The War of Atonement, October, 1973
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First American Edition. 300, illus., maps, index, pencil & red ink marks to several pages, address sticker inside front flyleaf. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First American Edition. 300, illus., maps, index, pencil & red ink marks to several pages, address sticker inside front flyleaf. More
Jerusalem: Steimatzky's Agency Ltd., 1975. First Israeli Edition. 300, illus., maps, index, slight creasing to DJ edges. First Israeli English Language edition. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, [4], 300 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Index. DJ somewhat worn and small edge tears/chips. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Major-General Chaim Herzog (17 September 1918 – 17 April 1997) was an Israeli politician, general, lawyer and author who served as the sixth President of Israel between 1983 and 1993. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935 and served in the Haganah Jewish paramilitary group during the 1936–39 Arab revolt. As an officer in the British Army during World War II, he was called "Vivian" the direct English translation of "Chaim" - because his first commanding officer would not say "Chaim." He returned to Palestine after the war and, following the end of the British Mandate and Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948, operated in the battles for Latrun during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The author was an Israeli military analyst and formerly the head of Israeli military intelligence. He retired from the Israel Defence Forces in 1962. After wards, Herzog practiced law. In 1972 he was a co-founder of Herzog, Fox & Ne'eman. Between 1975 and 1978 he served as Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, in which capacity he repudiated UN General Assembly Resolution 3379—the "Zionism is Racism" resolution—and symbolically tore it up before the assembly. Herzog entered politics in the 1981 elections, winning a Knesset seat. Two years later, in March 1983, he was elected President. He served for two five-year terms before retiring in 1993. In this book, he analyzes the military aspects of the Yom Kippur War and its influence on political trends. More
London: HarperCollins, 2001. Special Edition. 18 cm, 346, wraps. This is the Special Overseas Edition. Even in the secret world, there are rules; Jack Higgins' Edge of Danger looks at what happens when rules get broken. Paul Rashid is heir to a British title and the chieftain of a Bedouin tribe--his sense of offended family honor is intense. When oil interests trying to break his control of vast deposits attempt to kill his family, and another assassin kills his mother at home in England, he decides that mere vengeance is not enough--there has to be a reckoning. More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 601, [1] pages. Volume 1 ONLY. Color endpaper maps. Abbreviations. Footnotes, Appendices. Map. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some ink underlining and marginal marks noted. Sir Francis Harry Hinsley OBE (26 November 1918 – 16 February 1998) was an English historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Hinsley helped initiate a programme of seizing Enigma machines and keys from German weather ships, such as the Lauenburg, thereby facilitating Bletchley Park's resumption of interrupted breaking of German Naval Enigma. Hinsley produced, with others, the multi-volume official history British Intelligence in the Second World War, and argued that Enigma decryption had speeded Allied victory by 1–4 years while not fundamentally altering the war's outcome. After the war, Hinsley returned to St John's College. More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 601, v.1 only, endpaper maps, footnotes, apps, index, libr stamp & barcode, pencil underlining & marginal notes, lib sticker spinestray blue pencil mark to fore-edge, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ creased and small edge tears, DJ is from the British edition. This volume covers events from the outbreak of war through operations in Greece, Iraq, Crete, and Syria in 1941. More
London: HMSO, 1979. 601, v.1 only, color endpaper maps, footnotes, appendices, index, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
London: P. L. Humphries, 1946. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 310, illus., diagrams, corrigenda slip at pp. 6-7, binding worn, corners bumped, usual library markings. More
New York: Hyperion, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 317, The author is a two-time Peabody Award winning journalist. More
Cambridge, MA: World Peace Foundation, c1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 251. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, [1973]. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 562 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ worn and torn. Townsend Walter Hoopes II (April 28, 1922 – September 20, 2004) was an American historian and government official, who served as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1967 to 1969. During World War II, he served as a Marine Lieutenant in the Pacific theater of the war, participating in the U. S. 5th Marine Division capture of Iwo Jima and the initial occupation of Japan. Afterwards, he became assistant to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee from 1947 to 1948. He continued as staff aide to three Secretaries of Defense: James Forrestal, General George Marshall and Robert A. Lovett from 1948 to 1953. He then went on to work in the private sector for a number of years, spending 7 years as partner of an international consulting firm: Cresap, McCormick and Paget. In 1964, he returned to public service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International affairs. From 1965 to 1967, he was Principal Deputy for International Security Affairs at the Pentagon. Serving as Under Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon from 1967 to 1969, he witnessed firsthand the effect of the 1968 Tet Offensive and Lyndon B. Johnson's subsequent decision to de-escalate the war in Vietnam. After leaving the government, he became fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for two years. Hoopes also became co-chairman of Americans for SALT, director of the American Committee on U. S. Soviet Relations, and a distinguished international executive at the University of Maryland, College Park. More
