Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. 1974 Printing [Stated] [presumed first printing]. Hardcover. 24 cm. vii, [1], 359, [1] pages. Notes. List of Sources. Index. DJ worn, faded, and edge tears, front DJ flap price clipped. DJ is taped over the boards. Born on January 29, 1935 in Boston, MA, Richard Haynes lived in Louisiana most of his life. He served in the Navy during the Korean War. After obtaining his Ph.D. at LSU, he taught history at Northeast Louisiana University. He later served as chairman of the department of history and government. He is best known for his scholarly book on Harry Truman as Commander in Chief entitled The Awesome Power. This work is an Analysis of Truman's decision-making process in terms of the information available to him, the existing pressures, and the relationship of his decisions to his own concepts of how a commander-in-chief would function. This work contains substantial discussion of the Atomic bomb and atomic energy. More

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. First Edition. 315, illus., maps, notes, biblio, index, lib stamps, rough spot ins rear flylf, bds somewhat scuffed & edges worn & faded. More

Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 1993. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xvi, 95, [1] p. 23 cm. Illustrations (Figures). Endnotes. More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1960]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 328, frontis illus., index, text slightly darkened, some wear to board and spine edges. More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1966. First Printing. 571, illus., maps (some fold-out), table, charts, appendices, bibliographical note, index, edges of boards faded. More

Washington, DC: Ethics/Public Policy Center, 1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 76, wraps, publisher's address sticker at rear cover. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 223 pages. illus., endpaper maps. Name in ink on ffep. Spine and edges of boards discolored, spine edges worn. Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 – January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. She wporked for New York Herald Tribune (1942-1963), and later, as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963-1965). She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence awarded in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War. In 1950, Higgins was named chief of the Tribune's Tokyo bureau. When war broke out in Korea, she was one of the first reporters on the spot. On 28 June, Higgins and three of her colleagues witnessed the Hangang Bridge bombing. She was ordered out of the country by General Walton Walker, who argued that the military had no time to worry about them. Higgins made a personal appeal to General Douglas MacArthur, who sent a telegram to the Herald Tribune stating: Ban on women correspondents in Korea has been lifted. Marguerite Higgins is held in highest professional esteem by everyone. As a result of her reporting from Korea, Higgins shared with five male war correspondents the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. More

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982. Hardcover. 434 pages. Appendices, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled: small tears, small chips missing. Inscribed by author. Address sticker inside front flyleaf. At the time of her retirement, after 33 years in the service, General Holm was the highest ranking woman ever to serve in the U.S. armed forces. Major General Jeanne Marjorie Holm (June 23, 1921 – February 15, 2010) was the first female one-star general of the United States Air Force and the first female two-star general in any service branch of the United States. Holm was a driving force behind the expansion of women's roles in the Air Force. During World War II, Holm was assigned to the Women's Army Corps. At the end of the war, she commanded the 106th WAC Hospital Company. In October 1948, during the Berlin Blockade, Holm was recalled to active duty she served as assistant director of plans and operations for the 7200th Air Force Depot Wing, and later was War Plans Officer for the 85th Air Depot Wing, during the Berlin airlift and the early phases of the Korean War. More

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982. 434, appendices, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled: small tears, small chips missing. More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, [1973]. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 562, illus., index, DJ worn and torn. More

[New York]: Reader's Digest Press, 1977. First Printing. 24 cm, 505, notes, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped. More

New York: Stein and Day, 1985. Book Club Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 320, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index, pencil erasure on front endpaperKorean War history from the intervention of the Chinese to the Panmunjom negotiations. More

New York: Stein and Day, 1985. First Printing? Hardcover. 25 cm, 320 pages. illus., maps, notes, bibliography, inde. , DJ in plastic sleeve. More