The Traitors
New York: Scribner, 1952. First Edition. 23 cm, 222, illus., sources, index, usual library markings, slightly cocked/shaken, some wear and soiling to boards. More
New York: Scribner, 1952. First Edition. 23 cm, 222, illus., sources, index, usual library markings, slightly cocked/shaken, some wear and soiling to boards. More
London, England: White Lion Publishers Limited, 1974. White Lion Edition [Stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. 23 cm. 222, illus., sources, index. Includes four black and white illustrations. DJ has some creasing, soiling, and tears. Book has some page darkening/discoloration. Alan McCrae Moorehead, AO, OBE (22 July 1910 – 29 September 1983) was a war correspondent and historian, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. According to the critic Clive James, "Moorehead was there for the battles and the conferences through North Africa, Italy and Normandy all the way to the end. The hefty but unputdownable African Trilogy, still in print today, is perhaps the best example of Moorehead's characteristic virtue as a war correspondent: he could widen the local story to include its global implications." And James further affirmed, "His copy was world-famous at the time and has stayed good; he was a far better reporter on combat than his friend Ernest Hemingway." Moorehead's 1946 biography of Montgomery also remains well considered – "Moorehead was well able to see – as Wilmot calamitously didn't – that Eisenhower was Montgomery's superior in character and judgment." More
New York City: Little, Brown & Company, 1958. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. v, [3], 120 pages. DJ is soiled, scuffed, several small tears and chips. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Note by previous owner inside front cover. Contains Preface, Footnotes, The War in Europe, The War in the Pacific, and Conclusion. This is An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager. Over the course of his career, Morison received eleven honorary doctoral degrees, and garnered numerous literary prizes, military honors, and national awards from both foreign countries and the United States, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. More
New York: Random House, c1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 411, illus., bibliography, source notes, index. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 216, illus., bibliography, index, ink notation on front endpaper. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. First Paperback Edition, First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiii, [3], 319, [1] pages. Cover has minor soiling. Preface, Notes, References, Index. John E. Mueller (born June 21, 1937) is an American political scientist in the field of international relations. He is recognized for his ideas concerning "the banality of ethnic war" and the theory that major world conflicts are quickly becoming obsolete. Mueller's 2004 book, The Remnants of War, was awarded Georgetown University's Lepgold Prize as that year's best book on international relations. Mueller's 2010 book Atomic Obsession presents the case that nuclear weapons have had little historical significance, that their destructive power is hysterically exaggerated, that nuclear proliferation has been slower and more limited than mainstream predictions, and that such weapons are practically useless and are a waste of money, time, and talent. Mueller's book War, Presidents and Public Opinion was awarded the first Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut in 2007, for being "a trailblazing book in public opinion research, in political science, and in the use of the Roper Center’s data." This book featured the first definition of what is known as the Rally Round the Flag Syndrome. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. First Printing. 307, minor edge wear. Inscribed by the author. More
Bethesda, MD: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [6], 251, [3] pages. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. References. Ink notation on title page. Proceedings No. 9. Ex-library copy with some of the usual library markings. The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), formerly the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements, and before that the Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection (ACXRP), is a U.S. organization. It has a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code, but this does not imply any sort of oversight by Congress; NCRP is not a government entity. The Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection was established in 1929. In 1946, the organization changed its name to the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements. In 1964, the U.S. Congress reorganized and chartered the organization as the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. More
Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 198, [2] pages. Illustrations (Tables, Figures, some with color). Formulae. Appendixes. Glossary. References. Biosketches. The Committee on Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) was set up more than a decade before this publication at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy. It was charged with monitoring work and experimental results related to the Dosimetry System 1986 (DS86) used by RERF to reconstruct the radiation doses to the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the time it was established, DS86 was believed to be the best available dosimetric system for RERF, but questions have persisted about some features, especially the estimates of neutrons resulting from the Hiroshima bomb. This book describes the current situation, the gamma-ray dosimetry, and such dosimetry issues as thermal-neutron discrepancies between measurement and calculation at various distances in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It recommends approaches to bring those issues to closure and sets the stage for the recently convened U.S. and Japan Working Groups that will develop a new dosimetry for RERF. The book outlines the changes relating to DS86 in the past 15 years, such as improved numbers that go into, and are part of, more sophisticated calculations for determining the radiations from bombs that reach certain distances in air, and encourages incorporation of the changes into a revised dosimetry system. More
