Known and Unknown: A Memoir
Sentinel, 2012. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. xviii, 813, [1] p. Notes. Index. More
Sentinel, 2012. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. xviii, 813, [1] p. Notes. Index. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1985. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 185 pages, illus., Former owner's label inside front board. Paul B. Ryan, 1913-1987, was a captain in the United States Navy, a historian, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received a BS from the US Naval Academy in 1936, a master's degree in international relations from Stanford University, and a master's degree in history from San Jose State University. His time in the Navy included combat in World War II, three commands at sea, two tours of duty at the Pentagon, and service as US Naval Attaché for the US embassies in Havana, Cuba and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He also served as Deputy Director of Naval History in the Department of the Navy from 1969-1972. As a Hoover scholar and historian he published multiple books, including The Panama Canal Controversy: U.S. Diplomacy and Defense Interests (1977), First Line of Defense: The U.S. Navy Since 1945 (1981), and The Iranian Rescue Mission: Why It Failed (1985). In 1987 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Navy League of the United States for his writings on naval history. More
Jackson Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 363, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Includes Foreword (by Ken Hechler), Preface, and Acknowledgments. Also includes The Magic of Flying: Concluding Thoughts; Glossary; Bibliography; Interviews, Letters, and Tapes; and Index. Topics covered include The Berlin Airlift, 1948; Korea, 1950; Strategic Reconnaissance; Vietnam, 1965; and The Magic of Flying: Concluding Thoughts. Inscribed on the title page. Inscription reads: For Suclew Zaveclarack with best wishes, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, 6/2006. The author uses personal experiences to underscore American airpower's formidable role in winning the Cold War. More
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xix, [1], 363, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Interviews, Letters, and Tapes. Index. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling, and is in plastic cover. Wolfgang W.E. Samuel (born February 2, 1935) is a German-born American author and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Samuel attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business in 1960, and subsequently the National War College. He served in the United States Air Force for 30 years, retiring with the rank of colonel in 1985. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal multiple times during his years of active duty. [ His second book, I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen, is a compilation of oral histories of American aviators of the Cold War era. As of 2015, Samuel has published eight books. The first, German Boy: A Child in War, is a memoir detailing the war years and his post-war life as a refugee, and features a foreword by historian Stephen Ambrose. His second book, I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen, is a compilation of oral histories of American aviators of the Cold War era. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 306, some wear to DJ edges, minor scuffing to DJ. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University, 1969. 183, wraps, illus., review questions, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [5], 554, [6] pages. Inscribed by Shelton on the title page. Prologue. 23 Chapters. Afterword. , Glossary. Index. Henry Hugh Shelton (born 2 January 1942) is a former United States Army officer who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001. Shelton served two tours of duty in the Vietnam War with the 5th Special Forces Group, and with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, followed by a series of command and staff assignments. Following the Gulf War, Shelton commanded the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in his home state of North Carolina. In 1993, he was given command of XVIII Airborne Corps. Shelton led the Joint Task Force responsible for Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti in 1994. In 1996, Shelton, a Special Forces soldier, was promoted to the rank of general and the position of Commander in Chief of United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He was the first Graduate of the U.S. Army Special Forces Program to command SOCOM. Upon the retirement of John M. Shalikashvili, Shelton was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 1 October 1997. Shelton led the planning of the Kosovo War in 1999 during his time in office. Later he coined the phrase "Dover test", testing the support for a war based on the reaction of the people after seeing casualties returning at the Dover Air Force Base. Ronald Levinson is a producer, director, writer, and studio executive. He oversaw many successful series and movies. These productions garnered twenty-one Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Peabody Awards and over forty other awards. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xix, [1], 390, [6] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Richard H. Shultz, Jr. (born 1947) is an American scholar of international security studies. He is a Professor International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he is also the director of the International Security Studies Program (ISSP). He is an expert and early scholar of insurgency, with his works including influential research on guerrilla warfare in Vietnam. He is also an expert on terrorism, intelligence gathering, internal conflicts, and low intensity conflict. Shultz has served on the Special Operations Policy Advisory Group of the U.S. Department of Defense. He has held chairs at the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval War College, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Shultz has been a member of the Board to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. His consultant work has focused on peacekeeping, counter-proliferation, and the impact of organized crime on U.S. security interests. More
