thompson sir robert (30 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Zustand: Good. 1st U.S. ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st U.S. ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illus. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. A review of the wars that have occurred since 1945 from Malaya to the Gulf War from the Greek civil war to the Algerian revolution (Russian Invasion). Includes numerous b/w photographs and colour illustrations, maps and photographs. 336pp. Light rubbing to edges of DJ with nicks to DJ corners. Spine of book rolled by approximately 0.5cm.

Zustand: Good. 1968. First Edition. 151 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stapled booklet. pp.24 with frontis. illustration of Armoury House in 1815. Card covers. Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 151pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Page edges lightly foxed, near fine in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with light edgewear.

Zustand: Very good.

Wrappers. Zustand: Very Good. 50 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue. Bound in stiff printed paper covers. Text in English. Illustrations in black and white. Gentle wear to the edges and rubbing to the covers, but still a tight binding, uncreased spine, and clean, unmarked interior. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at UCLA, and subsequently in Berkeley, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Chicago, and Houston from 1968-1969 featuring works by Bridget Riley, John Walker, Anthony Caro, William Tucker, and many others. Book.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. A useful account of the six years of the RFC 1912-1918. Well produced and illustrated and one of the famous regiments series. 151pp., ills., appendices. very good condition in dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Wear to DJ. A clean bright copy - no inscriptions.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60071049: 1981. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Fortes mouillures. 312 pages. Photo en couleur en frontispice et page de titre. Illustré de nombreuses photos et cartes en noir et blanc et en couleur dans le texte. Texte sur 3 colonnes. Jaquette défraîchie. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 208 pages. Small tear on rear dust jacket. Name in ink inside the front cover. Crease in fep. Includes Preface, as well as three black and white maps of South-East Asia; South Vietnam; and Population Map of South Vietnam. Includes Chapter on Changing the Rules, as well as Part I: People's Revolutionary War; and Part II: Squaring the Error. Index. Includes red underlining on several text pages. The world's foremost expert on counterinsurgency warfare analyzes the errors of American policy and strategy in Vietnam. Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916-1992) was a British military officer and counter-insurgency expert who "was widely regarded as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency". He was a liaison officer with the Chindits in the Burma Campaign, being awarded the DSO and the MC. In 1959, Thompson became permanent secretary for defence for Tun Abdul Razak. In response to a request from President Diem of South Vietnam, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Malayan prime minister sent a team to South Vietnam to advise on how to counter the insurgency problems. That team which so impressed Diem that he asked the British to second Thompson to the government South Vietnam as an advisor. In 1961, the Prime Minister Macmillan appointed Thompson head of the newly established British Advisory Mission to South Vietnam and Washington. When Thompson saw the effects of the strategic hamlets initiative, begun in February 1962, he became an enthusiastic backer, telling President Kennedy in 1963 that the war could be won. Based on his expertise in a little-known and much-misunderstood field, Sir Robert argues that in Vietnam, American strategy was misconceived and American power was misapplied. The American effort--with whose objectives the author has no quarrel--failed because the U.S. understood the nature of revolutionary warfare, demanded results faster than they could be obtained, relied on conventional military force in the field rather than on attacking the political substructure of the insurgents, and finally elected to halt the bombing and seek negotiations at the wrong time, in the wrong manner, and for the wrong reasons. The Vietnam war is likely to prove one of decisive wars of this century. It has certainly created' the greatest controversy. If it was the right war in the right place at the right time, it has been fought by the Americans, Sir Robert maintains, in entirely the wrong way. Their failure to understand the nature of the war, and the techniques of People's Revolutionary War, has brought them to the brink of defeat. The author, who is one of the world's leading experts on counter-insurgency describes these techniques, and Hanoi's strategy both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, and attributes the American discomfiture to an obscurity of aim, a failure of strategy and a lack of control. Only two options now face the new President defeat or a continuation of the war (requiring the adoption of a new long-haul low-cost strategy). Negotiations at this stage are part of the war and are not an option, because they will lead only to one or other of these two outcomes. In this wholly original and unorthodox book Sir Robert gives a lucid explanation of the course of the war over the last four years, in terms that anybody can understand, and of the point now reached. First American Edition [stated], Presumed first printing.

