Fallen Sun: A Report on Japan
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1948. 258, index, pencil name inside front flyleaf, top and bottom edges of spine worn. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1948. 258, index, pencil name inside front flyleaf, top and bottom edges of spine worn. More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1969. Reprint. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.5 inches and 8.5 inches. [8], 584 pages. Decorative cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Foreword by Frederick S. Dunn. A Note to the Reader. Illustrations. Footnotes. Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Robert Joseph Charles Butow (March 19, 1924 – October 17, 2017) was a professor emeritus of Japanese history at the University of Washington in Seattle. An author of several books, he was a leading authority on Japan during World War II. Robert Butow was born in San Mateo, California. He attended Stanford University, where he was a member of the Army Reserve, and a student of the Japanese language. When his unit was activated, he was selected to attend the Army Japanese Language School. Butow served in the United States Army during the early months of the occupation of Japan in 1945 and 1946, and became interested in Japanese history and culture. He returned to Stanford. His doctoral thesis on the Japanese surrender (titled Japan's Decision to Surrender) was subsequently published as his first book. His next book, Tojo and the Coming of the War, was in part a biography of Hideki T j , the prime minister of Japan during most of World War II, in part an account of the political events in Japan that led to Japan's attack on the U.S., Britain, and Netherlands, and in part an account of the consequences of the War for Japan. His third book (The John Doe Associates) was about a group of Americans who tried to promote peace with Japan before 1941, but only ended up worsening relations between the two nations. More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. Hardcover. 213, [2] p.; 19 cm. More
London: I. B. Tauris, 2020. New Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xviii, 240, [6] pages. Maps. Figure. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ink numbers, comments, underlining, and marginal marks noted. Some cover soiling. Soner Cagaptay (1970) is a Turkish-American political scientist based in the United States. He is director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is a historian and is an expert on Turkey–United States relations, Turkish politics, and Turkish nationalism. Cagaptay received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 2003. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Turkish nationalism. His research languages include French, German, Spanish, Bosnian, Hebrew, Azerbaijani, and Ottoman Turkish. Derived from a Kirkus review: Cagaptay argues for a liberal path to securing the country’s future in this well-researched treatise. He shows how Turkey’s president Erdog an, is taking the country in the opposite direction. Cagaptay narrates Erdog an’s rise to power on the wave of conservative nationalist politics washing over other countries. The author is fair-minded in crediting Erdog an with reviving Turkey’s economy and bringing much of the nation out of poverty and into the middle class. Cagaptay shows that Erdog an has gained power by demonizing his opponents, badly dividing the country, with the possible consequence of civil war. The failed coup in the summer of 2016 allowed Erdog an to consolidate and extend his authority in the name of stability. Erdog an ’s foreign policy forays have been failures, leaving him with little support from Middle Eastern countries while alienating the E.U., U.S., and Russia. More
New York: Basic Books, c1987. First Printing. 25 cm, 288, notes, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Basic Books, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 319, [3] pages. Tables. Notes. Index. Author inscription on the fep reads: "Dear Jill, With best wishes Mike O'Hanlon". Kurt Michael Campbell (born August 27, 1957) is an American diplomat and businessman serving as the United States deputy secretary of state since 2024. He previously served as National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific from 2021 to 2024. In this capacity, Campbell had been referred to as the Biden administration's "Asia coordinator" or "Asia czar"—chief architect of Joe Biden's Asia strategy. He formerly served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs in the Obama administration. He was the chairman and CEO of The Asia Group, LLC, which he founded in February 2013. On January 20, 2021, he was appointed as the NSC Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific by Joe Biden. Michael Edward O'Hanlon (born May 16, 1961) is an American policy analyst currently serving as director of research and senior fellow of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution. He began his career as a budget analyst in the defense field. O'Hanlon predicted in early 2003 in the journal Orbis that an invasion of Iraq could lead to as many as several thousand American fatalities, a prediction also confirmed by later developments. He created Brookings' Iraq Index, a web-based resource tracking trends in the country that has been Brookings most widely viewed site this decade. Excerpts of these indices ran on a quarterly basis in the New York Times from 2004 through 2012. O'Hanlon's other areas of work include studies on defense technology issues. More
Washington DC: Cato Institute, 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xi, 258, [2] pages, Index. Inscribed to Bob Blum. Foreign policy expert Ted Galen Carpenter confronts the global challenges America faces, outlining a practical strategy that protects America's security while avoiding unnecessary and unrewarding military adventures. He looks at how U.S. forces remain mired in a nation-building mission in Iraq, while disagreements over Iraq policy and other matters have soured Washington's relations with long-time European allies. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First Edition. 395, illus., endpaper maps, index. More
Philadelphia, PA: The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1960. Presumed first edition/first printing of this issue. Wraps. [2], viii, 225, [1] p. Occasional footnotes. Index. More
Philadelphia, PA: Am Academy of Pol & Soc Sci, 1969. 24 cm, 198, index, usual library markings, some blacked over, boards somewhat worn and scuffed. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's,'s Sons, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 874, [6] pages. Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have been bestsellers. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects occasionally with co-authors, and video games. He was a part-owner of his hometown Major League Baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles of the American League, and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. Originally an insurance agent, his literary career began in 1984 when he sold his first military thriller novel The Hunt for Red October for $5,000 published by the small academic Naval Institute Press of Annapolis, Maryland. His works The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991) have been turned into commercially successful films. Tom Clancy's works also inspired games such as the Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, The Division, and Splinter Cell series. Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors. After publication, the Hunt for Red October received praise from President Ronald Reagan, who called the work "the best yarn". The book was critically praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancy meeting several high-ranking officers in the U.S. military, as well as Steve Pieczenik, and to inspiration for reoccurring characters. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1985. First Printing. 23 cm, 78, wraps, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, some soiling to covers. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1989. First Printing. 24 cm, 245, ink notation on front endpaper, substantial neat underlining & occasional highlighting, DJ worn, soiled, and small edge tears. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942. 427, endpaper maps, index, boards scuffed and soiled, edges of spine worn, ink name inside front board. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942. First Edition. 427, endpaper maps, index, some foxing ins flylves, boards & spine scuffed and stained, spine lettering faded, edges of spine worn. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 306, illus., pencil erasure residue on half-title page. More
Washington DC: Center For Strategic and International Studies, 2011. Pre-final draft? [Missing section about the authors and cover photo credits]. Comb binding, wraps. xix, [5], 3-121 pages. Illustrations. Figures. Some Red marks noted. Foreword by John J. Hamre. Authors include Jon B Alterman, Ernest Z. Bower, Victor D. Cha, Heather A. Conley, Stephen J. Flanagan, Bonnie S. Glaser, Michael J. Green, Andrew C. Kuchins, Haim Malka, and Teresita C. Schaffer. Craig Cohen is executive vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a bipartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. In this role, he serves as deputy to the president and CEO, responsible for overseeing and helping to achieve all aspects of the Center’s strategic, programmatic, operational, outreach, fundraising, and financial goals, including recruitment of new program directors to CSIS. Previously, Mr. Cohen served as vice president for research and programs, deputy chief of staff, and fellow in the International Security Program. He has served as editor of Global Forecast 2012 and Global Forecast 2011, as well as director of a project sponsored by the National Intelligence Council that produced the report Capacity and Resolve on foreign assessments of U.S. power. Mr. Cohen codirected the CSIS Commission on Smart Power in 2007 and authored A Perilous Course: U.S. Strategy and Assistance to Pakistan (CSIS, 2007). Mr. Cohen served as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School in 2006. Prior to joining CSIS, he worked with the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations in Rwanda, Azerbaijan, Malawi, and the former Yugoslavia. He received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. More
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1960. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. ix, 80 p. Department of State mass produced distribution letter laid in. Footnotes. More
Havana, Cuba: Political Publishers, 1981. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 116, [4] pages. Index. Among the topics addressed in the Index are Socioeconomic Developments, Revolutionary Armed Forces, Social Organizations, Ministry of the Interior, Union of Young Communists, Communist Party, Ideological Struggle, Foreign Policy, and Economics. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. More
Washington DC: The Johns Hopkins University, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, A Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 166 pages. Tables. Figures. Footnotes. Maps. The cover has some wear and soiling. Substantial ink markings are noted. Slightly cocked. This was produced by the Central Asia-Caucasus institute Silk Road Studies Program. Svante E. Cornell (born 1975) is a Swedish scholar specializing on politics and security issues in Eurasia, especially the South Caucasus, Turkey, and Central Asia. He is a director and co-founder of the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), and Research Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program (CACI), and joined the American Foreign Policy Council as a Senior Fellow for Eurasia in January 2017. Cornell is a co-founder and director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He is the director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a joint center run by ISDP in collaboration with the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). Cornell is also a Senior Fellow for Eurasia at AFPC. He is also the editor in Chief of the Joint Center's biweekly publications, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst and Turkey Analyst. Niklas Nilsson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Joint Center. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Government from Uppsala University, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Swedish Defence University. He has published extensively on international politics, security, and conflict in the Caucasus and the post-Soviet space. His Ph.D. Dissertation was entitled Beacon of Liberty: Role Conceptions, Crises and Stability in Georgia’s Foreign Policy, 2004-2012. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1991. 26 cm, 216, wraps, footnotes, small stain on spine. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000. 26 cm, 192, wraps, illus., maps. More
New York: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1996. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. viii, 39 p. 22 cm. Illustration. More
Chicago, Illinois: Henry Regnery Company, 1961. Revised Sixth Printing. Trade paperback. xvii, [3], 316 pages. A preferred versions as it is the first Revised printing. Some cover wear. Some page discoloration. Occasional footnotes. Book includes Introduction, Notes, Index, and Appendix. Book chapters include: Part One, Two Men and a Secret, including chapters on ''Two Men and a Secret''; Part Two covers Atlantic Charter: Platform for a War; and Part Three covers Wastebasket Road: Casablanca to Yalta. George N. Crocker (July 31, 1906 – February 20, 1970) was a United States Army officer, author, lawyer, and businessman. Crocker served as Dean of Golden Gate University School of Law from 1934 to 1941 when he resigned. Crocker was one of several critics of the New Deal and of Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy. During World War II, Crocker was an officer in the largest and longest Army court-martial resulting from the Fort Lawton Riot. Crocker's Roosevelt's Road to Russia was published by Henry Regnery Company. Generally ignored by the New York/Washington establishment, it garnered favorable reviews in the National Review, Modern Age, The Chicago Tribune, and The Boston Herald. The Council on Foreign Relations’ foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs described the book as a “blisteringly critical ... review of F.D.R.'s wartime foreign policy.” Crocker made claims that Roosevelt invariably backed Stalin and went to great lengths to hide his position from the American public. Crocker was also highly critical of Roosevelt's 1940 Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie, a former Democrat. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. Second Edition. 118, footnotes, bibliography, discoloration inside boards, pages slightly darkened, DJ worn & torn & small pieces missing. More