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Trade paperback. Ward, Jeffrey (Maps) (illustrator). First printing [stated]. xvii, 526 p. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. This is one of the Penguin History of the United States series. "American Colonies" starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15, 000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived. Dropping the usual Anglo centric description of North America's fate, Taylor brilliantly conveys the far more vivid and startling story of the competing interests-Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian-that over the centuries shaped and reshaped both the continent and its 'suburbs' in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It is one of the greatest of all human stories. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

Green Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Photographic Plates And 2 Folding Maps (illustrator). First Edition / First Issue. Xii, 292 + 3 Pp Ad At Rear. Green Cloth Stamped In White, With Mounted Photographic Plate. First Issue, With This Title Last (As Number 18) In List Of Books Published By The Young People's Missionary Movement, Catalogue At End Of Book. Both Maps Present.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). xxiii, [1], 373, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. A Note to the Reader. Index. DJ has some edge wear. Writing in ink on fep. John F. Ross is an American historian and author. He is the recipient of the 2011 Fort Ticonderoga Award for Contributions to American History. The author of over 200 articles, Ross' works have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, and the Washington Post. Ross is the former Executive Editor of American Heritage and has served on the Board of Editors at Smithsonian Magazine. His book Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed (St. Martin's Press, 2014) tells the true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace during World War I. Ross details how Rickenbacker overcame class hostility and a lack of formal education, pushing redefining the nature of speed in American society to become one of America's greatest race car drivers and pilots. Derived from a Kirkus review: Energetic look at the World War I ace's early exploits through the prism of exciting modern changes in America. In his passionate biography, Ross finds in Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) a subject as brash, unassuming and heroic as the young American nation at the turn of the 20th century. The author admires the fact that the son of poor Swiss immigrants had so much going against him in the early years and overcame the obstacles through sheer hard work and determination. Rickenbacker adored mechanical tinkering and invention and parlayed his work in a machine shop into becoming "mechanician" at the Oscar Lear Automobile Company, racing state-of-the-art Frayer-Millers. With the United States propelled into the European war in 1917, Rickenbacker talked his way past bigotry against German-Americans, his lack of education and an eye injury and began flying lessons at Tours Aerodrome, essentially teaching himself in the fragile Nieuports that the Germans outclassed in their mightier Albatroses. Aerial dogfights provided plenty of sobering danger and led to the deaths of many of his closest colleagues. In a few short months, Rickenbacker, with 26 kills, was a national hero. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Trade paperback. Ward, Jeffrey L. (Maps) (illustrator). First paperback printing indicated. xiv, [2], 395, [1] p. Illustrations. The Sidebar articles were previoulsy published in the spring 1998 issue of MHQ (Military History Quarterly). Both fascinating and frightening, "What If? " offers in-depth reflections by military historians on the monumental events of the past and amazing speculations about what our world might be like if things had gone differently in that one singular moment in time. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear and soiling.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. George Ward (Maps) and Minoru Ota (Chichi Jima ph (illustrator). [12], 398, [4] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Black mark on bottom edge. In this WW II history, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS author Bradley tells the story of nine Americans who were shot down and taken prisoner by the Japanese. He tells of their training and background, and deals with issues of war, racial attitudes, atrocities, and retribution. This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. What happened to the other eight remained a secret for almost 60 years. After the war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the shocking truth, and not even the families of the airmen were informed of what happened to their sons. Their fate remained a mystery--until now. FLYBOYS is a tale of courage and daring, of war and death, of men and hope. It will make you proud and it will break your heart. In Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary-and totally unknown-true story of courage. Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima. Then they disappeared. When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima. The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed and the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts were left to wonder. Bradley's quest for the truth took him to untapped government archives containing classified documents, to Japan, and finally to Chichi Jima itself. Bradley presents the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality. After years of mystery, Bradley reveals the fate of the eight Flyboys. Flyboys is about how we die, and how we live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a pilot named George H. W. Bush who would become president of the United States. Flyboys will change our understanding of the Pacific war and the things we fight for. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Interior maps). (illustrator). Third printing [stated]. xii, [6], 333, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Substantial highlighting and ink marks and comments noted. (primarily up to page 80). Evaluates the second half of the twentieth century in light of its first fifty years, chronicling how the world transformed from a dark era of international communism and nuclear weapons to a time of political and economic freedom. John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is an American international relations scholar, military historian, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life, his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His most famous work is the highly influential Strategies of Containment, which analyzes in detail the theory and practice of containment that was employed against the Soviet Union by Cold War American presidents; his 1983 distillation of post-revisionist scholarship similarly became a major channel for guiding subsequent Cold War research. The Cold War, praised by John Ikenberry as a "beautifully written panoramic view of the Cold War, full of illuminations and shrewd judgments," was an examination of the history and effects of the Cold War than had been previously possible, and won Gaddis the 2006 Harry S. Truman Book Prize. Derived from a Kirkus review: Cold War scholar Gaddis fashions a comprehensive account of what JFK called our "long twilight struggle." Following the defeat of the Axis powers in WWII, the western democracies faced off against their former ally, the totalitarian Soviet Union, in a global contest to determine the shape of the future. Each side's nuclear arsenal made total war unthinkable, but neither could afford to back down. Gaddis condenses this sprawling story for a new generation of readers. He resuscitates such almost-forgotten acronyms as SALT, START, SEATO, NATO and MAD, and he places the wars in Korea and Vietnam within the context of the larger struggle and reminds us how lesser tussles over the Chinese offshore islands Quemoy and Matsu, the African nation of Angola, Cuba's Bay of Pigs and Afghanistan before al-Qaeda also affected superpower relations. He discusses the impact of the Berlin Wall, the Cultural Revolution and the Marshall Plan, as well as the Berlin airlift, the Cuban missile crisis, the downing of Gary Powers's U-2 spy plane, Solidarity's Gdansk shipyard strike and Nixon's trip to China. The Cold War's surprisingly peaceful outcome was by no means assured. The democracies forged many an unseemly compromise, suffering frequent setbacks and not a few outright defeats before prevailing. In the end, however, as Gaddis demonstrates, Marxism, which failed to ensure economic success even as it stifled political and social justice, proved no match for the vision of George Kennan or the stirring rhetoric of Kennedy and Reagan in Berlin, Churchill at Westminster College and John Paul II in Krakow. A superb introduction to a complex period in world history.