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Trade paperback. Thorp, Gene (Maps) (illustrator). Glued binding. xv, [7], 681, [1] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Sources. Index. From Wikipedia: "Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 16, 1952 in Munich) is an American author who has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism. After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing Military history. His six books include narrative accounts of four different American wars. His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100, 000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. As a result of his time with Gen. Petraeus and the 101st Airborne, Atkinson also wrote In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. Atkinson was the lead essayist in Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery, published by the National Geographic Society in 2007." Very good. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Reprint. First Owl Books Edition. Third printing [stated].

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Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). Later printing. xxii, 681 pages. Maps. Allied Chain of Command, Notes. Sources. Index. Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author and journalist. After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing military history. His eight books include narrative accounts of five different American wars. He has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism. His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 19421943 is a Pulitzer Prizewinning book written in 2002 by long-time Washington Post correspondent Rick Atkinson. The book is a history of the North African Campaign, particularly focused on the role of the United States military. The book follows the early planning stages of the Allied invasion (Operation Torch) of North Africa, the landings in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers, and finally the back and forth struggle for dominance in Tunisia. Atkinson constructs his narrative from letters, newspaper articles, and personal diaries of commanders, soldiers, and others on the ground in northern Africa. The book discusses the battlefield failings and successes of American troops and their commanders and the larger context of the burgeoning cooperation between the Allied forces in World War II. The book received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History. An Army at Dawn is the first volume of The Liberation Trilogy. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 19431944, published in 2007, is the second volume. The third and final volume, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 19441945, was released on May 14, 2013.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (Map), Patrick Leger (Jacket illustrati (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. [10], 388, [2] pages. Map. Notes. Yangsze Choo is a Malaysian writer of Chinese descent, whose novel The Night Tiger was selected as one of 70 works in the Big Jubilee Read, a campaign to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Choo was born in the Philippines, to a Malaysian family of Chinese descent. Her father was a diplomat and the family moved frequently, so she spent her formative years in Thailand, Germany, Japan and Singapore. She attended Harvard University and subsequently worked as a management consultant. She began to write after leaving management consultancy to focus on her family, often writing at night. Her first novel The Ghost Bride took three years to write. It is a fantasy novel, based on the practice of ghost marriage and drawing on Chinese mythology to create its world. It became a New York Times best seller, and was selected as a Best Book by Oprahdotcom. It later formed the basis of the Netflix-original series The Ghost Bride, which was co-directed by Malaysian directors Quek Shio-chuan and Ho Yu-hang. It starred Huang Pei-jia, Wu Kang-jen, Ludi Lin, and Kuang Tian. Her second novel, The Night Tiger took four years to write. It is set in 1931 in Malaya, then part of the British Empire, and addresses the Malaysian myth of the weretiger. It was selected as one of 70 works in the Big Jubilee Read, a campaign to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The Fox Wife was longlisted in 2025 for the International Dublin Literary Award. The rich Asian tradition of fox folklore provides the backdrop for Choo's complex and atmospheric tale of identity and discovery set in early 1900s Manchuria. Snow (later also referred to as Ah San) narrates the story of her search for a shadowy figurethe photographer Bektu Nikanduring the waning days of the Qing dynasty. She crosses Manchuria and travels to Japan in her efforts to locate the man she believes is responsible for the death of her very young daughter. Snow's slow reveal of her trek and travails is often whimsical or wry and is particularly informative about the habits and practices of the shape-shifting foxes who are believed to appear in human form. Quite reasonably, this knowledge is derived from Snow's own experiencesas a fox. Running on an eventual collision course is the slowly evolving story of a private investigator, the aging Bao, whose initial assignment is to determine the identity of a woman whose body was found frozen and dead outside a restaurant. As he follows the scant clues in that case, he becomes more and more enmeshed in circumstances that lead him into the orbit of Snow and her growing posse of humans and foxes. (Events in Bao's early childhood have encouraged his belief in the presence of human-seeming foxes and have also left him with the personally and professionally helpful ability to discern when a lie is being told.) As the circuitous and alternating stories unfold and begin to converge, coincidence and historical events play out. Snow's difficulties as both a fox and a young woman in a man's world are clearly drawn, as is the pathos of Bao's situation as a gentle soul who's always been in search of something or someone. An intriguing vulpine mystery worth the suspension of disbelief.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Nicole Larouche (Photo Insert), Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). Fourth Printing [stated]. xiv, 482 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. This definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war--and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it--draws on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants. The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster. Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, the Balkans, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of four nonfiction books: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, and Making the Corps. The main points of this hard-hitting indictment of the Iraq war have been made before, but seldom with such compelling specificity. In dovetailing critiques of the civilian and military leadership, Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Ricks (Making the Corps) contends that, under Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith, the Pentagon concocted "the worst war plan in American history," with insufficient troops and no thought for the invasion's aftermath. Thus, an under-manned, unprepared U.S. military stood by as chaos and insurgency took root, then responded with heavy-handed tactics that brutalized and alienated Iraqis. Based on extensive interviews with American soldiers and officers as well as firsthand reportage, Ricks's detailed, unsparing account of the occupation paints a woeful panorama of reckless firepower, mass arrests, humiliating home invasions, hostage-taking and abuse of detainees. It holds individual commanders to account, from top generals Tommy Franks and Ricardo Sanchez on down. The author's conviction that a proper hearts-and-minds counterinsurgency strategy might have salvaged the debacle is perhaps naive, and pays too little heed to the intractable ethnic conflicts underlying what is by now a full-blown civil war. Still, Ricks's solid reporting, deep knowledge of the American military and willingness to name names make this perhaps the most complete, incisive analysis yet of the Iraq quagmire.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). First edition. First printing [stated]. xvii, 572 pages. Illustrations. Cast of Characters. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. David Maraniss (born 1949) is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for The Washington Post. The Washington Post assigned Maraniss the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama. Maraniss and wife Linda live in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin. His son, Andrew Maraniss is also an author and has been on the New York Times best-seller list in 2015. Maraniss has written or co-authored numerous books, most of which are biographies of politicians or athletes, and all of which were published by Simon & Schuster. In this Vietnam War-era history, journalist David Maraniss reports on two out-of-control events that provide a window into the American experience of those times. On October 17, 1967, a squad of American soldiers was ambushed while on routine patrol, resulting in the loss of over 50 lives. On the next day, in Madison, Wisconsin, a student demonstration against Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of napalm, ended in violence, injuring students and police. Maraniss crafts his portraits of the soldiers in the Black Lions rifle squad with care, especially their leader Clark Welch. In his sections on the University of Wisconsin, he captures the feel of campus life. Maraniss reports on the investigations that followed both, and his writing is supported by his prodigious research into sources not available at the time. Maraniss's book illustrates the sentiment expressed back then that there were, indeed, two fronts to the Vietnam War: the war at home and the war abroad.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (Map) (illustrator). x, [4], 575, [3] pages. Illustrations. Abbreviations in Notes. Endnotes. Index. David Emanuel Hoffman is an American writer and journalist, a contributing editor to The Washington Post. He came to Washington D.C. in 1977 to work for the Capitol Hill News Service. In May 1982, he joined The Washington Post and covered the George H. W. Bush presidency. His White House coverage won three national journalism awards. He became Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post in 1992. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow bureau chief, and later as foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2010 for his second book, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy. The Prize citation termed it "a well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind." Derived from a Kirkus review: This penetrating look at the history of the Cold War. One of its aspects was the notion that the Soviet military created "Dead Hand," a missile system that led to further assumptions that the civilian leadership and military command system were dead and gone. The Soviet brass, writes Washington Post reporter Hoffman, tried to push through a computer-loop design by which the machines would decide when to unleash hell without human intervention. One of the many virtues of Hoffman's book is that it depicts not just the death-tainted hand of the military-industrial complex in the United States, but also in the Soviet Union, where supposed strongmen like Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov had considerable trouble keeping the warmongers under control. Indeed, readers will realize how lucky we are to have escaped being destroyed at their hands. A compendium of discomfiting, implication-heavy facts, of particular interest to students of geopolitics. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Thorp, Gene (Maps) (illustrator). First edition. First printing [stated]. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [20], 394, [2] pages. Illustrations (black & white). Maps. Cast of Characters. Notes. Index. Signed by author. Signed by author sticker on front of DJ. Signed on title page. From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq (2006), its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today (2012), the novel A Soldier's Duty (2001), and Making the Corps (1997). He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 is a 2009 book by journalist Thomas E. Ricks about the Iraq War. It covers the 2006-2008 period where his last book Fiasco left off. A primary focus is the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, along with the ascension to command of Gen. David Petraeus and the change in approach of Gen. Ray Odierno towards the use of counter-insurgency strategies.[1] Ricks believes that the troop surge was successful in reducing violence in Iraq and "reviv[ing] American prospects in the war," but that it was a failure based on its initial goal of bringing about a political reconciliation in Iraq. Ricks also predicted that the US will have combat troops in Iraq until at least 2015. The last combat troops left with the war's end in December 2011, only to return three years later during the American-led intervention in Iraq (2014-present).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. 482 pages. Illus., maps, notes, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ, slight edge soiling. Signed by the author. Signed by the author. From Wikipedia: "Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq (2006), its follow-up The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (2009), The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today (2012), the novel A Soldier's Duty (2001), and Making the Corps (1997). He was a military correspondent at the Washington Post (2000-2008). This definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war--and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it--draws on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants. The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster.

