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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1975. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "It began without warning December day in 1948, on a Moscow street. Alex Dolgun is 22, a young American more interested in his girl, in sports, he was born in New York and today he is on his way to meet a friend for lunch. He is hailed by a stranger-a Secret Police operative. The American Embassy, where Alex works in a routine job, is only two blocks away, he stops to talk, within seconds he is a prisoner of the Soviets and imprisoned for 24 years. His descriptions of life in .370 pages. Prev. owners name and date on top corner of second page. Dust jacket top & bottom of spine and 4 outside corner tips are rubbed. A 1/4" closed tear on rear cover bottom edge. Front cover top right corner has a 1/4" closed tear..

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A provocative 70-year history of military adventurism by the Soviet Union from the time of their revolutionary activities in the Ukrainein 1919 to their disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in 1989, written by two former Soviet insiders, with the ranks of General and Colonel, who were able to draw upon previously secret government archives. Since 1922 the Soviet Union had embarked on a campaign of interference in the polices of certain Countries, especially when their aims conflicted with their own. The author's explore these actions and aggressions covering events from 1922-1989 which include, The Spanish Civil war, The pact with Hitler, South Korea, Afghanistan and the disaster in Cuba. .243 pages. Underlining in ink and > in the margins of some pages. A black marker dot on gilt edge (top edge of book)..

New York, NY: Fawcett Publications, Inc. 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 2nd Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Kenneth Roberts stilt stands as one of the best American writers of historical fiction, renowned for his scrupulous accuracy and unforgettable depictions of past times. Arundel is the story of the American attempt to take Queb. in 1775, a heroic but doomed effort masterminded by one of the most brilliant (and later infamous) of George Washington's officers: Colonel Benedict Arnold. 494 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine is creased. Front cover has a 1" crease & 1/4" crease across the bottom right corner and a 2" & 1/4" crease across the top right corner. Rear cover has two 1" creases across the bottom left corner and a 5" crease in the middle of the cover..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: PublicAffairs, 1998. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. depended heavily on submarines for intelligence gathering, whether tracking Soviet missile subs, monitoring Soviet harbors and missile tests or, in some cases, retrieving lost Soviet equipment. The U.S.S.R. responded with everything from comprehensive espionage operations to depth charge attacks on particularly intrusive snoopers. The broad outlines of this clandestine confrontation are relatively familiar, but the details have largely remained secret. Although the authors have based their book largely on interviews with submariners, intelligence operatives and politicians, they recognize the possibility of distortion and back up personal accounts with an elaborate and convincing system of verification. While necessarily incomplete, the resulting work depicts what was arguably the most successful long-term, large-scale intelligence operation… Read More

New York, NY: Manor Books, Inc. 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very rare book. Collectible. When Patton's Third Army exhausted its fuel supply, the GI's thought they could catch their breath, but the Krauts had other ideas.Hawk Editions The Best War Stories. Book has 'discard' on top & bottom gilt edge. 219 pages. Top & bottom of spine slightly bumped. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and 4 outside corner tips. 1-1/2" of heavy rubbing on front cover top left edge..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Rare war book. Trained to be deadly. Bill McLeane handpicked them: A sniper, a demoltions expert, a walking encyclopedia and martial arts expert, and the last of the 4 was street-smart, smart talking and unstoppable. Putting the team together was the easy part; what they were supposed to do was almost impossible. McLeane's Rangers got the job of getting onto an island held by the Japanese which was housing a huge ammo dump, blow the dump and get away. But there was a surprise for the Rangers - a POW camp! 254 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some lighter rubbing on some places on outside edges. On the front cover the right side 1/2" of the outside edge has moisture damage. I couldn't tell from the outside but I could see it on the inside. It really doesn't effect the book accept for seeing the stain on the inside..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Inc. 1993. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible first edition. When a volatile Russian leader tries to reclaim the former Soviet republics, Lt. Col. Daren Mace finds himself back in the cockpit of the sleek RF-111G "Vampire" bomber with Rebecca Furness, the military's first woman combat flier. Now Mace and Rebecca are in danger of being pulled into a war beyond borders . . . both professionally and personally. A critically acclaimed bestseller from a master thriller writer. 479 pages. Bottom of spine slightly bumped..

New York, NY: Pinnacle Books, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Russians and Chinese are in open combat. Heavy weapons and reserves are being rushed into battle. Germany and Japan join the battle. The U.S. leaders must decide between helping the Russians or the Chinese. And the world looks to the U.S. to prevent a nuclear war! 338 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine is creased. 1/2" crease across the top and bottom outside corners of the front cover..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Jove Books, 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Millions of readers have been swept away by W. E. B. Griffin's novels of the Marine Corps, a series that has only grown stronger and more popular with each volume. And now Close Combat - Volume VI - brings the saga of The Corps during World War II into ever more dramatic arenas. As the Japanese forces close in for an all-out effort to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and intertwine. First Lieutenant William Dunn, twenty-one years old but already one of only two pilots remaining from his fighter squadron's original sixteen, must learn what it is like to lead men - and to lose them.Hot-tempered Sergeant Thomas McCoy finds he has a hero's welcome waiting stateside - if he can avoid a court-martial first.On a bloody island, Major Jake Dillon discovers just how much combat is involved in a combat correspondent's… Read More

New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Maybe 1st edition. Set in 1940 Georgia, it is the story of W. Seaborn Effingham, Colonel U.S. Army, retired, who returns to his home town of Fredericksville. The colonel offers to write a weekly column for a local paper, covering the war in Europe. But after many years away from Fredericksville, Effingham doesn't understand how its citizens have abdicated all government to a small, one-party clique, the Home Folks Party. In his colorful, detailed account of Revolutionary and Civil War local historywith occasional attention paid to the growing World Warthe Colonel's column stirs up the powers that be. The community is split over whether to renovate or tear down the town courthouse, and there's a showdown in which Effingham is a catalyst. Fleming's barbs seem gentle, but they go deep in this delightful satire as we watch the odd, single-minded, thoroughly upstanding Colonel bring… Read More

New York, NY: Scholastic Book Services, 1965. Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. T633. WWII American Brigadier General who has been at the Pentagon behind a desk for years, now is at front-line action between American and German armored units. "Clear that road! This is Combat Command B and we're going through to Rigny if we have to shoot you out of the way!" A surprise attack from the Germans had crumpled Allied defense lines. Panicky, confused, the troops retreated.except for Combat Command B. They had their orders: "Get to Rigny and hold it - at all cost!" 220 pages. Rear cover is white but looks dirty. 1/4" closed tear on front cover bottom edge. Spine has a 2" crease down it. Rear cover bottom left corner has a 1/2" crease across it. The first 2 pages have a light brown 1/2" circular stain. Some light rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine, and 4 outside corner tips..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 2000. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A novel of high-stakes political intrigue on the shadowy side of Washington, The Confirmation sheds light on the men who run the CIA, on investigative journalists, and on government officials fighting for control of the nation's secrets. The confirmation of the seemingly spotless nominee Frank Cabot as Director of Cetral Intelligence is jeopardized when Brad Cameron, a young CIA officer looking for evidence of American prisoners left behind after the Vietnam War, uncovers a suppressed report - a claim by a convicted American spy that Cabot cooperated with the Russians in a shameful cover-up twenty years earlier.Closely paralleling these events is a different kind of conspiracy. A clandestine militia of angry Vietnam vets, convinced that officials in high places have deliberately abandoned American POWs, plot a confrontation, calculated to violently disrupt… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1985. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American archival material. Japanese scholarship and documents, and research and memoirs of scholarly and military men, has written a stunning, complete and up-to-date history of the conflict. Publisher's Weekly A historian at the Army Center for Military History, Spector concentrates on the problem of command in the Southern Pacific theaters, the rivalries between the various U.S. armed services and the problem of allocating resources. PW praised his ability to ``show how even the most efficiently run campaigns unfold against a background of violent dispute.''.

Ottawa, IL, U.S.A.: Caroline House Publishers, Inc. 1979. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. General Walt, USMC, former Commandant of the Marine Corps writes a familiar but unheeded wake up call to the citizens of the United States. A distinguished four-star general speaks out: It's not too late to save our country from nuclear destruction. Gen. Walt was Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1968-1971, and served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. This largely gives warning about the threat of Soviet military power. 100 pages. Some light rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1995. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A true story of "the fate of the German military prisoners incarcerated in America.very well-written, controversial, and disturbing" (Nelson DeMille). 8 pages of B&W photos. November 4, 1943. Tonkowa, Oklahoma. More than 200 German POW's jammed into the mess hall of their American POW camp. Before the evening was over, one of them, Corporal Kunze, was accused of treason and would lie in a pool of his own blood, savagely beaten to death by his fellow prisoners. Within 3 months, 5 men present in the mess hall would be accused, tried, and sentenced to death for the murder of Kunze. Here, for the first time the true story behind these events is revealed: the stark conditions in the POW camps; the tactics used by military intelligence to tempt informants and turn prisoners against each other; the one-sided.239 pages. Bottom of spine and rear cover… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Born in the jungles of Burma in 1944 and coming of age in the jungles of Vietnam, Air Commando has carved its own legend as an anti-guerrila, anti-insurgency force par excellence. No job is too tough for their daredevil pilots. From landing in tiny jungle clearings in order to snatch our troops out of the jaws of death, to dropping essential supplies on a dime, to reconnaissance missions, to providing supporting fire in countless gunfights, the men of Air Commando are there as needed. Their aircraft too is special - ordinary planes transformed for extraordinary purposes, from the slowest and oldest to the most sophisticated and experimental. Here then are the men, the machines, the battles - from Burma to Grenada with the U.S. Air Commando - action and heroism at its unpredictable best. 133 pages. Including 8 pages of photos. Some light rubbing on top &… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Children's Book Group, 1987. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reading level: Ages 9 - 12 years old. The compelling story of a young boy's first encounter with war and how it changes him. April 3, 1778. He may be just thirteen, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin. So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling men to fight, he runs to join them. He doesn't realize that in just twenty-four hours, his life will be forever altered -- by the war, by his fellow soldiers, and by the terrible choices he must make. 157 pages. A Notable Children's Book (ALA).

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 5th Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 878 pages. When the Nazis donated $10,000,000 to the American elections of 1940, they were playing The Game of the Foxes! "It tells, for the first time in detail, the amazingstory of German spying in America and Britain just before and during WorldWar II. It is based mainly on official German records that the Nazi's tried to destroy at the close of the war but which were captured by American forces.No one who starts to read it is likely to lay it down easily or to be disappointed." - Dallas News. Some light rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine is creased. A 1/16" closed tear on the rear cover left edge and the bottom left corner has a 1/4" crease across it..

Random House, 1999. ISBN:0375503943. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-375-50394-3. A wonderful book "crafted by memories, youthful insights, and the wisdom that comes with seaso ns of despair and triumph.".

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. "From the moment you begin The Gulf's breathtaking prologue.this is a novel thatgrabs every one of your emotions and just won't let go.it will stand among the best Navy fiction of this century. Florida Times-Union. Aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. Turner Van Zandt, Lieutenant-commander Dan Lenson and his dedicated crew take on a daring assignment: escort a convoy of supertankers through the mine-filled Persian Gulf. 442 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine is creased. A two inch crease across the front cover right top corner and another across the rear cover bottom left corner..