New York, N.Y. Ballantine Books, 1957. Second Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. viii, 182, [2] pages. Maps. Some page browning. Foreword, and chapters on Wacht am Rhein: The German Plan; Eisenhower's Great Decision; All Quiet; The Penetration; The Crisis (December 18-26); The Dying Gasp (December 26-January 16); and An Inventory. Also includes 8 black and white maps. Based on German and Allied Sources, the true story of an amazing battle. The Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last, desperate bid for victory in the West. From the time when Hitler first conceived the plan for the Ardennes offensive to the day when the last, isolated Panzer units were destroyed, here is the detailed amazing story of a great battle: Why American commanders were taken by surprise; How Companies and Platoons stood off Panzer brigades; What really happened as Bastogne--and what the press reported; and Why the Allies, though badly mauled, were able to snatch victory from defeat. Robert Edward Merriam (October 2, 1918 – 1988) from 1942 to 1946, was a captain in the United States Army. From 1946 to 1947, Merriam authored Dark December: the Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge. From 1947 to 1955, Merriam was an alderman in Chicago and chairman of the Commission on Housing and Emergency Commission on Crime. During this period he co-authored The American Government: Democracy in Action. From 1955 to 1958, Merriam served as an assistant director at the US Bureau of Budget. He authored Going Into Politics in 1957. Merriam ended his government career after serving as deputy assistant to the president under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1958 to 1961. More

New York: Hyperion Books, 2000. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 754 pages. Notes. Index. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. Laurie Garrett (born 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is a Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist and writer of two bestselling books. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday, chronicling the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire. Garrett graduated with honors from Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she received a B.A. in biology in 1975. She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at University of California, Berkeley and did research at Stanford University. During her Ph.D. studies, Garrett started reporting on science news for radio station KPFA. At KPFA Garrett worked in management, in news, and in radio documentary production. A documentary series she co-produced with Adi Gevins won the 1977 Peabody Award in Broadcasting, and other KPFA production efforts by Garrett won the Edwin Howard Armstrong award. Garrett won a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 1997 for "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health" in Newsday, "a series of 25 articles on the public health crisis in the former Soviet Union". She won another Polk award in 2000 for her book Betrayal of Trust, "a meticulously researched account of health catastrophes occurring in different places simultaneously and amounting to a disaster of global proportions". Garrett takes us to India, where she meticulously examines the course of the country's pneumonic plague; to Zaire, where the Ebola virus is still largely unchecked; and to Russia, where bad policy and a collapsing society have made for staggering setbacks in all areas of health. Garrett also exposes the ungoverned world of biological terrorism. More

Saratoga, NY: Robson & Adee, 1930. Third Printing [stated]. Wraps. [4], 57, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Fold-out map at rear of pamphlet. Some cover wear and soiling. This pamphlet was Dedicated to my patriot ancestors and to my sister, Mrs. Harriet B. Warner, who by her diligent study has discovered their Revolutionary records of patriotic services. General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 – 4 August 1792) was a British army officer, dramatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1792. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, most notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American Revolutionary War. He designed an invasion scheme and was appointed to command a force moving south from Canada to split away New England and end the rebellion. Burgoyne advanced from Canada but his slow movement allowed the Americans to concentrate their forces. Instead of coming to his aid according to the overall plan, the British Army in New York City moved south to capture Philadelphia. Burgoyne fought two small battles near Saratoga but was surrounded by American forces and, with no relief in sight, surrendered his entire army of 6,200 men on 17 October 1777. His surrender, says historian Edmund Morgan, "was a great turning point of the war, because it won for Americans the foreign assistance which was the last element needed for victory." He and his officers returned to England; the enlisted men became prisoners of war. Burgoyne came under sharp criticism when he returned to London, and never held another active command. More

