alan H. ed. 1922 4th Marine Division in World War II Proehl , Carl W., Editor 1946 51st Again! An Engineer Combat Batallion in World War II Fowle , Barry W. /Floyd D. Wright 1992 52nd (Lowland) Division 1914-18 Thompson, Lt. Col. R. R. 1923 56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) Ward , Maj. C. H. Dudley 1921 6th Guards Tank Brigade Forbes , Patrick nd 71st New York in the World War (2ccs?) Robert Stewart 1922 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France Ward , Maj. C. H. Dudley 1922 7th Division (1914-1918) Atkinson, C. T. 1927 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of Germany Draper , Lt. Theodore 1946 85th Infantry Division in World War II Schultz, Paul L. 1949 89th Inf. Div. (1942-45) 89th Infantry Div. 1947 91st Infantry Division in World War II Robbins , Maj. Robert A. 1947 9th Australian Division Versus the Africa Corps Miller , Col. Ward A. 1986 1 Richard Rustin Military Books Donated 3 October 2009 Title Author Publ Date 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers (1936-45) Bright , John O.B.E. Editor 1951 Aces Aerial Victories; the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia 1965-1973 Futrell , R. Frank; Various 1976 Action Report 20th Army Group Ryukyus Campaign 1 April – 30 June 1945 Jensen, Walter20th Armored Group 1945 Adolf Hitler Volume 1 Toland, John 1854 After the Battle, Battle of the Bulge No. 4 Ramsey, Winston G., ed. Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam 1961-1973 Fox, Roger P. 1979 Air Force Combat Units of World War II History and Insignia Maurer Maurer, Editor 1961 Air Force Combat Wings Ravenstein , Charles A. 1984 Air Force Spoken Here Parton, James 1986 Air Power and the Airlift Evacuation of Kham Duc. USAF Southeast Asia Monograph Gropman, Alan L. 1979 Series V. 5 Mon. 7 Air Power and the Fight for Khe Sanh Nalty, Bernard C. 1973 Air War Against Japan, 1943-1945; Australia in the War 1939-45 Odgers, George 1957 Airpower and the 1972 Spring Invasion USAF Southeast Asia Monograph Series V. 2 Lavalle, A. J. C. 19--? Mon. 3 Algiers to Austria; a History of 78th Division in the Second World war Ray, cyril 1952 All Americans; The 82nd Airborne Thompson , Leroy 1988 All the World’s Fighting Ships 1922-1946 Conway 1980 Allied Landing Craft of WW Two Naval Institute 1944 Alpine Elite, German Mountain troops of World War II Lucas, James 1980 Always a Fusilier Parkinson , C. Northcote 1949 Ambush, The Battle of Dau Tieng Marshall, S.L.A. 1969 American Armies and Battlefields in Europe American Battle Monuments 1938 Commission Americans All; The Rainbow at War; 42nd U.S. Div. Reilly, Henry J. 1936 Angels, A History of the 11th Airborne Flanagan , Maj. Edward M. Jr. 1988 Annals of the King Royal Rifle Corps (Vol VI) 1921-1943 Mills, G. H. /Roger Nixon 1971 Armored Fighting Vehicles of Germany; World War II Crow, Duncan 1978 Army Historical Series, Combat Actions in Korea Gugeler, Russel A. 1970 Army of Frederick the Great Duffy, Christopher 1974 Army of the Caesars Grant , Michael 1974 Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln’s Army Catton, Bruce Arnhem Urquhart, F.E. 1958 Art of War (West Point Military Library) Jomini , Baion De 1862 Assault Division Scarfe , Norman 1947 Assault on Peleliu Hough, Frank O. 1950 At Close Quarters, PT Boats in the U.S. Navy Bulkley Jr., Robert S. (Capt.) 1962 At Dawn We Slept; Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Prange, Gordon W. 1981 Attack and Die McWhiney, Grady & Jamieson, Perry D. 1982 Attacks Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin 1979 August 1914 the Red Wheel Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 1989 Australia in the Korean