Battle Report. Prepared from Official Sources
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1944-1952. 3091 total, 6-vol. set, illus., maps, appendices, index, usual library markings, boards soiled and stained, spines discolored and worn. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1944-1952. 3091 total, 6-vol. set, illus., maps, appendices, index, usual library markings, boards soiled and stained, spines discolored and worn. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1984. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 76, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on half-title. More
Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1984. First? Edition. First? Printing. 76, wraps, endnotes, abbreviations, pencil erasure on half-title, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Tucson, AZ: Westernlore Publications, 1991. 170, illus., unit citations, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Inscribed by the author (Kestner) to Maj. -Gen. Robert Ploger. More
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vii, [3], 246 pages. Footnotes. Index. Signed by author on fep. Other name, in pencil, on fep. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ is worn, torn, chipped and soiled in a plastic sleeve. Some soiling at pages 6 and 7 noted. The author was a career Army officer, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in WWII and the Korean War. He published a number of articles on military reform with outlets such as the Washington Post, The New Republic, and the Denver Post. This was his first book. More
Short Hills, New Jersey: Burford Books, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [6], 276, [6] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: Feb. 10, 2011, To Dave, Best Wishes, Richard C. Kirkland. An inspiring first-hand account by military aviation pioneer Richard Kirkland recounts how he and a handful of daring helicopter pilots revolutionized battlefield medical evacuation and blazed the trail for modern air-evac flying. Prior to the Korean War, the helicopter was all but unknown, and rescue was uncertain at best for downed pilots and wounded soldiers stranded behind enemy lines. In MASH ANGELS Richard Kirkland recounts his experiences on the front lines of rescue flying and military medicine. Kirkland, a fighter pilot in the Pacific theatre in World War II, came to helicopter flying after the war almost by accident. Many military higher-ups had little use for this new, worthless contraption. But its life-saving performances in the Korean War quickly changed minds. The helicopter was the perfect partner for another revolution in military medical care the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or MASH, and the book also documents the real-life experiences of the MASH characters so familiar from the hit TV series: the nurses, surgeons (including the real Hawkeye), and helicopter pilots who forged a new era in military medical care. Helicopters of the Third Air Rescue Group were given credit for picking up 846 pilots and aircrew from behind enemy lines during the Korean War, writes Richard Kirkland. Add to that 8,373 soldiers and airmen we snatched from the battlefields and air-taxied to the front-line MASH. Quite a feat for a handful of taxi drivers. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Abridged Edition. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 259, wraps, index, covers somewhat soiled and edges worn, crayon letters & numbers on front cover, ink name ins fr cover & flylf marker number on front flyleaf (marker has bled through to following page). More
New York: Avon Books, 2000. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 308 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author. Mrs. Kiyonaga was married for 30 years to Joseph Y. Kiyonaga, who served as a CIA station chief in Brazil and Panama. From a base in Japan, he ran psychological operations against North Korea during the Korean War. He plotted espionage operations with military strongmen and businessmen in Panama, El Salvador and Brazil. When he died in 1977 the CIA was coming under public criticism for exceeding its authority in covert operations overseas. In the face of such criticism, Joseph Kiyonaga told his wife, he wanted to “stand up and be counted.” So she got a yellow lined legal pad and took notes while he talked. Twenty-three years after his death, her book was published, “My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife.” The volume described her husband as tight-lipped and mysterious. He would disappear for days without notice and return without explanation. There were shadowy characters around the house, neither friends nor business associates nor relatives. They lacked names. They lacked identities. As the wife of a spy, Mrs. Kiyonaga followed the requisite code of silence. “We lied about our husbands’ jobs,” she wrote, “stalled inquisitive policemen, befriended ministers’ wives, kept our ears open at parties, deflected the children’s questions, worried in silence alone. We were CIA wives. You never knew us.” Publishers Weekly praised it as an “unpretentious account of their 30-year marriage and its description of her lonely life as a mother of five . . . which unfolded on a need to know basis.”. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Book Club Edition. 465, illus., notes on sources, bibliography, index, damp stains on top edge of text (no pgs stuck), pgs warped, DJ stained. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First Edition. 465, illus., notes on sources, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, small tears to DJ edges. More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 697, [7], pages. Endpaper map. Footnotes. Maps. List of Maps. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. Donald Knox (1936–1986), an award-winning television producer and director, was the author of several books on military history, including The Korean War and Death March. This book brings to life one of the most bitter and inglorious conflicts in American history. Drawing on his interviews with hundreds of veterans of Korea, Knox masterfully weaves personal stories with military records to create a vivid, day-by-day chronicle of the war's first savage months of fighting. More
