Washington DC: Naval Historical Foundation, 1981. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. v, [1], 55, [3] pages plus covers. Illustrations. Tables. Footnotes. Appendix: Data on Officers Resigning, Accepted and Dismissed. William Sheldon Dudley (born 14 July 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is a naval historian of the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History[1][2] and Director, Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C. from 1995 to 2004. In 1970, Southern Methodist University appointed him assistant professor of history. He remained there until 1977, when the Naval Historical Center appointed him a supervisory historian. Dudley began work on the series "Naval Documents of the American Revolution," beginning with volume 8, under its editor Dr. William J. Morgan. In 1982, Dudley succeeded Morgan as Head, Early History Branch from 1982–1990, during which period he initiated a similar series for the War of 1812, and then succeeded Morgan again as Senior Historian, 1990-1995. In 1995, the Navy Department selected Dudley for a Senior Executive Service appointment to succeed Dr. Dean C. Allard as Director of Naval History. Dudley held this post until his retirement in December 2004. Dudley served as president of the American Revolution Roundtable in 1987, president of the Society for History in the Federal Government in 1989-1990, and president of the North American Society for Oceanic History, 1999-2003. He has been elected a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a director of the Annapolis Maritime Museum, and a member of the Maryland Advisory Committee on Archaeology. More

New York, N.Y. Ballantine Books, Inc., 1959. Presumed First Printing thus. Mass market paperback. 207, [1] pages. Cover very worn and soiled. Page browning noted. First two pages had become separated and were reglued back in. Includes Part One: The Check; Part Two: The Strategic Reverse; and Part Three: The Battle of the Rhineland. Also includes Maps of the Battle of the Rhineland; The Battle for Schmidt; The Battle for the Rhineland; "Blackcock"; and "Veritable." Sources R. W. Thompson served in World War II and was promoted to Captain before he was transferred to the Intelligence Corps for training. After his release from the army he traveled extensively as a war correspondent for the Sunday Times. He attended the Nuremberg trials as a reporter. In 1951 he settled in Suffolk to write full time on military subjects. R. W. Thompson saw the Battle For the Rhine happen. In this book, he reveals the doubts of commanders, and the agony and courage of fighting men in the last great battle that annihilated the German Army. More

New York, N.Y. Avon Books, 1968. First Avon Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 498, [6] pages. Maps. Illustrations Cover has wear, creasing and soiling. Some page soiling. Includes Author's Note and Acknowledgments, as well as chapters on Home Front, The Beginning, England, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany, The Pacific, Epilogue, and Maps of the Western Mediterranean Theatre, Pacific Theatre, and Western European Theatre. This is not the war of the officers of of grand strategy. This is the war of the men who fought it--The Enlisted Men. It is a book that brings vividly to life the experience of the Fighting Men of World War II. This book concerns itself completely with the American enlisted man in World War II. The G.I. experience of World War 2 in words, photographs, drawings, and cartoons. Ralph G. Martin (March 4, 1920 – January 9, 2013) was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books, including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, Jennie, a two-volume (1969 and 1971) study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller. Other successful tomes focused on British royal romance (Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1974, as well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1985) and on the Kennedy family (John F. Kennedy in 1983 and Joseph P. Kennedy in 1995). In the aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin enlisted in the Army and spent the war as a combat correspondent for the Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and the Army weekly magazine, Yank. In 1945, Martin began working as editor for Newsweek and The New Republic. More

New York, N.Y. Ace Publishing Corporation, 1970. First Ace Publishing Corp. Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 638, [2] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Illustrations, Foreword, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover The Road to the Ardennes; Preparations for the "Master Stroke"; Assault; Crisis; and Decimation of the Wehrmacht. Also contains Bibliography and Index, and 25 black and white maps, as well as 20 black and white illustrations of Allied Leaders and German Leaders. There are also 25 black and white maps of German Troop Dispositions. This book is an authoritative overall assessment of World War II, with special emphasis on the Ardennes offensive--the Battle of the Bulge. In a book rich in intriguing incidents and controversial opinions, John Eisenhower draws on his interviews with many of the leaders directly involved, his correspondence with prime participants on both sides, German generals who shared Hitler's intimate plans, and inside information on the turmoil and dissension that almost destroyed the Allied Alliance. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (August 3, 1922 – December 21, 2013) was a United States Army officer, diplomat, and military historian. He was a son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. His military career spanned from before, during, and after his father's presidency, and he left active duty in 1963 and then retired in 1974. From 1969 to 1971, Eisenhower served as United States Ambassador to Belgium during the administration of President Richard Nixon, who was previously his father's vice president and also his daughter-in-law's father. More

