Search Results: Vietnam and the Vietnam War from Books of the World

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

Boston: Houghton Mufflin / Mariner Books, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 261 pages.
A novel of Paris in the 1930s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world. In a mesmerizing tale of yearning and betrayal, Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the dark nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. She takes us back to Binh's youthful servitude in Saigon under colonial rule, to his life as a galley hand at sea, to his brief, fateful encounters in Paris with Paul Robeson and the young Ho Chi Minh.

Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xv + 383 pages.
Contents: On the writing of Lao history / Martin Stuart-Fox -- Wen Dan and its neighbours, the Central Mekong Valley in the seventh and eighth centuries / Tatsuo Hoshino -- Evolution of the chronicle of Luang Prabang / Souneth Phothisane -- Early European impressions of the Lao / Mayoury Ngaosrivathana and Pheuiphanh Ngaosrivathana -- The universal history, an early European account of Lao / Meg O'Donovan -- The Kingdom of Laos / Universal History -- The Quy Hop archive, Vietnamese-Lao relations reflected in border-post documents dating from 1619 to 1880 / Tran Van Quy -- The Lao-Tay-son alliance, 1792 and 1793 / Kennon Breazeale -- Millenarian movements in Laos, 1895-1936 / Bernard Gay -- Laos mapped by treaty and decree, 1895-1907 / Kennon Breazeale.

Paris: Flammarion, September 1995. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (no additional printings indicated). Near Fine. Interior is pristine. Spine is square, tight and uncreased. Covers are lightly rubbed with small chip to bottom corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Suitable for gifting. 358 pages.A comprehensive introduction to three thousand manifestations of the Buddha in Asia. With the aid of abundant illustrations, this volume distinguishes each holy figure, providing clear and concise explanations of the differing names and attributes by which they are known in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, South-East Asia, China and Japan. Profusely illustrated with photographs & line drawings.

New York: Condé Nast Publications, June - July 1967. Digest-size Magazines. First Edition. Near Fine. Light rubbing. June: Short, light crease to bottom of spine. Very small chip at top of spine. Otherwise tight, clean, and bright. First Edition. Mack Reynolds's novel "Computer War" first appeared in print when it was serialized in two parts in the June and July 1967 issues of Analog Science Fact / Science Fiction magazine with cover art (June) and four interior illustrations by John Schoenherr. Published in 1967, Computer War is an allegory about the Vietnam War. The highly advanced Alphaland (a corporatist state along the lines of Mussolini's Italy) makes war on the technologically backward Betaland. And despite their technological supremacy it all goes terribly wrong.... Also includes "The Man from P.I.G." (novelette) by Harry Harrison and several others.

New York: St. Martin's Press, November 1997. Mass Market Paperback. Second printing per number line. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Seems unread. Light shelf wear to cover. Dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 235 pages. First published in hardcover in 1995 as Codename Mule by the Naval Institute Press.

New York: Catholic Digest Book Club, 1962. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards with silver lettering to spine. Near Fine book / no jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Corners and spines ends lightly bumped. No jacket. Not from a library. 160 + 275 pages, 16 pages of plates ; 22 cm.Dr. Tom Dooley's Great Books: 1) Dr. Tom Dooley, My Story, New and Revised Edition (abridgement of Deliver Us From Evil, The Edge of Tomorrow and The Night They Burned The Mountain), and 2) Before I Sleep...: The Last Days of Tom Dooley, edited with a foreword by James Monahan

New York: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1960. Hardcover. Tan cloth over boards with faded red lettering to spine. Water spotted red printers ink to top edge. Fair book missing jacket. A reading copy. Gift inscription to FFEP. Text unmarked. Spine cracked at hinges. Spine ends and corners bumped. Not from a library. 383 pages.

London, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hardcover. 1971. Corrected Edit. Very Good. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Corrected Edition. Very G ood book in a Very Good jacket. Text unmarked. Prior store markings to endp apers. Spine straight and sound, ends bumped. Jacket clipped, with edge and corner wear. Mylar protector. Not from a library. xvii + 245 pages. 8 page s of plates, illus., tables, 8 maps, ports. The author traces the problem of Laos from its historical sources in the ancient clash of civilizations in Indo-China and the process of French empire-building, through the Second World War, the Indo-China War, the Vietnam War, and the Secret War. .