Zustand: New. The discovery of Robert E. Lee s Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. This work proposes a rich, new interpretation of the fate and im.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. This work proposes a rich, new interpretation of the fate and impact of the Lost Orders on the history of the 1862 Maryland Campaign.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). Third printing [stated]. xxiii, [1], 641, [5] pages. Illustrations. Coda. Notes. bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. David Maraniss (born 1949) is an American journalist and author, who has served as an associate editor for The Washington Post. From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him. In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insights and revealing information, a masterly narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, including with President Obama in the Oval Office, and a trove of letters, journals, diaries, and other documents. The book unfolds in the small towns of Kansas and the remote villages of western Kenya, following the personal struggles of Obama's white and black ancestors through the swirl of the twentieth century. It is a roots story on a global scale, a saga of constant movement, frustration and accomplishment, strong women and weak men, hopes lost and deferred, people leaving and being left. Disparate family threads converge in the climactic chapters as Obama reaches adulthood and travels from Honolulu to Los Angeles to New York and beyond. Derived from a Kirkus review: An exhaustive, respectful study of the president's "shattered genealogy," from Kansas to Kenya, Hawaii to Indonesia. Washington Post associate editor Maraniss painstakingly constructs a sensible, solid grounding beneath the mythology of President Obama. However, note that Obama only reaches age 27 in this long biography. Accepted to Harvard Law School, his political future "still amorphous but taking shape," he resolved finally to visit the land of his absent father, Kenya, and make sense of his African heritage. Maraniss has certainly done his homework, delving both into the original Kansas Dunham clan, marked by the suicide by poisoning of Obama's great-grandmother Ruth Dunham, in 1926, and the prideful rise and tortured demise of Obama's father and namesake, the Harvard-educated economist who was undone by hubris and alcoholism. Considering the many tangled strands of Obama's story, it is extraordinary that he did not lose himself. His hardworking mother and her Kansan parents, Stanley and Madelyn, embraced the biracial grandson unconditionally, shielding him from the bigotry of the era by entertaining the tale that he descended from Hawaiian royalty. Maraniss' portrayal of Barack Obama senior, from astute political mind to abusive husband and self-destructive drinker, is masterful and moving, while the son emerges very gradually from the cocoon of his elite Honolulu boarding school to grasp his identity as an African-American young man at Occidental College and then Columbia in the 1980s. Maraniss stresses that Obama's Muslim ancestors encompass only one facet to his complex, fascinating makeup. Another in the author's line of authoritative biographies.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). Seventh printing [stated]. xxvii, [1] 572, [8] pages. Some cover wear. Inscribed by the author on the fep. The inscription reads To Ben Steinberg with best wishes to a fellow Badger! David Maraniss November 18 2003. Illustrations. Cast of Characters. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. David Maraniss (born August 6, 1949) is an award- winning journalist and author, who was an associate editor for The Washington Post. Maraniss is the author of numerous books, ranging from politics to sports. He has written books on Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente and on Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. For The Washington Post, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993, for his "revealing articles on the life and political records" of Bill Clinton, then a presidential candidate. His biography Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe received critical acclaim. The book centers around the Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest at the University of WisconsinMadison and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. In this Vietnam War-era history, Maraniss reports on two out-of-control events that provide a window into the American experience of those times. On October 17, 1967, a squad of American soldiers was ambushed while on routine patrol, resulting in the loss of over 50 lives. On the next day, in Madison, Wisconsin, a student demonstration against Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of napalm, ended in violence, injuring students and police. Maraniss crafts his portraits of the soldiers in the Black Lions rifle squad with care, especially their leader Clark Welch. In his sections on the University of Wisconsin, he captures the feel of campus life. Maraniss reports on the investigations that followed both, and his writing is supported by his prodigious research into sources. Maraniss's book illustrates the sentiment expressed back then that there were, indeed, two fronts to the Vietnam War: the war at home and the war abroad. Derived from a Kirkus review: A sprawling, vivid, and hard-to-put-down account of a mere two days in the fall of 1967, a time of two fierce battles: one in South Vietnam, the other in Wisconsin. The real saber-wielders, led by the noted soldier Terry Allen Jr., were busily killing and being killed in a ferocious battle 45 miles northwest of Saigon; some, even as early as 1967, had lost spouses and friends to the antiwar movement, which was gathering strength at the Madison campus, battling such hated symbols of the war as the Dow Chemical company and Lyndon B. Johnson. "There was an emerging awareness," writes Maraniss of the antiwar activists, "that everything that had been tried to stop the war to that point had failed," and, now toughened by tear gas and nightsticks, they were ready for the fight they got on the streets of Madison. Off in Vietnam, for their part, the soldiers of the tough-as-nails Black Lions unit were finding a vicious fight of their ownand compromised in that struggle by the leaders, or so many of the surviving soldiers felt. Both battles wrought terrible scars that have still not healed, and Maraniss's careful narrative shows just why that should be so. Extraordinary, and likely to become a standard in courses devoted to the history of the Vietnam War.