Europe, U. S. A., Japan
Pergamon Press, 1990. English Language Edition. Trade paperback. ii, 274 p. More
Pergamon Press, 1990. English Language Edition. Trade paperback. ii, 274 p. More
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2010. Reprint. Later printing. Hardcover. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. xvii, [1], 349, [1] p. Notes. Index. More
New York: Orion Books, c1991. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 264, illus., map, some wear, soiling, and sticker residue to DJ, edges soiled. More
Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1993. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 65, [1] pages. Footnotes., Publisher's press release laid in. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The situation for human rights in Syria is considered exceptionally poor among international observers. A state of emergency was in effect from 1963 until April 2011, giving security forces sweeping powers of arrest and detention. From 1973–2012, Syria was a single-party state. The authorities have been accused of harassing and imprisoning human rights activists and other critics of the government. Freedom of expression, association, and assembly are strictly controlled. Women and ethnic minorities face discrimination. According to Human Rights Watch, President Bashar al-Assad failed to improve Syria’s human rights record in the first 10 years of his rule, and Syria's human rights situation remained among the worst in the world. According to Amnesty International, the government may be guilty of crimes against humanity based on "witness accounts of deaths in custody,rape,[= and arbitrary detention," during the crackdown against the 2011 uprising and during the Syrian Civil War. More
New York, N.Y. Basic Books, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 296 pages. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Appendix A, Appendix B, and Index. Inscribed by the author on fep. Inscription reads: For Shibly, May the truth make us free. Deborah Nelson. Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the Associate Professor of Investigative Reporting at the University of Maryland. Previously, she was the Washington investigations editor for the Los Angeles Times, a reporter for The Washington Post and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1997, Nelson won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her work, exposing “widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired reforms.” She received acclaim for her book, The War Behind Me, which investigates declassified Army papers on Vietnam-era war crimes and uncovers the lives of soldiers who were witness to the crimes. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First Printing. 22 cm, 248, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to boards. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First Printing. 22 cm, 248, black mark on bottom edge, some soiling inside DJ, very slightly cocked, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 248 pages. DJ is in a clear plastic sleeve. Geoffrey Norman is the author of 12 books of fiction and non-fiction and many articles for periodicals to include the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, Esquire, Men’s Journal, the Weekly Standard, and others. His non-fiction books include Bouncing Back, an account of the POW experience in Vietnam; Alabama Showdown, an account of the Alabama/Auburn football rivalry; and Two For the Summit, a memoir of mountain climbing with his daughter. These books all received favorable reviews in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Norman’s novels include Inch by Inch, Sweetwater Ranch, Midnight Water & others. Norman wrote the text for a large format book about Virginia Military Institute by noted photographer Anthony Edgeworth. The book is called The Institute. Norman has been a senior editor and contributing editor at Esquire magazine. Editor-at –Large at Forbes. Contributing editor at Field & Stream, among others. He writes for the The American Spectator and Garden and Gun. Later codified by the military, the resources the POWs in North Vietnam evolved became a doctrine of survival known as Bouncing Back. Through intricate and ingenious methods, the prisoners in each camp made contact, and it saved them. They worked out ways to communicate by tapping out a complex code on their cell walls. They established a chain of command and organized their resistance efforts. They nursed each other's shattered bodies and bolstered each other's morale. They even maintained their sense of humor. More
New York: Harper, [1916]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 356, footnotes, spine gilt faded. More
San Antonio, TX: John E. Olson, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [4], 246, [6] pages. Illustrated front cover. Maps. Dust Jacket has some wear and soiling and stiff card cover is unmarked. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To: Virginia Brown With warmest regards, John E. Olson 5 March, 1998. with additional gift inscription, not from author. John Eric Olson (November 27, 1917 – October 2, 2012) was a U.S. Army Colonel, West Point graduate, and one of the last surviving officers of the Bataan Death March of WWII. He was also a military historian and author, dealing primarily with his experiences as a prisoner of war in the Philippines and in Japan from 1942 to 1945. Olson was assigned to the 57th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Scouts. The U.S. forces were ordered to surrender in April, 1942. Olson joined more than 9600 U.S. soldiers and nearly 50,000 Filipinos who endured the Bataan Death March. He was imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell where he kept secret records for the prison. Before being transferred to Cabanatuan prison, in June, 1942, he managed to bury all his reports in the nearby jungle. In 1948 he returned, exhumed those records, and nearly four decades later used them to write his history of the camp. After transport to Japan in 1942, Olson was imprisoned at the Osaka Seiko Company steel mill in Osaka where he spent the remainder of the war in forced labor, until being moved to Oeyama before the onset of U.S. bombing raids. Col. Olson served as J-3 advisor in the early 1960s in Vietnam. He retired as a full colonel in 1967. In 2008 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philippine Scouts Heritage Society. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1976. First Edition. Second Printing. 24 cm, 320, footnotes, front DJ flap price clipped, ink notation inside front board, some wear, scuffing, and sticker residue to DJ. More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, 1975. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. [iv], 114 p. Illustrations. Compilation includes copies/facsimiles of documents and press coverage. More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, 1975. Revised and Updated Edition. Wraps. [iv], 152 p. Illustrations. Compilation includes copies/facsimiles of documents and press coverage. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First Printing. Hardcover. 335 pages, slight wear and soiling to DJ edges. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 390, bibliography, index, corners of several pages creased, sticker on rear DJ states children pictured on DJ are not refugees. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. First Edition. 458, appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, index, side margins creased pp. 53-56, DJ somewhat soiled & edge wear: small tears. More
