Collage Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2012. First Edition [Stated]. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 210, [2] pages. DJ has minor edge wear and soiling. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Maps. Illustrations. Notes, Bibliography, Index, and Appendix. Includes chapters on The Making of a "Photo Gap;" Obscuring the Photo Gap; The struggle over the Postmortems; Stonewalling the House; The Senate Steps In; Tensions within the Kennedy Administration: Fashioning a Unified Story; End of the Trail: The "Interim" Report; The Costs of Managed History. David M. Barrett (born c. 1951) is a professor of political science at Villanova University and author (along with Max Holland) of "Blind Over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis", "The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy",] Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers, and Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers. Max Holland (born 1950) is an American journalist, author, and the editor of Washington Decoded. He had more than three decades of journalism experience; his articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Studies in Intelligence, the Journal of Cold War Studies. Holland's published books include: Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat; The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath; The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power; and When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America. In 2001, he won a Studies in Intelligence Award from the CIA, a first for a writer outside the U.S. government. More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. Presumed first printing thus. Wraps. v, [1], 81, [1] pages. 94th Congress 2d Session Joint Committee Print. Some wear and soiling. Includes Foreword, Membership of the Joint Committee; Organization and functions of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; Service of current membership of the Joint Committee; Membership of the Joint Committee, 1945-76; Assignment of Joint Committee members to other committees of Congress; Membership of the Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Energy Research and Development Administration, 1946-76; Tenure of AEC General Managers; tenure of Joint Committee executive directors; Atomic energy legislative references, 1946-75; Publications of the Joint Committee, 1945-75; Legislative reports of the Joint Committee, 1948-75; International agreements for cooperation; Energy Research and Development Administration report collections and film libraries; and Activities and accomplishments of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in the 94th Congress, 1st Session (1975). This document contains a comprehensive list of the unclassified publications issued by the Joint Committee since its formal establishment by Congress; references to and brief descriptions of atomic energy legislation that has been enacted since the first such enactment in 1946; a complete list of the legislative reports of the committee; a tabulation of committee reports on agreements for cooperation; and the names and locations of Energy Research and Development Administration depository libraries in this country and abroad. This is one of the last JCAE documents. More

Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Army, 1954. Presumed First Thus. Wraps. [4], 452 pages. Some page corners creased. Cover worn, soiled and has edge tears. Illustrations (photographs, diagrams, and drawings). Index. Includes chapters on Browning Automatic Rifle; Caliber .30 Machine Guns; Gunnery for Machine Guns; Browning Machine Gun, Caliber .50 HB, M2; 57-MM Rifle, M18A1; 77-MM Rifle, M20; 105-MM Rifle, M27; and Recoilless Rifle Gunnery. Also includes Index. This manual contains copyrighted material reproduced by permission of the copyright holder, The Military Service Publishing Co., Harrisburg, PA. The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is a group of college- and university-based officer training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces. In 1915, Major General Leonard Wood instituted the Citizen's Military Training Corps, the first series of training camps to make officers out of civilians. For the first time in history, an attempt was made to provide a condensed course of training and commissioning competent reserve line officers after only a summer of military training. Over 5,000 men arrived at Plattsburgh in May 1917 for the first of the large training corps. By the end of 1917, over 17,000 men had been trained. By the eve of its entry into World War One, the U.S. had a prepared corps of officers including one of the earliest Plattsburgh graduates, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (AROTC) program is the largest branch of ROTC, as the Army is the largest branch of the military. More

New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 939, [1] pages. Some cover and edge soiling. Name and address of previous owner Louis M. Tozzi) written in pencil inside front free endpaper. Tables. Figures. Footnotes. Formulae. Includes Foreword (by L. A. DuBridge), Preface, and Introduction, as well as chapters on Power Generation and Measurement, Microwave Power Measurements, Microwave Signal Generators, The Measurement of Wavelength, Frequency Measurements, The Measurement of Frequency Spectrum and Pulse Shape; The Measurement of Impedance and Standing Waves; Impedance Bridges; The Measurement of Dielectric Constants; Attenuators and Radiation Measurements; The Measurement of Attenuation; Directional Couplers; R-F Phase and Pattern Measurements; Manufacturers of Microwave Equipment; and an Index. The development and engineering of microwave radar equipment required that considerable effort be spent on improvements in the art of microwave measurements. New techniques had to be devised which were suitable for laboratory use, and these had to be modified and adapted for use in the field and in the factory. The necessity for the maintenance and the repair of military equipment imposed other special problems, and test gear had to be designed for these purposes also. It has been attempted in the present volume to select for description those techniques and apparatus which are most likely to prove useful to future workers in the microwave field rather than to attempt a compilation that approaches completeness. Emphasis has been placed on laboratory equipment. More