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). First printing [stated]. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [1], 464 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Photo Credits. Signed with sentiment [with best regards] by author on the half title page. Stanley Allen McChrystal (born August 14, 1954) is a retired U. S. Army general best known for his command of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the mid-2000s. His last assignment was as Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A). He previously served as Commander of JSOC from 2003 to 2008, where he was credited with the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. McChrystal was reportedly known for saying and thinking what other military leaders were afraid to. He held the post from June 15, 2009, to June 23, 2010. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates described McChrystal as "perhaps the finest warrior and leader of men in combat I ever met." "Never shall I fail my comrades.I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some." "--from the Ranger Creed" "In early March 2010, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, walked with President Hamid Karzai through a small rural bazaar. As Afghan townspeople crowded around them, a Taliban rocket loudly thudded into the ground some distance away. Karzai looked to McChrystal, who shrugged. The two leaders continued greeting the townspeople and listening to their views. That trip was typical of McChrystal's entire career, from his first day as a West Point plebe to his last day as a four-star general. The values he has come to be widely admired for were evident: a hunger to know the truth on the ground, the courage to find it, and the humility to listen to those around him. McChrystal stationed himself forward, and frequently went on patrols with his troops to experience their challenges firsthand. In this memoir, McChrystal frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his career. He delves candidly into the intersection of history, leadership, and his own experience to produce a book of enduring value. McChrystal witnessed and participated in some of our military's most difficult struggles. He describes the many outstanding leaders he served with and the handful of bad leaders he learned not to emulate. He paints a vivid portrait of the traditional military establishment that turned itself, in one generation, into the adaptive, resilient force that would soon be tested in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wider War on Terror. McChrystal spent much of his early career in the world of special operations, at a time when these elite forces became increasingly effective--and necessary. He writes of a fight waged in the shadows by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which he led from 2003 to 2008. Over time, JSOC gathered staggering amounts of intelligence in order to find and remove the most influential and dangerous terrorists, including the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. McChrystal brought the same energy to the war in Afghanistan, where the challenges loomed even larger. His revealing account draws on his close relationships with Afghan leaders, giving readers a unique window into the war and the country. Ultimately, "My Share of the Task "is about much more than war and peace, terrorism and counterinsurgency.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator). Seventh printing [stated]. xxvii, [1] 572, [8] pages. Some cover wear. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The inscription reads To Cindy with best wishes--David Maraniss. Illustrations. Cast of Characters. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. David Maraniss (born August 6, 1949) is an award- winning journalist and author, who was an associate editor for The Washington Post. Maraniss is the author of numerous books, ranging from politics to sports. He has written books on Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, the 1960 Summer Olympics, and on Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Maraniss began his career as reporter at The Capital Times in Madison, and later worked at the Trenton Times. For The Washington Post, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993, for his "revealing articles on the life and political records" of Bill Clinton, then a presidential candidate. He was also assigned the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate, Barack Obama. In 2022, Maraniss published his biography Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, which received critical acclaim for its in-depth portrayal of the legendary athlete. Continuing his involvement in journalism and academia, Maraniss returned to Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2024 as a distinguished visiting professor, co-teaching courses on political biography and sports and society. He also served as a member of the jury for the 2025 Plutarch Award, presented by the Biographers International Organization. In addition to his teaching and writing, Maraniss remains active in journalism. The book centers around the Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest at the University of WisconsinMadison and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. The 2005 documentary film Two Days in October is based on the book and aired as part of the PBS series American Experience, winning a Peabody Award. In this Vietnam War-era history, journalist David Maraniss reports on two out-of-control events that provide a window into the American experience of those times. On October 17, 1967, a squad of American soldiers was ambushed while on routine patrol, resulting in the loss of over 50 lives. On the next day, in Madison, Wisconsin, a student demonstration against Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of napalm, ended in violence, injuring students and police. Maraniss crafts his portraits of the soldiers in the Black Lions