Last Reflections On a War
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. 288, library stamps inside front board & flylf, p. 6, & inside rear board, rough spot inside front flyleaf, boards scuffed. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. 288, library stamps inside front board & flylf, p. 6, & inside rear board, rough spot inside front flyleaf, boards scuffed. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. 288, illus., DJ taped inside boards, DJ edges worn: small edge tears and chips, small rough spot on DJ spine. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. 288, illus., boards and spine somewhat worn and scuffed, spine somewhat discolored. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Illustrations. Map. Tabular data. Several pages creased. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Preface by Dorothy Fall. The author was killed in South Vietnam in 1967. After his death, his widow, Dorothy Fall, selected the pieces published in this book. Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926 – February 21, 1967) was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. He started fighting for the French Resistance at the age of 16 and later for the French Army during World War II. In 1950, he first came to the United States for graduate studies at Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Howard University for most of his career and made regular trips to Southeast Asia to learn about changes and their societies. He predicted the failures of France and the United States in their wars in Vietnam because of their tactics and lack of understanding of the societies. He was killed by a landmine in South Vietnam while he was accompanying US Marines on a patrol in 1967. Fall was a political scientist but had been a soldier and so spoke the soldier's language and shared soldiers' lives at the frontline. He obtained his data on the war while he slogged through the mud of Vietnam with French colonial troops, American infantrymen, and ARVN soldiers. He combined academic analysis of Indochina with a infantry/grunt's perspective of the war. Noam Chomsky has called Fall "the most respected analyst and commentator on the Vietnam War." More
Place_Pub: Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1967. Fourth Edition. 408, illus., maps, appendices, index, boards slightly soiled, table of contents lists endpaper maps but there are none. More
Place_Pub: Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1967. Fourth Edition. 408, illus., maps, appendices, index, table of contents lists endpaper maps but there are none. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. Second Printing. 363, illus., maps, bibliography, index, DJ slightly soiled and DJ spine faded and small tears. More
Boston, MA: Boston Publishing Company, 1986. Quarto, 192, profusely illus. (many in color), boards scuffed, edges of spine worn. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xivm 491, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Occasional footnotes. Note on the Title. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with some library markings. Rear pocket has been removed. DJ in plastic sleeve. taped to boards, with spine label partly removed. Some endpaper soiling and transfer marks from DJ tape. Edges soiled. Somewhat shaken. Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award. The book cautioned that the United States did not understand the history and culture of Vietnam and it warned about American involvement there. FitzGerald has continued to write about history and culture: her published books include America Revised, a highly critical review of history textbooks published in the United States; Cities on a Hill, an analysis of United States urban history compared to ideals; and Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book], 1972. Book Club Edition, also Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 491, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Occasional footnotes. Note on the Title. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some endpaper soiling. Edges soiled. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award. Her book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam was serialized in five parts in The New Yorker in its newly-created "Annals of War" series starting in July 1972 earning her a Special Front Page Award. Fire in the Lake was met with great acclaim when it was published in August 1972. The book cautioned that the United States did not understand the history and culture of Vietnam and it warned about American involvement there. FitzGerald has continued to write about history and culture: her published books include America Revised, a highly critical review of history textbooks published in the United States; Cities on a Hill, an analysis of United States urban history compared to ideals; and Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1965]. First Printing. 22 cm, 238, illus., minor soiling on pp. 218-219, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn and torn. Foreword by Verne Chaney. More
Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1979. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 387, [1] pages. Footnotes. Table. Figures. Documentary Appendix. Bibliographic Note. Index. Ink notation inside the front cover. Corner of front cover creased. Cover has some wear and soiling. Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb (March 4, 1937 – August 31, 2019) was a correspondent and columnist for The New York Times, a senior Defense and State Department official, and later the President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was diplomatic correspondent at The New York Times from 1973 to 1977. He served as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1979, serving as director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs and winning the Distinguished Honor Award, the highest award of the US State Department. In 1980 he co-authored The Irony of Vietnam which won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award in 1981. From 1980–1981, he was also a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1985. Wraps. 424 pages. Part II only, map, footnotes, appendix, notes on sources, index, some wear and soiling to covers and spine. xiii, [1], 424, [2] pages. Vol. 2 only. Wraps. Map. Footnotes. Appendix. Notes on Sources and Style. Index. Slight wear and soiling to covers. "This is a study of U.S. government policymaking during the 30 years of the Vietnam war, 1945-75, beginning with the 1945-1960 period. Although focusing on the course of events in Washington and between Washington and U.S. officials on the scene, it also depicts major events and trends in Vietnam to which the U.S. was responding, as well as the state of American public opinion and public activity directed at supporting or opposing the war."--Preface from Volume I. Volume 2 of a five-volume study prepared for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate on the formulation of Vietnam policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This second volume begins with the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and continues through President Lyndon B. Johnson's first year in office. During these four years, the U.S. commitment was expanded, and the number of American military personnel in Vietnam rose from 800 to almost 20,000. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. xiii, [1], 424, [2] pages. Vol. 2 only. Wraps. Map. Footnotes. Appendix. Notes on Sources and Style. Index. Slight wear and soiling to covers. "This is a study of U.S. government policymaking during the 30 years of the Vietnam war, 1945-75, beginning with the 1945-1960 period. Although focusing on the course of events in Washington and between Washington and U.S. officials on the scene, it also depicts major events and trends in Vietnam to which the U.S. was responding, as well as the state of American public opinion and public activity directed at supporting or opposing the war."--Preface from Volume I. Volume 2 of a five-volume study prepared for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate on the formulation of Vietnam policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This second volume begins with the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and continues through President Lyndon B. Johnson's first year in office. During these four years, the U.S. commitment was expanded, and the number of American military personnel in Vietnam rose from 800 to almost 20,000. More