New York: Anchor Books, 2002. First Anchor Edition. Tenth Printing. 344, wraps, illus., maps121 hand-selected troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines, on a mission to rescue 513 American and British POW's who had spent three years in a hellish camp near Cabanatuan. More
New York: Doubleday, 2001. Third Printing. 25 cm, 342, illus., endpaper maps, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ slightly soiled. More
New York: Doubleday, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 342, illus., endpaper maps, slight wear to top edge of DJ. More
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1983. 236, illus., maps, index, small tears in rear DJ. More
New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1984. Berkley edition [stated]. Later printing. Mass market paperback. xxii, [2], 258, [6] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Cover/spine worn, torn, and creased. Some page discoloration noted. This was a Military Book Club main selection. Includes Foreword by William P. Yarborough, Preface, Epilogue, and Index. Also includes chapters on Guerrilla Warfare; Predecessors of Special Forces; The Kind of Man It Took; The Rucksack, Book, and Beret; SF Prepares for Guerilla Warfare; Revolutionary war and Counterinsurgency; New Missions and Big Publicity; Special Missions: Africa, Latin America; Laos and Thailand; Vietnam: CIDG (Civilian Irregular Defense Group); the Katu and the Bru; Expansion: Cambodes, Hoa Hao, and Cao Dai; The Mobile Strike (Mike) Forces; Recovery Operations; Special Operations and Unconventional Warfare; Civic Action and Psy Ops, Vietnam; Special Support and Special Problems; Intelligence; Civic Action Around the World; Vietnamization of CIDG, 1966-1971; and The Future of Special Forces. The reader cannot fail to be impressed with the book's depth of understanding of guerrilla warfare and how it works. This book deals with that small part of the United States' fighting forces who understand that money cannot win battles. It does not shy way from American military mistakes and weaknesses. Still, the author is optimistic and proud. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1950. First Edition. 256, library bookplate & sticker, marker from bookplate transferred to front flyleaf, spine faded & scuffed, library call # on spine. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 66, wraps, illus., slight wear and soiling to covers, small ding at top edge. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 66, wraps, illus., bibliography, tape and sticker residue on front cover, scuff at bottom of front cover. More
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1943]. 22.5 cm, 316, illus., index, DJ worn and stained, ink notation on front endpaper (not from author). More
New York: St, Martin's Paperbacks, 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. [8], 487, [1] pages. Cover has some wear, soiling, and edge tear. Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a Zambian-born, novelist specializing in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel When the Lion Feeds. This encouraged him to become a full-time writer, and he developed three long chronicles of the South African experience which all became bestsellers. He still acknowledges his publisher Charles Pick's advice to "write about what you know best", and his work takes in much authentic detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies. More
Moscow: USSR Dept. of Defense, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 143, maps, fold-out maps, table, text has darkened, board edges worn and small tears. More
New York: Praeger, 1989. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. x, [2], 249, [3] pages. Abbreviations. Selected Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure on front endpaper, publisher's ephemera laid in. Lawrence Charles Soley, American communications educator, author. Recipient best article award American Academy Advertising, 1993, Sigma Delta Chi award, 1990. Member Investigative Reports and Editors, Speech Communications Association, National Writers Union, Media Alliance (founding), Society Professional Journalists. Assistant professor University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1980-1981, Pennsylvania State University, State College, 1981-1982, University Georgia, Athens, 1982-1983. Associate professor City University of New York, 1983-1987, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1987-1992, College Communications, Marquette University, Milwaukee, since 1992. "The first book-length treatment of the subject ever published, RADIO WARFARE examines U.S. radio propaganda during World War II and analyzes the impact of this propaganda on U.S. post-war strategy." [from dust-jacket flap]. The contents address Subversive radio broadcasting, United States Psychological Warfare activities, Psychwar Stations, Soviet Psychwar, and the Cold War. More
