The Vietnam War: Why?
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1966. First Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 175, endpaper maps, bookplate. More
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1966. First Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 175, endpaper maps, bookplate. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1974. Second Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 354, illus. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. Book Club Edition. 872, v.1 only, maps, small tears/chips to DJ edges, DJ somewhat worn and creased, raised stamp on front flyleaf The author defines the American Revolution as a popular uprising, the first of what would now be described as a people's liberation movement. More
New York: Facts on File, c1977. First Printing. 24 cm, 282, boards soiled. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xviii, 424, [1] p. Occasional footnotes. Bibliography. Index. More
Chicabo: Peoples Book Club, Inc., 1945. Special edition published exclusively for book club members. Hardcover. [8], 243 p.; 25 cm. Decorative endpapers. More
New York: Scribner, 2010. First Scribiner paperback edition [stated]. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xx, [2], 407, [3] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Sources. Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page wear. Doug Stanton is an American journalist, screenwriter, and author of the New York Times bestsellers In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers, which is the basis for the film 12 Strong, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. In Harm’s Way spent more than six months on the New York Times bestseller list and became required on the U.S. Navy's reading list for officers. Stanton’s Horse Soldiers was a bestseller on lists in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly Publisher’s Weekly, and IndieBound. Horse Soldiers was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times. The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association made Horse Soldiers a “Great Lakes, Great Reads” book, and it was chosen as a “Best Book” by Publishers Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. More
Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985. Book Club Edition. 360, illus., maps, notes, sources and bibliography, appendices, index, slight weakness to front board, DJ in plastic sleeve sticker residue inside front board, DJ edges worn and some edge tears. Illustrated with 17 unusual photographs and 19 maps. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. First Edition [Stated]. Hardcover. xxv, [1], 486 pages. Illustrations. Maps. A Foreword by Intrepid. A Historical Note by Charles Howard Ellis. Valediction. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips and soiling. Some discoloration of the boards but pages clear. An account of the intelligence activities of William Stephenson, code name Intrepid, and of the world's first integrated intelligence network, established in 1940 by Stephenson under the joint aegis of Churchill and Roosevelt. This work has been described as the Authentic Account of the Most Significant Secret Diplomacy and Decisive Intelligence Operations of World War II. 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 and was a bestseller. 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 hijacked 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
Place_Pub: London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1862. 232, foxing to text, pgs somewhat darkened, weakness to bds, ink name ins fr flylf, spine soiled & edges worn. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition. 375, pencil names on title page, DJ worn, scuffed, and soiled: small tears. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition. 375, DJ worn, scuffed, and soiled: small tears, small pieces missing at spine. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Revised Edition. 214, map, bibliography, small sticker residue inside front flyleaf, sl soiling fore-edge, DJ soiled & edges worn: sm tears, sm chips. More
Lindsborg, KS: Trogen Publications, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [8], 148, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps Bibliography. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The French Armed Forces (French: Forces armées françaises) encompass the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the National Guard and the Gendarmerie of the French Republic. The President of France heads the armed forces as chef des armées. France maintains the sixth largest defence budget in the world and the first in the European Union (EU). France has the largest armed forces in size in the European Union.[4] France also maintains the world's third-largest nuclear deterrent (behind Russia and the United States). More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 434, [4] pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by author on half-title (shaky signature). DJ has some wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Three Christmas Cards from General and Mrs. Taylor (two with envelopes) laid in, The one from 1984 has brief note from Mrs. Taylor. General Maxwell Davenport "Max" Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was a senior United States Army officer and diplomat of the mid-20th century. He served with distinction in World War II, most notably as commander of the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed "The Screaming Eagles". After the war he served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having been appointed by President John Kennedy. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, c1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 317, illus., some soiling and wear to DJ, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
New York: The Greek American Council, 1945. Wraps. [6], 137, [3] pages. 28 cm. Cover is worn, soiled, front cover creased and small piece of corner missing. Minor water staining at bottom of several pages. Minor loss of material at botton of several pages. Pencil erasure residue on t-p. More
London: The Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 1972. Wraps. xxi, [1], 84 pages. Illustrations. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 175, illus., few library markings, some pages have paperclip impressions, stamp and ink notation to front endpaper. More
[Philadelphia, PA]: [Carey and Hart], [c. 1850]. 688 & 655, v.1 & v.2 only, illus., footnotes, boards worn at edges and spine, some page discoloration, ink notes on front endpaper. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. 284, illus., endpaper maps, some soiling to fore-edge, sm rough spot ins fr flylf, DJ worn/soiled: sm tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Knopf, 1961. First American Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 183, footnotes, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Printing. 354, illus. (some in color), reading list, chronology, index. More
Place_Pub: Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1985. Reprint Edition. 22 cm, 115, wraps, highlighting to text, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More