Against the Tide: An Argument in Favor of the American Soldier
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1974. 287, illus., figures, tables, ftnotes, appendices, biblio, index, damp stains to text & bds, rear DJ stuck to rear bd, DJ worn. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1974. 287, illus., figures, tables, ftnotes, appendices, biblio, index, damp stains to text & bds, rear DJ stuck to rear bd, DJ worn. More
Findlay, OH: ACP Books, 1993. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. [16], 269, [3] pages. Diana M. Montague, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Communications at the University of Findlay. This book, originally written as therapy by a foot soldier, graphically displays the reality of his experience in trying to heal himself in a world of aloneness. Without the unending, loving support of his wife, children, and fellow vets, the journey back would have been impossible. More
Washington, DC: Reserve Officers Association, 2000. 31 cm, 58, wraps, illus. (many color), mailing information blacked out on rear cover, stamps on rear cover. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. 23 cm, 315. More
New York: M. Evans, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 610, illus., note on sources, appendix, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: M. Evans, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 610, illus., note on sources, appendix, index, some scratches to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1985. Second Printing. 367, illus., chronology, glossary, biographies. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1986. 1st Ballantine Edition. Pocket paperbk, 363, wraps, illus., chronology, glossary, biographies, pages somewhat darkened, binding cracked at p. 149, spine creased. More
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xxi, [3], 312 pages. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Map of European Theater, and Map of Pacific Theater. Illustrations, War's Beginning: Memories of and Reactions to 7 December 1941; War's Broadening Horizons: New Experiences, New Locations; War Experienced: Minnesotans on the Home Front; War Experienced: Military Service in Europe and in the Pacific; War's Impacts: The Human Side; War's End: 1945 as End and Beginning; and War's Legacy: Coming Back, Going Back, Reflecting Back; as well as Further Reading, List of Interviewees, and Index. Dr. Thomas Saylor is a faculty member in the Department of History at Concordia St. Paul. Saylor has a B.S. and M.A. from the University of Akron, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. Dr. Saylor works in the field of oral history and is the author or co-author of five books, including Remembering the Good War (2005), Long Hard Road: American POWs During World War II (2007) and Minnesota in the 70s (2013). He also wrote a history of Concordia during the years 1893-2018 (Leading in Legacy, 2018). Dr. Saylor has created and directed six different oral history projects and has worked with the state historical society on several initiatives. More
New York: Random House, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 352, [2] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Index. Signed by the author on a bookplate on the front free endpaper. Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, author, and philanthropist. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Starbucks Coffee Corporation for more than two decades; first from 1986 to 2000, and then from 2008 to 2017. After stepping down as CEO, Schultz stayed at the company from 2017 to 2018 as its executive chairman overseeing Starbucks's philanthropic and charitable giving arm. Born and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Schultz graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1975. Coffeehouse startup Starbucks onboarded him as their marketing and operations head in 1982. A business trip to Milan, Italy and the country's coffee culture inspired him to open Il Giornale, a specialty coffeeshop that merged with Starbucks during the late-1980s. Shultz pushed the new company to sell more than coffee beans and equipment, quickly establishing a large network of stores that served espresso, coffee, teas, and casual food. Following large-scale distribution deals–particularly with major hotels, groceries, and bookstores–Starbucks became the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. Shultz took the company public in 1992 and used a $271 million valuation to double their store count in a series of highly publicized coffee wars. He stepped down in 2000 to focus on Starbucks' international expansion. He authored three business books, Pour Your Heart Into It (1997), Onward (2011), and From the Ground Up (2019). More
New York, NY: Random House, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 352, [2] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Index. Signed by the author on a bookplate on the front free endpaper. Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, author, and philanthropist. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Starbucks Coffee Corporation for more than two decades; first from 1986 to 2000, and then from 2008 to 2017. After stepping down as CEO, Schultz stayed at the company from 2017 to 2018 as its executive chairman overseeing Starbucks's philanthropic and charitable giving arm. Born and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Schultz graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1975. Coffeehouse startup Starbucks onboarded him as their marketing and operations head in 1982. A business trip to Milan, Italy and the country's coffee culture inspired him to open Il Giornale, a specialty coffeeshop that merged with Starbucks during the late-1980s. Shultz pushed the new company to sell more than coffee beans and equipment, quickly establishing a large network of stores that served espresso, coffee, teas, and casual food. Following large-scale distribution deals – particularly with major hotels, groceries, and bookstores – Starbucks became the largest coffee-house chain in the world. Shultz took the company public in 1992 and used a $271 million valuation to double their store count in a series of highly publicized coffee wars. He stepped down in 2000 to focus on Starbucks' international expansion. He is the author of three business books, Pour Your Heart Into It (1997), Onward (2011), and From the Ground Up (2019). More