Washington DC: United States Air Force, Office of Air Force History, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. viii, 146, [2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Maps (including fold-outs). Bibliography. Index. This is one of the USAF Warrior Studies series. Professor Kohn’s focus has been American military history generally, emphasizing national security and military policy, strategy, the American experience with war-making, and the connections between war, the military, and American society. In recent years his concentration has been on current civil-military relations, particularly civilian control of the military. His long-term projects are studies of presidential war leadership in American history and the American experience of war, but he continues to research, consult, lecture, and publish in the area of contemporary civil-military relations, military professionalism, and professional military education. More
Kansas City, MO: Veterans of Foreign Wars, 2010. Second Edition [stated] Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.875 inches by 11.25 inches. 134, [2] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Map. Tabular Data. Appendices (include Combat Chronology, Casualties, and a Reading List). The contents were compiled from VFW Magazine's Korean War 50th Anniversary Commemorative Series. The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following years of hostilities between the two countries. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea was supported by the United States and allied countries. The fighting ended with an armistice on 27 July 1953. The Korean War was a major conflict of the Cold War and among the most destructive conflicts of the modern era, with approximately 3 million war fatalities and a larger proportional civilian death toll than World War II or the Vietnam War. It resulted in the destruction of virtually all of Korea's major cities, with thousands of massacres committed by both sides—including the mass killing of tens of thousands of suspected communists by the South Korean government, and the torture and starvation of prisoners of war by the North Koreans. North Korea became among the most heavily bombed countries in history. Over the course of the war 1.5 million North Koreans are estimated to have fled North Korea. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 332, [1] p. Sources and Notes. Index. More
New York: D. McKay Company, [1969]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 270, illus., bibliography, fr DJ flap price clipped, DJ edges worn. Foreword by Admiral T. H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations. More
Baltimore, MD: American Literary Press, 2007. Heritage Spec. Edition. 29 cm, 300 pages. Illus. (many in color). Signed by the author. More
New York, N.Y. Crown Publishers, Inc., 1973. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 213, [1] pages. Some DJ wear and edge soiling. Includes List of Illustrations, Sources, Acknowledgments and Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover The Rowdy Strain; Beating the British; Appetite for Empire; Civil War--Ultimate Indecency; Johnny Reb; Billy Yank; Looking for a War; "We didn't care a whoop"; "I hope the war doesn't end too quick"; Candid Comment; GI at War; A Particular Kind of Glory; Over There--Again; Heroes and Hoodlums; No Picnic in Korea; and Vietnam--the Pride and the Shame. This study of the American fighting man provides graphic accounts of all the major and minor conflicts in American history. From the victory over the British at New Orleans in 1814, to the air battles over North Vietnam, the book provides close ups of the man in the line of battle. Part One provides graphic accounts of all the major and many of the minor conflicts in American history, with close-ups of the man in the line of battle--from the victory over the British at New Orleans in 1814, the American Civil War, the grueling battles with the Indians, to World War I and World War II. Part Two studies the psychology of the American fighting man, and points out the strange contrasts and contradictions in his mental and emotional make-up; his simplicity and cunning; his psychiatric problems; his sense of "martial' honor; his appetite for sex; his crime and racketeering; and his cowardice and heroism. Finally, the system that produces the American soldier today is closely examined--his role as the instrument of the "great defender" all over the world and the attitudes of the commanding generals. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 416 p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 416, illus., bibliography, index, scratch on rear DJ. More
New York: P. J. Kenedy, [1955]. 21 cm, 249, illus., DJ worn and soiled, small tears to DJ edges, edges soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Times Books, 1979. 182, maps, appendices, notes, index, bkplate ins fr flylf, fr flylf & frontis wrinkled, small rough spot on title page. More
New York: Times Books, 1979. 182, frontis illus., maps, appendices, notes, index, foxing to fore-edge, rear flyleaf creased, DJ somewhat scuffed/scratched. More
New York: Times Books, 1979. Book Club Edition. 182, maps, appendices, notes, index, some soiling to top edge, DJ somewhat worn: edge tears, chips, & creases. More
New York, N.Y. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1963. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvi, 175, [1] pages. Footnotes. Tables. Charts. Small scuff on front dust jacket. Includes Preface; Introduction and Summary: Problems Posed by the Balance-of-Payments Deficit; Sketch of the Balance of Payments Since the War; Elements of Strength and Weakness in Basic Transactions; The Search for Ways of Strengthening Our International Payments Position; The Search for Ways of Strengthening Our International Payments Position. Also includes an Appendix on A Note on Alternative Ways of Presenting the Balance of Payment, as well as an appendix on United States Balance-of-Payments Statistics. Also contains an index, tables, and charts. The was the NBER's Studies in International Economic Relations, Number 1. More