Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 303, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 303, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 303, [5] pages. Previous owner's address label and advertisement for this book pasted to fep. Illustrations. Maps. Includes Epilogue, Notes, The Berga Prisoners, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters cover The Devil Quotes Scripture; Sucker Punch; The Obedience of Corpses; The Selection; Prayer Book and Sword; Walking Shadows; Weasels in a Hole; The Dying Weeks; and Orders from Nowhere. Roger Cohen (born 2 August 1955) is a journalist and author. He was a reporter, editor and columnist for The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune (later re-branded as the International New York Times). He has worked as a foreign correspondent in fifteen countries. In 1983, Cohen joined The Wall Street Journal in Rome to cover the Italian economy. The Journal later transferred him to Beirut. He joined The New York Times in January 1990.[6] In the summer of 1991, he co-authored with Claudio Gatti In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The authors wrote the book based on information from Norman Schwarzkopf's sister Sally, without Schwarzkopf's help. In 2004, he began writing a column called 'Globalist', which is published twice a week in The International Herald Tribune. In 2005, Cohen's third book, Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. In 2006, he became the first senior editor for The International Herald Tribune. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. 342, illus., maps, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ somewhat scuffed and some edge wear. More
New York: Berkley Books, 1992. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 372, wraps, illus., index, top corner bent p. 63. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 226 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. DJ has slight wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Minor edge soiling. Samuel Theodore Cohen (January 25, 1921 – November 28, 2010) was an American physicist who is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb. He was born on January 25, 1921, and raised in New York City. He studied mathematics and physics at University of California, Los Angeles before joining the United States Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1944 he worked on the Manhattan Project in the efficiency group at Los Alamos and calculated how neutrons behaved in Fat Man, the atomic bomb that was later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan. After the war he joined the RAND Corporation. At RAND Corporation in 1950, his work on the intensity of fallout radiation first became public when his calculations were included as a special appendix in Samuel Glasstone's book The Effects of Atomic Weapons. Cohen was responsible for recruiting the famous strategist Herman Kahn into the RAND Corporation. During the Vietnam War, Cohen argued that using small neutron bombs would end the war quickly and save many American lives, but politicians were not amenable to his ideas and other scientists ignored the neutron bomb in reviewing the role of nuclear weapons. He was a member of the Los Alamos Tactical Nuclear Weapons Panel in the early 1970s. President Carter delayed development of the neutron bomb in 1978. More
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1974. First? Edition. First? Printing. 242, footnotes, sources, index, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Basement of Basics Publishing, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Inscribed by author on fep. Slight cover wear. Unusual work, specialty publisher, under-recognized author. This is likely a low volume initial press run. Scarce, intriguing item. More
Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. viii, 112 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. St. Clair Streett (October 6, 1893 – September 28, 1970), known as "Bill", was a United States Air Force (USAF) major general and writer who first organized and led the Strategic Air Command (SAC). Streett served as aide to General Billy Mitchell, and was viewed by General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold as his "troubleshooter". Streett served in France during World War I. In 1920, he was awarded the Mackay Trophy and the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a squadron of U.S. airmen on a pioneering air voyage from New York City to Nome, Alaska and back. Streett wrote for National Geographic of his squadron's difficulties. Streett assisted Mitchell during the famous bombing demonstration against battleships. He made an exploratory flight to extreme altitude during which he experienced frozen flight controls, and then wrote a story about the adventure for Popular Science. More
Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1988. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. viii, 120 pages. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Includes Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgments & Photo Credits, Appendix, Raider's Scrapbook, and Bibliography. Includes eight chapters, including Background, Concept through Training, On Board the Hornet, Planning and Detection, The Mission, Experience in China; Effects of the Raid; and Aftermath and Legacy of the Raid. Also includes seven maps: Military situation in the Pacific; Original Plan of Attack; Tokyo Raiders Training & Repair Sites, January - April 1942; Autographed Map of the Raid; Bomber Routes Over Japan; Japan, China, Siberia, April 1942; and Crash Sites in China. This pictorial history explores the entire gamut of Doolittle's Tokyo Raid--from the Japanese aggressions in the early 1940's to present photographs of survivors. Many of these pictures have never been published before, and wee procured from government and private archives as well as the raiders themselves. The men who participated in this mission wee typical of those many dedicated Americans who have risked and sacrificed their lives for the freedoms of this great nation since its founding in 1776. Stan Cohen is a native of Charleston, West Virginia, and a graduate geologist. After many years as a geologist, and as director of a historical museum, he established Pictorial Histories Publishing Company in Missoula, Montana, in 1976, and has authored or coauthored 71 books and published over 350. He is the director of the Museum of Mountain Flying in Missoula and is involved with several other historical associations. More
Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1989. Eighteenth Printing. Wraps. x, 182 pages. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. The book includes a Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgments, and Photo Credits. The book contains 9 maps (most of them full page maps), as well as more than 100 black and white photographs. Stan B. Cohen has been an author and publisher in Missoula for more than three decades and has been a founder or board member of several local museums. The book title, "East Wind Rain," was the code phrase used by the Japanese government to notify its diplomatic corps throughout the world that it had made the decision to go to war with the United States. The two-hour attack on Pear Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, ranks among those remarkable moments that changed not only American history, but also events in the rest of the world. One could say that from the time the Japanese planes left their carriers until the first bomb dropped at 7:55 a.m., the world was in limbo. The Pearl Harbor attack was not an isolated incident, but part of an overall plan for the conquest of Southeast Asia and the promotion of what the Japanese called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. More
Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1990. Fourth Printing. Trade paperback. x, 106 pages. Format is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Color covers. Illustrations. Maps. Stan B. Cohen has been an author and publisher in Missoula for 32 years and has been a founder or board member of several local museums. Although the fight ended in defeat and surrender of the island’s American garrison, the battle of Wake, starting just hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, represented the first defense of an American possession during World War II. Waged against tremendous odds, the battle will always hold a special place in American military history. More
Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, April 1986. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 136 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 8 and 1-5 inches. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. Stan Cohen was born and raised in Charleston, West Virginia and is a geology graduate of West Virginia University. After working in the oil fields in his native state he moved to Missoula, Montana in 1961 to work for the US Forest Service. In the summers of 1962 and 1963 he worked for the service in southeast Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula. He’s written at least 15 books on the Last Frontier, and published another 35. More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [3], 311, [9] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Statistics. Corner creased at rear endpaper. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The author was a successful free-lance writer and communications consultant in New York City. He had been a reporter, an editor, a writer, and a teacher. His book, The Game They Played named in 1987 by Sports Illustrated as among the twenty-five books no sports fan should be without. More
New York: Harper Business, c1991. 24 cm, 304, illus., minor soiling to DJ. More
New York: A. A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. 25 cm, 495, DJ price clipped, DJ worn/torn at corners, edges slightly soiled. More
New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, [3], 495, [3] xvii, [3] pages. Minor wear and soiling to cover. Bookplate on fep. Pencil markings and comments noted throughout. Preface, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover The Making of an Old Bolshevik; The Triumph of Radicalism in 1917; The Politics of Civil War; Marxist Theory and Bolshevik Policy: Bukharin's Historical Materialism; Rethinking Bolshevism; Bukharinism and the Road to Socialism; The Duumvirate: Bukharin as Co-Leader; The Crises of Moderation; The Fall of Bukharin and the Coming of Stalin's Revolution; The Last Bolshevik; and Epilogue: Bukharin and Bukharinism in History. Stephen Frand Cohen (November 25, 1938 – September 18, 2020) was an American scholar of Russian studies. His academic work concentrated on modern Russian history since the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's relationship with the United States. In his first book, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution, a biography of Nikolai Bukharin, a leading Bolshevik official and editor of Pravda, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Cohen argued that Communism in the Soviet Union could have easily taken a different direction, not leading to Joseph Stalin's dictatorship and purges. Cohen wrote that it was possible for Bukharin to have succeeded Lenin and that the Soviet Union under Bukharin would have had greater openness, economic flexibility, and democracy. The book was widely praised, with economic historian Alec Nove describing it as 'the best book on the USSR to be published for many years'. More
New York: Norton, c1985. First Edition. Second Printing. 21 cm, 160, Inscribed by the author. More
Berkeley, CA: University of CA Press, 1971. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 216, footnotes, index. More
Chicago: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. The format is approximately 12 inches by 9.25 inches. [2], 120 pages. Illustrated cover. Illustrations. Captions/footnotes. Brief biographies. Drawing Credits. Soft cover has front and back flaps. Name of previous owner on fep. Some ink underlining and marks noted. Introduction by Stanley Tigerman. This is documenting the exhibition of the same name organized by Laurence Booth, Stuart E. Cohen, Stanley Tigerman, and Benjamin Weese. First three sheets had been separated from the binding and has been reglued in place. It states on page 12 that "The object of the collection of building discussed here is to act as a catalyst to the growing opinion that revisionist histories of Chicago's place in twentieth century architecture are long overdue and to present work that represents sensibilities and intellectual ideas not usually associated with Chicago. While the buildings selected are intended to indicate the range and variety of Chicago's unknown architecture, the selection is narrow and chosen primarily for idea and aesthetic merit, formal rather than just technological significance. Clearly, more has been omitted than has been included. The focus is largely historical for it should be left to others, at a later date, to finally evaluate the work of architects practicing in Chicago today." More
New York: New American Library, 2000. First Printing. 279, illus., publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Forge, 2006. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 383 p. More
New York: Forge, 2007. First Mass Market Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. viii, [2], 434, [4] pages. Cover has slight wear and soiling. William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician and author from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton. Cohen has written several books, including mysteries, poetry, and (with George Mitchell) an analysis of the Iran-contra affair. He is a Chairman Emeritus of the US-Taiwan Business Council. The Washington Post ran an article entitled "From Public Life to Private Business" about Cohen's abrupt transition to the business of Washington lobbying within "weeks of leaving office." It discussed the affairs of the Cohen Group in greater detail and while alleging no specific impropriety, took a generally negative view of the former Senator and Secretary of Defense. On August 21, 2006, Cohen's novel, Dragon Fire, was released. The plot revolves around a secretary of defense who contends with a potential nuclear threat from a foreign country. More
New York: Nan A. Talese, 1993. First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 306 pages. Signed by the author. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 344, [6] p.; 24 cm. Comlilments card and publisher's ephemera laid in. Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. xii, 306, [2] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Signed by both co-authors on the Half-title page. Includes Acknowledgments and Cast of Characters (in the Capitol police department; In the office of the Architect of the Capitol; In the Senate; in the House of Representatives, and in the Government of the District of Columbia). Written with the unique insider's perspective that only a United States senator could give to it, Murder in the Senate races to an unforgettable climax in the Capitol's most hidden places. More than a thrilling mystery, it is a revealing look into the hard-fought and sometimes ruthless way the game of politics is played at the highest levels of American Government. William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician, lawyer and author from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–1979) and Senate (1979–1997), and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton. Described as "a Republican moderate from Maine, something of a maverick centrist" by David Halberstam, Cohen had very good working relations with President Clinton and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and "almost ideal" collaboration with the Joint Chiefs of Staff; however, he often clashed with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whom he saw as "a grandstander, too outspoken on policy matters and too eager to use military force." Cohen has written several books, including mysteries (Murder in the Senate), poetry, and (with George Mitchell) an analysis of the Iran-contra affair. More