Soviet Development of Flash X-Ray Machines
Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1973. 16, wraps, illus., diagrams, references. More
Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1973. 16, wraps, illus., diagrams, references. More
Washington DC, and Pearl River, NY: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xix, [1], 100 pages. Preface by Kenneth J. Arrow. Authors include William A. Cox, David Gold, and Rodney W. Jones. Footnotes. Tables. Sources. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Cover has slight wear and soiling. In the early 1980s, technology had matured to consider space based missile defense options. Precision hit-to-kill systems more reliable than the early Nike Zeus were thought possible. With these improvements, the Reagan Administration promoted the Strategic Defense Initiative, an ambitious plan to provide a comprehensive defense against an all-out ICBM attack. Reagan established the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO), which was later changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). In 2002, BMDO's name was changed to its current title, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. xvi, 432 pages. Illustrations. Maps. References. Bibliography. Index, DJ has some tears. Inscribed by the author to Bob Beckel. Robert Gilliland Beckel (born November 15, 1948) is an American political analyst and pundit, and a former political operative. Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle. Leaving the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1986, Keegan joined the Daily Telegraph as a defence correspondent and stayed as defence editor until his death. He also wrote for the American conservative National Review Online. In 1998 he wrote and presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, entitling them War in our World. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 2005. 74, wraps, illus. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 420 pages. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Glossary. Index. Ex-library. Usual library markings. DJ worn, soiled, torn and chipped. Underlining and marginal notes. More
Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, Ltd., 1991. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 15 color panels on one large folded sheet. Heavily illustrated/maps. More
New York: The New Press, 1994. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xx, 546 p. Notes. References. Index. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First Princeton Paperback Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 24 cm. ix, [1[, 313, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Sticker residue on back cover. Nathan K. "Nick" Kotz (September 16, 1932 – April 26, 2020) was an American journalist, author, and historian. He is best known for his 2005 book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America chronicling the roles of US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and 1968 civil rights laws. Kotz won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1968 for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants, which helped ensure the passage of the Wholesome Meat Act. As a reporter for the Des Moines Register and the Washington Post, and as a freelance writer, Nick Kotz won many of journalism's most important honors, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, and the first Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award. His study of American military leadership won the National Magazine Award for public service. His book Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber won the Olive Branch Award. Kotz's other books include A Passion For Equality: George Wiley and the Movement (with Mary Lynn Kotz); Let Them Eat Promises: The Politics of Hunger; and The Unions (with Haynes Johnson). A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Kotz did graduate study in international relations at the London School of Economics. After college, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. More
London: Institute for Strategical Studies, 1967. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 16 p.; 30 cm. Occasional footnotes. Tables. More
London: Institute for Strategical Studies, 1967. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 16 p.; 30 cm. Occasional footnotes. Tables. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 21 cm. xv, [1], 216, [2] pages. DJ worn and chipped in places. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Ink notation on fep and rep. Daniel Lang (May 30, 1913 – November 17, 1981) was an American author and journalist. He worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine from 1941 until his death in 1981. Lang served as war correspondent for the New Yorker in Italy, France and North Africa. Following the war, he observed and reported on atomic testing. Problems raised by nuclear testing concerning the moral responsibility of scientists remained a keen interest and the topic of many articles. During the Vietnam War era, he became absorbed by the ethical choices raised by this conflict and was one of the first reporters to expose military atrocities against the Vietnamese civilian population. Toward the end of his career, he interviewed aging Germans, former Flakhelfer, about their role in the Third Reich, to focus on how individuals can become implicated in evil through denial and the refusal to acknowledge reality. More
Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 265, [7] pages. Includes Notes. Charts, Acknowledgments, Bibliography and Index. Chapters are: Years of Defeat: The Search for Responsibility; The Tradition: The Strategy of Attrition; The Challenge: The Theory of Armored Warfare; The Postwar Period: 1918-1927; The Years of Experiment: 1927-34; The Period of Early Rearmament: 1934-37; Prelude to War: 1937-40; and Epilogue: The Test of Battle. Robert H. Larson received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. He has been with the Lycoming College Since 1969 and is now a Professor emeritus. This work includes substantial discussion of the works and influence of J. F. C. Fuller and B. H. Liddell Hart as well as a substantive discussion of the Royal Tank Corps. More
Washington DC: United States Army, Center of Military History, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, [2], 153, [3] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Thomas Lassman joined the Space History Department in June 2008 as curator of the National Air and Space Museum's Cold War rocket and missile collection. During the previous three years, he worked for the U.S. Army Center of Military History, where he completed a monograph on the history of weapon systems research and development in the Defense Department’s in-house laboratories from 1945 to 2000. Dr. Lassman has also worked as an historian at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics in College Park, Maryland and at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. Dr. Lassman holds a BA degree in history from Washington University (1991) and MA and Ph.D. degrees in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University (1996, 2000). His research focuses on the institutional history of American science and technology during the Cold War; history of American industrial research and development (R&D) prior to 1940; and the history of weapon systems acquisition in the Department of Defense after 1945. More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981. Trade paperback. xii, [i], 300 p. Chapter Notes. Index. More