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1956. 241, figures, tables, appendix, references, index, stain on fr flylf, weakness to rear bd, bds & spine scuffed. More
New York: Nuclear Times, Inc., 1988. Presumed first edition/first printing this issue. Wraps. 46, [12 page Deadline insert], [2] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Magazine now a slick cover Cover has some wear and soiling. Calendar. Mailing label on the back cover. Elliott Negin, a senior writer at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was a foreign news editor at National Public Radio, the managing editor of American Journalism Review, and the editor of Nuclear Times and Public Citizen magazines. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Columbia Journalism Review, the Hill, Mother Earth News, the Nation, the Progressive, Roll Call, Washington City Paper, the Washington Post and other publications. More
New York: Delacorte Press, [1965]. First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 211 pages. Illus., facsims. Ink notation on front endpaper possibly autographed by George Packard, one of the contributors. More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 320 pages. Abbreviations. Bibliographical Note. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Dr. Janne E. Nolan chaired the Nuclear Security Working Group and is a faculty member at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University. She had extensive experience in national security in government and the private sector, holding senior staff positions in the Department of State and the U.S. Senate. Her 40 years’ experience in national security led her to specialize in military strategy, defense technology policy, nuclear doctrine and ethics. Her books include Guardians of the Arsenal: The Politics of Nuclear Strategy; An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security after the Cold War; and Tyranny of Consensus: Discourse and Dissent in American National Security Policy. More
South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2002. First paperback edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. Glued binding. xxi, [3], 722, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Dr. Robert Standish Norris joined Federation of American Scientist in July 2011 as a senior fellow for nuclear policy. His principal areas of expertise include all aspects of the nuclear weapons programs of the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, Britain, France, and China, as well as India, Pakistan, and Israel. He was co-editor of NRDC’s Nuclear Weapons Databook series and was a co-author of U.S. Nuclear Warhead Production, Volume II (1987); U.S. Nuclear Warhead Facility Profiles, Volume III (1987); Soviet Nuclear Weapons, Volume IV (1989); and British, French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons, Volume V (1994). More recent books include Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yeltsin (1995) and Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (1998), with other authors. He wrote a biography of General Leslie R. Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb during World War II. The book, Racing for the Bomb won the Distinguished Writing Award for best Biography of 2002 from the Army Historical Foundation. More
New York: Praeger, 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 292, [2] pages. Selected Bibliography. Index. The author was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After his military service, he became a principal with Technology Transfer Associates, Inc. specializing in national security studies and a consultant with SRI International. He has published articles on national security affairs in several professional journals and has participated in a number of national security studies for the U.S. Government. In particular, he has studied nuclear conflict for the Department of Defense. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 252 pages. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, creasing, soiling and chips. DJ is price clipped. Pencil erasure residue on fep. The author was educated at George Washington University and Catholic University. He was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of EG & G, Inc, one of the leading high-technology companies in the United States. He also served as Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers. During WWII the author worked under J. Robert Oppenheimer on arming devices for the first bombs; after the war, as a principal founder of a high-technology company specializing in instrumentation, he measured the effects of most major atomic tests. He rejects the concept of a limited atomic war as nonsense. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2017. Special Illustrated Edition [stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 9.5 inches. xvii, [1], 302 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Maps. A Note to Readers. Key Players. Time Line. The Author Recommends. Author's Source Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American journalist, author, and former television host. During the late 1970s and 1980s, he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News. He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted The O'Reilly Factor until 2017. The O'Reilly Factor was the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years. He is the author of numerous books and hosted The Radio Factor (2002–2009). Since 2017, he has hosted the No Spin News podcast which he founded after being fired from Fox. O'Reilly is considered to be a conservative commentator. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 194, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has sticker residue at the back. The author was the Jack T. Kvernland Professor of Philosophy and Social Policy at Monmouth College and the author of The Soul of the Salesman and Weber and Rickert. He has published on classical German sociology, especially Georg Simmel and Max Weber, and most recently on the sociology of ethics. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [10], 298, [4] pages. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears. Michael Parfit has written on contemporary issues for many prominent national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, New Times, and The Smithsonian. In addition to being an author, Mr. Parfit branched out later in his career into documentaries. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1958. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 254p., ill., 21 cm. Illustrations. Books and Journals. Index. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962. Apollo Edition [stated] Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. x, 262 pages. Illustrations. Books and Journals. Index. Minor damp signs at bottom edge and fore-edge toward the back. Nobel prize-winning scientist discusses nuclear testing and nuclear warfare. Linus Carl Pauling (28 February 1901 – 19 August 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time, and as of 2000, he was rated the 16th most important scientist in history. For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. His contributions to the theory of the chemical bond include the concept of orbital hybridization and the first accurate scale of electronegativities of the elements. Pauling also worked on the structures of biological molecules, and showed the importance of the alpha helix and beta sheet in protein secondary structure. Pauling's approach combined methods and results from X-ray crystallography, molecular model building, and quantum chemistry. His discoveries inspired the work of James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin on the structure of DNA, which in turn made it possible for geneticists to crack the DNA code of all organisms. In his later years he promoted nuclear disarmament. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2010. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 367 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. First-hand accounts of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Several weeks after publication, Henry Holt and Company stopped printing and selling the book because the author relied on a fraudulent source for part of the book. Copies were withdrawn from sale and as a result, copies of this edition in the secondhand market are becoming increasingly scarce. Pellegrino subsequently revised the text to remove some of the disputed content. The book was retitled "To Hell and Back" and released by a different publisher in 2015. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1972]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 270, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by George H. Kerr. More
New York, N.Y. Random House, 2001. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxiv, 564, [4] pages. Illustrations. Includes Foreword, A Note to Readers, Acknowledgments, and Prologue, as well as Bibliography, Source Notes, and Index. Chapters include Gentleman Amateurs; Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors; Strange Bedfellows; Spymaster in the Oval Office; The Defeatist and the Defiant; "There Is No U.S. Secret Intelligence Service"; Spies Versus Ciphers; Donovan Enters the Game; "Our Objective Is to Get America into the War"; Catastrophe or Conspiracy; Secrets of the Map Room; Intramural Spy Wars; Premier Secret of the War; Enter the OSS; "We Are Striking Back"; An Exchange: An Invasion for a Bomb; Leakage from the Top; Distrusting Allies; Deceivers and the Deceived; The White House Is Penetrated; If Overlord Fails; Cracks in the Reich; A Secret Unshared; "Take a Look at the OSS"; Sympathizers and Spies; A Leaky Vessel; Who Knew--and When? "Stalin Has Been Deceiving Me All Along"; The Following Are the Latest Casualties"; and Aftermath. Blending anecdotes, speculations, and documented facts into an exciting story of collecting and transmitting information in wartime, Persico offers a clear-eyed take on FDR's approach to intelligence. Roosevelt's use of intelligence decisively shaped the war and helped define the peace that followed. Joseph Edward Persico (July 19, 1930 – August 30, 2014) was an author and American military historian. His book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials; it was adapted for television as the docudrama Nuremberg. He contributed to the design of the World War II Memorial. More
Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press, 2019. Second Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. 174, [2] pages. Decorative cover. Illustrations. Maps. Richly illustrated, and with a wealth of materials never before available in English, this book provides an overview of more than 200 of Nagasaki's A-bomb heritage sites. The entries are organized into a series of tours for the convenience of tourists actually visiting the city, and to give the general reader a sense of the layout and proximity to the hypocenter. In addition to a foreword, introduction, postscript, and reference section, it includes translations of A-bomb literature written by several atomic survivors. Includes information on the Peace Park, West of the Urakami River, Nagasaki University Hospital & School of Medicine, North of Peace Park, North End of the Streetcar; Streetcar South: Peace Park to JR Nagasaki Station; JR Nagasaki Station Neighborhood; West Downtown, East Downtown, and Further Afield. There is a Postscript, information on English Language Resources, information on Navigating Nagasaki with Online Maps, and References. More