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2002. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. xxiv, 359, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Author David Stafford draws upon recently released wartime files to provide an intriguing look at the relationship of two world leaders, revealing how each guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests. David Alexander Tetlow Stafford (born 10 March 1942) is projects director at Edinburgh University's Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars and Leverhulme Emeritus Professor in the university's School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Stafford took his B.A. at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1963. He then undertook postgraduate study at the University of London, taking an M.A. and finally his Ph.D. in history in 1968. Stafford served in the British Diplomatic Service at the Foreign Office from 1967 to 1968. He then took up an appointment as research associate (1968–70) at the Centre of International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He then became assistant professor of history (1970–76) at Canada's University of Victoria in British Columbia. He was promoted to professor of history (1982–84). He then became director of studies (1985–86) and executive director (1986–92) at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 2000, he became projects director at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars. Stafford is noted for his works concerning Winston Churchill and British intelligence, various aspects of the Second World War, and twentieth-century intelligence and espionage. More
New York: The Overlook Press, 2011. Second printing [stated] of this edition. Trade Paperback. The format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. xxiv, 359, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Slight cover wear. David Stafford draws upon released wartime files to provide an intriguing look at the relationship of two world leaders, revealing how each guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests. David Alexander Tetlow Stafford (born 10 March 1942) is projects director at Edinburgh University's Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars and Leverhulme Emeritus Professor in the university's School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Stafford took his B.A. at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1963. He then undertook postgraduate study at the University of London, taking an M.A. and finally his Ph.D. in history in 1968. Stafford served in the British Diplomatic Service at the Foreign Office from 1967 to 1968. He then took up an appointment as research associate (1968–70) at the Centre of International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He then became assistant professor of history (1970–76) at Canada's University of Victoria in British Columbia. He was promoted to professor of history (1982–84). He then became director of studies (1985–86) and executive director (1986–92) at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 2000, he became projects director at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars. Stafford is noted for his works concerning Winston Churchill and British intelligence, various aspects of the Second World War, and twentieth-century intelligence and espionage. More
New York: Scribner, 2010. First Scribiner paperback edition [stated]. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xx, [2], 407, [3] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Sources. Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page wear. Doug Stanton is an American journalist, screenwriter, and author of the New York Times bestsellers In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers, which is the basis for the film 12 Strong, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. In Harm’s Way spent more than six months on the New York Times bestseller list and became required on the U.S. Navy's reading list for officers. Stanton’s Horse Soldiers was a bestseller on lists in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly Publisher’s Weekly, and IndieBound. Horse Soldiers was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times. The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association made Horse Soldiers a “Great Lakes, Great Reads” book, and it was chosen as a “Best Book” by Publishers Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. More
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1987. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 396, wraps, illus., maps, charts, sources and bibliography, index Specially trained to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and to conduct guerrilla warfare, sabotage, escape and evasion by land, sea or air, the Green Berets are the best and most elite American fighting force ever created. This painstaking masterpiece reveals with riveting authoritative detail the secret operations, the camps, the soaring triumphs, the crushing defeats and betrayals, and the thrilling heroism. More
Place_Pub: Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1995. 360, wraps, illus., maps, charts, sources and bibliography, appendices, index, slight wear to cover edges Specially trained to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and to conduct guerrilla warfare, sabotage, escape and evasion by land, sea or air, the Green Berets are the best and most elite American fighting force ever created. This painstaking masterpiece reveals with riveting authoritative detail the secret operations, the camps, the soaring triumphs, the crushing defeats and betrayals, and the thrilling heroism. More