Southeast Asian Affairs, 1996
Singapore: Inst/Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. First Paperbk? Printing. 402, wraps, maps, endpaper maps, tables, minor damp signs (slight page rippling) at bottom, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Singapore: Inst/Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. First Paperbk? Printing. 402, wraps, maps, endpaper maps, tables, minor damp signs (slight page rippling) at bottom, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
London: Int'l Inst/Strategic Studies, 1987. First Printing. 239, wraps, maps, chronology, creases at spine and to covers. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Fourth Printing. 740, v.1 only, illus., maps, apps, notes, index, lib stamps (some crossed out in marker), library pocket pasted ins rear flyleaf small red ink scribble inside front flyleaf, rear flyleaf creased, fore-edge soiled, library stamp on fore-edge crossed out in marker, DJ in plastic sleeve, library stickers and barcode on DJ and plastic sleeve (somecrossed out in marker), DJ creased and worn, tape on front DJ. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Fourth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xix, [3], 740, [4] pages. VOLUME 1 ONLY. Illustrations. Maps Appendices. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Slightly cocked. A detailed biography of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, chronicles his controversial military, administrative, and political career and examines his complex, contradictory personality and character. D. CLAYTON JAMES (1931–2004) was a history professor at Virginia Military Institute, where he held the John Biggs ’30 Cincinnati Chair in Military History. In 1965, James became a professor of history at Mississippi State University in Starkville, where he remained for twenty-three years and in 1978 became a Distinguished Professor. In 1977, James served as an adviser on the movie MacArthur for Universal Studios. He consulted on the BBC television series: The Commanders in 1973. James also held the Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and the John F. Morrison Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas. During that time, James was also a Harmon Lecturer at the U.S. Air Force Academy. In 1988 he moved to Lexington, Virginia, to become the John Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute where he retired in 1996. He is the author or editor of nine books, including the three-volume biography, The Years of MacArthur, which received the Truman Book Award. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. First Printing. 325, sources, notes, index, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987. First Canadian Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 285 pages. Illus., map, chronology, gift inscription on front endpaper. Signed by the author. More
New York: Free Press, 1987. First American Edition. Second Printing. 24 cm, 290, illus. More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 532 pages. List of Casualties; Footnotes. 17 maps and 80 photographic plates. Appendix. Index. Some discoloration and soiling inside boards and flyleaves. Some cover wear and soiling. Prepared from Official Sources. Walter Karig (November 13, 1888 – September 30, 1956) was a prolific author, who served as a US naval captain. Karig wrote a number of works on Allied naval operations during World War II. He also wrote scripts for the television series Victory at Sea. Besides his works on naval history, Karig was a novelist, publishing under his own name, and a journalist. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and Free Polish Legion, completing his service in the latter as Captain of Infantry. He was appointed Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve in September 1942, and subsequently attained the tank of Captain on 15 January 1946. In October 1943 he assumed duty as Officer in Charge of the Navy Narrative History Project, and two years later became Assistant Director of Public Relations. A brilliant writer and editor, he applied his fine talents and knowledge of the techniques of publishing to the production of hundreds of books and more than one thousand major magazine articles concerning the Navy at war. Exercising his exceptional ability as a writer and historian, he rendered invaluable assistance in the organization and implementation of a television series, Victory at Sea, and became technical director and Naval Officer in Charge of the series which portrays in authentic motion pictures the Navy's role in WWII, based on Battle Report and other source material. More
New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1989. Wraps. 71 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. Includes a note for students and discussion groups and an annotated reading list. More
New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 494, illus., maps, endpaper maps, chronology, notes on sources, index, lower bd corners worn & threadbare, red marker on edge. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. 594, maps, endpaper maps, index, some scuffing inside boards and flyleaves, some wear to boards and spine edges. More
Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1986. Reprint Edition. Trade paperback. xviii, 594 pages. Wraps. Maps. Index. Small stains inside rear cover, some spotting and wear to cover edges. USAF Warrior Studies. In July 1942, Kenney received orders to take over the Allied Air Forces and Fifth Air Force in General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Area. MacArthur had been dissatisfied with the performance of his air commander, Lieutenant General George Brett. Offered a choice between Kenney and Major General James Doolittle, MacArthur chose Kenney. Kenney reported to MacArthur in Brisbane on 28 July 1942, and felt that MacArthur did not understand air operations, but recognized that he somehow needed to establish a good working relationship with him. When he asked MacArthur for authority to send people he considered "deadwood" home, something that his superiors in Washington, D.C. had refused to give, MacArthur enthusiastically approved. In Australia, he found two talented, recently arrived brigadier generals, Ennis Whitehead and Kenneth Walker. Kenney reorganized his command in August, appointed Whitehead as commander of the V Fighter Command and Walker as commander of the V Bomber Command. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. First Edition. 482, illus., maps, small tears and some wear along top and bottom edges of DJ spine. More