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. x, [4], 494, [4] pages. Illustrations. Archival Sources. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Patricia O'Toole is the author of five books, including The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a former professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. A remarkable portrait of one of our most remarkable presidents, "When Trumpets Call" focuses on Theodore Roosevelt's life after the White House. TR had reveled in his power and used it to enlarge the scope of the office, expand government's role in economic affairs, and increase U.S. influence abroad. Only fifty when he left the White House, he would spend the rest of his life longing to return. Drawing from a wealth of new and previously unused sources, Patricia O'Toole, author of the highly acclaimed biography of Henry Adams and his friends, "The Five of Hearts," conducts the first thorough investigation of the most eventful, most revealing decade of Roosevelt's life. When he left office in March 1909, Roosevelt went on safari, leaving the political stage to William Howard Taft, the friend he had selected to succeed him. Home from Africa and gravely disappointed in Taft, he could not resist challenging Taft for the Republican nomination in 1912. When Taft bested him, Roosevelt formed the Bull Moose Party and ran for president on a third ticket, a move that split the Republican vote and put Woodrow Wilson in the White House. In 1914, after the beginning of World War I, Roosevelt became the most vocal critic of Wilson's foreign policy, and two years later, hoping to oust Wilson, Roosevelt maneuvered behind the scenes in another failed bid for the Republican nomination. Turned down by Wilson in his request to raise troops and take them to France, TR helped his four sons realize their wish to serve, then pressured Washington to speed up the war effort. His youngest son was killed on Bastille Day, 1918. Theodore Roosevelt died six months later. His last written words were a reminder to himself to see the chairman of the Republican Party. Surprising, original, deeply moving, "When Trumpets Call" is a portrait framed by a deeply human question: What happens to a powerful man when he loses power?

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) and Beowulf Sheehan (Author (illustrator). Fourth Printing [stated]. xxiii, [7], 1074 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Minor corner wear. Ronald Chernow (born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist and biographer. As a journalist, he has written over sixty articles in national publications. In the mid-1980s, he put his writing pursuits aside when he began serving as the director of financial policy studies with the Twentieth Century Fund, based in New York City. In 1986, he left the organization and refocused his efforts on writing. In addition to his background in writing nonfiction and biographies, Chernow continues to contribute articles to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has written best-selling historical nonfiction biographies. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life. He is the recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his 1990 book The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. His biographies of Alexander Hamilton and John D. Rockefeller were both nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards. His book, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, was honored with the 1993 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing. Chernow agreed to write a comprehensive biography on Ulysses S. Grant. Chernow explained his transition from writing about Washington to Grant: "Makes some sense as progression. Towering general of Revolution to towering general of Civil War. Both two-term presidents, though with very different results." The #1 New York Times bestseller. A New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017. Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant's military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race. After his presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as nothing heroic. and yet the greatest hero. Chernow's probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. Named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads Amazon The New York Times Newsday BookPage Barnes and Noble Wall Street Journal.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) and Nigel Spalding (author (illustrator). [10], 340, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Diana Preston is an Oxford educated historian and author. Her book, Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World, is about the 1945 Yalta Conference. Drawn from original sources it relates and analyses what happened at Yalta from the perspective of all involved - from the three leaders, Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, to more junior participants including the often overlooked role of the women present among whom were Roosevelt's and Churchill's daughters. Diana's earlier books include the acclaimed âBefore the Fallout - From Marie Curie to Hiroshima' which won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Science and Technology; âWilful Murder - The Sinking of the Lusitania" which was made into a full-length TV movie by the BBC, and American, French and German networks; âA Higher Form of Killing - Six Weeks in Spring 1915 that Changed the Nature of Warfare', âBesieged in Peking - The 1900 Boxer Rebellion' and â A first- Rate Tragedy - Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole.' Her non-fiction work has been translated into several languages including German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Korean. Diana often acts as a consultant to and appears in historical documentaries. Most recently she appeared in National Geographic's âOrigins' series on which she was a consultant and script writer. Between April 22 and May 30, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but it had until then been fought on the battlefield and by rules long agreed by convention. Suddenly those rules were abandoned when Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine, U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants. Each of these actions violated rules of war carefully agreed to at the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907 and were deliberately breached by Germany in an attempt to spread terror and force the Allies to surrender. While that failed, the psychological damage caused by these attacks far outweighed the casualties. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. While each of these momentous events has been chronicled in histories of the war, celebrated historian Diana Preston links them for the first time, revealing the dramatic stories and the personalities behind them through the eyes of those who were there--whether making the decisions to use the weapons or experiencing their horrifying effect in the trenches, on board the Lusitania or on the streets of London. Placing the attacks in the context of the centuries-old debate over what constitutes "just war," Preston shows how, in their aftermath, the other combatants felt the necessity to develop extreme weapons of their own. In our current time of terror, when weapons of mass destruction are once again implemented and threatened and wartime atrocities abound in a very different kind of conflict, the vivid story of their birth is of great relevance. First U. S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). Second printing [stated]. xix, [1], 916, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Illustrated endpapers. DJ has slight wear. Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, and commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. After Johnson left office in 1969, she assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which drew upon her conversations with the late president became a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career. Derived from a Kirkus review: Goodwin examines Lincoln as a politician, focusing on his conversion of rivals to allies. It was smart politicking to recruit opponents who had very different ideas on most things but who nonetheless served loyally. By the end of the first term, enough divisions obtained within and without the White House that it looked as if Lincoln would not be reelectedâ"whereupon he demanded that his secretaries sign a resolution "committing the administration to devote all its powers and energies to help bring the war to a successful conclusion," the idea being that only a Democrat would accept a negotiated peace. Winner of the Lincoln Prize. Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) and Ellen Warner (Author ph (illustrator). First printing [stated]. xvii, [1], 461, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The startling story of the Plymouth Colony--from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England--is told by the bestselling author of "In the Heart of the Sea, " winner of the National Book Award. Nathaniel Philbrick (born June 11, 1956) is an American author of history, winner of the National Book Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, which tells the true story that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick, won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was adapted as a film in 2015. After graduate school, Philbrick worked for four years as an editor at Sailing World magazine. He then worked as a freelancer for a number of years, during which time he was the primary caregiver for his two children while writing and editing several books about sailing, including The Passionate Sailor, Second Wind, and Yaahting: A Parody. In 1986, Philbrick moved to Nantucket with his wife Melissa and their two children. In 1994, he published his first book about the island's history, Away Off Shore, followed in 1998 by a study of the Nantucket's native legacy, Abram's Eyes. He is the founding director of Nantucket's Egan Maritime Institute and is a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War tells the events of the Mayflower colonists' landing in North America, and their relations over the following decades with the indigenous Wampanoag people, culminating in the bloody King Philip's War of 1675-78. Mayflower is divided into four sections. Part I of Mayflower, "Discovery," describes the history of the Pilgrim Fathers before their Atlantic crossing, their difficult voyage, and even more challenging first winter in North America, for which the settlers were poorly prepared. The Pilgrims seek aid from the indigenous Wampanoag people, who like many indigenous groups along North America's east coast had recently been devastated by their first exposure to European disease. The section culminates with the First Thanksgiving in 1622, in which Pilgrims and some Wampanoag joined together to celebrate the Pilgrims' first successful harvest. Part II, "Accommodation," tells of the Puritans' and Wampanoags' attempts to live together in peace, and Part III, "Community," describes the temporary success of these efforts despite the attempts of Narragansett satchem Miantonomi to unite the indigenous groups to expel the new settlers. Part IV, "War," describes the collapse of relations between the settlers and indigenous peoples that culminated in the bloodshed of King Philip's War (1675-78). This conflict decimated the Puritan settlements, and many towns were burnt down and destroyed, but the cost for the indigenous peoples was the death of 60-80% of their population through battle, disease, and famine. With the "buffer" of friendly indigenous peoples removed, all of New England was destabilized by a century of Indian Wars. A final chapter of the section, "Conscience," attempts to examine the conflict from an ethical perspective and grapple with its legacy for United States history. The New York Times named Mayflower one of the ten best books of 2006, and it also appeared on the best books lists of The Washington Post, Newsweek, Publishers Weekly, The Boston Globe, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. In 2007, it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. [12], 386, [2] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Index. An NPR correspondent presents an account of the return to the violence and corruption of warlord activity in Afghanistan after the displacement of the Taliban, revealing how the U.S. government assisted the return of corrupt militia commanders to the country. Sarah Chayes (born March 5, 1962) is a former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former reporter for National Public Radio, she also served as special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After covering the fall of the Taliban and the early weeks of post-Taliban Afghanistan, in 2002 Chayes decided to leave reporting and stay behind to try to contribute to the rebuilding of the war-torn country. Chayes lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan from 2002 to 2009. Having learned to speak Pashto, she helped rebuild homes and set up a dairy cooperative. In 2010, Chayes became a special adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen. In this capacity, she contributed to strategic US policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Arab Spring. Sarah Chayes is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Democracy and Rule of Law program.] At Carnegie, Chayes has launched a corruption and security initiative, which analyzes the structure of kleptocratic governments around the world, the other risk factors with which public corruption is interacting in specific countries, the likelihood of a significant security event resulting, and potential approaches available to different local and international actors. Derived from a Kirkus review: A tale of good guys and bad guys in the Wild West of Afghanistanâ"save that "good" and "bad" are strangely fluid notions. Chayes, a onetime NPR correspondent, takes an anthropologist's and historian's view to explain how America got it so wrong following the post-9/11 invasion, and she is not shy of asking hard questions to make her point. For one, she asks, "Do we, as American citizens, wish to have the bulk of our foreign policy conducted by the Department of Defense?" United States military officers are doing just such work in Afghanistan, guided by supposed insiders who have axes to grind and enemies to dispatchâ"the very people, she adds, who convinced the Western press corps that U.S.