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Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1982. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 253, wraps, illus., references, notes, glossary, index, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York, N.Y. Doubleday, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. [8], , 294, [2] pages. Minor DJ soiling. Minor edge soiling. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator. In 1955 Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the late-20th century United States. Buckley hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line (1966–1999), the longest-running public affairs show in US television history with a single host, where he became known for his distinctive Transatlantic idiolect and wide vocabulary. Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and more than fifty other books on diverse topics, including writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing. His works include a series of novels featuring fictitious CIA agent Blackford Oakes. He also penned a nationally syndicated newspaper column. Buckley called himself either a libertarian or a conservative. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, said in 2008 that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century. For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditionalist conservatism and classical liberalism; it laid the groundwork for the rightward shift in the Republican Party exemplified by Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. More
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 294, DJ torn at spine and repaired with tape. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Putnam, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 447, index, DJ worn and soiled, tears to DJ edges. More
New York: Putnam, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 447, index, pencil erasure and paperclip impression on fr endpaper, slight edge soiling, DJ worn, soiled, and some edge chipping. More
New York: Free Press, c1988. First Printing. 25 cm, 354, Introductory essay by Edward Shils. More
New York: Ivy Books. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated] thus. Mass market paperback. ix, [1], 214 pages. Map. Illustrations. Glossary. Sticker residue on back cover. Sergeant John Burford was the leader of F Company, 58th Infantry during the Vietnam War. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 295, illus., bibliography, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 295, [6] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. David Burner was professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and founder of the Brandywine Press. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1965. His first monograph—The Politics of Provincialism: The Democratic Party in Transition, 1918–32—enjoyed a warm reception in the scholarly community. His biography Herbert Hoover: A Public Life became the most important contribution to the rehabilitation of the former president’s reputation. Burner viewed him as a more activist president than his GOP predecessors during the 1920s and anything but a laissez-faire purist. In 1997 the Princeton University Press published his Making Peace with the Sixties, a re-examination of the tumultuous decade. One reviewer wrote, “For Burner, the history of the 1960s is the history of the breaking apart of the liberal mentality, particularly with reference to the two intersecting mass actions of the decade, the civil rights and anti-war movements.” To understand that breakup, Burner “examines forces of the era that might have been allies but succeeded in becoming enemies: a civil rights movement that severed into integrationist and black-separatist; a social left and a mainline liberalism that lost a common vocabulary even for arguing with each other; an anti-war activism that divided between advocates of peace and advocates of totalitarian Hanoi.”. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. 383, illus., genealogy, chronology notes on sources, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, some DJ wear/soil: edge tears/chips. More
Goteborg: Goteborg University, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, [2], 324 pages. Abbreviations. A Note on Terminology. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. This is number 34 of the Dissertations from the Department of History Goteborg University series. Dr. Burton was a graduate student lecturer in American history, specializing in the Vietnam War era. He advised over fifty student dissertations between 1998 and 2003. He was nominated for the Eloquentia Prize as the University's best lecturer: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. His doctoral dissertation was "The Swedish-American Press and the Vietnam War" More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First Edition. 510, illus., maps, endpaper maps, sources, index, large tear in rear DJ, small tears to top edge of DJ and small pieces missing. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 338 pages. Index, minor wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 338, index, errata slip laid in, DJ somewhat soiled and creased: small edge tears/chips. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. 25 cm, 398, illus., source notes, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. First Printing. 25 cm, 398, illus., references, index, ink notation and pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. First Printing. 25 cm, 398, wraps, illus., references, index, gift inscription inside front flyleaf (not from author), tear at inside hinge front flyleaf A personal memoir by President Johnson's top domestic adviser. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 398 pages. Illus., source notes, index, slight wear/creasing to DJ edges, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Capistrano Beach, CA: Charger Books, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 287, illus., glossary. More