Princeton, NJ: Acropolis Books, 1986. First Paperbk Printing. Wraps. 363 pages. , Vol. 1 only, wraps, map, footnotes, index, two ink initials on front endpaper, slight wear and soiling to covers. Volume 1 of a five-volume study prepared for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate on the formulation of Vietnam policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This first volume begins with President Truman's decision at the end of World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina rather than to seek the international trusteeship favored earlier by President Roosevelt, and ends with the declining fortunes of the South Vietnamese Government and growing doubts about the U.S. program as the 1950's came to an end. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. xvi, 489, [7] pages. Vol. III only. Wraps. Map. Footnotes. Appendix. Index. Slight wear and soiling to covers. "This is a study of U.S. government policymaking during the 30 years of the Vietnam war, 1945-75, beginning with the 1945-1960 period. Although focusing on the course of events in Washington and between Washington and U.S. officials on the scene, it also depicts major events and trends in Vietnam to which the U.S. was responding, as well as the state of American public opinion and public activity directed at supporting or opposing the war."--Preface from Volume I. Volume 2 of a five-volume study prepared for the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate on the formulation of Vietnam policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This second volume begins with the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and continues through President Lyndon B. Johnson's first year in office. During these four years, the U.S. commitment was expanded, and the number of American military personnel in Vietnam rose from 800 to almost 20,000. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1979. Wraps. vi, 140 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Illustrations. Map. Footnotes. More
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972. Second Printing. 24 cm, 194, illus., endpaper maps, bibliography, recommended reading, index, usual library markings, rear pocket removed. More
Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom: Curzon, 1999. Hardcover. xi, [ii], 418 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Biographical Sketches. References. Index. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph, 79. Signed by author. Inscribed to noted British Historian, David Chandler. Minor edge soiling. Christopher E. Goscha (born 7 June 1965) is an historian at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He is a specialist in the history of Vietnam and South East Asia. More
New York: Putnam, c1989. First American Edition. 24 cm, 269, one bumped corner has tear at edge, DJ soiled. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964. Third Printing. 310, wraps, maps, diagrams, recommended reading, text somewhat darkened, some wear to cover edges. More
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1912. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. [8 pages of advertisements], pages 209-312, [and 16 pages of advertisements] plus covers. Illustrations. Maps. Cover soiled, worn, torn with bottom part of spine missing and part of top front cover corner. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. More
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1912. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. [8 pages of advertisements], pages 209-312, [and 16 pages of advertisements] plus covers. Illustrations. Maps. Cover is missing. Pencil notes on first page. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 434 pages. Footnotes. Publications Cited. Index. Some soiling to fore-edge, some wear to top and bottom edges of DJ, rear DJ soiled. Louis Joseph Halle Jr. (17 November 1910, New York City – 13 August 1998, Geneva, Switzerland) was an American naturalist, author, U.S. State Department official, and professor of international studies in Geneva. Halle received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1932. As a young man, he worked for a railway company in Central America and later with a publishing house in New York. For a year, he did graduate study in anthropology at Harvard, then explored boundary rivers between Guatemala and Mexico by mule and dugout canoe. He served in the US Army before World War II and in the Coast Guard during World War II. He was a Latin American specialist employed by the US State Department Policy Planning Staff from the mid 1940s to 1954. From 1954 to 1956 at the University of Virginia, he was a researcher on American foreign policy. He became in 1956 a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He retired there as professor emeritus in 1973 but remained in Geneva. He was the author of 22 books. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First U.S. Edition [stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 434 pages. Footnotes. Publications Cited. Index. Ink name on front flyleaf [Erik Rasmussen--perhaps the noted Congressional staff member who formerly worked for Cong. Lee Hamilton]. Some ink marks to margins and text noted. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Examines the immensity of the Cold War and the limitations and strengths of the world leaders involved, and includes commentary on the political changes that have ended the Cold War. Louis Joseph Halle Jr. (17 November 1910, New York City – 13 August 1998, Geneva, Switzerland) was an American naturalist, author, U.S. State Department official, and professor of international studies in Geneva. Halle received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1932. As a young man, he worked for a railway company in Central America and later with a publishing house in New York. For a year, he did graduate study in anthropology at Harvard, then explored boundary rivers between Guatemala and Mexico by mule and dugout canoe. He served in the US Army before World War II and in the Coast Guard during World War II. He was a Latin American specialist employed by the US State Department Policy Planning Staff from the mid 1940s to 1954. From 1954 to 1956 at the University of Virginia, he was a researcher on American foreign policy. He became in 1956 a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He retired there as professor emeritus in 1973 but remained in Geneva. He was the author of 22 books. More