The Missile Crisis
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966. First Edition. 220, illus., endpaper maps, index, DJ soiled and small tears: small piece missing at top of spine. More
Robert McNamara
The Missiles of October: The Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
London: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd., 1966. First U.K. Edition. 204, illus., index, DJ soiled, worn, and small chips, ink underlining to text. More
Windows of Opportunity: From Cold War to Peaceful Competition in U.S.-Soviet Relations
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 345, index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the editor (Graham Allison). More
The Presidents' Men; White House Assistants of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1968. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, [4], 420 p.; 25 cm. Occasional footnotes. Sources. Index. More
As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the Words of Her Family and Friends
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. viii, 376 pages. Sources. Index. Name of previous owner present. Black mark on the bottom edge. DJ has some wear and soiling. More
The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. First Printing. 202, illus., tables, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, library stamps ins fr flyleaf & on front DJ, some soiling to fore-edge. More
The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. First Printing. 202, illus., tables, notes, chronology, bibliography, index, pencil notes & underlining throughout, DJ scuffed & worn: small tears. More
The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
New York: Pegasus, 1968. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 176, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, boards somewhat worn/soiled, some spine fading, compliments card laid in. More
The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
New York: Pegasus, 1968. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 176, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, name stamped on front flyleaf and edges, DJ soiled and small edge tears. More
The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
New York: Pegasus, 1968. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 176, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, small stains to edges, DJ somewhat soiled and stained: small edge chips. More
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm, 527, illus., maps, notes, index, slight wear to spine edges, ink name inside front flyleaf. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution. During 1942, he became an official of the Lend Lease program. During 1944 and 1945, he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. During 1945, Ball began collaboration with Jean Monnet and the French government in its economic recovery in its negotiations regarding the Marshall Plan. During 1950 he helped draft the Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty. Ball was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is known for his opposition to escalation of the Vietnam War. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During August 1968 at the UN Security Council, he endorsed the Czechoslovaks' struggle against the Soviet invasion and their right to live without dictatorship. During Nixon's administration, he helped draft policy proposals on the Persian Gulf. More
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982. First Edition. First Printing thus. Trade paperback. 24 cm, 527, wraps, illus., maps, notes, index, some wear to cover edges, sticker residue on rear cover. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution. During 1942, he became an official of the Lend Lease program. During 1944 and 1945, he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. During 1945, Ball began collaboration with Jean Monnet and the French government in its economic recovery in its negotiations regarding the Marshall Plan. During 1950 he helped draft the Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty. Ball was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is known for his opposition to escalation of the Vietnam War. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During August 1968 at the UN Security Council, he endorsed the Czechoslovaks' struggle against the Soviet invasion and their right to live without dictatorship. During Nixon's administration, he helped draft policy proposals on the Persian Gulf. More
The Past Has Another Pattern; Memoirs
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1982. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xii, [2], 527, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Some wear to DJ edges. George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution. During 1942, he became an official of the Lend Lease program. During 1944 and 1945, he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. During 1945, Ball began collaboration with Jean Monnet and the French government in its economic recovery in its negotiations regarding the Marshall Plan. During 1950 he helped draft the Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty. Ball was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is known for his opposition to escalation of the Vietnam War. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During August 1968 at the UN Security Council, he endorsed the Czechoslovaks' struggle against the Soviet invasion and their right to live without dictatorship. During Nixon's administration, he helped draft policy proposals on the Persian Gulf. More
Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam
New York: Norton, c1989. First Printing. 25 cm, 254, illus. More
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 816 pages. Illus., sources, notes, index, some soiling to fore-edge. Signed by the author. More
Lemnitzer: A Soldier for His Time
Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1997. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 386 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
New York: Hill and Wang, 1989. First Edition. 400, notes, chronology, index, library stamps (some crossed out in marker), damp stains to edges and boards, bd edges quite worn. More
On the Brink; Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux [The Noonday Press], 1990. Second Edition [stated]. Noonday Press edition. Trade paperback. xvi, [2], 428, [2] pages. Preface to the Second Edition. Dramatis Personae. Authors' Note. Footnotes. Notes. Chronology. Afterword. Index. Foreword by McGeorge Bundy. Professor and international security expert James G. Blight began his career as a cognitive psychologist, but a decade later had begun research on prevention of a nuclear holocaust in a world of increasing proliferation of nuclear weapons. His research led him to study the closest scenario to a nuclear war: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. He has since become an expert on the subject. David A. Welch is a CIGI senior fellow and professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. His book, Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change, was the winner of the International Studies Association ISSS Book Award and his book, Justice and the Genesis of War, won the 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Award for an outstanding contribution to national security studies. He is co-editor of Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis. More
Vietnam: The Valor and the Sorrow: From the Home Front to the Front Lines in Words and Pictures
Little Brown and Company, 1985. First edition. First editon [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. 495 p. Illustrations. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Photo Credits. Index. More
Anatomy of Error: The Inside Story of the Asian War on the Potomac, 1954-1969
Boston, MA: Gambit, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 178 pages. Index, some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
Anatomy of Error: The Inside Story of the Asian War on the Potomac, 1954-1969
Boston, MA: Gambit, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. 178, index, some wear to DJ edges, ink notation inside front flyleaf. More
Other Loyalties: A Politics of Personality
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. 331, small scratches and spots to fore-edge, DJ discolored and some edge wear: small tears, small piece missing. More
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
New York: Vintage Books, 1990. First Vintage Edition. First Printing. 735, wraps, bibliography, notes, index, highlighting & red ink notes & underlining to text, some wear to cover edges This book covers the fifty-year period from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the superpower summitry of 1988. Bundy gives particular atttention to the most dangerous confrontations of the two superpowers--Khrushchev's challenges in Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis. More
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition. Second Printing. 735, bibliography, notes, index, red marker line to fore-edge, slight soiling and small scratches to DJ. More
Megamurder
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1966. First edition. First Published stated on verso. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 288 p., 22 cm. Notes. Bibliography. Index. List of Abbreviations. DJ has some wear and soiling. The author claims that the key to survival is an awareness of what may be our alternatives for the future: disarmament, or the almost certain murder of millions in a nuclear Armageddon. This conclusion is based not on emotion or sentiment, or on a particular philosophical or political credo. It is founded on an instinct for self-preservation and built up through a hard-hitting, unsparing examination of the military facts of our time. More