Combat Intelligence: Its Acquisition and Transmission
Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, Inc., 1936. 23 cm, 23 cm, fold-out illus. and chart, boards somewhat soiled. More
Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, Inc., 1936. 23 cm, 23 cm, fold-out illus. and chart, boards somewhat soiled. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992. First Printing. 405, illus., appendices, index, pink highlighting on a few pages. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992. First Printing. 405, illus., appendices, index. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1967. First Edition. 240, sources, index, small stains inside boards and flyleaves, DJ worn, soiled, and stained: small edge tears/chips. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1965]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 306, illus., DJ worn with small tears, ink notation inside front board, corners of some pages bent. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1965]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 306, illus., usual library markings, DJ worn & pieces missing, rear DJ flap creased. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition. Third Printing. 247, authors' note, index, minor creasing to front DJ flap. Inscribed by the author (Shannon). More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 247, index. Inscribed by the co-author (Blackman). More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 247, [1] pages. Authors' Note. Index. Elaine Shannon, acclaimed veteran correspondent for Time and Newsweek, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win, which served as the basis for Michael Mann’s Emmy-winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, and its Emmy-nominated sequel, Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel. Shannon is a highly respected investigative reporter and an expert on terrorism, organized crime, and espionage. She is the author of The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen. Ann Blackman is an author and a journalist. Ann Blackman was a news correspondent for more than 30 years. She spent 16 years with TIME, joining the magazine in 1985 as deputy bureau chief in the Washington bureau. She also spent three years as a foreign correspondent in TIME’s Moscow bureau. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [8], 247, [1] pages. Authors' Note. Index. Inscribed by both authors to Cokie and Steve Roberts. Elaine Shannon, acclaimed veteran correspondent for Time and Newsweek, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win, which served as the basis for Michael Mann’s Emmy-winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, and its Emmy-nominated sequel, Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel. Shannon is a highly respected investigative reporter and an expert on terrorism, organized crime, and espionage. She is the author of The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen. Ann Blackman is an author and a journalist. Ann Blackman was a news correspondent for more than 30 years. She spent 16 years with TIME, joining the magazine in 1985 as deputy bureau chief in the Washington bureau. She also spent three years as a foreign correspondent in TIME’s Moscow bureau. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 247, [1] pages. Authors' Note. Index. DJ has some wear and a small tear at the back. Minor page discoloration. Inscribed by co-author Shannon on the title page. Inscription reads For Eric Thomas [?]---Who knows---Elaine Shannon 1-15 02. Two veteran Time reporters present a riveting glimpse into the life of Robert Hanssen, a seemingly quintessential surburban father and a trusted and loyal FBI agent who, after fifteen years of extremely damaging espionage, betrayed his family, his church, and his country - and got away with it, destroying the confidence of the FBI. Elaine Shannon, acclaimed veteran correspondent for Time and Newsweek, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win, which served as the basis for Michael Mann’s Emmy-winning NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, and its Emmy-nominated sequel, Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel. Shannon is a highly respected investigative reporter and an expert on terrorism, organized crime, and espionage. She is the author of The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen. Ann Blackman is an author and a journalist. Ann Blackman was a news correspondent for more than 30 years. She spent 16 years with TIME, joining the magazine in 1985 as deputy bureau chief in the Washington bureau. She also spent three years as a foreign correspondent in TIME’s Moscow bureau. More
Nashville, TN: Aurora Publishers, Inc., 1977. Hardcover. 272 pages. Illus., maps, damp wrinkling inside boards & flyleaves & to some text pages in lower margins (no stains and no pages stuck). More
Novato, CA: Presidio, c1993. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 276 pages. Erasure residue on front endpaper. More
Novato, CA: Presidio, 1994. Presumed First Paperbk Edition. 276 pages. Wraps, notes, bibliography, index, covers somewhat soiled and creased, sticker on rear cover. The secret pacts, which were agreed to by Britain and the United States during World War II, merged the two countries' code- and cipher-breaking operations. More
Berkeley, CA: University of CA Press, 1972. 458, illus., notes, bibliography, index, DJ slightly scuffed, small tear in front DJ, DJ spine faded. More
Berkeley, CA: University of CA Press, 1972. 458, illus., notes, bibliography, index, usual library markings, some wear to boards, some edge soiling. More
New York: Random House, 1977. Eighth Printing. 590, illus., maps, index, foxing to fore-edge, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. More
New York: Random House, 1977. Second Printing. 590, illus., maps, index, some soiling to fore-edge, some wear & sm tears DJ edges, larger tears front DJ, small DJ pieces missing. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1978. First Vintage Books Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xii, 590, [4] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Some discoloration inside covers and flyleaves. Some darkening to text, top corner of covers and several pages bent, some wear to cover edges. Frank Warren Snepp, III (born May 3, 1943) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Saigon during the Vietnam War. For five out of his eight years as a CIA officer, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief strategy analyst in the United States Embassy, Saigon; he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work. Snepp became a producer for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, California. He was one of the first whistle blowers who revealed the inner workings, secrets and failures of the national security services in the 1970s. As a result of a loss in a 1980 court case brought by the CIA, all of Snepp's publications require prior approval by the CIA. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1978. First Vintage Books Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xii, 590, [4] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Some darkening to text, some discoloration inside covers and flyleaves. Hole punched in front cover Cover edges worn. Ink name on front flyleaf. Frank Warren Snepp, III (born May 3, 1943) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Saigon during the Vietnam War. For five out of his eight years as a CIA officer, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief strategy analyst in the United States Embassy, Saigon; he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work. He was one of the first whistle blowers who revealed the inner workings, secrets and failures of the national security services in the 1970s. Snepp wrote a memoir of the event, Decent Interval without prior approval from the CIA Publications Review Board. After the book was published, CIA Director Stansfield Turner pushed for Snepp to be sued for breach of contract. Snepp was accused of violating the non-disclosure agreement he had signed that forbade publication of any material about CIA operations without the prior consent. The US Supreme Court ruling that Snepp's book had caused "irreparable harm" to national security due to creating an appearance of a breakdown of discipline in the CIA. The royalties from Decent Interval (amounting to $300,000 by the time Snepp lost in front of the Supreme Court) were surrendered to the CIA. All of Snepp's publications require prior approval by the CIA. In 2001 Snepp published a second book, Irreparable Harm, about his court battle with the CIA. More
Fairfax, VA: AFCEA International Press, 2000. Second Printing. 495, figures, footnotes, bibliographies, index, stray mark on front DJ, rear DJ creased, sticker on rear DJ. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 486 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Index, bookplate and ink name and date inside front board, boards somewhat soiled and some edge wear. William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist. His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012. In 1976 Stevenson released the book, 90 Minutes at Entebbe. It was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. 1st Ballantine Edition. Thirteenth Printing. Mass market paperback. Pocket paperbk, 541 pages. Wraps, illus., maps, charts, index, covers soiled and somewhat worn, pages darkened. William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist. His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven. Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012. In 1976 Stevenson released the book, 90 Minutes at Entebbe. It was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described. More
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2000. First Edition. Trade paperback. xxv, [1], 486 pages. Maps., Illustrations. Chart. Significant Dates. Index. William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist. His 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven. Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book, Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012. In 1976 Stevenson released the book, 90 Minutes at Entebbe. It was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described. More
Washington, DC: Defense Intelligence Agency, 1977. First? Edition. First? Printing. 18, wraps, illus. (some color), diagrams. More