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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. ? Uncompromising account of life as a POW during the Korean War ?Written by the first Navy helicopter pilot to be shot down and taken prisoner in the history of aviation On 31 March 1951 a young Navy helicopter pilot, Lt. John W. Thornton, volunteered for a dangerous mission to rescue a key intelligence unit trapped on a high ridge behind enemy lines in Korea. Although he wrecked his craft in the operation, he immediately directed other helicopters to the scene to evacuate the marooned personnel. His resourcefulness and bravery? he gallantly refused to be rescued himself, despite rapidly advancing enemy forces ? won him the Navy Cross. This first-hand account of his exploits that day and during the following three years he spent in captivity tell of courage, cruelty and compassion. His descriptions of combat are chilling, and his account of brainwashing is revealing and not without humour. The book earned high acclaim on first publication in 1981; now back in print after twenty-three years it promises to attract new generations wanting to learn about the Korean War and its often overlooked heroes.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Naval Institute Press, 1981. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

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THORNTON, John W. [With John W. Thornton Jr.]. BELIEVED TO BE ALIVE. Introduction by Edwin P. Hoyt. Middlebury, Vermont: Paul S. Eriksson, [1981]. 8vo., 8vo., two-toned cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. The first-hand account by Navy pilot Thornton, the first helicopter pilot to be shot down behind enemy lines in the Korean War and his subsequent freedom three years later after experiencing cruelty, including brainwashing. Signed presentation from Thornton on the verso of the half-title page: "To Ann, Any friend of Adam is a friend of mine. And it is friendship that got me thru & home. Regards, Capt. John W. Thornton." Also inscribed by his son: "To Ann- thanks for your interest in this and hope you enjoy it. Best regards, Jay Thornton." Copies signed by both the father and son are uncommon! Laid in is a flyer for the book signing and a clipped article on Thornton from a Pensacola newspaper. Near fine; some rubbing & few short tears d/j. $175.00.…

?When you are dead you are dead for a long time."?He advises a young woman friend, ?Please be careful about aircraft?It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly.??Hemingway will send her an animal skin from his African safari to decorate her new house"?Our trophies ( sic ) were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here."After covering the Spanish Civil War, in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca Vig?a (?Lookout Farm?), an unpretentious estate outside Havana, Cuba. In 1940 he published ?For Whom the Bell Tolls?, which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in ?A Farewell to Arms? he focused on its pointlessness, and in ?For Whom the Bell Tolls? on the comradeship it creates. During World War II, he flew several missions with the Royal Air Force and landed with American troops on D-Day. He saw a good deal of action in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He also participated in the liberation of Paris. Following the war in Europe, Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba and turned his attention to writing again. He also traveled widely, and at the end of their 1953-1954 African safari, the Hemingways survived a near-fatal plane crash, only to have their rescue plane crash the very next day. Though they survived the second crash as well, newspapers around the world carried brought the details to the reading public.Soon after, he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for ?The Old Man and the Sea?, a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who, after an extended struggle, hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the voyage home. That book also played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. It ran in its entirety in five million copies of Life Magazine, and the 50,000 copies printed in book form sold out in ten days.In 1955, back in Cuba, Hemingway turned fifty-five and tried to follow his doctors? advice by reducing his drinking. In October it is announced that he has been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. All of his wife?s? efforts to protect his privacy were sabotaged by the crush of worldwide press and the fact that Hemingway invited any and all to the Finca Vigia to visit. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of ?The Old Man and the Sea? starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press, of lunches and drinking, finally takes its toll and in the autumn of 1955 Hemingway took to his bed for two months, suffering from hepatitis and nephritis.Hemingway's relationship with faith was complicated. Raised protestant, he converted to catholicism but was largely religiously indifferent. He had seen so much death and tragedy. At this point evidently, he had long since abandoned the faith of his youth.Mary Lou Firle, a second year student at CCNY, was in Cuba in early 1955. Before she left she bet a friend that she would have Ernest Hemingway sign the book she had, ?Farewell to Arms.? She picked up the phone and called Ernest Hemingway. When he answered she introduced herself and added, ?I have a friend at Fordham University.? Hemingway immediately assumed the friend was Prof. Bob Brown who had been in touch with Hemingway on several occasions. Brown was writing a book or articles about Hemingway. Hemingway told Mary Lou that his wife Mary was away and he had to entertain visitors from the French Embassy that afternoon. He asked her if she would come to his home and help him. Mary Lou agreed and Hemingway sent his driver to pick her up.After the meeting the group drove her back to Havana. Hemingway invited her back the next day for lunch and sent his driver to pick her up. They spent the afternoon talking. She had told him of her family background, that her parents were born in Germany. Since she had been at Veradero Beach for a week she had a deep tan, and Hemingway called her the ?Black Kraut.? The reason for the nickname, Hemingway said, was that he called his good friend, Marlene Dietrich, the famous German actress, ?Kraut?; so Mary Lou, who was very tan, would be the ?Black Kraut.? Later that day Hemingway?s driver drove her back to Havana. The two exchanged letters in July 1955. She wrote him again in October and received this response.In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of ?The Old Man and the Sea? starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press, of lunches and drinking, finally takes its toll, and he was grateful to have the weather interrupt the filming. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to "A Farewell to Arms" numerous times, and that is possibly the writing he refers to.Typed letter signed, with typewriter corrections and a pencil notation by Hemingway, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, October 6, 1955, to Mary Lou, on his fear of flying and unbelief in the afterlife, signed EH, with the original envelope sending it. He also jokes about the equity that hurricanes are named invariably after women.?Thank you for writing and I wish to congratulate your mother and your new step father if they would like that. I hope they are happy. With a good daughter like you they should be.?Am very happy you took your vacation up north as down here it was rugged with the effects of the different hurricanes. Hope we are not going to have Za-Za. I knew a girl named Janet once but she never killed any people in Barbados nor Tampico. It is easy to get tired of this naming tropical storms after girls and I think it is in bad taste especially when you have been through bad tropical storms.?Please be careful about aircraft. If I ever see you will tell you how and why. It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly. No second thoughts will help you and when you are dead you are dead for a long time. Maybe we are only alive when we are dead but I have not believed that for a long time. Excuse me if I am pedantic about aircraft but everybody is pedan. …