New York, N.Y. Simon & Schuster, 2009. First Simon & Schuster Hardcover Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [2], 457, [3] pages. Includes Foreword, Acknowledgments, Illustrations. Footnotes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; inscription reads: For Kathren, with very much love, Alistair Horne, June 09. Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include A Very Odd Couple; The Black Hole: Vietnam; The Opening to China; A Feather-Brained Crime; The Year of Europe; Storm Clouds over the Middle East; Coming to Grips with the Polar Bear; A Long Hot Summer; To Secretary of State; A Dagger Pointing at the Heart of Antarctica; The War of Atonement; The Crisis: DEFCON 3; To Sadat; On to China; To Geneva and Shuttle; The Awful Grace of God; and Aftermath. Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017) was a British journalist, biographer and historian, especially of 19th and 20th century France. He wrote more than 20 books on history, and biography. He was the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 received the Hawthornden Prize in 1963. Horne's 1977 book A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962 received the Wolfson Prize in 1978. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962 came to be of much interest to military officers, having been recommended to President George W. Bush by Kissinger. Horne was offered the authorship of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's official biography but declined due to the daunting amount of work involved and his age and opted instead to write a volume on one year in Kissinger's life (Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year). More
New York: NewMarket Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 314, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index. More
New York: Newmarket Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 314, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index, library stamp inside rear flyleaf crossed out in marker, sticker residue on rear DJ some wear to DJ edges, some soiling to fore-edge. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 26 cm, xii, 604, [6] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Bibliographic Essay. Index. , DJ and book covers and page edges have minor damage/wear and are stained/soiled. An adequate reading copy of a remarkable snapshot in time on key aspects of comparative defense policy during the Cold War and a period of Middle East crises. Professor Horton achieved the rank of Major General. Frank B. Horton III became director for intelligence, J-2, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. He received his commission and bachelor of science degree from the U.S. Military Academy in 1962 as a distinguished graduate. He earned a doctorate in political science in 1969, from Harvard University. He was named Harvard's outstanding political science graduate student in 1967. He completed Air Command and Staff College in 1974, Air War College in 1976, the National War College in 1978 and the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course in 1989. More
New York: Dutton, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 276 pages. Endpaper map. Black line at bottom edge. Label of previous owner on fep. The author recounts his experiences traveling through the Middle East, describing Beirut's shell-shocked streets, the Ayatollah Khomeini's grief-crazed funeral, and an unexpected encounter with Muammar Qadaffi. Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback, Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes (AKA Into the Blue), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011), and Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. Horwitz won a 1994 James Aronson Award and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in The Wall Street Journal. He also worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker and as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He was a past president of the Society of American Historians, which in 2020 established the Tony Horwitz Prize honoring distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance. More
New York: Wyndham Books [Simon & Schuster], 1980. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 221, [3] pages. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Includes Prologue, The Beginning of the End; The Mounting Danger; The Changing Shah; The Final Downfall; Epilogue, and Postscript. The former ambassador to the United Nations for Iran analyzes the political and personal forces that combined to destroy the Iranian monarchy, discussing the corruption of the royal family and the surge of the Islamic renascence. Fereydoun Hoveyda's brother was Iranian Prime Minister until 1978, when he was murdered by the new government, after having heroically refused to flee the country. Fereydoun Hoveyda (21 September 1924 – 3 November 2006) was an Iranian diplomat, writer and thinker. He was the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 until 1979. Hoveyda joined the foreign ministry in the early 1940s. A participant in the final drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he worked in UNESCO from 1951 to 1966. In the late 1960s, he returned to Iran and worked in the Iranian Foreign Ministry as the undersecretary for international and economic affairs. He was also deputy foreign minister. From 1971 to 1979 he represented Iran at the United Nations. Having been forced out of the Iranian Foreign Ministry following the 1979 revolution, Hoveyda became a senior fellow and member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP). Apart from politics, he was active in the field of cinema and was a founding member of the editorial board of the celebrated film magazine Cahiers du cinéma. More
