Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East
London: W. W. Norton, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 382, maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, index, foxing to edges, DJ edges worn: small tears/chips, front DJ flap price clipped. More
London: W. W. Norton, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 382, maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, index, foxing to edges, DJ edges worn: small tears/chips, front DJ flap price clipped. More
London: W. W. Norton, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 382, maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, index, usual library markings, some foxing to top edge, DJ edges worn: small tears/chips. More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 327, [1] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is one of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. The chapters are: The Nuclear Status of the Middle East States; The Dynamics of the Conflict: Israel's Posture of Conventional Deterrence and the Limited Relevance of a Nuclear Capability; Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East: The Consequences for Strategy and Policy; International Reactions to Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East; Management of a Nuclear Middle East; the Nuclear Dimension of the Gulf Crisis and War; and Israel's Strategic Alternatives. Yair Evron has taught international relations at the Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University and was its chairman 1987-1990. He established the graduate program on Security Studies at Tel Aviv University and was its head from 1994-1998. Prior to this he taught at Sussex University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At different times he was Visiting Professor or Visiting Fellow at the following universities: Harvard; UCLA; Cornell; Georgetown; Concordia; MIT; Oxford. He was co-director of the project on Security and Arms Control in the Middle East at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a member of the academic advisory committee and on the Board of Directors of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. Professor Evron has published extensively on international politics, strategic affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, nuclear proliferation, arms control, and international security regimes. In the 1970s he was the first Israeli scholar to research arms control in the Middle East. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. First Printing. 21 cm, 239, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn. More
Tel Aviv: "Amihai: Publishers Ltd., 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Decorative endpapers. DH has wear, soiling, scuffs, tears and chips. Text is in Hebrew English and French. Opening statement by Prime Minister Golda Meir. Also includes statements by Moshe Dayan, and David Elazar. Illustrations. Hebrew portion opens from the left side. English and French portions open conventionally from the right side. Photograph captions are in all three languages. David Faians is Vad Fayans (also used to sign under the pen names David Farr, David Avi Yair, David Avi Shira) (born in 1935) is a Hebrew poet, writer, playwright and editor, journalist and author. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. First Printing. 25 cm, 479, illus., front board shaken. More
New York: Crown, c1983. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 538, minor wear and soiling to DJ, minor soiling to edges, corner of one page folded. More
New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, [1942]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 57, illus. (some color), boards quite worn, corners rounded, spine missing, pages weak at top near spine, interior clean Early work by Howard Fast, a noted author, Communist, and radical. More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. First Harper Perennial Edition, Later printing. Trade paperback. [2], 451, [1], 16, [6] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Index. Minor wear and soiling noted. Inscribed by the author on a half-title page. Inscription reads Especially for Dorothy and Lou--Keep walking! Bruce Feiler. This is a companion volume to the highly regarded Public Broadcasting System's television series. Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey, by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel, through the greatest stories every told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's inspiring journey will forever change your view of some of history's most storied events. Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 15 books, including The Council of Dads, a book that describes how he responded to a diagnosis of a rare cancer by asking a group of men to be present in the lives of his young daughters. The book was the subject of a TED Talk and inspired NBC drama series Council of Dads. His latest work explores the power of life stories. Drawing on interviews with Americans in all 50 states, he offers strategies for coping with life's unsettling times in his new book, Life Is In The Transitions. Bruce writes the "This Life" column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler (2014). More
Washington, DC: Washington Inst/Near East, 1996. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 72, wraps, footnotes, some wear, soiling, creasing, and sticker residue to covers. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 310, [4] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Preface and Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, and Introduction, as well as Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Includes chapters on The Logic of Going Nuclear; Israeli Security and Nuclear Weapons; Israel, Nuclear Weapons, and Peace; The Risks of a Nuclear Middle East; and the Superpowers' Response to a Nuclear-Armed Israel. Also includes Epilogue, as well as Notes, Bibliography, and Index. This work examines the risks and benefits that may be involved in a possible shift of emphasis in Israel's political-military strategy-- from one dominated by principles of conventional defense--offense to one of overt nuclear deterrence. The risks and benefits that may be involved in instituting the proposed changes in Israel's strategy are examined from an Israeli viewpoint. The implications of this shift for regional and global stability are also examined because of their direct effect on Israel's security and well-being. The study revolves around three central questions. First: Will the adoption of a nuclear-deterrence posture deter the Arab states from posing strategic challenges to Israel's survival? Would such a posture ensure Israel's security? Second: To what extent would a nuclear posture deter or reduce lower levels of warfare such as limited conventional war, a war of attrition, or guerrilla warfare? To what extent would such a posture offer Israel peace? Third: What type of nuclear-deterrence posture must Israel adopt to maximize the odds of peace and security? To what extent must the posture be overt and explicit in order to be effective? More
New York: Vantage Press, c1984. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 118, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, some wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