New York, N.Y. Warner Books, Inc., 2003. First U.S. Paperback Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. [16], 859, [5] pages. Includes map of Vietnam. Book 1: Washington, D.C.; Book 2: Saigon; Book 3, Nha Trang; Book 4, Highway One; Book 5, Hue; Book 6, Hanoi. The book ends with "Acknowledgments and Other Matters." Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23, 1943) is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The Gold Coast. DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay and Brad Matthews. He was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army (1966–69) and saw action as an infantry platoon leader with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He was decorated with the Air Medal, Bronze Star, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge. DeMille’s earlier books were NYPD detective novels. His first major novel was By the Rivers of Babylon, published in 1978 and still in print, as are all his succeeding novels. He is a member of American Mensa, the Authors Guild, and past president of the Mystery Writers of America. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers, who honored him as 2015 ThrillerMaster of the Year. DeMille authored of By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, The General’s Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion’s Game, Up Country, Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Gate House, The Lion, The Panther, The Quest, Radiant Angel, and The Cuban Affair. He co-authored Mayday with Thomas Block and The Deserter with his son, Alex DeMille. More

New York, N.Y. Grove Press, Inc., 1986. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. xxvii, [5], 544 pages. Cover worn, soiled creased, and chipped. Some page discoloration. Includes Introduction, Authors' Note, Acknowledgments, Maps, Sources, Bibliography, and Index. Part One discusses the Robbery; Part Two discusses Corruption and Cover-up. The Biggest Robbery in History; A Real-Life Thriller About the Theft of a Fabulous Treasure. Now, after a nine-year investigation, here is the incredible story of a heist to end all heists--a colossal theft the Guinness Book of Records calls: "The greatest robbery on record." Germans, Russians, and Americans all dipped into the booty; some are still alive and enjoying it. But no one has ever been caught or tried. Ian K. T. Sayer (born 30 October 1945) is a British entrepreneur, World War II historian, author and investigative journalist. He is a World War II historian and studies Nazi Germany documentation. He is co-author of Nazi Gold, The Story of the World’s Greatest Robbery and claims to remain the only private individual to have been responsible for the location and restitution of looted Nazi gold. That claim remains unchallenged. As a Nazi hunter, he has also tracked down a number of Nazis for war criminal investigations, including SS General Wilhelm Mohnke whose wartime activities were subsequently investigated by the British, Canadian, American and German governments. He currently acts as curator to the "Ian Sayer Archive", a collection of contemporary World War II documentation, which assists in providing information to institutions, other historians, authors and researchers of the period. More

New York, N.Y. Dell Publishing, 1990. First Printing thus [Stated]. Mass market paperback. [8], 438, [2] pages. Gift inscription (not from the author) inside the front free endpaper. Ink mark on verso. Two small tears at the top of the book's spine. Stephen Coonts (born July 19, 1946) is an American spy thriller and suspense novelist. Stephen Coonts earned a B.A. degree in political science at West Virginia University in 1968. After joining the Navy and going to Officer Candidate School, Coonts went to flight school at Pensacola and earned his wings as a Naval Aviator in 1969. Coonts was later assigned to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island to train in the A-6 Intruder, a medium attack, all-weather and carrier-based jet. Coonts was deployed with VA-196 to Vietnam. He served aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and accumulated 1600 flying hours in the A-6. Coonts was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Coonts separated from active duty as a lieutenant in 1977 but remained as reserve officer, retiring as a commander with 21 years of service. Coonts began writing Flight of the Intruder in 1984, with the book being published in 1986. The novel, based in part on his experiences as an A-6 pilot during the Vietnam War, remained for 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. This launched his career as a novelist, and he continued writing adventure-thrillers, most of them based on the main character from his first book, Jake Grafton. Coonts has also written several other series and stand-alone novels. In 1992, he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni at his alma mater, West Virginia University. Coonts continues to write, having had sixteen New York Times bestsellers. More

New York, N.Y. Berkley Books, 2002. Second printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. Second front cover. [10], 451, [3] pages. Map. Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel. Although this novel is based on historical fact, the story itself is fiction. Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around Benin, West Africa, and the Javier Falcón series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel The Company of Strangers and A Small Death In Lisbon, which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same award again in 2003 for The Blind Man of Seville, the first in the Javier Falcón series. The second novel in the series, The Silent and the Damned (titled: The Vanished Hands in the United States), won the 2006 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink. 1941, a Berlin factory owner, forced into the SS, has arrived in Lisbon. His mission: infiltrate the bleak mountains of the north where an insidious battle rages over an element vital to Hitler's blitzkrieg. The first seed of greed and revenge has been planted. Late 1990s, Inspector Ze Coelho has been recruited to investigate the sex murder of a teenage girl in Lisbon. The inquiry will take Coelho back across a bloody swath of history to the scene of an older crime, buried among a fascist past--and to a motive buried even deeper. And once unearthed, past and the present will converge with chilling implication and unfathomable consequences. More

