The Gulf Between Us: Love and Terror in Desert Storm
Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 317 pages. Index, publisher's press release, TLS by Cynthia Acree, and her business card laid in. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 317 pages. Index, publisher's press release, TLS by Cynthia Acree, and her business card laid in. More
Place_Pub: Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 240, wraps, illus., index, covers worn and soiled, corner bumped, stain on half-title. More
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1989. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [1], 308, [2] pages. Illustrations. DJ is price clipped. Everett Alvarez Jr. (born December 23, 1937) is a former United States Navy officer who endured one of the longest periods as a prisoner of war (POW) in U. S. military history. Alvarez was the first U. S. pilot to be shot down and detained during the Vietnam War and spent over eight years in captivity, making him the second longest-held U. S. POW, after U. S. Army Colonel Floyd James Thompson. On August 5, 1964, during Operation Pierce Arrow, LTJG. Alvarez's Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was shot down in the immediate aftermath of what is known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Alvarez endured eight years and seven months of brutal captivity by the North Vietnamese at the H a Lò Prison (sarcastically known as the "Hanoi Hilton" by fellow POWs), in which he was repeatedly beaten and tortured. Alvarez was especially esteemed by his fellow prisoners because he was for almost a year the only aviator prisoner of war. Alvarez retired from the U. S. Navy with the rank of commander in 1980. He later earned a Master's Degree in Operations and Research Analysis and a Juris Doctor degree. In April 1981, he was appointed by President Reagan to the post of Deputy Director of the Peace Corps. In July 1982, President Reagan nominated and the U. S. Senate confirmed him as Deputy Administrator of the Veterans Administration (VA). After six years with the VA he was appointed by President Reagan in 1988 to the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1991. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 354, wraps, illus., slight wear to cover edges Lt. Alvarez was a POW for eight and a half years in North Vietnam. More
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 308 pages. Illus., some wear & scuffing to DJ. Signed by the author (Everett Alvarez, Jr. ). More
Arlington, TX: Summit Pub. Group, c1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 196, Inscribed by the author. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's, c1995. First Printing. 25 cm, 214, illus., map. Foreword by Newt Gingrich. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: Army Military Hist Institute, 1977. First? Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 185, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. This is the first of several WWII topical volumes planned. More
Place_Pub: Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, Inc., 1995. Hardcover. 208 pages. Illus. (some in color), appendix, bibliography, index. Signed by both authors. More
Place_Pub: Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, Inc., 1995. Hardcover. 208 pages. Illus. (some in color), appendix, bibliography, index. Inscribed and signed by both authors. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First Edition. 338, illus., endpaper maps, source notes, index, marker inside front flyleaf, weakness to front board repaired poorly with tape. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. 338, illus., endpaper maps, source notes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ somewhat soiled: small edge chips/creases. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 318, [2] pages. Illus., endpaper maps, source notes, index, DJ somewhat soiled and has tear. Return From the River Kwai tells the harrowing tale of about 2200 of those soldiers who were selected because they were healthier than the others to be sent to Japan for work in the factories there. While en route the ships they sailed on, the Kachidoki Maru and Rakuyo Maru, were torpedoed and sunk by American submarines who weren't aware that they carried human cargo. The men who survived spent as much as a week floating in the ocean before being rescued by those same submarines. This book tells the firsthand accounts of their experiences and the hardships they endured, from the terrible conditions in POW camps and the difficulties of staying afloat and sane in a vast ocean, to the joys of being rescued and returned to society. The Blairs have done a terrific job of putting together the individual accounts and historical documents that form one of the extraordinary stories of surviving the brutal conditions of war. Unpleasant details are not left out either, although they are told with a sense of dignity. Intertwined with the record of the survivors is the story told by the men on the submarines, who played such an important role in rescuing the stranded men. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, [1968]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 377, footnotes, bibliography, index, some wear and soiling to DJ, some edge soiling. More
Dallas, TX: Verity Press Publishing Inc., 1998. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 692 pages. Illustrations. Appendices Endnotes. Index. DJ has rear flap crease. B. G. Burkett is a retired Army officer and financial advisor. He is best known as co-author of Stolen Valor (1998), written with journalist Glenna Whitley. It received the Colby Award for military writers in 2000. Burkett says he decided to write the book now known as Stolen Valor after hearing too many news reports about Vietnam veterans characterized as mentally unstable. Burkett began fact-checking whether such identified people were veterans by applying for their military records through Freedom of information process. Burkett says he checked over 3,500 people's claims to have served in Vietnam, and found 1,700 of them had fabricated their stories. It has been credited for inspiring the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 passed by Congress, making it a crime for an individual to falsely claim to have been awarded military medals. In 2005, Burkett co-authored a paper with B.C. Frueh, J.D. Elhai, and J.D. Monnier that was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. It focused on concerns "regarding the validity of combat exposure reports of veterans seeking treatment for combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder". Glenna Whitley is an An award-winning investigative reporter, Glenna Whitley specializes in writing about crime and the legal system. The subject of three segments for TV newsmagazine “20/20,” including one that won a CINE Award, Stolen Valor received the 2000 William E. Colby Award for writing on military affairs at Norwich University. The subject of hundreds of stories in magazines and newspapers. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1968. Reprint Edition. 26 cm, 671, illus., maps (2 color in pocket), bibliographical note, glossary, index, bookplate on flyleaf. More
Place_Pub: Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 1999. First Printing. 190, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index. Inscribed by the editor. Handwritten letter from the author laid in. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 2000. First Edition. First Printing. 240, pencil erasure on front endpaper, table of contents creased. More
n.p. 71st Infantry Division, 1946. First? Edition. First? Printing. 117, illus., front endpaper map, insignia at rear endpaper, maps, small tear at top of pp. 115/6, boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 238, usual library markings, front board weak. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1979. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 420, illus., footnotes, usual library markings, rear pocket removed, DJ pasted to boards. Originally published in Hebrew. The secret journal of Czerniakow, who presided over the Warsaw Ghetto underthe Nazis. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. Third Printing. 361, illus., cut in DJ at lower spine, with very slight scratch to spine of book, front flyleaf corner clipped. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. 361, illus., endpaper maps, some wear to top edge of DJ. More
Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army, 1959. First Printing. 26 cm, 291, diagrams, tables, index, usual library markings, corners bumped, rear board and endpapers show damp damage. More
Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2000. First? Edition. First? Printing. 156 pages, illus., maps, footnotes, bibliography, index, rear DJ scuffed and small loss of text, corners bumped. Frisch was one of a handful of persons awarded the title of professor emeritus at Defense Systems Management College (DSMC, now the Defense Acquisition University). Frisch retired from the DSMC in 1998 as director of the Technical Management Department, teaching graduate-level courses in defense acquisition management. He was an expert on the economics of the United States maintaining armed forced in Europe. Frisch, with co-author Wilbur D. Jones, Jr. (Captain, U.S. Navel Reserve, ret.), published Condemned to Live; A Panzer Artilleryman s Five-Front War in 1999, his memoirs of his time as a common solider of the German army for seven years during World War II. He spent two years in an American POW camp when he was captured in Italy in 1945. More