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 1990, June 1993, August 1994, May 1998. Hardcover. Department of State Publications 9760, 9960, 10122, 10523. First Editions. Burgundy cloth over boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and Department of State seal blind-stamped to front board. Near Fine / No jackets as published. Light dust stains to edges of Vol XXI. Small cut across bottom of Vol XVI spine, otherwise all volumes Fine. Interiors pristine. Spines straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder marks. 4061 total pages. 6.5 x 9.5 x 9.75 inches. 15 pounds: extra charges for expedited or international shipping.Includes: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Volume XXI, East Asian Security; Cambodia; Laos. Department of State Publication 9760. ISBN 0160233933. 1096 pages.Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume XVI, East Asia-Pacific Region; Cambodia; Laos. Department of State Publication 9960. ISBN… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition. CN 135. Very Good. Spine square and tight. Interior pristine. Reading and shelfwear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. No clipped. 133 pages.In this book, developed from his February 1966 Roscoe Pound lectures ("The quest for international order and law") at the University of Nebraska and based on his experience as Under Secretary of State, Rostow examines the problem of peace in its setting of law and history. The book discusses the record of American policy in Europe, the Middle East, and Vietnam, and U.S. programs in the fields of economics, nuclear control, and aid.

Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, October 1935. Perfect Bound Magazine. Very Good+. Tightly bound. Interior free of marks or tears, one page dog-eared. Light shelfwear to covers. Light creasing to spine. Pages 399-536 plus 31 pages of advertisements. B&W photos on nearly every page, three B&W maps, 24 pages of color photos. Not from a library. Contents: Richard Evelyn Byrd, "Exploring the Ice Age in Antarctica" (76 pages, 72 illustrations, 2 maps); Joseph F. Rock, "Sungmas, Living Oracles of the Tibetan Church"; "Demon-Possessed Tibetans and their Incredible Feats" (12 color photos); Maynard Owen Williams, "By Motor Trail across French Indo-China" (48 pages, 32 illustrations); "The Tricolor Rules the Rainbow in French Indo-China" (27 color photos). "The Second Stratosphere Expedition."

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, March 1981. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). One-quarter bound in brown cloth with black boards and gold lettering in dust jacket. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tail bumped. Dust stains to top edge. Shelf and edge wear to jacket, including short tears and creases to top and bottom edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 645 pages.

New York: Ballantine Books, May 1990. Paperback. First Mass Market printing. Very Good. Interior tanned but unmarked. Spine is straight, tight and uncreased. Corner creases to front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 617 pages. Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.

Bangkok: Asia Books, 2000. Trade Paperback. Third Edition, second printing, 2001. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 476 pages.
The Ravens were fighter pilots working as Forward Air Controllers for the Central Intelligence Agency in Laos during the Vietnam War, though their existence was denied by both the United States and North Vietnam. The Ravens undertook observation missions and were also tasked with marking enemy targets with smoke rockets to direct air strikes onto them. These deniable mercenary pilots had units based in five locations in Laos: Long Tieng, Luang Prabang, Pakse, Vientiane, and Savannakhet. The Ravens wore no uniform, carried no identification, and flew unarmed light aircraft which they would sold for a dollar apiece so that they could be struck from the US Air Force records.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, January 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 332 pages. The chronicle of a remarkable three thousand mile journey down the Mekong River as it runs through China, Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Slight reading wear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 436 pages. For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos - quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo (Hmong) tribesmen defend their home territory from the communist Pathet Lao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled across the border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow and disaster is the story Roger Warner tells in Shooting at the Moon, awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on Foreign Affairs by the Overseas Press Club. Warner describes his characters with a novelist's touch - soldiers and diplomats busy with war-making; CIA field officers from bareknuckle warriors to the quiet men pulling strings in the shadows; and above all the Meo as they realized… Read More

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, November 2004. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Bright red cloth over boards with gold lettering to spine. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Black remainder dot to top edge. Rubbing and light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. Not clipped. xxiv + 422 pages.

Bangkok: Asia Books, October 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 284 pages. 35 pages of plates, maps. This is the story of a country doctor from Louisiana involved in the war in Indochina. It is an anecdotal description of some of the events that occurred during the eleven years from June 1963 to July 1974 when the author, a physician, lived and worked in the Kingdom of Laos. It is a collection which is tied together by brief narrative sketches of his family and their daily lives. The book is a unique account of a tragic and little-known chapter of the "Secret" War in Laos, and of the wider conflict in Indochina as a whole.

Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Globe Pequot, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Almost imperceptible crease to bottom two inches of spine, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 292 pages. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are some of Asia's most intriguing destinations. Right across the cultural spectrum, Indochina offers a rich historical past and amazing cultures - an almost endless list, beginning with the magnificent Hindu and Buddhist monuments of Angkor Wat, the Cham ruins of Vietnam, and the region's earliest Buddhist landmark, Wat Phu in Laos. Smaller but no less attractive are the temples and pagodas that are scattered across the primarily Buddhist countries of Laos and Cambodia. Tribal minority groups inhabit the more remote highland areas in all three countries - minorities whose lifestyles, costumes, and festivals remain almost unchanged from a century ago. Rich, too, in natural beauty; with the magnificent limestone karsts that dot Vietnam's… Read More