New York: Avon Books, 2000. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 308 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author. Mrs. Kiyonaga was married for 30 years to Joseph Y. Kiyonaga, who served as a CIA station chief in Brazil and Panama. From a base in Japan, he ran psychological operations against North Korea during the Korean War. He plotted espionage operations with military strongmen and businessmen in Panama, El Salvador and Brazil. When he died in 1977 the CIA was coming under public criticism for exceeding its authority in covert operations overseas. In the face of such criticism, Joseph Kiyonaga told his wife, he wanted to “stand up and be counted.” So she got a yellow lined legal pad and took notes while he talked. Twenty-three years after his death, her book was published, “My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife.” The volume described her husband as tight-lipped and mysterious. He would disappear for days without notice and return without explanation. There were shadowy characters around the house, neither friends nor business associates nor relatives. They lacked names. They lacked identities. As the wife of a spy, Mrs. Kiyonaga followed the requisite code of silence. “We lied about our husbands’ jobs,” she wrote, “stalled inquisitive policemen, befriended ministers’ wives, kept our ears open at parties, deflected the children’s questions, worried in silence alone. We were CIA wives. You never knew us.” Publishers Weekly praised it as an “unpretentious account of their 30-year marriage and its description of her lonely life as a mother of five . . . which unfolded on a need to know basis.”. More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First Edition. 465, illus., notes on sources, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, small tears to DJ edges. More

Washington DC: United States Air Force, Office of Air Force History, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. viii, 146, [2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Maps (including fold-outs). Bibliography. Index. This is one of the USAF Warrior Studies series. Professor Kohn’s focus has been American military history generally, emphasizing national security and military policy, strategy, the American experience with war-making, and the connections between war, the military, and American society. In recent years his concentration has been on current civil-military relations, particularly civilian control of the military. His long-term projects are studies of presidential war leadership in American history and the American experience of war, but he continues to research, consult, lecture, and publish in the area of contemporary civil-military relations, military professionalism, and professional military education. More

New York: D. McKay Company, [1969]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 270, illus., bibliography, fr DJ flap price clipped, DJ edges worn. Foreword by Admiral T. H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations. More

New York, N.Y. Crown Publishers, Inc., 1973. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 213, [1] pages. Some DJ wear and edge soiling. Includes List of Illustrations, Sources, Acknowledgments and Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover The Rowdy Strain; Beating the British; Appetite for Empire; Civil War--Ultimate Indecency; Johnny Reb; Billy Yank; Looking for a War; "We didn't care a whoop"; "I hope the war doesn't end too quick"; Candid Comment; GI at War; A Particular Kind of Glory; Over There--Again; Heroes and Hoodlums; No Picnic in Korea; and Vietnam--the Pride and the Shame. This study of the American fighting man provides graphic accounts of all the major and minor conflicts in American history. From the victory over the British at New Orleans in 1814, to the air battles over North Vietnam, the book provides close ups of the man in the line of battle. Part One provides graphic accounts of all the major and many of the minor conflicts in American history, with close-ups of the man in the line of battle--from the victory over the British at New Orleans in 1814, the American Civil War, the grueling battles with the Indians, to World War I and World War II. Part Two studies the psychology of the American fighting man, and points out the strange contrasts and contradictions in his mental and emotional make-up; his simplicity and cunning; his psychiatric problems; his sense of "martial' honor; his appetite for sex; his crime and racketeering; and his cowardice and heroism. Finally, the system that produces the American soldier today is closely examined--his role as the instrument of the "great defender" all over the world and the attitudes of the commanding generals. More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 416, illus., bibliography, index, scratch on rear DJ. More

New York: Times Books, 1979. 182, maps, appendices, notes, index, bkplate ins fr flylf, fr flylf & frontis wrinkled, small rough spot on title page. More

New York: Times Books, 1979. Book Club Edition. 182, maps, appendices, notes, index, some soiling to top edge, DJ somewhat worn: edge tears, chips, & creases. More

New York: Saturday Review Press, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 307, edges slightly soiled. More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. 448, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index, DJ worn & torn & several small pieces missing. More

New York: Harper & Row, [1970]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 206, illus., footnotes, index, usual library markings, ink mark in margin of p. 192. More

New York: Holt, [c1952]. 24 cm, 370, illus., endpaper maps, index (printing error--missing pp. 365-368). Inscribed by the co-author (Henschel). More