The Prevailing Wind: Witness in Indo-China
London: Methuen & Company, 1965. First? Edition. First? Printing. 392, illus., endpaper maps, footnotes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, tape residue on spine. More
London: Methuen & Company, 1965. First? Edition. First? Printing. 392, illus., endpaper maps, footnotes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, tape residue on spine. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1967. First Edition. Fourth Printing. 22 cm, 488, map, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears. More
Ogden, UT: Cloak & Dagger Publications, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 10.25 inches. Cover and title page have seal of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command. vii, [1], 187, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Cover creased. Illustrations. Contents include an Introduction, Chapter I on Modern MI: The Beginnings; Chapter II: World War I; Chapter III: Between the Wars: Chapter IV: World War II; Chapter V: The Troubled Peace; Chapter VI: The Korean War; Chapter VII: Eisenhower and Kennedy; Chapter VIII: Vietnam: War on Two Fronts: and Chapter IX: Retreat and Renewal. There is also a List of Pictorial Sources and a List of Abbreviations. The author earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was employed as a civilian by the National Security Agency and had military served in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. He went on to become a noted educator and academic. Late in his career he applied his knowledge, experience and scholarship as an archivist as the U.S. Army Cryptologic Records Center and as a History at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. It is believed that his final career position was as an historian with the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command. More
New York, NY: Vantage Press, Inc., 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [4], xi, [3], 232, [6] pages. Includes Preface, Author's Note, and Foreword. Fed up with school, seventeen-year-old Dominic Fino joined the U.S. Army two days after graduating from high school on June 3, 1968. He found himself being routed from North Carolina to Alabama to Georgia, everywhere but Vietnam, which is where he really wanted to be. So when his request for transfer was denied, he took the unusual step of writing then-president Lyndon Johnson. His order to ship out to Vietnam followed shortly after. Once overseas, Dominic found himself assigned to the 335th Assault Helicopter Company, but it was not until he made the grade as one of the elite Falcons flying combat missions that Dominic at last realized his dream. The author's experiences cover the period from June 1968 through April 1970. The author decided to publish this story after helping to coordinate the first Falcon reunion in 1993, the first time the group had been together since leaving Vietnam, in an attempt to help others understand better what Vietnam was like for a gunship platoon. More
New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. 599, illus., filmography, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York, N.Y. Ivy Books, 1993. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Mass market paperback. x, [2], 274, [2] pages. Slightly cocked. Some page browning. Includes Preface, Prologue, 33 chapters, and an Epilogue. Includes black and white map of South Vietnam, Prologue, and 15 black and white photographs of soldiers. Also includes Appendix A (Activity Board, 22 November 1967 to 23 January 1969); and Appendix B (Company F, Long Range Patrol, 51st Infantry (Airborne). When Gary Ford volunteered in October of 1967 for a new LRP company being formed, all he knew was that he wanted to leave the grunts in Vietnam behind. But Company F, Long Range Patrol, 51st Infantry (Airborne) would demand qualities and courage that tested him to his limit. During forty-four patrols in the seventeen months F/51 was in existence, first as a team member and then as the leader of team 4/4, Ford discovered the real meaning of warfare--nights torn apart by screaming mortars, the cries of wounded men, the blood and death and exhaustion, and, worst of all, being left in enemy territory after your position has been compromised. The grit and guts, heroism and horror, of one man's war in Vietnam 4/4: A LRP'S NARRATIVE is a chronicle of survival and indomitable courage in the face of inhuman odds. In the hell of combat, Ford reveals what warriors are really made of. More
Washington, DC: Foxhall Press, 1983. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xi, 407, [1] p. Reference Notes. Bibliographical Note. Index. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 214 pages. Glossary and Abbreviations. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Appendices: 1. Combat Cruises, and 2. Aircraft of Task Force 77. Rene J. Francillon (March 1937 - March 2018) was born in Italy of French parents, raised in France, and educated in Switzerland, Rene Francillon was an American by choice. He was the author of over 50 books and was well known throughout the world of aviation. This book is a comprehensive guide to US Aircraft carriers operations off Vietnam, between 1964 and 1975. After guiding and describing the operations, the author focuses on the Vietnam war combat cruises of USS Coral Sea, as she spent more time on the line than any US aircraft carrier. More
Lawrence Hill Books, 1992. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xiii, [1], 225, [1] p. Glossary. Notes. Index. More