-backed militias were fighting and winning desperate battles with the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Sometimes they were; mostly they weren't, though that didn't keep dollars from flowing. Chayes served as a lecturer and informal advisor to American forces, and in that capacity, she has urged them to do a better job of backing the right horses, such as an anti-Taliban friend of hers, a police commander killed by a suicide bomber for his troubles. But finding those horses is a challenge, for the convenient designations do not apply, and in all events, Chayes writes, the Taliban enemy were in essence a creation of Pakistan, meant to serve its narrow regional interests, "pressing into service ambitious petty commanders from the anti-Soviet period and uprooted, madrassa-inculcated youth from the refugee camps." And indeed, some of the Taliban she meets surely seem preferable to some of their supposed opponents, including one corrupt governor who emerges from these pages as the worst of a very mixed lot. Absorbing readingâ"necessary, even, for anyone posted to a place where our performance "will determine where a lot of people come down on the clash of civilizations.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) and Nancy Crampton (Author (illustrator). [10], 611, [3] pages. Maps Illustrations. Notes. Index. Minor edge creases at several back pages. Derek Leebaert is an American technology executive who writes books on history and politics, which evoke insights on leadership. He won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation, and he's a founder of the National Museum of the United States Army. Leebaert's book on elite military operations, To Dare and To Conquer has been on various United States Special Operations Command reading lists. It has been required reading in the Q Course at Ft. Bragg as well. To Dare and to Conquer was a Washington Post Book World "Nonfiction Best Book" of 2006, as was his subsequent book, Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan, for 2010. His latest book, Grand Improvisation (2018) was a New York Times "Best Book," and reviews are found in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Times (London), et al. Leebaert also co-authored the MIT Press trilogy on the IT revolution, including The Future of the Electronic Marketplace and The Future of Software. He holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt (history/economics), an M.A. from Columbia University (international affairs), and a D.Phil. in political economy from Oxford University (1983). From 2001-2010, he taught "The Price of U.S. Global Engagement" for Georgetown's Department of Government. He is a founding editor of three enduring periodicals: International Security, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and The International Economy. A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower, with global insights for today. An enduring myth of the twentieth century is that the United States rapidly became a superpower in the years after World War II, when the British Empire, the greatest in history, was too wounded to maintain a global presence. In fact, Derek Leebaert argues in Grand Improvisation, the idea that a traditionally insular United States suddenly transformed itself into the leader of the free world is illusory, as is the notion that the British colossus was compelled to retreat. The United States and the U.K. had a dozen abrasive years until Washington issued a declaration of independence from British influence. Only then did America explicitly assume leadership of the world order just taking shape. Leebaert's character-driven narrative shows such figures as Churchill, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennan in an entirely new light, while unveiling players of at least equal weight on pivotal events. Little unfolded as historians believe: the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; the Korean War; America's descent into Vietnam. Instead, we see nonstop U.S. improvisation until America finally lost all caution and embraced obligations worldwide, a burden we bear today. Understanding all of this properly is vital to understanding the rise and fall of superpowers, why we're now skeptical of commitments overseas, how the Middle East plunged into disorder, why Europe is fracturing, what China intends, and the ongoing perils to the U.S. world role. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. [8], 853, [3] pages. Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have been bestsellers. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects occasionally with co-authors, and video games. Originally an insurance agent, his literary career began in 1984 when he sold his first military thriller novel The Hunt for Red October for $5,000 published by the small academic Naval Institute Press of Annapolis, Maryland. His works The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991) have been turned into commercially successful films. Actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski have played Clancy's most famous fictional character, Jack Ryan. Another well-known character of his, John Clark, has been portrayed by actors Willem Dafoe, Liev Schreiber, and Michael B. Jordan. Tom Clancy's works also inspired games such as the Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, The Division, and Splinter Cell series. Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors. Mark Greaney (born 1967) is an American novelist. He is best known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his lifetime, and for continuing the Jack Ryan character and the Tom Clancy universe following Clancy's death in 2013. Locked On is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney released on December 13, 2011. A direct sequel to Dead or Alive (2010), it is Clancy's first of three collaborations with Greaney and features Jack Ryan Jr. and The Campus as they try to avert a nuclear threat from a rogue Pakistani general, as well as his father Jack Sr. in his presidential campaign. The book debuted at number two on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel received positive reviews. Chicago Tribune praised the book, saying that "Ultimately, it's Clancy's gift for taking three novels' worth of plotting and knitting it into a single continuous and compelling story that makes this new offering so successful." Tom Clancy's All-Star lineup is back. Jack Ryan, his son, Jack Jr., John Clark Ding Chavez and the rest of the Campus team are facing their greatest challenge ever. Jack Ryan, Sr. has made a momentous choice. He's running for President of the United States again and thus giving up a peaceful retirement to help his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn't anticipate the treachery of his opponent, who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan's closest comrades, John Clark. Now, Clark is in a race against time and must travel the world, staying one step ahead of his adversaries, including a shadowy organization tasked to bring him in, all while trying to find who is behind this. Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, Jr., Ding Chavez, Dominick Caruso and other members of the Campus-the top secret off-the-books intelligence agency founded by Jack Ryan during his first term in the White House-deal with a question of their own: Why is a Pakistani military officer meeting with Dagestani terrorists? The answer will ultimately lead to a desperate struggle, with nothing short of the fate of the world at stake.