Search Results: Military and Defense from Books of the World

New York: Bloomsbury, January 2016. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition / second printing per number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good+ jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Light edgewear and spine ends. Black remainder dot to top edge. Not from a library. Not clipped. 436 pages. So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's magisterial work casts new light on the Great War. Starting in January with the end of the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Jeffery recounts the massive struggle for Verdun over February and March; the Easter Rising in Ireland in April; dramatic events in Russia in June on the eastern front; the familiar story of the war in East Africa, where some 200,000 Africans may have died; and the… Read More

Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 1984. Unbound Photocopy. Very Good. 51 pages.

New York: Free Press. Hardcover. 2004. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 304 pages.

New York: American Heritage/ Bonanza, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail bumped. Edgewear to jacket, two-inch tear to rear panel. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 352 pages. More than 350 illustrations.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Trade Paperback. Harper Torchbooks, HB 3011. Later printing. Very Good. Tanned. Price stamp to first page, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Edge and corner wear. No tears. Not from a library. 294 pages. Contents: The New American Nation Series, Editor's Introduction, Preface, Coming of the Revolution, Road to Lexington, Boston, Contest for Canada, Britain Declares War, Independence Proclaimed, Long Island to Morristown, Philadelphia Takes Howe, Surrender at Saratoga, Reformation in the States, Congress & Confederation, The Bourbons Enter the War, Stalemate in the North, The Home Front, Savannah to Yorktown, The Path to Peace, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.

New York: Simon & Schuster, August 1995. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good+ book in a Very Good+ jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight, ends bumped. Jacket clipped. Not from a library. 416 pages. Republished as Shooting at the Moon.
Between 1960 and 1973, the U.S. waged war in Laos under the auspices of the CIA. Undeclared and unreported, it cost thousands of lives and contributed to the climate of deception that poisoned U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Journalist Warner relies heavily on interviews with former CIA operatives and other American participants to reconstruct an operation characterized by idealism on the ground and by cynicism and misunderstanding at higher levels. Significant early successes against the Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies were wasted, according to Warner, as the U.S. sacrificed its clients for the sake of the expanding war in Vietnam. Once that conflict ended, the Laotians were left to their fate?an abandonment in cold blood that Warner considers… Read More

Washington, DC: Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press, July 2006. Trade Paperback. First Printing (stated). New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 192 pages.

Dakar: Codesria, 2004. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not damaged. x + 263 pages

Roseville, California: Prima, September 2001. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light edgewear and rubbing, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxiii + 439 pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, August 2004. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated). Blue linen over boards with gilt titles to spine. Gorgeous map endpapers. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Small stain to first page, otherwise interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight, tail slightly bumped. Jacket has light soiling to corners from reading. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 576 pages. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of love-between men and women, between friends, between those who are driven to be enemies. It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people-Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent-whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial… Read More

New York: Penguin, March 2000. Trade Paperback. First Penguin printing / full number line. Near Fine. Dust stains to top edge. Light tanning at page edges. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Corners sharp. Not from a library. 392 pages. On October 3, 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers embarked on a mission in Somalia to capture two warlords. It was a simple plan. What erupted instead was a night of bloodshed and death. It became the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. This is the extraordinary minute-by-minute account of that courageous, historic, and brutal night.

Berkeley Springs, West Virg: Cold Run Books. Trade Paperbac. 2007. First Edition. As New. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia: Cold Run Books, February 2007. Trade Paper back. First Edition (stated). As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a l ibrary. No remainder mark. 223 pages: ill., map. An account of the tragic revolution in Sierra Leone from 1991 told through the eyes of those who str uggled to survive in the northern village of Fadugu. authors: Gary Stewart; John Amman .

London: Picador, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 360 pages.
Lev is a man who has come down in the world. Formerly a Russian biological weapons scientist, he is now a chauffeur in "that new Russia where physicists wash windows and engineers drive trams". So he decides to take his somewhat lethal knowledge abroad; to offer his services to a foreign government. But on the way from the airport his taxi is stopped and robbed. It is in this helpless state, alone and adrift in Delhi, that Lev meets Maya. Beautiful, ferocious and utterly original, Maya has been waiting for a man like Lev to walk into her life. Briefly they come together and Lev steps into the marvelous world that is Maya. But then something terrible happens - something for which the Russian scientist is blamed. The Brainfever Bird is an exquisite love story, a tale of… Read More

New York: Random House, May 2000. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / second printing per number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight; ends bumped. Dust stains to edges. Light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 240 pages. The story of an espionage operation mounted by the FBI against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. Lured by a double agent working for the United States, ten Russian spies, including a professor at the University of Minnesota, his wife, and a classic "sleeper" in New York City, were sent by Moscow to penetrate America's secrets. Two FBI agents were killed, and secret formulas were passed to the Russians in a dangerous ploy that could have spurred Moscow to create the world's most powerful nerve gas.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. New. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Not a remainder. Not damaged. xiv + 204 pages. Contents: Introduction : a new kind of threat -- Saudi Arabia : oil fields ablaze -- Pakistan : loose nukes -- Mexico : a flood of refugees -- China : collapse of a great power -- Conclusions : the coming storm.

New York: NAL Caliber, May 2006. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Remainder mark. Not from a library. Not clipped. x + 326 pages. Contents: George Bush had better be fucking right; Hurry up and Kuwait; Welcome to Saddam International Airport; Into Baghdad; Sector 17; Ka-bob; The mother's day massacre; Keeping the peace; Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not trying to kill you; Ripples of hope; I saw a holy man die tonight; God bullets hurt; Collateral damage; The gremlins theory; Baghdad island; Hope is not a course of action; Ali Baba; Fighting the media war; Christmas in Baghdad; A viable exit strategy; Homecoming; The war within; Finding a voice; Speaking out; Taking on the president of the United States; Operation truth; The sensible war movement.

Kaunas, Lithuania: Naujasis Lankas, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. No remainder mark. Not from a library. 327 pages. A collection of memories of sixteen Lithuanians, exiled to Siberia in their infancy or childhood - young victims of Stalin's genocide. 327 pages.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press. July 1984. Hardcover. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Cover clean and crisp, but spine faded. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 286 pages.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2002. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not a remainder. Not clipped. 96 pages.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, August 1989. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Black paper covered boards with one-quarter black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Sewn binding. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Prior owner's stamp on half title page, no other markings. Spine straight and tight. Jacket rubbed and partially delaminated on top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 656 pages.