New York: Basic Books, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 553, [7] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Notes. Index. DJ has wear and tears. Eugene Lawrence Rogan, FBA (born 31 October 1960) is a historian of the Middle East and North Africa from the late Ottoman era to the present. After completing his undergraduate degree at Columbia University in economics, he earned a masters degree in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University, graduating in 1984, after which he completed a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard in 1991. Rogan joined the University of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies as a lecturer in 1991. Since 1991, he has been a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford since 2015. In July 2017, Rogan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by religious zealotry and political chaos. In this definitive account, preeminent historian Eugene Rogan traces five centuries of Arab history, from the Ottoman conquests through the British and French colonial periods and up to the present age of unipolar American hegemony. The Arab world is now more acutely aware than ever of its own vulnerability, and this sense of subjection carries with it vast geopolitical consequences. Drawing from Arab sources little known to Western readers, Rogan's The Arabs will transform our understanding of the past, present, and future of one of the world's most tumultuous region. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 1151, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps, Notes. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger; May 27, 1923) is an American politician and diplomat,who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He became National Security Advisor in 1969 and U.S. Secretary of State in 1973. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. A practitioner of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a prominent role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. He pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, engaged in what became known as shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords. Kissinger has also been associated with such controversial policies as U.S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a "green light" to Argentina's military junta for their Dirty War, and U.S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh War despite the genocide being perpetrated by his allies. He formed Kissinger Associates, an international geopolitical consulting firm. He remains a controversial figure in U.S. politics, both condemned by many journalists and political activists as well as venerated as an effective Secretary of State by many prominent international relations scholars. More

Honolulu, HI: Hawaii Pacific University, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing this volume. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 488, [4] pages. Maps (39 maps and drawings). Illustrations (118 photos). Notes. Bibliography. Index. Author signed book sticker on front of DJ. Signed with sentiment on fep. Statement reads Pearl Harbor Thanks for visiting the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. Semper Fideles Jerome T. Hagen BGen. USMC (Ret). Jerome T. Hagen graduated from Syracuse University with his Bachelor of Arts degree. Hagen went on to receive his Master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Hagen enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1952. Hagen was deployed to both Korea and Vietnam. Among several decorations, Hagen awarded the Silver Star for actions as a Lieutenant Colonel during the Vietnam War. He flew 483 combat missions in the A-4 “Skyhawk” aircraft. On February 27, 1971, Operation Lam Son 719, Lieutenant Colonel Hagen took off in his A-4 Skyhawk aircraft to provide close air support. Despite the heavy fire, severely restricted area of maneuverability, and the undaunted reality that an extremely heavy volume of North Vietnamese fire was directed right at him, he fearlessly and with precision, targeted several enemy tanks. As a result, the North Vietnamese were forced to abandon two other tanks and cease their attempt to overrun the base. More

New York: Reader Microprint Corporation, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. 184, [4] pages. Footnotes. This is one of their Great Americana series. Army officer's account of the 2nd Seminole War, focusing on the specific campaigns of Colonel Joseph M. White, General Duncan L. Clinch, and Colonel James Gadsden, as well as an analysis of what the author believed to be the causes of the war. Table of Contents: To the public -- Florida -- The Seminoles -- True causes of the war -- Commencement of hostilities -- The war. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [12], 448 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips and soiling. Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. He was a leading exponent of business history and oral history. As a journalist, Nevins covered the campaigns of Al Smith. After the 1928 Presidential Campaign which he covered for Walter Lippmann, Nevins grew dismayed at what he perceived as intolerance and provincialism, religious bigotry and racial prejudice in the American South, which as a historian he contrasted to religious freedom and separation of church and state that the same region had brought to the new nation in the revolutionary era. In 1928, Nevins joined the history faculty of Columbia University, where he remained for three decades until his mandatory retirement in 1958. During World War II, Professor Nevins taught (as Harmsworth Professor of American History) at Oxford University from 1940 to 1941. Nevins served as special representative of the Office of War Information in Australia and New Zealand in 1943–1944, and in 1945–1946 worked in London as chief public affairs officer at the American embassy. After retiring, Nevins worked as researcher at the Huntington Library. Nevins published over 50 books and about 1000 articles, as well as serving as president of the American Historical Association, the Society of American Historians. More