New York: Zebra Books [Kensington Publishing Corp.], 1984. First Zebra Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. Includes Preface, as well as chapters on The Man Who Sold People; The American Connection, The Pint-Sized Giant; A Job for a Joshua; The Melting Pot, Bet-Laid Plans; Courvoisier the Pimp; "New Boy"; Opportunity Knocks at Noon; The Madame and the Maid; Visibility Zero; Nobody Got Soup; A Burglar's Lot; Of Brothels and Men; Piggyback Nightmare; It's Safer in Jail; Requiem Mass; and The Cycling Assassin. Also contains Postscript, Author's Notes and Acknowledgments; Bibliography, and Dedication. This work was a History Book Club Alternate Selection. Only one man--Charles Piquard--could lead the historic air attack that would free more than seven hundred men and women, and save the heroes of D-Day from Nazi extinction. Chronicles the drama of Operation Jericho, the February, 1944, air raid that freed more than seven hundred prisoners held in Amiens, France, in the greatest mass prison escape in history. Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard, DSO & Two Bars, DFC (16 May 1915 – 18 February 1944) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was the first officer of the RAF to be awarded the DSO three times during the Second World War. He flew over a hundred sorties and distinguished himself in a variety of operations requiring coolness under fire. He led the squadron of Whitley bombers that carried paratroopers to their drop for the Bruneval raid. Throughout 1943 he flew the Lysander on nighttime missions into occupied France for the SOE. Pickard led a group of Mosquitos on the Amiens raid, in which he was killed in action 18 February 1944. More

Washington DC: American Foreign Service Association, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. pages 1-44, plus covers. Illustrations. Advertisements. Cover is a message from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. New Year's Greetings printed at top of front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling and an ink notation at top front. Spine worn and torn in places. This includes articles on Ecuador, Counsul's Wives, "Rosebank" Staten Island, Homes of the State Department, Representation, Bibliography of Foreign Service Study, and compact Canadian Golf Courses. The Foreign Service Journal is a monthly publication of the American Foreign Service Association. It covers foreign affairs from the perspective of American Foreign Service personnel, members of Washington's foreign policy establishment, as well as features on living overseas as a foreign affairs professional. The American Foreign Service Association was preceded by The American Consular Service Association which was founded in the spring of 1918. In March 1919 the American Consular Service Association published the first issue of the American Consular Bulletin. The diplomatic and consular branches of the State Department were combined into a single Foreign Service by the Rogers Act of 1924 and, as a result, the American Consular Service Association gave way to the American Foreign Service Association. It was decided to continue the monthly American Consular Bulletin as the official publication of the expanded association. In 1924, with the publication of the October issue, the title of the bulletin was changed to American Foreign Service Journal. More

Washington DC: American Foreign Service Association, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. pages 317-355, [1] plus covers. Illustrations. Advertisements. Cover has a portrait of Nelson T. Johnson, American Minister to China. Cover has some wear and soiling and an ink notation at top front. Spine worn and torn in places. This includes articles on River D'Loup, Homes of the Department of State, Foreign Service Officers, Women Consuls, Women Diplomats, and the Naval Officer in Diplomacy. The Foreign Service Journal is a monthly publication of the American Foreign Service Association. It covers foreign affairs from the perspective of American Foreign Service personnel, members of Washington's foreign policy establishment, as well as features on living overseas as a foreign affairs professional. The American Foreign Service Association was preceded by The American Consular Service Association which was founded in the spring of 1918. In March 1919 the American Consular Service Association published the first issue of the American Consular Bulletin. The diplomatic and consular branches of the State Department were combined into a single Foreign Service by the Rogers Act of 1924 and, as a result, the American Consular Service Association gave way to the American Foreign Service Association. It was decided to continue the monthly American Consular Bulletin as the official publication of the expanded association. In 1924, with the publication of the October issue, the title of the bulletin was changed to American Foreign Service Journal. More

