The Reader's Digest: May, 1946: Volume 48, Number 289
Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1946. Wraps. 168 p. More
Veterans
Readers Digest: May, 1940: Volume 36, No. 217
Pleasantville, NY: Readers Digest Association, Inc., 1940. Wraps. 192 p. More
Chained Eagle
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 308, illus., p. 33 creased. More
Chained Eagle
New York: Dell Publishing, 1991. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 354, wraps, illus., slight wear to cover edges Lt. Alvarez was a POW for eight and a half years in North Vietnam. More
American Heritage, Volume XIV, Number 4, June 1963
New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1963. 29 cm, 112, illus. (some color), boards soiled. More
Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. First pbk. printing [stated]. Trade paperback. x, 365 p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
When the War Came Home: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind
New York: Continuum, 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 237 p. Index. More
Black Confederates
Gretna, LA: Pelican, 2004. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [8], 191, [9] pages. Footnotes (Bibliographical References). Contributors. Index. Signed with sentiment by Barrow on half-title Barrow's business card laid in. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Contains correspondence, military records, and reminiscences from brave men who served what they considered their country. The author's desire was to research and write about black Confederates in order to educate people about an aspect of Southern history that has long been overlooked by historians. By enlightening people about this type of Confederate involvement, he hopes to prevent critics from attacking the Southern heritage. It is a legacy shared by all Southerners, regardless of their skin color. This volume reflects an effort to restore some accuracy to the historical record with regard to black soldiers who fought for the Confederacy. Through correspondence, military records, narrative reminiscences, and newspaper accounts from these brave men who served what they considered their country, we hope to discover not only that they did fight, but also how they fought to restore honor to the fallen among them. More
When Dreams Came True; The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America
Washington DC: Brassey's, 1996. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 336 pages. Notes. Index. Inscription signed by author on fep. One sheet of related ephemera laid in. Printing defect on page 195/6 with loss of some margin material. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Based on a Kirkus review: The GI Bill loosed forces that helped to transform America from the working-class, largely agricultural society into a largely middle-class society. Bennett, a former reporter, begins by tracing the origins of the bill and the fight to make it law in 1944. The American Legion was particularly influential: Members who had fought in WW I remembered the shabby treatment they had received when they came home. The meat, or the soul, of the book is Bennett's study of the ways in which the law helped transform postwar American life. It provided opportunities for education unavailable to previous generations, as well as low- priced home mortgages. GIs, most of them from the urban and rural working class, stormed college campuses in record numbers, raised student performance levels, and shook up the college culture. Millions of erstwhile blue-collar, rent-paying workers turned into professionals of every calling, as well as prosperous, skilled entrepreneurs and home-owners. GIs used the money they got to do vital if seemingly ordinary things and in the process created a more abundant and egalitarian society. The total postwar cost of $14.5 billion was an investment that returned manyfold more in revenue as veterans earned more and paid more taxes. Bennett believes that the GI Bill was the most successful government program since the Homestead Act. More
Pilot bails out
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1943. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 85 p. : ill., 19 cm. Illustrations. More
The Vietnam Veteran: A History of Neglect
New York: Praeger, 1986. 200, illus., chapter notes, index, red and blue ink underlining to text. More
Casualties: Death in Viet Nam, Anguish and Survival in America
New York: St. Martin's Press, c1984. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 357, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Alan Cranston. More
Contingent Ditties and Other Soldier Songs of the Great War
London: S. Low, Marston, 1915. First? Edition. First? Printing. 18 cm, 79, DJ worn, separated, and pieces missing. Some poems first appeared in The Ottawa Citizen or other journals. More
Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters---And One Man's Search to Find Them
New York: Scribner, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 501 p. Illustrations. Editor's NOte. Index. More
Service, Sacrifice, Loyalty: Guarding Freedom's Flame
n.p. Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1992. First Edition. First? Printing. pocket paperbk, 114, wraps, some wear and soiling, tear at cover edge and several following pages. More
The Costs of the World War to the American People
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1931. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 316, tables (1 fold-out), diagrams, usual library markings, front board weak. More
Putting Customers First '95: Standards for Serving the American People
Washington, DC: GPO, [1995]. 28 cm, 232, wraps, index. More
The Proud: Inside the Marine Corps
New York: W. Morrow, c1992. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 282, illus., slight wear and sticker residue to DJ. More
Coming Home: A Novel
New York: Viking Press, 1945. Book Club Edition. 21 cm, 378, DJ fragment present. A Marine's adjustment to civilian life after service in World War II. More
Uneasy Warriors; Come Back Home: The Perilous Journey of the Green Berets
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1],185, [1] pages. Illustrations. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Vince Coppola's journalistic career spans more than 30 years; he spent ten of those years at Newsweek. Coppola was lead reporter in Newsweek's early coverage of the AIDS epidemic, the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, and the Atlanta child murders. Coppola has written four non-fiction books, including Uneasy Warriors: The Perilous Journey of the Green Berets. He is an award-winning writer who has written feature stories for magazines including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Atlanta. Coppola was selected by former U.S. Attorney General Griffin B. Bell to write The Sicilian Judge, a biography of U.S. District Judge Anthony A. Alaimo. Alaimo, who immigrated to the United States as a child, served in World War II as a bomber pilot, was shot down, imprisoned for two years in the infamous German POW camp, Stalag Luft III. He took part in the Great Escape and later escaped the Nazis on his own. More
King Legion
New York: J. Cape & H. Smith, [1931]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 330, illus., index, some wear and soiling to boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Printing. 324, appendix, notes, index, stamps on fore-edge, DJ slightly soiled and some wear to edges. More
For Self and Country: For the Wounded in Vietnam the Journey Home Took More Courage than Going into Battle. A True Story
New York: W. Morrow, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 304, illus., some underlining and notes in the first part of the book, DJ worn and soiled, ink mark on DJ flap True story of a young Marine lance corporal severely wounded in Vietnam. More