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. [10], 421, [1] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Pencil underlining and marks noted. Includes Authors' Note, Prologue, Appendix: How the AIDS Epidemic Can Be Overcome, Acknowledgments, Notes, References to the Appendix; Additional Suggested Readings; and Index. Drawing on remarkable new science, this book tells the story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of the deadly AIDS epidemic, and the best ways to fight it today. Recent genetic discoveries have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried a nearly identical virus for illennia without causing a major outbreak in humans. During the Scramble for Africa near the turn of the twentieth century, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here, during the age of European conquest, that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world. This book is an indictment of Western ineptitude and meddling and lost opportunities to prevent millions of infections and deaths. But it also contains valuable prescriptions for making change--and it's an important read for anyone who cares about Africa. Craig Timberg is a national technology reporter for The Washington Post, specializing in privacy, security and surveillance. Since joining The Post in 1998, he has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent and has co-authored a book, "Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It." He contributed to The Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the National Security Agency. Before joining UNC-SPH in 2011 as an Adjunct Professor (equivalent Full Professor level), Dr. Halperin served on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health since 2006. Prior to that he was employed for over five years as the Senior HIV Prevention and Behavior Change Advisor at the US Agency for International Development. Dr. Halperin has conducted epidemiological and ethnographic research for forty years on a number of health and sociocultural issues in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions. Since completing his doctoral training in medical and cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, his work mainly focused on the heterosexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: This absorbing interdisciplinary study of HIV/AIDS explores how the West inadvertently unleashed the AIDS epidemic and then failed to combat it effectively, especially in the most vulnerable regions in Africa. Drawing on the latest genetic research, Washington Post reporter Timberg and Harvard epidemiologist and medical anthropologist Halperin trace the disease's origins in the Cameroonian jungle, where HIV's transmission from chimps to humans coincided with the rapacious period of colonial expansion as the quest for rubber sap and ivory created new transportation networks, along which the disease traveled, and a large, hectic colonial city (Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Africa's susceptibility, the authors suggest, was partly due to changing social customs. For example, Christian missionaries discouraged rituals such as male circumcision, now known to significantly reduce the spread of HIV. As the Western powers poured money into combating the spread of AIDS, they favored biomedical approaches and ignored potentially lifesaving African initiatives, such as modifying sexual behavior and male circumcision. Highlighting the politics of AIDS, where there were powerful incentives to work within the conventional wisdom to win lucrative government contracts, this timely exposé advocates practical solutions to a seemingly intractable problem.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) and Michael Marsland (autho (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. xxvii, [3], 511, [1] pages. Maps. Sources for the History of the Peloponnesian War. Index. Minor edge soiling. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Donald Kagan (born May 1, 1932) is an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. At present, Kagan is considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history. Known for his prolific research of the Peloponnesian War; Kagan is also famous for his work On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, a comparative history examining four major conflicts (the Peloponnesian War, World War I, the Second Punic War, and World War II) and one non-conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis) with the purpose of identifying how and why wars do or do not begin. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Donald Kagan the National Humanities Medal in 2002. Derived from a Kirkus review: The tale of an ancient conflict, with ample leadership lessons for contemporary statesmen on fate and miscalculation. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.) ended a golden age of peace, prosperity, and cultural achievement in the Hellenic world. It featured Sparta, the leading army and authoritarian regime in Greece; Athens, the greatest naval power and imperial democracy; and allied city-states. With the death of Pericles two years into the war, Athens lost firm, consistent leadership and thereafter veered between peace and expansionist factions. At the end of hostilities, both sides had abandoned their war aims. The author points out innovative tactics, such as the use of enormous flame-throwers, with the same dexterity that distinguishes his portraits of major personalities like Nicias, the Athenian general who turned the Sicilian campaign of 415 b.c. into a debacle. Authoritative history demonstrating that the reactions of leaders during wartime have altered little.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [stated]. xvii [3], 396 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Event ephemera laid in. The dust jacket has slight wear and soiling. Richard McGregor (born 1958) is an Australian journalist, writer, and author. He is currently working as a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute based in Sydney, Australia. He previously was based in Japan and also other locations such as Shanghai, Taiwan, Sydney, Melbourne, Washington, D.C., and London. Richard McGregor was born in Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a journalist in Taiwan, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, and was the chief political correspondent, Japan correspondent, and China correspondent for The Australian. He also worked for the International Herald Tribune, the BBC and the Far Eastern Economic Review, and is the former bureau chief for the Financial Times. McGregor wrote The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, published by Allen Lane from Penguin Press in the UK and HarperCollins in the US in June 2010. He lived in London, and moved to Washington, D.C., in 2011, to be the Financial Times bureau chief. He appeared on the Charlie Rose show on 18 January 2011 to discuss Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C.; and on 6 September 2017 to discuss Asian, especially Chinese-Japanese, international relations, and the United States' role in Asia. McGregor won the 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Award for reporting on the Xinjiang Riots; and prior to that, the SOPA Award in 2008 for Editorial Intelligences. A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s, and the potential crisis that awaits them. Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump's disdain for America's old alliances and China's own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia's Reckoning reveals how that structure is falling apart. With unrivaled access to archives in the United States and Asia, as well as to many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale that blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with bitter domestic politics and the personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The about-turn of Japan, from a colossus seemingly poised for world domination to a nation in inexorable decline in the space of two decades, has few parallels in modern history, as does the rapid rise of China, a country whose military is now larger than those of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asia's combined. The confrontational course on which China and Japan are set is no simple spat between neighbors: the United States would be involved on the side of Japan in any military conflict between the two countries. The fallout would be an economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent. Richard McGregor's book takes us behind the headlines of his years reporting as the Financial Times's Beijing and Washington bureau chief to show how American power will stand or fall on its ability to hold its ground in Asia. Derived from Kirkus review- The presence of the U.S. in Asia, Chinese leaders argue, is a matter of choice. China's presence, conversely, is a "geopolitical reality." So writes journalist McGregor in this far-reaching exploration of how China has been building influence in Asia while at the same time frustrating Washington's efforts to assert American dominanceand even resisting it, as in a recent instance in which China seized territory claimed by the Philippines, when 'Washington was outmaneuvered in what for the United States was a clarifying moment.' The author further triangulates this rise with the recent re-emergence of Japan as a military presence in the regionthough, as he notes, China has been taking pains to improve relations with Japan, even as it asserts territorial claims in the East China Sea. It was for that reason that Barack Obama spent so much time cultivating Shinzo Abe and was 'willing to put his personal reservationsaside to work more closely with the Japanese prime minister.' Not so Obama's successor, who has been sending mixed signals to both Japan and China, threatening to cancel trade agreements and demanding that Asian nations in the American sphere pay more for their own defense. The U.S. is therefore firmly ensnared in the so-called Thucydides trap, 'the principle that it is dangerous to build an empire but even more dangerous to let it go.' This book also relates to various International Relations concepts such as Realism and Liberalism as the author shows how leaders in both countries need to balance their country's economic relationship with the other alongeside the balance of influence in China.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. x, [4], 494, [4] pages. Illustrations. Archival Sources. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads to Rhena Tantisunthorn, writer, with thanks, admiration, and affection. Patricia O'Toole. Patricia O'Toole is the author of five books, including The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a former professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. A remarkable portrait of one of our most remarkable presidents, "When Trumpets Call" focuses on Theodore Roosevelt's life after the White House. TR had reveled in his power and used it to enlarge the scope of the office, expand government's role in economic affairs, and increase U.S. influence abroad. Only fifty when he left the White House, he would spend the rest of his life longing to return. Drawing from a wealth of new and previously unused sources, Patricia O'Toole, author of the highly acclaimed biography of Henry Adams and his friends, "The Five of Hearts," conducts the first thorough investigation of the most eventful, most revealing decade of Roosevelt's life. When he left office in March 1909, Roosevelt went on safari, leaving the political stage to William Howard Taft, the friend he had selected to succeed him. Home from Africa and gravely disappointed in Taft, he could not resist challenging Taft for the Republican nomination in 1912. When Taft bested him, Roosevelt formed the Bull Moose Party and ran for president on a third ticket, a move that split the Republican vote and put Woodrow Wilson in the White House. In 1914, after the beginning of World War I, Roosevelt became the most vocal critic of Wilson's foreign policy, and two years later, hoping to oust Wilson, Roosevelt maneuvered behind the scenes in another failed bid for the Republican nomination. Turned down by Wilson in his request to raise troops and take them to France, TR helped his four sons realize their wish to serve, then pressured Washington to speed up the war effort. His youngest son was killed on Bastille Day, 1918. Theodore Roosevelt died six months later. His last written words were a reminder to himself to see the chairman of the Republican Party. Surprising, original, deeply moving, "When Trumpets Call" is a portrait framed by a deeply human question: What happens to a powerful man when he loses power?

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing ; x, 433 p. : maps ; 20 cm. ; SBN: 0395411653; 9780395411650 LCCN: 86-27663 ; Dewey: 953/.8 ; OCLC: 15018174 ; sand-colored cloth with color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: The oil boom, 1974-1980 -- The coming of a foreigner -- The Magic Kingdom -- Managing the boom -- Servants of God -- Living with Islam -- Bedouin pride -- The shackles of sex -- Mysteries of the hareem -- Putting Saudis to work -- The royal tribe -- There was no tomorrow -- The twilight, 1980 and beyond -- The press : Pride and denial -- Jail : a clear and present danger -- Swords and missiles : the search for security -- The world creeps closer -- The new realities -- Castles of sand -- Stalled between seasons ; remains of label on front ep, tiny mark on textblock, else FINE/FINE. Book.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). [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. Derived from a Kirkus review: A genial travel-journal-turned-spiritual-exploration that encompasses many of the sites (from the Dome of the Rock to the banks of the Nile) mentioned in the first five books of the Bible. On a trip to Israel, Feiler was struck "like a bolt of Cecil B. DeMille lightning" by the idea that in and around this land the real places visited by the patriarchs of the Bible still existed. How better to understand the book that connected hima Jew from Georgiato his ancestors than to stand in person on those same sites? Enlisting the aid of renowned Israeli archaeologist Avner Goren, Feiler began his odyssey in Turkey near the alleged site of Noah's ark. Still in Turkey, they drove south (not as much walking as the title suggests) to an area where localnot biblicaltradition holds that Abraham spent his early life, with Goren identifying sites of digs and archeological discoveries. Their travels continued across the West Bank, back and forth through Israel, and into Egypt to follow the story of Moses. They rowed out on a body of water where the Jews of the Exodus might have crossed and continued across the Sinai and up into the Negev desert (40 years of wandering). At each sacred spot, Feiler and Goren whip out their Bibles to discuss the events and ascertain whether this is the place. Most often, the answer is "we don't know." And the response is "it doesn't matter." According to the author, the meaning of the biblical storieswhether the historical struggle of one civilization against another or the spiritual struggle of one people with their moody Godis virtually tangible in these places. A chatty, informal narrative that weaves the Bible and other ancient stories together with contemporary lives. First Harper Perennial Edition, Later printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Edition. First Printing. xviii, [2], 588 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. DJ has sticker residue on back. Glusman was vice president and editor-in-chief of W. W. Norton and Company, the largest independent, employee-owned publisher in the United States, and the author of Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945. John A. Glusman began his publishing career at Random House in 1980, where he became managing editor of The Modern Library and an associate editor of Vintage Books. From 1984-86 he was editor-in-chief of Washington Square Press, where he published Saul Bellow, Joan Didion, and Graham Greene. His book Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945, based on his father's experiences as a prisoner-of-war in the Philippines and Japan, was published by Viking in 2004 and Penguin Press in 2005. Derived from a Kirkus review: Tales of courage, desperation and endurance in some of the worst moments of WWII. Glusman concentrates on recounting the wartime experiences of his father and three of his father's fellow Navy doctors, his larger story sprawls across miles of canvas and involves countless players. The elder Glusman and his three comrades were captured in May 1942, after Douglas MacArthur and a handful of senior staff were evacuated in the face of imminent Japanese victory. In Japanese hands, the doctors found themselves confronted with daily cultural conflicts: whereas the Americans thought of the Japanese as subhuman, the Japanese were certain that they were members of the master race. The Japanese had little sympathy for captives. A thoughtful, humane meditation on war and family history, full of myth-bursting truths.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps), and David Burnett (author (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. [6],950, [2] pages. Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have been bestsellers and more than 100 million copies of his books have been sold. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects occasionally with co-authors, and video games. He was a part-owner of his hometown Major League Baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles of the American League, and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. Originally an insurance agent, his literary career began in 1984 when he sold his first military thriller novel The Hunt for Red October for $5,000 published by the small academic Naval Institute Press of Annapolis, Maryland. His works The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991) have been turned into commercially successful films. Actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski have played Clancy's most famous fictional character, Jack Ryan. Another well-known character of his, John Clark, has been portrayed by actors Willem Dafoe, Liev Schreiber, and Michael B. Jordan. Tom Clancy's works also inspired games such as the Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, The Division, and Splinter Cell series. Since Clancy's death in 2013, the Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors. Dead or Alive is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Grant Blackwood, and released on December 7, 2010. It is Clancy's first novel in seven years after The Teeth of the Tiger (2003), and follows the hunt by The Campus for "the Emir", a Middle Eastern terrorist based on Osama bin Laden. It unites several characters from the Ryanverse, including former president Jack Ryan, his son Jack Ryan Jr., his nephews Dominic and Brian Caruso, and Rainbow Six veterans John Clark and Domingo Chavez. For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in . . . dead or alive. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Dead or Alive was announced by publisher Penguin Group in a press release on April 7, 2010. Penguin USA president David Shanks stated: "Tom's genius for telling a story with exceptional realism and cutting edge authenticity are his hallmarks as a writer. In his latest novel, he turns up the tension between U.S. forces and their most lethal rivals." Several characters from the Ryanverse such as Jack Ryan, John Clark, and The Campus were brought together in what was dubbed "the All-Star Team". A book trailer was released on November 4, 2010. Clancy promoted the novel in a video discussion with retired U.S. Air Force general Chuck Horner, which was released on December 3, 2010. Dead or Alive was launched by the Yeomen Warders and the Red Devil paratroopers at the Tower of London on the eve of its eventual release. The book was notable for its antagonist the Emir and his terrorist organization Umayyad Revolutionary Council, which were based on real-life terrorist Osama bin Laden and his group al Qaeda. It also inspired the idea that special forces units hunting for a terrorist like bin Laden are more likely to find him living in comfort, rather than in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan. This was proven true when bin Laden was captured and killed by the U.S. Navy SEALs in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2011, five months after the novel was published.

Publisher's original scarlet cloth covered limp boards with rounded corners, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel, lemon front end paper map, red speckled page edges. 8vo. 6½'' x 4½''. Contains [xvi], xviii, 86 pp [36 pages illustrated advertisements] with 8 fold-out colour maps and plans all present and correct, cycling and motoring route map to the early pink pages. Publisher's pink correction slip tipped to the title page, name to the front free end paper, light rubbing to the covers and in Good clean condition, priced 2/6 to the foot of the spine. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISLE OF WIGHT.

Hard. Zustand: Good. Illustrated with maps. (illustrator). First printings both. Good. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling to spines. Name of Horatio Morant to free front endpaper of Vol. I and to title page of Vol. II. Minor foxing to outermost leaves and page edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. George Ward (Maps) and Minoru Ota (Chichi Jima ph (illustrator). [12], 398, [4] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed To Heather by the author on the title page. In this WW II history, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS author Bradley tells the story of nine Americans who were shot down and taken prisoner by the Japanese. He tells of their training and background, and deals with issues of war, racial attitudes, atrocities, and retribution. This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. What happened to the other eight remained a secret for almost 60 years. The American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the truth, and not even the families of the airmen were informed of what happened to their sons. Their fate remained a mystery--until now. FLYBOYS is a tale of courage and daring, of war and death, of men and hope. It will make you proud and it will break your heart. In Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary-and totally unknown-true story of courage. Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima. Then they disappeared. When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima. The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed and the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts were left to wonder. Bradley's quest for the truth took him to untapped government archives containing classified documents, to Japan, and finally to Chichi Jima itself. Bradley presents the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality. After years of mystery, Bradley reveals the fate of the eight Flyboys. Flyboys is about how we die, and how we live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a pilot named George H. W. Bush who would become president of the United States. Flyboys will change our understanding of the Pacific war and the things we fight for. First edition [Stated] Later printing [stated].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). First Printing [stated]. [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. The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war. For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never been told. This surreptitious war began with the Iranian revolution and simmers today inside Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. Fights rage in the shadows, between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran's intelligence agency. Battles are fought at sea with Iranians in small speedboats attacking Western oil tankers. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations into open warfare. It is a story of shocking miscalculations, bitter debates, hidden casualties, boldness, and betrayal. A senior historian for the federal government with unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several U.S. administrations, Crist has spent more than ten years researching and writing The Twilight War, and he breaks new ground on virtually every page. Crist describes the series of secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11, culminating in Iran's proposal for a grand bargain for peace-which the Bush administration turned down. He documents the clandestine counterattack Iran launched after America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, in which thousands of soldiers disguised as reporters, tourists, pilgrims, and aid workers toiled to change the government in Baghdad and undercut American attempts to pacify the Iraqi insurgency. And he reveals in vivid detail for the first time a number of important stories of military and intelligence operations by both sides, both successes and failures, and their typically unexpected consequences. Much has changed in the world since 1979, but Iran and America remain each other's biggest national security nightmares. "The Iran problem" is a razor-sharp briar patch that has claimed its sixth presidential victim in Barack Obama and his administration. Mr. Crist's book stands out for its focus on the troubled relationship's military context. For much of the 20th century, including the first decade after the 1979 revolution, Washington's chief concern was that Iran could fall sway or prey to the Soviet Union. Mr. Crist reveals military contingency plans to occupy and even use nuclear weapons on Iranian soil in the event of a Soviet incursion. As one C.I.A. official observed, "We now had a plan to defend those who don't want to be defended against those who are not going to attack." Since radical Islam replaced Communism as America's chief ideological foe, Washington's concern is no longer Iran's vulnerabilities but its nefarious capabilities. Mr. Crist's assessment that policies meant to counter Iranian influence, most notably the 2003 removal of Saddam Hussein, have often had the opposite effect isn't a novel argument. What distinguishes "The Twilight War" is its granularity the book is based on more than 300 interviews and has 45 pages of endnotes which will reward careful readers with revealing anecdotes. Skeptics of American foreign policy, both from the left and the right, will find ample fodder in "The Twilight War." Mr. Crist offers a detailed account of how America aided and abetted Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. He writes of how C.I.A. carelessness led to the exposure and subsequent execution of dozens of C.I.A. assets in Iran, including a patriotic Iranian Navy captain, Touradj Riahi, whose bravery had helped save American lives. As one disillusioned C.I.A. operative recounted to Mr. Crist, "We eat people alive, spit them out," and then don't care about them afterward. The Twilight War" correctly emphasizes one of the perennial challenges in dealing with Iran: The men who actually run Tehran the Revolutionary Guards and hard-line clergy are largely inaccessible. Mr. Khamenei, 72, hasn't left the country since 1989. Herein lies the conundrum: Iranians who want to talk to America can't deliver, and those who can deliver don't want to talk to America. Mr. Crist's book deserves a spot on the short list of must-read books on United States-Iran relations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) and Scott Warren (Author ph (illustrator). xxiv, 375 pages. Maps. Notes. A Note to the Reader. Index. The book has an author inscription that reads: "To Jack, Best Regards, John Ross". The Wall Street Journal called his previous book, War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier, "a lively, evocative and moving biography." Formerly the editor of American Heritage and Invention & Technology magazines, he is the recipient of the 2011 Fort Ticonderoga Award for Contributions to American History. Before that he was on the Board of Editors of Smithsonian magazine, during which he wrote four cover stories. On assignment Ross has dogsledded with the Polar Inuit of northwest Greenland, lived with nomadic Khanty reindeer herders in Siberia, chased scorpions in Baja, and dived 3,000 feet underwater in the Galapagos for Smithsonian, gone technical mountain climbing in Siberia for the National Geographic, and explored old castles in Europe for The Discovery Channel. He has appeared on more than 50 radio and television programs, keynoted a dozen conferences around the country, and given talks at the Explorers Club of New York, NASA's Ames Research Center, the Pritzker Military Library, and the Smithsonian Institution. He has helped start and run two magazines, been a producer for CBS News's Face the Nation, and edited many large-format books for Smithsonian Institution Press. His organization of the most northern canoe trip into the Arctic earned him membership in the Explorers Club of New York. For his television documentary work he won a national cable ACE award. The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies-the car and airplane-took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace. No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's. The son of poor, German-speaking Swiss immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker overcame the specter of his father's violent death, a debilitating handicap, and, later, accusations of being a German spy, to become the American military ace of aces in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. He and his high-spirited, all-too-short-lived pilot comrades, created a new kind of aviation warfare, as they pushed their machines to the edge of destruction-and often over it-without parachutes, radios, or radar. Enduring Courage is the electrifying story of the beginning of America's love affair with speed-and how one man above all the rest showed a nation the way forward. No simple daredevil, he was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines. Decades after his heroics against the Red Baron's Flying Circus, he again showed a war-weary nation what it took to survive against nearly insurmountable odds when he and seven others endured a harrowing three-week ordeal adrift without food or water in the Pacific during World War II. For the first time, Enduring Courage peels back the layers of hero to reveal the man himself. With impeccable research and a gripping narrative, John F. Ross tells the unforgettable story of a man who pushed the limits of speed, endurance and courage and emerged as an American legend. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

hardcover. Zustand: Nearly fine copy. Illus. with maps (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 620, Limited to 395 numbered copies, signed by the author., Partial dust jacket laid-in.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey L. Ward (Maps) (illustrator). Sixth printing [stated]. xix, [1], 916, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Nice inscription signed by the author on fep. Illustrated endpapers. DJ has slight wear. Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, and commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. After Johnson left office in 1969, she assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which drew upon her conversations with the late president became a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career. Derived from a Kirkus review: Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, examines Abraham Lincoln as a practical politician, focusing on his conversion of rivals to allies. It was smart politicking to recruit erstwhile opponents Salmon Chase and William Seward, who had very different ideas on most things but who nonetheless served Lincoln loyally. Goodwin indicates that Lincoln knew that war was coming, and he knew why: He'd been vigorously opposed to slavery for his entire public career. By the end of the first term, enough divisions obtained within and without the White House that it looked as if Lincoln would not be reelected-whereupon he demanded that his secretaries sign a resolution "committing the administration to devote all its powers and energies to help bring the war to a successful conclusion," the idea being that only a Democrat would accept a negotiated peace. Illuminating and well-written; a welcome addition to Lincolniana.