The First Offensive 1942: Roosevelt, Marshall and the Making of American Strategy
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, [1973]. 24 cm, 239, index, endpapers slightly soiled, stamp on bottom edge. More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, [1973]. 24 cm, 239, index, endpapers slightly soiled, stamp on bottom edge. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 260 pages. Figures. Tables. Appendix A. Summary of Specific Recommendations. Appendix B. Naval Vessels of the United States and China. Notes. Index. James Braidy Steinberg (born May 7, 1953) is an American academic and political advisor, and former United States Deputy Secretary of State. He has served as the dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University since November 1, 2021. Prior to his deanship, he was a professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. As Deputy Secretary of State and principal Deputy to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Steinberg notably coined the phrase "strategic reassurance" to describe China–United States relations suggestive of the idea that the United States should reassure China about welcoming China's rise while China would reassure the US and its neighbors that it would not conflict with their interests. Michael Edward O'Hanlon (born May 16, 1961) is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, specializing in defense and foreign policy issues. He began his career as a budget analyst in the defense field. O'Hanlon's main areas of work over the years include studies on defense technology issues, such as missile defense and space weaponry and the future of nuclear weapons policy, and on defense strategy and budget issues that follow a long Brookings tradition. The analytical approaches that O'Hanlon employs were explained in his 2009 Princeton University Press book, The Science of War, which discusses methods of defense analysis. More
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1983. First Printing. 24 cm, 222, DJ worn and several small tears. More
Place_Pub: New York: Dell Publishing, 1992. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 302, wraps, maps, appendix, index, lower corner rear cover and a few pages creased, text somewhat darkened The author was the NBC News military analyst during Operation Desert Storm. More
Novato, CA: Presidio, 1983. Second Printing. 225, map, notes, appendix, bibliography, index, ink underlining and yellow highlighting to text, sm tears/creases/chips to DJ edges. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1981. Wraps. 137 pages. Wraps, footnotes, bibliography, index, some pencil underlining & marginal checkmarks, sm stains fore-edge, some soiling covers. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1981. 137, wraps, footnotes, bibliography, index, small red marks in margins of a few pages, spine and rear cover somewhat faded. More
China. Copy 41 of a limited edition of 1000. Comes with Collection Certificate. Soft cover printed on fine rice paper, in a specially decorated box. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 9 inches in a cloth lined receptacle in a stiff decorated closable box that is 7 inches by 10.75 inches. This work is in Chinese and English. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Sun Wu, courtesy name Chang Qing, later generations call him Sun Zi, Sun Wuzi, Master of War and the Originator of Easter Strategic. He was born in B.V. 535, for Lean of Qi Kingdom (today's Guangrao in Shandong Province) in the Spring Autumn Period. Once he takes his Master Sun's Art of war to meet Lv He, the king of Wu Kingdom. then he is installed as the general and leads the troops to war, invincible. He defeats the army of Ch Kingdom with Wu Zixu, making a show of this strength in both north and south. His Master Sun's Art of War is the earliest strategic in China and honored as the Canon of Strategic, ranking the first of the Seven Military Classics. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1988. Third Printing. 82, wraps, some wear to cover edges. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1983. Eighth Printing. 82, DJ soiled. More
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1994. Reprint Edition. Second Printing. 375, maps, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, ink notations and underlining to text. More
Place_Pub: New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 1990. First Thus Printing. quarto, 128, wraps, illus., maps, appendix, some wear to cover edges General Tao Hanzhang was a senior officer in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Written largely from the perspective of a Chinese military man who has been engaged in wars for most of his life, this book provides a comprehensive framework for approaching modern as well as ancient Chinese military thought. The appendix contains a translation of Sun Tzu's Art of War. More
Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxx, 885, [1] pages. Figures. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Marco DiCapua---With wonderful memories of you, Ann and the family in Delhi!! Ashley 7/23/03. This was prepared by RAND for the United States Air Force under Project Air Force. Ashley J. Tellis (born 1961) is a senior fellow and inaugural chair at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues. Tellis previously served as a senior adviser in the U.S. State Department in Washington, at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, and on the U.S. National Security Council, where he was a special assistant to President George W. Bush and senior director for strategic planning and Southwest Asia. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1969. First American Edition [stated], Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 208 pages. Small tear on rear dust jacket. Name in ink inside the front cover. Crease in fep. Includes Preface, as well as three black and white maps of South-East Asia; South Vietnam; and Population Map of South Vietnam. Includes Chapter on Changing the Rules, as well as Part I: People's Revolutionary War; and Part II: Squaring the Error. Index. Includes red underlining on several text pages. The world's foremost expert on counterinsurgency warfare analyzes the errors of American policy and strategy in Vietnam. Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916–1992) was a British military officer and counter-insurgency expert who "was widely regarded as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency". He was a liaison officer with the Chindits in the Burma Campaign, being awarded the DSO and the MC. In 1959, Thompson became permanent secretary for defence for Tun Abdul Razak. In response to a request from President Diem of South Vietnam, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Malayan prime minister sent a team to South Vietnam to advise on how to counter the insurgency problems. That team which so impressed Diem that he asked the British to second Thompson to the government South Vietnam as an advisor. In 1961, the Prime Minister Macmillan appointed Thompson head of the newly established British Advisory Mission to South Vietnam and Washington. When Thompson saw the effects of the strategic hamlets initiative, begun in February 1962, he became an enthusiastic backer, telling President Kennedy in 1963 that the war could be won. More