New York, N.Y. Pinnacle Books, 1975. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. 264, [8] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Foreword, Prelude to a Battle, The Battle of the Bridge, The Cauldron, The Escape, and Bibliography. The Towering Story of the Greatest Airborne Operation of World War II. This is the story of a battle for a bridge. It was a daring and highly modern battle. Nearly ten thousand British soldiers were to be dropped or landed sixty miles behind the German lines to capture the key bridge, which would be held until the relieving forces linked up with them in one, or at the most, two days. In fact, only six hundred of them reached that bridge--and they held it for nearly six days against everything the German enemy could throw in against them; but the relieving forces never came. There were few survivors of that epic battle. Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 – 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler, Klaus Konrad, K.N. Kostov, and Duncan Stirling. In 1967, he began writing nonfiction books for the New York publisher Ian Ballantine. Whiting continued this work even when producing novels. From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. He was also a prolific and popular military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. More

New York, N.Y. Bantam Books, 1970. Presumed first Bantam Edition, first printing. Mass market paperback. [18], 302 pages. Maps, Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Foreword, Acknowledgments, Chapter Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. Chapter 1 covers May 30-31, 1944; Chapter 2 covers December 1941-July 1943; Chapter 3 covers July 10-August 17, 1943; Chapter 4 covers September 1943; Chapter 5 covers October 1-December 20, 1943; Chapter 6 covers December 25, 1943-January 25, 1944; Chapter 7 covers February - May 1944; Chapter 8 covers May 1944; Chapter 9 covers June 5 and Beyond. Robert H. Adleman (May 7, 1919 – November 16, 1995) was an American novelist and historian. Adleman was a photographer and tail gunner in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he became a businessman and a historian, and began a collaboration with U.S. Army Colonel George Walton to write books about World War II, the most successful of which was 1966's The Devil's Brigade. A story about the 1st Special Service Force nicknamed the "Devil's Brigade". Colonel George Walton was a lawyer and retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He served with the Devil's Brigade in Italy. More

New York, N.Y. Modern Literary Editions Publishing Company, 1963. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Mass market paperback. 320 pages. This is one of the Great Battle in History series. Cover was partially loosened and has been restrengthened with glue. Chapters include A Forest Out of Old Folk Tale; Stirrings in the German Camp; German Versus American; Prologue in the Siegfried Line; Prologue Continued; The Gloom and the Misery: The 9th Division; Schmidt and the Roer River Dams; Much to Learn in the Huertgen Forest; What to Do about the Huertgen Forest?; The 28th Division at Schmidt; Debacle at Vossenack and Kommerscheidt; To Break the Impasse; Breakthrough or Slugging Match?; The Gloom and the Misery: The 4th Division; The Village of Huertgen; The "Big Red One" in the Forest; "Only a Handful of Old Men Left"; An End to the Gloom, the Misery; The Tragedy of the Huertgen Forest. Also includes A Note on Sources and an Index, as well as maps of The Aachen Region and The Huertgen Forest. From September, 1944, to the middle of November (when the Battle of the Bulge stated a few miles south of the forest), almost one-quarter of the Americans in the VII Corps of the First Army were either killed, wounded, or evacuated with pneumonia or trench foot--a tragedy that could have been averted by the officers in command. Ernest Hemingway (who was there) called the battle "Passchendaele with tree burst." Charles B. MacDonald's account is a testament to the endurance and courage of the men who fought and died there. Charles B. MacDonald (November 23, 1922 – December 4, 1990) was a Deputy Chief Historian for the United States Army. He wrote several of the Army's official histories of WWII. More