New York, N.Y. George Braziller, 1987. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 290 pages. Maps. Includes Preface, Notes and Index. The chapter titles are: Return, Growing Up, Roots of Unrest; Ninoy; The Opposition; The Candidate; The Campaign; Election; Revolution; The Presidency; Confronting the Military and the Rebels; The Manila Hotel Incident; Peace Talks; Economy; The Game of Politics; The Hot Fall; God Save the Queen; Coup Redux; Victory. Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist and drama critic. Komisar was editor of the Mississippi Free Press in Jackson, Mississippi from 1962 to 1963. The weekly covered the civil rights movement and related political and labor issues and was read mainly by black people in Mississippi. Komisar was a national Vice-President of the National Organization for Women from 1970 to 1971 and was successful, with Legislative VP Ann London Scott, in getting the US government to extend federal contractor and cable TV affirmative action rules to women. According to historian Robert O. Self, Komisar was aligned with Betty Friedan in 1970 in accusing lesbian feminists of threatening to take over NOW, particularly the New York City branch. In 1977, Komisar became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. In 2010, Komisar received the Gerald Loeb Award for Medium & Small Newspapers for "Keys to the Kingdom: How State Regulators Enabled a $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme. More
New York: George Braziller, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. 290, maps, notes, index, DJ spine sunned and faded, minor edge soiling. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1942. 86, wraps, illus., maps (1 fold-out), bibliography, pages have darkened, spine discolored. More
Washington, DC: Washington Institute Press, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. 592, maps, footnotes, index. This book was removed from the original shrinkwrap for cataloguing. More
San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978. 329, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index, sticker residue inside front flyleaf, DJ scuffed: edges worn and small tears. More
Manila: M & L Licudine Enterprises, 1982. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [6], 218, [2] pages. Illustrations. Dedication page reattached with glue. Includes Introduction by Congressman Ramon V. Mitra Jr.; Preface; and Author's Note. Also includes chapters on Background of Cockfighting; Cockfighting as a Sport and Pastime; Glossary of Technical Terms Translated into Tagalog; Principles of Breeding; Walking; Conditioning Gamecocks; The Referee; Lansang's Rules of the Pit; Tailing and Matching; Heeling for the Beginner; The Professional Heeler; Scientific Breeding; The Lore of Cockfighting; Of Cocks and Cockfighting; Great Men of History and Cockfighting; Interesting Traits of the Gamecock; Beliefs and Disbeliefs; MGA Alituntuning "Lansang" Sa Sabong; Historical and Cultural notes; and Special Pictorial Feature: The Art of Heeling in Pictures. Cockfighting, locally termed sabong, is a popular pastime in the Philippines, where both illegal and legal cockfights occur. Legal cockfights are held in cockpits every week, whilst illegal ones, called tupada or tigbakay, are held in secluded cockpits where authorities cannot raid them. In both types, knives or gaffs are used. There are two kinds of knives used in Philippine cockfighting: single-edged blades (used in derbies) and double-edged blades; lengths of knives also vary. All knives are attached on the left leg of the bird, but depending on agreement between owners, blades can be attached on the right or even on both legs. Sabong and illegal tupada, are judged by a referee called sentensyador or koyme, whose verdict is final and not subject to any appeal. More
Manila, Philippines: Lahi, Inc., 1985. Second Edition. Trade paperback. Inscribed on t-p. to Tara Sonenshine, an Advisor at the United States Institute of Peace. 343, [11] pages. Illustrations. More
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Bks of Chapel Hill, 1984. 295, illus., maps, appendices, index, slight foxing to top edge, small edge tears to rear DJ. More
New York: Warner Books, 1989. First Warner Books Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xxi, [1], 295, [3] pages. Maps. Appendices (includes a list of the 1,607 American prisoners aboard the Hell Ships of whom less than 400 survived. Index. Introduction by John Toland. The author survived the Bataan Death March, twenty-eight months of slave labor in the Philippines, and transport to Japan aboard the infamous "hell-ships." Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished. This is the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over adversity. Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1943. Fourth Printing. 22 cm, 374, illus., map, index, ink name inside board, some discoloration of endpapers, flap of DJ remains. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First Edition. 686, illus., sources, notes & refs, index, foxing ins bds & flylves & to fore-edge, DJ foxed & soiled: sm tears, sm pcs missing. More
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 190, [6] pages. Illustrations. Author's Note. Appendix A: Comparative Squadron Strength, Manila Bay. Appendix B. Comparative Squadron Strength, Santiago de Cuba. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The U.S. Navy's first two-ocean war was the Spanish-American War of 1898: a war that was global in scope, with the decisive naval battles at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba separated by more than two thousand miles. During these battles in this quick, modern war, America's "New Steel Navy" came of age. While the American commanders sailed to war with a technologically advanced fleet, it was the lessons they had learned from Adm. David Farragut in the Civil War that prepared them for victory over the Spanish. The first major study of the Spanish-American war to be published in many years, this book takes a journalistic approach to the subject, making the conflict and the people involved relevant to today's readers. This work details a war in which victory was determined as much by leadership as by the technology of the American Steel Navy. Jim Leeke was born and grew up in the Midwest. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he attended journalism school at the Ohio State University on the GI Bill. Jim began his writing career in daily newspapers as a reporter, columnist and sportswriter. He now works in communications and advertising with clients across North America and worldwide. The author or editor of several books. More