London: Routledge, 2007. Presumed first paperback edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Glued binding. xiii, [1], 204 [10] p. Illustrations, black & white. Notes. Index. This is one of the Strategy and History series. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 292 pages. Appendix. Index. Footnotes. A few ink marks and comments noted on the half-title and title pages only. This is one of Princeton's International History and Politics series. Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946)[1] is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA. He is the author of the following books : Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923 (Columbia University Press, 1980), A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999), History and Strategy (Princeton University Press, 1991) and The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method (Princeton University Press, 2006). Trachtenberg was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1966–1967, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983–1984, a German Marshall Fund Fellow in 1994–1995, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs in 1986–1987. In 2000 he received the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize He maintains a website dedicated to Cold War research. More
Baltimore, MD: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1989. Reprint edition. Hardcover. xiiim [1], 314, [12] pages. Illustrations. Sources. Books published by Manor-General Fuller. Glossary of Abbreviations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling and is taped around the boards. This was first published in 1977 by Rutgers University Press. This is one of the Great War Stories series. Anthony John Trythall was a British military officer, educator, and author. Trythall was a former director of army education who also headed Brassey’s Defence Publishers. Educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he completed a history degree in 1947, he did his compulsory National Service the next year. He returned to the military in 1953. Specializing as an educationist, he pursued a long career in officer education. Receiving a master’s degree in education from the University of London in 1969, from that year until 1971 he was education advisor to the Regular Commissions Board. This was followed by assignments as chief inspector of army education and work as chief education officer for the United Kingdom Land Forces from 1976 to 1980. That year, Trythall was named director of army education. He retired from this job in 1984. Trythall had the opportunity to head the military’s publishing house, Brassey’s. He was credited with turning the publisher around, spurring it on to release many respected publications. He was managing director from 1984 to 1987, director of Brassey’s (U.K.) from 1984 to 1997 and of Brassey’s (U.S.) from 1987 to 1995. Trythall was the author of Boney Fuller, The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha, and J. F. C. Fuller: Staff Officer Extraordinary in the British General Staff. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. [6], 114, [8] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Name of previous owner on fep. Minor page discoloration. Introduction by the translator, Brigadier-General Samuel Griffith. Number 99 in the series Praeger Publications in Russian History and World Communism. Brigadier General Samuel Blair Griffith II (May 31, 1906 – March 27, 1983) was an officer and commander in the United States Marine Corps. Griffith entered the Marines in 1929 after graduating from the United States Naval Academy. He served in and commanded Marine units in the Pacific theater of World War II and retired from service in 1956. After his retirement, Griffith wrote several books and numerous articles on military history and lectured widely. Prior to World War II, he took part in the Second Nicaraguan Campaign, and served in China, Cuba, and England. From 1935 to 1938, he studied the Chinese language while attached to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where he mastered Chinese. During World War II, following a period observing British commando training in England and Scotland, he returned to the 1st Marine Division and served as executive officer and later commander of the 1st Marine Raiders Battalion on Guadalcanal, and executive officer of the 1st Raider Regiment in operations on New Georgia. He received the Navy Cross on Guadalcanal in September 1942 for "extreme heroism and courageous devotion to duty" during the fighting near the Matanikau River. For his exploits in July in New Georgia, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. More
Peking, China: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [12], 393, [1] pages. Portrait of Mao. Ink stamp on fep. Several pages at front have creases. The six essays in this work have been translated from the Chinese texts given in The Selected Works of Mao Tsetung. Some changes have been made in the notes for foreign readers. The six essays are: Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War (December 1938); Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan (May 1938); On Protracted War (May 1938); Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938); Concentrate A Superior Force to Destroy the Enemy Forces One by One (September 16, 1946); and The Present Situation and Our Tasks (Sections I, II, III) (December 25, 1947). More
Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Force Doctrine Center, 1997. 86, wraps, color illus., figures, reading list, glossary, slight wear to cover and spine edges. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1974. 112, wraps, illus., tables, charts, diagrams, notes, slight discoloration to spine. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1958. 112, wraps, illus., maps, charts, notes, covers and spine edges discolored, some edge wear to spine. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 2003. Revised Edition. Quarto, 336, wraps (3-hole punched), illus., figures, tables, glossary. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1988. Quarto, 243, wraps, illus., maps, fold-out maps, footnotes, appendices. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: Command & Gen Staff School, 1923. 145 + maps, chapters 1-8 & appendices bound in pressboard pamphlet binder, many fold-out maps, footnotes, usual library markings. More