Santa Barbara, CA: Independence Press, 1991. Twenty-First Printing. 287, illus., DJ somewhat worn and soiled, some edge wear/tears/chips. Inscribed by the author to Dan Altobello. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 128, wraps, illus., usual library markings. More
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1980. Hardcover. 18 cm. xii, [2], 146 pages. Introduction by Jorge Amado. Minor edge soiling. João Ubaldo Ribeiro (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2014) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short tales have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, being elected in 1994. At the time of his death many considered him to be Brazil's greatest contemporary novelist. In 1964 Ribeiro left the country for political reasons and went to the United States to study economics. But in 1965 he returned to Brazil and lectured in political science at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. After six years, he was, however, back on his academic career and went back to journalism. In 1971 his novel Sargento Getúlio was published, with which he made his breakthrough as a writer. More
Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1956. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 222 pages, some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Fourth Printing. 264, red pencil name inside front flyleaf, book somewhat cocked, DJ somewhat soiled, small tears and chips to DJ edges. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 706 pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Top board corners somewhat bumped. Slight soiling and library stamps to fore-edge. Rough spots inside the boards. Combines rigorous scholarly analysis with a moving narrative to record in detail the triumphs and tragedies of the several hundred servicemen and civilians who fought their own special war in prison camps in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Stuart I. Rochester (November 24, 1945 – July 29, 2009) was the chief historian for the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense and author and co-author of several books, including a notable account on American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Rochester was an authority on the comparative national defense policies of post-WW II presidential administrations. Frederick Kiley, a USAF veteran of the Vietnam War with a Ph.D. (University of Denver), taught for years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. More
Washington DC: Office of the Secretary of Defense, Historical Office, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 704 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, soiling, and tears and chips at the back. Combines rigorous scholarly analysis with a moving narrative to record in detail the triumphs and tragedies of the several hundred servicemen and civilians who fought their own special war in prison camps in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Stuart I. Rochester (November 24, 1945 – July 29, 2009) was the chief historian for the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense and author and co-author of several books, including a notable account on American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Rochester was an authority on the comparative national defense policies of post-WW II presidential administrations. Frederick Kiley, a USAF veteran of the Vietnam War with a Ph.D. (University of Denver), taught for years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 706 pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Top board corners somewhat bumped. Slight soiling and library stamps to fore-edge. Rough spots inside the boards. Combines rigorous scholarly analysis with a moving narrative to record in detail the triumphs and tragedies of the several hundred servicemen and civilians who fought their own special war in prison camps in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Stuart I. Rochester (November 24, 1945 – July 29, 2009) was the chief historian for the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense and author and co-author of several books, including a notable account on American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Rochester was an authority on the comparative national defense policies of post-WW II presidential administrations. Frederick Kiley, a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War with a Ph.D. from the University of Denver, taught for many years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. More
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 704 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Slight wear to dust jacket. Inscribed by Ted Kiley (the co-author); Inscription reads "For Julie--I hope you will find this amazing saga as moving to read as I did to write. Thank you for your interest in our former POWs. I hope we have done justice to their story. Most cordially, Ted Kiley, Air Force Academy, December 2002". This book combines rigorous scholarly analysis with a moving narrative to record in detail the triumphs and tragedies of the several hundred servicemen and civilians who fought their own special war in prison camps in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Stuart I. Rochester (November 24, 1945 – July 29, 2009) was the chief historian for the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense and author and co-author of several books, including this notable account on American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. Rochester was an authority on the comparative national defense policies of post-WW II presidential administrations. Co-author Frederick Kiley, a USAF veteran of the Vietnam War with a Ph.D. (University of Denver), taught for years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. More