Unknown binding. Zustand: Good. Likely ex-military library - likely lighter use with corresponding military stamp. Likely condition is Fair-Good if not stated. All other info as listed. NB note this is a placeholder description and my entire list is being regularly updated with photographs and information. Please enquire for further details for this copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. This extensive exhibition, which took over both floors of the Royal Scottish Academy, was the first museum survey of Bridget Riley's work to be held in the UK for 16 years, and the largest exhibition of her work to be shown in Scotland. Spanning over 70 years of work, it focused on the origins of Riley's practice and traced pivotal moments across her acclaimed career. It featured very early paintings and drawings, many of which were being exhibited for the first time, iconic black-and-white paintings of the 1960s, Riley's expansive explorations into colour, wall paintings and works made this year, as well as studies that reveal Riley's working methods. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 June - 22 September 2019; and at Hayward Gallery, London, 23 October 2019 - 26 January 2020. 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 28 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Interesting account with special Introduction from Editor. 151pp., ills., vgc in very good dw. Signed by both author and Editor, Sir Brian Horrocks on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: New. Two fourteenth-century chronicles by Adam Murimuth and Robert of Avesbury, edited by E. M. Thompson (1840-1929) and published in 1889. Editor(s): Thompson, Sir E. Maunde. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls. Num Pages: 626 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 910. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Good. Good++ in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Fourth Printing, 1970; Dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with moderate sun-fading to the spine and edges of jacket, and has been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; Library stamps to the front endpapers, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.8 lbs; Orange dust jacket with title in white lettering; 1966, Chatto & Windus Publishing; 171 pages; "Defeating Communist Insurgency: Experiences From Malaya and Vietnam," by Sir Robert Thompson.

8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, small blind-embossed personal book-stamp on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and with two short tape repairs. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series.

56 pp.; 30.7 x 24.1 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; July / August 1971 issue of Studio International. Edited by Peter Townsend. Contents include: "What is Reality? The Theme of Documenta 5," by Georg Jappe; "This Spring in West Germany," by Robert Kudielka; "Science in Art," by Marcello Salvadori; "Correspondence;" "News and Notes;" "Experimental Art: Stubbs to Sonfist," by Jonathan Benthall; "Sydney: Art in the Universities," by Donald Brook; "'True Patriot Love': Joyce Wieland at the National Gallery of Canada;" "Bridget Riley," by David Thompson; "Three Shows at the Hayward: Hodler and Böcklin," by Frank Whitford and "Henri Laurens," by William Tucker; "Letter from Bucharest," by Radu Varia; "A Tail of Two Exhibitions," by Barbara Reise; "Background to the Foreground: The Haacke Exhibition History," by Edward Fry and Thomas M. Messer; "Which is in Fact What Happened," Thomas M. Messer in an interview with Barbara Reise; "The Limits of Collecting," by Sir Norman Reid; "Three Early African Sculptures;" "Supplement: New and Recent Art Books" "Reviews," by Marth Haworth-Booth, Jonathan Benthall, Alan Bowness, Timothy Clark, Richard Cork, Peter Gidal, Andrew Higgens, Timothy Hilton, and Frank Whitford. Cover: Sketch for "Zing" 1970 by Bridget Riley. Very Good. Light rubbing and bumping of cover edges. 8 cm. vertical creasing to verso with 6 cm. of pencil writing on verso edge. Contents clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Frederick Praeger, New York. 1967. 171 pages. Second Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (sunning present to the spine, chip present to the front panel of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This book is written based on the author's personal experience of twelve years of the 'Emergency' in Malaya and three years as Head of the British Advisory Mission in South Vietnam. Thompson looks at the theories of insurgency and counter-insurgency gleaned from these experiences. He is concerned more with the administrative necessities of running a counter-insurgency campaign rather than battle operational details. Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson KBE CMG DSO MC (1916-1992) was a British military officer and counter-insurgency expert and "He was widely regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency".In September 1961 the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan appointed him head of the newly established BRIAM (British Advisory Mission) to South Vietnam - and by extension Washington. Thompson conceived of an initiative he called the Delta Plan but when he saw the effects of the strategic hamlets initiative, begun in February 1962 he became an enthusiastic backer, telling President Kennedy in 1963 that he felt the war could be won. Under Thompson's leadership BRIAM put economic pressure on the South Vietnamese government that Thompson described as a "straight invitation to a coup". Kennedy was receptive to Thompson's ideas but the American military establishment were extremely reluctant to implement them. His warning not to bomb villages went unheeded and his dismissal of American air supremacy was ignored. "The war [will] be won by brains and on foot", he told Kennedy but competing interests in Washington and Saigon acted to marginalise Thompson and ultimately his strategies had no real effect on the conflict. He stepped down from BRIAM in 1965 and the organisation, deprived of the man who was essentially its raison d'être, folded up around him. Despite his relatively acrimonious criticism of United States policy in Vietnam, Thompson returned to a post assisting the American government in 1969 when he became a special advisor on "pacification" to President Nixon. EB; 7.5 X 5.2 X 0.6 inches.

8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND HORROCKS ON TITLE. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE.