Search Results: History of the Vietnam War 1961-1975 from Elk Creek Heritage Books

PublicAffairs, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing Second printing per number line. Hard cover in very good condition with gray boards, black spine cloth, and silver gilt spine lettering. Corners lightly bumped, overall light shelf wear. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Side edges of text block slightly smudged as if by fingerprints. A hefty 850 numbered pages. Dust jacket very good with light shelf & edge wear and a 1'' split and small chip at fold on front top. Not price clipped; there is no price. * From the Author's Note, ""What follows is true. All the events described here actually happened.""

New York: Berkley Caliber, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated: First edition: January 2005. In addition, has complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with white boards, black spine cloth, and red gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Side text block has three tiny, size of a period, spots. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; glossy and unmarked; not price clipped. * From the jacket, "". . . chronicles the desperate final days of America's involvement in Vietnam, in a compelling saga that tells the true stories of those who were there - the soldiers, the statesmen, the politicans, and those whose voices would never be heard again . . .""

Santa Barbara, CA: J. Charles Plumb, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). 29th Printing This is the Twenty-ninth Printing published in March 2003. First Printing was November 1973. Hard cover in very good condition with deep rose boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. Author's signed inscription on front fly leaf - see photo; fills the whole page (signature not authenticated.) Dust jacket very good with some shelf & edge wear; chips at top of jacket. * From the book, "". . . the story of Charlie Plumb, but it is also the story of all the POW's who faced an isolated world of degradation, loneliness, tedium, hunger, and pain. It is no pretty story. It tells of the torture room with walls built to muffle human screams, of the ""rope trick"" and ""fanbelt"" techniques designed to make a man talk, of illness, of insanity. But it also tells of the ingenuity and creativity which allowed the… Read More

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Number in ink on front free end page. No other writing or markings noted. Mellow age toning to the papers. Contains colored photos and some maps. Dust jacket in very good condition, no tears or chips; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, "". . . Ollie North returns to Vietnam to try to make sense of a war that divided the nation and alienated the veteran. He visits the battlefields, crawls through the tunnels, tours hospitals and orphanages, and meets his former enemy face-to-face. . . . ""

San Diego, California: Thunder Bay Press, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. OVERSIZE. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with glossy pictorial boards which mirror the dust jacket. Size approx 8 3/4"" tall x 11 3/4"" wide. End papers contain double wide photo in shades of green of soldiers in a field. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Both color and black & white photographs on almost every page along with the narrative. The back end papers hold a double-sided eight page poster with details and photos of events related to Vietnam spanning the period pre-1954 through post-1975. A tiny version of part of this poster, unfolded, can be seen along the bottom of the front cover. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition with only mild shelf & edge wear. * From the Introduction, ""Vietnam is best known for the period between 1965 and 1973 when the… Read More