New York, N.Y. Pocket Books, 1990. First Pocket Books Printing. Mass market paperback. xv, [3], 300, [2] pages. Footnotes. Source Notes. Index. Front cover has become separated and reattached with clear tape. Bookseller's stamp and ink mark at bottom of first page. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Epilogue, Source Notes, and Index. Also includes Epilogue, Source Notes, and Index. Topics covered include Into the Green Hell; The Death Factory; Dark December; and The Race for the Dams. Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 – 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler, Klaus Konrad, K.N. Kostov, and Duncan Stirling. In 1967, he began writing nonfiction books for the New York publisher Ian Ballantine. Whiting continued this work even when producing novels. Between 1970 and 1976, in a prolific burst, he wrote a total of 34 books which he described as "Bang-bang, thrills-and-spills". From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. He was a prolific and popular military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. This book was dedicated to the dead young men and the old ones still alive who fought in the "Death Factory"--the men of the "Bloody Bucket," the Big Red One,"; the "Golden Arrow," and all the rest of those ill-fated divisions: to the P.B.I.--the poor bloody infantry. More

New York, N.Y. Dell Publishing Company, 1979. First Dell Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. 270, [2] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes chapters on Convictions; M16; Berlin 1934; Nazi Leaders; Blitzkrieg; Progress; Distractions; Politics; Detente; East Prussia; The Vital Question; Exposure; Flying High; and War. Also includes Author's Note, and Index. The Riveting, True Account of a Master Spy Inside Hitler's Reich. In 1934 the Nazi machine grinds into gear. War looms ever closer on the horizon. British Intelligence Agent Frederick Winterbotham arrives in Germany to play his dangerous game. He dines with generals, drinks with Luftwaffe pilots, befriends top brass like Goering, Hess, and Himmler. He has met the Fuhrer himself and is privy to Hitler's most secret plans. Frederick William Winterbotham CBE (16 April 1897 – 28 January 1990) was a British Royal Air Force officer who during WWII was involved in military intelligence. In 1932,Winterbotham, with the full knowledge of MI-6, escorted Rosenberg around Britain, made some appropriate introductions, and played up to him. Neither Ropp nor Rosenberg knew that Winterbotham had any intelligence connections—he was just a civilian official of the Air Staff. Winterbotham continued in this role for the next seven years. He became a regular visitor to Germany, and an apparent Nazi sympathizer. As such, he was welcomed into the highest circles in Germany, meeting Hitler and Göring, and with Göring's Luftwaffe subordinates such as Erhard Milch and Albert von Kesselring. He gathered a tremendous amount of information on the Luftwaffe and on German political and military intentions. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 540, [2] pages. Chronology. Footnotes. 32 pages of Illustrations. To the Reader, Dramatis Personae, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, The End, Envoi, Sources and Literature. List of Illustrations. Index. Ink notation on fep. DJ is price clipped. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Peter Mikael Englund (born 4 April 1957) is a Swedish author and historian. Englund writes non-fiction books and essays, mainly about history. Especially about the Swedish Empire, but also about other historical events. He writes in a very accessible style, providing narrative details usually omitted in typical books about history. His books have gained popularity and are translated into several languages, such as German and Czech. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2015, when he was succeeded by Sara Danius. Englund has received the August Prize (1993) and the Selma Lagerlöf Prize for Literature (2002). He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 2002. On 1 June 2009, he succeeded Horace Engdahl as the permanent secretary of the Academy. On 6 April 2018, Englund announced that he would no longer participate in the Academy's work. On the same day, Klas Östergren and Kjell Espmark also declared that they would become inactive members of the Academy. In January 2019 Englund announced that he, and fellow academy member Espmark, would return as active members of the Swedish academy, where they had been inactive since April 2018. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 338 pages. Notes. Bibliography. Credits. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. 11 March 2010 To Alvin, A most magical dance teacher! Will all best wishes, Nancy Sherman. Nancy Sherman (born 1951) is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. She was also the inaugural Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Sherman is the author of several books, and her views on military ethics have been influential. Sherman writes about courage and the use of emotions from a soldier's point of view. She asserts that soldiers returning home often receive insufficient care, leaving them ill-prepared for civilian life. She considers post-traumatic stress disorder, comparing the dysfunctional anger shown by some soldiers after they come home from war to the anger that may be functional on the battlefield. The relationship of anger to courage may be deemed controversial, Sherman sees this as a relationship in displaying courage since soldiers must suppress their anger, fear, and other battlefield emotions, inducing a disorder that releases these emotions after a battle, in nonviolent situations. The process by which courage is summoned and displayed on the battlefield can lead directly to PTSD when they return home -- a process that can be addressed effectively by proper care upon their return. Sherman's books include Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers; The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of our Soldiers; and Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind. More