London: Inst. for Strategic Studies, 1967. 51, wraps, maps, notes, appendices. More
Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, c1988. 25 cm, 349, illus., glossary, some chipping to DJ edges. More
Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia: Sceptre, 1997. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xiii, [5] pages. 315, [3] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Illustrated front cover. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Garrie Hutchinson, Australia, (b. 1949) is a poet, freelance sports journalist and writer. In 1969 he became involved in the flourishing performance poetry and theater scene based at La Mama Theatre in Carlton. In the early 1970s Hutchinson began publishing his poetry in literary journals including Poetry Australia and Melbourne University Magazine and he published three poetry collections during this time. In 1970s Hutchinson was also heavily involved in anti-war activism and alternative journalism. By the late 1970s Hutchinson moved away from writing poetry and towards a journalistic career. Since the 1980s Hutchinson has been a football writer for the Age. Hutchinson has since written a number of other books on sport, as well as several works on military history, travel, and other general interest prose. He has also worked as a speechwriter for a number of national and Victorian politicians. He published the travel/history book An Australian Odyssey: From Giza To Gallipoli (Sceptre, 1997) and Not Going To Vietnam: Journeys Through Two Wars (Sceptre, July 1999). This book contains a memoir of poetry and politics in Melbourne and London in 1968-69. More
New York: Avon Books, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. [10], 388, [2] pages. Cover has some wear, soiling, and creases. Investigating a murder in London, freelance industrial spy Sam Hoffman discovers a secret institution that hides billions of dollars that have been stolen from one of the world's most dangerous leaders. David Reynolds Ignatius (born May 26, 1950) is an American journalist and novelist. He is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. He has written eleven novels, including Body of Lies, which director Ridley Scott adapted into a film. He is a former adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently Senior Fellow to the Future of Diplomacy Program. He has received numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor from the French Republic, the Urbino World Press Award from the Italian Republic, and a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee for Foreign Journalism. In 1986 Ignatius left the Journal for The Washington Post. From 1986 to 1990 he was the editor of the "Outlook" section. From 1990 to 1992 he was foreign editor and oversaw the paper's Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. From 1993 to 1999 he served as assistant managing editor in charge of business news. In 1999 he began writing a twice-weekly column on global politics, economics and international affairs. Ignatius's writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Talk Magazine, and The Washington Monthly. More
London: The Institute for Strategic Studies, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [4], 39, [1] pages. Wraps. Covers and spine scuffed. IISS ephemera laid in. Ink stamp on front cover and title page. This appears to be the inaugural issue. The Introduction states: "Strategic Survey is a new venture which is being added to the short list of regular ISS publications. It will be published henceforth in the spring of each year, and will look back at developments during the preceding calendar year, in strategic policy, doctrine and weapons in the most significant powers and areas, in an attempt to set them in perspective. More
London: Inst for Strategic Studies, 1970. 114, wraps, maps, figures, tables, chronology, covers and spine scuffed and creased. More
London: Brassey's, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 250, wraps, tables, figures, slight wear to cover edges. Includes separate map of the Middle East and southern republics of the Soviet Union. Some cover wear noted. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British research institute in the area of international affairs. Since 1997 its headquarters have been Arundel House, in London, England. The 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked IISS as the thirteenth-best think tank worldwide. Founded in 1958, with its original focus nuclear deterrence and arms control, the IISS has strong establishment links, with former US and British government officials among its members. The institute claims that it "was hugely influential in setting the intellectual structures for managing the Cold War." Raymond Garthoff wrote that "In 1959 the ISS issued a pamphlet on the "military balance" between the Soviet Union and NATO. It was unfortunately replete with errors, having been put together from published sources of widely varying quality. I called this to the attention of Alastair Buchan, the director of the institute, who was quite disturbed. A new version was issued in November 1960, much more correct and accurate, though still not up to the latest intelligence. Again, I called this to Buchan's attention, and he undertook to check out with British authorities what became annual issuances. The second issue appeared under the title "The Communist Bloc and the Free World: The Military Balance 1960" More
Place_Pub: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 320, wraps, maps, tables, index, some creasing to covers and spine. More