We Are Holding the President Hostage
New York: Macmillan, c1986. First Printing. 24 cm, 199. More
New York: Macmillan, c1986. First Printing. 24 cm, 199. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 356 pages. Illus., footnotes, index, some wear/creasing DJ edges, front DJ flap price clipped. Signed by the author & his wife. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition. First Printing. 356, illus., index, slight creasing to top & bottom DJ edges, 1.5" closed tear at top DJ spine. Inscribed by the author. More
Medina, OH: Alpha Publications of Ohio, c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 248, footnotes, tables, appendices, bibliography, index, some sticker residue on DJ spine. More
Medina, OH: Alpha Publications of Ohio, c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 248, footnotes, tables, appendices, bibliography, index, small tears to top edge DJ spine. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, c1983. First Edition. 25 cm, 244, facsimiles, appendix, some wear, small tears, and small chips to DJ edges. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 171, DJ somewhat soiled. More
Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Duskin, 2004. Seventh Edition. 221, wraps, illus., index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005. Eighth Edition. 237, wraps, illus., index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Macmillan, [1974]. First Printing. 24 cm, 246, illus., index, abrasion and pencil erasure on front endpaper, book slightly cocked, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [1], 246 pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Fep has tear and small punctures at bottom. Marilyn Baker (1929-20010 covered many major stories during her long career in print and broadcast journalism. After beginning her career as a newspaper journalist, she joined KPIX-TV in San Francisco in 1974. She is best known for her award-winning investigation of the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst by the militant group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and expanded her initial reportage of the case into the book Exclusive! The Inside Story of Patricia Hearst and the SLA. Hearst, a descendant of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California apartment by the SLA in 1974. She alleged that her captors, radical leftists, then brainwashed her and forced her to denounce the capitalist "crimes" of her family. She was also forced, she claimed, to participate in a series of robberies. Hearst traveled across the country with the SLA until September 18, 1975, when she was apprehended by FBI agents in San Francisco. She went on trial and was convicted in March, 1976 of bank robbery and felonious use of firearms. She served three years of a seven-year sentence and was released in February, 1979. Baker was also involved with investigating the controversial Zebra serial murder case, when seventy-one whites in the San Francisco area were killed by black extremists between 1972 and 1974. She had a reputation as an aggressive journalist who did not shirk controversy. Her stories on guns and on Santa Cruz won local Emmy awards. More
New York: St. Martin's, c1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 356, illus., some wear and tears to DJ, review slip laid in. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 310, Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. DJ edges worn, soiled and has small tears and chips. Charles Alvin "Charlie" Beckwith (January 22, 1929 – June 13, 1994) was a career U.S. Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier asymmetrical warfare unit of the U.S. Army. He served in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of colonel before his retirement. As the 7th SFG(A) operations officer, Beckwith went to work revolutionizing Green Beret training. Beckwith recognized that, "Before a Special Forces Green Beret soldier could become a good unconventional soldier, he'd first have to be a good conventional one." Beckwith restructured 7th's training, basically rewriting the book on Army special operations training from the real-world lessons he had learned with the SAS. Beckwith also had learned that a symbol of excellence like a beret had to be earned. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 310 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Glossary. Index. Black line on bottom edge. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Harcourt Author biography press release laid in. Harcourt press release review laid in. Charles Alvin "Charlie" Beckwith (January 22, 1929 – June 13, 1994) was a career U.S. Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier asymmetrical warfare unit of the U.S. Army. He served in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of colonel before his retirement. As the 7th SFG(A) operations officer, Beckwith went to work revolutionizing Green Beret training. Beckwith recognized that, "Before a Special Forces Green Beret soldier could become a good unconventional soldier, he'd first have to be a good conventional one." Beckwith restructured 7th's training, basically rewriting the book on Army special operations training from the real-world lessons he had learned with the SAS. Beckwith also had learned that a symbol of excellence like a beret had to be earned. Donald Knox (1936–1986), an award-winning television producer and director, was the author of several books on military history, including The Korean War and Death March. Donald Knox (1936–1986), an award-winning television producer and director, was the author of several books on military history, including The Korean War and Death March. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edition [stated], first printing {stated]. Hardcover. ix, [1], 310 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Glossary. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Charles Alvin "Charlie" Beckwith (January 22, 1929 – June 13, 1994) was a career U.S. Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier asymmetrical warfare unit of the U.S. Army. He served in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of colonel before his retirement. As the 7th SFG(A) operations officer, Beckwith went to work revolutionizing Green Beret training. Beckwith recognized that, "Before a Special Forces Green Beret soldier could become a good unconventional soldier, he'd first have to be a good conventional one." Beckwith restructured 7th's training, basically rewriting the book on Army special operations training from the real-world lessons he had learned with the SAS. Beckwith also had learned that a symbol of excellence like a beret had to be earned. Donald Knox (1936–1986), an award-winning television producer and director, was the author of several books on military history, including The Korean War and Death March. Donald Knox (1936–1986), an award-winning television producer and director, was the author of several books on military history, including The Korean War and Death March. The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta (1st SFOD-D), referred to variously as Delta Force, Combat Applications Group (CAG), Army Compartmented Elements (ACE), or within Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Task Force Green, is a special operations force of the United States Army. More