War 1950-53 V. 2 Combat Operations O’Neill, Robert 1985 Balkans Part 2, Handbooks of Armed Forces Tarnstrom, Ronald L. 1984 Ball of Fire, Fifth Indian Division in the Second World War Brett-James, Antony 1951 Battle at Best Marshal, S. L. A. nd Battle Cry of Freedom McPherson, James M. 1988 Battle for Antwerp ( 2 exact books) Moulton, J.L. 1978 Battle for Rome Jackson, W.G.F. N/A Battle for Tarawa Stockman, James R. 1947 Battle History 473rd United States Infantry World War II Ramsberger, Jack F. ed. 1945 Battle History of the Imperial Japanesse Navy 1941-1945 Dull, Paul S. 1978 Battle of Flanders 1940 Hay, Jan 1940 Battle of Gettysburg U.S. Army War College Guide 1986 2 Richard Rustin Military Books Donated 3 October 2009 Title Author Publ Date Battle of New Market Davis, William C. 1975 Battle of the Atlantic Hughes, Terry /John Costello 1977 Battles and leaders of the Civil War 4 Volumes Yoseloff, Thomas 1956 Battles Lost and Won Baldwin, Hanson W. 1966 Battleships: United States Battleships in World War II Dulin, Robert O. & William H. Garzke 1976 Beyond the Beachhead in Normandy (29th Inf. Div) Balkoski , Joseph 1989 Big Gun Monitors Buxton, Ian 1978 Bird Marshall, S.L.A. N/A Bitter Victory: Battle for Sicily, 1943 D’Este, Carlo 1988 Black Bull From Normandy to The Baltic with the 11th Armoured Division Delaforce , Patrick 1993 Black Watch & The King’s Enemies Fergusson, Bernard 1950 Blitzkrieg (from the rise of Hitler to the fall of Dunkirk) Deighton, Len 1980 Blitzkrieg Armor Camouflage and Markings 1939-1940 Zaloga, Steven J. 1980 Bloody Buna Mayo, Lida 1974 Blue Devil “Battle Mountain” Regiment in Italy Wallace , John E. 1977 Bodyguard of Lies ( 2 Vols.) Brown, Anthony Cave 1975 Boer War Pakenham, Thomas 1979 Boomerang! Story of the 320th Bombardment Group in world War II Tannehill, Victor C. 1978 Borderers in Battle; the War Story of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers Gunning , Capt. Hugh 1948 Bougainville and the Northern Solomons Rentz, John N. 1948 Breed of Manly Men Morrison, Alex/Ted Slaney 1994 Brereton Diaries Brereton Lewis H., Lt. General, U.S.A 1946 Bridge Too Far Ryan, Cornelius 1974 Britain’s Sea Soldiers; a Record of the Royal Marines During the War 1914-1919 Blumberg, Gen. Sir H. E. 1927 British & American Artillery of World War II Hogg, Ian V. 1978 British Army of 1914; Imperial Services Library V. 9 Barnes, R. Money (Jam.) 1968 British Intelligence in the Second World War, V 1-5 (in 6 vols.) Hinsley 1979-90 By Air to Battle (British Airborne Div) Stephens , Patrick 1978 Cactus Air Force Miller , Thomas G. 1981 Campaign for Guadalcanal Jack Coggins 1972 Campaigns of Napoleon Chandler, David 1966 Canada in the Great World War Vol. 1 Military History of Canada 1608-1914 Military Advisory Board 1917 Canada in the Great World War Vol. 2 Days of Preparation Military Advisory Board 1917 Canada in the Great World War Vol. 3 Guarding the Channel Ports Military Advisory Board 1919 Canada in the Great World War Vol. 4 The Turn of the Tide Military Advisory Board 1920 Canada in the Great World War Vol. 5 The Triumph of the Allies Military Advisory Board 1920 Canada in the Great World War Vol. 6 Special Services Heroic Deeds Etc. Military Advisory Board 1921 Cavalry Lawford, James , Editor 1976 Cavalry Regiments of the U.S. Army Sawicki , James A. 1985 Cheshire (Earl of Chester’s Yeomanry) Verdin, Lt. Col. Sir Richard 1971 Chickenhawk (Vietnam) Mason, Robert 1983 Ciano Diaries 1939-1943 1945/46 Ciano, Count Galeazzo 1946 Citizen Soldiers Ambrose, Stephen 1997 Civil War at Charleston Wilcox, Arthur M., & Warren Ripley 1980 Clay Pigeons of St.
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