rifle squad with care, especially their leader Clark Welch. In his sections on the University of Wisconsin, he captures the feel of campus life. Maraniss reports on the investigations that followed both, and his writing is supported by his prodigious research into sources not available at the time. Maraniss's book illustrates the sentiment expressed back then that there were, indeed, two fronts to the Vietnam War: the war at home and the war abroad. Derived from a Kirkus review: A sprawling, vivid, and hard-to-put-down account of a mere two days in the fall of 1967, a time of two fierce battles: one in South Vietnam, the other in Wisconsin. Washington Post reporter Maraniss probably wasn't thinking of James Michener when he set this epic down to paper, but the project certainly has a Michener-esque feel, with its huge cast of characters acting out in the face of great historical forces beyond their control. Maraniss is the more engaging writer, though, and he does a superb job of relating dozens of interwoven but distinct stories in which the obscure and the famous meet. In the Cs alone, for instance, there are William Coleman, a commander; Joe Costello, a grenadier; and Doug Cron, a riflemanbut also activist and actor Peter Coyote, US attorney general Ramsey Clark and his assistant Warren Christopher, and current US Vice President Dick Cheney. The latter, by Maraniss's account, was busy avoiding the draft at the University of Wisconsin on those bright October days, though he would go on to rattle more than a few sabers. Meanwhile, the real saber-wielders, led by the noted soldier Terry Allen Jr., were busily killing and being killed in a ferocious battle 45 miles northwest of Saigon; some, even as early as 1967, had lost spouses and friends to the antiwar movement, which was gathering strength at the Madison campus, battling such hated symbols of the war as the Dow Chemical company and Lyndon B. Johnson. "There was an emerging awareness," writes Maraniss of the antiwar activists, "that everything that had been tried to stop the war to that point had failed," and, now toughened by tear gas and nightsticks, they were ready for the fight they got on the streets of Madison. Off in Vietnam, for their part, the soldiers of the tough-as-nails Black Lions unit were finding a vicious fight of their ownand compromised in that struggle by the leaders, or so many of the surviving soldiers felt. Both battles wrought terrible scars that have still not healed, and Maraniss's careful narrative shows just why that should be so. Extraordinary, and likely to become a standard in courses devoted to the history of the Vietnam War.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Gene Thorp (maps) (illustrator). xiii, [1], 346, [4] pages. Foreword by Sara Bloomfield. Illustrations. Family Trees, Note on Sources. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Henry, with best wishes, Michael Dobbs. Michael Dobbs (born 27 July 1950) is a British-American non-fiction author and journalist. Dobbs was born in Belfast and became a U.S. citizen in 2010. Dobbs spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the collapse of communism. He was the first Western reporter to visit the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980; he also covered the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989, the abortive coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He joined The Washington Post in 1980. In Washington, he worked for the Post as a United States Department of State reporter and as a foreign investigative reporter, covering the Dayton peace process. Dobbs is the author of the "Cold War trilogy", a series of books about the climactic moments of the Cold War. His Down with Big Brother: The Fall of The Soviet Empire was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for nonfiction. His hour-by-hour study of the Cuban Missile Crisis, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, was a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times history prize and was named one of five non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post. The final book in the trilogy, Six Months in 1945: From World War to Cold War, describes the division of Europe into American and Soviet spheres of influence after World War II. The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between won the Jewish Book Club Award for Holocaust Studies. It tells the story of Jewish families desperately seeking American visas to escape Nazi Germany during the years leading up to the Holocaust. This was published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany. "What's most chilling about Dobbs's book is how his account of the early years of World War II echoes our politics today. Xenophobia, isolationism, a fear of destructive infiltrators and an aversion to more war all conspired to keep refugee quotas low, when they were filled at all.Dobbs's book provides a glimpse of how we may be judged by future generations." --Anna Altman, The New York Times Book Review. In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that "a piece of paper with a stamp on it" was "the difference between life and death." The Unwanted is the intimate account of a small village on the edge of the Black Forest whose Jewish families desperately pursued American visas to flee the Nazis. Battling formidable bureaucratic obstacles, some make it to the United States while others are unable to obtain the necessary documents. Some are murdered in Auschwitz, their applications for American visas still "pending." Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, interviews, and visa records, Michael Dobbs provides an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. He describes the deportation of German Jews to France in October 1940, along with their continuing quest for American visas. And he re-creates the heated debates among U.S. officials over whether or not to admit refugees amid growing concerns about "fifth columnists," at a time when the American public was deeply isolationist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic. A Holocaust story that is both German and American, The Unwanted vividly captures the experiences of a small community struggling to survive amid tumultuous world events. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.