New York: Avon Books, 2000. First Avon Edition. Fourth Printing. pocket paperbk, 365, wraps, maps, glossary, index, slight waviness to some pages, spine creased, some wear and small creases to cover edges The U.S. counter-terrorist unit and the Iran hostage rescue mission. More
New York: Delacorte Press, c1977. 1st Delacorte Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 346, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, scuffed, and chipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, c1988. Second Printing. 25 cm, 520, illus., bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, minor soiling to edges. More
New York: Congdon & Weed, c1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 172, illus., bookplate inside front flyleaf, several pages and DJ warped. More
Place_Pub: New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 303, illus., notes. Foreword by Connor Cruise O'Brien. More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2012. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [14], 638 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Slight J wars. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Lenny - all the Best! David Crist". David Crist is currently a historian for the federal government. As a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, he served in the first gulf war and made two tours with elite special operations forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He lives in Maryland. Derived from a 2012 New York Times book review By Karim Sadjadpour: For the United States and Iran the 1979 Iranian revolution — which replaced an American-allied monarchy with a virulently anti-American theocracy — has proved to be the geopolitical divorce from hell. For over three decades, as the two sides have engaged in an ugly battle for patronage over a volatile Middle East, Washington has hoped in vain that Tehran would change its ways. “The Twilight War,” David Crist’s painstakingly researched and elegantly written account of the United States-Iran cold war, is an earnest chronicle of this shadowy history. Mr. Crist’s position as a government historian and adviser to the United States Central Command, which oversees all American combat forces in the Middle East and which his father used to lead, has afforded him unique access to government officials and classified intelligence. Nonetheless he proves himself a dispassionate narrator. While no apologist for the Iranian regime, Mr. Crist pulls no punches in pointing out America’s strategic and sometimes moral failings in dealing with Iran. The Twilight War adds vital new depth to our understanding of this acute dilemma it is also a thrillingly engrossing read. More
Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, LTD., 1918. Wraps. ix, [1], 105, [1] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. Name in ink at top of front cover. This collection of texts and documents was previously published in June 1915 under the title Belgium and Germany. The reader will find here, grouped in four sections, about fifty posters, few of which had yet been published. They were all posted up in Belgium during the first year of the war. Opposite some of the photographs are a series of German or Belgian document. The juxtaposition was felt sufficient to tell its own story. Henri François Julien Claude, viscount Davignon (Sint-Joost-ten-Node, 3 December 1854 - Nice, 12 March 1916) was a Belgian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1907-1916). In 1907 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, a post he kept in the following governments of Schollaert (1907-1911) and de Broqueville (1911-1916). At the start of the First World War he received the German ultimatum, demanding free passage through Belgium. More
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1915. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. [2], 132 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Front cover has map of Germany and Belgium. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine has wear and tears. Texts in English, French, German, and Belgian. Based on 'A Word to the Reader.' We have collected a certain number of texts, facsimiles and other photographs of such a nature as to give an accurate picture of the heroic but deplorable situation of Belgium in the present war....It is not our purpose here, to reply to the systematic propaganda which has been carried on in neutral countries with an energy which is sufficient in itself to condemn it. Nothing is more convincing than the naked truth, and in the case of Belgium, the truth appears in a triple light....The reader will find, first of all, in the following pages, the story of Belgium's claim to independence...We shall next see in what manner Belgium met the threats and actual violation of her rights...Finally, by the contemplation of a long succession of appalling occurrences, we shall know by what systematic cruelty, injustice, and violation of the laws of war and of humanity itself, the aggressor has places a prosperous country under his yoke. The texts which have been reproduced speak for themselves, and may be verified in the historical and juridical works from which they have been collected, or in the newspapers of neutral or hostile countries which have called our attention to them...[and] enable the reader to realize the enormous extent of the damage inflicted on the victims of the invasion. Henri Davignon 1879-1964 was a noted Belgium author. More
New York: Facts on File Publications, c1987. First Printing. 24 cm, 356, chronology, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More