London, England: Corgi Books, 2004. Later printing. Mass market paperback. 585, [7] pages. Includes Author's Note, Prologue, 133 chapters, and an Epilogue. Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a period of 24 hours. They feature recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 57 languages. Three of them, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been adapted into films. The Robert Langdon novels are deeply engaged with Christian themes and historical fact, and have generated controversy as a result. Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian and he is on a "constant spiritual journey" himself. He claims that his book The Da Vinci Code is simply "an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate" and suggests that the book may be used "as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith." When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory..a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. Accompanied by a team of experts, White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton uncovers the unthinkable--evidence of scientific trickery--a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. More

New York, N.Y. Jove Books, 2007. First Mass Market Paperback Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. Second front cover. [10], 356 pages. Some cover wear. Slightly cocked. Jesse Oren Kellerman (b. September 1, 1978) is an American novelist and playwright. He is the author of the novels Sunstroke (2006), Trouble (2007), The Genius (2008), The Executor (2010), Potboiler (2012), and has co-authored numerous books with his father Jonathan Kellerman, including The Golem of Hollywood (2014). Kellerman was born in Los Angeles, California, the oldest child and only son of the bestselling mystery novelists Faye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman. His first published title coauthored with his father was their 1994 book of children's poetry, Daddy, Daddy, Can You Touch the Sky? Kellerman studied psychology at Harvard and playwriting at Brandeis University. For a time he served as lead guitarist for the L.A.-based indie rock band Don't Shoot the Dog. His 2004 play Things Beyond Our Control was honored with a Princess Grace Award, which recognizes emerging talent in theater, dance, and film in the US. Kellerman is also recipient of the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle. His essay "Let My People Go to the Buffet" was chosen for Penguin's annual anthology The Best American Spiritual Writing in 2011. His 2012 book Potboiler was nominated for that year’s Edgar Award for Best Novel. When overworked medical student Jonah Stem impulsively intervenes to save a beautiful woman from a man menacing her with a knife, killing her attacker in the process, he is transformed to a hero in the media spotlight. The woman is profoundly grateful and wants to show it. Jonah Stem's punishment is just beginning. More

London, England: Oxford University Press, 1933. Second Edition (Part II Revised), Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. x, 467, [1] pages. Folding map and page 246 and at back cover. Maps and Plans. Front endpaper map. Illustrations. Name of previous owner on fep. Cover is worn, soiled, rubbed, and has spine tears. Front board was weak and restrengthened with glue. Frederick Homes Dudden (1874–1955) was an academic administrator and theological scholar. He was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford (1918–55) and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1929–32). Has chapters on A Short History of the University of Oxford, Women's Education at Oxford, Rhodes Scholarships, Architecture, The Constitution of the University, College Life, The Tutorial system, The Schools, Research in the Humane studies, Libraries, Laboratories and Research in Natural Science, Museums, Sports, Music in Oxford, Religion, Callings and Careers, The Oxford Preservation Trust, and the Oxford Society. The is a section on General Information, The Bachelor of Arts Degree, Privileged Students and Incorporation, University Scholarships and Prizes, Delegacies and Committees, The Degree of Master of Arts and Research and Superior Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates, The Colleges, Halls, and Societies, and index. This Handbook is designed to supply information needed by persons at home or abroad who propose to become members of the University. The material on Admission to the University, expenses, college life, examinations, and research will be helpful to those students. The Handbook is also intended to be a convenient book of reference for members of the University during their period of residence. More

San Diego, California: Golden Hill Books, 1980. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 614, [6] pages. Ex-Library with usual library markings. Includes a Frontispiece with a Life Mask of George Washington; a Dedication; and the Author's Preface. Also contains an Introduction; The Call of Destiny; and Prelude to Human Self-Rule, as well Appendix I, Schedule for The Call of Destiny Operatic Cycle Operas and the ending phase, 1980-2005, of the Bicentennial Era, 1975-2005, and Appendix 2, A Selected Bibliography. Hamilton Paul Traub (June 18, 1890 – July 14, 1983) was an American botanist. He specialized in the study of Amaryllidaceae. He also did horticultural studies on beans.[2] dr Traub was one of the founding members of the American Amaryllis Society (now the International Bulb Society) in 1933, and for a long time the editor of its annual publication, variously called Year Book, American Amaryllis Society, Herbertia and Plant Life. Amaryllis Year Book. The author completed this book, his literary opus, in 1976, in homage to the Bicentennial. He produced it in grand opera format, in seven librettos in gratitude for the privilege of being an American citizen. The author began work on The Call of Destiny, while serving in the National Army in France during the First World War. It has finally seen the light of day in 1980, after a gestation period of more than six decades, to fill an obvious gap in American literature. More