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1950. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [2], x, 335, [5] pages. Occasional footnotes. Index. DJ worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Book is slightly cocked. Some page discoloration and soiling. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist. He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. Arguing that frontal assault was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as proven in the First World War, he recommended the “indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armored formations. His pre-war publications are known to have influenced German World War II strategy. He worked as the military correspondent of The Times from 1935 to 1939. In the mid-to-late 1920s Liddell Hart wrote a series of histories of major military figures through which he advanced his ideas that the frontal assault was a strategy bound to fail at great cost in lives. He argued that the losses Britain suffered in the Great War were caused by its commanding officers not appreciating that fact of history. He believed the British decision in 1914 of intervening on the Continent with a great army was a mistake. He claimed that historically, "the British way in warfare" was to leave Continental land battles to her allies, intervening only through naval power, with the army fighting the enemy away from its principal front in a "limited liability" commitment. In his early writings on mechanized warfare, Liddell Hart had proposed that infantry be carried along with the fast-moving armored formations. More
Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 258, [2] pages. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep . James M. Lindsay (born November 29, 1959, Winchester, Massachusetts), is the Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy. He is also the award-winning coauthor of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy and former Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council. In 2008, he was the principal author of a Department of Defense funded $7.6 million Minerva Research Initiative grant entitled "Climate Change, State Stability, and Political Risk in Africa. Michael Edward O'Hanlon (born May 16, 1961) is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, specializing in defense and foreign policy issues. He began his career as a budget analyst in the defense field. O'Hanlon's main areas of work over the years include studies on defense technology issues, such as missile defense and space weaponry and the future of nuclear weapons policy. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 301, wraps, notes, rear cover and a few pages creased. No index in this uncorrected page proofs edition. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1977. Reprint Edition. 23 cm, 279, wraps, bibliographical references, underlining & some ink marks noted, ink name, slight weakness fr cover strengthened w/ glue. More
London: Scientific Book Club, 1945. 19 cm, 189, some pencil underlining and marginalia, boards soiled and somewhat worn, some page discoloration. More
Place_Pub: New York: Military Press, 1989. First Printing. 255, illus., index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Time, Inc., 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this issue. Magazine. 104 pages plus covers. Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label at lower left of front cover. Illustrations (some in color). Front cover is of Missileman Schriever on the left half, facing right, with a rocket launching to his right. The cover story content starts at page 16 with a section titled Armed Forces: The Bird & the Watcher, with photographs of the Air Force Rascal aircraft, the Air Force's Snark, the Navy's Sparrow, and the Army's Redstone ballistic missile. There is a photograph of General Schriever and family at home on page 19. At pages 46 and 47 there is a two page advertising spread by Chance Vought Aircraft on the World's Fastest Navy fighter squadron. At pages 52 and 53 is a two page advertising spread from Lockheed on their F-104 starfighter. More
Munchen [Munich]: J. F. Lehmanns, 1958. 2. start uberarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage [English Translation: 2nd revised and expanded edition]. Hardcover. 239, [1] pages. With 76 illustrations. Text is in German. DJ has some wear and tear. Slightly cocked. It has sections on Infantry Weapons, Artillery, Panzers, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Special Weapons, and information on important research areas in Germany. This work contains information and drawings of the V-1 and V-2 weapons and is famous for a short discussion of Flying Saucer research. Mr. Lusar served was a major in the German Army during World War II. His engineering career took him to many foreign countries, including the Soviet Union. Since 1945 he has devoted himself to the study and analysis of German naval history and kindred subjects. Wunderwaffe is German for "wonder-weapon" and was a term assigned during World War II by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry to some revolutionary "superweapons". Most of these weapons however remained prototypes, which either never reached the combat theater, or if they did, were too late or in too insignificant numbers to have a military effect. The advanced weapons under development generally required lengthy periods of design work and testing, and there was no realistic prospect of the German military being able to field them before the end of the war. When some advanced designs, such as the Panther tank and Type XXI submarine, were rushed into production, their performance proved disappointing to the German military and leadership due to inadequate pre-production testing or poorly planned construction processes. However, a few weapons proved to be successful and have had a large influence in post-war designs. More
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012. First edition. First paperback edition/first printing stated. Mass-market paperback. [12], 589, [7] p. More
New York: HarperCollins, c1991. First Printing. 25 cm, 680, glossary, sticker residue on front DJ. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 120, wraps, illus., endnotes, glossary, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More