New York: Viking, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. 308, illus. The author was a Vietnam nurse, decorated officer, mother of four, and the highest-ranking officer to challenge the military's antigay policy. A major film was later made based on her experiences. Her goal to become Chief Nurse of the entire National Guard was abruptly ended in 1992 by her discharge based on sexual orientation. More
New York: Viking, 1994. First Edition. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 308 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer (born March 24, 1942) served as a colonel in the Washington National Guard and became a gay rights activist. Born in Oslo, Norway, she became a United States citizen in 1960. In 1961 she joined the Army Nurse Corps. She received a B.S. in Nursing in 1963. At the University of Washington School of Nursing, she earned a master's degree in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1991. In 1989, during a routine security clearance interview, she disclosed that she is a lesbian. The National Guard began military discharge proceedings against her. On June 11, 1992, she was honorably discharged. Cammermeyer filed a lawsuit against the decision in civil court. In June 1994, Judge Thomas Zilly of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled that her discharge and the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military were unconstitutional. She returned to the National Guard and served as one of the few openly gay or lesbian people in the U.S. military while the "don't ask don't tell" policy was in effect, until her retirement in 1997. A television movie about Cammermeyer's story, Serving in Silence, was made in 1995, with Glenn Close starring as Cammermeyer. Its content was largely taken from Cammermeyer's autobiography of the same name. In June 2010, she was appointed to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, a committee which is appointed by the United States Secretary of Defense and which reports to the United States Department of Defense. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1995. First Penguin Edition. 308, wraps, illus., last page creased, ink date written inside front cover The author was a Vietnam nurse, decorated officer, mother of four, and the highest-ranking officer to challenge the military's antigay policy. A major film was later made based on her experiences. Her goal to become Chief Nurse of the entire National Guard was abruptly ended in 1992 by her discharge based on sexual orientation. More
New York: Atheneum, 1989. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, [4], 295, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Stamp of previous owner on fep. Colonel Richard D. Camp, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), served 26 years in the Marine Corps before retiring in 1988. He is the author of numerous books on Marine history, including Last Man Standing: The 1st Marine Regiment on Peleliu (2009) and Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U.S. Marines in World War I (2008). Colonel Richard Camp entered the U.S. Marines in 1962 as an infantry officer, serving in the 1st Marine Brigade in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. He eventually served as company commander during his time in Vietnam, and would see action several times, particularly at the Battle of Khe Sanh. Colonel Camp is also an active military historian, and has written 14 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which are military-oriented. Eric M. Hammel is a military historian, with a focus on the military campaigns of the United States Marine Corps, and military action in World War II. He has been a contributing editor to Leatherneck Magazine. Since the book was written, Dick Camp retired from the Marine Corps and as a business manager in Cincinnati, Ohio...and as a Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's Vice President Museum Operations at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He also served one year as the Acting Director of the History Division, U.S. Marine Corps. Since LIMA-6, Dick has written 12 military history books and over 100 military related articles for various magazine publications. More
New York: Liveright, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 366, maps, index, some wear and soiling to DJ, minor chipping to DJ edges. More
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [3], 224, [6] pages. Endpaper maps. Includes Acknowledgments, Vietnamese Expressions, Historical Note, and Prologue. Chapters cover Send-Off; The Old Man's Trail; Monsoon Strategy; The Treacherous Maze; Opium Trails; Cambodia; Rumors; Enclave; Convoy; Escape; Spectre; Grail; The Golden BB; Hornets' Nest; Bureaucrats; Responsibility; Power; Rewards; "Spend Blood'; and Eulogies. A former U.S. Marine and a veteran of the Vietnam War offers a empathetic, fictional portrait of the Vietcong, tracing the brutal journey of a platoon of teenaged Vietnamese boys down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The enemy is a platoon of fifteen-year-old boys ordered to carry more than a ton of cargo down a primitive network of trails and roads known to the Vietnamese as the Old Man's Trail but called the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the West. This is a tale of courage, motivation, survival, love, teamwork, and one man's determination to survive. For Campbell, Duan is the personification of the Vietnamese patriot and soldier--a soldier first, a nationalist second, a tacit Communist third. And the author believes that it was men like Duan who drove the world's most powerful nation from Vietnam in 1975. Tom Campbell is a retired Marine Colonel who is an award winning senior Lecturer in management and leadership at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. While on active duty he was an advisor... a covan... to the Vietnamese Marines for seventeen months, and commanded two platoons, two companies and two battalions. More