New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. 10th Anniversary Edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 415, [1] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. New Foreword by Jan C. Scruggs. Introduction by Howard K. Smith. Part One: 1985 and Beyond; Part Two: 1979-1980; Part Three: 1980-1981; Part Four: 1982 91; Part Five: November 1982, Epilogue, Roll Call of Honor, and Directory of Names. Recounts the inside story of the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and includes the names of the 58,000 Americans who lost their lives in Southeast Asia. Jan Craig Scruggs (born 1950) is a United States Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War, and later founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Scruggs was the President of the foundation until 2015, when he retired. Joel L. Swerdlow is an American author, editor, journalist, researcher, and educator. His works include To Heal a Nation: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, co-authored with Jan Scruggs, which became a 1988 NBC movie. His articles have been published in American newspapers and magazines, and international publications have translated his work into more than three dozen languages for international publication. For ten years, he worked as a Senior Writer and Assistant Editor of National Geographic Magazine, and was the lead writer for the Magazine's 1998–1999 Millennium series. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1989. Second Printing. 24 cm, 495, illus., bibliography, index, paperclip mark on several pages, pencil erasure on front endpaper, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
REGS Enterprises, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. x, 124 Pages. Illustrations. Signed and dated by the author on the fep. Sinke is a decorated veteran who did tours in Vietnam and received five Purple Hearts. THE LAW OF COMBAT, with which the book begins, was written in October, 1966 aboard the hospital ship the USS Repose, where the author was recovering from gunshot wounds. The remaining pieces in Part I were written in Vietnam from 1966 to 1971. The pieces in parts II and III were written between 1968 and 1983. THE RECONCILIATION, which concludes the book, was written the day after the dedication of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. In these writings, the author says much about war in general and about the Vietnam War in particular. He makes no attempt to disguise the lamentable aspects of that endeavor, but shows also that there were indeed redeeming facets of which both the veteran and the country have true cause to be proud. In its essence, the book obtains as a gripping portrait of the human heart in the crucible of war. More
New York: HarperCollins, c1995. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 205, front and rear DJ flaps somewhat crumpled, but complete. Black mark on bottom edge. More
New York: Random House, c1952. 29 cm, 128, wraps, pages slightly darkened, top corner p. 127 through rear cover bent, covers somewhat soiled, sm chips missing from covers. More
New York: Random House, c1952. First Printing. 29 cm, 128, wraps. Foreword by John Steinbeck. Brief biography by Debs Myers and Ralph Martin. More
New York: The Free Press, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 228 pages. Illustrations. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Contents are: The Veterans; Home Alone; Valor Transformed; Valor Denied; Valor in Protest; Valor Ignored; Valor Defended; and Our Own Buried Lives. The author of We Wrecked the Place chronicles the moving and startling tale of twenty Vietnam veterans who have remained or returned to Southeast Asia to live amid the battlefields of their youth, seeking redemption and refusing to return to a nation that cannot accept the sacrifices they made. Jonathan Stevenson is senior fellow for U.S. defense and managing editor of Survival at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He was previously professor of strategic studies at the U.S. Naval War College, and he has served as director for political-military affairs, Middle East and North Africa, on the National Security Council. He is the author of several books, including Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror and “We Wrecked the Place”: Contemplating and End to the Northern Irish Troubles. The veterans are Jim Agnew, Alan Dawson, Isreal Freedman, Izzy Freedman, Denis Gray, Eric Herter, Glenn Holdhaus, Jeff Johnson, Stan Karber, Greg Kleven, L. C. Linder, Bill Maddox, Jeff McLaury, Keith Mishne, Douglas Peterson, Pete Peterson, Ken Richter, Andre Sauvageot, Chuck Search, Mark Smith, Les Strouse, Robert Taylor, and Mac Thompson. More
Place_Pub: New York: Random House, 1984. Third Printing. 311, illus., chronology, glossary, small tears/chips to top DJ edge. Inscribed by the author. More
New Canaan, CT: Town of New Canaan, 1946. 154, v.1 only (it is not clear if this was the only volume issued), wraps, index, covers worn, stained, & soiled, rear cover chipped. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. 15, wraps. More
Washington, DC: GAO, 1999. quarto, 24, wraps, figure, tables Testimony of Joel C. Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information Systems, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives. More
Washington, DC: GAO, 1996. quarto, 9, wraps, slight soiling to covers. Statement of Mark E. Gebicke before Pres. Adv. Comm. on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, 5/1/96. More
Washington, DC: GAO, 1998. Quarto, 39, wraps, figures, tables, footnotes, glossary, appendices. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1997. First? Edition. First? Printing. 1056, wraps. More