Bitter Victory
New York: Harper & Row, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 309, illus., maps, some soiling to DJ. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 309, illus., maps, some soiling to DJ. More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1977. First Edition. 301, illus., list of sources, tear at DJ spine and small piece missing at bottom of DJ spine. More
New York: Anchor Books, 2002. First Anchor Edition. Tenth Printing. 344, wraps, illus., maps121 hand-selected troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines, on a mission to rescue 513 American and British POW's who had spent three years in a hellish camp near Cabanatuan. More
New York: Doubleday, 2001. Third Printing. 25 cm, 342, illus., endpaper maps, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ slightly soiled. More
New York: Doubleday, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 342, illus., endpaper maps, slight wear to top edge of DJ. More
New York: Pantheon, 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 269, [5] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling, Children at War explored the rise of another new force in modern warfare, child soldier groups. Singer's work was the first book to comprehensively explore the compelling and tragic rise of child soldier groups and was recognized by the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book of the Year Award. His commentary on the issue was featured in a variety of venues ranging from National Public Radio and Fox News to Defense News and People magazine. Singer has served as a consultant on the issue to the U.S. Marine Corps and Congress, and the recommendations in his book resulted in changes in the UN peacekeeping training program. An accompanying A&E/History Channel documentary entitled Child Warriors was broadcast in 2008. More
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xi, [1], , 259, [1] pages. Notes. Documents. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Bradley F Smith was a ground-breaking historian of the Second World War and intelligence. He was born in 1931. He joined the air force. After four years' service he went to Berkeley to study history and then on a Fulbright scholarship to Munich, where he honed his skills in German documentary sources. In the 1970s he began to write the books which would make his name as a scholar. The journal Foreign Affairs welcomed Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (1977) as "a superbly written and novelesque account, which is also a sound work of historical scholarship". The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA (1983) was, like all his books, meticulously researched, and it remains the best general account of the Office of Strategic Services, the US's Second World War intelligence agency. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977. 349, illus., appendices, notes, bibliography, index, slight wear to edges of DJ. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977. Second Printing. 349, illus., appendices, notes, bibliography, index, slight wear to edges of DJ. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977. Second Printing. 349, illus., appendices, notes, bibliography, index, slight wear to edges of DJ, small tear in front DJ. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1981. 303, notes, bibliography, index, some wear and small tears to top and bottom of DJ spine. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 256, boards somewhat worn and soiled, small tear at top of spine, number stamped inside front board, some pages uncut. More
Auschwita-Birenkau, Poland: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1978. 1st Eng Lang? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 120, wraps, maps (fold-out map at rear), bibliography, some wear to covers, crease at front corner. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Mass market paperback. xiv, 514 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany during World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. His architectural skills made him prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler commissioned him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. He was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes. In 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. He promoted himself as having performed an armaments miracle that was credited with keeping Germany in the war. In 1944, Speer established a task force to increase production of fighter aircraft. It became instrumental in exploiting slave labor for the German war effort. Speer was among the 24 "major war criminals" at the Nuremberg trials. He was found guilty of war crimes, principally for the use of slave labor. He used his prison writings for two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. Speer constructed an image of himself as a man who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich. He continued to deny explicit knowledge of, and responsibility for the Holocaust. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xii, 463, [5] pages. Illustrations. Index. Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming the office of Minister of Armaments and War Production for Germany during World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. His architectural skills made him prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler commissioned him to design and construct structures including the Reich Chancellery and the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for Berlin. He was responsible for the Central Department for Resettlement that evicted Jewish tenants from their homes. In 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. He promoted himself as having performed an armaments miracle that was credited with keeping Germany in the war. In 1944, Speer established a task force to increase production of fighter aircraft. It became instrumental in exploiting slave labor for the German war effort. Speer was among the 24 "major war criminals" at the Nuremberg trials. He was found guilty of war crimes, principally for the use of slave labor. He used his prison writings for two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries. Speer constructed an image of himself as a man who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich. He continued to deny explicit knowledge of, and responsibility for the Holocaust. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. ix, [1], 403, [3] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor creases to rear flap. Includes Prologue, as well as chapters on A Sword Is Drawn; The Testament; The Lesson; Scoudrel; La Noche Triste; Galen's Proof; In Winter Quarters; The Very Last Civil War Historian; Human Rain; Rain Stops Play; The Final War; At the Fair; and The Discovery of Kansas. Roger J. Spiller retired as the George C. Marshall Distinguished Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is the first George C. Marshall Distinguished Professor of History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Spiller is a noted author and editor who recently wrote In the School of War. In 1978 he was offered a visiting associate professorship in military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He stayed on as a permanent member of the faculty, and later became one of the founding members of the Combat Studies Institute. Dr. Spiller’s leadership and innovation helped turn CSI into the Army’s in-house think tank for the study of warfare. He later served as its deputy director and director. From 1982 to 1985, he was Special Assistant to the Commander in Chief, United States Readiness Command. There he turned theory into practice advising two four-star commanders on policy and strategy. Dr. Spiller returned to Fort Leavenworth faculty in 1985, first as Professor of Combined Arms Warfare, then as George C. Marshall Distinguished Professor of History. From 1992 to 1995, he served as Personal Historian to the Chief of Staff, United States Army. More
Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications, LLC, 2005. Reprint. Fourth printing. Hardcover. xxxv, 318 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. More
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1999. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Volume I has xvii, [1], 712, [6] pages. Volume II, vi, 713-1580, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes and References. Chronological Listings of Important Events. Special Terms. Bibliography. Index. Inscription signed by the author on front flyleaf of Volume I. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Mr. Sprecher was the only assistant prosecutor to present cases against two defendants at the first Nuremberg trial, in which a court created by the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France indicted 24 of the most important captured leaders of Nazi Germany. Before the trial, one defendant hanged himself and another was considered too frail to stand trial. Three of the 22 tried were acquitted, 8 went to prison and the rest were executed. Mr. Sprecher became one of the few original prosecutors to go on to subsequent Nuremberg trials conducted by the United States in its zone of occupied Germany. At these 12 trials, Mr. Sprecher at different times led four different divisions of the American prosecution team and was top deputy to Telford Taylor, chief counsel. Mr. Sprecher's successful case against Baldur von Schirach, Hitler Youth leader from 1931 to 1940, involved arguing that the militarization of millions of youths, including rifle-shooting drills by 7,000 instructors, was "a central thread" of the Nazi conspiracy. In the other case Mr. Sprecher presented, he contended that Hans Fritzsche, a deputy to the propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, incited Germans by broadcasting lies on the radio. More
New York: Basic Books, c1988. Third Printing. 22 cm, 178. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First Edition. 334, note on sources, index, damp stains & some warping to bds & text (no pgs stuck), some wear to DJ edges, some warping to DJ. More
Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 487, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and chips. Inscription on the title page signed by Eric Stover. Inscription reads For Annie, With best wishes, Eric Stover. Eric Stover is an American human rights researcher and advocate and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Stover officially began his human rights work as a researcher at Amnesty International in London, England, from 1977-1980. During this time, the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize for its “campaign against torture,” and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Following Amnesty International, Stover became the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1992, Stover served as the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights where he worked on forensic missions to examine mass gravesites for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. While at PHR, Stover performed research on the sociomedical consequences of land mines in war-torn countries such as Cambodia. His research helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which, along with the organization’s director, Jody Williams, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. He has published seven books and numerous reports and articles for press and scholarly publications. Stover became the Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center (HRC) at the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1996, two years after the center was established. More
London, England: PRC Publishing, 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 144 p. Maps (many with color). Some illustrations. Index of Maps. More
Place_Pub: South Bend, IN: Icarus Press, 1981. 233, illus., bibliography, index, few library marks, call # sticker on DJ spine, marker cross-out on top edge & inside rear flyleaf Two Japanese generals (Masaharu Homma and Tomoyuki Yamashita) were tried in the Philippines by a military commission under General Douglas MacArthur. Although the Japanese generals were unaware of the atrocities perpetrated by their troops, they were found guilty, appealed that decision and lost, and were executed. More
South Bend, IN: Icarus Press, 1981. Hardcover. 233 pages. Illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled and some edge wear. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. 354, illus., notes, timelines, index, some soiling and small number written on fore-edge, some wear to DJ edges. More