Selected Papers of General William E. DePuy: First Commander, U.S. Army, Training and Doctrine Command, 1 July 1973
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 469, wraps, illus., maps. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 469, wraps, illus., maps. More
New York: Praeger, [1969]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 412, maps, footnotes, index, DJ worn and soiled, pencil erasure on half-title. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [2], 234, [4] pages. DJ has fading/sunning at spine and front cover, some wear and rear flap creased. Some wear at bottom of rear board. Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary entitled, The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, [1969]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 376, footnotes, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, some edge soiling, slightly cocked. More
Colorado Springs, CO: U.S. Air Force Academy, [1981]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 318, wraps, illus., maps. More
New York: HarperTorch, 2000. Book Club Edition. 248, maps, appendices. Contains a mission brief by Richard Marcinko. More
New York: HarperTorch, 2000. Book Club? Edition. 248, maps, tables, appendices, some wear to DJ edges. Includes a mission brief by Richard Marcinko. More
New York, NY: Avon Books, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vi, 314 pages. Glossary. Some creasing and small chips to dust jacket spine. Kevin Dockery is an American fiction and nonfiction author and military historian. He is best known for his work detailing the history and weapons of the Navy SEALs. He served in the US Army on the President's Guard, and as an armorer. Since retiring from the Army, he has worked as a curator for the SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, an historian and as a lecturer. He has written 37 books, appeared in television documentaries and served as technical advisor for several motion pictures. He has written with or for several well-known figures, including Jesse Ventura and several other SEALs. He served in the U.S. Army from 1972 through 1975 as the Unit Armorer for Company A, 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, a ceremonial and guard unit assigned to the White House in Washington DC. Company A was the Presidents Guard for the 1976 Bicentennial. Dockery was a Selected Marksman for the unit. His duties also included caring for all of the unit's weapons, both modern and antique, including 77 Brown Bess flintlock muskets, swords, spontoons (spears) and other arms. Dockery received a BA degree in Communications from Oakland University in 1980. Dockery joined the Michigan National Guard, Company A, 225th Infantry. He served as an 81mm M29A1 mortar team leader, a weapons squad leader (antitank), and an infantry squad leader. He left the service in 1984. His books include Navy Seals: The Complete History, Stalkers and Shooters: A History of Snipers and Weapons of the Navy Seals. More
New York: William Morrow, c1998. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 283. More
Place_Pub: Watertown, NY: Office of Air Force History, 1985. Reprint Edition. 113, wraps, illus., tables, maps, index, ink name on bottom edge, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 205, [7] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction, Epilogue, Appendix, and Index. This is one of the Naval Institute Special Warfare Series. James C. Donahue joined the Marine Corps when he was seventeen years old and subsequently served with the Marines through the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Once discharged from the Corps, he enlisted in the Army and volunteered for Special Forces. As a Green Beret, he served with the 6th and 7th Special Forces Groups (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and with the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Vietnam. Donahue fought with Detachment A-343 at Duc-Phong and Mobile Guerrilla Force Detachments A-303, A-304, A-361, B-36 at Bien-Hoa, No-Ngoc-Tao, and Trang-Sup. He earned a master's degree in social sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His first book, No Greater Love, was awarded the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Honor Medal. Award-winning author James C. Donahue was a member of the Mobile Guerrilla Force, an experimental Army Special Forces unit conceived to emulate the tactics of Vietcong guerrillas. This authentic firsthand account of Operation Blackjack-31 chronicles the first foray of 13 hand-picked Green Berets and a company of free Cambodian guerrillas into War Zone D--the VC's secret zone about which allied intelligence knew little or nothing--in January 1967. Their orders were to conduct guerrilla operations for an undetermined period, without artillery support or possibility of reinforcement. Detachment A-303 turned the suicide mission into a dramatic success. More
Washington, DC: Hist Div, U.S. Marine Corps, 1970. First? Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 68, wraps, pencil erasure on title page, some wear, soiling, and fading to covers. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 323, map, glossary, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Ballantine Books, c1990. 1st Ballantine Edition. Seventh Printing. Mass market paperback. pocket paperback, 339 pages. Wraps, map, glossary, some wear to cover edges and tear at front. An account of one man`s remarkable experiences in Vietnam, a portrait of a humane soldier whose sense of responsibility came to extend to the people of the Vietnamese village he was ordered to defend. More
New York: Pegasus, 1968. Second Printing. 157, illus., notes, bibliography, index. More
New York: H. Holt, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 238 pages. Glossary, address label and pencil erasure on front endpaper. Signed by both authors. More
Place_Pub: Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 57, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers. Premier issue of the prestigious Leavenworth Papers series. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1964]. First Edition. Fifth Printing. 22 cm, 239, illus., endpaper maps, front DJ flap price clipped, some wear, soiling, & sticker residue to DJ. New Epilogue by the author. More
[Bath, ME]: Bath Area Chamber/Commerce, c1984. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 80, wraps, illus., bookplate, slight wear and soiling to covers. More
[Bath, ME?]: Bath Area Chamber/Commerce, c1984. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 80, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Berkley Books, 1983. pocket paperbk, 271, wraps, glossary, some darkening to text, some foxing inside covers, some wear to covers. More
New York: Berkley Books, 1978. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 240 pages. Glossary. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Slightly cocked. The author entered the army in 1966. After graduating from Officers Candidate School, he was assigned to the upcountry jungle of Vietnam, where he had the experiences he writes of in this book. He displayed bravery and leadershp and was awared four Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star with Valor, and the Silver Star. After leaving the military he joined the Veterans Admiistration. The loss of his arm has not proven to be a significant impediment in his civilian pursuits. More
Washington, DC: GPO, [1988]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 421, wraps, maps, covers soiled, name blacked out inside front cover. More
New York, N.Y. Bulfinch Press, 2005. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 9.5 inches. [6], 186 pages. Includes two Audio CDS, with oral histories from Khe Sanh veterans. Foreword, Introduction, 11 Chapters, Epilogue, and Acknowledgments. Also includes 124 black-and-white photographs. Glossary. Notes. Photo Credits. Against a superior enemy force bent on their annihilation, six thousand Marines held the remote Khe Sanh Combat Base, and emerged victorious from the most important battle of the Vietnam war. The author urges a long overdue recognition of the stunning fortitude displayed by Marines and other members of the U.S. Armed Forces at Khe Sanh, which promises to reshape the way we remember the Americans who fought for their nation in Vietnam. Ron Drez is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War and a former Captain of Marines. He is an award-winning, best-selling author and commander. He is President of Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours having served both as friend and associate of the distinguished, late historian. He has written many articles for military history magazines and is a contributing author and editor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica web site for its Normandy feature. Over twenty years of leading the Eisenhower Center’s oral history project has brought this distinguished author into contact with the veterans of WWII. Of note was his initial discovery and interviews with the “Band of Brothers” which he chronicled in a special edition of WWII magazine entitled, Finding the Band of Brothers. More