The Rescuers: The World's Top Anti-Terrorist Units
Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, c1986. 23 cm, 241, illus., endpaper charts, appendices, glossary, index, DJ worn and torn along edges. More
Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, c1986. 23 cm, 241, illus., endpaper charts, appendices, glossary, index, DJ worn and torn along edges. More
Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom: Blandford Press, 1986. Presumed first pbk. edition/first printing thus. Trade paperback. [126] p. 25 cm. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1962. Revised Edition. 344, wraps, illus., tables, refs, apps, glossary, index, covers somewhat soiled, rough spot on front cover, soiling fore-edge. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1962. Revised Edition. 344, wraps, illus., tables, references, appendices, glossary, index, covers creased & foxed, spine taped, ink name on front cover. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. Reprint Edition. 344, wraps, illus., tables, references, appendices, glossary, index. Reprint of the 1962 edition. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1962. Revised Edition. 344, wraps, illus., tables, refs, apps, glossary, index, covers soiled & somewhat worn, fore-edge foxed, some darkening to text. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1969. Revised Edition. Quarto, approx. 100, wraps, figures, references, glossary, index, covers soiled & stained. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1964. Revised Edition. Quarto, 159, wraps, illus., references, appendices, index, covers slightly soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1964. Revised Edition. Quarto, 159, wraps, illus., references, appendices, index, covers slightly soiled, pages are loose & clipped together. More
New York: Gallery Books, 1991. Approx. 250, illus., tables, index, slight wear to DJ edges. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Army, 1971. Revised Edition. Approx. 100, wraps, 3-hole punched, illus., glossary, references, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 2002. 437, wraps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 2002. First? Edition. First? Printing. 127, wraps, tables. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1942. 70, wraps, illus., appendices, index, name stamped on front cover, covers slightly soiled. More
Washington DC: United States. Department of the Army. Headquarters, 1976. This is a reprint which includes current pages from C1. Wraps. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8.25 inches. ii, 139, [3] pages. Illustrations. Appendix A: References. Appendix B: Master Training Program. Appendix C: Tactical Employment of Climbers. Appendix D: Measurement Conversion Factors. Glossary. Index. Cover is scuffed and has sticker residue. This training circular, #TC 90-6-1, is designed to help the reader become an expert military mountaineer. Gives information for survival in different terrains, climates and types of weather. Tactics with climbing ropes and knots, operations on glaciers and snow covered mountains. This is the finest book written on 'real world' mountaineering (not just for sport). In current use with Navy Seals, Army Rangers and Special Forces, Marines, and sport climbers. Covers basic techniques, movement of individuals and units, and evacuation. Military Mountaineering Covers basic techniques, movement of individuals and unit movement and evacuation. Operations on glaciers and snow covered mountains, fixed alpine paths, also master training program. TCs contain material that is directive or informational, is transitory, or needs to be published only once. Circulars expire 2 years from the date of issue or earlier. The Army subsequently issued Field Manual FM 3-97.61 Military Mountaineering. More
Washington, DC: Department of the Army; U.S. Government Printing Office. Includes illustrations. 10 9 by 12.75 inch pages with image size of 7 by 9.75 inches. Color illustrations. Accompanies by 12 page staple bound sheets on the American Soldier series and each image. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 277, [1] pages. Maps, A Note on Methods, Translation, Style, and Sources. Signed by the author on the title page. Minor wear and staining to lower corner of rear of DJ and rear cover. James Verini is an American magazine journalist and book author. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. He also writes for National Geographic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atavist, Foreign Policy, and others. His book They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate was well received. In 2015, he received a National Magazine Award for feature writing for "Love and Ruin," an article in The Atavist about the history of American intervention in Afghanistan. He won a 2015 George Polk Award for "Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?", about the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo, in National Geographic. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1995. Seventh Printing. pocket paperbk, 469, wraps, illus., source notes, index, some wrinkling to top edge of text (no pages stuck), cover edges worn. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 399, [1] pages. Illustrations. Source Notes. Index. Douglas C. Waller is an author, lecturer, and former correspondent for Time magazine and Newsweek. Waller describes himself as a veteran correspondent, author and lecturer. From 1994 to 2007, Waller served in TIME Magazine's Washington Bureau, where he covered foreign affairs as a diplomatic correspondent. He came to TIME in 1994 from Newsweek, where he reported on major military conflicts. Waller joined Newsweek in 1988, after serving as a legislative assistant on the staffs of Senator William Proxmire and Representative Edward J. Markey. In a review posted online on June 25, 2015, Kirkus Reviews described his book Disciples as "one of the more interesting spy books this year." More
London: Sphere Books Limited, 1983. Third printing [stated[. Mass market paperback. xiv, 304, [2] pages. Foreword by David Stirling. Illustrations. Footnotes. Maps. Appendices. Index. Ink notation on first page. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is the first complete official history of the Special Air Service Regiment, 1941-1971. New additional materials bringing the history up-to-date is not taken from official sources. Philip Warner was an outstanding military historian, and The Daily Telegraph's peerless Army obituarist. He was a master of the laconic, lapidary phrase. Warner's direct, uncluttered and transparent prose, was a reflection of the man. Above all, he felt deep admiration for the lives he celebrated. One of the Allied soldiers rounded up and imprisoned after the fall of Singapore on February 15 1942, he spent some time in the infamous Changi jail, and worked on the Railway of Death. After the war Warner taught at Sandhurst and became a prolific writer, turning out more than 50 books. More
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2015. First St. Martin's Griffin Trade Paperback Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. xix, [5]m 231, [1] pages. An essay on Modern Warfare. A Word From the Author. Map. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. Decorative front cover, which has slight wear. Brandon Webb is a combat-decorated Navy SEAL sniper and, with the changing tides, turned innovative entrepreneur. During his last tour as a U.S. Navy chief, he was head instructor at the SEAL sniper school, which produced some of America’s most legendary snipers. Brandon is an instrument rated private pilot, multiple New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and Harvard Business School alumni. Brandon was born in small town, Rocky Mountain, Canada to a Canadian father and American mother. One summer he was invited to work aboard the SCUBA diving boat, PEACE, out of Ventura harbor on the California coast. Brandon would learn how to SCUBA that summer and, over the years working as a deck hand, became a competent free diver, and underwater hunter. Brandon would go on to enlist in the US Navy in March of 1993, with the goal to become a Navy SEAL. In 1997 his SEAL training package was approved; he joined over 200 students in BUD/S class 215 and went on to graduate as one of 23 originals that started SEAL selection. He served with SEAL Team 3, Naval Special Warfare Group One Training Detachment sniper cell, and the Naval Special Warfare Center west coast sniper course manager. Over his navy career he completed four deployments to the Middle East including one to Afghanistan. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 470, acid-free paper, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, erratum slip laid in. Introduction by Margaret Thatcher. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xxv, [1], 470 pages. Acid-free paper. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Introduction by Margaret Thatcher. Signed by the author (Weinberger) on the title page. Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006) was an American politician and businessman. As a prominent Republican, he served in a variety of state and federal positions for three decades, including Chairman of the California Republican Party, 1962–68. He was Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987. Weinberger was as a California State Assemblyman from 1953 to 1959, and he would go on to serve as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. An accomplished businessman, he later became vice president of Bechtel Corporation, and later Chairman of Forbes magazine. He is also known for the Strategic Defense Initiative. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 470, acid-free paper, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index. Introduction by Margaret Thatcher. More