Washington DC: American Foreign Service Association, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. pages 197-236 plus covers. EXTRA sheet, printed on one side only, laid in. This addresses the Linthicum Bill and the Eaton Bill. Illustrations. Advertisements. Cover has a portrait of John N. Willys, the first American Ambassador to Poland. Cover has some wear and soiling and an ink notation at top front. Spine worn and torn in places. This includes articles on Working for America, Red Clover (Poem), Merchant Marine, Office in Budapest, the Alabama Claims, Public Health Service, Commercial Work, and Bradford, Home of Woolens. The Foreign Service Journal is a monthly publication of the American Foreign Service Association. It covers foreign affairs from the perspective of American Foreign Service personnel, members of Washington's foreign policy establishment, as well as features on living overseas as a foreign affairs professional. The American Foreign Service Association was preceded by The American Consular Service Association which was founded in the spring of 1918. In March 1919 the American Consular Service Association published the first issue of the American Consular Bulletin. The diplomatic and consular branches of the State Department were combined into a single Foreign Service by the Rogers Act of 1924 and, as a result, the American Consular Service Association gave way to the American Foreign Service Association. It was decided to continue the monthly American Consular Bulletin as the official publication of the expanded association. In 1924, with the publication of the October issue, the title of the bulletin was changed to American Foreign Service Journal. More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. First published edition [stated]. Seventh printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. Pocket paperback. xvi, 238, [2] pages, Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Preface. Foreword by Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall. XXII chapters. Postscript. Appendix. Kenneth William Hechler (September 20, 1914 – December 10, 2016) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented West Virginia's 4th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1977 and was West Virginia Secretary of State from 1985 to 2001. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in history and government. Hechler served on the faculty of Columbia University, Princeton University, and Barnard College in the years leading up to World War ll. Hechler helped chronicle the liberation of France, the 1944 Normandy invasion, Battle of the Bulge, and entrance into Nazi Germany. He was attached to the 9th Armored Division when an armored and infantry task force, part of Combat Command B, unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge spanning the Rhine river during the Battle of Remagen. He interviewed both U.S. and German soldiers involved at the time. He was awarded a Bronze Star and 5 battle stars. He returned after the war twice to interview Germans who took part in the battle. He found Captain Willi Bratge, one of two officers who had not been executed at Hitler's orders because he had been captured, and spent a week with him in the Remagen area learning about details of the battle. In 1957 he published the book The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945 which was adapted into a film in 1969. From that victory sprang momentous consequences. More

New York, N.Y. Paperback Library, 1970. Second Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 287, [1] pages. Footnotes. Includes Foreword by Ruth Ellen Patton Totten (General Patton's daughter) and Preface. Also includes chapters on Incidents Tell the Man; West Point--Early Posts--Chasing Villa; World War 1; Between the Wars; The Coming of World War II; Landing in Morocco; Occupying Morocco and Fighting in Tunisia; Sicily; Postlude to Sicily and Prelude to the Third Army; The Dash Across France; Assuming the Defensive; The Battle of the Bulge; The Capture of Coblenz and the Palatinate Campaign; Forcing the Rhine and Across Germany to the Mulde; After Victory--Prediction of Things to Come--The Russian Menace; and A Leader Passes. Harry Semmes, a prominent patent attorney. also fought in both World Wars. His fearlessness in combat won him two Distinguished Service Crosses in the first, and a third in the second war. In the early 1950s, he headed a commission on peacetime military training, creating and defending reserve training. President Harry Truman had ordered the army to integrate white and black soldiers. But the army was dragging its feet. Semmes was tapped to be an informal advocate for speeding up the process. For over a year, Semmes worked with the Pentagon to develop procedures that led to the gradual integration of the U.S. Army. He never received a line of credit for this quiet, largely unofficial job. Harry Semmes was a young officer in Patton's World War I tank brigade and remained close to him through the years. More

New York, N.Y. Anchor Books, 2012. First Anchor Books Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [8], 247, [1] pages. The book contains XXXVIII chapters. Charles Michael Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into a film of the same name. Palahniuk began writing fiction in his mid-30s. By his account, he started writing while attending workshops for writers that were hosted by Tom Spanbauer, which he attended to meet new friends. Spanbauer largely inspired Palahniuk's minimalistic writing style. The content of Palahniuk's works has been described as nihilistic. Palahniuk has rejected this label, stating that he is a romantic, and that his works are mistakenly seen as nihilistic because they express ideas that others do not believe in. More

Fowlerville, Michigan: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [10], 328, [6] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page . Inscription reads "To Jo Ann and Tom Fulcher Sister-in-law and brother-in-law of Jack Fallin, the real life PT boat hero after whom the Fred Richards of this novel is closely patterned. With kindest regards John Harllee, November 16, 1990." This is a work of fiction, which refers to historical personages and events, as well as battle conditions in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. This is the saga of a man who loved a woman and ships and miraculously survived many action-packed adventures in war and peace to attain them. The story ranges from Australia to California. John Harllee was retired Navy Rear Admiral and former chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked on December 7, 1941. During World War II, he commanded a torpedo boat squadron in the Southwest Pacific that was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. He received the Silver Star and Legion of Merit. From 1947 to 1948, he served in the Navy's Congressional Liaison Unit on assignment to John F. Kennedy when the future president was a member of Congress. During the Korean War, he served as executive officer aboard the cruiser Manchester, for which he was decorated with the Navy Commendation Medal. He retired from the Navy in 1959 with the rank of Rear Admiral. Kennedy appointed him to the newly formed Federal Maritime Commission in 1961. He was promoted to chairman of the commission in 1963 and was reappointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. He retired in 1969. More

Lincoln, Massachusetts: Sawtells of Somerset, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Various paginations (72 pages). Cover has some wear and soiling. Cover Illustration. Illustrations. Maps. Part I is Paul Revere's Account of His Ride. Part II is A Narrative of the Excursions and Ravages of the King's Troops on the 19th of April, 1775. Part III is The Concord Fight as described in the Narrative of Jeremy Lister, Ensign, in His Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot. More