Chicago, IL: Follett, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 429, maps, index. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 271, [3] pages. Includes introduction, 20 black and white illustrations, Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Also includes information on Independence and Expansion; The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923; Normalization to Destruction; "The Greeks": Greek Jews Beyond Greece; and Conclusion: Greek Jewish History--Greek or Jewish? This book is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews. The author describes the history of this diverse group and the processes that worked to make them emerge as a collective. It also follows Jews as they left Greece, as deportees to Auschwitz or emigres to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side. Katherine Elizabeth Fleming is the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization in the Department of History at New York University (NYU). Fleming holds a Ph.D. in History (1995) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the modern history of Greece and the broader Mediterranean context, with a focus on religious minorities. Fleming is is the second director of the Remarque Institute. In addition to her appointments at NYU, Fleming is a permanent associate member of the faculty of the department of history of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she runs a longstanding workshop on the history of the Mediterranean with the French historian of Italy, Gilles Pécout. Fleming has sat on the boards of numerous journals, among them the American Historical Review. Fleming is also President of the board of the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece. More
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, c1975. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 292, illus., DJ worn with some tears, edges soiled, few library markings, two stamps blacked over on boards. Inscribed by author. More
Springfield, VA: NTIS, 1980. quarto, 135, wraps, footnotes, figures, small rust stains on covers Contains articles on wartime operations, Soviet comments on Israeli military policy, and military discipline, among other topics. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. 416, notes on sources, glossary, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. 416 pages. Notes on Sources. Index. Some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. After a century of enmity between Jew and Arab, nearly three decades of occupation, and six years of a bloody intifada, Israeli leaders were doing the unthinkable--shaking hands with their Arab adversaries. That was in 1994! Glenn Frankel is an author, academic and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He worked for 27 years for The Washington Post, where he was bureau chief in Richmond, Virginia, Southern Africa, Jerusalem and London, and editor of The Washington Post Sunday magazine. He is the author of four books, the latest of which is High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, which was published on February 21, 2017. He served as a visiting professor of journalism at Stanford University, and later as director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. 416 pages. Notes on Sources. Index. Some tears and soiling to DJ. Inscribed, on fep, by the author to noted journalist David Shipler! After a century of enmity between Jew and Arab, nearly three decades of occupation, and six years of a bloody intifada, Israeli leaders were doing the unthinkable--shaking hands with their Arab adversaries. That was in 1994! Glenn Frankel is an author, academic and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He worked for 27 years for The Washington Post, where he was bureau chief in Richmond, Virginia, Southern Africa, Jerusalem and London, and editor of The Washington Post Sunday magazine. He is the author of four books, the latest of which is High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, which was published on February 21, 2017. He served as a visiting professor of journalism at Stanford University, and later as director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism. More
New York, NY: Random House, 1999. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, 546 pages Illustrations. A Note About Quotes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads: For Joan & David. With great gratitude for great times and loving wishes for only good times! As Ever--Max April 1999. Frankel was born in Gera, Germany. He was an only child, and his family belonged to a Jewish minority in the area. Hitler came to power when Frankel was three years old. Frankel came to the United States in 1940. He attended Columbia College, and began part-time work for The New York Times in his sophomore year. He received his BA degree in 1952 and an MA in American government from Columbia in 1953. He joined The Times as a full-time reporter in 1952. He was sent overseas in November, 1956, to help cover stories arising from the Hungarian revolution. From 1957 to 1960 he was one of two Times correspondents in Moscow. He moved to Washington in 1961, where he became diplomatic correspondent in 1963 and White House correspondent in 1966. Frankel was chief Washington correspondent and head of the Washington bureau from 1968 to 1972, then Sunday editor of The Times until 1976, editor of the editorial page from 1977 to 1986 and executive editor from 1986 to 1994. He wrote a Times Magazine column on the media from 1995 until 2000. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for coverage of Richard Nixon's trip to the People's Republic of China. Frankel is the author of the book High Noon in the Cold War – Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Cuban Missiles Crisis and, also, his memoir, The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times. More
Miami, FL: FL International University, c1991. 23 cm, 417, illus. More
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1999. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 177 pages. Illustrations. Map. Foreword by Michael Berenbaum. A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. Name of previous owner present. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. Like many other survivors, Henry Friedman has found it difficult to confront his past, but he has also felt the obligation to bear witness. Now retired, he devotes much of his time to telling his story, which he believes is a message of hope, to schoolchildren throughout the Pacific Northwest. In I'm No Hero, he confronts with unblinking honesty the pain, the shame, and the bizarre comedy of his passage to adulthood. He has received national recognition for his recollections. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. First Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xiv, 178 pages. Illustrations. Map of Poland. Minor cover wear and soiling. Small red mark on fore-edge. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: To Barbara! Keep up the noble work you are doing. Never give up Hope! Henry Friedman 2/13/10. Foreword by Michael Berenbaum. In 1939 when the Russians occupied Brody, his family lost their business and many of their private possessions. When the Nazis invaded Brody in 1941, they swiftly deprived Jews of their basic rights, forbidding Jews to attend school or teach and forcing them to wear armbands bearing the Star of David. One day in February 1942, a young woman named Julia Symchuck ran to the Friedman’s house and warned Henry's father that the Gestapo was coming for him. Thanks to Julia, Henry’s father was able to flee. In the fall of 1942, the Nazis forced the remaining Jews in the area into a ghetto in Brody. Henry, his mother, his younger brother, and their female teacher hid in a barn owned by Julia Symchuck's parents. The Friedmans remained in hiding for 18 months. In March 1944 they were liberated by the Russians. More