New York: ReganBooks, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 590 pages. Illustrations (most in color). Glossary. Index. Signed by the author (Franks) on Dedication page. Name of previous owner in ink on fep. Tommy Ray Franks (born June 17, 1945) is a retired general in the United States Army. His last Army post was as the Commander of the U.S. Central Command, overseeing U.S. military operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on July 6, 2000 and served until his retirement on July 7, 2003. Franks was the U.S. general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001. He also oversaw the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. He sits in the Board of Trustees for William Penn University, a university supported by the Quakers. A museum dedicated to him lies in Hobart, Oklahoma. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 464, illus., bibliography, index, highlighting/underlining, DJ edges worn A chronicle of three generations of three working-class families and the political transformation of twentieth-century America. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996. First Printing. 25 cm, 464, illus., bibliography, index, slight wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Knopf: distributed by Random House, 1976. 4th ed. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xvii, 492 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. More
Place_Pub: New York: Frommer/Pasmantier Pub. Corp, 1964. First? Edition. First? Printing. Approx. 115, wraps, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978. First Edition. 320, illus., library stamp, rough spot & partial library slip inside rear flyleaf, damp stains & wrinkling to text (no pages stuck) DJ in plastic sleeve, library sticker on DJ spine, scratches to rear DJ. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. 320, illus., small stains to lower inside corner of margin through p. 30, rear DJ soiled, sm tears, & creases, fr DJ flap creased. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 243, ink notation on front endpaper. Fulbright graphically depicts the cost of the Cold War. More
Los Angeles, CA: Full Gospel Business Men's, [1969?]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 48, wraps, illus., covers worn and soiled, pencil erasure on title page. Exceedingly scarce, ephemeral item. More
Washington DC: Department of the Army, 1985. Reprint. Wraps. x, 210 pages. Maps inside front and back covers. Charts. Diagrams. Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. Cover has small tear at bottom front. As the United States increased its troop commitment to Southeast Asia, Fulton became the commander of the division's 2nd Brigade and, under his leadership, his unit expanded from a handful of officers and noncommissioned officers into a full-strength, combat-ready fighting unit that was deployed to Vietnam in late January 1967. While in country, Fulton launched combat operations in the Mekong River Delta and later, because of its combat efficiencies in this new endeavor, the brigade teamed up with Navy Task Force 117 to form the Mobile Riverine Force an effective and proficient joint fighting unit of historic proportions. To record the successes of these operations, Fulton later authored a monograph titled "Vietnam Studies Riverine Operations, 1966-1969." After becoming the 9th Division's assistant division commander, Fulton served in several key staff assignments in Washington and also as the deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Training Center (Infantry), Fort Polk, La.; commanding general, 9th Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash., and commanding general, U.S. Army Recruiting Command, Fort Sheridan, Ill. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. 830, index, some edge soiling, minor wear and soiling to DJ. More
Place_Pub: New York: Hill and Wang, 1984. Fourth Printing. 242, wraps, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, selected bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2005. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [6], 333, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Substantial highlighting and ink marks and comments noted. (primarily up to page 80). Evaluates the second half of the twentieth century in light of its first fifty years, chronicling how the world transformed from a dark era of international communism and nuclear weapons to a time of political and economic freedom. John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is an American international relations scholar, military historian, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life, his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His most famous work is the highly influential Strategies of Containment, which analyzes in detail the theory and practice of containment that was employed against the Soviet Union by Cold War American presidents; his 1983 distillation of post-revisionist scholarship similarly became a major channel for guiding subsequent Cold War research. The Cold War, praised by John Ikenberry as a "beautifully written panoramic view of the Cold War, full of illuminations and shrewd judgments," was an examination of the history and effects of the Cold War than had been previously possible, and won Gaddis the 2006 Harry S. Truman Book Prize. More
[New York]: New American Library, [1967]. First Printing. 20 cm, 47, wraps, footnotes, pages browning, covers soiled, underlining on pp. 22-23. More
[New York]: New American Library, [1967]. First Printing. 20 cm, 47, wraps, footnotes, pages browning, red ink name on front cover. More
Cleveland, OH: Peacepoet's Ink, 1972. approx. 75, wraps, illus., rear cover creased, spine somewhat worn and discolored. More