Louisville, KY: Don Smith, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. [14], 1-37, [22], 38-57, plus covers. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Three sheet/5 page price list laid in. Contents discuss the National Geographic Magazine, Six different cover designs, values and popular prices, maps, recordings, pictorial supplements, special issues, reprints, advertisements, Indices, some exceedingly scarce items, etc. This may be produced by the same Don Smith who was a Senior Staff Writer at National Geographic, Washington D.C. He was the editorial director and principal writer of “The Geographic Century,” a year-long series of National Geographic-NPR Radio Expeditions specials reprising great moments of exploration and discovery during the 20th century. Chose subjects, supervised research and production team, conducted on-air interviews, and wrote scripts for delivery by host Alex Chadwick. Nominated for Peabody Award. He was also the Executive co-producer, Radio Expeditions and was heard on NPR's Morning Edition. He was the winner of Columbia University's 2001 Alfred I. duPont Award. More

New York: Ecco [An Imprint of HarperCollingsPublishers], 2017. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [1], 310 pages. Frontis illustration. Inscribed on the title page To David, Good luck on the hill! D. Litt. DJ has slight wear and soiling. David Litt (born 1986/1987) is an American political speechwriter and author of the comedic memoir Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years. He is currently the head writer/producer for Funny or Die’s office in Washington, D.C. Born to a Jewish family in New York City where he attended the Dalton School, Litt attended Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Ex!t Players and editor-in-chief of the Yale Record. He first got involved in political speechwriting through an internship with West Wing Writers. He entered the White House in 2011, at the age of 24, and for four years served as a senior presidential speechwriter first to Presidential Advisor Valerie Jarrett, White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley, and ultimately to President Barack Obama, including as the lead writer on four White House Correspondents' Association dinner presentations. Litt has also written for The Onion and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. His first book, Thanks, Obama, was an instant New York Times Bestseller and was named by Esquire magazine one of the Best Books of 2017. His second, Democracy in One Book or Less, was released in June 2020. More

New York: Rob Weisbach Books, William Morrow and Company, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 284, [8] pages. Inscribed on the title page To Jody, Remember books are always great in bed. XO Bob Smith. Bottom of the book has gotten wet. There are stains inside the front and back covers and on the bottom of pages. Rear board has some damage and peeling. Inscription is unmarred and the text is intact. The comedian and author recalls growing up gay in Buffalo, New York, scrutinizing his classmates, teachers, family, and relationships with the observant eye of the stand-up comic. Bob Smith (December 24, 1958 – January 20, 2018) was an American comedian and author. Smith, born in Buffalo, New York, was the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and the first openly gay comedian to have his own HBO half-hour comedy special. Smith, along with fellow comedians Jaffe Cohen and Danny McWilliams, formed the comedy troupe Funny Gay Males in 1988. With Funny Gay Males, Smith is the co-author of Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out (1995). Smith is also the author of two books of biographical essays. Openly Bob received a Lambda Literary Award for best humor book. Way to Go, Smith! was nominated for a 2000 Lambda Literary Award in the same category. Smith published his first novel, Selfish and Perverse, in 2007, and Remembrance of Things I Forgot in 2011. He published a new collection of essays, Treehab: Tales from My Natural Wild Life, in 2016. The essays cover a wide range of subjects including his career in stand-up, his love of nature, and his experience with ALS. Bob Smith died on January 20, 2018 from Lou Gehrig’s Disease. More