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 184 pages. Notes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper and edge soiling noted. This is one of the Westview Special Studies. Dr. Spielmann earned his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He was an analyst on the staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses, specializing in Soviet defense and foreign policy. The important to Western policymakers of determining the significant of Soviet strategic arms decisions is matched by the difficulty of doing so. The high stakes involved and, in many cases, the inadequacy of evidence can all to easily lead to generalizations that rest more on passionate conviction than on accepted principles of scholarly inquiry. This book provides a framework for determining where we are and where we can go in analyzing Soviet strategic arms behavior. More

New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991. Second Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. 118, and approximately 118 pages. Preface, Abbreviations, and References. The dictionary in English is from left to right, and starting at the other end, in Arabic from right to left. Maher S. Kayyali is a graduate of the Universities of Jordan and Wisconsin. He joined the Beirut-based Arab Institute for Research and Publishing (AIRP) in 1970. He became the director of AIRP and Third World Centre based in London. This work was issued during the tense period around the Persian Gulf War. More

New York: Praeger, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [3], 212 pages. Tables. Map. Occasional Footnotes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Lucian W. Pye (October 21, 1921 – September 5, 2008) was an American political scientist, sinologist and comparative politics expert considered one of the leading China scholars in the United States. Educated at Carleton College and Yale University, Pye chose to focus on the characteristics of specific cultures in forming theories of political development of modernization of Third World nations, rather than seeking universal and overarching theories like most political scientists. As a result, he became regarded as one of the foremost contemporary practitioners and proponents of the concept of political culture and political psychology. Pye was a teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 35 years and served on several Asia-related research and policy organizations. He wrote or edited books and served as advisor to Democratic presidential candidates, including John F. Kennedy. Pye wrote his dissertation on the attitudes underlying the warlord system of politics in China during the 1920s and earned his Ph.D. in 1951. He taught political science at the M.I.T. for 35 years, particularly focusing on China and other Asian nations. ARPA counterinsurgency research programs, such as the one done by Simulmatics Corporation, part of Project Agile, relied heavily on Pye's work. More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, [4], 323, [4] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Hal Bridges was Professor Emeritus of History at UC Riverside (UCR). Dr. Bridges was the valedictorian of his high school class in 1936 and subsequently enrolled at the University of Texas. After completing his degree in journalism, he intended to join the Civil Service in Washington, DC, but with the start of the Second World War, he instead ended up enlisting in the US Army. He served in the Army for five years, spending three years in Egypt and various locations in the Mediterranean, and successfully completing Officers School and earning the rank of Major. Upon completing his military service, Dr. Bridges enrolled at the Columbia School of Journalism, and ultimately received his Ph.D. from Columbia University with a specialization in American social and intellectual history. In 1950, he joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas, subsequently moved to the University of Colorado, where he remained for eleven years, and then became Professor in the Department of History at UCR. Dr. Bridges was the author of three acclaimed scholarly books, Iron Millionaire: The Life of Charlemagne Tower (1952), Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill (1961), and American Mysticism: From William James to Zen (1977). Additionally, he wrote numerous scholarly articles and reviews dealing with the Civil War, including for the New York Times Book Review, the American Historical Review, and the Saturday Review. More

Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 1993. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vii, [1], 312 pages. Publisher's Note. Index. Inscribed on the fep. Inscription reads To Martin--who will make me a star of David yet! Best, S. Essays deal with gangsters, frugality, the Alger Hiss case, Anita Hill, American politics, and racial tensions. Sidney E. Zion (November 14, 1933, Passaic, NJ – August 2, 2009, Brooklyn) was an American writer. His works include Markers, Begin from Beginning, Read All about It, Trust Your Mother but Cut the Cards, (collections of his columns), Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob and Markers. He co-authored The Autobiography of Roy Cohn. He also was a co-founder and co-editor of Scanlan's Monthly magazine. Zion graduated from University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, working as a trial lawyer until becoming Assistant US Attorney for New Jersey in 1961. He then turned to journalism and writing novels. He worked for various New York publications, including The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post and New York Magazine. In 1971, Zion revealed that Daniel Ellsberg was the source of the Pentagon Papers, the classified study on the history of United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Zion, who was not affiliated with any news organization at the time, made the revelation on a popular New York City radio show. He was a recipient of the Ben Hecht Journalism Award. Mr. Zion was a Zionist and Jew who believed very strongly in the state of Israel. He was a devout Jew in his private life. Mr. Zion served on the Board of Directors (as well as council) of The Players in New York City. More

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. New Edition [Stated]. Hardcover, 2 volumes in a slipcase. Volume I, xl, [2], 460 pages. Volume II, x, [2], 459, [7] pages. Chart. Chronology. Illustrations. Footnotes. Maps. Notes. Index. Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. Introduction to New Edition. James Dunwoody Bulloch (June 25, 1823 – January 7, 1901) was the Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. Based in Liverpool, he operated blockade runners and commerce raiders that provided the Confederacy with its only source of hard currency. Bulloch arranged for the purchase by British merchants of Confederate cotton, as well as the dispatch of armaments and other war supplies to the South. His secret service funds are alleged to have been used to plan the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. During the 1880s, a young Theodore Roosevelt, known as T.R., persuaded his "Uncle Jimmie" Bulloch to write and publish an account of his activities during the Civil War. The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe was published in two volumes in 1883. T.R. wrote to his mother telling of his success with the project saying, "I have persuaded him to publish a work which only he possesses the materials to write." In return, Uncle Jimmie spent considerable time schooling his energetic nephew on the operations of wind-powered ships in the Age of Sail and explained much about ship-to-ship fighting tactics, as Theodore had no personal experience or training in early 19th-century naval warfare. Roosevelt drew from this tutoring, and his long hours spent in libraries researching the official records of the U.S. Navy, for his book The Naval War of 1812. More

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.75 inches. 223, [1] pages. Maps. Appendix 1 Locations of the Colonial Campaigns. Appendix 2 List of Line Infantry Battalions. Recommended Reading. Index. Presents coverage of 45 Victorian military campaigns, with 79 maps. Donald F. Featherstone (20 March 1918 – 3 September 2013) was a British author of more than forty books on wargaming and military history. Donald Featherstone during the Second World War, he joined the Royal Armoured Corps. Featherstone was first introduced to wargaming by reading H. G. Wells' Little Wars. His second opponent was Tony Bath many years later in 1955. His wife saw a description of a solo wargame being played in Southampton by Tony Bath and Featherstone then got in touch. In 1960 the two of them began editing the UK version of the War Game Digest, a seminal wargaming newsletter started by Jack Scruby in the United States. In 1962, he started his own periodical, Wargamer's Newsletter. He produced this each month without a gap, with 214 editions until January 1980. In 1961, he organized the first UK wargames convention at his home in Southampton. Two years later he organized the first National Wargames Championships Convention at a local hotel which was attended by about a hundred wargamers from all over the country. In 1977 he was one of the founder members of the British Commission for Military History. After a discussion with Paddy Griffith, Featherstone realized that wargaming as a hobby could aid considerably in understanding military history. More

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1919. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Volume I xi, [1], 401 [3] pages. Volume II viii, [4]. 403--793, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ink notation on fep. Some page discoloration. Some maps fold-outs. With 12 large maps (all present) and 46 small maps in the text. These memoirs offer a unique, albeit biased, view of the First World War from the perspective of the German High Command. Among the topics covered are: The Battle of Liege, Eastern Front, Battle of Tannenberg, Campaign in Poland, Masurian Lakes, Kovno, Quartermaster-General, Flanders, Armentieres, Kemmel, Western Front, Siegfried Line, and Armistice. More